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<HEAD>By the KING.</HEAD>
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<P>A Proclamation warning all His Maje&s;ties good Subjects no longer to be mi&s;led by the Votes, Orders, and pretended Ordinances, of One, or both Hou&s;es, by rea&s;on the Members doe not enjoy the freedome and Liberty of Parliament. With His Maje&s;ties Gracious Offer of Pardon to the Members of both Hou&s;es, and of Protection to &s;uch of them as &s;hall repair to Him.</P>
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<P>_WHereas We have been long &s;ince driven by Force and Violence from Our Pallace at We&s;tmin&s;ter (the place of &s;itting for Us, and Our two Hou&s;es of this Parlia|ment) &s;o that We could not with &s;afety of Our Life be pre&s;ent with Our great Councell, and much the greater part of the Members of both Hou&s;es of Parliament have been likewi&s;e driven by Tumults and Force for their &s;afety from their attendance upon that Councell, the &s;aid Members having been threatned and a&s;&s;aulted for delivering their Opinions freely in the Hou&s;es; or have out of Con&s;cience and Duty withdrawne them&s;elves from being pre&s;ent at the Debates and Re&s;oluti|ons, which they have well knowne to be &s;o contrary to their Duty and Allegiance, or for &s;o withdrawing, or for freely &s;peaking in the Hou&s;es, have been expen|ded or &s;u&s;pended from being Members of that Councell, contrary to the ancient Practice, and ju&s;t Priviledges of Parliament. Since which time, and by which meanes, a great and Rebellious Army hath been rai&s;ed again&s;t Us, under the Command of <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> which Army hath not onely endeavoured to take away Our Life from Us in a &s;et Battle, but the &s;ame, and other Forces rai&s;ed by the like meanes, hath committed all the Acts of Outrage, Robbery, and Murder, upon Our good Subjects throughout the Kingdome, and &s;till continues to doe the &s;ame. And though in truth, a very &s;mall part of that great Councell remaine there to|gether, yet under pretence of having the countenance of Our two Hou&s;es of Parliament, &s;ome &s;editious per&s;ons a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves (with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of tho&s;e Rebellious Armies, and of divers mutinous and de&s;perate Browni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, and other ill affected per&s;ons in Our City of London, by who&s;e meanes they awe &s;uch Members of both Hou&s;es who yet continue among&s;t them) a power to doe things ab&s;lolutely contrary to the Lawes of the Land, and de&s;tructive to Our Rights, and to the Liberty and Property of the Subject, and to alter the whole Frame and Government of this Kingdome, di&s;po&s;ing of the Lives and Fortunes of Us, and Our good Subjects, according to their di&s;cretion, &s;ubjecting both to their owne unlimited ar|bitrary Power and Government: We have only accu&s;ed &s;ome particular per&s;ons, whom We well know to be the Authours and Contrivers of the&s;e de&s;perate Coun&s;els, and Actions, and have forborne to cen&s;ure or charge the whole number of the Members remaining, by who&s;e Orders and Authority the evils have been pretended to be done, We hoping that the &s;en&s;e of the mi&s;erable Di&s;tractions of the Kingdom would at length have brought them to di&s;cern where they had erred, and Our  <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ften Me&s;&s;ages, and Complaints of the violence offered to Us, and to the Members of both Hou&s;es, would have procured ju&s;tice &amp; Redre&s;&s;e and that the Power and Reputation of &s;uch among&s;t them, who wi&s;hed well to the Peace of the Kingdom, and Honor &amp; Dignity of Parliaments, would at la&s;t &s;o far prevailed, that a right under&s;tanding might have been begotten betwixt Us and Our People, and all &s;hew of Force and Violence &s;o taken away and &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, that We might in a full and peaceable convention of Parliament, with the advice of that Our great Councell, have &s;o &s;etled the pre&s;ent di&s;tempers, that there might be no feare left ofthe like for the future. But finding to Our great Griefe, that the power of tho&s;e &s;editious per&s;ons, who fir&s;t contrived the&s;e de&s;perate and bloody Di&s;tractions, continues &s;o great, that as they have driven, and now keep Us, and the much greater part of both Hou&s;es, from being pre&s;ent at that Councell, &s;o they &s;o far awe tho&s;e who remaine there, that they cannot with freedome give their Votes and Re&s;olutions according to their Con&s;ciences, and the Laws and Con&s;titutions of the Kingdome, that the Members of both Hou&s;es