TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD GENERAL MONCK, THE Humble address and Thanks of the Gentry, and other freeholders in the COUNTY of HARTFORD.  
MY LORD,  
We having by your lordship's careful and speedy progress towards a public settlement been prevented in joining our intended Requests with those of other counties, thought it our Duty to be more early against the sin of ingratitude to God and your Lordship for those beginings of hope which Divine providence has by your hand sent us; And that with much honour to those secluded Members, who now being by your just hand restored to a capacity of doing righteous things, do in earnest prepare to give us no factious engaged Assembly, (as of late times) but a legal free and full Parliament, whom (if God see good) we hope he may have ordained to close up our Breaches, to raise up our ruins, and to build us as in the days of old; Which that they may be the better able to perform; Our humble request to your Lordship is, That you would be pleased not by any Qualifications, or other previous engagements to put upon them any Necessity, save only of an honest and timely Dissolution, which by woeful experience we find to be necessary: But as for any other Restrictions which under colour of common safety, may be set up for support of Private Interest, and to weaken the hands of Honest Men, we hope and pray that they may not be exacted against our Native freedom of choosing, and being chosen into the House of Commons; Which if it be not free cannot own that Name to itself, nor give honour to You, or comfort to Us;  
Your lordship's most humble and most obliged Servants.  
This address was subscribed at Hartford by many Knights and Gentlemen, who for the Delivery thereof to his Excellency appointed Sir HENRY Blount, Sir JOHN GORE and colonel ALBAN Cox: Who did accordingly deliver it the 27 Feb.  
FINIS.   

Printed by John Brudenell at his dwelling house in Maiden head-alley near Newgate, 1659.