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A82697	A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. In answer to His Majesties declaration, intituled His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, after his late victory against the rebels, on Sunday the 23 of October, 1642. Together, with a catalogue of the names of divers of the colonels, lievtenant-colonells, serjeant majors, captains, and lievtenants, that are papists and commanders in the army, under the command of the Earle of Nevv-Castle. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsyng. Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1442; Thomason E244_23; ESTC R212569	12,288	15

presidents of former times to iustifie the same and therefore we need not any further to labour the proofe of the matter of fact For the Allegation That great number of Popish Commanders and others serve in the Army under the c●nduct of the Earle of Essex and of the private promises and undertakings made to them That if they would assist against his Maiesty all the Lawes made in their preiudice should be repealed A charge contrary not only to the profession and severall protestations of both Houses of Parliament but even to reason and policy it selfe That they who have raised an Army for the iust defence of their Priviledges Lawes and Liberties and of the true Protestant Religion should make use of Papists the only enemies of them all to be the Instrument and means to protect them If the Contrivers of that Declaration had been pleased to name some of that great number of Papists they suppose to be in the Earl of Essex his Army they had not onely afforded us the means to have cleered our selves from that Imputation by joyning issue with them of the truth thereof but given us opportunity in case any of that Religion under the name and profession of a Protestant for otherwise we are assured they could not had crowded themselves into the Army to remove them But in regard they omitted the mention of any pa●ticular we are confident That ei●her they could not name any or in case any of the Popish Religion be in that Army they are subtilly by the cunning and malicious practise of our enemies conveyed thither under the mask and profession of Protestants to corrupt if they can the good affection of others and so made Instruments to destroy us as David Alexander should have been had not Gods goodnesse and providence by a timely discovery prevented it But to shew how much the Parliament did alwayes abhor and detest the ayd and assistance of Papists of what nature soever we hold it fit upon this occasion to let the World know That about the beginning of this Parliament divers eminent Papists of this Kingdom did prefer a Petition to the House of Commons for the repealing of some Laws now in force against them with an humble submission to all reasonable Conformity the substance of the same being opened it was app●ehended with such Indignation that it was never so much as vouchsafed to be read but quite rejected And upon Information given That the Lord Dillon and Colonell Taffe were employed by the Rebells of Ireland to bring some Propositions to his Maiesty and that amongst others one was That there should be a Toleration of the Popish Religion in Ireland It was thereupon resolved on the eighth of Decemb. 1641 upon solemn debate by the Lords and Commons That they would never give consent to any Toleration of the Popish Religion in Ireland or in any other of his Maiesties Dominions And when the Lord Herbert son of the Earl of Worcester this Parliament made an offer to the House of Commons to give freely 500l a year or 5000l to be disposed at the pleasure of the Parliament yet the House though in a time of great necessity to use money because the same came tendered by the hand of a Papist did refuse to accept All which had been passages of great weaknesse had we intended any correspondency with them And we are confident That this Charge is so full of malice and so far from truth that we dare challenge all the world not to be able to make it good against any one particular Member For the matter of his Maiesties raising an Army against the Parliament and taking away the Priviledges thereof which the contrivers of that Declaration tearmed to be a senselesse scandall we shall refer it to the judgement even of ordinary Capacities Whether is most voyd of sense to say That this War is raised against the Parliament or That both Houses whereof the one consists of all the Peers the other of eminent and principall Gentry of the Kingdom who for their Abilities and known Integrities are by the Universall Consent of the Kingdom chosen to represent them are governed by the number of not above 12 or 20 persons and that those few should have a power to force and compell the rest to submit to their Faction and to have their Libertie and Freedom of Consultation taken from them But the truth is That it is not a few persons but the Parliament it self is the thorn that lies in these mens sides which heretofore when it was wont to prick them was with much ease by a sudden dissolution pulled out But now that it is more deeply fastned by the Act of Continuance they would force it out by the power of an Army And whosoever will pursue the severall Speeches and Declarations made upon the breaking up of former Parliaments since the beginning of his Maiesties Raign will finde the pretences of those uniust and illegall Dissolutions to be grounded upon the exceptions