WHereas Henry Earl of Cumberland , & William Earle of Newcastle , have not only traiteroufly raysed War against the Parliament , but likewise the said Earle of Newcastle , out of a wicked Designe to suppresse the Protestant Religion , and to advance the Popish Idolatry and Superstition , hath raysed and Armed a great number of Papists , And having brought them together in the body of an Armie , is become their head and Captaine Generall , And further in pursuance of that wicked Designe , and for the terrifying and destroying of those , who out of conscience and dutie to God and the Kingdome , should oppose them in the execution thereof , they have by severall Proclamations , that is to say , by one bearing Date the first of December last , under the name of the said Earle of Cumberland , and another Dated the seventeenth of Ianuary last , under the name of the said Earle of Newcastle , Fasly , and Maliciously , and Trayterously published Ferdinando Lord Fairefax , Sir Thomas Fairefax Knight , Sir Edward Loftus Knight , Sir Mathew Bointon Knight and Baronet , Sir Henry Fowlis , and Sir Thomas Maileverer Baronets , Sir Richard Darley , Sir Christopher Wray , Sir Henry Anderson , Sir Iohn Savile , Sir Edward Rodes , Sir Hugh Cholmley , Sir Thomas Reinington , Sir Thomas Norclisse Knights , Iohn Hotham , Thomas Hatcher , William Lister , Iohn Legard , of Malton , Iohn Dodsworth , Iohn Wastell , Iohn Peirse , Esquiers , William White , Iohn Robinson , Arthur Beckwich , Thomas Robinson , and Thomas Stackdell Gent . and divers others , and all their Adherents to be Traytors , The Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament doe hereby Declare , that the said Ferdina do Lord Fairefax , is by them or by Authority directed from them , appoynted Captaine Generall of the Forces raysed , and to be raysed for the defence of Religion , the Libertie of the Kingdome , and of the Parliament ; And whatsoever he or any of the persons aforenamed , or any under him or them , have done by vertue of that Authority , they have done lawfully and according to that duty which all good Subjects owe to God , the King , and their Country ; And that they shall for their so doing , be maintained by the power and Authority of Parliament ; And they doe further Authorize , and regard the said Ferdinando Fairefax , the said persons aforenamed , and all others to continue and proceed in this so necessary and acceptable a Service : And that all meanes may be used for the suppressing that Army of Papists , and persons Popishly affected , now under the command of the said Earle of Newcastle ▪ which evidently threatens Ruine and Desolution to our Religion , Lawes and Liberties , and will ( if not prevented ) make us undergoe those Cruelties , Rapines , Spoyling , and Murthering , that our Brethren of Ireland , have suffered by the Popish Rebels there , which must also expect from these if they be not timely and powerfully resisted , The said Lords and Commons doe further Declare the said Henry Earle of Cumberland , and William Earle of Newcastle , and all that shall assist them or either of them in their persons , or with Armes , Money , Provision , or otherwise howsoever to be guilty of High Treason , for raysing Armes against the Parliament and Kingdome ; And that the said Earle of Newcastle , having made himselfe head of a Popish party now in Armes , hath thereby after a more horrid and detestible manner , manifested himselfe to be a Traytor and an Enemy to all true Religion and goodnesse ▪ And therefore the said Lords and Commons doe further require and command , all persons of what Estate , degree , or quality , whatsoever they be , as they tender the good and prosperity of the true Protestant Religion by Law established , and preservation of themselves , their Lawes , and Liberties , and as they will answer it before Almighty God , that they doe forthwith wholly and absolutely withdraw themselves from giving any Ayde or Assistance to the said Earle of Newcastle , or any of the Forces raysed by him or under his command , and that they faile not to give all ready and chearefull obedience , and assistance to the command and Authority of the said Lord Fairefax , so much conducing to the preservation of Religion , and to the peace of the County of Yorke , and Weale of the whole Kingdome , whereunto , the Lords and Commons are confident , that all persons which are , or desire to be accounted true Protestants , and rightly affected to Gods true Religion , the peace of the Kingdome , and the Liberty of the Subject will ( to their utmost endeavours ) willingly and resolutely submit , comforme , and apply themselves .