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A86554	A declaration sent from the Right Honorable Ralph Lord Hopton. To the gentlemen and inhabitants of Cornwall, and the counties adjacent. Concerning his ingagement for and in behalf of Prince Charles, who now is King Charles the Second, King of Great Brittayne, &c. And desiring their joynt assistance to settle him in his crowne and dignitie, as he is their lawfull soveraigne.	Hopton, Ralph Hopton, Baron, 1598-1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2758; Thomason E544_3; ESTC R202561	4,100	9

and call themselves the Commons of England in Parliament assembled and assume the Legislative power of the Kingdome to be in them a thing never before heard of by which they have disabled the Lords for ever having any voyce in Parliament but as members of the Commons House and have by their pretended power constituted a Court of Justice as they call it only to mock justice and introduce tyranny under a faire colour by pretence of doing justice to inslave the Nation and make all men to submit unto their unheard of Authority by which illegall Court they have traiterously and like unparaleld Regici is murdered their lawfull King to satisfie their libidinous blood-thirsty appetites which was never ful enough gorg'd with the blood of subjects but must needs dip their hands and dy their black souls scarlet with the innocent blood of the best of kings to upold their wicked Democracy and Anarchical tyranny likewise they have manifested since that wicked fact parpetrated upon their Soveraign by their mock-mock-acts and proclamations that any one shall be proceeded against as a traitor that doth proclaime the Prince who is now our lawful King by hereditory succession or any other to be King or chief Magistrate which the kingdome of England without their consent which doubtlesse shall never be obtained as may appear by all other circumstances probable consequences of their actions All which are very plaine Testimonies that they intend nothing lesse then to subvert the Auncient Lawes and Constitutions of this Kingdome by which the People of England are made capable to enjoy their Estates with more Propriety of which each subject will be absolutely dispoyled and their Estates Goods and ●ives laid open to their fellow subjects now more i● authority then Kings wills all which foregoing obsurdities and illegall Practises but especially that horrid Designe of murdering their King may be sufficient motives to stir up all m●ns hearts who have any sparks of g●ace in them to assist their King in so just a Quarrell as his is against such de●perate Monsters whose delight is to be drunke with Blood and bring all good men into Bondage Now if there be any amongst them who wi● as it becomes their Loyalty and Alegiance leave these wicked Machiavel●s and repayre to me to serve in behalf of their KING they shall not onely be civilly entertained and receive pardon and Indempnity for what they have formerly done but they shall also be accommodated and rewarded according to their Degrees and Worth I could sp●ak of the Church Government which was once a great Pretence of their Quarrell but now is lay'd aside as a thing impertinent and Religion become a confused Chaos of Sects without all forme or shape Really I should thinke if they were not guilty of any other crime but the abhorred murder of their King it would be enough to make Vengeance with thunder-clapps to ring Peals in their eares from each part of the Compasse as I am confident ere long it will give shrill Alarms to their blood-stained Consciences rather to give all People Satisfaction concerning my Ingagement in prosecution of which I 'am ready to hazzard that which is most dear to me even my life and Fortune as by my duty to God and Alegiance to my King I am obliged Viz. I. To defend my lawfull King Charles the second from the violence of all his enemies and to endeavour so much as I may a setlement for him in his just rights Regall anthority Kingly power and dignity against all opposers which shall by any meanes impedite and hinder His Royall Person from being King and chief Magistrate on the realmes of England Scotland and Ireland with all other dominions which of light did belong to His Royall Father II. I will endeavour to propogate and increase the true Protestant Religion the just rights and priviledges of Parliament and likewise the ancient and fundamentall Lawes of the land established by act of King Lords and Commons III. I do declare that I have no intention to inslave the Subjects nor never shall consent or assent to have any Tyrannicall power exercised upon them but shall maintain and defend their freedomes and liberties in as ample manner according to the Lawes of the land as I will the Person and power of my Soveraign Lord and King whom God preserve and make prosperous as ever any of his Predecessors were FINIS POSTSCRIPT THis may be a sufficient pledge to you of my reallity I hope you do not doubt it when I was amongst you it is known I did preserve you and did Permit no injuries by any to be done to you and so will ever do if you willingly entertaine me in the name of my Lord and King in whose commission I am the same I was in His loyall Fathers dayes

