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A38236 It is this day ordered by the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, that the preamble, together with the protestation, which the members of this house made the third of May, shall be forthwith printed England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1641 (1641) Wing E2611; ESTC R40497 1,575 1

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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ❧ Die Mercurii 5º Maii. 1641. IT is this day Ordered by the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament That the Preamble together with the Protestation which the Members of this House made the third of May shall be forthwith Printed and the Copies Printed brought to the Clark of the said House to attest under his hand to the end that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses may send them down to the Sheriffs and Justices of Peace of the severall Shires and to the Citizens and Burgesses of the severall Cities Boroughs and Cinque Ports respectively And the Knights Citizens and Burgesses are to intimate unto the Shires Cities Boroughs and Cinque Ports with what willingnesse all the Members of this House made this Protestation And further to signifie that as they justifie the taking of it in themselves so they cannot but approve it in all such as shall take it WE the Knights Citizens and Bargesses of the Commons house in Parliament finding to the great grief of our hearts that the designes of the Priests and Iesuites and other Adherents to the See of Rome have of late been more boldly and frequently put in practice then formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true reformed Protestant Religion in His Majesties Dominions established And finding also that there have been and having just cause to suspect that there still are even during this sitting in Parliament indeavours to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government by most pernicious and wicked Councels Practices Plots and Conspiracies And that the long intermission and unhappy breach of Parliaments hath occasioned many illegall Taxations whereupon the Subject hath been prosecuted and grieved And that divers Innovations and Superstitions have been brought into the Church multitudes driven out of His Majesties Dominions Iealousies raised and fomented betwixt the King and His people a Popish Army leavied in Ireland and two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom to the hazard of His Majesties Royall Person the consumption of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of this Kingdom And lastly finding great cause of Iealousie that indeavours have been and are used to bring the English Army into a misunderstanding of this Parliament thereby to incline that Army with force to bring to passe those wicked Councels Have therefore thought good to joyn our selves in a Declaration of our united Affections and Resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation I A. B. do in the presence of Almighty God Promise Vow and Protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true Reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realm contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the duty of my Allegiance His Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate As also the Power and Priviledges of Parliament The lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in the lawfull pursuance of the same And to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and means indeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by Force Practise Councels Plots Conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Protestation contained And further that I shall in all just and Honourable wayes indeavour to preserve the Union and Peace between the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland And neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow and Protestation WHereas some doubts have been raised by severall persons out of this House concerning the meaning of these words contained in the Protestation lately made by the Members of this House viz. The true reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realm contrary to the same doctrine This House doth declare That by those words was and is meant onely the publike Doctrine professed in the said Church so far as it is opposite to Popery and Popish Innovations And that the said words are not to be extended to the maintaining of any form of Worship Discipline or Government nor of any Rites or Ceremonies of the said Church of England ❧ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie and by the Assignes of JOHN Bill 1641.