AN
ORDINANCE
OF
The
Lords
and
Commons
assembled
in
PARLIAMENT
;
WITH
INSTRVCTIONS
For
the
taking
of
the
LEAGVE
and
COVENANT
in
the
Kingdom
of
England
,
and
Dominion
of
Wales
.
WITH
AN
EXHORTATION
For
the
taking
of
the
Covenant
;
And
for
satisfying
such
Scruples
as
may
arise
thereupon
.
Together
with
the
LEAGUE
and
COVENANT
,
Subscribed
with
the
Names
of
so
many
of
the
Members
of
the
House
of
Commons
as
have
taken
it
.
All
which
are
to
be
read
in
all
Churches
and
Chappels
within
the
Kingdom
of
England
,
and
Dominion
of
Wales
.
5.
FEB
.
1643.
ORdered
by
the
Commons
in
Parliament
,
That
the
Ordinance
,
with
Instructions
for
the
taking
of
the
League
and
Covenant
,
together
with
the
Exhortation
and
the
League
and
Covenant
,
be
forthwith
printed
and
published
:
H
:
ELSYNGE
,
Cler
.
Parl
.
D.
Com
.
Printed
for
E.
Husbands
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
his
shop
in
the
Middl●-Temple
.
2.
Febr
.
1643.
An
Ordinance
of
the
Lords
and
Commons
,
enioyning
the
taking
of
the
late
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
throughout
the
Kingdom
of
England
,
and
Dominion
of
Wales
.
WHereas
a
Covenant
for
the
preservation
and
Reformation
of
Religion
,
The
maintenance
and
defence
of
Laws
and
Liberties
,
hath
been
thought
a
fit
and
excellent
means
to
acquire
the
favour
of
Almighty
God
towards
the
three
Kingdoms
of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
;
and
likewise
to
unite
them
,
and
by
uniting
,
to
strengthen
and
fortifie
them
against
the
Common-Enemy
of
the
true
Reformed
Religion
,
Peace
and
Prosperity
of
these
Kingdomes
;
And
whereas
both
Houses
of
Parliament
in
England
,
the
Cities
of
London
and
Westminster
,
and
the
Kingdome
of
Scotland
have
already
taken
the
same
;
It
is
now
Ordered
and
Ordained
by
the
Lords
and
Commons
in
Parliment
,
that
the
same
Covenant
be
solemnly
taken
in
all
places
throughout
the
Kingdome
of
England
,
and
Dominion
of
Wales
.
And
for
the
better
and
more
orderly
taking
thereof
these
directions
ensuing
are
appointed
and
enjoyned
strictly
to
be
followed
.
Instructions
for
the
taking
of
the
solemne
League
and
Covenant
throughout
the
Kingdome
.
I.
THat
the
Speakers
of
both
Houses
of
Parliament
doe
speedily
send
(
to
the
Lord
Generall
,
and
all
other
Commanders
in
chiefe
,
and
Governours
of
Townes
,
Forts
,
Castles
,
and
Garrisons
,
as
also
to
the
Earle
of
Warwick
Lord
High
Admirall
of
England
)
true
Copies
of
the
said
solemne
League
and
Covenant
to
the
end
it
may
be
taken
by
all
Officers
and
Souldiers
under
their
severall
Commands
.
II
.
That
all
the
Knights
and
Burgesses
now
in
Parliament
,
doe
take
speciall
care
speedily
to
send
down
into
their
severall
Counties
(
which
are
or
shall
hereafter
be
under
the
power
of
the
Parliament
)
accompetent
number
of
true
Copies
of
the
said
League
and
Covenant
unto
the
Committees
of
Parliament
in
their
severall
Counties
;
And
that
the
said
Committees
doe
within
six
dayes
at
the
most
disperse
the
said
Copies
to
every
Parish
Church
or
Chappell
in
their
severall
Counties
,
to
be
delivered
unto
the
Ministers
,
Churchwardens
,
or
Constables
of
the
severall
Parishes
.
III
.
That
the
said
Committees
be
required
to
returne
a
Certificate
of
the
day
when
they
received
the
said
Copies
,
as
also
the
day
they
sent
them
forth
,
and
to
what
Parishes
they
have
sent
them
,
which
Certificat
they
are
to
return
to
the
Clerke
of
the
Parliament
appointed
forthe
Commons
House
,
that
so
an
Account
may
be
given
of
it
,
as
there
shall
be
occasion
.
IV
.
That
the
severall
Ministers
be
required
to
reade
the
said
Covenant
publikely
unto
their
people
the
next
Lords
day
after
they
receive
it
;
and
prepare
their
people
for
it
,
against
the
time
that
they
shall
be
called
to
take
it
.
V.
That
the
said
League
and
Covenant
bee
taken
by
the
Committees
of
Parliament
in
the
place
where
they
reside
,
and
tendered
also
to
the
Inhabitants
of
the
Towne
,
within
seven
dayes
after
it
comes
to
the
said
Committees
hands
.
VI
.
