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A37734 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 and them to arrest and imprison ... all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties loving subjects that shall be imployed in this service by either or both Houses of Parliament : together with His Majesties declaration in answer to the same. England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1642 (1642) Wing E1427; ESTC R30019 5,386 16

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A DECLARATION OF THE LORDS and COMMOMS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the raising of all power and Force as well Trained Bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdom To leade against all Traytors and their Adherents and them to Arrest and Imprison and to fight with Kill and Slay all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties loving Subjects that shall be imployed in this Service by either or both Houses of PARLIAMENT Together With His Majesties DECLARATION In Answer to the same YORK Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE 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 leade against all Traitors and their Adherents and them to Arrest and Imprison and to fight with Kill and Slay all such as shall oppose any of His Majesties Loving Subjects that shall be imployed in this service by either or both Houses of PARLIAMENT WHereas certain Information is given from severall parts of the Kingdom That divers Troops of Horse are imployed in sundry Counties of the Kingdom and that others have Commission to raise both Horse and Foot to compell His Majesties Subjects to submit to the Illegall Commission of Array out of a Trayterous intent to subvert the Liberty of the Subject and the Law of the Kingdom and for the better strengthning themselves in this wicked attempt doe joyn with the Popish and Jesuiticall Faction to put the Kingdom into a combustion and Civill War by leavying forces against the Parliament and by these Forces to alter the Religion and the ancient Government and lawfull Liberty of the Kingdom and to introduce Popery and Idolatry together with an Arbitrary Form of Government And in pursuance thereof have Traiterously and Rebelliously leavyed War against the King and by force robb'd spoyl'd and slain divers of His Majesties good Subjects travelling about their lawfull and necessary occasions in the Kings Protection according to Law and namely That for the'nd and purpose aforesaid The Earl of Northampton the Lord Dunsmore Lord Willoughby of Eresby Son to the Earl of Linsey Henry Hastings Esquire and divers other unknown Persons in the Counties of Lincoln Nottingham Leicester Warwick Oxford and other places the Marquesse of Hertford the Lord Paulet Lord Seymer Sir John Stawell Sir Ralph Hopton John Digby Esq and other their Accomplices have gotten together great Forces in the County of Sommerset The Lords and Commons in Parliament duely considering the great dangers which may ensue upon such their wicked and Trayterous designes and if by this means the Power of the Sword should come into the Hands of Papists and their Adherents nothing can be expected but the miserable ruine and desolation of the Kingdom and the bloudy massacre of the Protestants They doe Declare and Ordain That it is and shall be lawfull for all His Majesties loving Subject● by force of Arms to resist the said severall Parties and their Accomplices and all other that shall raise or conduct any other Forces for th' ends aforesaid and that the Earl of Essex Lord Generall with all his Forces raised by the authority of Parliament as likewise the Lord Say Lievtenant of Oxfordshire Earl of Peterborough Lievtenant of Northamtonshire Lord Wharton Lievtenant of Bu●kinghamshire Earl of Stamford Lievtenant of Leicestershire Earl of Pembrook Lievtenant of Wiltshire and Hampshire Earl of Bedford Lievtenant of Sommersetshire and Devon Lord Brook Liev●enant of Warwickshire the Lord Cramborne Lievtenant of Dorsershire the Lord Willoughby of Parham Lievtenant of Lincolnshire and all those who are or shall be appointed by Ordinance of both Houses to perform the Place of Deputy Lievtenants and their Deputy Lievtenants respectively Densill Hollis Esquire Lievtenant of the City and County of Bristoll and the Majors and Sheriffes of the City and Deputy Lievtenants there and all other Lievtenants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Deputy Lievtenants shall raise all their Power and Forces of their severall Counties as well Trained Bands as others and shall have power to conduct and leade the said Forces of the said Counties against the said Traytors and their Adherents and with them to fight kill and slay all such as by Force shall oppose them and the Persons of the said Traytors and their Adherents and Accomplices to Arrest and Imprison and them to bring up to the Parliament to answer this their Trayterous and Rebellious Attempts according to Law and the same or any ot●er Forces to transport and conduct from one County to another in ayd and assistance one of another and of all others that shall joyn with the Lords and Commons in Parliament for the defence of the Religion of Almighty God and of the Liberties and Pe●ce of tho Kingdom and in pursuit of those wicked and Rebellious Traytor● their Conspirators Ayders and Abettors and Adherents requiring all Lieu●enants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Justices of Pe●ce and other His Majesties Officers and loving Subjects to be ayding and assisting to one another in the Execution hereof and for their so doing all the parties above mentioned and all others that shall joyn with them shall be justified defended and secured by tho Power and Authority of Parliament FINIS Ordered that this be forthwith Printed H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. His Majesties Declaration in Answer to a Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the raysing of all Power and Force aswell Trained Bands as others in severall Counties of the Kingdom to leade against all Traytors and their Adherents 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 raysing of all Power