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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82701	A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, setting forth the grounds and reasons, that necessitate them at this time to take up defensive arms for the preservation of His Majesties person, the maintenance of the true religion, the laws and liberties of this kingdom, and the power and priviledge of Parliament. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1450; Thomason E108_42; ESTC R1976	7,194	17

sharpe a return such expressions of birternesse a justification and avowed protection of Delinquents from the hand of Justice Demands of so apparent danger such manifestations of an intention to destroy Us and with Us the whole Kingdom and this more clearly evidenced by their subsequent Actions even since these Propositions have been made unto Us from His Majestie overrunning severall Counties compelling the Trained Bands by force to come in and joyne with them or disarming them and putting their Arms into the hands of lewd and desperate persons thereby turning the Arms of the Kingdom against it self it be not fit for Us not only not to yeeld to what is required but also to make further provision for the preservation of Our selves and of those who have sent Us hither and intrusted Us with all they have Estate Libertie and Life and that which is the life of their lives their Religion and even for the safety of the Kings Person now environed by those who carry Him upon His own ruine and the destruction of all His People At least to give them warning that all this is in danger That if the King may force this Parliament they may bid farewell to all Parliaments from ever receiving good by them and if Parliaments be lost they are lost Their Laws are lost as well those lately made as in former times all which will be cut in sunder with the same sword now drawn for the destruction of this Parliament Then If they will not come to help the Parliament and save themselves though both they and We must perish yet have We discharged Our consciences and delivered Our Soules and We will look for a reward in Heaven should We be so ill required upon Earth by those of whom We have so well deserved which We cannot feare having found upon all occasions such reall Demonstrations of their love and affection and of their right understanding and apprehension of Our and their common danger Especially now that the Question is so clearly stated and that it appeareth that neither Hull nor the Militia nor the Magazin are the grounds of the war which is so furiously driven on against us by a Malignant party of Papists those who call themselves Cavaliers and other ill-affected persons but so far forth onely As the Parliament and all the Members of both Houses all other persons who have shewed themselves forward for the defence of the sincerity of Religion the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom and the just power and Priviledges of Parliament are preserved and secured thereby For the many designes upon the Parliament above mentioned The attempts to be possessed of Hull and of the Magazine by sending thither Captain Leg a Delinquent to the Parliament for having had a hand in the treasonable practise to bring up the Army against us and the Earl of Newcastle in a disguised habit which was a pursuance of the Lord Digbies advice and the endeavouring to raise forces under pretence of a Guard to the Kings Person in the winter All this before we medled with Hull or Magazin or Militia shew plainly that Our Act in securing them was not the cause of the Kings taking up Arms and exercising hostility upon His Loving and Loyall Subjects which was in the thoughts and endeavours of those about His Majesty who then had and still have the greatest influence upon His Councells before We thought of Hull or Militia or any thing else of that nature And that our resigning of them now would not prevail with Him to make him lay down His Arms and returne to His Parliament and gratifie the earnest and longing desires of His People to enjoy His presence favour and protection But that if He could recover either by Our Resignation or any other way pieces of so much advantage to Him and weakning to Us use would be made of them to Our infinite prejudice and ruine The intention being still the same not to rest satisfied with having Hull or taking away the Ordinance of the Militia But to destroy the Parliament and be masters of Our Religion and Liberties To make Us slaves and alter the Government of this Kingdom and reduce it to the condition of some other Countries which are not governed by Parliaments and so by Laws but by the will of the Prince or rather of those who are about him Yet willingly would we give His Majestie satisfaction in these particulars and so have we offered it could we be secured that disarming our selves and delivering them up to His Majestie as the sword of Justice is already put into the hands of divers Popish and other ill-affected persons by putting them into the Commissions of the Peace and other Commissions and putting out others that are well-affected so wee should not for our own destruction put the Military sword into the hands of those evil Councellours and ill-affected persons who are so prevalent with His Majestie Papists many of them or very late Converts by taking the Oaths of Supremacie and Allegiance for which they may very well have a dispensation or Indulgence to be enabled thereby to promote so great a service for the Popish cause as to destroy the two Houses of Parliament and through their sides the Protestant Religion But we have too just cause to beleeve and know considering those continued designes upon Us and the composition of the Kings Army and of His Counsell at this time that these things are desired to be made use of to Our destruction and the destruction of that which wee are bound by Our Protestation to defend and woe to Us if We do it not at least do Our utmost endeavours in it for the discharge of Our Duties and the saving of our Soules and leave the successe to God Almightie Therefore we the Lords and Commons are resolved to expose our Lives and Fortunes for the defence and maintenance of the true Religion the Kings Person Honour and Estate the Power and Priviledge of Parliament and the just Rights and Liberties of the Subject And for the prevention of that mischievous design which gives motion to all the rest and hath been so strongly pursued these many yeers The altering of our Religion which if God in his mercy had not miraculously diverted long ago had we been brought to the condition of poor Ireland weltring in our own blood and confusion And we do here require All those who have any sence of piety honour or compassion to help a distressed state especially such as have taken the Protestation and are bound in the same duty with us unto their God their King and Country To come into our aid and assistance This being the true cause for which we raise an Army under the Command of the Earl of Essex with whom in this Cause we will Live and Die FINIS