That
the
said
Committees
after
they
have
taken
it
themselves
,
doe
speedily
disperse
themselves
through
the
said
Counties
,
so
as
three
or
foure
of
them
be
together
on
dayes
appointed
at
the
chiefe
places
of
meeting
for
the
severall
divisions
of
the
said
Counties
,
And
summon
all
the
Ministers
,
Churchwardens
,
Constables
,
and
other
Officers
unto
that
place
;
where
,
after
a
Sermon
preached
by
one
oppointed
by
the
Committee
for
that
purpose
,
they
cause
the
same
Minister
to
tender
the
League
and
Covenant
unto
all
such
Ministers
and
other
Officers
,
to
be
taken
and
subscribed
by
them
,
in
the
presence
of
the
said
Committees
.
VII
.
That
the
said
Committees
do
withall
give
the
said
Ministers
in
Charge
to
tender
it
unto
all
the
rest
of
their
Parishioners
the
next
Lords
day
,
making
then
unto
their
said
Parishioners
some
solemn
exhortation
concerning
the
taking
and
observing
thereof
:
And
that
the
said
Committees
do
also
return
to
the
severall
Parishes
the
Names
of
all
such
as
have
taken
the
Covenant
before
them
,
who
yet
shall
also
Subscribe
their
Names
in
the
book
or
Roll
with
their
neighbours
in
their
severall
parishes
:
And
if
any
Minister
refuse
or
neglect
to
appear
at
the
said
Summons
,
or
refuse
to
take
the
said
Covenant
before
the
Committee
,
or
to
tender
it
to
his
Parish
,
that
then
the
Committees
be
carefull
to
appoint
another
Minister
to
do
it
in
his
place
.
VIII
.
That
this
League
and
Covenant
be
tendered
to
all
men
,
within
the
severall
Parishes
,
above
the
age
of
eighteene
,
as
well
Lodgers
as
Inhabitants
.
IX
.
That
it
be
Recommended
to
the
Earl
of
Manchester
to
take
speciall
care
that
it
bee
tendred
and
taken
in
the
Vniversitie
of
Cambridge
.
X.
That
for
the
better
encouragement
of
all
sorts
of
Persons
to
take
it
;
It
be
recommended
to
the
assembly
of
Divines
to
make
a
brief
Declaration
by
way
of
Exhortation
to
all
sorts
of
persons
to
take
it
,
as
that
which
they
judge
not
onely
lawfull
,
But
(
all
things
considered
)
exceeding
expedient
and
necessary
,
for
all
that
wish
well
to
Religion
,
the
King
and
Kingdom
to
joyn
in
,
and
to
be
a
singular
pledge
of
Gods
gracious
goodnesse
to
all
the
three
Kingdomes
.
XI
.
That
if
any
Minister
do
refuse
to
take
,
or
to
tender
the
Covenant
,
or
any
other
person
or
persons
do
not
take
it
the
Lords
day
that
it
is
tendred
,
that
then
it
be
tendred
to
them
again
the
Lords
day
following
,
and
if
they
still
continue
to
refuse
it
,
that
then
their
Names
be
returned
by
the
Minister
that
tenders
i●
▪
and
by
the
Churchwardens
or
Constables
unto
the
Committees
,
and
by
them
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
that
such
further
course
may
be
taken
with
them
,
as
the
Houses
of
Parliament
shall
see
cause
.
XII
.
That
all
such
persons
as
are
within
the
severall
Parishes
when
notice
is
given
of
the
taking
of
it
,
and
do
absent
themselves
from
the
Church
at
the
time
of
taking
it
,
and
come
not
in
afterwards
,
to
the
Minister
and
Churchwardens
,
or
other
Officers
,
to
take
it
in
their
presence
before
the
returne
be
made
,
be
returned
as
refusers
.
XIII
.
The
manner
of
the
taking
it
to
be
thus
,
The
Minister
to
read
the
whole
Covenant
distinctly
and
audibly
in
the
Pulpit
,
and
during
the
time
of
the
reading
therof
,
the
whole
Congregation
to
be
uncovered
,
and
at
the
end
of
his
reading
therof
,
all
to
take
it
standing
,
lifting
up
their
Right
hands
bare
,
and
then
afterwards
to
subscribe
it
severally
by
writing
their
names
(
or
their
marks
,
to
which
their
names
are
to
be
added
)
in
a
parchment
Roll
,
or
a
Book
,
wherinto
the
Covenant
is
to
be
inserted
,
purposely
provided
for
that
end
,
and
kept
as
a
Record
in
the
Parish
.
XIIII
.
That
the
assembly
of
Divines
do
prepare
an
Exhortation
for
the
better
taking
of
the
Covenant
:
And
that
the
said
Exhortation
and
the
Declaration
of
the
Kingdoms
of
England
and
Scotland
,
joyned
in
the
Armies
,
for
the
vindication
and
defence
of
their
Religion
,
Liberties
and
Lawes
,
against
the
Popish
Prelaticall
and
Malignant
partie
,
and
passed
the
30th
.
of
Ianuary
last
,
be
publikely
read
,
when
the
Covenant
is
read
,
according
to
the
fourth
and
sixth
Articles
:
And
that
a
sufficient
number
of
the
copies
of
the
said
Declaration
be
sent
by
the
persons
appointed
to
send
the
true
copies
of
the
said
Covenant
,
in
the
first
and
second
Articles
.
