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<P> A DECLARATION OF THE Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, WITH INSTRVCTIONS for the Lords Lieutenants, Com|mittees of Parliament, and other Officers and Commanders in the Counties of <HI>Warwick</HI> and <HI>Stafford,</HI> and Cities and Counties of <HI>Coventry</HI> and <HI>Lichfield;</HI> Touching the a&s;&s;ociation of the &s;aid Counties and parts adjacent, for the defence of them&s;elves and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing and di&s;arming of Enemies, and per&s;ons ill-affected. And for ray&s;ing of Plate, and Monies for that end and purpo&s;e.</P>
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<P><HI>ORdered to be Printed,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Io. Brown</HI> Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED><HI>Henry El&s;.</HI> Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Henry Overton,</HI> in <HI>Popes-Head-Alley,</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Lords and Commons now in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, being certainely informed that Papi&s;ts and other wicked, and ill affected per&s;ons, have traiterou&s;ly combined toge|ther, and entred into a&s;&s;ociation, and have rai&s;ed, and daily do rai&s;e great forces both of hor&s;e and foote, in &s;e|verall Counties of this Kingdome, and have plundered, &s;poyled, and de&s;troyed, multitudes of his Maje&s;ties good Subjects, and if not timely prevented, will utterly &s;ubvert, and de&s;troy the true pro|te&s;tant religion (which is their chiefe de&s;igne) the lawes of the Land, the priviledges of Parliament, and the liberty of the Subjects. The &s;aid Lords and Commons doe declare, that they hold it a thing mo&s;t fit and nece&s;&s;ary for the pre&s;ent &s;tate of this Kingdome. And for the better &s;ecuring of the County of Warwicke, and City and County of Couentry, and of the County of Stafford, and City and County of Lichfield, and the parties adjacent to the &s;aid Counties, and doe accordingly, Order and Ordaine; That the Lords Livetenants and the Committees of parliament hereafter named (that is to &s;ay) for the County of Warwicke, and City and County of Coventry, Sir <HI>Peter Wentworth</HI> Knight of the Bath, <HI>William Parefoy</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Godfrey Bo&s;evile</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Iohn Barker</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>William Ie&s;&s;on</HI> E&s;quire, the pre&s;ent Major of the City of Coventry, <HI>Iohn Hales</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Anthony Stoughton</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Thomas Boughton</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>William Colmore</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>George Abbot</HI> E&s;quire, And <HI>Thomas Ba&s;net</HI> Alderman, and for the Countie of Staf|ford, and City and County of Lichfeild, Sir <HI>Hugh Wrote&s;ley</HI> Knight and Baronet, Sir <HI>Charles Egerton</HI> Knight, <HI>T. Crompton</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Ed|ward Manwaring</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Thomas Parkes</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Iohn Skrin&s;ley</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Gerard Skrin&s;ley</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Edward Leigh</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Richard Broughton</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Mathew Moreton</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Richard Payot</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>George Parker</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Hum|phrey Wicley Rowland-Cotton</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Walter Gro&s;venor</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Richard Flier</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Francis Collier</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Richard Bowyer</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Ralph Rudier</HI> E&s;|quire, The Maior of Stafford for the time being, <HI>Edward Broughton</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Iohn Birch</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Phillip Iack&s;on</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Henry Stone</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Iohn Swinfield</HI> Gentleman, The Baliffes and Sherif of the City of Lichfield for the time being, <HI>Iohn Bourne</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Richard Baxter</HI> Gentleman, And all Colonells, Lieuetenant Colonells, Serieant Majors, and other Captaines and Officers, and all other wel affected per&s;ons inhabiting within the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, and Ci|ties and parts adjacent &s;hall and may a&s;&s;ociate them&s;elves and mu|tually aid, and &s;uccour, and a&s;&s;i&s;t one another, in the mutuall pre&s;erva|tion&punc; and defence of them&s;elves, and the peace of the &s;aid Cities and
