A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that whatsoever souldier or souldiers shall breake open, pillage, or ransacke any mans house under colour that they are papists or persons dis-affected, without command of their captaine, shall be pursued and punished according to the law as felons : also a speciall order of both Houses concerning irregular printing and for the suppressing of all false and scandalous pamphlets. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B21965 of text R11795 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. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B21970 Wing E1467 ocm 12264217

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 eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Sources. eebo A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : that whatsoever souldier or souldiers shall breake open, pillage, or ransacke any man n/a 1642 9 789 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 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT , That whatsoever Souldier or Souldiers shall breake open , pillage , or ransacke any mans House , under colour that they are Papists , or persons dis-affected ( without Command of their Captaine ) shall be pursued and punished according to the Law as Felons . Also A Speciall Order of both Houses concerning Irregular Printing , and for the suppressing of all false and Scandalous Pamphlets .

Die Sabbathi , August . 27. 1642.

Ordered by the Lords and Commons , that this Declaration and Order be forthwith Printed and Published .

Iohn Browne Cler . Parliament .

August 29. London Printed for Iohn Wright . 1642.

A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT .

WHereas diverse Souldiers have in a tumultuous and violent manner broken into diverse of the Kings Subjects houses , pillaged and ransacked them , under colour that they are Papists-Houses , or the houses of persons disaffected ; The Lords and Commons taking the premises into consideration , doe declare and Order , that whatsoever Souldier or Souldiers , shall without the command of the Captaines of their respective Companies , or the Officers of the field , attempt upon , or breake open any houses whatsoever , or pillage or ransacke any house , shall be pursued and punisht , according to the Law as a Felon , And the said Lords and Commons doe require all Officers of the Army to imploy their best endeavours , for the bringing of any such Souldiers that shall commit any of the insolencies aforesaid , to condigne punishment , that they may be severely and effectually proceeded against , according to Law . And the Lord Generall is desired , that this Order may be duely published in the Army , in the head of each particular Company .

Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , that this Order be forthwith Printed and published .

John Bro . Cler . Parliamen .
Die Veneris 26. Augusti , 1642. A speciall Order of both Houses concerning irregular Printing , and for the suppressing of all false and scandalous PAMPHLETS .

WHereas there hath beene of late great disorders and abuses by Irregular Printing , to the great scandall of Religion and government , and a Bill is in preparation for the redresse of those mischiefes , which by reason of the present distractions cannot be so speedily perfected and passed as is desired ; It is therefore Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament , that no person or persons shall Print , publish , or utter , any Booke or Pamphlet , false or scandalous , to the proceedings of the Houses of Parliament , or either of them , nor shall Print , utter , or publsh , any Booke or Pamphlet , with the name of the Clerke of either House of Parliament set thereunto , or with any expression , pretence of Order from both or either of the said Houses , without speciall Order from the said Houses , or either of them , or of the Committees of them , or either of them concerning Printing ; and the same to be entred in the Register Booke of the said Company , according to the ancient custome ; and the Master & Wardens of the company of Stationers London , and the Vsher of the Black-rod , and Serjeant of the commons House of Parliament and their Deputies , are hereby authorized and required , to make diligent search from time to time , for all such Bookes and Pamphlets , to bee hereafter Printed , and the same to seize , and take , together with the presses , and other printing Materials , wherewith the same shall be printed ; and carry them to the common-hall of the said company , there to remaine till either House of Parliament shall otherwise dispose thereof ; And all his Majesties Officers shal upon request , ayde and assist to apprehend offenders in the premises , and to bring them before the Lords or Commons House of Parliament , or the Committees appoynted for Printing , upon whose report of the Fact , such course shall be taken with the said Offenders , as shall be just . And for that purpose the said Committees are to sit at such times and places as they shall thinke fit .

ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , that these two Orders be forthwith Printed and published .

John Browne Cler ; Parliam . FINIS .