AN
EXHORTATION
TO
the
taking
of
the
Solemne
League
and
Covenant
,
FOR
REFORMATION
AND
Defence
of
Religion
,
the
Honour
and
happinesse
of
the
King
,
and
the
Peace
and
safety
of
the
three
Kingdomes
of
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
.
IF
the
power
of
Religion
,
or
solid
Reason
,
if
Loyalty
to
the
King
,
and
piety
to
their
Native
Country
,
or
love
to
themselves
,
and
naturall
affection
to
their
posterity
,
if
the
Example
of
men
touched
with
a
deep
sense
of
all
these
,
or
extraordinary
successe
from
God
thereupon
,
can
awaken
an
embroyled
bleeding
remnant
to
imbrace
the
soveraigne
,
and
onely
meanes
of
their
recovery
,
there
can
be
no
doubt
but
this
Solemne
League
and
Covenant
will
find
wheresoever
it
shall
bee
tendered
,
a
people
ready
to
entertaine
it
with
all
cheerefulnesse
and
duty
.
And
were
it
not
commended
to
the
Kingdom
by
the
concurrent
encouragement
of
the
Honourable
Houses
of
Parliament
,
the
Assembly
of
Divines
,
the
renowned
City
of
London
,
multitudes
of
other
persons
of
eminent
rank
and
quality
in
this
Nation
,
and
the
whole
Body
of
Scotland
,
who
have
all
willingly
sworn
and
subscribed
it
,
with
rejoycing
at
the
Oath
,
so
graciously
seconded
from
Heaven
already
,
by
blasting
the
Counsels
,
and
breaking
the
power
of
the
Enemy
more
than
ever
;
yet
it
goeth
forth
in
its
own
strength
,
with
such
convincing
evidence
of
equity
,
Truth
and
Righteousnesse
,
as
may
raise
in
all
(
not
wilfully
ignorant
,
or
miserably
seduced
)
inflamed
affections
to
joyne
with
their
Brethren
in
this
happy
Bond
,
for
putting
an
end
to
the
present
miseries
,
and
for
saving
both
of
King
and
Kingdom
from
utter
ruine
now
so
strongly
and
openly
laboured
by
the
Popish
faction
,
and
such
as
have
been
bewitched
and
besotted
by
that
viperous
and
bloudy
generation
.
For
what
is
there
almost
in
this
Covenant
,
which
was
not
for
substance
either
expressed
or
manifestly
included
in
that
solemne
Protestation
of
May
5.
1641.
wherein
the
whole
Kingdome
stands
ingaged
untill
this
day
?
The
sinfull
neglect
whereof
,
doth
(
as
we
may
justly
feare
)
open
one
floodgate
the
more
to
let
in
all
these
calamities
upon
the
Kingdome
,
and
cast
upon
it
a
necessity
of
renewing
Covenant
,
and
of
entring
into
this
.
If
it
be
said
,
the
extirpation
of
Prelacy
,
to
wit
,
the
whole
Hierarchicall
Government
(
standing
,
as
yet
,
by
the
knowne
Lawes
of
the
Kingdome
)
is
new
,
and
unwarrantable
:
This
will
appeare
to
all
impartiall
understandings
,
(
though
new
)
to
be
not
onely
warrantable
,
but
necessary
;
if
they
consider
(
to
omit
what
some
say
,
that
this
Government
was
never
formally
established
by
any
Lawes
of
this
Kingdome
at
all
)
that
the
very
life
and
soule
thereof
is
already
taken
from
it
by
an
Act
passed
this
present
Parliament
,
so
as
(
like
Jezabels
Carcasse
,
of
which
no
more
was
left
but
the
skull
,
the
feete
,
and
the
palmes
of
her
hands
)
nothing
of
jurisdiction
remaines
but
what
is
precarious
in
them
,
and
voluntary
in
those
who
submit
unto
them
:
that
their
whole
Government
is
at
best
but
a
humane
constitution
,
and
such
as
is
found
and
adjudged
by
both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
(
in
which
,
the
judgement
of
the
whole
Kingdom
is
involved
and
Declared
)
not
onely
very
prejudiciall
to
the
Civill
State
,
but
a
great
hinderance
also
to
the
perfect
Reformation
of
Religion
;
Yea
,
who
knoweth
it
not
to
bee
too
much
an
enemy
there
unto
,
and
destructive
to
the
power
of
godlinesse
,
and
pure
administration
of
the
Ordinances
of
Christ
?
which
moved
the
well-affected
,
almost
throughout
this
Kingdom
,
long
since
to
Petition
this
Parliament
(
as
hath
been
desired
before
,
even
in
the
Reigne
of
Queen
Elizabeth
,
and
of
King
James
)
for
a
totall
abolition
of
the
same
.
