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A92097	The declaration of His Highnesse Prince Rupert, Lord High Admirall of all the navy Royall, belonging to the Kings Majesty Charles the II. Wherein hee cleareth himselfe from many scandalous rumours which have bin cast upon his reputation. Likewise his Highnesse resolution and intention; together with the rest of the officers of the Navy Royall. Touching the death of the late King, the illegall pretended power of Parliament. And their indeavours to inthrone the now King Charles the second. Also shewing their intentions to maintaine the lawes of the land, the liberty of the subject, and just rights and priviledges of a lawfull Parliament. / Signed by the Princes owne hand aboard the Navy Royall, now riding an anchor upon the Downes, the 19.th of March, 1649.	Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.	1649 (1649)	Wing R2293; Thomason E546_28; ESTC R203412	4,861	8

improve to the best of my power without any treachery deceit or dissimulation in what kind soever and for my unfortunatenesse I hope it was excusable it not only being incident where I had Command and was Personally present but in all other Places where my late Vncle had any power of souldiers Yet notwithstanding I was the Butt whereat envie shot its Arrowes and all my Vncles losses were generally layd to my charge And I look't upon by many who were not sensible of my integrity as a trecherous and perfidious seller of my late Vncles Cities Castles Townes and Garisons yes even his Armyes when it was evident to all that no man whatsoever either private Souldier or Officer did hazard more his life and further ingage his Person then my self and how trecherous dealing and underhand compliance with my Vncles enemies could be attributed to my charge for such Acts I know not and doubt not all honest rationall men will be satisfied and their judgement confuted by these my reall expressions which I call the Almighty Iudge of heaven and earth to witnesse is no other then truth Now for my judgement in this new war in behalfe of my dearely beloved Cousen I do protest and really speake it I did ever intend to do him any service imploy my best indeavors for his inthroning as bound by Consangvinity but more particularly ingaged by reason of former favours received from his late Royall Father my murthred vnckle and though it was my intentions to serve him as I have heare spoake it yet I doe ingeniously confesse it was never my desire to bee imployed in this great and waighty command of his Majesties Admirall but should willingly have beene well satisfied with an inferior place where I might have had the freedome in part to bring such great Traitors and Rebels to condigne punishment who had a hand in the murther of my late Vnckle and doe still persist in their peruerse wayes of Rebellion and Cruelty and my reasons why I did not wish so great a command were these viz. I know and was ascertained my self had been rendred odious to many English who did not throughly understand my reall intentions but onely beleev'd lies and forged reports of my mortall Enemies framing And I did likewise consider that my undertakeing the Admiralty might bee a meanes to draw away the affections of his Majesties Subjects by reason such rumours had been upon me These and many other reasons which now I will omit did moove me severall times to refuse what at length his Majesties Councell of Lords Knights and Gentlemen who are about him did in a maner force it upon mee which peradventure at first displeased some aspiring Spirits who gapt for that imployment which now I have and will by the grace of God to my power manage as may be most profitable for my Cosen his now Majesty and for the speediest settlement of him in his late Fathers Throne I wil now desire your patience a litle longer and do intend God willing to give mine and the Gentlemens about me their Intensions and resolutions both for present proceedings and future actings so long as God shall enable us so to doe and wee doe hereby declare and protest to all the whole Kingdome what wee with our fortunes and that which is most deare to us even our lives will prosecute and to the vtmost of our power performe to a tittle the particuler beads are as followes viz. 1. Wee doe protest and declare That wee will use all possible meanes and imploy our interests for to inthrone King Charles the second in his Kingdome of England and all other his Dominions which were his late Fathers and with all our force power strength his Royall Person will indeavor to defend maintaine and keepe And will ever to the utmost of our powers preserve him from the Treacherous attempts of usurping Rebbels upholding and suporting so much as in us lyeth all his Regal authority Kingly rights priveledges and prerogatives which of due belong to him as successive King of England and as have beene