A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace.

About this Item

Title
A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace.
Author
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
Publication
London :: printed for John Williams at the sign of the Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard,
1660.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800.
Political science -- Sources -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Constitution -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item
"A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85018.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

Pages

To His Excellency the Lord General MONCK.

My Lord,

WE finde our selves constrained by writing to supply the Omission of acquainting your Lord∣ship 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 Ʋn∣derstanding; Your Lordship will finde in the Inclosed Declaration the sum of our Apprehensions. We thought it not necessary to multiply particulars, but leave all

Page 37

other things to a duly constituted Parliament; neither have we been sollicitous 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 and City, as your Lordship sees it is of others. We have onely to add our 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 dangerous Confusion amongst us, may be prevented.

Your Lordships very humble servants,

  • Thomas Fairfax,
  • Faulconberge,
  • Bar. Bouchier,
  • Vicecomes.
  • Christopher Topham, Mayor, &c.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.