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A90385	The declaration and vindication of Isaack Pennington, now Lord Mayor of the citie of London, of Colonell Ven, Captain Manwaring and Mr. Fowke. Wherein is set forth their loyaltie to His Majestie, and the integritie of their proceedings in serving the King and Parliament. In answer to sundry scandalous pamphlets, wherein they are charged to be the maine incendiaries of these present troubles in the citie of London.	Fowke, Mr.; Manwayring, Henry, Sir, 1587-1653.; Penington, Isaac, Sir, 1587?-1660.; Vern, John, 1586-1650.	1643 (1643)	Wing P1147; Thomason E89_11; ESTC R20088	3,633	8

breasts of all true Protestants and such as were zealous in the worship of the Almighty yet this Army wee saw drawne downe at least the better part thereof even to our very dores within five miles of our habitations threatening the City of London and the Parliament there sitting with unavoyded ruine if they had not beene prevented and the utter extirpation as it was probable enough of Gods true Religion surrounded therefore with so many dangers and imminent perills which hung like so many teeming clouds over our heads menacing destruction to our wives houses and families nay desolation to the whole Citie let all the world be but indifferent judges whether we who were interressed with the chiefe charge and care of the City had not reason to looke about us and provide for the safety of the City one of us having the principall governement thereof and the rest of us being able and sufficient Members of the said City whether we had not cause not onely to put the Order of the high Court of Parliament in practice with diligence for the raising men and moneys for the defence of our selves and the City but also to render them condigne and humble thankes for their care and provision for our securities and whether it was not requisite that the City of London being the capitall place of the Kingdome and the chiefest Magazine it hath both for wealth and armes should advance the greatest summes of moneys toward the supportment of these necessities defensive warres undertaken by the command and order of Parliament for the safegard of the subjects liberties and the security of the true Protestant Religion Certainly had the Citizens contributed in stead of the twentieth part the halfe of their Estates to an use so necessary and pious they had but made a just domonstration of their loves to the Common-wealth and their cares to their selves and families it being farre more requisite for them to part with the twentieth part of their Estates so to secure the rest then by the detention of that not onely to hazard their whole lively hoods and fortunes but their lives and liberties to the desperate fury of those Malignants and Cavaliers who thinke of no other law nor acknowledge no other conscience but their inordinate lusts And so confident are we of our integrities having done nothing but what hath beene authorised us by Order from the high Court of Parliament that wee both hope and believe when his sacred Majesty abandoning the counsell of those Malignants who have incensed his goodnesse as well against his high Court of Parliament as against us shall really and rightly consider our actions and intentions his sacred wisdome will not onely acquit our innocences of any dis-service to himselfe the tranquillity of the Kingdome or welfare of the City of London by our forwardnesse in setting forth the Order of the high Court of Parliament and levying of moneys for the support and maintenance of these warres against the Cavaliers but will thanke us for our diligence which hath beene a principall meanes to preserve the City of London from devastation and ruine and defended Gods true Religion from the machinations of Popish Recusants and for the Citizens of London who may by the violence of the said aspersions be drawne to believe the said opinions wee all hope they will by this our Vindication of our innocence be perswaded to believe our integrities which have alwayes tended to the service of his Majestie and the advancement of the Common-wealth the defence of the Protestant Religion and the demonstration of our obedience to the honourable the high Court of Parliament FINIS

THE DECLARATION AND VINDICATION OF Isaack Pennington NOW Lord Mayor of the Citie of LONDON of Colonell Ven Captain Manwaring and Mr. Fowke Wherein is set forth their loyaltie to His Majestie and the integritie of their proceedings in serving the King and PARLIAMENT In answer to sundry scandalous Pamphlets wherein they are charged to be the maine Incendiaries of these present troubles in the Citie of London London Printed for Humphrey Johnson Febr. 11. Anno Dom. 1643. 1642 The Declaration and Vindication of Isaack Pennington now Lord Mayor of the Citie of London of Colonell Ven Captaine Manwaring and Mr. Fowke WHereas by divers late Expresses and Letters to the Citie of London we found our selves aimed at by His Sacred Majestie as men that have disturbed the publike peace of the Citie of which we are in our owne consciences altogether guiltlesse having neither acted nor attempted any thing against the tranquillitie thereof nor had any intentions but what tended to the true service of his Majestie the good of the Common-wealth and the securitie of the Citie of London And have furthermore never done or imagined ought but what we had just authoritie from the High Court of Parliament which wee were bound in conscience and equitie to obey being so publikely and in the eyes of the whole Kingdome as well of this Citie whereof wee are members