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A88906	The declaration of Major Generall Massey. And eighty other English officers and commanders ingaged with the kingdom of Scotland, in behalf of their Presbyterian brethren, in England, Ireland, and the principallitie of Wales. Declaring the grounds and reasons moving them to take up arms in the kingdom of Scotland; admonishing all conscientious Presbyterians not to apostize from their first principles, nor adhere, engage, or take up arms with the rebells at Westminster. Dated at Orkney Island, March 29. 1650.	Massey, Edward, Sir, 1619?-1674?	1650 (1650)	Wing M1034; Thomason E597_4; ESTC R206290	3,195	7

THE DECLARATION Of Major Generall MASSEY AND Eighty other English Officers and Commanders Ingaged with the Kingdom of SCOTLAND in behalf of their Presbyterian Brethren in ENGLAND IRELAND and the Principallitie of WALES Declaring the Grounds and Reasons moving them to take up Arms in the Kingdom of SCOTLAND admonishing all consciencious Presbyterians not to apostize from their first Principles nor Adhere Engage or take up Arms with the Rebells at Westminster Dated at Orkney Island March 29. 1650. Printed in the Yeer 1650. A DECLARATION Of Major Generall MASSEY AND Eighty other English Officers and Commanders Ingaged with the Kingdom of SCOTLAND in behalf of their Presbyterian Brethren in ENGLAND IRELAND and the Principallitie of WALES Dear Countreymen AS we are all Members of one Body so we ought all to be governed by one Head and made capable of one anothers sufferings You cannot be ignorant what pestilent Humors have got predominance in the Body Politique of our native Country corrupting the very heart of all good Government and causing a Blody issue to be made in the very bowells of a Flourishing land by unhapy emulations and civill dissentions arising rather from a surfeit and oppulency of aboundance of Peace and blessings then from any just cause of our owne I hope there is none amongst you so forgetfull as not to remember your Solemn League and Covenant made with so many imprecations and ratified sealed and delivered in the presence of God and his Angels besides all other our Oaths and Protestations as so many sacred bonds and Obligations binding our Consciences to the preservation of the true Protestant Religion the Kings Person the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject all which we ever have done and still will by Gods help preserve with the same care as we do our own souls yet we are not unsensible of the many callumnies of our reproachfull enemies that unjustly brand us for at first managing an ungodly design for the Eradication of Monarchy and rooting out the KING and his Posterity the better to subvert all good Government both in Church and Common-wealth To cleer our selves from these foul-mouth'd aspersions and notoriously known scandalls so wickedly fathered on us and our Brethren we have thought it necessary to manifest our reall Intentions in this our Declaration to the whole world of the integrity and uprightness of our hearts to shew what loathing and detestation we have of all such Hypocrisy and deep Dissimulation least by our silence we might be thought guilty or to have fellowship with these ungodly workers of iniquity whose desperate rebellious pernicious and destructive Principles we are so farre from owning or siding with that we have taken up Armes against them and are resolved to the last drop of our bloods to oppose that Tyrannors Army now under the Conduct of the Lord Generall Fairfax or Lieftenant Generall Cromwell or any with whom they are associated or combined falsly stiling themselves The supream Authority of the Nation the Commons of England in Parliament assembl●d or any of their upholders Aiders or Abbettors that now assume the Ligistitive Power of the Kingdome have murdered the King and disabled the House of Lords from their right of sitting as a House of Peers or for ever having any Voice or Votes in Parliament any more then as Members of the Commons House having by their pretended Power constituted a Tyrannicall Counsell of State and to enslave and vassallage the whole Nation have since erected a High Court of Justice thinking by that to fright Free People into ●u● mission to their new mock Authority by which illegall Court they intend by the same way as they before murdered their lawfull King now to gorge their libidinous and murtherous appetites with the blood of his best subjects that so they may dye their black souls if it were possible into a deeper dye of innocent blood to uphold their wicked Tyranny Democrasy and Annarchicall Government Neither are they content with the blood of their King but they have disinherrited the Prince from his unquestionable and hereditary succession to the Crown and enacted all those Traytors and to die without mercy That shall Proclaime Relieve repaire to aide