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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>6. <HI>Julii;</HI> 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF The <HI>LORDS</HI> and <HI>COMMONS</HI> a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, Declaring <HI>John Web&s;ter, Theophilus Bainham, Edward Manning, Richard Ford</HI> and <HI>James Yard,</HI> Merchants, to be Incendiaries between the United Provinces, and the Kingdom and Parliament of <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas <HI>John Web&s;ter, Theophilus Bainham, Edward Manning, Richard Ford, and James Yard,</HI> Merchants, contrary to their Allegiance and Duty, have done and committed &s;everall Actions tending to the De&s;truction of this Kingdom, and to maintain the bloody and mo&s;t unnaturall War now rai&s;ed again&s;t the Parliament and Kingdom:</P>
<P>It is Declared by the Lords and Commons now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the &s;aid <HI>John Web&s;ter, Theophilus Bainham, Edward Manning, Richard Ford,</HI> and <HI>James Yard,</HI> have by the &s;aid Actions manife&s;ted them&s;elves to be Incendiaries and Enemies to the Parliament and Kingdom of <HI>England;</HI> And be it Ordained by the &s;aid Lords and Commons, That if any per&s;on or Subject of this Kingdom, &s;hall after publication hereof, imploy the &s;aid <HI>John Web&s;ter, Theophilus Bainham, Edward Manning, Richard Ford</HI> and <HI>James Yard,</HI> or any of them in their &s;ervice as Factors, or otherwi&s;e in Trading or Merchandize, or con&s;igne or convey any Money, Merchandize, or Goods, to them or any of them, or to others to their or any of their u&s;e or u&s;es, That all &s;uch Goods &s;hall be taken and &s;eized on as forfeit, and &s;uch per|&s;ons, for &s;ending &s;uch Money, Goods and Merchandize, to be taken as Ayders and Main|tainers of per&s;ons that are Traytors and Rebells.</P>
<P>And that the Deputy Governour, and A&s;&s;i&s;tants of the Fellow&s;hip of the Merchant Adventurers re&s;iding at <HI>Rotterdam</HI> in <HI>Holland,</HI> do forthwith exclude the per&s;ons abovenamed their Court, and from all meetings of the &s;aid Fellow&s;hip, and not permit them to enjoy any priviledge or immunity granted or belonging to the &s;aid Fellow&s;hip and Company.</P>
<P>And that the &s;aid Deputy Governour and A&s;si&s;tants, do forthwith cau&s;e the &s;aid <HI>Theo|philus Bainham, James Yard</HI> and <HI>Richard Ford,</HI> to be apprehended and taken, and to be &s;ent over into this Kingdom, to be proceeded with, as Incendiaries between the States of the Vni|ted Provinces, and Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and as per&s;ons that have attempted to break the Amity, and long maintained Vnion and Friend&s;hip between the &s;aid two Nations.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Die Sabbathi,</HI> <DATE>6. Iulii, 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons,</HI> That this Declaration be printed and publi&s;hed; And &s;ent to the Lord Major, to be publi&s;hed by the common Cryer in Exchange time, and to be publi&s;hed upon the Exchange.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LONDON: Printed for <HI>Edward Husbands. Julii</HI> 13. 1644.</P>
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