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A90056	A declaration made by the Earl of Nevv-Castle, Governour of the town and county of New-Castle: and generall of all His Majesties forces raised in the northern parts of this kingdom, for the defence of the same. For his resolution of marching into Yorkshire. As also, a just vindication of himself from that unjust aspersion laid upon him, for entertaining some popish recusants in his forces.	Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1642 (1642)	Wing N880; Thomason E83_1	4,771	11

did not admit to nor continue any Souldiers in pay who was suspected to be that way inclyned or did refuse the oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy not that his Maiesty thought it unlawfull for him so to doe or that he did not hold his Recusant Subiects to be as strongly obleiged by the Laws of this Land for the defence of his Person and the Liberty of Parliaments and Laws of this Kingdome as any of his Protestant Subiects for if the Kingdome stood now under the feare of a Forraigne Invasion is it to be conceive that the Recusants of this Land were not by the Lawes of the same obliged to adventure their Lives and Fortunes in defence thereof Sure the great confusion which is now in this Kingdome is of as fearefull a consequence as any forraigne Invasion possible can be and therefore the Recusants are so far from being disoblieged as they stand deeply obliged for giving their assistance in this time of extremity if they shall be required But His Majesty was very cautelous and tender in this point and certainly would not have looked towards it if the other Party had not first assumed that liberty to themselves from which by the Law of the Land he saw himselfe no way barred If there be no Barre in Law against it then let us examine these pretended grand inconveniences wherewith as they alledge it is attended Sure the wisest Heathen Emperors that ever were did admit into their Armies whole Legions of Christian Souldiers whose fidelity they relied much upon though the Emperours themselves blasphemed that God whom those Christian Souldiers adored Look upon Christian popish Emperours did Charles the fifth that wise Warlike Emperour refuse the service of any of the protestants of Germany in that Army wherewith he made War upon the Protestants No but cherished all such of them as he did conceive to stand for the Maiesty and Liberty of the Empire Look upon Protestant Kings and Princes did Henry the fourth the late French King while he was yet a Protestant reiect the assistance of those many French Papists who spent their lives in asserting his Crown and approaching their Allegiance to him Or did blessed Queen Elizabeth of most pretious memory upon whose ayd and advice that great King did principally rely go about to perswade him to dismisse all his Popish Subiects out of his Army and yet it was well known that Shee was the greatest Patron and prop of the Protestant Religion in the whole world Do our Neighbours of the United Provinces reiect the auxiliary Regiments under the pay of the French King because many of them if not most are Papists so long as they are secured of their fidelity to them the point then will not be of their Religion but whether there they may be trusted in point of fidelity and Allegiance But they do alledge in that point they are not to be trusted since they refuse to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy It were to be wished that those blessed times had been perpetuated to us in which it had continued a good distinction though not between all Papists yet between Jesuited Papists and Protestants the taking or refusing of those two Oathes but we have lived to see that these two Oathes to the intollerable scandall of the Protestant Religion are indeed taken by some who call themselves Protestants but most manifestly violated and refused to be taken by some Papists and yet the tennour of them kept by those refusers Our Saviours question in the Gospell was Whether of the two was the better Servant He who said he would doe what his Masher bid him but did it not or he who said he would not doe it but yet did it this latter by our Saviours approbation was the better Servant It is easy to be applied hath not His Majesty and all the World reason to thinke that those Recusants who upon weake yet seeming strong grounds unto them refused to take the Oath of Allegiance and yet at this time performe the contents of it are farre better Subjects and in this point farre better Christians then all those Protestants who have taken this Oath and yet at this time practise quite contrary to that which is contained in it and not only to what is contained in it but to what is contained in the last Protestation which they themselves so magnified and in it did so expressly averre the defence of the Kings Person and Dignity so that the tumultuous Petitioners who came riding to the Parliament through the Streets of London with that Protestation in their Hatts seemed too honest and good Subjects like men standing upon severall Pilloryes with Papers in their Hatts carrying in them their crime and condemnation for it And besides it is well knowne That there are other Recusants in England besides the Popish viz. They who will not communicate in our Service and Sacraments as they are established by the Lawes of this Kingdome and yet some of these are admitted to sit in either Houses of Parliament though contrary to the order of Parliament they have not received the Communion And how many hundreds be in the adverse Army of Anabaptists Brownists and other Sectaries who by the Lawes of this Land are reputed farre more dangerous Recusants and doe incurre by the same Law farre heavier punishments then ordinary Papists do for they being convicted are to abjure the Land and Kingdome whereas Papists incurre onely personall or pecuniary mulcts if they be not Priests or Jesuites or harborers of them If one would truely learne the damnable Doctrines of these Recusant Separatists and foresee how upon their own grounds and Tenents when they shall have power to put them in practise they will attempt the cutting of throats of all Landlords and Magistrates and will maintaine That it is against the Law of God for any Man to hold an Estate by Law or Birth-right but onely according to Merit and Worth Let him reade the the Commentaries of John Sleidan a Grave and Wise Historian who in the life of Charles the fifth hath excellently set downe their lamentable Tenents and Tragedies broached and Acted by them about the beginning of the Lutheran Reformation To conclude I wish from my heart there were Recusants of no kinde in this Kingdome I am Resolved as I have lived so to dye in the profession of the true Reformed Religion as it now standeth established by the Lawes of the Land and as it was professed and practised in the purest times of peerlesse Queene Elizabeth and for these few Recusants under my command I shall use all possible care that they do nothing against the Laws of this Kingdome for I have received them not for their Religion but for the Allegiance which they professe FINIS

