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.

A DECLARATION OF THE KNIGHTS and GENTRY In the County of DORSET, Who were in His Late MAJESTIES ARMY.

UPon a due consideration of the dangerous jea∣lousies which are promoted; partly, by the cunning of a close, and malicious Faction of Separatists, and partly, by the unwarranted Liberties of an heady and intemperate sort of People, which falsely tearm them∣selves Royallists:—to the great dissettlement of Sober and well-minded persons, and sufficient to blast the hopes we have of returning to our Antient Freedomes, without a more than ordinary appearance of Divine aid, to sup∣port, and re-unite us in this our Critical necessity.

We have thought it highly expedient to declare our Seuse, and Resolves, in the particular of adherence to the largest Assurances of Amicable Agreement, and Corres∣pondence Imaginable: Looking upon our selves as Obli∣ged by an Indispensible Tye of Religious Charity, to com∣passionate and forgive one another, as we expect to be for∣given: And we do further Declare, that we are so far from justifying those Unchristian Animosities, which reign in di∣vers

turbulent Spirits, even of our own Party (by Repu∣tation at least) that we disclaim any Society with men of those wilde Principles; and that to all honest purposes, we will never put any difference, betwixt such as shall now unite with us, in Order to the Publick Peace, and those who first engaged in the same perswasion with our selves, Submitting all to the Resolves of Parliament, upon whose Determinations we beseech God to bestow his Bene∣diction.

• Sir Hugh Windham,
• Sir Gerard Naper,
• Sir John Strangwayes,
• Giles Strangwayes,
• John Hardy,
• Henry Coker,
• Edward Hull,
• Henry Butler,
• Maximilian Mohune,
• Robert Mohune,
• Henry Hoskins,
• James Hoskins,
• George Strangwayes,
• Nicholas Strangwayes,
• Robert Lawrence,
• Bruen Lawrence,
• Arthur Fookes,
• George Brown,
• Major Ʋdvehall,
• Rob. Chamberlain,
• Rob. Strode,
• Jo. Strode of Slape,
• Humphrey Bishop,
• John Bishop,
• Robert Culliford,
• George Cary,
• George Penny,
• Tho. Turbervile,
• George Tubervile,
• Tho. Paulet,
• Cap. Hoare,
• Major Dolline,
• Hugh Hodges,
• Rich. Willoughby,
• John Pesing,
• John Gillin••ham▪
• William Elsing,
• Robert Ernsly,
• John Dawe,
• John Fisher,
• Ellis Collins.