The Royall Virgine . OR THE DECLARATION OF SEVERAL MAYDENS In and about the once Honourable City of LONDON ,

FOR AS MUCH as , ( since that most horrible , unnatural , unrighteous , unjust , and most hainous murder , committed upon the person of Our most Renowned , Honourable , Inocent , Harmless , Good dispositioned KING CHARLES●●e first ; And since the banishing , disowning , disinheriting and dispossessing of Our three most Illustrious , Virtuous , and inefable Princes ) We say , for as much as ( since these abominable , unsufferable Acts ) ENGLAND , SCOTLAND and IRELAND , have had Experience of several Subtle , Covetious , Ambitious , self-seeking Guardians , and Governours ●ver Them . Who ( instead of saving their LIBERTIES , preserving their TRADE , and upholding the ●ood of these NATIONS ) have cheated the People , stinted their Ttade , spilt mnch Inocent Blood , and have done notbing viewable , but evil in these Nations . ) We do Declare ,

FIRST , That it is infinitely below Us , To cover or glosse over Our Intentions , with specious pretences ; And therefore , We do manifest to the whole World , That this Our Declaration is , neither for a Free PARLIAMENT , a full PARLIAMENT , or a Piece of a PARLIAMENT , ( We leave that to the discretion of him ) who onely has Power to Call a PARLIAMENT ) We do therefore Declare , That the onely meanes , ( in Our Judgments ) to bring these NATIONS to out of Bondage ; For the preserving of Peace , and the upholding of every good thing , will be , the speedy Restauration of the Banished , We mean , that the Government be of these Nations be cast upon the Shoulders of him that ought to bear it ; that the People of ENGLAND , SCOTLAND and IRELAND , may be obedient to Him , to whom Obedience is due , and that the Crown may be set upon His head whose Right it is . C. R.

SECONDLY , We do Declare , That as for this present Power ( which men call the Rump ) We do utterly disown it , accounting it aboundantly below our Sphere , to stoop to that Tail , whence the Head is forced to absent it Self .

THIRDLY , and LASTLY , We do Declare , That if this Our Declaration be granted , We will undertake to procure an Act of Indempnity , for all such persons as have transgressed in these latter dayes , ( save five ) ; but if it be not granted , by fair means , Take what follows . And if you reject the Virgins Counsel , as thk late Lord Lambert did hss Wives , you may repent at your leasure as he dos and after all , do as Alderman Hoyle did , Hang your selves for madness .

Behold O Men , we aime at Preservation , Unlesse you stand unto Our Declaration Your Aonour is condemn'd , and you Behold Are quite undone , Your Fortunes are foretold . Signed by many thousands of Maidens in the Cities of London and Westminster , and the Borough of Southwark , and other adjacent parts : which to nominate here , would be to tedious .