or assist Him either with men money or Ammunition or so much as hold Intelligence with their Liege Lord and Soveraigne for which they have direct warrant from God and are bound to that duty by their severall Oaths and the lawes both of God and man Neither hath their malice anchored here but they have forced upon the People a most dangerous and sinfull Ingagement To be true and faithfull to a Government that they shall never know any bounds to and to binde them to yeeld Fealty and Homage to them that are but their fellow Subjects and by the Laws of God and the Land is due to the KING only and to none but such as derive their Authority from him and therefore cannot be subscribed without wilfull perjury to God and willfull Treason to the Law abolishing a long setled Government that we were to submit to for the Lords sake not in stead of reforming to be abolished but prayed for that under it we may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godlinesse and honesty Wherefore myself and about 80 English Officers more have in prosecution of our Covenant and severall Oaths not onely in behalf of our own Nation but the Kingdom of Scotland also have received our Commissions from King Charls the Second in whose Right as well as restoring the People to their ancient Government by KING LORDS and Commons from any Tyranny in either we have all drawn our swords and vowed never to put them up again unlesse His Majesty command the same untill we have Restored our King to His Rights the Parliament to it's lost Priviledges and the Subiect to his Liberty and taken off the scandall laid on us and our Religion by bringing all Traytors and Tyrants to Justice for what Treasons they have committed against either which is the sole cause of our Undertakings Therefore we desire all our Presbyterian Brethren and the rest of our friends and Allies in England not to be discouraged by any threats or force of the Enemy but couragiously prosecute their first Principles and rather suffer with patience and bear Christs Crosse with joy and a good Conscience then to suffer themselves to be subborned by a crew of cruell Tyrants that rule by their own Wills and seek to load the shame and guilt of their own sinfull actions upon your Consciences that so you might become co-partners with them in their Trade of wickednesse and so to be made Heirs to such Punishments as necessarily fall to be the portion of such children of disobedience But we hope better of you Brethren and wish you not to pretend ignorance in these things least you thrust your selves willfully out of His Majesties Protection but relying on your Covenant His Majesty will be as tender of your welfare as of his own life knowing that to destroy his own subjects is to deminish his own strength assuring his good People that it is not his intention to yoake them to a Tyrannicall Government nor to make use of Forreine Aide a jot longer then he is necessitated for the recovering his just rights as well as his Peoples Liberties and to administer Justice on the inhumane Murderers of His dear Father whose blood cryes to us all for revenge on the Actors of that bloody and inhmane Tragaedy which are the sole ends of his taking up Arms and of our assisting Him Wherefore in his Maiesties behalf wee are commanded to declare That whosoever of you that have stood to your Covenant and shall come in unto us at the Approach of His Majesties Armies into England shall not only obtain an Act of Oblivion for what is past but shall have Protection for themselves and all such money or goods they shal bring with them and whoever shall imploy any Horse Men Arms or Warlike provisions whatsoever shall receive such full assurance of reall satisfaction as other his Commanders and souldiers have with an addition of such Honors and other rewards from His Majesty as your severall merits or services shall deserve And in this our so Just and Pious Undertakings we make no doubt we shall not only be seconded with the blessing of God but have the Prayers as well as Aide and Assistance of all honest men to recover His Maiesties Rights establish true Religion the Priviledge of Parliament and the Subiects Liberty against the opposition of men or Devils and as we really and cordially according to our Covenant and all those sacred bonds that are upon us intend the same without any other self or by-ends soever tending to the least prejudice of our Brethren so we pray the Blessing of God may attend us and if otherwise That all the Curses in his holy Book may be the Portion of us our Wives and Children for ever From Orkney Iland in the Kingdom of Scotland March 29. 1650. I remaine Your affectionate friend and lover of the Kingdoms Peace and Subjects Liberty MASSEY For. Mr. J. G. 123. to be Communicated to our Friends in London and elsewhere Signed by 80 English Officers who have all taken up Arms for his Sacred Majesty FINIS