against some particular Members under the name of a few factious and seditious persons So that the aspersing and wounding of the Parliament thorow the sides of a few Members is no new Invention And for the satisfaction of all indifferent men that this War is raised against the Parliament we shall refer them to former Declarations issued out in his Maiesties Name being so many Invectives and groundlesse Accusations not against particular Members onely but against the Votes and Proceedings of both Houses and in plain tearms declaring and publishing both Houses guilty of high Treason a Charge not to be presidented by any former times or in truth that Councell canbe capable of And that the Earl of Essex Generall of the Forces raised for the defence of the King Parliament and Kingdom is a Traytor and that all those that ayd and assist him thereby comprehending both Houses of Parliament by whose Command and Authority he bears that place are Rebells and guilty of high Treason Notwithstanding all which the Contrivers of that Declaration can have the face to term it A groundlesse Accusation to affirm That the Army raised by his Maiesty is raised against the Parliament or to take away the priviledges thereof But if the truth were as that Declaration seems to imply That this Army is raised to force some particular Members of this Parliament to be delivered up yet upon that Ground would it follow That the same is levied against the Parliament For it cannot be denyed by any ingenious man but that the Parliament by their inherent Rights and Priviledges hath the power to iudge and punish their own Members And we have often declared to his Maiesty and the world That we were alwayes ready to receive any evidence or accusation against any of them and to judge and punish them according to their demerits yet hitherto no Evidence produced no Accuser appearing And yet notwithstanding to raise an Army to compell the Parliament to expose these Members to the fury

A DECLARATION OF The Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT In Answer to His Majesties Declaration Intituled His Majesties Declaration to all His loving subjects after His late Victory against the Rebels on Sunday the 23 of October 1642. Together With a Catalogue of the names of divers of the Colonels Lievtenant-Colonells Serjeant Majors Captains and Lievtenants that are Papists and Commanders in the Army under the Command of the Earle of NEVV-CASTLE ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published Hen. Elsyng Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. London Printed for Edward Husbands and John Franke 1642. A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT WE the Lords and Commons in Parliament having seen a Printed Declaration entituled His Majesties Declaration to all his loving Subjects after his late victory against the Rebels on Sunday the 23 of October And finding the same to be full of scandalls and invectives against the Parliament without any ground or colour of truth to support them Thought it our duty aswell for the discovery of the falshood thereof as of the malice and subtilties of the Contrivers of those scandalls who to our unspeakable sorrows have gained so much power with His Majesty as to vent the same under the title of his owne Royall name to make this ensuing Declaration in answer thereunto In the beginning of that Declaration the contrivers thereof speak in His Majesties name of a great preservation of His Majesty and his Children in the late Battell If His Majesty and his Children escaped any danger in that Battell as we are ready with the Contrivers to rejoyce thereat so do we apprehend a just cause of sorrow That His Majesty seduced by the desperate advice of lewd and wicked Counsell who tender their own preservation before His would intermix himself with Traitors and Rebels and expose his own Royall Person and his Children to that danger And whereas the Parliament under the name of a Malignant party is charged with an endeavour to poison the hearts and corrupt the Allegeance of the Kings Subjects by urging and pressing a false groundlesse imputation as it is there stiled of favouring Popery and imploying many of that Religion in his Majesties Army Though we have iust cause to believe that our late Declaration of the 15 of October is sufficient to prove That the aspersion of favovring Papists and imploying them in the Kings Army the same being there not only barely alleadged but the evidence proving the same and the persons so employed particularly set down Yet since the Contrivers of that Declaration have the confidence to deny it We thought it necessary for the confirmation thereof to publish some evidences and advertisements that we received since the issuing out of our said late Declaration touching that particular First that it doth appear by the examination of Master Dormer who professeth himselfe a Papist taken before a Committee of the House of Commons That a Commission under the Kings own hand was delivered unto him by Serieant Maior Courtney a notorious Papist Authorizing the sayd Dormer to be a Captaine of a Foot Company in the Regiment of Sir John Beaumont another professed Papist and with that Commission threescore and fifteen men raised in the County of Lancaster consisting as is probable of Papists though Mr. Dormer in his examination alleadgeth he knoweth not whether they were Protestants or Papists And it doth further appear by a Commission now remaining in