A DECLARATION of the Officers and Souldiers under the Command of Colonell Twisleton , Governor of the Castle of Denbigh in Wales .

KNowing the distempers that are already and the practises of our Enemies , both secret and open to distrube the peace of the Kingdome , thereby to suppresse the Authority of Parliament , and in it to invade and destroy all that is deare unto us , our Religion , Lawes , and Liberty , and instead thereof to bring a Tyranny under the pretence of the Kings rights , and taking notice to the great griefe of our hearts , how many Persons and Countries haue beene by their Insinuations and pretences drawne into a second Ingagement against the Parliament and their Army ; We doe therefore out of the sence of our duty to God , the Kingdome and Parliament , unanimously declare as well for the satisfaction of each other , as others that are true friends to the Parliament and Kingdome , that we will according to our Nationall Oath and Covenant which we have Solemnly taken in our places and callings , and to the utmost of our power defend and maintaine this Hold and Garrison of Denbigh and each other in pursuance thereof , under the command of the present Governour Colonell George Twisleton , against any power whatsoever that is not derived by Commission from his Excellency the Lord Fairfax and the Parliament to demand the same , and will neither for feare nor favour desert this our duty , nor in the discharge thereof desert nor forsake each other , in the performance of all mutuall duties proper to our places , in which no extremity whatsoever by Gods assistance shall make us unfaithfull or inconstant in our resolutions or meanes to discover them , so to bring them to condigne punishment , which basenesse or Treachery we abhor the very thoughts of , and this Declaration as we make it freely from our hearts , so we as freely subscribe it under our hands .

Denbigh this 12. of June , 1648. George Twisleton . &c.