and Force aswell Trayned Bands as others in severall Counties of this Kingdom 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 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 Subjcts 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 means we desire to preserve to be so soyl'd as to be prefixed to a Paper of this unsufferable nature That tends not onely 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 seen in the Houses and be not the single Work 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 Arms and Mony intended to defend and feed him if they shall see cause to suspect that he meant to assist His Soveraign with them and may well be as fully and implicitely trusted to Declare as to Act whatsoever they please And though We doubt not but to their utmost they will continue that Injury to Us and that violation of the Subjects Libertie and of publique Right to vex and Imprison those who shall publish any of our Answers to their Declarations and indeed whilst they affirme against all Truth and command against all Law it concerns them to take care that nothing be heard but what they shall say yet Our comfort is That Our Intentions and the Duty of Our Subjects are so well and so generally known to Our People that We cannot Fear 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 only Our Prerogative but Our Propriety Our Goods Arms Towns 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 Mony to frame an Army against Our Command and Proclamation and till Horse were raised and Mustred accordingly And then with no Intention nor hath any Action in any of Our Ministers given the least suspition 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 re-gain Hull held out in Rebellion against Us And to suppresse all such as vvithout Our Authority and against Our Commands should raise Forces in this Our Kingdom and leavie War against Us under pretence of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses and such Trayterous Assemblies and Marches have been the onely lawfull and necessary occasions of Our good Subjects which have been so much as interrupted by any Troops of Ours And vvhat is affirm'd of the spoiling and killing them as they were so Travelling under our Protection and according to Law is a most malicious Affirmation aswell vvithout Truth as vvithout Instance invented at once to make Our Troops terrible and Us odious to Our People What care have We taken That by this means the power of the Sword should not come into the Hands of Papists vvho 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 avoyd combustion and Civill War offering to lay down Our Arms 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 sorced 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 rejected and whether the Proposer or Rejecters were most carefull to avoid this ruine and desolation of the Kingdom 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 sorces against their Prince vvho asks them nothing but vvhat is Legall nor vvill deny them any that is doe not joyn vvith the Popish and Jesuiticall faction in the bloudy Massacre of many thousand Protestants in that miserable Kingdom We propose likewise to every Mans Judgement whether the Declaring those to be Traytors vvho execute Our Commission of Array issued in so many Kings Reign 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 vvas in 5. 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 seem but to insinuate something against their most illegall commands concerning the Militia to vvhich power of commanding no Tytle can be made by any Statute or any Precedent nor can We ever find by search nor obtain to be told what these fundamentall Laws are by vvhich it is pretended so deep those foundations are laid beyond all means of discovery And the Declaring That those vvho raise Men by vertue of Our Command and Commission the onely Legall vvay Traiterously and Rebelliously leavie 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 forces by authoritie of Parliament that is by the remaining part of both Houses never in the most outragious times before attempted and commanding severall Persons whom they call Lievtenants to leade 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 Selfe 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 vvhich is first to allow and next to command and then to pardon Treason be not to have already subverted as much as in them lies the Liberty of the Subject the Law of the Land and altered the Ancient Government of the Kingdom leaving Our Subjects vvithout all Rule to vvalk by vvhen the most clear Laws cannot direct and secure them and they see all those ancient bounds passed over which were ever as much known to be the Duty of both Houses to observe as it vvas evident that there were and that it vvas necessary that there should be two Houses of Parliament and at once behold the Law vvhich is to Defend and Protect the Subject and Us vvho 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 indignitie and damnable scandall so daily and visibly confuted by all Our Professions and Actions will encrease Our good Subjects zeale towards Us and their indignation against the Contrivers And they will esteem 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 Anointed 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 ass●st the Marquesse of Hertford the Earle of Northampton the Lord Willoughby of Eresby the Lord Pawlet the Lord Seymour the Lord Dunsmore Henry Hastings Esq Sir John Stowell Sir Ralph Hopton John Digby Esq and all other in the legall and necessarie executing of our Commissions of Array and in the raising and conducting of such Horse and Foot as shall be raised by Our Commission and by force of Arms to oppose the Earle of Essex the Lord Say and all other that shall raise or conduct any forces raised by pretence of Authoritie of both Houses and the Persons of all such Traytors and their Adherents and Accomplices to arrest and imprison To the end they may be brought to a faire 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 Libertie and propertie 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 die then with the Earle of Essex and his Adherents FINIS