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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88677	A declaration of the noble knights, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, and Sir Lewis Dives in vindication of the Right Honourable, James, Earle of Darby: and remonstrating their resolutions to keep the Isle of Man, against all opposition, for His Majesties service. August the 5th. 1649.	Langdale, Marmaduke Langdale, Baron, 1598?-1661.; Dyve, Lewis, Sir, 1599-1669. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing L380; Thomason E571_3; ESTC R204626	3,787	10

A DECLARATION Of the Noble Knights Sir MARMADVKE LANGDALE AND Sir LEWIS DIVES In vindication of the Right Honourable JAMES EARLE of DARBY AND Remonstrating their Resolutions to keep the ISLE of MAN against all opposition for HIS MAJESTIES Service August the 5th 1649. LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1649. A DECLARATION Of the Noble Knights Sir MARMADUKE LANGDALE AND Sir LEWIS DIVES c. BY vertue of two Commissions dated at Hague 5. June 1649. directed to us from our dread Soveraigne Lord CHARLES of that name the SECOND by the grace of GOD KING of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith Whereby we were injoyned to make our speedy repaire to the Isle of Man and there to give our best assistance both in Counsel and Personall Service to the Right Honourable JAMES Earle of Darby the true and noble Lord thereof in keeping of that Island for His MAJESTIES service wherein was sweetly and consequently involved the defence of the true Protestant Religion in substance and forme as it was professed in the daies of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles the First Princes of blessed and glorious memory the establishing His Majesty in His Thrones invested with His just Power and Greatnesse from which He is most injuriously and trayterously kept the restoring Parliaments to their antient Priviledges which are most violently broken the maintenance of the fundamentall Lawes most strangely violated and redeeming the people now most barbarously vassalaged to their antient Freedome and lastly the bringing to justice the Murderers of the KING His Father which horrid and salvage act we protest before God and the whole world we abhorre from our soules and tremble to heare of In obedience to which high Command and at the serious perswasions of our judgments and consciences with all convenient speed we made our repaire to the Isle of Man Where we found the Right Honourable the Earle of Darby who gave us very respective and cheerfull entertainment and whose fidelity and loyalty we must ever acknowledge and admire contesting and strugling with the tedious temptations importunate solicitations of one Henry Ireton who pretends himselfe to be Commissary Generall to that Army under the Command of Thomas Lord Fairfax to whom in the name of the Parliament of England as he is pleased to call that Juncto at Westminster he required this Island to be delivered and for his Lordships encouragement therein he was promised an Act of Indempnity for what he had formerly acted in relation to His late Majesties service and to be repossessed of his whole Estate without Composition In assurance of his Lordships scorne and odium whereof his Lordship was pleased to shew us the Copie of a Letter which two daies before our arrivall he had return'd by Ireton's Messenger for their finall Answer which Letter the testimony of his honour and loyalty we read over with very much alacrity and advised his Lordship to print it together with a Declaration for satisfaction of His Majesty and His three Kingdomes and to cleare his honour of that blemish with which some malecontented persons might possibly endeavour to staine it In pursuit of which counsell his Lordship was pleased forthwith to draw up a Declaration which together with the fore-mentioned Letter was speedily dispatched to London and committed to the Presse where as appeares by some of them that have since come to our hands it was printed without the least adulteration and whereas to our griefe we have since heard that there are some that have not been wanting with very much confidence to report that it was a meer fiction contriv'd by some Mercury to delude the people and was no whit the sence of the Earl of Darby To which we here declare that we verily believe that report to be framed in the Juncto or by some of their Adherents to deceive the people whom his Lordship was pretended to delude that so they might encourage their Abettors and discourage His Majesties loyall Subjects from repairing hither to our assistance And though it is very probable that our Enemies will by the same device endeavour to darken the credit of this our present Declaration yet they shall assuredly find the contents of both fulfilled in our faithfull keeping this Island for His Majesties best advantage and their worst offence and we hope that though our Enemies doe find encouragement in their misbeliefe hereof yet our loyal-hearted Friends will be no waies over-swayed by doubt or the credit of their report but will with speed chearfulness repaire hither to an unanimous conjunction with us where they shal find such incouragement as his Lordship promised and with magnanimity and honour we will resolutely unite our daring Spirits to the finall overthrow of the Rebels interest and their tyrannicall power both by Sea and Land And now we cannot but expresse with how deep a sence of our Native Countries miseries our soules are affected nor can we but lament the condition of posterity whose Fathers have shamefully forfeited the antient and glorious Liberty which was purchased by their Fore-fathers and left them bound in the fetters of a most miserable bondage nor can we believe but that many of those men who were in the beginning of these unhappy Divisions between KING and Parliament carried away from their Loyalty by an overmuch credulity to their faire and plausible pretences have been long since sensible that it was their owne ambitious ends they then prosecuted and not the welfare of the now miserable Kingdome nor can we but admire nor could we have believed had we not been the fad Witnesses thereof that any men could be so strangely impudent as to act so flat contrary to all their Oathes Covenants Vowes Protestations and Declarations to continue the Government of the Kingdome and the just Power and Prerogative of the KING and His Posterity in the perfect fulnesse of their due glory and splendour and yet notwithstanding all this overthrow the very foundation of Government decapitate the KING and cashiere His Posterity and with salvage barbarity declare and proclaime that it shall be lawfuull for any Man to surprize and kill our present dread-Soveraigne the KING and His Princely Brother the DUKE of Yorke as Traytours and Spies wherever they shall meet them within the limits of these Kingdomes such a piece of Treason as we are confident the most horrid monstrous and execrable Traytours that ever trod upon the face of the Earth would have blushed to have owned nor is this all but even in the first yeare of Englands Freedome according to their owne stile after they have drained the Kingdome of its treasure by their strange and unheard-of waies for the raising of monies and notwithstanding the many and great Compositions which they have and daily doe receive the sale of the Jewels and other ornaments of State the King Queen Dukes Bishops Deanes and Chapters Lands besides His Majesties Customes yet to continue the Excise and beyond all that