in that Kingdom and so strengthned from thence the better to compasse their intended purpose here At the same time The Rebellion in Ireland an egg likewise of their hatching breaks out But their plot failed in Scotland yet upon hopes of successe there Such preparatives were here and such recourse of ill affected Persons to this Town That the Parliament thought it necessary for their own security to have a guard The King upon His return instantly dismisses that guard and puts another upon us which produced such ill effects as we were glad to dismisse them and rather run any hazard then have such a guard Thus left naked Presently some Members of both Houses are unjustly charged with Treason and the King comes with a Troop of Cavaliers to the House of Commons to fetch those away by force whom be had caused to be so unjustly accused The greatest violation of the priviledges of Parliament that ever was attempted and so manifest a destruction of the right of the Subject which is only preserved by Parliament That the City of London took a pious and generous Resolution to guard the Parliament themselves Which so grieved and enraged those wicked Persons who had engaged the King in that last and all those other designes and practises against the Parliament That they make him forsake Whitehall under pretence that His Person was there in danger A suggestion as false as the Father of lyes can invent Then do they work upon him and upon the Queen perswade her to retire out of the Kingdom and carry him further and further from the Parliament and so possesse him with an hatred of it that they cannot put words bitter enough into his mouth to expresse it upon all occasions They make him crosse oppose inveigh against all the proceedings of Parliament encourage and protect all those who will affront it take away all power and authority from it to make it contemptible and of lesse esteem then the meanest Court draw away the Members commanding them to come to him to York and in stead of discharging their duty in the service of the Parliament to contribute their advice and assistance to the destruction of it endeavour to possesse the people that the Parliament will take away the Law and introduce an Arbitrary Government A thing which every honest Morall man abhors much more the Wisdom Justice and Piety of the two Houses of Parliament and in truth such a charge as no Rationall man can beleeve It being unpossible so many severall persons as the two Houses of Parliament consist of about six hundred and in either House all of equall power should all of them or at least the major part agree in Acts of Will and Tyrannie which make up an Arbitrary Government and most improbable that the Nobility and chief Gentry of this Kingdom should conspire to take away the Law by which they enjoy their Estates are protected from any Act of Violence and Power and differenced from the meaner sort of people with whom otherwise they would be but fellow-servants To make all this good upon the Parliament and either make the Kingdom beleeve it or so awe it as no body shall dare say the contrary force is prepared men are levied and the Malignant party of the Kingdom as was before specified that is Papists the Prelaticall Clergie Delinquents and that part of the Nobility and Gentry which either fear Reformation or seek preferment by betraying their Country to serve the Court have combined to bury the happinesse of this Kingdom in the ruine of this Parliament and by forcing it to cut up the freedom of Parliament by the root and either take all Parliaments away or which is worse make them the instruments of slavery to confirm it by Law and leave the disease incurable That done then come they to crown their work and put that in execution which was first in their intention that is the changing of Religion into Popery and Superstition All this while the two Houses of Parliament have with all duty and loyalty still applyed themselves unto His Majesty and laboured by humble prayers and cleer and convincing Reasons and Arguments in severall Petitions to satisfie him of their intentions the justnesse of their proceedings their desire of the safety of His Royall Person and of the Peace of the Kingdom And only to preserve that Peace and prevent the pernicious practises of these Incendaries such as the Lord Digby who at first perswaded the King to get into some strong place that He might there protect those whom he stiled the Kings Servants but in truth such as do divide Him from His Parliament and Kingdom and might be revenged upon His Parliament where he said Traitors bare that sway And who in the mean time promised hee would do him service abroad which by his own Letters appears to be the procuring of supplies against the Kingdom and Parliament with which hee himself said he would return as since he hath done disguised with store of Arms in the Ship called THE PROVIDENCE And who had attempted upon the Kings first going from White Hall to raise some numbers of horse and foot under the colour of a Guard for His Majestie to be the foundation of an Army against the Parliament which then failing hath since taken effect and shews what was then in their thoughts before Hull or the Militia or any thing else of that nature was in Question the Parliament thought fit to secure Hull least it might be a receptacle of such ill-affected persons and of what aid could be gotten from Forraigne parts the Fleet under the Earl of Warwick to defend the Kingdom and prevent such mischief from abroad the Magazin of Arms that they should not be imployed against Us and the Militia of the Kingdom in such hands as the Parliament might confide in to suppresse commotions within our selves And how necessary all this was to be done the succeeding designes and practises upon them all do sufficiently manifest And great cause hath the whole Kingdom to blesse God who put it into the heads and hearts of the Parliament to take care of these particulars For were these pernicious persons about the King Masters of them how easie would it be for them to master the Parliament and Master the Kingdom And what could we expect but ruine and destruction from such Masters who make the King in this manner revile and detest Us and our Actions such who have embarqued Him in so many designes to overthrow this Parliament such who have so long thirsted to see Religion and Libertie confounded together Let the world now judge what more could be done by Us then we have done to appease His Majestie and regain His Grace and Favour if after the presenting of such a Petition as the last was so full of submisse humble affectionate desires of Peace so full of Duty and Loyalty as we thought malice it self could nor have excepted against it And having received so