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<P>A DECLARATION MADE TO THE KINGDOME, BY <HI>HENRY</HI> EARLE OF HOLLAND.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Mathew Walbancke.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION made to the Kingdome, by <HI>Henry</HI> Earle of <HI>Holland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_I Have not forborne either out of forget|fulne&s;&s;e, or guiltine&s;&s;e, to &s;end forth the&s;e <HI>Expre&s;sions</HI> thus publiquelie, though I confe&s;&s;e, <HI>they</HI> are of a na|ture, in the which I have &s;o litle dexte|rity, as, I may rather give advantage, to &s;uch as would be ready to &s;eeke it; then &s;atisfaction, to tho&s;e, that would be plea&s;ed to take it.</P>
<P>I was willing to take this Nationall <HI>Covenant,</HI> that bindes up the&s;e Kingdomes in &s;uch an unity, and in &s;o happy an agreement. And likewi&s;e to pa&s;&s;e through any <HI>tryall,</HI> that &s;o may Actions might be laid open, <HI>before</HI> this di&s;cour&s;e, That thereby it might find the more credit. And I do pa&s;sionatly wi&s;h,
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->that the <HI>thoughts</HI> and <HI>intentions</HI> I caryed to <HI>Oxford</HI> could likwi&s;e be <HI>&s;oe;</HI> Which &s;ince they cannot, nor pa&s;&s;e by any other Conveyance, to the knowledge of &s;uch, as I de&s;ire to &s;atisfie, I &s;hall here freely, and faithfully <HI>expre&s;&s;e</HI> them.</P>
<P>Though I have ever, both in my pious duties, and my naturall rea&s;on, wi&s;hed, and endeavoured, to &s;ee this Kingdome re&s;tored to the comforts, and re&s;t of <HI>Peace,</HI> yet, was I never &s;uch a &s;eeker of it, as to de&s;ire to find it, without tho&s;e ble&s;sings, we have endeavoured to procure with it, of <HI>Truth,</HI> and <HI>true liberty,</HI> agreeable to the Condition of free, and un|dejected Subjects; Yet, &s;uch were my <HI>hopes,</HI> I con|fe&s;&s;e, (made &s;o, by many publique relations, and di&s;cour&s;es from <HI>Oxford,</HI> as they were even, formed into an <HI>opinion</HI>) That upon a free, and faithfull re|pre&s;entation to his Maje&s;ty, of the &s;ad, and deplo|rable condition of his Kingdomes of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> he might have beene per&s;waded, to have <HI>Offered,</HI> even tho&s;e things, from his owne <HI>rea&s;on,</HI> or <HI>Wi&s;dome,</HI> that we for our <HI>nece&s;sity,</HI> and <HI>Con&s;ervation</HI> have often, and humbly <HI>petitioned</HI> him for. And when this was made, not onely <HI>po&s;sible,</HI> but <HI>pro|bable,</HI> unto mee; I did conceive my &s;elfe not to bee the <HI>unpropere&s;t per&s;on</HI> to repre&s;ent the&s;e things
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->unto His Maie&s;ty, from a long and neere <HI>relation</HI> not onely to His <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> but His <HI>Councells:</HI> Where I may truely &s;ay, I have endeavored to oppo&s;e all <HI>advi&s;es,</HI> that, I beleeved, could rai&s;e any <HI>mi&s;|under&s;tanding</HI> or <HI>divi&s;ion</HI> betwixt His Parliament and people. And this, I am per&s;waded, hath beene apparent in all my actions, and that, very cleare|ly, (I will not &s;ay dangerou&s;ly) when His Maie|&s;ty advi&s;ed with his Coun&s;ell, concerning the <HI>breaking</HI> off the la&s;t Parliament, I having ever look|ed upon tho&s;e re&s;olutions, as unhappie, and dan|geous wayes of Governement in this King|dome.</P>