<PB N="3" REF="2"> Counties from all rapine plundering and &s;poilings of the &s;aid papi&s;ts, and ill affected per&s;ons. And it is further ordered, ordained, and de|clared that the &s;aid Lord Lieuetenants, Committees of Parliament, Colonells, Lieuetenant Colonells, Serjeant Majors, Captaines and other officers, have power and authority, to rai&s;e forces of hor&s;e and foote, and to lead them into any place which &s;hall be fitting and con|venient, and to give battel, and to fight with all &s;uch as are, or &s;hall be rai&s;ed to levy warre again&s;t the Parliament, and all other forces rai&s;ed without Authoritie and con&s;ent of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, that make any in&s;urrection, and plunder, or de&s;troy his Maje&s;ties good Subjects, And them to invade, re&s;i&s;t, &s;uppre&s;&s;e, &s;ubdue, and pur|&s;ue, kill, and &s;lay, and put to execution of death, and by all meanes to de&s;troy as enemies to the Kingdome, and to performe all things el&s;e needfull for the pre&s;ervation of the &s;afety, and peace of the &s;aid Cities and Counties and parts adjacent, ob&s;erving from time to time &s;uch o|ther directions, and commands, as they &s;hall receive from both Hou|&s;es of Parliament, or from the Earle of E&s;&s;ex Lord Generall, and that the &s;aid per&s;ons, and other the inhabitants for &s;o doing &s;hall be &s;aved and kept harmele&s;&s;e by the power and authority of Parliament. And the &s;aid Lords and Commons takeing into their &s;erious con&s;ideration the nece&s;&s;ity of appointing a Commander in chiefe, over the forces which are, or &s;hall be rai&s;ed in the Cities and Counties afore&s;aid, or any of them for the &s;ervice afore&s;aid, in regard that by particular Commi&s;&s;ions already granted to per&s;ons in the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, there was no power given to lead forces out of their owne Counties, It is ordered &amp; ordeined that the Lord Generall, the E. of E&s;&s;ex &s;hall be de&s;ired to grant a Commi&s;&s;ion to <HI>Robert</HI> Lord <HI>Brooke</HI> to command in chiefe as Generall of all the forces, rai&s;ed or to be rai&s;ed in the &s;aid Cities, and Counties, and parts adjacent, and to have power to lead, command, and carry the &s;ame to &s;uch places within the &s;aid Cities and Counties and parts adjacent, as he &s;hall thinke fit for the defence thereof, And likewi&s;e power to give the &s;ame order and in&s;tructions in his &s;aid Excellencies ab&s;ence, for regulating the &s;ouldiers, which are or &s;hall be under his command, as his &s;aid Excellency hath given to his Army, and to u&s;e martiall law, to compell obedience thereunto, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require. And al&s;o power and authority to make and appoint all officers, for levying, conducting, and leading the &s;aid forces as he &s;hall thinke fit.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Iohn Browne</HI> Cler. Parliament</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>In&s;tructions for the Lords Lieuten|nants, Committees of Parliament, and other Officers and Commanders, in the Counties of <HI>Warwick</HI> and <HI>Stafford,</HI> and Cities and Counties of <HI>Coventry</HI> and <HI>Lichfield.</HI></HI></HEAD>
<P>THat the Lords Lieutenants of the &s;everall Coun|tries of <HI>Warwick</HI> and <HI>Stafford,</HI> and Cities and Counties of <HI>Coventry</HI> and <HI>Lichfield,</HI> or the Com|mittees of Parliament of the &s;aid Cities and Counties re&s;pectively, or any three or more of them, with all convenient &s;p&eacute;ed doe &s;ummon the &s;everall Gentlemen fr&eacute;eholders, and other inhabitants of the &s;aid &s;everall Cities and Counties, as well within liberties and Corpor|ations as without, that doe or are able to beare or finder Armes, to &s;uch places in the &s;aid &s;everall Counties and Cities as they hold mo&s;t fitting, and at &s;uch meetings, to take a view what Armes and Force can be rai&s;ed in the &s;aid Cities and Counties re&s;pectively, and examine the defects of Armes and