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authority_n	act_n	parliament_n	power_n	4,990	5	5.0858	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50801	A declaration published by Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, Serjeant-Major-Generall, and Vice-Admirall for the sixe counties of North-Wales setting forth the illegallity and incongruity of a pernicious oath and protestation, imposed upon many peaceable subjects within the said counties (who to avoid plundering or imprisonment) were inforced to take the same : whereby the imposers of the said oath endeavour under the paine of perjury, to make the people to renounce their owne just liberties, and the benefit and protection of the knowne lawes, and to submit to a tyranicall, arbitrary, and slavish government, excerised by the commissioners of array : and likewise, setting forth the use and intentions of the forces raised for the service of the King and Parliament, under the command of the said Sir Thomas Middleton the benefit that the country shall receive by their protection, and what they are to expect that contemne their power.	Middleton, Thomas, Sir, 1586-1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing M1993; ESTC R15187	4,965	8

deny that Court a being But if it be meant His Personall command or consent or rather the will of some prevalent Popishly affected persons wresting from Him Commands contrary to the Resolutions of His Parliament such Commands are inconsistent with and destructive to His Regall Office and consequently contrary to His just Power and Prerogatives because it opposeth His Royall Commands signified by the highest Court of Iustice wherein His Majesties Regall Power and Sovereigne Authority doth alwayes reside Thirdly They sweare to maintaine the just Priviledges of Parliament and they sweare to assist the Papists now in Arms in His Majesties Army contrary to severall Acts of Parliament it being the highest breach of the Priviledges of Parliament to have their Acts contemptuously violated the Court sitting in meere opposition to their Power So that whosoever takes that Oath with an intent to keep the same must beleeve First That the English and Irish Papists who are in Armes and have places of eminent Command in His Majesties Army and have within lesse then two years time almost quite destroyed the Protestants and their Religion in the Kingdome of Ireland do now fight for and endeavour to maintaine the true Protestant Religion Secondly They must beleeve that such personall Commands are wrested from His Majesty by private favourites are to be actually obeyed before and against his Royall commands and Regall Authority signified by his Courts of Justice and that his Majesties just Power and Prerogatives are not resident in his Courts but in the breasts of His Favourites Thirdly they must beleeve that to set in open defiance severall Acts of Parliament made against Papists bearing of Arms the Parliament sitting in contempt of their Authority is no breach of the Priviledges of Parliament And lastly They must sweare that they doe beleeve that all the Members of both Houses of Parliament for endeavouring to put those Lawes in execution and to preserve themselves and the Kingdome from the power of the Popish Armies are Traitors For if the Forces raised by them for that purpose are traiterously raised it followes that they that raised them are Traitors By which Oath and Protestation the said Councell of War doe purposely decline to make the people sweare to maintaine the knowne Laws and their own just Liberties and do endeavour to engage them upon paine of perjury to renounce their liberties and the benefit and protection of the known Laws and to subject themselves to such a condition of slavery as the unlimited and arbitrary wills of the Commissioners of Array would put them into who have already so farre exercised their illegall power over them that the whole Country doe groane under the burthen of their grievances as the many heavy and cruell taxations the imprisoning of mens persons the pressing of men for the Wars without Authority of Parliament and the countenancing of Robberies under a new name of plundering The consideration of which Grievances and pressures and the ill consequences of the said Oath if not timely prevented have occasioned this ensuing Declaration to undeceive the people FIrst That the said Oath is unjust deceitfull and impossible to be performed and the people enforced to take the same for feare of plundering or imprisonment So it bindes not the Conscience of any man to keep it but on the contrary he that endeavours to keep an unjust Oath persisteth in sin Secondly That the Forces raised by Authority of Parliament under the Command of Sir Thomas Middleton Knight are neither Traiterously not Rebelliously raised but have His Majesties Royall Authority for their warrant Thirdly That the said Forces are raised for the preservation of the true Protestant Religion His Majesties person just Power and Prerogative the just Priviledges of Parliament the just Liberties of the Subject and the knowne Laws of this Kingdome against those Armies of Papists and Delinquents within this Kingdome who pretending His Majesties personall Commands as the Rebels in Ireland doe to countenance their Rebellion endeavour to destroy the very constitution and being of Parliaments and therein His Majesties Royall Authority and the Laws of the Realme to the end they might avoid the justice of that Supream Court And are particularly raised to free that Country from the cruell oppression of those persons who thought that ruine would not come swift enough into their Coasts except they did petition and ride far to usher in the same those persons who to compasse to themselves some titles of Dignities would let the Kingdome see into what measure of servitude and bondage they can bring the Common people into by their new acquired power of the Commission of Array Fourthly That all those persons inhabiting within any of the Counties of North-Wales who have been misled or enforced by the Commissioners of Array to raise Armes or pay money towards the maintenance of this unnaturall War against the Parliament and shall forthwith come in and tender themselves to the said Sir Thomas Middleton and yeeld submission to the Power and Authority of Parliament their former delinquencie shall be remitted and their persons and estates protected from the violence and fury of Souldiers Fifthly That as many of those persons who have put in execution the Commission of Array or have been in actuall War against the Parliament as shall forthwith come and render themselves unto the said Sir Thomas Middleton and submit to the Power and Authority of Parliament he will suspend the putting in execution of the Ordinances of Parliament against them untill the further pleasure of the Parliament be signified therein and will use his best endeavour to have their former delinquencie remitted or qualified Sixthly That as many as will not submit to the Authority of Parliament but persist in their disobedience must expect to feele those miseries which War may bring upon them and that punishment which they justly deserve for their contempt of so High Authority And lastly That the Forces of the Parliament shall be continued no longer in the said Counties then untill those Commissioners of Array and those other persons that have been in actuall War against the Parliament be reduced to their due obedience to the Laws of the Realme and the justice of that supream Court The Coasts secured against the landing of Irish Rebells from whom no Protestant Subject of this Kingdome can expect civill usage however he stands affected The people freed from those oppressions and bondage under which they groane and the trading of North-Wales for Cloth and Cattell be restored unto them which now is quite decayed by the Commissioners of Array's opposition against the Parliament and the want thereof will bring extreame poverty and famine upon the whole Country He that can beleeve That the Irish Rebels and English Papists doe now fight to maintaine the Protestant Religion That His Majesties Royall Power and just Prerogatives are not resident in the Courts of Justice That the Papists who are now in Armes contrary to the expresse words of severall Acts of Parli●●●nt made against Papists bearing of Armes doe now fight to maintaine and keep those Statutes in force That those Delinquents who were declared Traitors by the Parliament and many of them so proclaimed by His Majesty doe now fight against the Parliaments Forces to maintaine the Priviledges of Parliament and not to protect themselves from the Justice of that Supream Court is furnished with a sufficient competencie of Ignorance to digest that Oath He that hath been inforced to take an Oath the substance whereof he cannot beleeve is bound in Conscience and reason nos to observe the same FINIS