have beene compelled to make Prote&s;tations to live and dye with the Earle of E&s;&s;ex, the Generall of the Rebellious Army, and other unlawfull and Trea&s;onable Prote&s;tations; and that &s;uch who have refu&s;ed to take the &s;aid Prote&s;tations, have been expelled and impri&s;oned for &s;uch their refu&s;all. That the great affaires of the Kingdome are managed and concluded by a private Committee without being ever reported to the Hou&s;es, contrary to the Laws and Rules of Parliament. That the Common-Councell of London (mo&s;t of them being per&s;ons factiou&s;ly cho&s;en out of Browni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, and &s;uch who oppo&s;e the regular whole&s;ome Government of that City, and have promi&s;ed them&s;elves the de&s;truction of the Church, are grown the &s;uperintendents over both Hou&s;es, and obtrude upon them what conclu&s;ions and re&s;olutions they plea&s;e. That they take upon them to ju&s;tifie this Rebellion again&s;t Us; And have pre|&s;umed under pretence of the Order of both Hou&s;es, to invite forraigne Forces to invade this Kingdome. To &s;end Agents to forraigne Princes to Negotiate and Treat with them in their owne names. To impri&s;on Our good Subjects contrary to Law, prohibiting Our Judges to grant <HI>Habeas Corpus</HI> according to Law. To introduce a new Clergy throughout the King|dome, by di&s;placing godly learned Divines, Without the lea&s;t colour of Law, or judiciall, proceedings, and putting ignorant and &s;editious Preachers in their places to poy&s;on the hearts of the People. To countenance the vilifying of the Booke of Common-Prayer e&s;tabli&s;hed by the Law of the Land. To &s;eize, leavy, and take away what they plea&s;e of the E&s;tates and Fortunes of Our Subjects by di&s;po&s;ing of the twentieth part of their E&s;tates, by exhau&s;ting them with un&s;upportable weekly Taxes for the maintenance of their Rebellious Army; and by endeavouring to lay odious Exci&s;es upon Victuals, Goods and Marchandi&s;e of Our People for the &s;ame purpo&s;e, while they &s;uffer Our poor Prote&s;tant Subjects of Our Kingdome of Ire|land, who&s;e defence was undertaken by Our two Hou&s;es, and that Army rai&s;ed for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of that horrid Rebellion, to be &s;tarved, and in danger of disbanding, or nece&s;&s;itated to de&s;ert that Kingdome for want of money, victuall, and &s;uch other nece&s;&s;aries as were to be provided for them by Act of Parliament, out of tho&s;e moneys which they have &s;pent to de&s;troy Us and this Kingdome, by exacting from Marchants Tunnage and Poundage, and other impo&s;itions upon Marchandi&s;es, as well Native as forraigne, contrary to an Act made this pre&s;ent Parliament, with a penalty of premunire on tho&s;e who &s;hall pay or receive it. And la&s;tly, That they have (after the breaking of the late Treaty, by a peremptory recalling the Committee, who in truth, during their abode with Us, had no power to Treat by rea&s;on of their &s;trict limitation) &s;o far rejected all po&s;&s;ible meanes and overtures of Treaty and Accommodation, that in&s;tead of an&s;wering Our Gracious Me&s;&s;ages, the Hou&s;e of Commons hath impri&s;oned Our Me&s;&s;enger &s;ent by us to them, to invite both Hou&s;es to an Accommodation, and e&s;pecially to move them to take &s;uch a cour&s;e for the freedome of Parliament which we might &s;afely advi&s;e with that Our great Councell for the &s;etling tho&s;e mi&s;erable Di&s;tractions, and Di&s;tempers. And hath maliciou&s;ly and in contempt of Us (and after an attempt to murder Her at Burlington Rode, the place of Her landing) impeached Our Royall Con&s;ort of High Trea&s;on, for a&s;&s;i&s;ting Us with Armes and Ammunition to defend Us from this Rebellion. Tis time now to let Our good Subjects know, that they may no longer looke upon the Votes and Actions of the per&s;ons now remaining, as upon Our two Hou&s;es of Parliament, Freedome and Liberty to be pre&s;ent, and of opinion and debate there, being e&s;&s;entiall to a Parliament, which Free|dome and Liberty, all men mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e to be taken away from this A&s;&s;embly, when they remember the great Tumults brought downe to awe and terrifie both Hou&s;es, and that they were then brought downe when any great Debate was in either Hou&s;e, and not like to be &s;o carried as &s;ome &s;editious per&s;ons who governed tho&s;e Tumults did de&s;ire; that in the greate&s;t heat and fury of tho&s;e Tumults the principall governours among&s;t them directed the unruly people to goe to White-Hall, where Our owne Per&s;on then was, and de&s;igned by force to have &s;urpri&s;ed the Per&s;on of Our Son the Prince; that when it was de&s;ired that a Declaration