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<HEAD>The Declaration agreed upon by the Committee of the Hou&s;e of Commons appointed to &s;it in the Guildhall in London, to con&s;ider of the &s;afety of the Kingdom, and of the City of London. And of the pre&s;erving the Priviledges of Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Ma&s;ter <HI>Wilde</HI> Serjeant at Law, &s;itting in the Chaire of that Committee. <DATE>6. <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas the Chambers&punc; Studies, and Truncks of M. <HI>Hollis,</HI> Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;le|rige,</HI> M. <HI>Pym,</HI> M. <HI>Hampden,</HI> and M. <HI>Strode,</HI> Members of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, upon Munday the 3. of this in&s;tant <HI>January,</HI> by colour of His Maje&s;ties Warrant have been &s;ealed up by Sir <HI>William Kilegrey,</HI> and Sir <HI>William Flemen</HI> and others; which is not only again&s;t the Priviledge of Parliament, but the common Liberty of e|very Subject: Which &s;aid Members afterwards, the &s;ame day were under the like colour, by Serjeant <HI>Frances,</HI> one of His Maje&s;ties Serjeants at Arms, contrary to all former Pre|&s;idents and Priviledges of Parliaments demanded of the Speaker, &s;itting in the Hou&s;e of Commons to be delivered unto him, that he might Arre&s;t them of High Trea&s;on: And whereas afterwards the next day His Maje&s;ty in His Royall Per&s;on came to the &s;aid Hou&s;e attended with a great multitude of men armed in warlike manner, with Halberts, Swords, and Pi&s;tolls, who came up to the very door of the hou&s;e, and placed them&s;elves there, and in other places and pa&s;&s;ages neer to the &s;aid hou&s;e, to the great terrour and di&s;turbance of the Members thereof, then &s;itting, and according to their dutie, in a peaceable and or|derly manner, treating of the great Affairs of England and Ireland: And his Maje&s;ty having placed him&s;elf in the Speakers Chair, demanded of them the Per&s;ons of the &s;aid Members to be delivered unto him, which is a high Breach of the Rights and Privi|ledges of Parliament, and incon&s;i&s;tent with the Liberties, and Freedom thereof. And whereas afterwards his Maje&s;ty did i&s;&s;ue forth &s;everall Warrants to divers Officers, under his own hand, for the apprehen&s;ion of the Per&s;ons of the &s;aid Members, which by Law he cannot do, there being not all this time, any Legall charge or Accu&s;ation, or due Proce&s;&s;es of Law i&s;&s;ued again&s;t them, nor any pretence of charge made known to that hou&s;e; all which are again&s;t the Fundamentall Liberties of the Subject, and the Rights of Parlia|ment. Whereupon we are nece&s;&s;itated, according to our duty, to declare, That if any Per&s;on &s;hall arre&s;t M. <HI>Hollis,</HI> Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerige,</HI> M. <HI>Pym,</HI> M. <HI>Hampden,</HI> and M. <HI>Strode,</HI> or any of them, or any other Member of Parliament, by pretence or colour of any Warrant i&s;&s;uing out from the King only, is guilty of the Breach of the Liberties of the Subject, and of the Priviledge of Parliament, and a publike enemy to the Common-wealth. And that the Arre&s;ting of the &s;aid Members, or any of them, or of any oth&eacute;r Member of Parliament, by any Warrant what&s;oever, without a Legall proceeding again&s;t them, and without con&s;ent of that hou&s;e, whereof &s;uch Per&s;on is a Member, is again&s;t the Liberty of the Subject, and a Breach of Priviledge of Parliament; And the Per&s;on which &s;hall Arre&s;t any of the&s;e Per&s;ons, or any other Member of the Parliament, is declared a publike enemy of the Common-wealth.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding all which we think fit further to declare, that we are &s;o farre from any endeavour to protect any of our Members, that &s;hall be in due manner pro&s;ecuted according to the Laws of the Kingdom, and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament for Trea&s;on, or any other mi&s;demeanor, That none &s;hall be more ready and willing then we our &s;elves, to bring them to their &s;peedy, and due tryall, Being &s;en&s;ible that it e|qually imports us, as well to &s;ee Ju&s;tice done again&s;t them that are criminous, as to de|fend the ju&s;t Rights and Liberties of the Subjects, and Parliament of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>This is the true Copy which was &s;ent from the Committee, to <HI>Jo&s;eph Hun&s;cott</HI> for to print.</P>
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