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A32105	His Maiesties royall declaration and protestation to all his loving subjects in England being a full satisfaction to all the whole world against all aspersions which have lately been cast upon His Majesty, that he is popishly affected, to the great dishonour of His Majesty and the withdrawing his loving subjects from him : together with his gracious resolution for the maintenance of the true Protestant religion the laws and liberties of the subject with the just priviledges of Parliament.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2763; ESTC R26009	4,490	10

importance and piety with great honour to themselves and advantage to this Kingdome For the danger of Our Person We conceive it necessary and Worthy of a King to adventure his life to preserve his Kingdome neither can it be imagined that We will fit still and suffer Our Kingdome to be lost and Our good Protestant Subjects to be massacred without exposing Our Person to the utmost hazzard for their reliefe and preservation God in his good time We hope will so informe the hearts of all Our good Subjects that We shall recover from the mischiefe and danger of this distemper on whose good pleasure We will wait with patience and humility For the bringing up of the Army to London as we have heretofore by no other direction then the testimony of a good conscience called God to witnesse we never had or knew of any such resolution so upon the view of the Depositions now published with that Declaration it is not evident to Us there was ever such a designe unlesse very loose discourse or argument be instance enough of such a designe And if no better effects then losse of time and hindrance of the publike affaires have beene found by Our Answers and Replies let all good men judge by whose default and whose want of duty such effects have beene And We call Almighty God to witnesse all Our complaints and jealousies which have never been causelesse nor of Our Houses of Parliament but of some few schismaticall factious and ambitious spirits Our deniall of the Militia Our absenting Our Selfe from London have beene the effects of an upright and faithfull affection to Our English Subjects that We may be able through all the inconveniences We are compelled to wrastle with at last to restore their Religion Lawes and Liberties unto them Wee desire Our actions may no longer prosper or have a blessing from God upon them and Us then they shall be directed to the glory of God in the maintenance of the true Protestant profession to the preservation of the property and liberty of the subjects in the observation of the Lawes and the maintenance of the Rights and Freedome of Parliament in the allowance and protection of all their just priviledges We would have you to be assured that We never intended the least neglect unto you in any former Summons of the county Our love as well as Our protection extending to all Our Subjects but as you are a great body time and conveniency must be observed in your assembling That you may know the generall reasons of Our being here you must understand that when We found it neither safe nor honourabl● to expose Our Person to the tumultuous and licentious proceedings of many which to this day are unpunished who did disorderly approach neere Our Court at White-Hall Wee trusted this part of Our dominions chiefly to reside in where as most of the Gentry already have so Wee assure Our Selfe the rest of you will give Us cleere testimony of your service and obedience which We will never use otherwise then for the defence of Our orthodox Religion professed and setled in Queene Elizabeths time and confirmed by the authority of the Statutes of this Realme the defence of the Lawes and fundamentall Constitutions of the Kingdome as the justest measure and rule for Our Prerogative your Liberties and Rights and lastly for the preservation of the peace of this Kingdome As for Our owne zeale to the Protestant profession we refer all the world to Our daily exercise of and Our Declarations concerning it and execution of the Laws against the Papists so likewise We cannot but declare Our Selfe most heartily sorry to finde such Separatists and Schismaticks who presume against Law to foment new doctrines and disciplines to the disturbance of Church and State For the Law it being the common inheritance of Our people We shall never inforce any Prerogative of Ours beyond it but submit Our Selfe to it and give you and all Our Subjects the fullest latitude of it both for the liberty of your persons and the propriety of your estates and for an inviolable confidence and assurance hereof as We take God the searcher of all hearts to witnesse Our reall intention herein so We shall no longer desire you to stand for the defence of Our Person Honour and just Prerogatives then We shall maintaine the Lawes of the Land the liberty of your persons and propriety of your goods For the resort of Papists to the Court His Majesties great care for the prevention thereof is notoriously knowne that when he was informed two or three of his Guard were of that Religion he gave speciall direction with expressions of his displeasure that they should bee immediately discharged and provided that no person should attend on him under that relation but such as tooke the oath of Allegiance and Supremacie There having been many rumours spread and informations given which may have induced many to believe that We intend to make war ●gainst Our Parliament We professe before God and declare to all the world that we alwaies have and doe abhorre all such designes and desire all Our Nob●●● and Councell who are 〈…〉 place to declare whether they have not been witnesses of Our frequent and earnest Declarations and Professions to this purpose whether they see any colour of Preparations or Counsells that might reasonably beget a belief of any such designe and whether they be not fully perswaded that We have no such intention but that all Our endeavours according to Our many professions tend to the firm and constant settlement of the true Protestant Religion the just priviledges of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject Peace and prosperity of this Kingdome The God of heaven direct you and in mercy divert those judgements which hang over this Nation and so deale with Us and Our posterity as We desire the preservation and advancement of the true Protestant Religion the Law and the Liberty of the Subject the just Rights of Parliament and the peace of the Kingdome FINIS