the House of Commons signed with the Kings own hand that the sayd Courtney is made Serieant Maior of that Regiment And by the same examination another professed Papist is Lievtenant Colonell and by a letter intercepted sent from one Dan. Chambers a Papist as is informed directed to one Captain Thomas Rookewood That he expresseth his ioy for the good successe of the generall Cause and the advancement of their design And by another letter intercepted likewise and sent from the same Dan. Chambers to Serieant Maior Courtney That he was going to the North where as we are now advertised the Papists are raising a considerable Army That he liked well the way of two yeers composition and would propound it That his endeavours should never be wanting to further any good action and the more wherein he the said Courtney was interessed And though the Hothamites would hinder his travelling yet he would venter hard and daily pray for the generall Cause And in a letter sent from one Savage a servant of the Earle of Newcastle his Maiesties Generall in the North directed to one John Atkins of Lambeth are contained these words Tell them that the Pope rules in peace here in Northumberland c. no prosecution neither of Priest or Papist And in another sent from one George Tempest a Papist to his brother John Tempest in the Kings Army are these words Our Priests at Lancaster are all at liberty Catholique Commanders admitted and all well enough that way God Almighty as I hope will the b●tter prosper the design And in the Printed Declaration it selfe it is confessed That Popish Commanders are employed in the Kings Army and that which is as notorious as any of the rest They of the Popish Religion are arrived to that height of favour that upon their Petition presented to his Maiesty they have obtained an expresse command and direction That they and their servants and Tenants though Convict Recusants and consequently by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm to be disarmed should Arm themselves and use them for the defence of his Maiesties Person and in opposition to the Forces raised by the Parliament which Petition and Answer we have caused to be printed herewith We need not again recite the Earle of Worcester and his Son the Lord Harbert two of the most eminent and powerfull Papists in the Kingdom their levying of great Forces in Mounmouthshire and Wales having mentioned it in our former Declaration And we purposely omit many other demonstrations of favour extended unto them as the not putting the Laws in execution against them their free reception into the Kings Court and Presence the tender care of them and their persons and estates from the danger of the Kings forces when the most pious and zealous Protestant Ministers and others are most b●rbarously murthered plundred and robbed of their estates and fortunes And upon what is already sayd submit it to the World to iudge whether the favouring of Popery and employing them of that Religion in the Kings Army be a false and groundlesse imputation and we do the more wonder at the confidence of the Contrivers in urging that to be a groundlesse imputation and scandall when we see a Declaration published by the Earle of Newcastle his Maiesties Generall in the Northern parts which doth not only confesse that he hath taken divers Popish R●cusants in those parts under his command and conduct but spends some Leaves weakly enough in endeavouring by the examples and

or impossible that we are ready to make it good That it is not onely so in Intention but Actually put in Execution For the matter of Intention we shall need to goe no further then the words of the Commission it self that giveth an Arbitrary power to the Commissioners over the persons and estates of the Kings Subjects which we have made apparent in our Declaration of the illegality thereof and therefore as to that particular shall referre our selves to that Declaration adding there unto His Majesties own Letter sent with divers of the said Commissions to require the Commissioners to bring the Trained Bands of severall Counties to attend His Majesties Royall Standard at Shrewsbury and that the severall Counties should furnish them with sufficient Ammunition for the journey and money to beare their charge And that the said Commission hath been put in practise to take away the estates of the Kings Subjects we shall make it good that by colour thereof divers great summes of money have been imposed upon the Inhabitants of severall Counties and they forced to pay the same both by distresse and imprisonment of their persons And the Commissioners of Array in the County of Carnarvon assessed that County by colour of that Commission to the proportion of above two and twenty Subsidies And for the levying thereof issued out Warrants forthwith to distrain and commit the persons of such as resisted and accordingly divers were distrained and imprisoned And by this time we are confident all the world will rest satisfied That the Kings Army was raised against the Parliament and to destroy the Rights and Priviledges thereof That persons of the Popish Religion are principally imployed in that Army That the same and the Forces of the North under the Conduct of the Earle of Newcastle and in Monmouth Shire and Wales under the comm●nd of the Lord Harbert do most consist of Papists and are maintained and continued by them That by the power of these Forces the Intention is not onely to subvert Parliaments and the Laws but to