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</FIGURE>A PROCLAMATION OF THE Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Declaring <HI>CHARLS ST&V;ART</HI> and his Abettors, Agents and Complices, to be Traytors, Rebels and Publique Enemies.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas divers of the Scoti&s;h Nation, and &s;ome Engli&s;h Fugitives, being lately come out of <HI>Scotland</HI> into <HI>England</HI> with their Leader <HI>CHARLS STUART,</HI> Son to the late Tyrant, do here Leby War again&s;t the Commonwealth, and commit many Outrages, Spoils and Murthers upon the people of this Nation; And the &s;aid <HI>Charls Stuart</HI> hath cau&s;ed him&s;elf by the &s;aid Men of <HI>Scotland</HI> and Engli&s;h Fugitives to be Proclaimed King of <HI>England,</HI> and by Declarations pro|&s;cribing &s;ome who have performed great and excellent Service to the Publique, and offering his Indulgences to others, would draw Adherents to him in his wicked and trayterous Practi&s;es, particularly by Letters in his Name di|rected to the City of <HI>London,</HI> and &s;pread abroad by &s;ome of his Clande&s;tine Agents, he labors to court them to his Party, by boa&s;ting his own Condition, and by endeavoring to annihilate the Honor and E&s;teem of the Parliament and their Forces, who through Gods Mercy have been &s;o often In&s;tru|mental to Cha&s;ti&s;e him and his Confederates, and will, through Gods Ble&s;sing we tru&s;t, &s;till prove a bur|then&s;om Stone unto them; Hoping it &s;eems in the mean time, That that famous City (who&s;e Faithful|ne&s;s and eminent Services in behalf of Religion, Laws and Liberties are ever to be acknowledged) and that others of this Land and Nation, into whom by his Cunning and Flatteries he would thus in&s;inuate, can forget the Horrid and Bloody War rai&s;ed by the late Tyranthis Father, and the Deva&s;tations at|tending it, and by his Delu&s;ions and Impo&s;tures be per&s;waded to betray Them&s;elves and their Liber|ties again into Va&s;&s;alage and Bondage, which through the Goodne&s;s of God, and at &s;o great an Expence of Blood and Trea&s;ure have been vindicated from the Pride and Tyranny of that Man and his Fathers Hou&s;e: Which laborious Fraud and Fal&s;hood of him the &s;aid <HI>Charls Stuart</HI> hath hitherto notwith&s;tanding, through the Favor of God to his People, proved of &s;mall or no effect but to aggravate his own Guilt, he being a Traytor of a former Date, and to render Him&s;elf and his Complices more and more obnoxious to the Penalties of the Laws of <HI>England,</HI> Declaring and Adjudging High Trea&s;on, wherein they are &s;o deep|ly and de&s;perately involved: And whereas by a late Act and Declaration of Parliament, All per&s;ons have been Warned and Commanded not to give any Countenance or A&s;&s;i&s;tance to the &s;aid <HI>Charls Stuart</HI> or his Party, but to Oppo&s;e them, and to A&s;&s;i&s;t the Forces of this Commonwealth for the apprehending of them, to which a mo&s;t chearful and general Obedience hath been given by the People according to their Du|ty, wherein the Parliament doth humbly acknowledge the Goodne&s;s of God to this Nation, and &s;hall not fail to manife&s;t their good Acceptance of the Peoples Affections herein; All which the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> having taken into their &s;erious Con&s;ideration, although they cannot conceive that any true Eng|li&s;hman can be debauched from the Duty and Fidelity which they owe to their Native Countrey, upon &s;uch Deluding and fal&s;e Pretences as the Enemy hath u&s;ed, and that therefore it is not nece&s;&s;ary to make any further Declaration herein; Yet for the more Notoriety of the Fact to all per&s;ons concerned to take knowledge of the &s;ame, and to avoid all pretence of Ignorance in any touching the Condition of this Man and his Followers, Have thought fit to Publi&s;h and Declare, And do hereby Publi&s;h and Declare the &s;aid <HI>Charls Stuart</HI> to be a Rebel, Traytor and Publique Enemy to the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> and all his Abettors, Agents and Complices to be Rebels, Traytors and publique Enemies to the Commonwealth of <HI>England;</HI> And do hereby Command all Officers Civil and Military, in all Market-Towns and conve|nient places, to cau&s;e this Declaration to be proclaimed and publi&s;hed.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Monday, <HI>25^t^h Augu&s;t,</HI> 1651.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Parliament, That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed by <HI>John Field</HI> Printer to the Parliament of <HI>England.</HI> 1651.</P>
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