Ammuni|tion, and to con&s;ult of &s;ome fitting cour&s;e how to have the want of Armes and other defects to be &s;upplyed; And at &s;uch m&eacute;etings or at any other fit time and times, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Committee for the propo&s;itions, and &s;ub&s;criptions in the &s;everall Counties and Cities afore&s;aid, and parts adjacent, or any two of them, &s;hall and may propound to all the Inhabitants of the &s;aid Cities and Counties that are able to beare or finde Armes, or to contribute towards the &s;ame, what pre&s;ent and eminent danger and nece&s;&s;ity the whole Kingdom is now reduced unto, by the wick|ed advice, and attempts and con&s;piracies of Papi&s;ts and other per|&s;ons now about His Maje&s;ty, and to propound to them to joyne in A&s;&s;ociation and mutuall defence of one another, according to the forme of an A&s;&s;ociation hereunto anuered. And to require them to &s;et downe in writting, and &s;ub&s;cribe what Armes for Hor&s;e and Foot, what Hor&s;e either for Dragoones or others they will have in readine&s;&s;e upon every ju&s;t occa&s;ion for the defence of the &s;aid Cities and Counties.</P>
<P>Secondly, the better to prevent the plundering and &s;poyling of the &s;aid Cities and Counties, and the parts adjacent, and to have meanes for the furni&s;hing of Armes and Ammuniton, making of
<PB N="5" REF="3"> fortifications and payment of the Garri&s;ons, Officers, and Soul|diers, and other publique nece&s;&s;ary charges, That thereby forth|with rai&s;ed in the &s;aid &s;everall Cities and Counties re&s;pectively, and in the Corporations, Con&s;tablaries and Pari&s;hes thereof, &s;uch &s;ums of money as &s;hall nece&s;&s;arily be di&s;bur&s;ed and expended for the u&s;es afore&s;aid; The &s;ame &s;ums to be rated and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed in like &s;ort as was the fourehundred thou&s;and pounds granted by Act this pre&s;ent Parliament, wherein the per&s;ons who have not &s;ub&s;crib|ed to the Parliaments late propo&s;itions, &s;hall be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, and their a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements levied in &s;uch &s;ort as by the Ordinance late made for the City of <HI>London,</HI> and the parts adjacent, &s;uchlike per&s;ons are to be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and their a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements levyed: for which &s;ums of money &s;o rated and levyed and expended as afore&s;aid, the Lord Lieutenant and Committ&eacute;e, &s;hall be accomptable for their pro|ceeding therein to both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and none el&s;e.</P>
<P>And for the better levying of the &s;aid &s;ums of money, that the &s;aid Lords Lieutenants, and the &s;aid Committ&eacute;e of the &s;aid Coun|ties re&s;pectively; or any thr&eacute;e or more of them, &s;hall or may a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, and far or cau&s;e to be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed or taxed, the &s;aid &s;ums, upon the &s;aid &s;everall Cities and Counties, and the Corporations, Townes, Con&s;tablaries and Pari&s;hes within the &s;ame, in like manner as is afore&s;aid; And that they or any thr&eacute;e or more of them, nominate and appoint Trea&s;urers, Collectors and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, in every of the &s;aid Counties, for the a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing, receiving and collecting the &s;aid &s;ums of money, And &s;hall and may grant warrants under their hands and &s;eales in writing, to any Con&s;table, or other Officer what&s;oever, to rai&s;e, and levy the &s;aid &s;ums &s;o to be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and taxed as afore&s;aid, upon all &s;uch per&s;ons upon whom any &s;uch &s;ums &s;hall be &s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and &s;et, that doe refu&s;e or neglect to pay the &s;ame, it &s;hall and may be lawfull to and for the &s;aid A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, or any o|ther per&s;ons to whom warrants by the Lords Lieutenants, and Committ&eacute;es re&s;pectively &s;hall be granted to levy the &s;aid &s;ums &s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by way of di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and rate of the goods, of the per&s;on &s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and refu&s;ing. And if any per&s;on &s;o di&s;trained &s;hall make re&s;i&s;tance, it &s;hall and may be lawfull to and for the re&s;pective Lords Lieutenants, and Committees to &s;end any of the Trained|bands or other Souldiers of the re&s;pective Counties, and Cities afore&s;aid to compell the &s;aid parties &s;o refu&s;ing to obedience of this Ordinance. And in ca&s;e no di&s;tre&s;&s;e is, or may be found, then the &s;aid re&s;pective Lords Lieutenants, and Committees afore&s;aid, or any three or more of them, &s;hall or may commit &s;uch per&s;on, and per&s;ons &s;o refu&s;ing to pay, as afore&s;aid, to &s;ome commom Gaole, thereto remaine without bayle or main prize, untill payment made of &s;uch &s;um and loanes as afore&s;aid.</P>