charged with delinquencie We esteemed our selves bound in vindication of our innocence to set forth these our serious Declarations of our owne integrities knowing well that such charges in the too credulous people who censure mens actions by the event rather than intention might beget an opinion that we are really guiltie when before God and our consciences wee doe beleeve and dare affirme wee have neither practised or attempted ought which was not warrantable by the knowne Lawes and constitutions of the Kingdome and for the defence of Gods true Religion and worship yet some malignants as it should appeare have informed His sacred Majesty and others have instilled the same poyson to our fames and reputations into the eares of the people especially in the City of London that we have bin are desirous to advance innovations in the true Church of England and bring in strange doctrines of Brownisme Anabaptisme and the like things so far from our thoughts much lesse meanings that we should scarcely know their names were we not instructed in them by those as pursue calumnies which would make us if not the Authors at least the promoters and defenders of them when for our parts we have alwayes esteemed the doctrine of the Church of England perfect and Orthodoxall and so have ever demeaned our selves as true sonnes of the said Church though perhaps some innovations and insolencies which are not unknowne to the whole world attempted if not committed by the Bishops and Prelates upon the persons and estates of sundry of Gods faithfull servants might make us desire an abatement of their pride and a reformation of those grosse abuses which they sought by their unlimited power and authority to obtrude upon the Church and therein surely we performed nothing but what was agreeable to the justice of Gods and the Kingdomes Lawes and what equally desired by the whole body of the Kingdome now assembled in this present Parliament for the same end namely to rectifie and reforme those so long predominant errours in the Church which had almost growne up againe to that abolished doctrine of Papisme in this Realme and obscured the verity of true Religion by their Ceremonies and circumstances which were as vaine and uselesse as they were superstitious and ridiculous if not prophane and impious yet for this our integrity we know that divers have been apt to censure us and impute this our zeale in Gods cause to a desire of Innovation But surely our innocence acquits us of those scandals and they might as well blame Iehu for seeking to destroy all those in Israel that had bowed to Baal as us for our prosecution by the Lawes of the Land convicted Papists and Recusants and charged him therby that he intended an innovation rather then a reformation in the Religion of the Israelites For any other of our attempts or practises with which we stand charged as namely or at least by evident circumstance for advancing the affaires of the Common wealth and being subservient to the commands of the Honourable the High Court of Parliament by putting their ordinances in practise for the levying of monies upon the inhabitants of the City of London to help to defray the charge of the Army raised for the defence of His Majesty and Parliament certainly we had most convincing reasons to indeare it as much as lay in our powers For first we beheld the Kingdome torne and dilacerated into a thousand distractions by the counsels of malignants who meerly aimed at their owne wicked and sinister ends and for that purpose by their seditious devises had separated His Majesty from His High Court of Parliament convocated by His sacred authority to treat of the doubtfull and difficult affaires of the Kingdome and to set at right the oppressive abuses thereof the said malignants seeking utterly to destroy the essence of Parliaments wherein the safety of the Subject principally consists as is not unknowne to all well affected persons We beheld likewise by the perverse counsell of the said malignants an Army raised by His Majesties command for what end we could not conjecture unlesse for the destruction of the Kingdome the subduing the people and subverting the fundamentall Lawes of the Land which Army how destructive it hath been to the good subjects of the Realme the inhumane plundrings of the Cavaliers their taking away peoples estates firing their houses and murdering their persons hath given to the whole world a sufficient testimony and after their bloudy perambulation through most of the Counties of the Kingdome and their commitment of robberies and massacres We beheld them drawing their forces this way towards this noble City of London which was the marke their avarice shot at the end which they in their ravenous minds had intended by all probabilities to arrive the abundant wealth and infinite riches of this great and populous City being that supply which they expected should build up the ruines of their decayed fortunes and be an ample salary for their desperate designes which had almost devoured the wealth of the whole Kingdome and only thirsted for the spoyles of us and our families Besides in the said army wee were as certaine there were gathered together as well Commanders as Soulders divers notorious Popish Recusants who by the Lawes of the land ought not onely to beare armes but likewise to be disinabled from bearing armes by taking away all their military furniture and provision of warre the whole Kingdome at least the well-affected persons thereof evidently knowing that the sword being once put into the hands of Papists they would use it without all mercy against the