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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Lunae, 17 Iulii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WEe the Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, Taking into our con&s;ideration the late high In&s;urrecti|on in <HI>Kent,</HI> &s;o &s;uddenly and wonderfully quelled by the ble&s;&s;ing of God, upon that &s;mall Part of the Army under the conduct of the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> Generall, cannot but be deeply &s;en&s;ible of the evill demerits of &s;uch per&s;ons as have any waies had a hand therein; as al&s;o of the mi&s;chevi|ous con&s;equences that offenders in &s;o high a nature &s;hould goe unpuni&s;hed, yet are we de|&s;irous to u&s;e all po&s;&s;ible lenitie towards tho&s;e who are in any mea&s;ure capable thereof.</P>
<P>And doe therefore hereby declare, that although we &s;ee a nece&s;&s;ity that &s;ome capitall ex|amples be made, yet &s;hall our principall aime therein be, that all may be warned by the puni&s;h|ment of few.</P>
<P>And although others who have thus employed their e&s;tates again&s;t the Parliament and King|dome, to the rai&s;ing and fomenting of new di&s;tractions and troubles have ju&s;tly incurred a totall forfeiture of the &s;ame, towards the repairing of the publique lo&s;&s;es and damages by them occa&s;ioned, yet &s;hall we thereunto extend onely the Seque&s;tration of the e&s;tates of the principall actors, namely &s;uch as have been formerly in armes again&s;t the Parliament, or in former In&s;urrections in that County, or who have taken upon them to Act in this In&s;urrection, as Commi&s;&s;ioners or Commanders, or who have been therein notoriou&s;ly active in Plunderings, or Impri&s;onments, and &s;uch Mini&s;ters as have been active in this In&s;urrection, and as for &s;uch other per&s;ons who onely through ignorance or weaknes in them&s;elves, and the &s;ubtilties or threats of others have been &s;educed or terrified into &s;ome mi&s;taken or unwilling complyance in that action, we doe hereby warne all tho&s;e not to flatter them&s;elves for the future, in &s;uch unworthy principals, &s;o prone and ea&s;ie to be wrought upon to joyne with evill doers.</P>
<P>And do likewi&s;e hereby require every &s;uch per&s;on who expects the favour of this &s;o gentle a warning, that they engage them|&s;elves that they will never beare armes again&s;t the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, or again&s;t any that derive Authority from them, nor wittingly doe any thing to the prejudice of their affaires, or to the di&s;turbance of the Peace of that County, upon which &s;aid ingagement entered into by &s;uch per&s;ons as come not under any the afore&s;aid former qualifications of principall actors, or who having been taken by the Lord Generall as Pri&s;oners of warre, are not by him already &s;et apart by lott, or o|therwi&s;e for a judiciall triall to be appointed by this Hou&s;e, the &s;aid engagers (not as before excepted) and every of them are hereby declared to be freely pardoned, and &s;o long as they &s;hall demea&s;ne them&s;elves according to their &s;aid engage|ment, are not to be proceeded again&s;t by any mulct or penalty what&s;oever for the &s;aid offence, nor to be any waies lyable for the &s;ame, otherwi&s;e then what they are and &s;hall be lyable unto by action or &s;uit at law, for &s;atisfaction unto particular per|&s;ons by them damnified, wherein each particular per&s;on is left unto his legall remedy for reparations or recovery of damages as if this Declaration had not been made.</P>
<P>And the Churchwarden or Churchwardens of the &s;everall pari&s;hes within the &s;aid County for the time being, are hereby required to provide and keepe a regi&s;ter or booke wherein the &s;aid ingagement is to be written and &s;ub&s;cribed as afore&s;aid, within three dayes after notice of this Declaration unto any of the &s;aid per&s;ons who expect the benefit thereof.</P>
<P>And the Mini&s;ters of the &s;aid &s;everall Pari&s;hes are hereby required openly to read this Declaration in their &s;everall Pari&s;h Churches upon the next Lords day after the receipt thereof, at &s;ome convenient time before the di&s;mi&s;&s;ing of the Congre|gation from the mornings exerci&s;e; And at the &s;ame time to give the people &s;ome &s;ea&s;onable in&s;tructions and exhortations, touching their duty of thankfulnes unto God for &s;o great a mercy, as the &s;peedy &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of that In&s;urrection; as al&s;o tou|ching their duty of quiet and peaceable demeanour towards tho&s;e who are in publique place and authority; and to take heed of the Councels and Practi&s;es of tho&s;e, who upon what pretence &s;oever are the Stirrers up of &s;editions and tumults.</P>
<P>And the Committee of the &s;aid County are hereby required to take care of the &s;peedy di&s;per&s;ing of this Declaration, and to take a &s;trict account of what is due according as is hereby required by the Mini&s;ters and other per&s;ons re&s;pectively concerned.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Henry El&s;yng Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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