Nor
is
any
man
hereby
bound
to
offer
any
violence
to
their
persons
,
but
only
,
in
his
place
and
calling
,
to
indevour
their
extirpation
in
a
lawful
way
.
And
as
for
those
Clergy-men
,
who
pretend
that
they
(
above
all
others
)
cannot
Covenant
to
extirpate
that
Government
,
because
they
have
(
as
they
say
)
taken
a
solemne
Oath
to
obey
the
Bishops
,
in
licitis
et
honestis
:
they
can
tell
,
if
they
please
,
that
they
that
have
sworn
obedience
to
the
Laws
of
the
Land
,
are
not
thereby
prohibited
from
indevouring
by
all
lawfull
meanes
the
abolition
of
those
Lawes
,
when
they
prove
inconvenient
or
mischievous
.
And
if
yet
there
should
any
Oath
be
found
into
which
any
Ministers
or
others
have
entred
,
not
warranted
by
the
Laws
of
God
and
the
Land
,
in
this
case
,
they
must
teach
themselves
and
others
,
that
such
Oathes
call
for
repentance
,
not
pertinacy
in
them
.
If
it
be
pleaded
that
this
Covenant
crosseth
the
Oaths
of
Supremacy
and
Allegiance
;
there
can
be
nothing
further
from
truth
:
for
,
this
Covenant
binds
all
,
and
more
strongly
engageth
them
to
preserve
and
defend
the
Kings
Majesties
Person
,
and
authority
in
the
preservation
and
defence
of
the
true
Religion
and
Liberties
of
the
Kingdomes
.
That
scruple
,
that
this
is
done
without
the
Kings
consent
,
will
soone
be
removed
,
if
it
be
remembred
that
the
Protestation
of
the
fifth
of
May
before
mentioned
,
was
in
the
same
manner
voted
and
executed
by
both
Houses
,
and
after
(
by
order
of
one
House
alone
)
sent
abroad
to
all
the
Kingdome
,
his
Majesty
not
excepting
against
it
,
or
giving
any
stop
to
the
taking
of
it
,
albeit
he
was
then
resident
in
Person
at
Whitehall
.
Thus
Ezra
and
Nehemiah
drew
all
the
people
Ezra
10.
Neh
.
9.
into
a
Covenant
,
without
any
speciall
Commission
from
the
Persian
Monarchs
(
then
their
Soveraigns
)
so
to
doe
,
albeit
they
were
not
free
Subjects
,
but
Vassals
,
and
one
of
them
the
meniall
Servant
of
Artaxerxes
,
then
by
Conquest
King
of
Judah
also
.
Neh
.
1.
Nor
hath
this
doctrine
or
practise
beene
deemed
seditious
or
unwarrantable
by
the
Princes
that
have
sate
upon
the
English
Throne
,
but
justified
and
defended
by
Queene
Elizabeth
of
blessed
memory
,
with
the
expence
of
much
Treasure
and
Noble
blood
,
in
the
united
Provinces
of
the
Netherlands
combined
not
only
without
,
but
against
the
unjust
violence
of
Philip
of
Spaine
;
King
James
followed
her
steps
,
so
farre
as
to
approve
their
union
,
and
to
enter
into
league
with
them
as
free
States
;
which
is
continued
by
his
Majestie
now
reigning
,
unto
this
day
;
who
both
by
his
expedition
for
reliefe
of
Rochel
in
France
,
and
his
strict
confederacy
with
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
and
the
States
Generall
,
notwithstanding
all
the
importunitie
of
Spaine
to
the
contrary
,
hath
set
to
his
Seale
that
all
that
had
beene
done
by
his
Royall
Ancestors
,
in
maintenance
of
those
who
had
so
engaged
and
combined
themselves
,
was
just
and
warrantable
.
And
what
had
become
of
the
Religion
,
Lawes
,
and
Liberties
of
our
sister
Nation
of
Scotland
,
had
they
not
entred
into
such
a
solemne
League
and
Covenant
at
the
beginning
of
the
late
troubles
there
?
which
course
,
however
it
was
at
first
,
by
the
Popish
and
Prelatick
Projectors
,
represented
to
his
Majestie
as
an
offence
of
the
highest
nature
,
justly
deserving
chastisement
by
the
fury
of
a
puissant
Army
;
yet
when
the
matter
came
afterwards
in
coole
blood
to
bee
debated
,
first
by
Commissioners
of
both
kingdomes
,
and
then
in
open
Parliament
here
,
(
when
all
those
of
either
House
,
who
are
now
engaged
at
Oxford
,
were
present
in
Parliament
,
and
gave
their
Votes
therein
)
it
was
found
,
adjudged
and
declared
by
the
King
in
Parliament
,
that
our
deare
Brethren
of
Scotland
had
done
nothing
,
but
what
became
loyall
and
obedient
Subjects
,
and
were
thereupon
by
Act
of
Parliament
publikely
righted
in
all
the
Churches
of
this
Kingdome
,
where
they
had
beene
defamed
.