enioyed by his predecessors of our later ages viz. Queene Elizabeth King Iames and his late Royall Father of famous memory 2ly That wee will ever bee carefull to preserve the antient and Fundamentall Lawes Statutes Customes immunities Priviledges and Freedomes of each Subiect of this Kingdome of England And will never yeild consent or assent to have them violated and broken nor any Arbitrary rule introduced save onely such wholesome Lawes as a Parliament freely elected by his Majesties writ and causisting of King Lords and Commons shall thinke fit to constitute 3ly That wee will ever bee ready with our lives and fortunes to defend the power of Parliament when legally chosen and its Iust rights and Priviledges to the utmost of our power will preserve and keepe free from violation and never as now there is over the Iunto at westminster constituting any power of Sword upon them whereby to make them act contrary to the Subjects good for our private gaine such constraining force being contrary to the knowne Lawes of this Land And the most arbitrary and tiranicall act that may bee invented there being now no Law save such as a Rebellious Army of Sectarian Murtherers will please to have 4ly And for the City of London in particuler wee doe declare and protest wee will not hinder their trading by See for Wind Coales or any other necessaries so long as the Captaines and Masters of such Marchants Shipps shall pay unto us all such dues and Customes as doe belong to his Majesty and likewise that they doe acknowledge him for their King and lawfull heire to the Crowne of England by striking sayle to his Admirall and yeelding obedience to his commands as one lawfully authorized by his said Majesty Charles the second King of great Brittaine 5ly That wee have no intention to injure or hurt the person nor diminish take away confiscate or make forseit the goods estates or lands of any the inhabitants of England who will leave their Rebellion and ingagements of Treason now so earnestly agitated submitting themselues to his Majesty as becomes true Subjects and as men boundby their severall oathes of alegeance to bee true to their King his Heires and successors nay further the Covenant hath the same influence of obligation upon all such who will not be perjvred 6ly And lastly that if any Marriners Water-men or Souldiers shall desert that Conventickle of Traytors at Westminster and repayr to us they shall bee rewarded according to their Qualities and have imployment befitting them Likewise any Gentleman or other of inferior Ranke who are willing to serve their King if they will repayre to us shall be entertained with much respect tho they have formerly beene our Enemies yet wee will procure an Act of Indemnity for them All these things God-willing wee doe intend to prosecvte to the vtmost of our powers and doubt not but that God and all good men will be assisting here in So God save King GHARLES the Second FINIS

THE DECLARATION OF HIS HIGHNESSE PRINCE RUPERT Lord High Admirall of all the navy Royall belonging to the Kings Majesty CHARLES the II. Wherein hee cleareth himselfe from many Scandalous Ramours which have bin cast upon his Reputation Likewise his Highnesse Resolution and Intention Together with the rest of the Officers of the Navy Royall Touching the Death of the late KING the illegall pretended Power of PARLIAMENT ●nd their indeavours to Inthrone the now King CHARLES the second ALSO Shewing their intentions to maintaine the Lawes of the Land the Liberty of the Subject and just Rights and Priviledges of a lawfull Parliament Signed by the Princes owne hand aboard the Navy Royall new Riding an Anchor upon the Downes the 19. th of March 1649. Printed in the Yeer 1649. A Declaration of his Highnesse Prince RUPERT THe bloody and inhumane murther of my late dread Vncle of ever renowned famous memory hath administred to me fresh occasion if I had no other motives which might further my indignation against the usurped power in England to bee assistant both in councell and the best of my personall power as bound by affinity to my deare Cousen now Charles the second King of great Britaine and all other his late Fathers Dominions to take vengeance upon those Arch-Traytors pretending the name of Parliament and keeping a perpetuall Sessions of blood-thirstinesse and murthering Massacre at Westminster They being not in any capacity or have they the least colour of honesty law or reason to give them save onely a Libidinous lustfull will maintained by the unjust Sword of usupation hem'd in with disloyalty and skin'd over with an hipopocriticall pretended freedome of Religion and Subjects liberty making shew of levelling equality though no power of a King which is most rightfull both by the written word of God and fundamentall Lawes of England whatever could ever be more tyranically aspiringly ambitious and barbarously impious then