A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the protection of Sir William Brereton, in the county of Chester, who hath lately been proclaimed a traytor by His Majesty England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B21946 of text R30016 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B21946 Wing E1422A ocm 11232506

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 eng Brereton, William, -- Sir, 1604-1661. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. eebo A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the protection of Sir William Brereton, in the county of Chester, who hath lately b England and Wales. Parliament. 1643 1 407 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. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-04 Sampled and proofread 2014-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A DECLARATION OF THE LORDS and COMMONS assembled in Parliament , for the protection of Sir William Brereton , in the County of Chester , who hath lately been proclaimed a Traytor by His MAIESTY .

WHereas His Majesty hath set forth and commanded to be published in the County of Chester , divers printed papers in the forme of Proclamations , whereby Sir William Brereton Baronet , a person well affected to the publique , is without processe of law or judgement proclaimed Traytor , who hath carefully performed his duty in assisting the Parliament , and opposing those wicked Councellors and Cavalieres about the King , which endeavour the destruction of our Religion , and desolation of this land .

The Lords and Commons in Parliament do declare , that the said printed papers in the forme of proclamations , and the publishing thereof , are against the lawes of this Kingdom ; and that such persons as have been , or hereafter shal be proclaimed Traitors by the said printed papers , or any other of the like nature , shal be defended and protected by the power and authority of Parliament , from any dammage or prejudice to their persons or estates , by reason or colour of any such printed papers , or proclamations , heretofore published , or which shal be hereafter published or contrived against them ; And the said Lords and Commons do hereby strictly forbid the publishing of any such printed papers or proclamations ; And do authorize and require all Officers and other His Majesties good Subjects to apprehend , and to bring in safe custody to the Parliament , and to seize their goods and profits of their Lands , to be accomptable for the same to both Houses of Parliament , all such persons as have already published , or which shal hereafter publish any such printed papers or Proclamations , to the end they may receive due punishment for their offences .

January 12. 1642.

ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament , That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and published , and read in all Parish Churches and Chappels in the County and City of Chester , by the Parsons , Vicars , or Curates of the same .

H. Elsynge Cler . Parl . D. Com .

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