Therefore
however
some
men
,
hoodwinkt
and
blinded
by
the
artifices
of
those
Jesuiticall
Engineers
,
who
have
long
conspired
to
sacrifice
our
Religion
to
the
Idolatry
of
Rome
,
our
Lawes
,
Liberties
and
persons
to
arbitrary
slavery
,
and
our
estates
to
their
insatiable
avarice
,
may
possibly
bee
deterred
and
amused
with
high
threats
and
Declarations
,
flying
up
and
downe
on
the
wings
of
the
Royall
Name
and
Countenance
(
now
captivated
and
prostituted
to
serve
all
their
lusts
)
to
proclaime
all
Rebells
and
Traytors
who
take
this
Covenant
;
yet
let
no
faithfull
English
heart
bee
afraid
to
joyne
with
our
Brethren
of
all
the
three
Kingdomes
in
this
solemne
League
,
as
sometimes
the
men
of
Israel
(
although
under
another
King
)
did
with
the
men
2
Chron
.
30.
of
Judah
,
at
the
invitation
of
Hezekiah
.
What
though
those
tongues
set
on
fire
by
Hell
doe
raile
and
threaten
?
That
God
who
was
pleased
to
cleare
up
the
innocency
of
Mordecai
and
the
Jewes
against
all
the
malitious
aspersions
of
wicked
Haman
to
his
and
their
Soveraigne
,
so
as
all
his
plotting
produced
but
this
effect
,
that
when
the
Kings
E●●h
.
9.
commandement
and
decree
drew
neare
to
bee
put
in
execution
,
and
the
enemies
of
the
Jewes
hoped
to
have
power
over
them
,
it
was
turned
to
the
contrary
,
and
the
Jewes
had
rule
over
them
that
hated
them
,
and
laid
hands
on
such
as
sought
their
hurt
,
so
as
no
man
could
withstand
them
;
and
that
same
God
,
who
but
even
as
yesterday
,
vouchsafed
to
disperse
and
scatter
those
dark
clouds
&
fogs
which
overshadowed
that
Loyall
and
Religious
Kingdome
of
Scotland
,
and
to
make
their
righteousnesse
to
shine
as
cleare
as
the
Sunne
at
noone
day
in
the
very
eyes
of
their
greatest
enemies
,
will
doubtlessely
stand
by
all
those
who
with
singlenesse
of
heart
,
and
a
due
sense
of
their
owne
sinnes
,
and
a
necessitie
of
reformation
,
shall
now
enter
into
an
everlasting
Covenant
with
the
Lord
,
never
to
bee
forgotten
,
to
put
an
end
to
all
those
unhappy
and
unnaturall
breaches
betweene
the
King
and
such
as
are
faithfull
in
the
Land
;
causing
their
righteousnesse
and
praise
to
spring
forth
before
all
the
Nations
,
to
the
terror
and
confusion
of
those
men
of
blood
,
the
confederate
enemies
of
God
and
the
King
,
who
have
long
combined
,
and
have
now
raked
together
the
dregs
and
scumme
of
many
Kingdomes
,
to
bury
all
the
glory
,
honour
and
libertie
of
this
Nation
in
the
eternall
grave
of
dishonour
and
destruction
.
Die
Veneris
9.
Februar
.
1643.
AN
Exhortation
touching
the
taking
of
the
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
and
for
satisfying
of
such
Scruples
,
as
may
arise
in
the
taking
of
it
,
was
this
day
read
the
first
and
second
time
;
And
by
Vote
upon
the
Question
assented
unto
,
and
Ordered
to
bee
forthwith
Printed
.
H.
Elsynge
Cler
.
Parl
.
D.
Com
.
A
SOLEMNE
Printed
at
London
for
Ralph
Smith
,
at
the
signe
of
the
Bible
in
Cornhill
,
neere
the
Royall
Exchange
.
1644.
A
SOLEMN
League
and
Covenant
,
FOR
Reformation
,
and
Defence
of
Religion
,
The
Honour
and
Happinesse
of
the
KING
,
And
the
Peace
&
Safety
of
the
three
Kingdoms
OF
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
.
WE
Noblemen
,
Barons
,
Knights
,
Gentlemen
,
Citizens
,
Burgesses
,
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
and
Commons
of
all
sorts
in
the
kingdoms
of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
,
by
the
Providence
of
God
living
under
one
King
,
and
being
of
one
Reformed
Religion
,
having
before
our
eyes
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
advancement
of
the
Kingdome
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Iesus
Christ
,
the
honour
and
happiness
of
the
Kings
Majestie
,
and
His
Posterity
,
and
the
true
publike
Liberty
,
Safety
and
Peace
of
the
Kingdoms
,
wherein
every
ones
private
condition
is
included
,
and
calling
to
minde
the
treacherous
and
bloody
plots
,
Conspiracies
,
Attempts
,
and
practices
of
the
Enemies
of
God
,
against
the
true
religion
,
and
professors
thereof
in
all
places
,
especially
in
these
three
Kingdoms
ever
since
the
reformation
of
religion
,
and
how
much
their
rage
,
power
and
presumption
,
are
of
late
,
and
at
this
tune
increased
and
exercised
;
whereof
the
deplorable
estate
of
the
Church
and
Kingdom
of
Ireland
,
the
distressed
estate
of
the
Church
&
Kingdom
of
England
,
and
the
dangerous
estate
of
the
Church
and
Kingdom
of
Scotland
,
are
present
and
publike
Testimonies
;
We
have
now
at
last
,
(
after
other
meanes
of
Supplication
,
Remonstrance
,
Protestations
,
and
Sufferings
)
for
the
preservation
of
our selves
and
our
religion
,
from
utter
ruine
and
Destruction
,
according
to
the
commendable
practice
of
these
Kingdoms
in
former
times
,
and
the
Example
of
Gods
people
in
other
Nations
;
after
mature
deliberation
,
resolved
and
determined
to
enter
into
a
mutuall
and
solemne
League
and
Covenant
,
wherein
we
all
subscribe
,
and
each
one
of
us
for
himself
,
with
our
hands
lifted
up
to
the
most
high
God
,
do
swear
:
I.
