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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86553	The declaration of the Right Honorable, Ralph Lord Hopton, Liftenant Generall of all His Majesties forces designed for the west of England. To all His Majesties loving subjects inhabiting in the severall counties of Cornwall, Devonshire, Summerset, Wilts, Bristoll, Bath and Wells, and the counties adjacent. From Plymouth, May. 20. 1650.	Hopton, Ralph Hopton, Baron, 1598-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2757; Thomason E602_11; ESTC R206872	3,780	8

THE DECLARATION Of the Right Honorable RALPH LORD HOPTON Liftenant Generall of all His Majesties Forces designed for the West of ENGLAND TO All His MAIESTIES loving SUBJECTS Inhabiting in the severall Counties of Cornwall Devonshire Summerset Wilts Bristoll Bath and Wells and the Counties adjacent From Plymouth May 20 1650. Printed in the Year 1650. THE DECLARATION Of the Right Honorable RALPH LORD HOPTON Liftenant Generall of all His Majesties Forces designed for the West of ENGLAND GENTLEMEN WHen I consider but not without astonishment with what Serpentine Policy simulated Piety slie delusions grand Impostorisms and palpable juglings the Rebells have cloaked over their unparalel'd Treasons casting before you the sweet delicious bayts of Reformation Liberty Freedom c. till they have smote a hook through your jawes intangled you in their nets and new-chained you to perpetuall bondage more then kinging it over your Lives Lawes and Estates I cannot only grive but much pitty the deplorable condition your two much credulity and greedy listning after these State-Syrens hath betrayed you unto I hope after all this time when you are so feelingly sensible of the heavy pressures that lie upon you I need not seek to unblinde you nor discover unto you by what nefarious wicked and desperate Designes they have prosecuted the very quintiscense of all Impiety and skrewed themselves up to the height of all Wickeddesse As under a specious Pretence of Reforming ●●ligion they have quite Abolished the same killed plundered and imprisoned sequestred and outed the most zealous Professors thereof and taken to themselves the Maintenance belonging thereto altogether disheartning not only the Professors but all true Lovers Cherishers and Maintainers thereof When they Covenanted and swore to maintain the Kings Maiesties Person they not only shot Bullets of Iron and Lead in his face but laid violent hands thereon and barbarously and inhumanly murdered Him even before the gate of H●s own R●yall Manor contrary to Christian Religion the laws of God Nature Reason or any former warrantable President whatsoev●r Neither did their Malice anchor here but they have above all thought of wickednesse dissinherited his right Heire now our most gracious King CHARLS the Second against their former Oaths keeping Him from his Birthright and lawf●ll Inheritance and ●ll that hopefull and kingly Progi●y by these Miscreants d●barred from possessing their Hereditary Revenues and having ●●olished Kingly Government have usurped all Power to themselves and shared their Princely Revenues amongst themselves and their Confederates exposed those Royall Branches to the mercy of Strangers which none but the veryest Miscreants Nature ever yet produced but would have shamed to doe Neith●r hath their arrogance stopped here but their blushlesse Ambition hath elevated them to that pitch of Pride th●t they have set themselves downe in his owne Princely Throne where they more then king it over their fellow Subiects Tyrannizing over them more then ever King of England did before or since the Conquest and not only over pa●t but over all His M●iesties Kingdoms Y●t h●ve they perswaded the too credulous People into an expectation of their maintaining the Laws of the Land and the Liberty of the Subject whil'st they perfidiously have depriv'd them of both in murd●ring some and Plundering ●thers till at last they had involv●d all in more then Aegyptian slavery to the Arbitrary Wills and lawl●sse swords of a mercilesse gener●tion of Athiests Sectaries and desperate Rebells that fear no God nor acknowl●dge no King What they have done under colour of maintaining the Priviledge of Parliament I know you cannot be ●gnot●nt but must acknowl●dge that they have apparently and vilely against all Faith Covenants Oaths Attestations made before G●d and his Angels violated the s●me by murd●ring the king Den●ing the House of Lords to sit ●nd by p●uc●ing divers of their own Members out of the House and Imprisoning them ●ill the remainder of their Desp●r●te R●bells in the remnant of their J●ncto had Voted and Unvoted the pleasurs of the Grand●es or Leading Reb●lls of th●Faction All these are so undeniable Truths that they are able to si●●nce the most brazen-fac'd Impostor of them all even Cromwell hims●●f Under such like specious Pretences and flowe●s of Pretend●d●d Reformation have these pestiferous Snakes or rather S●●ak● hid their poysonous stings yet have so bewitchingly Charm'd the deluded People by the Name and power of Parliament though th●y retain nothing of the t●ue essence but the meer App●llation thereof to become their Slaves and V●ssalls by which fallacious Jugglings prosecuted by Cromwell and such d●sperate Rebells have they Reformed Three flourishing kingdoms into Three Languishing and distracted Nations and have raised a Factious and brorken crew of Mechannicks men of wicked lives evill m●nners and very desperate Principles to bear sw●y over you calling themselves a Parliament a Counsell of State a High Court of Justice c. when ind●ed they appear at best but VVoolves in Lions skins an● those that have wad●d so farr in Rebellious courses that they cannot return and therefore as the Devill drives them must on though to their own Destruction Country-men I hope you retain still the hearts and Courage of true-bred English that had rather bow to the Head the worship the h●●l yeeld obedience to one King then many Tyrants His most gracious Majesty out of a tender and Fatherly affection to all his good People and Subjects of His Kingdome of England is not only willing and ready to pardon and grant an Act of Oblivion to all and every one excepting such who shall be found guilty of that most horrible murder committed on the sacred Person of his Dear Father that upon sight or knowledge of this my Declaration doe immediately at the appoach of his Maiesties Army into any of their Counties abandon those wicked Parricides and rise and joyne with me and those Forces already raised by Commission from his Majesty for this so necessary service His Maiesty promiseth by the word of a King which He hopeth all true subiects will beleeve that so soon as God shall enable him to recover his Rights that he will summon a Parliament by which he will ratifie and confirme what ever hath been done formerly by his Royal Father and free Parliaments or what ever else shall be Judged necessary for the welbeing of his People and establishing this Kingdom on the true and lasting foundation of a long and happy Peace assuring you that nothing under heaven shall be more pleasing unto Him then the Prosperity of his Subiects in as full an assurance of the enioyments of their Lawes Liberties Freedoms and Birth-rights as ever were granted by any of his Predecessors to this day Neither doth His Maiesty require or demand of any of his good Subiects but that they abandoning Rebells return to that dutifull obedience for which they have Warrant from Gods holy Word and assist Him in their faithfull service not only to free themselves from the yoak of slavery but