. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. %\)t €reat Cibil IMar anlJ Commontoealtf). HEN war was inevitable, a Remonstrance or Declarationwas circulated through the towns and villages of Cheshire, inorder to ascertain by the signatures of the inhabitants thosewho would take the side of the King and Parliament inopposition to the Royalist cause. Several Declarations wereissued by the Parliament in the months of March and May,1642 ; * and, while public opinion was being thus testedthroughout the countr}, the Gentrie and Commons of Cheshir
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. %\)t €reat Cibil IMar anlJ Commontoealtf). HEN war was inevitable, a Remonstrance or Declarationwas circulated through the towns and villages of Cheshire, inorder to ascertain by the signatures of the inhabitants thosewho would take the side of the King and Parliament inopposition to the Royalist cause. Several Declarations wereissued by the Parliament in the months of March and May,1642 ; * and, while public opinion was being thus testedthroughout the countr}, the Gentrie and Commons of Cheshiresent a pathcticall Petition to the King imploring his returnto his The Remonstrance, which is preserved in Harl. MSS. 2107, is asfollows:— A REMONSTRANCE or DECLARACON. of vs the INHABITANTS of theCOUNTIE PALLATINE of CHESTER whose names are subscribed and of manie more. Wee most humblie declare and remonstrate that we owe o^ lawes, liberties, ofselves and what elswe can yet stile ours (next to Gods infinite mercies) to the goodnes of his Matie and to the great careand indefatigable paines of the Hon^le Parliamt. To the
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