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<P>THE EARLE OF PEMBROKE HIS DECLARATION and RESOLUTION, to the High Court of Parliament, CONCERNING His Election by the Parliament to be Generall for the We&s;terne Parts of the Kingdome, containing the&s;e Counties following: <HI>viz.</HI>
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<ITEM>Somer&s;et&s;hire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hamp&s;hire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dor&s;et&s;hire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Devon&s;hire.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>The I&s;le of Wight.</ITEM>
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<P>Wherein is &s;hewed his good affection to the King and Parli|ament, with his noble and undaunted Re&s;olution for pre&s;erving the peace of the Kingdome.</P>
<P>ALSO An Ordinance of Parliament for &s;etting out ten &s;hips for a Winter-guard for Ireland, with Letters of Surpri&s;all for the taking of the Rebels &s;hips, or any others that &s;hall offer to a&s;&s;i&s;t them.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON, Novemb.</HI> 1. Printed for <HI>Thomas Holt.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>THE EARLE OF PEMBROKE HIS DECLARATION and RESOLUTION concerning his being made Generall for the We&s;terne parts of the Kingdome.</HEAD>
<HEAD>ALSO An Ordinance of Parliament for the &s;etting forth of ten &s;hips more for a winter-guard for <HI>Ireland,</HI> with a Letter of Surpri&s;all for taking of the Rebels &s;hips, and all others that &s;hall a&s;si&s;t them.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, taking into con&s;ide|ration the great danger and mani|fold inconveniences which might happ<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> to the whole Kingdome, if Sir Ral<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Hopton and the other Malignants th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> take part with him, &s;hould in that rebelli|ous manner as they have already begun,
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contin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o rai&s;e more Force in the Coun|ty, and commit &s;uch outrages as they have done, in plundering and di&s;arming tho&s;e who &s;tand well-affected to the King and Parliament in that County, have thought it nece&s;&s;ary to nominate the Earle of Pem|broke to be Generall for the We&s;terne parts of the Kingdome, a Per&s;on of honour, power, fidelity and undaunted courage, who&s;e affection to this cau&s;e is &s;uch, that he hath in a publike manner declared his willingne&s;&s;e to obey the commands of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, in adventuring his life and fortunes in this cau&s;e, which &s;o much conduceth to the honour and good of the King, the pre&s;ervation of the Privi|ledges of Parliament, the maintenance of Religion, and the generall peace and &s;afety of the whole Kingdome. His Lord&s;hip hath &s;ufficiently declared his re&s;olution &amp; good affection to the publike good in his late Speech at Guild-Hall, intimating, that he had ever &s;o good a heart to this bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, that he was re&s;olved to live and die in it.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="3">The Counties of which he is made Ge|nerall are the&s;e: viz. Wilt&s;hire, Somer&s;et|&s;hire, Hamp&s;hire, Dor&s;et&s;hire, Devon&s;hire, Cornwall, and the I&s;le of Wight, and hath the like power with the Lord Generall the Earle of E&s;&s;ex, and is to di&s;arme the mali|gnants and ill-affected parties of tho&s;e Counties, and to quarter on their e&s;tates for the &s;ervice of the Common-wealth.</P>
<P>After the late battell betwixt Banbury, and Stratford upon Avon, betweene the Earl of E&s;&s;ex, and the Kings Forces, where|in many were &s;laine on both &s;ides, and di|ver&s;e eminent men of the Kings Party ta|ken pri&s;oners, as the Earl of Lind&s;ey Lord chiefe Generall of His Maje&s;ties Forces, the Lord Willoughby of Eresby his &s;onne, Sir Edmund Stradling, Colonell Vava&s;or, Colonell Lunsford, and divers more, his Excellency remaining Ma&s;ter of the field, marched with his Forces to Warwick, and is come &s;afe thither, and hath laid his pri|&s;oners in the Ca&s;tle, but the Earle of Lind|&s;ey, who was &s;orely wounded when he was taken pri&s;oner, in the &s;aid battell, is &s;ince dead.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="4">There was a Prie&s;ts lately taken at Clar+kenwell, who had a Letter found about him full of treachery again&s;t the King and Parliament, wherein are di&s;covered their policy u&s;ed for the &s;ubver&s;ion of the Pro|te&s;tant Religion, the &s;ub&s;tance of it was as followeth in the vere words of the Let|ter found about him.</P>
<P>We have now many &s;trings to our bow, and have &s;trongly fortified our faction, and we have added two bulwarks more. For when K. JAMES was very violent again&s;t Arminiani&s;me, and interrupted with his pe&s;tilent wit and deep learning our &s;trong de&s;ignes in Holland, and was a great friend to that old rebellious heretick the Prince of Orange; now we have planted the &s;o|veraigne drug of Arminiani&s;me, which we hope will purge the Prote&s;tants from their here&s;ie, and will flouri&s;h and bear fruit in due &s;ea&s;on.</P>
<P>But to return again to our main fabrick: In the fir&s;t place we take into con&s;ideration the Kings honour &amp; pre&s;ent nece&s;sity, and we &s;hew how the King may free him&s;elfe
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from his ward&s;hip as Lewis the 11. did; and for his great &s;plendor and lu&s;tre, he may rai&s;e va&s;t &s;ummes, and not be beholden to his &s;ubjects, which is by way of impo&s;ition and Exci&s;e: we in&s;tance the Low-Coun|treyes, and &s;hew what a ma&s;&s;e of money they rai&s;e to pay their armies both by &s;ea and land meerly out of Exci&s;e.</P>
<P>Then our Church Catholikes proceed to &s;hew the means how to &s;ettle this Exci&s;e which mu&s;t be by an Army of hor&s;e and foot; for we have made it &s;ure: they &s;hall be Forraigners, and Germans, vvho vvill eat up the Kings revenues, and &s;poile the countreys vvhere&s;oever they come, though they be vvell paid; vvhat havock vvill they make then vvhen they have no pay. If the countrey be too hard for the &s;ouldiers, they mu&s;t con&s;equently outrage, vvhich is e|qually advantagious to us.</P>
<P>There are three Troupes of hor&s;e gone out of Lincolne-&s;hire into York&s;hire for the aid of the Lord Fairfax and Captaine Hotham, again&s;t the Earle of Cumberland and his Cavaliers: Captaine Hotham hath
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made good Cawood Ca&s;tle and Selby, and is now to joyne his Forces with the Lord Fairfax, who hath rai&s;ed great &s;tore of men for the defence of the King &amp; Parliament. There is a Lieutenant Colonell and a Ser|jeant Major of the Kings Party taken in Buckingham&s;hire, and brought up to the Parliament and committed to &s;afe cu&s;tody.</P>
<P>Both Hou&s;es of Parliament have pa&s;&s;ed an Ordinance for the pre&s;ent &s;etting forth to &s;ea of ten &s;hips for a winter guard for Iteland, and that for all the prizes they &s;hall take, a third part be divided among&s;t the Commanders and Saylors in the Ship for their better encouragement; be&s;ides the Parliament have al&s;o granted Letters of Surpri&s;all to other Merchants, to take the Rebels &s;hips, or any others that &s;hall offer to a&s;si&s;t them.</P>
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