A
DECLARATION
Of
the
LORDS
and
COMMONS
.
The
Lords
and
Commons
having
received
in
a
letter
from
his
Majesty
a
Printed
paper
,
Intituled
,
A
Proclamation
for
the
suppressing
of
the
present
Rebellion
under
the
Command
of
Robert
Earle
of
Essex
,
and
the
gracious
offer
of
his
Majesties
free
pardon
to
him
and
all
such
of
his
adherents
,
as
shal
within
six
dayes
after
the
date
thereof
lay
downe
their
Armes
,
doe
publish
and
declare
,
that
the
matter
of
this
libellious
and
scandalous
paper
,
is
the
venome
of
those
Traiterous
Councellors
about
his
Majesty
,
long
since
discovered
,
and
so
often
complained
of
by
both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
who
having
for
many
yeares
together
carried
on
a
wicked
designe
,
to
alter
Religion
,
and
to
introduce
Popery
,
Superstition
,
and
Ignorance
,
the
ready
way
to
an
Arbitrary
and
Tirannicall
Governement
,
and
for
that
purpose
,
not
onely
maintained
Agents
at
Rome
,
but
invited
and
procured
sundry
Nuntioes
,
or
Agents
,
to
be
sent
into
this
Kingdome
from
the
Pope
,
by
which
meanes
Popery
and
Superstition
was
so
farre
advanced
,
that
nothing
but
the
convening
of
this
Parliament
,
occasioned
by
the
comming
of
the
Scots
,
could
in
all
humaine
reason
have
prevented
them
in
their
designe
,
the
onely
true
reason
which
these
mischievous
Councellors
,
maligning
that
Power
which
opposes
it selfe
against
their
destructive
and
horrid
Counsels
,
have
now
at
last
,
as
the
Master-piece
of
all
their
Machinations
,
advised
his
Majesty
,
in
effect
,
to
proclaim
at
once
,
his
House
of
Peeres
,
the
Hereditary
Councellors
of
the
Kingdome
,
and
his
House
of
Commons
,
the
representative
Body
of
the
whole
Commons
of
the
Kingdome
,
to
be
all
Rebels
and
Traytors
,
&
by
that
paper
have
endeavoured
so
to
blind
the
eyes
of
the
people
,
as
to
make
them
guilty
of
their
own
destruction
,
by
helping
to
subdue
and
destroy
the
Parliament
,
(
the
onely
means
under
God
,
to
preserve
their
Religion
,
Law
,
and
Liberties
)
and
to
perswade
the
Kingdom
that
his
Majesty
by
assistance
of
Papists
and
persons
popishly
affected
,
will
maintaine
the
Protestant
Religion
.
That
by
the
helpe
of
men
utlawed
and
of
desperate
fortunes
will
maintaine
the
Lawes
of
the
Land
,
and
with
Fugitives
from
parliament
,
and
Delinquents
to
the
Parliament
▪
wil
preserve
the
priviledges
therof
:
an
attempt
so
desperate
and
so
transcendently
wicked
,
that
the
Lords
and
Commons
doe
unanimously
publish
and
declare
,
that
all
they
who
have
advised
,
contrived
,
abetted
,
or
countenanced
,
or
hereafter
shall
abbet
,
or
countenance
the
said
Proclamation
to
be
Traitors
and
Enemies
to
God
,
the
King
,
and
Kingdome
,
and
to
be
guilty
of
the
highest
degree
of
Treason
that
can
be
committed
against
the
King
and
Kingdome
,
and
that
they
wil
by
the
assistance
of
Almighty
God
,
and
of
all
honest
English
Protestants
,
and
lover
of
their
Country
,
doe
their
best
endeavours
(
even
to
the
utmost
hazard
of
their
lives
and
fortunes
,
to
bring
all
such
unparall'd
Traytors
to
a
speedy
and
exemplary
punishment
.
And
whereas
the
Lords
and
Commons
in
Parliament
did
formerly
chuse
the
Earle
of
Essex
to
be
Captaine
Generall
of
such
Forces
as
are
,
or
shall
be
raised
,
for
the
maintenance
of
the
true
Protestant
Religion
,
the
Kings
person
,
the
Lawes
of
the
Land
,
the
peace
of
the
Kingdome
the
Liberty
and
propriety
of
the
Subject
▪
and
the
rights
and
priviledges
of
Parliament
,
The
said
Lords
and
Commons
do
declare
,
that
they
wil
maintain
and
assist
him
,
and
adhere
unto
him
the
said
Earle
,
with
their
Lives
and
Estates
in
the
same
cause
,
as
in
conscience
and
duty
to
God
,
the
King
,
and
their
Country
they
are
bound
to
do
.
And
lastly
the
Lords
and
Commons
doe
further
declare
,
that
notwithstanding
those
wicked
Councells
which
inclined
his
Majesty
to
make
war
against
our
brethren
of
Scotland
,
and
by
prayers
and
proclamations
read
in
Churches
to
pronounce
them
Rebels
and
Traytors
that
with-held
his
Majesty
from
setting
forth
any
Proclamation
against
those
bloody
and
barbarous
Rebells
in
Ireland
,
till
January
last
,
although
the
rebellion
brak
forth
the
23
of
October
before
,
and
notwithstanding
the
importunity
of
both
Houses
of
parliament
that
a
Declaration
might
issue
to
that
purpose
,
have
now
advised
and
prevailed
with
his
Majesty
by
this
proclamation
,
to
invite
his
Subjects
to
destroy
his
parliament
and
good
people
by
●
Civill
War
,
●nd
by
tha●
me●●es
to
bring
ruine
,
confusion
and
perpetuall
savery
upon
the
surviving
part
of
a
then
wretched
Kingdome
.
Yet
the
Lords
and
Common
,
to
witnesse
their
constant
and
unshaken
Loyalty
and
affection
to
his
Majesty
,
do
solemnely
declare
,
That
if
his
Majesty
shall
immediately
disband
all
his
forces
,
and
be
pleased
to
abandon
those
wicked
Councellors
,
&
leave
them
to
condigne
punishment
,
and
return
and
hearken
to
the
wholesome
advise
of
his
Great
Counsell
:
they
will
really
indeavour
to
make
both
his
Majesty
and
his
Posterity
,
as
Great
,
Rich
,
and
Potent
,
as
much
beloved
at
home
,
●●d
feared
abrod
,
as
an
Prince
that
ever
swayed
this
Scepter
:
which
is
their
firme
and
constant
Resolution
.
FINIS
.