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<P> Thirdly, that all Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of peace, Majors, Balifs, Con&s;tables, and all other His Maje&s;ties Officers, as well within liberties as without, be, from time to time aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting unto the &s;aid Lord Lieutenants, and Committ&eacute;es in execution of the power to them given by the Lords and Commons in Parlia|ment, and of the&s;e in&s;tructions.</P>
<P>Fourthly, that no Trea&s;urer or Receiver of any money, &s;hall i&s;&s;ue out any money, but under the hands of the Lord Lieftenants and Committ&eacute;es or any three of them in every County re&s;pective|ly. And that the &s;everall Lord Lieutenants, and Committ&eacute;es, doe not &s;igne or grant any warrants for the i&s;&s;uing or paying any &s;um or &s;ums, but for the furni&s;hing of Armes and Ammunition making of fortifications, payment of Officers, and Souldiers, and other nece&s;&s;ary publique charges, tending to the &s;afety and pre&s;er|vation of the &s;aid Cities, and Counties and not otherwii&s;e.</P>
<P>Fifthly, that the &s;aid Lord Lieutenants, and Committ&eacute;es of e|very the &s;aid Cities and Counties re&s;pectively, or any thr&eacute;e or more of them, &s;hall and may from time to time rai&s;e &s;uch, and &s;o many of the Trained-bands, and other per&s;ons inhabiting in the &s;aid Cities, and Counties as they &s;hall Iudge it nece&s;&s;ary and fitting to enter into the hou&s;es of all Papi&s;ts, and other per&s;ons that are voted to be Delinquents by both, or either Hou&s;e of Parliament, or that have put in execution the Commi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Array</HI> or that have beene pre&s;ent with or aiding or a&s;&s;i&s;ting to His Maje&s;ty in this unnaturall war again&s;t the Parliament, or that being of ability have not contributed upon the propo&s;itions of rai&s;ing of Hor&s;e, Money, or Plate for the defence of King and Parliament, or that have refu&s;ed to &s;end Hor&s;e, and Armes, to the Mu&s;ters, when by the deputy Lieutenants appointed by the power of Parliament, they having b&eacute;ene required &s;o to doe. Or &s;uch Clergy-men and o|thers that have publiquely preached or declared them&s;elves to op|po&s;e, di&s;grace, or revile the proc&eacute;edings of both or either Hou&s;e of Parliament; And to &s;ei&s;e upon the Armes, Amunition and Hor|&s;es fit for &s;ervice in the war, that belong to &s;uch per&s;on, and per&s;ons, the &s;ame Hor&s;es, Armes, and Amunition to be imployed and di&s;|po&s;ed of by the direction of the &s;aid Lord Lieutenants, and Com|mittees of the &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pective Cities and Counties, or any thr&eacute;e, or more of them for the publique &s;ervice, and defence of the &s;everall Cities and Counties afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Sixthly, that the &s;aid Lord Lieutenants, and Committ&eacute;es or a|ny thr&eacute;e or more of them doe cau&s;e the &s;everall companies of the trained-bands and volunteers to be put into Regiments, and to no|minate, appoint, and place Colonells, Lieutenant Colonells, Ser|jeant Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, and other officers to every
<PB N="7" REF="4"> Regiment and company where any &s;uch are wanting, or when &s;uch as are and have b&eacute;ene nominated, have refu&s;ed to execute tho&s;e places.</P>
<P>Seventhly, that the Dragooners be put into Companies, and that one hundred and twelve be allotted to a Company, and that each Company of Dragooners have an experienced Souldier to be a Corporall, and to have the pre&s;ent pay of a Corporall.</P>
