DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN 1642, 1643, &c. MEMOIRS OF GENERAL FAIRFAX, AND JAMES EARL OF DERBY; To which is added, THE LIFE OF OLIVER CROMWELL; Likewife an impartial History of the Rebellions In the Years 1715, and 1745. No more may Britons against Britons rife, BOLT ON: PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR. 1786. To the PROMOTERS of this WORK, The Gentlemen, Tradesmen, and Others, of the Counties of Yorkfhire and Lancashire. GENTLEMEN, a would be deviating from a mode which cuftom has established, were the Compiler to break abruptly upon the perufers of this Work without filling up (with fomething) a few pages after the title-page, before the commencement of the principal Matter The utility of History to men of all ranks and profeffions is a truth univerfally acknowledged, and univerfally confirmed. It would therefore be impertinent here to enumerate the advantage, pleafure, and fatisfaction that muft accrue from the detail of thofe particulars, which relate to that part of the country wherein Providence has been pleafed to affign their lot. However it is judged neceffary, in order to give the reader fome idea of what occafioned the Civil War in the years 1642, 1643, &c. to infert, as prefatory to this Work, The Speeches of two Mem-` bers of Parliament, delivered in the Houfe of Commons at that period; as alfo The Declaration and Proteftation of the Lords and Commons in Parliameė tą published to the world at that time; with King Charles' Declaration to his fubjects, in anfwer. 1* • The |