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<HEAD><DATE><HI>Die Jovis</HI> 28. <HI>Julii.</HI> 1642.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF The LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT, Vpon information received, that divers of His Maje&s;ties Souldiers under colour of his command, and in &s;ome places countenanced by his Maje&s;ties Pre&s;ence, have violently attempted to &s;eize on the Magazine in &s;undry places.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Lords and Commons have received diver&s;e informations from &s;everall Counties, that the Soul|diers rai&s;ed by His Maie&s;ty, and that other ill affect|ed per&s;ons under the colour of his Command, and in &s;ome places countenaunced by His Maie&s;ties pre|&s;ence do endeavor with violence, and in a ho&s;tile man|ner to take away the magazines of powder, and Armes out of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Counties (who&s;e proper goods they are, being purcha&s;ed with their owne mo|nies) and likewi&s;e to di&s;arme the trayned-Bands of the County, to the end that the &s;aid Counties being deprived of the meanes of their owne ju&s;t defence, might bee expo&s;ed to the malice, and fury of tho&s;e wicked per&s;ons that &s;hould bee armed with their owne weapons; It is decla|red by the Lords and Commons, That who&s;oever &s;hall endeavor to pre&s;erve the magazines of any county, or the Armes of the train'd, or voluntary Bands, and to defend them by force, if the &s;ame &s;hall be attempted to bee taken away, &s;hall doe according to Law, and their duty, as likewi&s;e all other per&s;ons &s;hall, of what county &s;oever, being a&s;&s;i&s;tant to them therein; And they doe further Order and declare that all per&s;ons what&s;oever, &s;hall u&s;e their utmo&s;t endea|vour to re&s;i&s;t any attempt that &s;hall bee made, for the &s;urpri&s;e of any &s;uch ma|gazine, or armes of the trayn'd or voluntary Bands, and that every per&s;on in &s;o doing &s;hall be protected, and &s;aved harmele&s;&s;e, by the authority, and power of both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Jovis 28. Iuly 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Lords in Parliament, That this Declaration &s;hall be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Io. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>I. Wright.</HI> 1642.</P>
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