THat
we
shall
sincerely
,
really
and
constantly
,
through
the
Grace
of
God
,
endeavour
in
our
severall
places
and
callings
,
the
preservation
of
the
Reformed
Religion
in
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
in
doctrine
,
Worship
,
Discipline
and
Government
,
against
our
common
Enemies
,
the
Reformation
of
Religion
in
the
Kingdoms
of
England
and
Ireland
,
in
Doctrine
,
Worship
,
Discipline
and
Government
,
according
to
the
Word
of
God
,
and
the
Example
of
the
best
Reformed
Churches
;
And
shall
indeavour
to
bring
the
Churches
of
God
in
the
three
Kingdoms
,
to
the
neerest
conjunction
and
Uniformity
in
Religion
,
Confession
of
Faith
,
Form
of
Church-Government
,
Directory
for
Worship
and
Catechizing
;
That
we
and
our
posterity
after
us
may
as
Brethren
live
in
Faith
and
Love
,
and
the
Lord
may
delight
to
dwell
in
the
middest
of
us
.
II
.
That
we
shall
in
like
manner
,
without
respect
of
persons
,
indeavour
the
extirpation
of
Popery
,
Prelacy
,
(
that
is
,
Church-Government
,
by
Arch-Bishops
,
Bishops
,
their
Chancellours
and
Commissaries
,
Deanes
,
Deanes
and
Chapters
,
Archdeacons
,
and
all
other
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
depending
on
that
Hirarchy
)
Superstition
,
Heresie
,
Schisme
,
Prophanenesse
,
and
whatsoever
shall
be
found
to
be
contrary
to
sound
Doctrine
,
and
the
power
of
Godlinesse
;
lest
we
partake
in
other
mens
sins
,
and
thereby
be
in
danger
to
receive
of
their
plagues
,
and
that
the
Lord
may
be
one
,
and
his
Name
one
in
the
three
Kingdoms
.
III
.
We
shall
with
the
same
sincerity
,
reallity
and
constancy
,
in
our
severall
Vocations
,
endeavour
with
our
estates
and
lives
,
mutually
to
preserve
the
Rights
and
Priviledges
of
the
Parliaments
,
and
the
Liberties
of
the
Kingdoms
,
and
to
preserve
and
defend
the
Kings
Majesties
person
and
authority
,
in
the
preservation
and
defence
of
the
true
Religion
,
and
Liberties
of
the
Kingdoms
,
that
the
world
may
bear
witnesse
with
our
consciences
of
our
Loyaltie
,
and
that
we
have
no
thoughts
or
intentions
to
diminish
His
Majesties
just
power
and
greatnesse
.
IIII
.
We
shall
also
with
all
faithfulnesse
endeavour
the
discovery
of
all
such
as
have
been
,
or
shall
be
Incendiaries
,
Malignants
,
or
evill
Instruments
,
by
hindering
the
Reformation
of
Religion
,
dividing
the
King
from
his
people
,
or
one
of
the
Kingdoms
from
another
,
or
making
any
Faction
or
parties
amongst
the
people
,
contrary
to
this
League
and
Covenant
,
that
they
may
be
brought
to
publicke
triall
,
and
receive
condigne
punishment
,
as
the
degree
of
their
offences
shall
require
or
deserve
,
or
the
supream
Judicatories
of
both
Kingdoms
respectively
,
or
others
having
power
from
them
for
that
effect
,
shall
judge
convenient
.
V.
And
whereas
the
happinesse
of
a
blessed
Peace
between
these
Kingdoms
,
denyed
in
former
times
to
our
Progenitors
,
is
by
the
good
providence
of
God
granted
unto
us
,
and
hath
been
lately
concluded
,
and
setled
by
both
Parliaments
,
we
shall
each
one
of
us
,
according
to
our
place
and
interest
indeavour
that
they
may
remain
conjoyned
in
a
firme
Peace
and
Union
to
all
Posterity
;
And
that
Iustice
may
be
done
upon
the
wilfull
opposers
therof
,
in
manner
expressed
in
the
precedent
Articles
.
VI
.