HIS MAIESTIES ROYALL DECLARATION AND PROTEST●TION TO all his loving Subjects in England BEING A full satisfaction to all the whole world against all aspersions which have lately been cast upon His Majesty that he is Popishly affected to the great dishonour of his Majesty and the withdrawing His loving Subjects from him TOGETHER With His Gracious Resolution for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the Laws and Liberties of the Subject with the just Priviledges of Parliament Published by His Majesties speciall Command OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the famous University His Majestyes Royall Declaration and Protestation to all his Loving Subjects in England IT is a wonder that We so just so pious and mercicifull in our words and intentions should not be believed in all our Declarations and Protestations certainly it is impiety to be so full of infidelity towards the words of a King some whereof we have here drawne out of our own severall writings that all the world may see Our faire expressions of our self and the just end of all Our actions and how unjustly both have been interpreted First concerning Our being affected to Popery We protest in the word of a King and call the searcher of all hearts to record that We intend not the alteration of the true professed and established Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Kingdome the know●e libertie of the Subject the right and just Priviledges of Parliament Of the Lawes his Majesty saith thus A new power hath been assumed to interpret and declare Lawes without Us by extemporary votes tending to a pure arbitrary power Ordinances and Orders were pressed upon the people as Lawes and their obedience required to them His Majesty saith further We doe beleeve and accordingly professe to all the world that the malignity of this designe as dangerous to the Lawes of this Kingdome the power of the same and the Liberties of all Our good Subjects as to Our self and Our just Prerogative hath proceeded from the subtill informations and evill Counsells of ambitious turbulent Spirits disaffected to Gods true Religion and the unity of the Professours thereof Our Honour and safety and the publick peace and prosperity of our people His Majesty addeth further But how fautly soever others are we shall with Gods assistance endeavour to discharge Our duty in the uprightnesse of heart The King goes on further in declaring his own candor and uprightnesse together with affronts offered unto Him saying thus they endeavour to turn this government into a new Eutopia of Religion and therefore We are resolved to change none of Our trusty Officers till they appear to have behaved themselves otherwise then they ought to have done and bee evicted by legall proceedings to have done so We were ever willing that Our Parliament should debate resolve and transact such matters as are now proper for them and we heartily wish that the course of Law be no wayes diverted much lesse disturbed Moreover we call God to witnesse that as for our Subjects sakes all rights are vested in Us so for their sakes as well as for Our own we are resolved not to quit them nor to subvert though in a Parliamentary way the ancient just constitution of the Government of this Kingdome nor to make Our self of a King of England a Duke of Venice and this of a Kingdome a Republick Besides the Kings Majesty saith further Nolumus leges Angliae mutari We promise that We will be as carefull of preserving the Lawes in what doth concern Our subjects as in what most concerns our self for We professe to believe that the preservation of every Law concerns Us We have by many of Our messages to you by Our voluntary promise to you so solemnly made never to pardon any popish Priest by Our strict Proclamation which lately published in this point sufficiently expressed Our zeal herein We wil also with constancy maintain while We live The Protestant Religion in its purity and glory not onely against all invasions of Popery but also from the irreverence of Schismaticks and Separatists wherewith this Kingdome of late and Our City of London abounds to the great dishonour and hazzard both of Church and State To conclude We conjure you and all men to rest satisfied with the truth of Our professions and the reality of Our intentions And then We shall receive much more in the hope of a full constant happines of our people in the true Religion and under the protection of the same by a blessed union between Us and Our Parliament so much desired by Us then in any increase of Our own Revenue which beyond former grants of Our Subjects when most wealthy could by our Parliament be settled upon Us Thus We in all our Protestations and Messages desire the good of the Kingdome before Our own private interest His Majesty saith further We professe before and declare to all the world that we alwayes have and did abhorre all such designes but that all Our endeavous according to Our many Professions did and shall ever tend to the firm and constant settlement of the true Protestant Religion the just Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject the Lawes Peace and prosperity of this Kingdome In a Letter from His Majesty to both Houses of Parliament the conclusion you may reade thus If all these present distractions which so apparently threaten the ruine of this Kingdome do not by the blessing of almighty God end in a happy and blessed accommodation his Majesty will then be ready to call heaven and earth God and man to witnesse that it hath not failed on his part I am confident that you expect not I should give a speedy answer to this strange and unexpected Declaration that in the distraction of this Kingdome you should think this way of addresse more convenient then that proposed by my message the 20 of January last to both houses as concerning the grounds of your feares and jealousies I will take time to answer particularly and doubt not but I shall do it to the satisfaction of the whole world God in his good time will discover the secrets and bottomes of all plots and treasons and then I shall stand right in the eyes of my people God so deale with me and mine as all my thoughts and intentions are upright for the maintenance of the true Protestant profession and for the observation and preservation of the Lawes of this Land and I hope God will blesse and assist those Lawes for my preservation When we duly weigh the dishonour which will perpetually lie upon this Kingdome if full and speedy relief be not dispatched We could not nor cannot think of a better way to discharge Our duty to Almighty God for the defence of the true Protestant Profession or to manifest Our affection to Our three Kingdomes then by ingaging Our Person in this Expedition as many of Our royall Progenitours have done even in Forraigne parts upon causes of lesse