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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31856	His Majesties declaration in answer to a declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the raising of all power and force, as well trained bands as others in severall counties of this kingdom to lead against all traitors and their adherents &c.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2207; ESTC R37562	3,618	11

HIS MAIESTIES DECLARATION IN ANSVVER TO A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT For the raising of all Power and Force as well Trained Bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdom to lead against all Traitors and Their ADHERENTS c. Printed at Oxford by His MAIESTIES COMMAND By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1642. HIS Majesties Declaration in Answer to a Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament c. AS much experience as We have had of the inveterate rancour and high Insolence of the Malignant Party against Us We never yet saw any expression come from them so evidently declaring it as the Declaration entituled A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the raising of all power and force as well Trained-bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdome to leade against all Traytors and their Adherents c. In which that faction hath as it were distilled and contracted all their Falshood Insolence and Malice There being in it not one Period which is not either slanderous or Treasonable And nothing can more grieve Us then that by their infinite Arts and Subtilty employed by their perpetuall and indefatigable Industry and by that Rabble of Brownists and other Schismatickes declaredly ready to appeare at their Call they should have been able so to draw away some and drive away others of Our good Subjects from Our Parliament as to prevaile with the Major part remaining of both Houses how much soever that Major part be the smaller in comparison of the whole to suffer that name whose Reverence by all meanes We desire to preserve to be so soyl'd as to be prefixed to a paper of this unsufferable nature that tends not only to the Destruction of Our Person but to the Dissolution of this Government and of all Society If at least this Declaration which We rather see cause to hope it hath not have so much as been seene in the Houses and be not the single worke of the same Omnipotent Committee to which is devolved the whole power of the Parliament and which as We understand is trusted without acquainting the Houses to break up any mans house and take away the Armes and money intended to defend and feed him if they shall see cause to suspect that he meant to assist his Soveraigne with them and may well be as fully and implicitly trusted to Declare as to Act whatsoever they please And though We doubt not but to their utmost they will continue that Injurie to Us and that violation of the Subjects Liberty and of publike Right to vex and imprison those who shall publish any of Our Answers to their Declarations and indeed whil'st they affirme against all truth and command against all Law it concernes them to take care that nothing be heard but what they say yet Our comfort is that Our Jntentions and the Duty of Our Subjects are so well and so generally known to Our People that we cannot feare from whomsoever it come and though no Answer came out with it that either what is there said should be believed or what is there commanded should be obeyed Who knows not that Our Commissions for horse and foot were not granted out till not onely Our Prerogative but Our Propriety Our Goods Armes Townes Militia and negative voice were taken from Us and all the Kingdome commanded to be in Arms and invited to bring in horse plate and money to frame an Army against Our command and Proclamation and till horse were rais'd and mustered accordingly and then with no Intention nor hath any Action in any of our Ministers given the least suspicion of such an Intention by them to compell Our subjects to submit to Our Commissions of Array or make use of them against the Parliament but to regain Hull held out in Rebellion against Us And to suppresse all such as without Our Authority and against Our Commands should rayse forces in this Our Kingdome and leavy war against Us under pretence of any order or ordinance of one or both Houses such trayterous Assemblies and Marches have been the only lawfull and necessary Occasions of Our good subjects which have not been so much as interrupted by any Troopes of Ours And what is affirmed of the spoiling and killing them as they were so travelling under Our Protection and according to law is a most malitious Affirmation as well without truth as without instance invented at once to make Our Troopes terrible and Us odious to Our People What care have we taken that by this meanes the power of the sword should not come into the hands of Papists who have by Our Proclamation strictly charged that no Papist should presume to list himselfe either as Officer or Souldier in this Our Army having directed how he should be discovered if he did presume and suffer if he were discovered What care have We taken to avoid Combustion and Civill warre offering to lay down