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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82697	A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. In answer to His Majesties declaration, intituled His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, after his late victory against the rebels, on Sunday the 23 of October, 1642. Together, with a catalogue of the names of divers of the colonels, lievtenant-colonells, serjeant majors, captains, and lievtenants, that are papists and commanders in the army, under the command of the Earle of Nevv-Castle. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsyng. Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1442; Thomason E244_23; ESTC R212569	12,288	15

by every Member of both Houses whereby they promise in the presence of Almighty God to defend His Majesties Person The Promise and Protestation made by the Members of both Houses upon the nomination of the Earle of Essex to be Generall and to live and die with him wherein is expressed That this Army was raised for the defence of the Kings Person Our often earnest and most humble addresses to His Majesty to leave that desperate and dangerous Army where with He is now encompassed raised and upheld to the hazard of his owne and the Kingdomes ruine And to come in Person to His Parliament where he should be sure to remain in Honour and Safety And our humble Petition directed to be presented to Him by the hands of the Earle of Essex before any blow given to remove His Royall Person from that Army a request inconsistent with any purpose to offer the least violence to His Person which hath and ever shall be dear unto us It was well known we raised not any Forces untill a considerable body of an Army was raised against the Parliament to destroy us our Liberties and Religion which being secured unto us and the Armie raised against us disbanded we shall be ready and willing to disband and do most earnestly desire it And concerning the imputation laid to our charge of our raising this Army to alter the Frame of Government and established Lawes of the Land we shall need to give it no other Answer then this That if to raise an Army in our own just defence when another is marching towards us to destroy us and our Laws be to alter the Frame of Government then is that Army raised for that purpose otherwise it is for our owne and our Lawes necessary preservation And whereas the contrivers of that Declaration urge it as a necessary consequence That because the Kings Person was in danger in the late Battell of the 23. of October therefore the Army raised by the Parliament and that gave Battell to the other Army was not raised for the defence of the Kings Person but of purpose to destroy him We confesse we understand not the Logique thereof no more then if the Kings Person should be chased apprehended and possessed by Theeves and Robbers and the Kings good Subjects should raise an Army to pursue those Robbers and by Battell dispossesse them of him and rescue him from their Power and Tyranny That therefore this was an Army raised to murder and destroy the King And we cannot but wonder that we are still charged with that scandall so often answered That the greatest part of our Members are driven away by violence when instance cannot be made of any one in particular and that it is well known that many of them if not most of them that absent themselves have been by expresse Letters from His Majestie commanded to repaire to Him to York And contrary to the expresse Summons of either House required to continue there and many of them have since been Principals and Inciters of this Warre against the Parliament and Kingdome Concerning the Book of Common Prayer suggested by that Declaration to be rejected we have by severall Declarations cleared our selves of that Charge that we never rejected it that we intend to take nothing out of it but what shall be evill and justly offensive or at least but unnecessary and burthensome and for that purpose to require the Advice of a Religious Learned and Orthodoxe Assembly of Ministers Touching the Aspersion of our giving no countenance to any but to Brownists and Anabaptists we would have been very glad to know who and what kinde of persons the Contrivers of that Declaration intend by Brownists and Anabaptists for now all such as will not submit to those unwarranted Ceremonies and Popish Innovations lately introduced in the Church by the Prelaticall party such as in truth and sincerity of heart make conscience of their wayes such as will not by blasphemous oaths prophane Gods Name and contemne the Lords Day and such as look after and heartily wish a perfect and thorough Reformation in the Church are by that Malignant and Popish party comprehended under the name of Brownists and Anabaptists And if by Brownists and Anabaptists they intend such Persons we acknowledge the countenancing of them But if by that name and style they mean such who are truly so according to the reall and proper signification of the expression we do affirm it to be a false groundlesse imputation And had not His Majesty seduced thereunto by that Popish and Prelaticall Faction denied His consent to the Bill for the Assembly so often by both Houses presented unto Him we had long since manifested to the world by a well setled Reformation our utter dislike of Brownisme and Anabaptisme But we very well know it is one of the Stratagems of that Prelaticall party to interrupt us of the means to settle Church Government that by the delay thereof they may stirre up Factions and Divisions amongst the people who having not the rule before them are apt to run severall wayes and so impute the Errours and indiscreet carriage of few persons unto the Parliament But God in his good time will unmask their plots and confound their devices The Contrivers of that Declaration suggest an endeavour by us to raise an implacable malice and hatred between the Gentry and Commonalty of the Kingdome A charge of a very strange n●ture That we should endeavour to raise up a spirit of hatred and malice in the Comminalty against our selves For so it must necessarily follow unlesse these Contrivers will deny us to have any part or interest in that style or Title of Gentry And though we know very well there are too many of the Gentry of this Kingdome who to satisfie the lusts of their own ambition are content like Esau to ●ell their Birth-right and render themselves and their posterity to perpetuall slavery and care not to submit themselves to any Arbitrary and unlimited Government so they may for their own time partake of that Power to trample and insult over others yet we are assured that there are of the Gentry many worthy and true-hearted Patriots who are ready to lay down their Lives and Fortunes and of late have given ample testimony thereof for maintenance of their Lawes Liberties and Religion and with them and others of their resolution we shall be ready to live and die And though we must own it as our duty to use our best endeavours That the meanest of the Comminalty may enjoy their own Birth-rights Freedome and Liberty of the Laws of the Land being equally entituled thereunto with the greatest Subject yet we hope this is far from any purpose to raise hatred or malice between them and the Gentry but rather to knit and unite them more fast together And that the Commission of Array doth take away the Estates of the Kings people is a Charge so far from a scandall or being senslesse