might be made again&s;t &s;uch Tumults, in &s;tead of con&s;enting thereunto, the Tumults them&s;elves were ju&s;tified; and when a legall cour&s;e was pre&s;cribed by the Lords, and taken by the proper Mini&s;ters of Ju&s;tice to &s;uppre&s;&s;e and prevent &s;uch Tumults, and Riots, that legall cour&s;e was &s;uper&s;eaded by tho&s;e who were then pre&s;ent of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and the Mini&s;ters of Ju&s;tice puni&s;hed and impri&s;oned for executing the Law, when they remember that &s;everall Members of either Hou&s;e have been threatned and a&s;&s;aulted in tho&s;e Tumults, and their owne names pre&s;cribed as per&s;ons di&s;affected, becau&s;e they freely u&s;ed to &s;peake their con&s;cien|ces in both Hou&s;es. That the Hou&s;e of Peers have been &s;o far threatned and menaced, that the names of tho&s;e have been with threats demanded by the Hou&s;e of Commons at the Bar of the Lords Hou&s;e, who refu&s;ed to con&s;ent to this or that Propo&s;ition which had been in debate before them: And tumultuous petitions countenanced which have been pre&s;ented to that &s;ame purpo&s;e. That the Members of both Hou&s;es have been impri&s;oned, and forbid to be pre&s;ent at tho&s;e Councels, for no rea&s;ons but becau&s;e their opinion have not been liked. That Our Negative Voice (Our greate&s;t and mo&s;t Soveraigne Priviledge) is boldly denyed. That a pre&s;umptuous attempt hath been made by the major part of the remaining part of the Hou&s;e of Commons to make Our Great Seale of England, the making of which by the expre&s;&s;e letter of the Law, is high Trea&s;on, and would &s;ubvert the ancient and fundamentall admini&s;trati|on of Ju&s;tice. That at this time, We and the Major part of both Hou&s;es are kept by a &s;trong and Rebellious Army from being pre&s;ent at that Councell, and that tho&s;e who are pre&s;ent, are by the &s;ame Army awed and forced to take unlawfull and Trea&s;onable Prote&s;tations to engage their Votes. And that &s;uch Re&s;olutions and Directions which concerne the Property and Liberty of the Subjects are tran&s;acted and concluded by a few per&s;ons (under the name of a clo&s;e Committee con&s;i&s;ting of the Earle of Manche&s;ter, the Lord <HI>Say,</HI> Mr. <HI>Pym,</HI> Mr. <HI>Hampden,</HI> Mr. <HI>Strood,</HI> Mr. <HI>Martyn,</HI> and others, the whole number not exceeding the number of 17 per&s;ons) without reporting the &s;ame to the Hou&s;es, or having the &s;ame confirmed by the Hou&s;es, contrary to the expre&s;&s;e Law and Cu&s;tomes of Parliament. All which for the matter of fact, We are ready to make proofe of, and de&s;ire nothing but to bring the Contrivers of all the afore&s;aid mi&s;chiefes o their triall by Law, and till that be &s;ubmitted to, We mu&s;t pur&s;ue them by Armes or any other way, in which Our good Subjects ought to give Us a&s;&s;i&s;tance to that purpo&s;e. The imagining the death of Us, Our Royall Confort, or Our elde&s;t Son, the leavying War again&s;t Us in Our Realme, giving to them aid of comfort, the counterfeiting Our great Seal or Money, being by the expre&s;&s;e words of the Stat. of the 25 yeare of King <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. Cap. 2. high Trea&s;on, and how applicable this is to tho&s;e who have borne Armes again&s;t Us, and to tho&s;e who have con&s;ented that &s;uch Arms be borne, to tho&s;e who have promi&s;ed to live and dye with the Earle of E&s;&s;ex, and to tho&s;e who every day con&s;ent to &s;ome Act for the &s;upport and increa&s;e of that Army, We &s;hall leave to all the world to judge, and hope that this Gracious Warning and Information now given by Us, will make that Impre&s;&s;ion in the hearts of Our People, that they will no longer &s;uffer them&s;elves to be mi&s;led from their Duty and Allegiance upon any pretences what&s;oever: And We doe declare, That We &s;hall pro|ceed with all &s;everity again&s;t all per&s;ons what&s;oever, who &s;hall hence forward, in&s;i&s;t, vote, or incur in any kinde toward the maintenance and countenancing &s;uch Actions and Re&s;oluti|ons, which by the knowne and expre&s;&s;e Lawes of the Land, are high Trea&s;on, and again&s;t all tho&s;e who &s;hall adhere to them who are in Rebellion again&s;t Us, again&s;t Rebells and Trai|tors, in &s;uch manner as by the Laws and Statutes of the Realme is directed and appointed: And &s;ince by the power of &s;editious per&s;ons, We and both Hou&s;es are kept from being &s;ecured again&s;t tumultuous A&s;&s;emblies, and both Hou&s;es from adjournment to &s;ome place of &s;afety, which being done, might quickly make an end of the&s;e mi&s;erable De&s;tractions, whereby We are debarred from the benefit and advice We expected from that Our great Councell, the Members thereof