The protestation wch the knights, citizens and burgesses in ye Commons House of Parliament made ye 5th of May 1642 England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38265 of text R27346 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E2690). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A38265 Wing E2690 ESTC R27346 09818595 ocm 09818595 44168 2248515767

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A38265) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 44168) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1356:19) The protestation wch the knights, citizens and burgesses in ye Commons House of Parliament made ye 5th of May 1642 England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 broadside. s.n., [London : 1642] An oath in support of the Church of England, the King and the power of Parliament. Imperfect: Page cropped wih some loss of print. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library. eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. eebo The protestation w:ch the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in ye Commons house of Parliament, made, ye 3d. of May. 1642. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons 1644 1 342 1 0 0 0 0 0 29.24 C The rate of 29.24 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-02 Sampled and proofread 2009-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Protestation which : the Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses , in the Commons house of Parliament , made , the 3d of May. 1642.

I. A. B. do in the presence of Almighty God promise , vow & protest , to maintaine & defend so far as lawfully I may with my life , power , & estate , the true reformed Protestant Religion , expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England , against all Popery & popish Innovations within this Realme , contrary to the same Doctrine , and according to the duty of my Allegiance , his maiesties royall Person ; honour & Estate , as also the power & priviledge of Parliament ; The lawfull rights & Liberties of the subiect , & every person that maketh this protestation , in with soever he shall do in the lawfull pursuance of the same , And to my power , & as far as lawfully I may , I will oppose , & by all good waies & meanes endeauour to bring to condigne punishmt , all such as shall either by force , practise , Counsells , Plotts , conspiracies , or otherwise , do any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Protestation , contayned . And further , That I shall in all iust & honourable waies endeauour to preserue the union & Peace between the three Kingdomes of England , Scot-land , & Ireland , And neither for hope , feare , nor other respect , shall relinquish this promise , vow , & Protestation .

This house doth declare , that by those words , the true reformed Protestant Religion , &c is meant onely the publike Doctrine profess ᵈ in the said Church , so far as it is opposite to Popery , or Popish Innovations , & not the mayntayning of any forme of Worship , Discipline , or Gouerment , nor any rites or Cerimonijs of the sd : Church . 〈…〉