A
DECLARATION
OF
THE
Citizens
and
Inhabitants
of
the
City
of
Chester
,
WHOSE
NAMES
ARE
SVBSCRIBED
,
Summoned
to
appear
before
His
Majesties
Commissioners
for
the
Array
at
the
Roodey
,
within
the
Liberties
of
the
said
City
,
for
their
cleer
manifestation
of
their
Allegiance
to
His
Majestie
,
and
duty
to
His
Parliament
;
Do
Declare
,
THat
as
it
is
a
Sacred
truth
that
a
Kingdom
divided
cannot
stand
,
so
it
is
a
legall
principle
,
that
His
most
Sacred
Majestie
is
the
head
,
and
the
Parliament
the
representative
body
of
His
Kingdom
,
and
that
in
the
Cordiall
union
of
His
Majestie
and
His
Parliament
consists
the
safety
,
glory
,
and
the
happinesse
thereof
.
And
They
for
their
parts
heartily
wish
they
may
be
accursed
as
Corah
and
his
Accomplices
,
that
do
or
shall
purposely
occasion
or
foment
any
difference
betweene
His
Majestie
and
His
Parliament
,
And
therefore
they
further
declare
their
readinesse
with
their
Lives
and
Fortunes
to
obey
His
Majestie
as
their
most
Deare
and
Dread
Soveraigne
according
to
their
due
Allegiance
,
and
the
resolution
to
defend
the
just
Priviledges
of
Parliament
according
to
their
free
and
just
Protestation
,
and
that
as
God
and
the
Fundamentall
Laws
of
this
Kingdom
hath
joyned
His
Majestie
and
the
Parliament
together
,
So
they
cannot
agree
unto
a
disjoynted
obedience
,
but
do
Declare
themselves
Enemies
to
all
such
as
shall
go
about
to
put
His
Majestie
and
the
Parliament
asunder
.
And
for
this
Resolution
they
have
great
encouragement
from
His
Maiesties
own
Declaration
attested
with
forty
of
the
Nobility
and
Privie
Councell
,
whereby
He
hath
most
graciously
assured
them
and
all
other
His
People
,
that
He
hath
no
more
thoughts
of
making
war
against
His
Parliament
,
then
against
His
own
Children
,
&
that
He
will
defend
the
iust
Privileges
of
Parliament
,
and
maintaine
and
observe
the
Acts
assented
to
by
His
Gracious
Maiestie
this
present
Parliament
without
violation
;
for
which
as
for
other
His
Maiesties
severall
gracious
Protestations
,
for
the
defence
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
the
Laws
of
the
Land
,
they
returne
most
humble
thanks
to
His
Majestie
.
This
Declaration
w●●delivered
by
the
Citizens
of
Chester
to
His
Majesties
Commissioners
for
the
Writ
of
Array
.