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A79205
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His Maiesties declaration to all his subiects of the kingdome of England.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
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1649
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Wing C3003A; Thomason 669.f.14[91]; ESTC R211324
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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE HIS MAIESTIES DECLARATION To all His SUBIECTS OF The KINGDOME of ENGLAND CHARLES R. CHARLES The Second of that Name by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith c. To all Persons within Our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales to whom these presents shall come Greeting Wee cannot without unspeakeable grief and sorrow call to mind nor without horror expresse That Our deare and Royall Father King CHARLES of ever blessed memory hath beene most barbarously and most cruelly Murthered by the hands of bloody Traytours and Rebels within Our Kingdome of England with proceedings and circumstances so prodigious that the particulars induce rather amazement than expression And although We have hitherto seemed silent in a matter so highly concerning Us as not publickly to expresse to the People of England Our grief of heart and high detestation of that heynous fact Yet being now safely arrived in a small part of Our owne Dominions at the Island of Jersey We have thought fit rather from hence where Our Kingly Authority takes place than from any forraigne Countrey where We have been hitherto necessitated to reside publickly to Declare That out of a bitter sense and indignation of those horrid proceedings against Our deare Father We are according to the Lawes of Nature and Justice firmly resolved by the assistance of Almighty God though We perish alone in the enterprize to be a severe Avenger of His Innocent blood which was so barbarously spilt and which calls so lowd to Heaven for Vengeance And We shall therein by all waies and meanes possible endeavour to pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody Traytours who were either Actors or Contrivers of that unparalell'd and inhumane Murther And since it hath pleased God so to dispose as by such an untimely Martyrdome to deprive Us of so good a Father and England of so gracious a King We doe further Declare That by His Death the Crowne of England with all Priviledges Rights and Preheminences belonging thereunto is by a cleare and undoubted Right of Succession justly and lineally descended upon Us as next immediate Heyre Successor thereunto without any Condition or Limitation without any Intermission or Claime without any Ceremony or Solemnity whatsoever And that by vertue thereof We are now in Right lawfully seized of the said Crowne and ought by the Lawes of God and of that Nation to enjoy a Royall power there as well in Church as Common-wealth to Governe the People of that Kingdome according to the antient and knowne Lawes to maintaine them in Peace and Justice and to protect and defend them from the oppression of any usurped Power whatsoever And the People of that Nation by the like Lawes owe unto Us and ought reciprocally to pay duty and obedience unto Us as unto their Liege Lord and Soveraigne This Royall Right of Ours is grounded upon so cleare a Title is setled by such fundamentall Lawes confirmed by so many Oathes of Allegiance in all Ages is supported by such a long continued Succession in Our Royall Progenitours and by such a Constant submission of all the People that the same can admit of no Dispute no act of Our Predecessours can debarre Us of it no Power on Earth can justly take it from Us and by the undoubted Lawes of that Nation to oppose Us either in the Claim or Exercise thereof is a Treason of the highest degree And although the bloody Contrivers of our Fathers Murther out of a pernitious hatred to all Monarchies have by force as much as in them lies Dis-inherited Us of Our Princely Right thereunto Banished and proscribed Us seized all Our Revenues prohibited all entercourse and supplies to be sent to Us and have by violence imposed upon the People of England a new Yoake of popular Tyranny to the utter s ubversion not onely of Our Just Rights but of their Lawes and Liberties Yet We doe professe that We cannot perswade Our selfe that the Body of the English Nation hath so farre degenerated from their antient Loyalty and Vertue as to consent to these horrid proceedings against Us or to approve the casting off that Kingly Government under which they and their Forefathers have happily flourished so many Ages past to the envy of all their Neighbour Nations How can that once-happy Nation of England despaire of blessed daies under a Royall Scepter and vainly hope for them under the Iron Rod of an insolent Multitude No We cannot look upon these sad and dismall Changes as the Desires or Intentions of the better part of Our Subjects of that Kingdome but rather as the Designes and Contrivances of those Wicked Murtherers of Our Father whose Ambitions are endlesse whose Avarice is unsatiable and whose Guilt hath made them desperate And therefore out of a Confidence We have of the Loyalty and good Affections of many of Our Subjects of that Nation And as well for their encouragement who still persist in their Naturall Allegiance and Obedience to Us as for the security of such as shall yet returne to their Duties and Loyalties We have thought fit hereby further to Declare That We are graciously pleased to receive all Persons of Our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales other then such who Voted or Acted in that bloody Murther of Our deare Father into Our Royall Grace Mercy and Protection owning and esteeming them all as our good and loving Subjects whom upon Accesse to Our Kingly Authority We shall hold Our self bound according to the Law of God the knowne Lawes of that Nation and the Duty of Our Kingly Office to protect maintaine and preserve in wealth peace and happinesse And for a cleare evidence of Our good intentions towards them We shall be contented freely to Pardon or otherwise by Act to Declare or hold indemnifyed all Persons within Our said Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales except before excepted for any matter whatsoever relating to the late unhappy Warres and Distractions And We shall according to the example of Our deare Father be ready upon the establishment of Our Royall Throne to make such further Concessions for the satisfaction and security of Our good Subjects in generall and of all interests in particular as shall be adjudged most to conduce to the Peace and Happinesse of that Kingdome And We doe further Declare that We shall give Our utmost assistance to restore Parliaments to their antient Dignity and Honour and shall preserve their just Priviledges and joyne to repaire all those Injuries and Affronts which have been done to the Members of that High Court And because all waies of gaining a mutuall confidence betwixt Us and Our good Subjects are at present obstructed by the usurped Force and Power now prevalent in that Kingdome We are therefore resolved to make use of such expedients as shall be necessary for the suppression of that Tyrannicall and unjust Power now exercised over them And for bringing to their due punishment those bloody Murtherers of Our deare Father For shaking off the heavy Burthens and Taxes they now groane under And for restoring Our just Rights and the antient Liberties and Freedome of the English Nation Not doubting but We shall find all Our good Subjects ready to concurre and to assist Us in Our just and pious Undertakings for those ends And in the meane time We require and command all Our said Subjects according to their duty to God their Allegiance to Us their severall Oathes and Protestations and the love and affection they bear to the Peace of their Native Country that they doe not betray their Lawfull King nor the glorious Liberties and Lawes of England into a perpetuall slavery by Acknowledgement or voluntary submission to any new formes or models of Government under the name or mask of a Free State nor under any other title or pretence whatsoever Given at Our Court at Castle-Elizabeth in our Isle of Jersey the Twenty third Day of October 1649. In the First Yeare of Our Reigne GOD SAVE THE KING