We
shall
also
according
to
our
places
and
callings
in
this
common
cause
of
Religion
,
Liberty
and
Peace
of
the
Kingdomes
,
assist
and
defend
all
those
that
enter
into
this
League
&
Covenant
,
in
the
maintaining
&
pursuing
thereof
,
and
shall
not
suffer
our selves
directly
or
indirctly
by
whatsoever
combination
,
perswasion
or
terrour
,
to
be
divided
&
withdrawn
frm
this
blessed
Union
&
conjuction
,
whether
to
make
defection
to
the
contrary
part
,
or
to
give
our selves
to
a
detestable
indifferency
or
neutrality
in
this
cause
,
which
so
much
concerneth
the
glory
of
God
,
the
good
of
the
Kingdoms
,
and
the
honour
of
the
King
;
but
shall
all
the
dayes
of
our
lives
,
zealously
and
constantly
continue
therein
,
against
all
opposition
,
and
promote
the
same
according
to
our
power
,
against
all
Lets
and
Impediments
whatsoever
;
and
what
we
are
not
able
our selves
to
suppresse
or
overcome
,
we
shall
reveal
and
make
known
,
that
it
may
be
timely
prevented
or
removed
;
All
which
we
shall
do
as
in
the
sight
of
God
.
And
because
these
Kingdoms
are
guilty
of
many
sins
and
provocations
against
God
,
and
his
Son
Iesus
Christ
,
as
is
too
manifest
by
our
present
distresses
and
dangers
,
the
fruits
thereof
;
We
professe
and
declare
before
God
and
the
world
,
our
unfayned
desire
to
be
humbled
for
our
own
sins
,
and
for
the
sins
of
these
Kingdoms
,
especially
,
that
we
have
not
as
we
ought
,
valued
the
inestimable
benefit
of
the
Gospel
,
that
we
have
not
laboured
for
the
purity
and
power
thereof
,
and
that
we
have
not
endeavoured
to
receive
Christ
in
our
hearts
,
nor
to
walk
worthy
of
him
in
our
lives
,
which
are
the
causes
of
other
sins
and
Transgressions
,
so
much
abounding
amongst
us
;
And
our
true
and
unfained
purpose
,
desire
,
and
endeavour
for
our selves
,
and
all
others
under
our
power
and
charge
,
both
in
publike
and
in
private
,
in
all
duties
we
owe
to
God
and
man
,
to
amend
our
lives
,
and
each
one
to
go
before
another
in
the
example
of
a
reall
Reformation
,
that
the
Lord
may
turn
away
his
wrath
,
and
heavy
indignation
,
and
establish
these
Churches
and
Kingdoms
in
trueth
and
peace
.
And
this
Covenant
we
make
in
the
presence
of
Almighty
God
the
Searcher
of
all
hearts
,
with
a
true
intention
to
performe
the
same
,
as
we
shall
answer
at
that
great
day
,
when
the
secrets
of
all
hearts
shall
be
disclosed
,
Most
humbly
beseeching
the
Lord
to
strengthen
us
by
his
Holy
Spirit
for
this
end
,
and
to
blesse
our
desires
and
proceedings
with
such
successe
,
as
may
be
deliverance
and
safety
to
his
people
,
and
encouragement
to
other
Christian
Churches
groaning
under
,
or
in
danger
of
the
yoke
of
Antichristian
Tyranny
;
to
joyne
in
the
same
,
or
like
Association
and
Covenant
,
to
the
glory
of
God
,
the
enlargement
of
the
Kingdom
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
the
peace
and
Tranquility
of
Christian
Kingdomes
and
Common-Wealths
.
-
Wil:
Lenthall
Speaker
-
Beuchamp
St.
Iohn
-
Gilbert
Gerrard
-
Walter
Erle
-
Iames
Cambell
-
Tho
:
Cheeke
-
Robert
Nicholas
-
Benjamin
Rudyard
-
Iohn
Gurdon
-
Robert
Harley
-
Francis
Knollys
-
Edward
Master
-
Iohn
White
-
Anthony
Stapeley
-
Dennis
Bond
-
Laurence
Whitaker
-
Michaell
Noble
-
Pere
:
Hoby
-
Richard
Barwis
-
Edward
Baynton
-
William
Cawley
-
Iohn
Moyle
-
Iohn
Pyne
-
George
Searle
-
Henry
Vane
Senior
-
Nevill
Poole
-
Iohn
Yonge
-
Henry
Herbert
-
Thomas
Sandis
-
William
Iesson
-
Philip
L
:
Herbert
-
Thomas
Barrington
-
Martin
Lumley
-
Iohn
Trevor
-
Francis
Godolphin
-
Thomas
Arundell
-
Edward
Stephens
-
Gilbert
Pykering
-
Iohn
Creue
-
Oliver
Cromwell
-
Henry
Vane
Iunior
.
-
William
Cage
-
Richard
Erisey
-
Philip
L
:
Lisle
.