<P>Eightly, that the &s;aid Lord Lieutenants, and Committ&eacute;es in each County re&s;pectively or any thr&eacute;e or more of them, &s;hall and may give command and directions from time to time to &s;ecurs and cer|tifie al Bridges, Caw&s;es, and Pa&s;&s;ages, and in times of approach of an Enemy or feare of any inva&s;ion by an Enemy, to pull down or &s;top the Bridges, Caw&s;es, Pa&s;&s;ages and to cut the bankes of the &s;aid Counties re&s;pectively. And to have power to fortify and &s;ecure any Town, Hundred, or Hamlet, where the &s;aid Town, Hundred, or Hamlet, are willing to doe the &s;ame at their own proper charges. And al&s;o to have power at all times to &s;eize and &s;top all Barges, Boats or other Ve&s;&s;ells pa&s;&s;ing by water for the &s;afety of the &s;aid Cities and Counties, and placos adjacent.</P>
<P>Ninthly, it is further ordered and declared that the &s;aid Com|mitt&eacute;es, for the &s;aid &s;everall Cities, and Counties re&s;pectively, &s;hall or may call unto their a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;uch per&s;on, and per&s;ons, as they &s;hall thinke for the better and more orderly execution and perform|ance of the&s;e in&s;tructions.</P>
<P>Tenthly, the Lord Lieutenant, or Committ&eacute;es or any thr&eacute;e or more of them &s;hall or may impri&s;on, and commit to &s;afe cu&s;tody all &amp; every &s;uch per&s;ons as being able and have had due &s;ummons, doe notwith&s;tanding refu&s;e or wilfully neglect to appeare at Mu&s;ter, or to &s;end &s;ome able per&s;ons to be allowed of by the Captaines, or chiefs Officers of the Company in his behalfe.</P>
<P>And it is la&s;tly ordered and declared, that the in&s;tructions of the fift&eacute;enth day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t for <HI>Iohn Hales, I&s;aack Bromwich E&s;qiure, Iohn Barker Alderman, Thomas Ba&s;net Alderman, and Robert Phipps</HI> Gentleman, appointed to take care of the peace of the City of <HI>Coventry</HI> &s;hall be henceforth void, and of no effect,</P>
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<ITEM><HI>Iohn Browne <HI>Cler. Parliament.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry El&s;ynge <HI>Cler. Par. D. Com.</HI></HI></ITEM>
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<P> WE who&s;e names are under written, Inhabitants of the Counties of Warwick, and Stafford, and of the Cities and Counties of Coventry and Lichfield, and parts adjacent, doe hereby in|gage our &s;elves to provide Hor&s;es and Armes, and to maintaine and finde at our owne proper co&s;t and charges, and at all times to have in readine&s;&s;e for the &s;ervice of the &s;aid Cities and Counties, and parts adjacent now a&s;&s;ociated together, by authority of both Hou&s;es of Par|liament, &s;o many men compleatly armed, and furni&s;hed, and &s;uch Hor&s;es, Geldings, Naggs, Mares, as we have &s;everally and re&s;pectively &s;ub&s;cribed for, to bee commanded, led and conducted, in any parts and places within the &s;aid Cities, Counties or parts adjacent, by &s;uch per&s;ons as now have, or hereafter &s;hall have the command in chiefe of all the &s;aid Forces of the &s;aid Cities, Counties, and parts adjacent.</P>
<P>Whereas the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, have taken into their con&s;ideration, that in times &s;o full of divi&s;ion and dan|ger as the&s;e are, in union of our hearts and forces, it is mo&s;t conducing to the publique good and &s;afety of the whole Kingdome, and have therefore ordained, That the Inhabitants of the County of Warwick and Stafford, and of the Cities and Counties of Coventry and Lich|field &s;hould enter into a&s;&s;ociation with one another, for the mainte|nance and pre&s;ervation of the &s;ame Cities and Counties. Therefore in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid order, and the better to confirme a mutuall confidence in one another, we who&s;e names are hereunto &s;ub&s;cribed, doe hereby promi&s;e te&s;tifie and declare to maintaine, and defend with our lives power and e&s;tates, the peace of the &s;aid Cities and Coun|ties, and parts adjacent, and to aid and a&s;&s;i&s;t one another under the command and conduct of &s;uch per&s;ons as now have, or hereafter &s;hall have by the authority of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, or of the Lord Generall, the command in chiefe of all the Forces of the &s;aid Cities and Counties, accord<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ng to the true intent and meaning of the &s;aid order of A&s;&s;ociation, whereunto we mu&s;t mo&s;t willingly give our a&s;|&s;ent, and neither for hop, feare, or other re&s;pects, &s;hall ever relinqui&s;h this promi&s;e.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>Jo. Browne</HI> Cler. Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H. El&s;.</HI> Cler. Parl. D. Com. Ordered to be Printed.</ITEM>
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