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A37734 A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the raising of all power and force, as well trained bands as others, in severall counties of this kingdome to leade against all traytors and their adherents and them to arrest and imprison ... all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties loving subjects that shall be imployed in this service by either or both Houses of Parliament : together with His Majesties declaration in answer to the same. England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1642 (1642) Wing E1427; ESTC R30019 5,386 16

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A DECLARATION OF THE LORDS and COMMOMS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the raising of all power and Force as well Trained Bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdom To leade against all Traytors and their Adherents and them to Arrest and Imprison and to fight with Kill and Slay all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties loving Subjects that shall be imployed in this Service by either or both Houses of PARLIAMENT Together With His Majesties DECLARATION In Answer to the same YORK Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A Declaration of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the raising of all power and force as well Trained Bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdom To leade against all Traitors and their Adherents and them to Arrest and Imprison and to fight with Kill and Slay all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties Loving Subjects that shall be imployed in this service by either or both Houses of PARLIAMENT WHereas certain Information is given from severall parts of the Kingdom That divers Troops of Horse are imployed in sundry Counties of the Kingdom and that others have Commission to raise both Horse and Foot to compell His Majesties Subjects to submit to the Illegall Commission of Array out of a Trayterous intent to subvert the Liberty of the Subject and the Law of the Kingdom and for the better strengthning themselves in this wicked attempt doe joyn with the Popish and Jesuiticall Faction to put the Kingdom into a combustion and Civill War by leavying forces against the Parliament and by these Forces to alter the Religion and the ancient Government and lawfull Liberty of the Kingdom and to introduce Popery and Idolatry together with an Arbitrary Form of Government And in pursuance thereof have Traiterously and Rebelliously leavyed War against the King and by force robb'd spoyl'd and slain divers of His Majesties good Subjects travelling about their lawfull and necessary occasions in the Kings Protection according to Law and namely That for the'nd and purpose aforesaid The Earl of Northampton the Lord Dunsmore Lord Willoughby of Eresby Son to the Earl of Linsey Henry Hastings Esquire and divers other unknown Persons in the Counties of Lincoln Nottingham Leicester Warwick Oxford and other places the Marquesse of Hertford the Lord Paulet Lord Seymer Sir John Stawell Sir Ralph Hopton John Digby Esq and other their Accomplices have gotten together great Forces in the County of Sommerset The Lords and Commons in Parliament duely considering the great dangers which may ensue upon such their wicked and Trayterous designes and if by this means the Power of the Sword should come into the Hands of Papists and their Adherents nothing can be expected but the miserable ruine and desolation of the Kingdom and the bloudy massacre of the Protestants They doe Declare and Ordain That it is and shall be lawfull for all His Majesties loving Subject● by force of Arms to resist the said severall Parties and their Accomplices and all other that shall raise or conduct any other Forces for th' ends aforesaid and that the Earl of Essex Lord Generall with all his Forces raised by the authority of Parliament as likewise the Lord Say Lievtenant of Oxfordshire Earl of Peterborough Lievtenant of Northamtonshire Lord Wharton Lievtenant of Bu●kinghamshire Earl of Stamford Lievtenant of Leicestershire Earl of Pembrook Lievtenant of Wiltshire and Hampshire Earl of Bedford Lievtenant of Sommersetshire and Devon Lord Brook Liev●enant of Warwickshire the Lord Cramborne Lievtenant of Dorsershire the Lord Willoughby of Parham Lievtenant of Lincolnshire and all those who are or shall be appointed by Ordinance of both Houses to perform the Place of Deputy Lievtenants and their Deputy Lievtenants respectively Densill Hollis Esquire Lievtenant of the City and County of Bristoll and the Majors and Sheriffes of the City and Deputy Lievtenants there and all other Lievtenants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Deputy Lievtenants shall raise all their Power and Forces of their severall Counties as well Trained Bands as others and shall have power to conduct and leade the said Forces of the said Counties against the said Traytors and their Adherents and with them to fight kill and slay all such as by Force shall oppose them and the Persons of the said Traytors and their Adherents and Accomplices to Arrest and Imprison and them to bring up to the Parliament to answer this their Trayterous and Rebellious Attempts according to Law and the same or any ot●er Forces to transport and conduct from one County to another in ayd and assistance one of another and of all others that shall joyn with the Lords and Commons in Parliament for the defence of the Religion of Almighty God and of the Liberties and Pe●ce of tho Kingdom and in pursuit of those wicked and Rebellious Traytor● their Conspirators Ayders and Abettors and Adherents requiring all Lieu●enants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Justices of Pe●ce and other His Majesties Officers and loving Subjects to be ayding and assisting to one another in the Execution hereof and for their so doing all the parties above mentioned and all others that shall joyn with them shall be justified defended and secured by tho Power and Authority of Parliament FINIS Ordered that this be forthwith Printed H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. His Majesties Declaration in Answer to a Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the raysing of all Power and Force aswell Trained Bands as others in severall Counties of the Kingdom to leade against all Traytors and their Adherents c. AS much experience as we have had of the inveterate rancour and high Insolence of the malignant party against us we never yet saw any expression come from them so evidently declaring it as the Declaration entituled A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the raysing of all Power and Force aswell Trayned Bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdom to leade against all Traytors and their Adherents c. In which That Faction hath as it were distilled and contracted all their falshood Insolence and Malice There being in it not one period which is not either slanderous or treasonable and nothing can more grieve us then that by their infinite Arts Subtilty employed by their perpetuall and indefatigable industry and by that rabble of Brownists and other Schismatickes declaredly ready to appeare at their call they should have been able so to draw away some and drive away others of our good Subjcts from our Parliament as to prevaile with the Major Part remaining of both Houses how much soever that Major part be the smaller in comparison of the whole to suffer that name whose reverence by all means we desire to preserve to be so soyl'd as to be prefixed to a Paper of this unsufferable nature That tends not onely to