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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78705	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.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2206; ESTC R171164	5,134	16

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. YORK Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL MDCXLII A DECLARATION OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in 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 Traiterous intent to subvert the Liberty of the Subject and the Law of the Kingdom and for the better strengthning themselves in this wicked attempt do joyne 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 Libertie 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 robbed spoiled 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 end and purpose aforesaid the Earl of Northampton the Lord Dunsmore Lord VVillowby of Eresby Son to the Earl of Linsey Henry Hastings Esquire and divers other unknown Persons in the Counties of Lincoln Nottingham Leicester VVarwick Oxfordshire and other places the Marquesse of Hertford the Lord Paulet Lord Seymer Sir Iohn Stawell Sir Ralph Hopton Iohn Digby Esquire and other their Accomplices have gotten together great forces in the County of Sommerset The Lords and Commons in Parliament duly 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 bloody massacre of the Protestants They do Declare and Ordain that it is and shall be lawfull for all His Majesties loving Subjects 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 the ends aforesaid and that the Earl of Essex Lord Generall with all his forces raised by the authoritie of Parliament as likewise the Lord Say Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Earl of Peterborough Lieutenant of Northamptonshire Lord Wharton Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire Earl of Stamford Lieutenant of Leicestershire Earl of Pembrook Lieutenant of Wiltshire and Hampshire Earl of Bedford Lieutenant of Sommersetshire and Devon Lord Brook Lieutenant of VVarwickshire the Lord Cramborne Lieutenant of Dorsetshire the Lord VVilloughby of Parham Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and all those who are or shall be appointed by Ordinance of both Houses to perform the place of Deputy Lieutenants and their Deputy-Lieutenants respectively Densill Hollis Esquire Lieutenant of the Citie and County of Bristoll and the Majors and Sheriffs of the Citie and Deputy Lieutenants there and all other Lieutenants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Deputy-Lieutenants shall raise all their power and forces of their severall Counties as well Trained Bands as others and shall have power to conduct and lead 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 other 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 Commons in Parliament for the defence of the Religion of Almighty God and of the Liberties and Peace of the Kingdom and in pursuit of those wicked and Rebellious Traytors their Conspirators Ayders and Abettors and Adherents requiring all Lieutenants of Counties Sheriffs Majors Justices of Peace and others 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 the Power and Authority of Parliament 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 Traitours and their Adherents c. AS much experience as We have had of the inveterate rancour and high Insolence of the malignant Party against Vs We never yet saw any Expression come from them so evidently declaring it as the Declaration intituled 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. 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 Vs then that by their infinite Arts and Subtilty imployed by their perpetuall indefatigable industry and by that Rabble of Brownists and other Schismaticks declaredly ready to appear 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 prevail 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 soiled as to be prefixt 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 Societie 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 Money 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 tri ted to declare as to Act whatsoever they please And though We

doubt not but to their utmost they will continue that Injury to Vs 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 whilest they affirm against all Truth and command against all Law it concerns them to take care that nothing be heard but what they say yet Our comfort is that Our Intentions and the Dutie of Our Subjects are so well and so generally known to Our People that We cannot fear from whom soever it come and though no Answer came out with it that either what is there said should be beleeved 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 Proprietie Our Goods Arms Towns Milita and Negative Voice were taken from Vs and all the Kingdom commanded to be in Arms and invited to bring in Horse Plate and Money to frame an Armie against Our Command and Proclamation and till Horse were raised 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 Vs and to suppresse all such as without Our Authoritie and against Our Commands should raise Forces in this Our Kingdom and leavie War against Vs under pretence of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses and such Traiterous 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 what is affirmed of the spoiling and killing them as they were so travelling under Our Protection and according to Law is a most malicious Affirmation as well without Trueth as without Instance invented at once to make Our Troops terrible and Vs 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 who have by Our Proclamation strictly charged That no Papist should presume to List himself 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 War offering to lay down Our Arms when they should have laid down theirs in whom it was Treason to take them up and restored Vs those things which could not without Treason as well as Injustice be forced away and kept from Vs 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 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 Forces against their Prince who asks them nothing but what is legall nor will deny them any thing that is do not joyn with the Popish and Iesuiticall Faction in the bloody massacre of many thousand Protestants in that miserable Kingdom We propose likewise to every mans judgment whether the declaring those to be Traitors who execute Our Commission of Array issued in so many Kings Reigns 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 5. Hen. 4. in no Parliament complained of whilest 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 which power of Commanding no Title can be made by any Statute or any President nor can We ever finde by search nor obtain to be told what those Fundamentall Laws are by which it is pretended so deep those Foundations are laid beyond all means of discovery And the declaring that those who raise men by vertue of Our Command and Commission the onely 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 Forces by Authority 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 Lieutenants 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 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 without all Rule to walk by when the most cleer Laws cannot direct and secure them and they see all those ancient Bounds past 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 protect and defend the Subject and Vs 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 Vs because We defend Our Self and would recover Our Own will be so far from being a Motive against Vs that this intolerable Indignity and damnable Scandall so daily and visibly confuted by all Our Professions and Actions will increase Our good Subjects zeal towards Vs 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 Vs their King and His Anointed We therefore require all Our Commissioners of Array Sheriffs 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 Earl of Northampton the Lord Willoughby of Eresby the Lord Paulet the Lord Dunsmore the Lord Seymour Henry Hastings Esquire Sir John Stowell Sir Ralph Hopton John 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 raised by Our Commission and by Force of Arms to oppose the Earl 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 fair and Legall triall 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 Vs and by the Law with whom and with which We doubt not but Our Subjects will sooner chuse to live and die then with the Earl of Essex and his Adherents FINIS