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<P>A DECLARATION Of The LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT, With their Re&s;olution.</P>
<P>That if Captaine <HI>Catesby,</HI> Captaine <HI>Lil|borne,</HI> Captaine <HI>Vivers,</HI> or any others, which are or &s;hall be taken Pri&s;oners, by his Maje&s;ties Army, &s;hall be put to death, or any other hurt or Violence offered to their Per&s;ons, for their faithfull endeavours in the Par|liaments &s;ervice, the like puni&s;hment &s;hall be inflicted by death, or otherwi&s;e, upon &s;uch Pri&s;oners, as have bin or &s;hall bee taken by the forces rai&s;ed by authority of both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>Al&s;o that if Judge <HI>Heath,</HI> or any other Mini&s;ter of lu&s;tice &s;hall doe contrary to this Ordinance, they for &s;o doing &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and dealt with, as enemies to the King and Kingdome.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Sabbathi, Decemb. 17. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliaments, that this Declaration be forthwith Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Browne, Cler. Parl.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Decemb.</HI> 19. Printed for <HI>John Wright</HI> in the Old-Bailey. 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="Parliamentary declaration">
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Sabbathi, 17. Decemb. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas Informati|on hath bin given to the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;em|bled in Parlia|ment, That <HI>Clif|ton Catesby, John Lilborne,</HI> and <HI>Robert Vivers,</HI> Captaines in the Army, rai&s;ed by Authority of
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->both Hou&s;es of Parliament, for the nece&s;&s;ary defence of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, the King, parliamen, and Kingdome, un|der the Command of <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;sex,</HI> Captaine Gene rall thereof, were taken pri&s;oners by the Forces rai&s;ed again&s;t the parliament, in executing their &s;e|verall duties and &s;ervices, accor|ding to the Ordinances of both the &s;aid Hou&s;es, and after carried pri&s;oners to <HI>Oxford</HI> Coale, and ha|ving beene mo&s;t Barbarou&s;ly u&s;ed, are now que&s;tioned and proceeded again&s;t by way of In|dictment, before Sir <HI>Robert Heath</HI> Knight, one of His Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of the Kings Bench, and others (by colour of &s;ome Com|mi&s;&s;ion
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->or other Authority from His Maje&s;tie) for high Trea&s;on and other &s;uppo&s;ed Mi&s;demea|nors, whereas many have beene taken pri&s;oners by the Parliament Forces, in the Act of Warre a|gain&s;t the parliament, which by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme is Rebellion and high Trea&s;on again&s;t the King and Kingdome, and the Actors there|in Traytors, and yet none of them hath hitherto beene put to death, or otherwi&s;e &s;everely dealt with by the parliament.</P>
<P>It is therefore Ordered and Declared by the &s;aid Lords and Commons, that all &s;uch Indict|ments and other proceedings a|gain&s;t the &s;aid Captaine <HI>Catesby,</HI>
<PB REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 89 -->Captaine <HI>Lilborne,</HI> and Cap|taine <HI>Vivers,</HI> or again&s;t Captaine <HI>Wingate,</HI> who have done faithfull and good &s;ervice to the Com|mon. Wealth, or again&s;t any o|ther per&s;on or per&s;ons who have done or &s;hall doe &s;ervice in the &s;aid Army, or for the Ray&s;ing of any Money, plate, Hor&s;e, or Armes, for the maintenance ther|of, or otherwi&s;e in Execution of, or pur&s;uance of any Order or Ordinance of both or either of the &s;aid Hou&s;es of parliament, for the defence of the publique &s;afetie, are inju&s;t and illegall; and the &s;aid Sir <HI>Robert Heath,</HI> and all other Commi&s;&s;ioners, Iu&s;tices, Sheriffs, Iurors, and other Offi|cers and Mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice, and
<PB REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 89 -->other per&s;ons what&s;oever, are hereby required and injoyned, to &s;urcea&s;e any further proceeding again&s;t the &s;aid per&s;ons before named, or any other for any the cau&s;es afore&s;aid, upon the &s;aid Indictments or otherwi&s;e; And the &s;aid Lords and Com|mons doe further declare, that if the &s;aid per&s;ons before named, or any of them, or any other, &s;hall be put to death, or other hurt or vio|lence offered to their or any of their per&s;ons, for, or by rea&s;on of any &s;uch &s;ervice done, or to be done, by, or according to any Or|der or Ordinance of both or ei|ther of the &s;aid Hou&s;es, the like puni&s;hment &s;hall be inflicted by death or otherwi&s;e upon &s;uch pri|&s;oners
<PB REF="6" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 90 -->as have been or &s;hall be ta|ken by the Forces rai&s;ed by Au|thority of both Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment; And if the &s;aid Sir <HI>Robert Heath,</HI> or any other Commi&s;&s;io|ner, Iu&s;tice, Sheriffe, Juror, or o|ther Officer, or Mini&s;ter of ju&s;tice, or other per&s;on &s;hall doe con|trary to this Ordinance in any the premi&s;es, they and every of them for &s;o doing, &s;hall be proceeded again&s;t, and dealtwith, as Enemies to the King and Kingdome.</P>
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