<P>But I &s;hall &s;ay no more in this way, &s;ince, as it leades towards <HI>my &s;elfe,</HI> even <HI>Truthes,</HI> thus looking <HI>homeward,</HI> may, abroad, be looked upon as <HI>vanities;</HI> Otherwi&s;e, there are many particu|lars, that would &s;how my <HI>Coun&s;ells</HI> to His Ma|ie&s;tie, and my <HI>imployments from</HI> him, to have been ever expre&s;&s;ed, and governed, with great Fideli|ty to this Kingdome.</P>
<P>The&s;e faithfull, and free <HI>Councells,</HI> made me hope, His Maie&s;ty, with &s;ome rea&s;on, and ju|&s;tice, might have reflected, and looked backe upon my u&s;uall advi&s;es unto him, and from
<PB N="6" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 89 -->thence have given mee encouragement, to have pur&s;ued both my Fidelity to Him, and to His Kingdomes, brought to this condition by con|trary Coun&s;ells. Which finding His Maie&s;ty not per&s;waded to doe, And at that time, &s;uch a <HI>Ce&s;|&s;ation</HI> concluded in <HI>Ireland,</HI> as made mee &s;ee the <HI>streames</HI> of Councell <HI>dyed</HI> in the bloud of many thou&s;and <HI>Protestants,</HI> ma&s;&s;acred in their Martyr|dome there: And not onely &s;o, But a danger likewi&s;e by too many vi&s;ible circum&s;tances, threat|ned to our <HI>Religion,</HI> in <HI>this Kingdome.</HI> The&s;e rea|&s;ons prevailed &s;traight, both upon my <HI>Con|&s;cience,</HI> and my <HI>Iudgment,</HI> &s;peedily to <HI>returne</HI> unto the <HI>Parliament;</HI> Streames, though by accident, or by breaches, they may ha&s;tily runne, even out of their owne <HI>Bo&s;ome,</HI> yet natu|rally are they inclined to revert, and to looke backe to their Channells, and long-kept cour&s;e againe, &s;o was it with me, to returne unto this Great Channell of the <HI>Kingdomes &s;afety,</HI> the <HI>Par|liament;</HI> the <HI>Life-streame,</HI> that doth encompa&s;&s;e, and hath depth onely, to beare the <HI>weight,</HI> and to <HI>buoye</HI> up the <HI>honour</HI> of this endangered, and di&s;tracted Kingdome: Where, I faithfully <HI>im|barque</HI> my &s;elfe, to take tho&s;e <HI>Fortunes,</HI> that God
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 89 -->&s;hall &s;end mee, either <HI>with them,</HI> or <HI>from them.</HI> And no <HI>Tempe&s;t</HI> &s;hall have power to make me repent my <HI>Adventure,</HI> both of <HI>Life,</HI> and <HI>Fortune</HI> with them; Where, though I may bee ju&s;tly e&s;teemed but as a <HI>graine in a ballance,</HI> yet the &s;malle&s;t <HI>dus;t,</HI> adds &s;omething to the <HI>Scales;</HI> And &s;ince I have made an <HI>uneven</HI> &s;tep, from the <HI>unclearenes</HI> of my information, more then from the <HI>unfaithfulne&s;&s;e</HI> of my affections, or intentions, I hope, it may be looked upon, and con&s;idered, as the <HI>Proverbe,</HI> that &s;aith, <HI>Who&s;oever stumbles, and falles not, gets rather then loo&s;es, ground.</HI></P>
<P>And, this ground <HI>I</HI> profe&s;&s;e faithfully to &s;tand, or fall upon, That, <HI>I</HI> &s;hall choo&s;e rather to <HI>peri&s;h</HI> with the Parliament, in their intentions, to main|taine our Religion, Lawes, and Liberties, then to <HI>pro&s;per</HI> in the abandoning of the <HI>lea&s;t</HI> of them. And this I bind up by the vowes of a <HI>Christian,</HI> and a <HI>Gentleman.</HI></P>
<P><HI>This is Printed according to Order.</HI></P>
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