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england_n	ireland_n	king_n	lord_n	18,305	5	4.0686	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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-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