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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF THE Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Che&s;ter, WHOSE NAMES ARE SVBSCRIBED, Summoned to appear before His Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Array at the <HI>Roodey,</HI> within the Liberties of the &s;aid City, for their cleer manife&s;tation of their Allegi|ance to His Maje&s;tie, and duty to His Parliament;</HEAD>
<OPENER>Do Declare,</OPENER>
<P>_THat as it is a Sacred truth that a Kingdom divided cannot &s;tand, &s;o it is a legall principle, that His mo&s;t Sacred Ma|je&s;tie is the head, and the Parliament the repre&s;entative body of His Kingdom, and that in the Cordiall union of His Maje&s;tie and His Parliament con&s;i&s;ts the &s;afety, glo|ry, and the happine&s;&s;e thereof.</P>
<P>And They for their parts heartily wi&s;h they may be accur&s;ed as Corah and his Accomplices, that do or &s;hall purpo&s;ely occa&s;ion or foment any difference betweene His Maje&s;tie and His Parliament, And therefore they further declare their readine&s;&s;e with their Lives and Fortunes to obey His Maje&s;tie as their mo&s;t Deare and Dread Soveraigne according to their due Allegiance, and the re&s;o|lution to defend the ju&s;t Priviledges of Parliament according to their free and ju&s;t Prote&s;tation, and that as God and the Fundamentall Laws of this King|dom hath joyned His Maje&s;tie and the Parliament together, So they cannot agree unto a disjoynted obedience, but do Declare them&s;elves Enemies to all &s;uch as &s;hall go about to put His Maje&s;tie and the Parliament a&s;under.</P>
<P>And for this Re&s;olution they have great encouragement from His Maie|&s;ties own Declaration atte&s;ted with forty of the Nobility and Privie Councell, whereby He hath mo&s;t graciou&s;ly a&s;&s;ured them and all other His People, that He hath no more thoughts of making war again&s;t His Parliament, then again&s;t His own Children, &amp; that He will defend the iu&s;t Privileges of Parliament, and maintaine and ob&s;erve the Acts a&s;&s;ented to by His Gracious Maie&s;tie this pre|&s;ent Parliament without violation; for which as for other His Maie&s;ties &s;eve|rall gracious Prote&s;tations, for the defence of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Laws of the Land, they returne mo&s;t humble thanks to His Maje&s;tie.</P>
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<P>This Declaration w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">delivered by the Citizens of <HI>Che&s;ter</HI> to His Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Writ of Array.</P>
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<P>London, <HI>Printed for</HI> Edward Husbands <HI>and</HI> Iohn Frank&punc; <HI>July 20, 1642.</HI></P>
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