Letter and Declaration of the Nobility and Gentry of the County of YORK. TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord general MONCK.  
The LETTER.  
My Lord,  
WE find ourselves constrained by writing, to supply the Omission of acquainting your Lordship with our thoughts and desires when you passed through our County, which we had then done, if upon so short notice, we could have met for a mutual understanding: Your Lordship will find in the enclosed Declaration the sum of our Apprehensions. We thought it not necessary to multiply particulars, but leave all other things to a duly constituted Parliament; neither have we been solicitous to multiply Subscriptions, trusting more to the weight of the Proposals than to the number of Subscribers; yet we may safely affirm this to be the sense of the generality of the County, as your Lordship sees it is of others. We have only to add the earnest desires to your Lordship, That you would be pleased to further the Accomplishment of what we have represented, with such seasonable speed, as that the fear of Friends, and the hopes of Enemies concerning a ●●●gerous Confusion amongst us, may be prevented.   

The DECLARATION.  
WE being deeply sensible of the grievous Pressures under which we lie, and the extreme dangers whereunto we are exposed at this time, through the violent alteration of our Government, the Multiplication and Interruption of Parliaments: And having no Representatives to express or remedy our Grievances, have thought meet (according to the example of other Counties) to Declare and Desire, That if the Parliament begun NOVEMBER the third, 1640. be yet continued, The Members that were secluded in the year 1648. be forthwith restored to the exercise of their Trust, of all Vacancies may be filled up, that Right may be done to their Persons, to Parliaments, and the People that have chosen them. If otherwise, That a Parliament may be presently called, without imposing of Oaths or Engagements, (the greatest prejudice to Civil or Christian Liberty) or requiring any Oualifications, save what by Law or Ordinance of Parliament before the Force in 1648. are alread● established. And, until this, or One of these be done, We cannot hold ourselves obliged to pa● the Taxes that are, or shall be, imposed on us, We not enjoying the fundamental Rights of this Natio● to consent to our own Laws by equal Representatives.  


Tho. Lord Fairfax,  
Lord Fawconberge,  
Bar. Bourchier,  
Sheriff.  
Christo. Wivill,  
Thomas Wharton,  
Tho. Remington,  
Tho. Harrison,  
William Gee,   

William Fairfax,  
William Osberton,  
Thomas Hutton,  
Gustavus Boynton,  
Har. Betheli,  
William Dawson,  
Rob. Wivel,  
Nicholas bethel,  
Jo. Ledgar,  
Henry Fairfax,   

John Hotham,  
Thomas Slingsby,  
Will. Cholmley,  
Met. Robinson,  
Hen. Stapleton,  
George Matwood,  
Tho. Heblethwait,  
Rob. Redman,  
Rob. Belt,  
VV. Adam's,   

Jo. Micklethwait,  
Bryan Layton,  
Tho. Lovel,  
Will. Rokesby,  
Rich. Levit,  
Roger Langly,  
Francis Boynton,  
Hen. Cholmley,  
John Dawny,  
John Gibson,   

James Moyser,  
George Crake,  
John Peirson,  
Tho. Yarborow,  
Jo. Richard,  
VV. Dalton,  
F. Driffield,  
Walter Bethel,  
Wil. Woodver,  
Jo. Vavasor, &c.     

Printed at London, and reprinted at Edinburgh by Christopher Higgins, 1660.