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A38146 Tvvo declarations of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament the one concerning His Majesties late proclamation for the suppressing of the present rebellion ... : the other for the raising of all power, and force ... to leade against all traitors, and their adherents ... England and Wales. Parliament. 1642 (1642) Wing E2390; ESTC R15955 1,976 5

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TVVO DECLARATIONS OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT The one concerning His Majesties late Proclamation for the suppressing of the present Rebellion under the command of ROBERT Earle of Essex And the gracious offer of His Majesties f●ee Padon to him and all such of his Adherents as shall within six dayes after the date thereof lay down their Armes The Other For the raising of all power and force as Well Trained Bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdome to leade against all Traitors and their adherents and them to arrest and imprison and to sight with kill and slay all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties loving Svbjects that shall be imployed in this service by either or both Houses of Parliament Ordered that these two Declarations be forthwith Printed Hen Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. August 16. London Printed for Edward Blackmore and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Angell in Pauls Church-yard 1642. THe Lords and Commons having received in a Letter from His Majesty a printed Paper intituled a Proclamation for the suppressing of the present Rebellion under the Command of ROBERT Earle of Essex And the gracious offer of His Majesties free pardon to him and all such of his adherents as shall within six dayes after the Date thereof lay downe their Armes Doe declare and publish That the matter of this libellous and scandalous Paper is the venom of those Trayterous Counsellors about his Majestie long since discovered and so often complained of by both Houses of Parliament Who having for many yeeres together carryed a wicked design to alter Religion and to introduce Popery Superstition and Ignorance the ready way to an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government And for that purpose not onely maintained Agents at Rome but invited and procured sundry Nuncio's or Agents to bee sent into this Kingdome from the Pope by which meanes Popery and Superstition was so farre advanced that nothing but the convening of this Parliament occasioned by the comming of the Scots could in all humane reason have prevented them in their designe the onely true reason why these mischievous counsellors maligning that power which oppose it selfe against their destructive and horrid coun●●lls hav● now at last as the Master-piece of all their Machinations advised His Majestie in effect to proclaim● at 〈◊〉 His House of Peers the hereditary Councellors of the Kingdome and His House of Commons the representative Body of the whole Commons of the Kingdome to be all Rebells and Traytors And by that Paper have endeavoured so farre to blinde the eyes of the people as to make them guiltie of their owne destruction by helping to subdue and destroy the Parliament the onely meanes under God to preserve their Religion Law and Liberties And to perswade the Kingdom that his Majestie by the assistance of Papists and persons Popishly affected will maintain the Protestant Religion that by the help of men Out-lawed and of desperate fortunes will maintaine the Lawes of the Land And with fugitives from Parliament and Traytors and Delinquents to the Parliament will preserve the Priviledges thereof and attempt so desperate and so transcendently wicked That the Lords and Commons doe unanimously publish and declare That all they who have advised contrived abetted or countenanced or hereafter shall abet and countenance the said Proclamation to be Traitors and enemies to God the King and Kingdom and to be guilty of the highest degree of Treason that can be committed against the King and Kingdome And that they will by the assistance of Almighty God and of all honest English Protestants and lovers of their Countrey doe their best endeavours even to the utmost hazard of their Lives and Fortunes to bring all such unparallell'd Traitors to a speedy and exemplary punishment And whereas the Lords and Commons in Parliament did formerly choose the Earle of Essex to be Captaine Generall of such Forces as are or shall be raised for the maintenance and preservation of the true Protestant Religion the Kings Person the Lawes of the Land the Peace of the Kingdome the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament The said Lords and Commons doe now Declare That they will maintaine and assist him and adhere unto him the said Earle with their lives and estates in the same Cause as in Conscience and Duty to GOD the King and their Country they are bound to do And lastly The Lords and Commons doe further Declare That notwithstanding those wicked Councellors which enclined his Majestie to make warre against our brethren of Scotland and by Prayers and Proclamations read in Churches to pronounce them Rebels and Traitors That with-held his Majestie from setting forth any Proclamation against those bloody Rebells in Ireland till January last although the Rebellion brake forth the 23. of October before and notwithstanding the importunity of both Houses of Parliament that a Declaration might issue to that purpose have now advised and prevailed with His Majestie by this Proclamation to invite His Subjects to destroy his Parliament and good people by a civill Warre and by that meanes to bring ruine confusion and perpetuall slavery upon the surviving part of a then wretched Kingdom Yet the Lords and Commons to witnesse their constant and unshaken loyaltie and affection to his Majestie doe solemnly declare That if his Majestie shall immediatly disband all his Forces and bee pleased to abandon those wicked Councellors and leave them to condigne punishment and returne and hearken to the wholesome advice of his great Councell they will really endeavour to make both his Majestie and his posteritie as great rich and potent as much beloved at home and feared abroad as any Prince that ever swayed this Scepter which is their firme and constant Resolution FINIS