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<OPENER><DATELINE>&leaf; <DATE>Die Mercurii: 5^o Maii. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is this day <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">dered by the Hou&s;e of Commons now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the Preamble, together with the Prot<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">ation, which the Members of this Hou&s;e made the third of May, &s;hall be forthwith Printed&punc; and the Copie<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter"> 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&punc; Citiz<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and Burge&s;&s;es may &s;end them down to the Sheriffs and Ju&s;tices of Peace of the &s;everall Shi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and to the Citizs and Burge&s;&s;es of the &s;everall Cities, Boroughs, and Cinque Ports, re&s;pectively. And <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> Knights, Citiz<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">s, and Burge&s;&s;es, are to intimate unto the Shires, Cities, Boroughs, and Cinque Ports, with what willingne<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters"> 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;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">s, &s;o they cannot but approve it in all &s;uch as &s;hall take it.</P>
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<P><HI>_WE the Knight Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Commons hou&s;e in Parliament, finding, to the great grief of our <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">earts, 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 <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 word"> late been more boldly and frequently put in practice then formerly, to the undermining and danger <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 word"> the ruine of the true reformed Prote&s;tant Religion in His Maje&s;ties Dominions e&s;ta|bli&s;hed: A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">inding al&s;o that there have been, and having ju&s;t cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect that there &s;till are, even during this <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 span">ting in Parliament, indeavours to &s;ubvert the fundamentall Lawes of England and Ireland, a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters"> to introduce the exerci&s;e of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government, by mo&s;t per|nicious and wicked Coun<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">s, Practices, Plots, and Con&s;piracies: And that the long intermi&s;&s;ion&punc; and unhappy breach of Parliaments, h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">h occa&s;ioned many illegall Taxations, whereupon the Subject hath been pro&s;ecuted and grieved: And that di<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">rs Innovations and Super&s;titions have been brought into the Church; multitudes driven out of His Maje&s;ti Dominions, Iealou&s;ies rai&s;ed and fomented betwixt the King and His people, a Popi&s;h Army leavied in Ireland, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">d two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom, to the hazard of His Maje|&s;ties Royall Per&s;on, the co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">umption of the Revenues of the Crown, and Trea&s;ure of this Kingdom: And la&s;tly, finding great cau&s;e of Ielou&s;ie, that indeavours have been, and are u&s;ed to bring the Engli&s;h Army into a mi&s;un|der&s;tanding of this Parl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">ment, thereby to incline that Army, with force to bring to pa&s;&s;e tho&s;e wicked Councels, Have therefore thought <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">od to joyn our &s;elves in a Declaration of our united Affections and Re&s;olutions, and to make this en&s;uin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter"> Prote&s;tation.</HI></P>
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<P>_I A. B. do <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">n 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 Religion, expre&s;&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">n the Doctrine of the Church of England, again&s;t all Popery and Popi&s;h Innovations within th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">s Realm, contrary to the &s;ame Doctrine, and according to the duty of my Allegiance, His Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">ties Royall Per&s;on, Honour, and E&s;tate; As al&s;o the Power and Priviledges of Parlia|ment; 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 do in the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">awfull pur&s;uance of the &s;ame. And to my power, and as far as lawfully I may, I will oppo&s;e, and by all good wayes and means indeavour to bring to condigne puni&s;hment, all &s;uch as &s;hall either by Force, Practi&s;e, Counc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="2 letters">s, 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 between the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland; And neither for hope, fear, nor other re&s;pect, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in crease" EXTENT="1 letter">hall relinqui&s;h this Promi&s;e, Vow, and Prote&s;tation.</P>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of John Bill. 1641.</P>
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