follow the Examples of their Brethren in Iniquity the Rebels in Ireland to pull up the Protestant Religion by the roots and in the place thereof to plant their own Idolatry and Superstition That the Army raised by the Parliament is to no other end but for the preservation of His Majesties Person to defend themselves the Laws of the Land and the true Protestant Religion All which the Lords and Commons thought good to publish to the intent the danger the Protestant Religion lies under may be clearly discerned and that all persons that love the same may now as one man extend their utmost endeavours and joyn with the Parliament to suppresse this Popish Army and Forces that otherwise in a short time will bring our Religion and Kingdome into ruine TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of Vs the Inhabitants of Lancashire whose names are hereunder written in the behalfe of our Selves and divers others being Recusants Humbly sheweth THat whereas we and the rest of the said Countie Your Majesties most loyall Subjects are disarmed and not sufficiently provided for the defence of Your Royall Person and our owne families Our most humble Supplication to Your Majesty is That we may be received into Your most gracious protection from violence have our Armes taken from us re-delivered in this time of actuall War and by Your Majesties speciall directions be inabled further to furnish our selves with competency of weapons for the security of Your Royall Person if we be thereunto required our Countries and Families who now are not onely in danger of the common disturbance but also menaced by unruly people to be robbed And when by the Almighties assistance Your Majesties Kingdome shall be settled in case we be again dis-armed that a full value in mony in liew thereof to us may be restored And we shall daily pray c. W. G. C. Tr. C. T. Chr. An. Io. C. To Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir William Ger●rd Baronet Sir Cecill Trafford Knight Thomas Clifton Charles Townley Christoph●r Ander●●n and Jo●● Clansfield and other of Our Sub●ects Recu●●nts Esqui●●s in the Co●nty o● Lancaster CHARLES R. Trusty and Welbeloved WEe greet you well whereas by reason of the Lawes and Statues of our Realme by which all Recusants convicted are to be without Arms your Arms have been taken from you so that now in this time of immiment danger wherein there are Armies raised against Our Commands and contrary to Our Proclamations and are marching against Vs and divers of Our good Subjects for obeying Our lawfull Commands and opposing the rebellious proceedings of others ill-affected are by strong hand seized upon and imprisoned their houses plundered and their goods taken away and the like is threatned to our selves who as all others Our Subjects ought to have Our protection against all un●●wfull violence and force And the Laws made for dis-arming Recusants were made onely for a provision to prevent danger in time of peace were not intended to bar you from a necessary use of Arms in time of actuall war for your own safety or for the defence of Our Person against all Rebels and Enemies which by your duty and allegiance you are bound unto which is not nor ever was meant to 〈◊〉 discharged or taken away by any 〈◊〉 And wh●●● as the Arms which were taken from you ought by Law to have been 〈…〉 to have been made use of by you in such time of open war or of such others 〈◊〉 you should provide yet under the specious pretence of dis-arming Recusants and persons 〈…〉 your Arms have been disposed and dispersed into the hands of fever all persons 〈…〉 and for the most part Fomenters and Exciters of these Commotions 〈…〉 Kingdom Our Will and Command therefore is and We charge and require you upon your Allegiance and 〈◊〉 you tender the safety of Our Person and the peace and welfare of Our Kingdom That you with all possible speed provide sufficient Armes for your selves your servants and your tenants which We authorize and require during the time of open war raised against Vs to keep and use for the defence of Vs and of your selves and of your Country against all Forces and Arms raised or to be raised against Vs or ●gainst Our consent or contrary to Our Proclamations by colour of any Order or Ordinance or Authority whatsoever And We shall according as We are bound to all Our Subjects use Our utmost powers for the protection of you and yours against all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 violence And whensoever these Arms which you shall so provide after it shall please God to put an end to these dangers and distractions shall be taken away from your custody by reason of Our Law 〈…〉 the same so much as you shall have dispended in provision thereof Given under Our Signet at Our Court at Chester the 27 of September in the eighteenth year of Our Raigne Sir William Riddell Sir Edw. Widdrington Sir Fra. Howard Sir Nic. Thornton Col. Tho. Howard M. Lance Errington M. Errington of Befron M. Geo. Wray M. Ralph Mellet M. Chr. Wray M. Lambton M. Hodgeson M. Smith M. David Errington M. Pudsey M. Antho. Bulmer M. Jo. Bulmer M. Askwith M. Geo. Collingwood M. Forcer M. Evers M. Holtby M. Evers M. William Fenwicke M. Ratcliffe M. Haggerston M. Forcer M. Edw. Gray These are the Names of divers of the Collonels Lieutenants Collonels Sergeant Majors Captaines and Lieutenants that are Papists and Commanders in the Army under the command of the Earle of Newcastle H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. FINIS