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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Lunae 8. Septemb. 1645.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Lords and Commons in Parlia|ment a&s;&s;embled, are informed that by the &s;ub|tile and malicious practi&s;es of a Popi&s;h and malignant party, oppo&s;ite to Gods Cau&s;e and the pro&s;perity of this Kingdome, it hath been in&s;inuated and infu&s;ed into &s;undry of the In|habitants of His Maie&s;ties Dominions of <HI>Wales,</HI> to di&s;-affect and poy&s;on them again&s;t the proceedings of the Parliament, That it was their intention to gratifie our Brethren of <HI>Scot|land</HI> for their a&s;&s;i&s;tance in the&s;e our extremities drawne upon us by the &s;aid Popi&s;h and malignant party with the E&s;tates and Lands of the &s;aid Inhabitants, which is &s;o ab&s;olutely fal&s;e that it never entred into their thoughts, and con&s;equent|ly needed no refutation: Yet that the Subiects of this King|dome, inhabiting within the &s;aid Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> may receive full and befiting &s;ati&s;faction, and We and our Bre|thren of <HI>Scotland</HI> Vindication again&s;t &s;o foule and &s;o barba|rous an A&s;per&s;ion, the &s;aid Lords and Commons doe te&s;tifie and declare to all per&s;ons what&s;oever to whom the&s;e &s;hall come, That they doe much abhor and dete&s;t an Act of &s;uch Iniu&s;tice and Inhumanity, and that they are &s;o farre from doing any &s;uch thing, that if any of the &s;aid Inhabitants upon due &s;en&s;e and &s;orrow for any of their Crimes and Mi&s;|demeanours committed again&s;t the pre&s;ent Parliament, &s;hall &s;ubmit and apply them&s;elves by humble Petition to the Par|liament, and de&s;ire the favour of; and reconciliation to the &s;ame, the &s;aid Lords and Commons will be thereupon ready to receive any and all &s;uch upon &s;uch rea&s;onable termes as the wi&s;dome of the Parliament &s;hall thinke in &s;ome mea&s;ure proportionable to the qualities and degrees of their &s;everall Offences, and thereupon yeeld them all &s;uch aid and a&s;&s;i&s;t|ance as they &s;hall rea&s;onably de&s;ire, and the Parliament be able to afford. Provided alwayes that this &s;hall not extend to any that are excepted from Pardon within the Propo&s;itions lately pre&s;ented to His Maie&s;tie for a &s;afe and well grounded Peace.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ioh Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London printed for <HI>John Wright</HI> at the Kings head in the old Bayley. 9. Septemb. 1645.</P>
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