A DECLARATION Sent from the Right Honorable RALPH Lord HOPTON To the GENTLEMEN and Inhabitants of Cornwall and the Counties adjacent Concerning his Ingagement for and in behalf of PRINCE Charles Who now is King CHARLES the Second King of Great Brittayne c. And Desiring their joynt Assistance to settle Him in His Crowne and Dignitie as He is their Lawfull Soveraigne Printed in the Yeer 1649. A Letter from Ralph Lord Hopton to the Gentlemen and Inhabitants of Cornwall and the Counties adjacent GENTLEMEN I Am confident there hath not been wanting divers ill Instruments amongst you who probably though I have better thoughts of your Fidelity may have drawn some of you from your wonted Loyalty and Alegiance to your native Prince by Scandalous false and forged Reports against his Integrity towards you who are his Naturall Liege People and Subjects and ought to obey him as your Lawfull King an Governor And that they doe or may indeavor to perswade you That it was or is His intention to enslave you and bring upon you a Tyrannicall Government forced by the sword of Forreigners which fa●se Lyes feined Imputations to caluminate His good Intentions peradven●ure you may some of you give credit to as by sad experience I finde many of the P●ople of England have been too ready to beleeve such falsityes foysted upon our late Dread Soveraigne of ever Famous Memory by which meanes his Vertues were blemished and he rendred odious in the eyes of the Vulgar which can●d them so Trayterously and unjustly by silence to permit that inhumane murder perpretrated upon his Sacred Person They being spatiously promis'd after his Death to enjoy their Liberties then which nothing is lesse intended by the promisers neither is it in their power to performe nor in Reason for the People to beleeve so long as there is any of the blood Royal left to lay claime to the Crown and Kingdom which cannot be easily extinguish'd or can there ever be any true grounds or hopes of Peace whilst there is forrein Ayde sufficient to be obtained still to keep the Land in Gar-Broyles and Cumbustions which will undoubtedly be attempted by all Christian Princes unlesse you unanimously and joyntly with speed doe endeavor to Establi●● your King who now is CHARLES the Second without 〈◊〉 Him to invite Forrein Ayde to His Assistance which he is unwilling to doe knowing that the impoverishing and destroying of His Subjects will be His losse in the end But if you doe refuse him your ayde in this you must excuse him if he attempt by other hands to procure his owne It is not unknown to many it not all of you how unjust the sufferings of our late Soveraigne were and how reall an Endeavorer He ever was of His Kingdoms Peace and Subjects Liberty yet It could not formerly be beleeved now His Actions have manifested 〈◊〉 He having sealed it with his blood rather then to infringe His Oath and admit of any illegall Court as that pretended Court of Justice is which took away His life which might destroy 〈◊〉 in His Subjects or violate the Fundamentall Laws of the Land you may be pleased to remember how often and with how much alacrity He did offer to agree upon any termes as may appear by 〈◊〉 Conc●ssions when he was in a Treaty with the two Houses of Parliament in the I le of Wight although something dishonourable and in part to inslave Himself and Posterity for the good of His Three Kingdoms and a settlement of Peace amongst His Subjects I will not I hope I need not to cite you former Precidents of His Integrity to preserve the Lawes and Liberties of his Land and People which he of my knowledge during the time he had the sword in His hand was ever carefull to keep inviolable Let this suffice for a President of the unjust Sufferings of our late disceased Soveraigne And to make known to you the thing to which my Duty and Allegiance doth binde me concerning Prince Charles by whose Commission and Authority I Act and who is Heire aparent to the Kingdome of England and all the Dominions which were His Fathers Although kept thence by the same Trayterous usurped Power that His Royall Father was murdered by Now for and in behalfe of Him as He is our Lawfu●l King His late Father being disceased I doe desire you to reflect upon your Oath of Allegiance which I am confident many of you have took and according as by that Oath you are bound to use the best meanes you may and to the uttermost of your Power endeavor an Establishment for Him in this Kingdome as His Predecessors King of England have had and like true Subjects that you will acknowledge Him for your King and His Royall Person De●end and protect against all Traytors and Treacherous Attempts which shall or may be made against Him by any usurped pretended Power of Parliament or other which shall disalow or disavow His Government Gentlemen I Hope you can not chuse but be satisfyed in your Consciences of the lawfulness of my Soveraigns Cause and my Demands for him which is no other but for his owne Birthright And I doubt not but you are very sensible how weakly your Liberties and Lawes are likely to be preserved by those pretended usurping Magistrates in whose hands they now are and how your promis'd Freedome is turn'd to Slavery and Bondage by an Arbitrary Tyrannicall Government farre worse then ever the King could exercise upon you though he were the greatest Tyrant by reason he in such cases is limited by the Known Lawes which these are not but onely their Wills is Law to doe any thing maintained by the Sword without all colour of Law or Justice I could inlarge my self further and instance you many things which might make you more sensible of your approaching Ruine if you doe not suddenly Crowne and settle your Lawfull King but I shall forbeare at present by reason I doe not much doubt your Loyalty having had pritty good experience of it formerly I shall onely therefore publish to you this following Declaration whereby to manifest the reallity of my Intentions to my King and Countries Weale and 〈◊〉 happinesse And so shall leave you to the Answer which if it be done according to my Expectation and good Opinion of your Fidelity you shall finde my faithfull and true Assistance ready upon all Occasions to back your undertakings Thus much at present hoping you will not faile to prosecute your Alegiance and Loyalty I remaine Gentlemen Your Affectionate Friend and lover of the Kingdoms Peace and Subjects Liberty R. H. From the Navy Royall this 8. of Febr. 1648. The Declaration of the Honourable RALPH Lord HOPTON VVHereas there is a tyrannous murthering blood-thirsty and rebellious ARMY under the immediate Conduct of Generall Lord Fairfax who have cu●d out from the late House of Commons a select number of pernicious factious Rebels men of very desperate principles with whom they are associated