A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the defence and preservation of Hertfordshire, and other places and counties adjoyning from the barbarous cruelties of Papists and other il-affected persons who being in actuall war against the whole kingdome, have now drawn their forces to Brill in the county of Buckingham, and threaten to over-run all places thereabouts. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82675 of text R211599 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[124]). 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. 3 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 2017 A82675 Wing E1413 Thomason 669.f.5[124] ESTC R211599 99870311 99870311 160836 2240939504

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82675) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160836) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[124]) A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the defence and preservation of Hertfordshire, and other places and counties adjoyning from the barbarous cruelties of Papists and other il-affected persons who being in actuall war against the whole kingdome, have now drawn their forces to Brill in the county of Buckingham, and threaten to over-run all places thereabouts. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for J. Wright in the Old-Baily, London : 1642. [i.e. 1643] Order to print dated and signed: Die Lunae, 2 Januar. 1642. I. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. Reproductions of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Hertfordshire (England) -- Early works to 1800. A82675 R211599 (Thomason 669.f.5[124]). civilwar no A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the defence and preservation of Hertfordshire, and other places and coun England and Wales. Parliament. 1642 1 446 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in Parliament , For the defence and preservation of Hertfordshire , and other places and Counties adjoyning from the barbarous cruelties of Papists and other il-affected persons who being in actuall War against the whole Kingdome , have now drawn their Forces to Brill in the County of Buckingham , and threaten to over-run all places thereabouts .

WHereas great forces of Papists , and other ill affected persons are now in actuall War against the King , the Parliament , and the whole Kingdome ; and part of those Forces being now drawn to Brill in the County of Buckingham , and other places adjoyning , have according to their usuage , plundered , robbed , pillaged and murthered divers good Protestants thereabouts ; and threaten to march into the County of Hertford , and other Counties that way , there to commit the like outrages , and barbarous cruelties , as they have done in places where they have formerly been .

The Lords and Commons in Parliament , being most desirous to prevent these miseries , and to suppresse the Authors of them ; For the better effecting thereof , do hereby desire all well affected persons of the County of Hertford , and other Counties and places adjoyning , forthwith to raise all such Forces of Horse , and Foot , as they can make ; and to march with them to Alesbury in the County of Buckingham , or to such other place as they shall be directed by order from both Houses of Parliament , or from the Earle of Essex Lord generall , and to joyn with , and assist the Forces raised by authority of Parliament , for the defence of themselves , their families , and estates , and the true Protestant Religion , and for the suppressing and punishing those Forces at Brill , and all other their adherents , notorious enemies to the King , and Kingdome ; And such wel affected persons as the County of Hertford , or any other Counties , or places whatsoever , that shall joyn with , and assist the Forces raised by Authority of Parliament , for the purposes above mentioned , shall therein doe a very acceptable service to the Common-wealth , and shal be assisted and protected by the power and authority of Parliament .

Die Lunae , 2 Januar. 1642.

ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , That this Declaration be forthwith printed and published .

I. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum .

London , Printed for J. Wright in the Old-baily . 1642.