TWO DECLARATIONS OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament.  
One, july 12.  
For the preservation and safety of the Kingdom, and the Town of hull.  
The other, july 13.  
Concerning the miserable Distractions and grievances this Kingdom now lieth in, by means of jesuitical and wicked Councellors now about His MAJESTY.  
With an Order of both Houses of Parliament to all Lord Lieutenants, and Deputy Lieutenants of their several Counties, to raise Forces to suppress all disturbers of the peace.  

ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That these Declarations be forth printed and published.  
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LONDON, Printed for ●. Husbands and I. frank▪ 1642.   

The Declaration of the LORDS and COMMONS now assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
IT cannot be unknown to the world, how powerful and active the wicked Councellors about His Majesty have been, both before and since this Parliament, in seeking to destroy and extinguish the true Protestant Religion, the Liberty and Laws of the Kingdom; and that after many traitorous endeavours against the Parliament, by Gods providence discovered and frustrated; they drew His majesty into the No●thern parts, and in his Name did publish divers false scandals and ignominious reproaches against the Lords and Commons, making His Majesties Court a sanctuary for all kind of Delinquents, against the justice and privilege of Parliament, and drawing to York by Letters and other means, divers Members of both Houses, and setting up there a counterfeit imaginary usage of the great council of Peers, in opposition to the Parliament, to the great danger not onely of the distu●bance, but even of the subversion of the original constitution and frame of this Kingdom,  
And that the way to the great change in Religion and government intended, might be made more easy and passable; many of those who have shewed themselves faithful to the cause of God and the Kingdom, either in Parliament or in the country are pu● on of Commission of peace, and other public employments. The sheriff of Leicester there labouring to keep the peace, when Master Henry Hastings ma●ched from Loughborourgh in Leicester with about 200 Foot, and 100 Horse; of which, many were drawn out of Darbishire, armed in a warlike manner, with Pistols, Pikes, and Muskets, their D●ums beating, and Colours flying, intending to seize upon the Magazine of the County, was for his good service put out of his office; and Master Hastings, the person who committed this outrage made sheriff in his place. Divers great Lords His Majesties servants in places of nearness and trust, Persons of high Honour, merit, and abilities; as the Earls of Pembroke, Ess●x, Holland, and the Lord fielding displaced, for no other cause but discharging heir conscience in Parliament; besides, diver● Members of the House of Commons, o●e of which hath long served His Maj●●ty in places of Honour, and had always been in great favour and esteem, till he faithfully discharged his duty in Parliament. And last of all, the Ea●le of Northumberland put from the place of High admiral; a man so eminent in all qualifications of honour and sufficiency, so necessary for the state of this time; when so many ships are at Sea, and the Kingdom in so much trouble and distraction, that there can hardly be name a more mischievous effect of wicked Counsel or dangerous preparative to future confusions, then the bereaving the state of the service to so Noble and virtuous a person as he is. The consideration whereof enforceth both Houses to declare, That they cannot think the Kingdom in safety, nor themselves to have discharged the trust which lies upon them, till they have done their uttermost, by all fit ways to procure that office to be restored, whereby the Commander of the ship● which are the walls of the kingdom, may again be settled in the charge of that noble Lord.  
In the midst of these unjust and destructive courses to blind the eyes of the multitude▪ and disguise their malicious and cruel intentions under the semblance of peace and justice, they have drawn His Majesty to make divers solemn Protestations, with fearful imprecations upon Himself, and invocations of Gods holy Name, that he intended nothing but the peace and welfare of His people, the maintenance of religion, and the laws of the Kingdom, and for His own security only, to raise a guard for His Person. And that he did from His soul abhor the thought of making war against the Parliament, or to put the Kingdom into a combustion; but having under this colour kept about him, divers souldiers and Offices, and gathered some strength, the intentions do now appear with a more open face, by these His Majesties ensuing actions, and proceedings.  
Which the Lords and Commons have thought good to publish, that all the subjects▪ of the Kingdom may understand what dangers and miseries are coming upon them, if not timely prevented.  
A Garrison of Sou●diers is by His Majesties order put into Newcastle, under the command of the earl of Newcastle, who should have formerly seized upon Hull, if by the wisdom of the Parliament he had not been prevented.  