theirs Who whatever Promises Oathes or Covenants were formerly or now at present are their Actions manifest their intentions to be cruelty tyrannous and their rule Arbitrary every way illegall and more extorting from the Subjects then the government of a moderate Monarch could in any wise bee who is bounded and begirt both with Law and discret Councell Nay the greatest tyrant of a King cannot act such tragicall villanies as a vast number of mischievous wretches which are bent to wickednesse may Of which truth the Assembly of Traytors and rebels an westmin have given sufficient testimonies there never being heard on in all antiquity the like subversion that is now intended and with Rebellions force prosecuted in England viz. First To murther their lawfull King 2ly Banish their now King his Brother with all those which love or adhere to him exempting them from mercy and making them by meek Acts traytors to them who are Rebels to their King This me thinkes should move all men who are not destitute of understanding and have common sence to see how those audacious Rebels have woven their ends and exploded Loyalty with acclamations that Rebellion which is as the sin of Witchcraft is become a vertue and murther an Act of mercy Moreover mee thinks it cannot chuse but be visible to all eyes unlesse wilfully blind that the numerous Issue of my deceased Vncle will still procure meanes to keep the Kingdome in broyles either with warres still in it or threats and invasions which will be altogether as terrible to the Subject as War it self can be so long as my deare Cousen now CHARLES the second the lawfull King of England Scotland and Jreland c. or whoever shall succeed him which have any allyance to the Crowne of England are in beeing I hope therefore and for many reasons to be alledged on my part that there is no honest loyall heart in all the Kingdome of England or else-where that can with any Iustice or knowne truth lay any capitall crime to my charge although it hath been the constant indeavours of some of the English Nation who are naturally prone to hate Strangers to seek with false Calumnies and scandalous accusations to blast and blemish my integrity to my Vncle and his Royall family by challenging me with trechery to him and his party to the contrary of all which his late Majesty was well satisfied that I was honestly reall and wholly his Thus much I thought fit to speake in my own behalf hoping it will be taken from mine own mouth as a character of my fidelity which hath been much scandaliz'd by black mouth 〈◊〉 which never speakes well of any and that I thank God is a thing which I have had my share of in England for venturing so freely and often my life for their Libert es as I take God to witness was ever my intention never looking for any preferment at all to raise my fortunes above ordinary by the English nation which I am confident there are divers now living in England which have had constant knowledge of my Actions can justifie I having had many preferments proffered me which I have refused desiring the advancement of my Vncles cause might be first promoted and for my own particular I dedicated my life to his will and did never intend to make a greater price of my Service then his late Majesty and Councell might adjudge me to deserve Neither hath the abuse layd upon mee by my Vncles pretended friends been sufficient But the grosse Lies and forgeries of that Rebell ●e●t at Westminster have branded me with the very worst of crimes that possible any man might be charged with As that I was barbarously cruell and did tyrannically use not only Souldiers but likewise Country-people by Plunder rapes thefts c. with many more exorbitances as Ravishings of M●ydens and destroying young Children all which was to no other end then to wound my reputation and make me abominably odious to the vulgar whose braines itched with a desire of novelty and were ever willing to imbrace any falsities But to cleere my selfe from all these I did it was well knowne to many ever detest and hate such proceedings holding them to be the greatest and most inhumane barbarismes that could by any Christians possible be invented But I finding the disposition of the English Nation both pretends friends and open enemies of my late Vncles to strive nothing more then to cast a perpetuall odium upon me and seeing my self unfortunate in most of my adventures I doe seriously protest it was often my desires to have left that high imployment of Generall and to serve my Vncle in a lesser and lower degree of Command But it was ever the will of my dread deceased Vncle of ever honoured and famous memory whose love was still to me intire and whose affections I found ever inviolable to his Subjects good to have me continue in the Command which his Majesty had been graciously pleased to confer upon me which as I shall answer at the day of judgement I did