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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>&leaf; <DATE>Die Mercurii: 5^o Maii. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is this day Ordered by the Hou&s;e of Commons now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the Preamble, together with the Prote&s;tation, which the Members of this Hou&s;e made the third of May, &s;hall be forthwith Printed, and the Copies Printed brought to the Clark of the &s;aid Hou&s;e, to atte&s;t under his hand, to the end that the Knights, Citizens, &amp; Burge&s;&s;es may &s;end them down to the Sheriffs and Ju&s;tices of Peace of the &s;everal Shires, and to the Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es of the &s;everall Cities, Boroughs, and Cinque Ports, re&s;pectively. And the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es, are to intimate unto the Shires, Cities, Boroughs, and Cinque Ports, with what willingne&s;&s;e all the Members of this Hou&s;e made this Prote&s;tation: And further to &s;ignifie, that as they ju&s;tifie the taking of it in them&s;elves, &s;o they cannot but approve it in all &s;uch as &s;hall take it.</P>
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<P>_WE the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Commons hou&s;e in Parliament, finding, to the great griefe of our hearts, that the de&s;ignes of the Prie&s;ts and Ie&s;uites, and other Adherents to the See of <HI>Rome,</HI> have of late been more boldly and frequently put in practice then formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true reformed Prote&s;tant Religion in His Maie&s;ties Dominions e&s;tabli&s;hed: And finding al&s;o that there have been, and having iu&s;t cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect that there &s;till are, even during this &s;itting in Parliament, indeavours to &s;ubvert the fundamentall Lawes of England and Ireland, and to introduce the exerci&s;e of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government, by mo&s;t pernicious and wicked Coun&s;els, Practices, Plots, and Con|&s;piracies: And that the long intermi&s;&s;ion, and unhappy breach of Parliaments, hath occa&s;ioned many illegal Taxa|tions, whereupon the Subiect hath been pro&s;ecuted and grieved: And that divers Innovations and Super&s;titions have been brought into the Church&punc; multitudes driven out of His Maie&s;ties Dominions, Iealou&s;ies rai&s;ed and fo|mented betwixt the King and His people, a Popi&s;h Army leavied in Ireland, and two Armies brought into the bow|els of t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">is Kingdome, to the hazard of his Maie&s;ties Royall Per&s;on, the con&s;umption of the Revenues of the Crown, and Trea&s;ure of this Kingdom: And la&s;tly finding great cau&s;e of Iealou&s;ie, that indeavours have been, and are u&s;ed to bring the Engli&s;h Army into a mi&s;under&s;tanding of this Parliament, thereby to incline that Army, with force to bring to pa&s;&s;e tho&s;e wicked Coun&s;els, Have therefore thought good to ioyne our &s;elves in a Declaration of our united Affections and Re&s;olutions, and to make this en&s;uing Prote&s;tation.</P>
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<P>_I A. B. do in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, Promi&s;e, Vow, and Prote&s;t, to maintain and defend, as far as lawfully I may, with my life, power, and e&s;tate, the true Reformed Prote&s;tant Reli|gion, expre&s;&s;ed in the Doctrine of the Church of England again&s;t all Popery and Popi&s;h In|novations within this Realm, contrary to the &s;ame doctrine, and according to the duty of my Allegiance, His Maje&s;ties Royall Per&s;on, Honour, and E&s;tate; As al&s;o the Power and Privi|ledges of Parliament; The Lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and every per&s;on that maketh this Prote&s;tation, in what&s;oever he &s;hall doe in the lawfull pur&s;uance of the &s;ame. And to my pow|er, and as far as lawfully I may, I will oppo&s;e, and by all good wayes and meanes indeavour to bring to con|digne puni&s;hment, all &s;uch as &s;hall either by Force, Practice, Coun&s;els, Plots, Con&s;piracies, or otherwi&s;e, do any thing to the contrary of any thing in this pre&s;ent Prote&s;tation contained. And further, that I &s;hall in all ju&s;t and Honourable wayes indeavour to pre&s;erve the Union and Peace betweene the three Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland; And neither for hope, feare, nor other re&s;pect, &s;hall relinqui&s;h this Promi&s;e, Vow, and Prote&s;tation.</P>
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<P>_WHereas &s;ome doubts have been rai&s;ed by &s;everall per&s;ons out of this Hou&s;e, concerning the meaning of the&s;e words contained in the Prote&s;tation lately made by the Members of this Hou&s;e, <HI>(viz.) The true reformed Prote&s;tant Religion, expre&s;&s;ed in the Doctrine of the Church of England again&s;t all Popery and Popi&s;h In|novations within this Realm, contrary to the &s;ame doctrine;</HI> This Hou&s;e doth declare, That by tho&s;e words, was and is meant, onely the publick Doctrine profe&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid Church, &s;o far as it is oppo&s;ite to Po|pery and Popi&s;h Innovations; And that the &s;aid words are not to be extended to the maintaining of any form of Wor|&s;hip, Di&s;cipline, or Government, nor of any Rites or Ceremonies of the &s;aid Church of England.</P>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty: And by the A&s;signes of John Bill. 1641.</P>
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