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<HEAD><HI>THE</HI> DECLARATION OF THE GENLEMEN AND OTHERS now in Armes in the COUNTY of HEREFORD.</HEAD>
<HEAD>By Commi&s;&s;ion from his highne&s;&s;e the Prince of <HI>Wales:</HI> under the Command of Sir <HI>Henry Lyngen</HI> Knight, Collonell Generall of the &s;aid Countie.</HEAD>
<P>_TO wave all mi&s;con&s;tructions that may unhappily bee ca&s;t upon our reall intentions in this pre&s;ent engagement, Wee thought it nece&s;&s;ary to hint upon and publi&s;h &s;ome principles and motives that have induced us hereunto wherein wee &s;hall bee very &s;ubmit in regard our fellow-Subiects even of the humble&s;t fortunes and capacities are already not incen&s;ible of them.</P>
<P>After the &s;torme of the late Warre was blowne over, and the <HI>Scots</HI> calmed and retired within their owne confines, both they and wee in this vimd&s;all concernment &s;tood at gaze, hoping to ta&s;t of the &s;weet and often promi&s;ed fruits of the many Declarations and Prote&s;tations of the two Hou&s;es and Armies for the &s;ettlement of the Kingdomes, Peace, Religion, Lawes, and His Maie&s;ty in his pri|&s;time Rights with glory and &s;plendor, equall to the be&s;t of his Progenitors.</P>
<P>But our pregnant expectations herein mi&s;carried, for the King is iugled in the Ile of <HI>Wyght,</HI> barber|ou&s;ly mi&s;u&s;ed, traterou&s;ly and de&s;perately con&s;pired again&s;t, being yet &s;carce a Pri&s;oner of hope, his mo&s;t Royall Con&s;ort di&s;uorced, bani&s;ht, and mo&s;t of his Princely Race under an unnaturall re&s;traine, the knowne and ancient Lawes (which are the principall &s;ecurity of the Subiects pro&s;perity) di&s;pirret|ed, and daily wounded by contradictory Votes and Ordinances upon every e&s;tates de&s;igne, Religion who|ly unioynted and in &s;tead of a &s;ettled Peace, a Sci&s;maticall Army is propagated with a propetuated &s;upported of &s;ixty thou&s;and pound a Moneth, be&s;ides Exci&s;e, Free-quarter, and imnumerable other va&s;t and in&s;upportable pre&s;tures, among&s;t which wee cannot pa&s;&s;e by the Arbitrary and uncontrolled power of the Committees and Governours of the &s;aid Citie and County, by which our Pur&s;es have, beene milked, our Per&s;ons impri&s;oned, our Hor&s;es taken away, our Cattle driven, and many of us plundred, and bloodily butchered at <HI>Kington,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, without appeale or knowne Law what&s;oever, and for the more firme intayleing of this ua&s;&s;alage upon us and our Po&s;teritie they have laid a foundation for the future of a new <HI>Militia</HI> to over-awe and and in&s;lave us to the Law-martiall for ever.</P>
<P>Wherefore finding all their pretences in order to peace and &s;ettlement, to bee &s;haddowy (not to mention the Votes of new Addre&s;&s;es, whereby the doore of all pacification was lately bolted) and their dilatorie overtures &s;till to cla&s;h with the Honour and Con&s;cience of his Maie&s;ty, Wee have for the antecedeinge cau&s;es re-a&s;&s;mued our Armes and doe declare, that with the expence of our blood and uttermo&s;t hazard of our lives and fortunes wee will endeavour again&s;t all oppo&s;ition what&s;oever to re|&s;traint his Maie&s;ty with glory and honour, to repeale the Queene from bani&s;hment, to enlarge the roy|all Children under re&s;traint, to e&s;tabli&s;h the true Prote&s;tant Religion, and knowne Lawes, to have a free Parliament, for the better &s;ettling of our differences, to pre&s;erve the Union betweene us and the <HI>Scots,</HI> according to the Act of Pacification, and with the extirpation of all Arbitrary power nulling of all illegall Taxes, and disbanding of Armies, to obtaine a la&s;ting well-grounded and honourable Peace, in per&s;uance of which ends (being fully authorized and encouraged by his Highne&s;&s;e the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> Captaine Generall of his Maie&s;ties Forces by Sea and Land, within the Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> from whom the charge and Cammanded in chiefe of the City and County com|mi&s;&s;ioned to Sir <HI>Henry Lyngen,</HI> (under Hand and Seale) We are confident that all the good and loy|all Subiects of this and the adiacent Counties, for we &s;hall have others to their demirits will ri&s;e and engage with us, or contrubute a&s;&s;i&s;tance to us, declining all obedience to any other authority what|&s;oever, in which engagement (wee by Gods grace) hope to demeane our &s;elues, that the whole King|dome &s;hall &s;ee wee &s;quint not upon &s;elfe-ends, but firmely fix our eyes upon the publike intre&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER>And &s;o God &s;ave the King and ble&s;&s;e our endeavours.</CLOSER>
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