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A63488 A True copy of the instrument of association that the Protestants of England entred into, in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth, against a popish conspiracy with an act made upon the same, for the security of the Queen's Most Royal Person. England and Wales. Parliament. 1695 (1695) Wing T2644; ESTC R222385 5,563 9

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A TRUE COPY Of the Instrument of ASSOCIATION That the Protestants of England entred into in the 27th Year of Queen Elizabeth against a Popish Conspiracy With an Act made upon the same for the security of the Queen 's Most Royal Person FOrasmuch as Almighty God hath Ordained Kings Queens and Princes to have Dominion and Rule over all their Subjects and to preserve them in the Possession and Observation of the true Christian Religion according to his Holy Word and Commandment And in like sort That all Subjects should Love Fear and Obey their Sovereign Princes being Kings or Queens to the utmost of their Power at all times to Withstand Pursue and Suppress all manner of Persons that shall by any means intend and attempt any thing dangerous or hurtful to the Honor States or Persons of their Sovereigns Therefore we whose Names are or shall be Subscribed to this Writing being Natural-born Subjects of this Realm of England and having so Gracious a Lady our Sovereign Elizabeth by the Ordinance of God our most Rightful Queen Reigning over us these many Years with great Felicity to our Inestimable Comfort And finding lately by divers Depositions Confessions and sundry Advertisements out of Foreign parts from Credible Persons well known to Her Majesties Council and to divers others that for the furtherance and advancement of some pretended Title to the Crown it hath been manifested that the Life of our Gracious Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth hath been most dangerously exposed to the Peril of Her Person if Almighty God Her perpetual Defender of his Mercy had not revealed and withstood the same By whose Life we and all other Her Majesties True and Loyal Subjects do enjoy an Inestimable Benefit of Peace in this Land do for the Reasons and Causes before alledged not only acknowledg our selves most justly bound with our Lives and Goods for her Defence in her safety to persecute suppress and withstand all such Pretenders and all other her Enemies of what Nation Condition and Degree whatsoever they shall be or by what Council or Title they shall pretend to be her Enemies or to attempt any harm upon her Person but do further think it our Bounden Duties for the great benefit of Peace and Wealth and Godly Government we have more plentifully received these many Years under Her Majesties Government than any of our Fore-fathers have done in any longer time of any other Progenitors Kings of this Realm Do declare and by this Writing make manifest our Bounden Duties to our said Sovereign Lady for her Safety And to that end we and every of us first calling to Witness the Name of Almighty God do voluntarily and most willingly bind our selves every one of us to the other jointly and severally in the Band of one firm and Loyal Society and do hereby Vow and Promise by the MAJESTY of ALMIGHTY GOD that with our whole Powers Bodies Lives and Goods and with our Children and Servants we and every of us will faithfully serve and humbly obey our said Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth against all States Dignities and earthly Powers whatsoever and will as well with our joynt and particular Forces during our Lives withstand offend and pursue as well by Forces of Arms as by all other means of Revenge all manner of Persons of what State soever they shall be and their Abettors that shall attempt any Act Council or Consent to any thing that shall tend to the harm of Her Majesties Royal Person and will never desist from all manner of forcible pursuit against such Persons to the utter Extermination of them their Counsellors Aiders and Abetters And if any such wicked Attempt against her most Royal Person shall be taken in hand and procured whereby any that have may or shall pretend Title to come to this Crown by the untimely death of her Majesty so wickedly procured which God for his mercy sake forbid may be avenged We do not only bind our selves both joyntly and severally never to allow accept or favour any such pretended Successor by whom or for whom any such detestable Act shall be attempted or committed as unworthy of all Government in any Christian Realm or Civil State But do also further Vow and Protest as we are most bound and that in the Presence of the Eternal and Everlasting God to Prosecute such Person and Persons to Death with our joynt or practical Forces and to ask the utmost Revenge upon them that by any means we or any of us can devise and do or cause to be devised and done for their utter overthrow and Extirpation And to the better Corroboration of this our Royal Band and Association we do also testifie by this Writing that we do confirm the Contents hereof by our Oaths Corporally taken upon the Holy Evangelists with this express Condition that no one of us shall for any respect of Persons or Causes or for Fear or Reward separate our selves from this ASSOCIATION or fail in the Prosecution thereof during our Lives upon Pain of being by the rest of us Prosecuted and Suppressed as Perjured Persons and Publick Enemies to God Our Queen and to our Native Country To which Punishments and Pains we do voluntarily submit our selves and every of us without benefit of any Colour and Pretence In Witness of all which promises to be inviolably kept we do to this Writing put our Hands and Seals and shall be most ready to accept and admit any others hereafter to this Society and Association An Act for Provision to be made for the surety of the Queen's Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace Enacted in the 27th Year of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth FOrasmuch as the Good Felicity and Comfort of the whole Estate o● this Realm consisteth only next under God in the Surety and Preservation of the Queen 's Most Excellent Majesty And for that it hath manifestly appeared that Sundry wicked Plots and means have of lat● been devised and laid as well in Foreign Parts beyond the Seas as also within this Realm to the great endangering of her Highness's Most Royal Person and to the utter Ruine of the whole Common-wealth if by God's Merciful Providence the same had not been Revealed Therefore for preventing of such great Perils as might hereafter otherwise grow by the like detestable and devilish Practices at the humble Suite and earnest Petition and desire of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this Present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same Parliament Be it Enacted and Ordained if a● any time after the end of this Present Session of Parliament any ope● Invasion or Rebellion shall be had or made into or within any of Her Majesties Realms or Dominions or any Act attempted tending to the Hur● of Her Majesties Most Royal Person by or for any Person that shall o● may pretend any Title to the Crown of this Realm after Her Majesties Decease Or if any thing shall be