being &s;cattered into &s;everall places; Therefore that the whole Kingdome may &s;ee that We are willing to receive Advice from tho&s;e who are tru&s;ted by them though We cannot receive the &s;ame in the place to which they were called, for the Rea&s;ons afore&s;aid, nor intend to receive advice from them el&s;ewhere in the capacity of Hou&s;es of Parliament: We do hereby declare, That &s;uch of the Members of both Hou&s;es, as well tho&s;e who have been by the faction of the Malignant party expelled for performing their duties to Us, and into who&s;e rooms no per&s;ons have been &s;ince cho&s;en by their Countries, as the re&s;t who &s;hall de&s;ire Our protection, &s;hall be welcome to Us at Our City of Oxford, untill by the adjournment of the Hou&s;es to &s;ome fit and free place, or otherwi&s;e due cour&s;e be taken for the full and free convention in Parliament of Us, and all the Members of both Hou&s;es. And for their better encouragement to re&s;ort to Us, We do hereby will and command all the Officers and Soul|diers of Our Army to &s;uffer all &s;uch per&s;ons who are Members of either Hou&s;e, with their attendants and &s;ervants to come to Us to this Our City of Oxford: And that none of Our good Sub|jects may believe that by this Our nece&s;&s;ary Declaration again&s;t the freedom &amp; liberty of that pre&s;ent A&s;&s;embly, We may have the lea&s;t intention to violate or to avoid any Act or Acts pa&s;|&s;ed by Us for the good and benefit of Our people this Parliament: We doe hereby declare to all the world, That We &s;hall, as We have often promi&s;ed as inviolably ob&s;erve all tho&s;e Acts, as if no &s;uch unhappy interruption had happened of the freedom and liberty in that Councell: And de&s;ire nothing more then to have &s;uch a free convention in Parliament, that We may add &s;uch further Acts of Grace as &s;hall be thought nece&s;&s;ary for the advancement of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, for the maintenance of the Liberty &amp; Property of the Subjects, and the pre&s;er|vation of the Liberty, Freedome and Priviledges of Parliament. And that all the world may &s;ee how willing and de&s;irous We are to forget all the Injuries and Indignities offered to Us by &s;uch who have been mi&s;led through weakne&s;&s;e or fear, or who have not been the principall Contrivers of the pre&s;ent mi&s;eries: We do offer a free and generall pardon to all the Members of either Hou&s;e (except <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex, Ro<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ert</HI> Earle of <HI>Warwick, Edward</HI> Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter, Hen.</HI> Earle of <HI>Stamford, William</HI> Vi&s;. <HI>Say</HI> and <HI>Seal,</HI> Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> Knight and Baronet, Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerig</HI> Barronet, Sir <HI>Henry Ludlow,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Hungerford,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Popham</HI> Knights, <HI>Nathaniel Fines, John Hampden, John Pym, William Strood, Henry Martyn,</HI> &amp; <HI>Alexande Popham</HI> E&s;quires, <HI>I&s;aac Pennington</HI> Alderman of London, and Captain <HI>Ven,</HI> who being the principall Authors of the&s;e pre&s;ent Calamities, have &s;acrificed the Peace and Pro&s;perity of their Country to their own pride, malice and ambition. And again&s;t whom We &s;hall proceed as again&s;t per&s;ons guilty of high Trea&s;on by the known Laws of the Land, &amp; &s;hall in the proceeding be mo&s;t carefull to pre&s;erve to them all priviledges in the fulle&s;t manner that by the Law or the u&s;age of former times is due to them,) If they &s;hall within tenne dayes after the publi&s;hing of this Our Proclamation returne to their Duty and Allegiance to Us. And la&s;tly, We further injoyne and Command all Our Subjects upon their Allegiance to Us, as they will an&s;wer the contrary to Almighty God, and as they de&s;ire that they and their Po&s;terity &s;hould be freed from the foule taint of high Trea&s;on, and as they tender the peace of this Kingdome, that they pre&s;ume not to give any a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the before mentioned Rebellious Armies in their per&s;ons or e&s;tates in any &s;ort what&s;oever, but joyn with Vs according to their Duty and the Laws of the Land to &s;uppre&s;&s;e this horrid Rebellion. And Our Plea&s;ure and Command is, That Our Proclamation be read in all Churches and Chappels within this Our Kingdome.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at Oxford, <DATE>the 20 day of June, in the 19 Year of Our Reigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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