-
William
Heveningham
-
Isaac
Penington
-
Richard
Cresheld
-
Thomas
Pelham
-
Thomas
Parker
-
Iohn
Leigh
-
Iohn
Harris
-
Augustine
Skinner
-
Iohn
Venn
-
William
Strickland
-
Iobn
Franklin
-
Samuel
Browne
-
Robert
Scawen
-
Roger
Hill
-
Iohn
Button
-
Iohn
Meyrick
-
Ambrosse
Browne
-
Richard
Wynn
-
Edward
Owner
-
Charles
Pym
-
Charles
L
:
Cranborne
-
Ben
.
Weston
-
Dudley
North
-
Iohn
Nut
-
Io
:
Corlet
-
Roger
Burgoyne
-
Peter
Temple
-
Benjamin
Valentyne
-
Thomas
Walsingham
-
Oliver
Luke
-
William
Alenson
-
Humphery
Salwey
-
Richard
More
-
William
Ashurst
-
Thomas
Moore
-
Thomas
Fountayne
-
William
Ellys
-
Henry
Shelley
-
Richard
Shuttleworth
-
Henry
Ludlow
-
George
Gallopp
-
Robert
Wallopp
-
Arthur
Hesilrige
-
Oliver
Saint-John
-
Thomas
Grantham
-
Francis
Barneham
-
Will
:
L
:
Fitzwilliams
-
Edmund
Dunch
-
Henry
Mildmay
-
Hugh
Rogers
-
Thomas
Hatcher
-
John
Wray
-
Simonds
D'Ewes
-
Anthony
Bedingfield
-
John
Ashe
-
William
L
:
Munson
-
Martyn
Lister
-
Robert
Goodwyn
-
Edward
Thomas
-
Henry
Lucas
-
Miles
Corbett
-
Philip
Smith
-
Cornelius
Holland
-
William
Spurstowe
-
John
Lowry
-
Peter
Wentworth
-
Henry
Cholmeley
-
Philip
Stapleton
-
William
Pierrepont
-
Roger
North
-
Alexander
Popham
-
Thomas
Hodges
-
John
Maynard
-
Samuel
Vassall
-
Anthony
Irby
-
John
Clotworthy
-
John
Broxolme
-
Richard
Jervoyse
-
John
Blakiston
-
Walter
Longe
-
John
Rolle
-
Robert
Jennor
-
John
Waddon
-
William
Masham
-
John
Lisle
-
Edmund
Fowell
-
Edward
Ashe
-
Thomas
Pury
-
Richard
Whithead
-
Richard
Jenyns
-
Humphrey
Tufton
-
Thomas
Dacres
-
Thomas
Erle
-
John
Downes
-
John
Goodwyn
-
Francis
Drake
-
William
Waller
-
Samuel
Luke
-
Francis
Buller
-
Richard
Harman
-
George
Buller
-
Arthur
Onslowe
-
Richard
Wynwood
-
Robert
Pye
-
Hen
.
L
:
Grey
of
Ruthin
-
Richard
Knightley
-
John
Pym
-
Christopher
Yelverton
-
Anthony
Nicoll
-
Peter
Wroth
-
Robert
Reynolds
-
Nathaniel
Barnardiston
-
Henry
Heyman
-
William
Purefoy
-
Valentine
Walton
-
Michael
Oldesworth
-
William
Wheler
-
Hall
Ravenscroft
-
Tho
.
L
:
Grey
of
Groby
-
Thomas
Middleton
-
Edward
Hungerford
-
Christopher
Wrey
-
Richard
Lee
-
Herbert
Morley
-
Thomas
Lane
-
Robert
Cecill
-
William
Bell
-
Thomas
Some
-
Herbottle
Grimstone
-
Symon
Snowe
-
John
Nash
-
Herbottle
Grimstone
-
Ralph
Asheton
-
Edward
Ayshcoghe
-
John
Wylde
-
John
Trenchard
-
Thomas
Jervoyse
-
Richard
Brown
-
William
Playters
-
Nathaniel
Stephens
-
Richard
Rose
-
Francis
Rous
-
Gilbert
Millington
-
Walter
Young
-
John
Brown
-
John
Hippisley
-
Edward
Poole
-
Henry
Pelham
-
William
Hay
-
John
Driden
-
Nathaniel
Fyennes
-
William
Lewis
-
Giles
Grene
-
William
Lytton
-
John
Hervey
-
Edward
Dowce
-
William
Strode
-
Edmond
Prideaux
-
Thomas
Hoyle
-
Edward
Exton
-
Francis
Popham
-
Zouch
Tate
-
John
Curson
-
Alexander
Bence
-
Squire
Bence
-
John
Selden
-
John
Glynn
-
Richard
Onslow
-
John
Coke
-
Thomas
L
:
Wenman
-
Bulstrode
Whitelocke
-
George
Mountagu
-
Edward
Partheriche
-
Henry
Campion
-
William
Whitaker
-
Denzell
Holles
-
Edward
Wingate
-
James
Fenys
.
-
Poynings
Moore
-
Edward
Bisse
,
Junior
.
-
William
Jephson
-
Edward
Mountagu
-
Norton
Knatchboll
.
-
Thomas
Eden
FINIS
.