A DECLARATION Made by the Earl of NEVV-CASTLE Governour of the Town and County of NEW-CASTLE And Generall of all His Majesties Forces raised in the Northern parts of this Kingdom for the Defence of the same For his Resolution of Marching into YORKSHIRE As also a just Vindication of himself from that unjust aspersion laid upon him for entertaining some Popish Recusants in his Forces First Printed at YORK and now re-printed at LONDON By speciall Command 1642. A Declaration made by the Earle of NEVV-CASTLE Governour of the Town and County of Newcastle and Generall of His Majesties Forces raised in the Northern Parts of this Kingdom c. I Have now by His Majesties speciall Command and Commission for some months last past resided in the Town of Newcastle All which time I have proceeded in pursuance of the points of my Commission which were none else but the preservation of this Town the County of Northumberland and the Bishoprick of Durham and the Liberty of the Trut Protestant Religion of the Laws of this Kingdom established by Parliaments the Property of the Subjects Persons and Goods and securing of this Port with that integrity and tendernesse of His Majesties Honour who doth passionately affect the safety and Liberty of the Subjects in all the particulars above mentioned That I have great and just occasion to blesse Almighty God for so prospering this his own and our Soveraign His Servants worke in my weak hands As I am confident I have not yet miscarryed in any one particular wherein by God and His Majestie I have been intrusted For whereas in most of the counties of this Kingdom there are nothing to be heard but most pittifull and yet most unpittied complaints of the Subiects for the horrible violation of their Churches and indignities offered to the service of God uniust captivating of their Persons exhausting of their purses by most racking exactions plundering and pillaging of their Houses and Goods against the Law of God the knowne Lawes of this Land and all this exercised by a party who pretend nothing but the Religion of God the Law of the Land and the Liberty of the Subiect Yet blessed be God for it all they who live in these parts under my charge can with one accord testifie that as yet they have not tasted in the least degree any of these sharp outrages either in their professions Persons or Goods from that party in whō they had little reason to put any trust if by my Forces they had not been kept under Nor yet can any of that lawlesse party aver that by any Forces of mine or indeed any force at all they have suffered under such wicked vexations as they of their own side in all places where they have had power have used towards these who have continued in Loyalty and Obedience to His Maiesty And farther that His Maiesties Port and Haven hath to his great benefit and the comfort of all his good Subiects who adhere to him been so secured as that now it remaineth as entirely at his Maiesties devotion as ever it did in times of highest peace and tranquility But it hath not pleased God That our Neighbours in Yorkeshire and the adiacent Counties should enioy the like calme which hath moved many of the prime Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County of York to remonstrate unto me their sufferings which they endure from Sir John Hotham his son and many their seditious and outragious Complices and to desire my ayd for the redressing of them and repressing their tumultuous oppressions before they shall swell to that height as it cannot stand with the safety of the Persons and Estates of His Maiesties good Subiects in Yorkshire to make any expressions of their Loyalty and Allegiance to His Maiesty unlesse by some of my Forces they be speedily comforted and relieved I having seriously weighed the purport of my Commission and finding it not only consistent with and agreeable to the same but knowing well His Maiesties sacred Intention and constant Resolution to secure the Lives and Liberties of his Subiects by all meanes which he can compasse I have now Resolved to assist His Maiesties distressed Subiects in the County of York with competent Forces and yet to leave this Town and the two other Counties under my Charge so strongly guarded that their former security shall be no wayes discontinued or intercepted And therefore I do by these presents desire all his Majesties Loyall Subjects of the County of Yorke to take these perticulars into their serious consideration and I expect credit to be given to them First that I come not into their County by Intrusion but by Invitation and that from those Noblemen and Gentlemen whom by long experience they have known to be their soundest and sincerest Patriots and who have promised me in their names a cheerfull reception their utmost assistance and absolute obedience to all my Just and lawfull Commandements Secondly I do solemnely promise That I come free from the least intention of pillaging and plundering any of his Majesties good and loyall Subjects or of exacting any thing from them which shall be against the Priviledge of the Parliament the known Lawes of the Land and Liberty of the Subject And thirdly That I intend by my Forces to vindicate you from the violent incroachment oppressions made upon you in any of these particulars by those who to their lawlesse ends abuse the sacred name of Parliament And fourthly That I shall during the time of my abode amongst you do nothing of moment but by the advice and consultation with those Noblemen and Gentlemen who have been Solicitors to me in your behalfe and when it shall please God to give a happy consumation to those great businesses for which I intend to come amongst you I shall retyre my selfe and forces out of your County with much more cheerefullaesse then I conducted them thither And now I desire to give satisfaction both to you of Yorkeshire and all other true protestants of this Kingdome why I have been necessitated to take under my command and conduct diverse Popish Recusants in these Northern pars First It was not his Majesties intention nor the intentian for any thing I know of any in authority under him to admit any of them into this service if the way had not been chaulked out unto His Majesty and his Ministers by these very men on whose Forge this objection was hammered Let the Muster Roles of that Army which is named from the Parliament be perused and then it shall apyeare plainely that the mannagers of that Army doth exactly and distinctly know that they now have and for many moneth have had great numbers under their pay both English French and other Nations whom at the time of their enrolement and ever since they did know to have been professed Papists whereas by the contrary it is notoriously known that before this course was taken by the other party his Majesty and his Ministers