The papists in Cheshire have lately, in a very peremptory manner, and in His Majesties name demanded their Arms, taken from them by direction of both Houses of Parliament, to be again restored to them. The earl Rivers, lately a notorious professed papist, and stil suspected to be a papist, although he now comes to Church, as many other dangerous papists do, on purpose, as is conceived, to make themselves capable of employment, is put into the Commission of A●ray, being against Law, and the liberty of the Subject, which he hath executed with rigour, and hath committed divers persons to prison for refusing to submit thereunto, contrary to the Law, and the Petition of Right.  
The mo●th of the river of Tine is fortified, whereby the whole trade of Newcastle for coal or otherwise, will be subject to be interrupted whensoever His Majesty shal please, and the City of London, and many other parts of the Kingdom exceedingly burdened and distressed.  
A Ship laden with Canon for battery, and other lesser Ordnance, Powder, and Ammunition is come into the river of Humber, which also hath brought divers Commanders from foreign parts; and in this ship, as we are credibly informed, were M. Henry Wilmot, Sir John Barkley, and Sir Hugh Pollard, three of those who stand charged in Parliament, for being privy to the design of bringing up the Army; and amongst others the L. Digby, a person accused in Parliament for high Treason, who when he began to be questioned, fled ou● of the Kingdom, and advised His Majesty by Letters to that course which he hath since pursued, of withdrawing himself from His Parliament to a place of strength, and that then he intended to come to him, and in the mean time would do Him service abroad.  
Divers other large preparations of warlike provisions are made beyond the S●a, and shortly expected, besides great number of Gentlemen, Horses and Arms drawn from all parts of the Kingdom, & all the Gentlemen in York-shire required to bring in their horses for His Majesties service.  
Sundry Commissions are granted for raising horse, and divers Officers of the Army are already appointed.  
Upon M●nday morning being the fourth of july, His Majesty came to Beverley with an Army of a considerable number of Horse and Foot, some Regiments of the Trained▪ bands being likewise commanded to be raised.  
Among the souldiers in this Army, there are divers papists and other persons of desperate fortune, and condition, ready to execute any violence, rapine, and oppression.  
Some Troops of Horse are sent into Lincolnshire▪ to the great terror of the well affencted people, who are thereby forced either to forsake their dwellings, or to keep them with armed men.  
They begin already to take away mens horses by force and to commit other acts of hostility, and have uncivilly used a Gentleman sent from the Parliament with a Letter to His Majesty.  
Provisions are restrained from coming to H●ll and His Majesty is sho●tly expected to come thither with his Army, notwi●●standing the place is in the custody of the Parliament, as hath been often declared to His M●jesty by both Houses, and kept by them for His Majesties service, and the peace of the Kingdom; whereof, ass●on as they may be secured, they intend to leave the town in the state it was.  
The war being thus by His Majesty begun, the Lords and Commons in Parliament hold themselves bound in conscience to raise Forces for the preservation of the peace of the Kingdom and protection of the Subj●cts in their persons and estates, according to Law, the defence and security of Parliament, and of all those who have been employed by them in any public service for these ends, and thorough Gods blessing to disappoint the designs and expectation of those who have drawn His Majesty to these courses and counsels, in favour of the Papists at home, the Rebels in Ireland, the foreign enemies of our Relion and peace,  
In the opposing of all which, they desire the concurrence of the wel-disposed subjects of this Kingdom, and shal manifest by their courses and endeavours, that they are carried by no respects but of the public good which they will always prefer before their own lives and fortunes; And shal ever be most earnest in their counsels and endeavours to prevent a civil war, and those miserable effects it must needs produce, if they may be avoided without endangering the alteration of religion, which is the main end of those who have been the Authors and Councellors of His Majesties undertaking this war▪ and will necessary draw with it a loss of liberty, and subversion of the Law of the Kingdom; so that it rests onely that the free-born English Nation do consider whether they will adhere to the King and His parliament, by which they have so long enjoyed all that is deere unto them; or to the King, seduced by jesuitical counsel and Cava●iers who have designed all to slavery and confusion, which by Gods blessing and our joint endeavours may be timely prevented.   

A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament.  
AS in all our endeavours since this Parliament began, we intended wholly the advancement of His Majesties honour and safety, and the regainment of the ancient( though of late yeares much inv●ded) Rights, laws, and Liberties, being the birthright of the Subjects of this Land, and settling of the true Protestant Religion( the glory of our Nation) in peace and purity; so did we no less hope for, and expect his Majesties concurrence in those particulars, they being the very Foundation of His Majesties present honour and greatness, and the fountain of perfect and future bliss to himself, and all His loyal Subjects, which too evidently we see ourselves( by the wicked Councellors now unmasked about his Majesty) not onely deprived of, but instead thereof open War declared, and prosecuted against his Majesties loyal Subjects of Hull, and elsewhere in this kingdom, fa● unsuitable to such Declarations of love and peace as His Majesty hath frequently promised and published to the kingdom; and in particular to the County of york, with solemn protestations that He would not, nor had it entred His thoughts to make War against His Parliament, which how agreeable they are to the present courses of his Majesty and Councellors, specially since from his agents abroad He received provisions fit for War, which immediately have been put on for execution, we refer to the whole world to judge of.  
