The Loyal Protestants ASSOCIATION.  
WHereas several Printed Forms of Petitions have been lately dispersed up and down the Kingdom, to procure Subscriptions: And whereas the Proceedings thereupon have been adjudged, and Declared, by his Majesty, and his Right Honourable Privy Counsel, to be Contrary to Law, and tending to the raising of Sedition, and Treason: The said Petitions being still carried on in a private way, by Obscure and Illaffected persons, as the Act, and sense of the Generality of the City, and Nation; to the Scandal of his Majesty's Loyal, and Protestant Subjects, and all true Lovers of their Prince and Country.  
We whose Names are here under Subscribed, out of a sense of our Duty both to Church and State, and to Witness our detestation of all Illegal, and Vndutyfull practices, do hereby unanimously declare unto the World, that we abhor the thought of any such Confederacy, and that we will have nothing to do in the Agitating, Promoting or Subscribing of any such Petition as aforesaid, in Opposition to his Majesty's Royal Will and Proclamation.