TWO DECLARATIONS OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT, The one concerning His Majesty's late Proclamation for the suppressing of the present Rebellion, under the command of ROBERT Earl of Essex; And the gracious offer of His Majesty's f●ee Pardon to him, and all such of his Adherents as shall within six days after the date thereof lay down their Arms.  
The Other For the raising of all power, and force, as Well Trained Bands as others, in several Counties of this Kingdom, to lead against all Traitors, and their adherents, and them to arrest and imprison, and to sight with, kill, and slay all such as shall oppose any of His Majesty's loving Subjects that shall be employed in this service, by either, or both Houses of Parliament.  
Ordered that these two Declarations be forthwith Printed. Hen Elsinge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.  
August. 16. London, Printed for Edward Blackmore, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Sign of the Angel in Paul's Churchyard. 1642.   

THe Lords and Commons having received in a Letter from His Majesty, a printed Paper, entitled, a Proclamation for the suppressing of the present Rebellion under the Command of ROBERT Earl of Essex; And the gracious offer of His Majesty's free pardon to him, and all such of his adherents as shall within six days after the Date thereof lay down their Arms, Do declare and publish, That the matter of this libellous and scandalous Paper is the venom of those Traitorous Counsellors about his Majesty, long since discovered, and so often complained of by both Houses of Parliament: Who having for many years together carried a wicked design to alter Religion, and to introduce Popery, Superstition, and Ignorance (the ready way to an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government) And for that purpose not only maintained Agents at Rome, but invited and procured sundry Nuncio's or Agents to be sent into this Kingdom from the Pope; by which means Popery and Superstition was so fare advanced, that nothing but the convening of this Parliament (occasioned by the coming of the Scots) could in all humane reason have prevented them in their design, the only true reason why these mischievous counsellors maligning, that power which oppose itself against their destructive and horrid coun●●lls, hav● now at last, as the Masterpiece of all their Machinations advised His Majesty, in effect, to proclaims at 〈◊〉 His House of Peers, the hereditary Councillors of the Kingdom, and His House of Commons, the representative Body of the whole Commons of the Kingdom, to be all Rebels and Traitors; And by that Paper have endeavoured so fare to blind the eyes of the people, as to make them guilty of their own destruction, by helping to subdue and destroy the Parliament (the only means, under God, to preserve their Religion, Law, and Liberties) And to persuade the Kingdom that his Majesty, by the assistance of Papists, and persons Popishly affected, will maintain the Protestant Religion: that by the help of men Outlawed, and of desperate fortunes, will maintain the Laws of the Land; And with fugitives from Parliament, and Traitors and Delinquents to the Parliament, will preserve the Privileges thereof; and attempt so desperate, and so transcendently wicked, That the Lords and Commons do unanimously publish and declare, That all they who have advised, contrived, abetted, or countenanced, or hereafter shall abet and countenance the said Proclamation, to be Traitors, and enemies to God, the King, and Kingdom, and to be guilty of the highest degree of Treason that can be committed against the King and Kingdom, And that they will, by the assistance of Almighty God, and of all honest English Protestants, and lovers of their Country, do their best endeavours (even to the utmost hazard of their Lives and Fortunes) to bring all such unparallelled Traitors to a speedy and exemplary punishment.  
And whereas the Lords and Commons in Parliament did formerly choose the Earl of Essex to be Captain General of such Forces as are, or shall be raised for the maintenance and preservation of the true Protestant Religion, the King's Person, the Laws of the Land, the Peace of the Kingdom, the Liberty and Property of the Subject, and the Rights, and Privileges of Parliament.  
The said Lords and Commons, do now Declare, That they will maintain and assist him, and adhere unto him the said Earl with their lives and estates, in the same Cause, as in Conscience and Duty to GOD; the King and their Country they are bound to do.  
And lastly, The Lords and Commons do further Declare, That notwithstanding those wicked Councillors which inclined his Majesty to make war against our brethren of Scotland, and by Prayers and Proclamations read in Churches, to pronounce them Rebels and Traitors: That withheld his Majesty from setting forth any Proclamation against those bloody Rebels in Ireland till January last, although the Rebellion broke forth the 23. of October before, and notwithstanding the importunity of both Houses of Parliament, that a Declaration might issue to that purpose; have now advised and prevailed with His Majesty by this Proclamation, to invite His Subjects to destroy his Parliament, and good people, by a civil War, and by that means to bring ruin, confusion, and perpetual slavery upon the surviving part of a then wretched Kingdom: Yet the Lords and Commons to witness their constant, and unshaken loyalty and affection to his Majesty, do solemnly declare, That if his Majesty shall immediately disband all his Forces, and be pleased to abandon those wicked Councillors, and leave them to condign punishment, and return and hearken to the wholesome advice of his great Council, they will really endeavour to make both his Majesty, and his posterity as great, rich, and potent, as much beloved at home, and feared abroad, as any Prince that ever swayed this Sceptre, which is their firm and constant Resolution.  
FINIS.