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city_n	county_n	say_a	sheriff_n	8,049	5	11.8418	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78705	His Majesties declaration, in answer to 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 lead against all traitors and their adherents, &c.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2206; ESTC R171164	5,134	16

HIS MAJESTIES Declaration IN ANSWER TO 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 lead against all Traitors and their Adherents c. YORK Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL MDCXLII A DECLARATION OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in 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 Traiterous intent to subvert the Liberty of the Subject and the Law of the Kingdom and for the better strengthning themselves in this wicked attempt do joyne 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 Libertie 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 robbed spoiled 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 end and purpose aforesaid the Earl of Northampton the Lord Dunsmore Lord VVillowby of Eresby Son to the Earl of Linsey Henry Hastings Esquire and divers other unknown Persons in the Counties of Lincoln Nottingham Leicester VVarwick Oxfordshire and other places the Marquesse of Hertford the Lord Paulet Lord Seymer Sir Iohn Stawell Sir Ralph Hopton Iohn Digby Esquire and other their Accomplices have gotten together great forces in the County of Sommerset The Lords and Commons in Parliament duly 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 bloody massacre of the Protestants They do Declare and Ordain that it is and shall be lawfull for all His Majesties loving Subjects 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 the ends aforesaid and that the Earl of Essex Lord Generall with all his forces raised by the authoritie of Parliament as likewise the Lord Say Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Earl of Peterborough Lieutenant of Northamptonshire Lord Wharton Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire Earl of Stamford Lieutenant of Leicestershire Earl of Pembrook Lieutenant of Wiltshire and Hampshire Earl of Bedford Lieutenant of Sommersetshire and Devon Lord Brook Lieutenant of VVarwickshire the Lord Cramborne Lieutenant of Dorsetshire the Lord VVilloughby of Parham Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and all those who are or shall be appointed by Ordinance of both Houses to perform the place of Deputy Lieutenants and their Deputy-Lieutenants respectively Densill Hollis Esquire Lieutenant of the Citie and County of Bristoll and the Majors and Sheriffs of the Citie and Deputy Lieutenants there and all other Lieutenants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Deputy-Lieutenants shall raise all their power and forces of their severall Counties as well Trained Bands as others and shall have power to conduct and lead 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 other 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 Commons in Parliament for the defence of the Religion of Almighty God and of the Liberties and Peace of the Kingdom and in pursuit of those wicked and Rebellious Traytors their Conspirators Ayders and Abettors and Adherents requiring all Lieutenants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Justices of Peace and others 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 the Power and Authority of Parliament His MAjESTIES Declaration In Answer to 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 lead against all Traitours and their Adherents c. AS much experience as We have had of the inveterate rancour and high Insolence of the malignant Party against Vs We never yet saw any Expression come from them so evidently declaring it as the Declaration intituled 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 lead against all Traitors 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 Vs then that by their infinite Arts and Subtilty imployed by their perpetuall indefatigable industry and by that Rabble of Brownists and other Schismaticks declaredly ready to appear at their call they should have been able so to draw away some and drive away others of Our good Subjects from Our Parliament as to prevail 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 soiled as to be prefixt to a Paper of this unsufferable nature that tends not onely to the destruction of Our Person but to the dissolution of this Government and of all Societie If at least this Declaration which We rather see cause to hope it hath not have so much as been seen in the Houses and be not the single work of the same omnipotent Committee to which is devolved the whole power of the Parliament and which as We understand is trusted without acquainting the Houses to break up any mans House and take away the Arms and Money intended to defend and feed him if they shall see cause to suspect that he meant to assist his Soveraign with them and may well be as fully and implicitely tri ted to declare as to Act whatsoever they please And though We