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A76028	A declaration, of His Imperiall Majestie, the most High and Mighty Potentate Alexea, Emperor of Russia, and great Duke of Muscovia, &c wherein is conteined his detestation of the murther of Charles the First, King of Great Britain and Ireland; his propensitie to restore King Charles the Second; that hee hath forbidden all trade with England; and meanes propounded for the establishing of a generall-peace throughout Christendome.	Russia. Sovereign (1645-1676 : Alekseĭ Mikhaĭlovich)	1650 (1650)	Wing A902A; Thomason E623_17; ESTC R206420	4,894	9

it Treason not to bee expiated save by death but to imagine or contr●ve the death of a King though a Usurper or Tyrant but this viperous brood whose breath is slaughter and destruction have not only imagined or contrived but really acted the Murther of a lawfull King as unpattern'd in his vertues as themselves are in their vices whose universall endowments of grace and nature as well as his deputation justly rendred him a terrestriall deity for hee was the perfect Modell of all contracted vertues the blessing of his age the pleasure of mankind the exaltation of nature the Diamond in the Ring of the Monarchs of the Earth the Miracle of the Christian and the mark and scope of the heathen World wherefore to have assassinated him by the hand of a Raviliack had beene a supergra●uate sinne but to execute him publiquely as a common Malefactor was the marrow and spirits of the mistery of Iniquity so exorbitant outragious and portentuous a Treason that the prodigies of lost humanity could not have acted it worse the blackest that ever the Sunne looked upon the most cursed and infamous that ever was accompted in any Kalender of time for in so many thousand yeares from the fall of the Reprobate Angells it never came into the head of any Devill to suggest to the heart of any man before this time so nefarious patricidous and flegitonticall a wickednesse as this was And having sent the father into the other World through a Red-Sea of his owne precious blood that they might manifest themselves to bee the very off-spring of the Devill the falsest Sinons and Impostors that ever studied or put in practise the Art of delusion with whom no bond of Alliance Allegiance Oath or Sacrament can stand firme if they list to dissolve it They have proscribed his eldest sonne their present Soveraigne with the Duke his brother and by a pretended Law which to that purpose they have enacted have made him or any of the Royall Family for ever uncapable of exercising the Kingly Government in any of those Kingdomes And by the same Act have made it absolutely Lawfull with an assurance of a reward for any one that shall Murther the yong King and the Duke his brother as Traytors Spies and Enemies to that Common-Wealth And having swallowed a plentifull hope of an eternall fruition of their usurped Dominion they have broken the Diadem of State seized upon the Regalia to their owne benefit put to sale the ornament and furniture of the Royall Houshold devided the Crown Revenues among themselves and their adherents overthrown the fundamentall Government of those Kingdomes from a well-composed Monarchy to a confused-Anarchy and reduced the Subjects thereof from a glorious condition of perfect freedome to a farre worse then Aegyptiacall bondage Nor will the free possession of one Kingdome satiate their ambitious appetites but that they may stretch forth their Tyrannie into Forraigne parts they have landed an Host of ravenous Wolves or rather incarnate Devills in Ireland who have out-gone the most barbarous Heathens in bloody Massacres not sparing whole Citties and Townes but without respect of Age or Sex wheresoever they come give free scope to the mercilesse fury of their uncurbed Swords Nor are those a Abaddons and Apollions these destroyers of nature and mankind sensible of so small a tincture of grace as to blush at or palliate their unprecedented outrages but with the faces of Sodom and Gomorah do publish and patronage their unmatchable Villanies and seek to perswade the whole World of the Justice and Legallity of their unparralelled regicide and heterogeneous Government Now whereas it is the Office of Princes to execute Justice and Judgement and to punish Vice and subdue Rebellion Wee have thought it our Duty both to God and Man to vindicate the cause of the late Murthered King of Great Brittaine and restore his exiled son to the possession of his Thrones in Triumph and Majesty And for as much as all Christian Princes are equally concerned in this Cause with Us Wee have thought good to invite them to a generall Diet Which wee desire may bee convoked at Antwerp in the Dukedome of Brabant where upon the tenth of Aprill in the yeare of Grace 1650. Plenepotentiaries may meet from all Emperours Kings and Princes that professe Christianity where a generall and holy League being coucluded and all ancient and private Quarrells lay'd aside Wee may all agree to fight under one Banner that there a set Modell may bee concluded on and drawn up wherein every Prince shall beare a proportionable share in raysing and maintaining a great numerous Army in which the whole Forces of Christendom shall bee united in prosecution of this second holy Warre wherewith wee will Invade that Kingdome both by Sea and Land faithfully resolving never to desert this just and honourable Ingagement till by the blessing of God Wee have subdued that People to the obedience of their Soveraigne and restored that injured King to the quiet possession of his undoubted Rights And for as much as the inexorable malice of those unmatchable Rebells extends to the generall Ruine of Father Sonne and whole Famelie so the extent of our Justice shall range to the utter extirpation and irradication of them their wives children and allies and an absolute deletion of their names and memories But if Chronicles shall entail any of their prodigious Acts to ensuing Ages their dreadfull destruction shall bee therewith Recorded that Posterity may bee as well afrighted and amazed at the punishment as progression of their Rebellion And for the better encouragement of this honourable enterprize being the common Cause of abused Soveraignty Wee are pleased of our owne Royall benignity besides our proportionable contribution to the generall charge to raise and maintaine ten thousand well experienced Souldiers both Horse and Foote and furnish them with a Train of Artillery and all necessary habiliments of Warre out of our proper Treasury And for as much as examples are the most compendious teachers and perfect illustrations Wee have thought it convenient to signify to the World how farre Wee have expanded Our just indignation against that Rebellious People For by Our speciall Decree which Wee have caused to bee Proclaimed throughout all Our Dominions Wee have commanded all Englishmen by a certain day to depart our Empires notwithstanding all former grants licenses and Acts of naturalization and after that day Wee have forbid all Trade and Commerce with that Nation prohibiting any one of that Nation upon any occasion how urgent soever upon paine of High-Treason to remaine in any part of Our Empire or other Dominions And if any shall presume after that aforesaid day notwithstanding this Our Decree to stay in any part of Our Dominions that they bee forthwith executed as Spies and Traytors Provided alwaies that the Penalty of this Decree extend not to any who either are or hereafter shall bee imployed in any of our Territories from the King of Great Brittaine And Wee desire that all Kings and Princes of Christendom would herein follow Our Royall example That as those unmatchable Rebells have out-gone all other Nations in their sinne so they may in their sufferings in becoming an off-scouring and abhomination to mankind And Wee doe solemnly protest Our selfe to bee an eternall friend to the King of Great Brittain and his friends and an irreconciliable foe to his enemies Given at Our Court at Mosco the 20. of September 1649. 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