Our Armes when they shall have laid down theirs in whom it was Treason to take them up and restored Us those things which could not without Treason as well as injustice be forced away and kept from Us Our Arms Ships Town c. And when we might meet both Our Houses in a safe and secure place to debate freely of all the differences in a Parliamentary way And by whose Influences these Propositions were received whether the Proposer or rejecters were most carefull to avoid this ruine and Desolation of the Kingdome we leave all the world to judge and whether they who divert the men and money collected for the reliefe of distressed Ireland to raise forces against their Prince who asks the nothing but what is legall nor will deny them any thing that is doe not joyne with the Popish and Jesuiticall faction in the bloudy Massacre of many Thousand Protestants in that miserable Kingdome We propose likewise to every mans judgement whether the declaring those to be Traytors who execute Our Commission of Array issued in so many Kings Raignes agreed upon by Parliament and there yeelded to by the King to be setled as now it is as a matter of great grace And since that time which was in the 5º Hen. 4. In no Parliament complained of whilst our good Subjects are vexed and imprisoned not onely for resisting but for humbly petitioning so as may seeme but to insinuate something against their most illegall Commands concerning the Militia To which power of commanding no Title can be made by any Statute or any Precedent nor can we ever find by search nor obtaine to be told what those fundamentall Lawes are by which it is pretended So deepe those foundations are laid beyond all meanes of discovery And the Declaring that those who raise men by vertue of Our Command Commission the only legall way traiterously and rebelliously leavy war against the King and ordaining it to be lawfull for all Our Subjects by force of Arms to resist them and their Accomplices and the raising of forces by Authority of Parliament that is by the remaining part of both Houses never in the most outragious times before attempted commanding severall Persons whom they call Lievtenants to lead and giving them power to transport from one County to another the forces of severall of Our Counties against them and to kill and slay all such as by force shall oppose them Our Self not excepted commanding all Our Officers and Subjects to be assisting to them and undertaking to secure them for so doing by the power and Authority of Parliament which is first to allow and next to command then to pardon Treason be not to have already subverted as much as in them lyes the Liberty of the Subject the law of the Land and altered the antient goverment of the Kingdome leaving Our Subjects without all Rule to walke by when the most cleere Lawes cannot direct and secure them and they see all those antient bounds passed over which were ever as much known to be the Duty of both Houses to observe as it was Evident that there were and that it was necessary that there should be Two Houses of Parliament and at once behold the law which is to defend and protect the Subject and Us who are to protect and defend the Law need Defence and Protection We doubt not therefore but all Our good Subjects will come in to Our Assistance and that this wicked charge of intending to introduce Popery Idolatry and Arbitrary Government laid by Implication upon us because we defend Our Selves and would recover Our own will be so farre from being a Motive against Us that this intolerable Indignity and damnable scandall so daily and visibly confuted by all Our Professions and Actions will encrease Our good Subjects zeal towards Us and their Indignation against the Contrivers And they will esteeme themselves obliged by the Religion of Almighty God to oppose this war so impiously so treasonably and so groundlesly made upon Us their King and his Annointed We therefore require all Our Commissioners of Array Sheriffes and all Our other Officers and Ministers to raise all the power and forces of their severall Counties to assist the Marquesse of Hertford the Earle of Northampton the Lord Willoughby of Eresby the Lord Dunsmore the Lord Pawlett the Lord Seymour Henry Hastings Esquire Sir Iohn Stowell Sir Ralph Hopton Iohn Digby Esquire and all other in the legall and necessary Execution of Our Commissions of Array and in the raising and conducting of such Horse and Foot as shall be rais'd by Our Commission and by force of Armes to oppose the Earle of Essex the Lord Say and all other that shall raise or conduct any Forces raised by pretence of Authority of both Houses and the Persons of all such Traitors and their Adherents and Accomplices to Arrest and Imprison to the end they may be brought to a fayre and legall tryall by their Peers and according to the Law And this we require from them as they tender the Defence of Our Person the true Religion the Law of the Land the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the true and just Priviledges of Parliament And for so doing they shall be defended and secured by Us and by the Law with whom and with which we doubt not but Our Subjects will sooner choose to live and dye them with the Earle of Essex and his Adherents FINIS