But however those promises and protestations have been no sooner made, but broken, and our hope of peace and safety thereby wholly disappointed. Yet that it may appear to all Ages to come, that as in duty we are bound( the kingdom having entrusted us) so we have not, nor will be found wanting in the least degree of our care and providence( God assisting us) for the preservation of the whole kingdom, and the town of Hull, and the Inhabitants thereof from violence, and ruin, though for the effecting thereof His Majesty hath proceeded to many hostile preparations and acts, by having got divers pieces of great Ordinance, and other walike provisions both of horse and foot, for the taking in of the said town and His other designs, and by cutting off their fresh water, intercepting and restraining of victuals and other necessaries for their subsistence and livelihood, as if to obey the Parliaments Commande( that being Sir John Hothams Crime) though never so much for the safety of the whole kingdom, were so capital an offence, as nothing but death, ruin, and destruction could expiate.  
Wherefore we the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled have though fit, and do hereby declare, That whereas Sir John Hotham Governor of Hull, by the specall order of the Parliament appointed for that service, hath been forced for the prevention of the sudden surprisal, and destruction of the town, and the Inhabitants thereof, to let in some tides from Humber upon the grounds adjoining to the said town, which for present could not otherwise have been secured; We do therefore hereby promise and assure all and every such person and persons whatsoever, either the owners, or Farmers of any the said grounds which shall be impaired by this overflowing of the water, full and ample satisfaction for all such loss as they or any of them shall thereby sustain( except such persons onely) as formerly have been, now are, or hereafter shall be found the stirrers up, abettors, or furtherers of any such way, or means as have, or may conduce to the endangering, or annoyance of the said town of Hull, or the governor thereof in his service and duty therein, or shall any way disturb the peace and safety of the said town, or any the Inhabitants thereof, who stand well affencted thereto. And we do also declare, That we the Lords and Commons in Parliament ass●mb●ed, will not only protect▪ secure, and save harmless all, a●d every such person, and persons whatsoever, as have or shall either by Sea, or Land provide, furnish, or deliver any provision of victual, beer, or other thing whatsoever for the relief and safety of the Garrison of Hull, but shall also make good payment for the same, and thankfully accept thereof, as good service done to the kingdom, any pretended warrant ●ssued, or hereafter to be issued out under the colour of any name or authority whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding: And for as much as we are informed that some of the Inhabitants of Hull stand firmly resolved in their good affections to the service, and safe keeping of the said Town, for the good of the King and kingdom, Wee thought fit also to declare, That all such of the Inhabitants thereof as shall continue well affencted to the said service, and stand close in their fidelity and assistance to the governor thereof; we do hereby assure and promise them, that they shall receive from us protection and encouragement answerable to such a service, as will be very acceptable unto us, in respect of the importance of it for the preservation of Religion and safety of this kingdom. And Lastly, we do declare our acknowledgement, acceptance, and approbation of that prudent valour, vigillancy and faithfulness of the governor, officers and Souldiers employed in the said town, both for the discovery of plots formerly contrived for the betraying of the said town, and their undaunted resolutions to keep the same against whomsoever for the service of His Majesty and kingdom; And do promise and assure them, that every particular good service done or to be done by any Commanders or Souldiers serving▪ or to serve therein, shall be rewarded as shall answer the greatness of this Kingdom, and the quality of the service,  

Die Lunae, 4. Julii. 1642.  
IT is this day Resolved upon the Question by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That in case any force be brought out of one County into any other County of this kingdom, to d●sturbe the peace thereof; That the Lord Lieutenants and Depu●y lieutenants of the Counties adjoining upon notice given unto them of such disturbance, by the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants where such disturbance is made, be hereby required to give aid and assistance to the said other Lord Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants or any of them, so requiring the same, for the present suppressing of such force and distu●bers of the pe●ce, by Volunteirs, and such of the Trained Bands of their several Counties that shall voluntarily go to give their assistance  
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