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A83738 Die Mercurii 5 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, ...; Proceedings. 1641-05-05 England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1641 (1641) Wing E2613; ESTC R231860 2,049 1

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❧ Die Mercurii 5 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 Burgesses of the Commons house in Parliament finding to the great grief of our hearts that the designes of the Priests and Jesuites 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 Laws of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government by most pernicious and wicked Councels Practises 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 Jealousies raised and fomented betwixt the King and His People a Popish Army leavied in Ireland and two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdome to the hazard of His Majesties Royall Person the consumption of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of this Kingdome And lastly finding great cause of Jealousie 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 Vnion 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 only the publike Doctrine professed in the said Church so farre 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 Die Veneris 30. Iulii 1641. Resolved upon the Question THat this House doth conceive that the Protestation made by them is fit to be taken by every person that is well affected in Religion and to the good of the Common-wealth And therefore doth declare That what person soever shall not take the Protestation is unfit to beare Office in the Church or Common-wealth Resolved upon the Question THat the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-Ports respectively shall forthwith send down to the severall places for which they serve Copies of this Vote of the House concerning the Protestation Resolved upon the Question That these Votes shall be Printed and Attested under the Clerks hand Die Sabbati 8. Ianuarii 1641. At the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to sit in London to consider of the safety of the Kingdome and of the City of London and of vindicating the Priviledges of Parliament Resolved upon the Question THat the actions of the Citizens of London or of any other person whatsoever for the defence of the Parliament or the Priviledges thereof or the preservation of the Members thereof are according to their duty and to their late Protestation and the Lawes of this Kingdome And if any person shall arrest or trouble any of them for so loing he is declared to be a publike enemy of the Common-wealth Resolved upon the Question That this Vote shal be made known to the Common Councell of the City of London Iohn Wilde Sergeant at Law sitting in the Chaire of that Committee London Printed by R. Oulton and G. Dexter 1641.