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<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Veneris,</HI> 13. <HI>Octob.</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Lords and Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, taking into con&s;idera|tion the manifold hazards and &s;ervices great numbers of Officers im|ployed in the &s;everall Armies, have for their &s;afetie and defence of the Parliament and Kingdome in the&s;e late Warres undergone and perfor|med: And being very &s;en&s;ible of their &s;aid &s;ervices, and of the great Ar|reare of Pay due to them for the &s;ame, have taken into their mo&s;t &s;erious debate many wayes and meanes for furture provi&s;ion for them, accor|ding to what their other weighty affaires will give leave; And being informed that many of the &s;aid Officers (invited thereto by Per&s;ons ill affected to the Parliament and the Publi|que affaires thereof) upon hopes of an immediate receiving &s;ome con&s;iderable part (at lea&s;t) of their Arreares are repayring to the Parliament, and Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter;</HI> The &s;aid Lords and Commons do therefore Order and Declare, and it is hereby Ordered and Declared, That all and every &s;uch Officers who have heretofore &s;erved the Parliament as afore&s;aid, and expect payment of their &s;aid Arreares, &s;hall and doe upon publication here|of, peaceably continue in the &s;everall Counties and Places of their aboade, and that they and every of them doe upon no pretence what&s;oever under penalty of lo&s;ing their &s;aid Arreares, repaire unto the Parliament or Cities afore&s;aid, to the di&s;turbance of both or either of the Hou&s;es during the weighty con&s;iderations they are upon, as well for a certaine and &s;peedy pro|vi&s;ion for the &s;aid Officers, as for the &s;etling of the publique Peace of the Kingdome: The &s;aid Lords and Commons intending by the ble&s;&s;ing of God with all convenient &s;peed to e&s;tabli&s;h &s;uch a provi&s;ion and &s;atisfaction for all the afore&s;aid Officers, as will witne&s;&s;e to the world their affections to and &s;ervices for the Parliament in this great Cau&s;e are not only well accepted of, but &s;hall al&s;o in due time be recompenced with &s;uitable &s;atisfaction to their very many and great de&s;ervings re&s;pectively.</P>
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<P>ORdered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Declaration be forthwith Printed, and &s;ent to the Sheriffes to be publi&s;hed in the &s;everall Counties.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Joh. 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, 1648.</P>
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