A REMONSTRANCE showing the occasion of the ARMING of the County of KENT.  
BEing reduced to this Choice, whether to deliver up our Lives and Li●erties together, or to die free; We are resolved to act the last Scene of this Tragedy with our Swords in our hands. Which we shall sooner turn upon our own hearts, then upon the public Peace. By what necessities exasperated to this Resolve, let the World determine. And understand that a Petition consonant to Religion and Honour (if the Parliament may be judge) is by some persons, neither warranted by any Authority from the two Houses, nor pretending to it; upon their own score, audaciously affronted. The Petitioners menaced and persecuted into this extremity, by spirits so implacably distempered, that Sir Anthony Weldon vowed he would not cross the Street of Rochester to save one soul that subscribed the Petition. And it was a Proposition of Baal's, to hang two of the Petitioners in every Parish. If this be not enough to admonish others, let it suffice that it awakens us, into a just sense and scorn of these Indignities. We have lost all with Patience, and if at last, it be accounted a Crime to beg, we shall prefer to perish.  
We do solemnly and Religiously oblige ourselves, with our Lives and Fortunes, to oppose effectually▪ what Person or Persons soever shall presume to interrupt us in the just and legal presentment of our humble desires to the two Houses of Parliament; and to the utmost of our endeavours to save harmless, and protect each the other in a privilege so undoubtedly our own, and so not only adjudged, but practised and encouraged by this present Parliament. And further, in Case any single person shall be for this Engagement prosecuted, All of us to rise as one Man to the rescue. This, so help us God, as we shall respectively perform and resolutely.