A DECLARATION, OF His Imperial MAJESTY, The most High and Mighty Potentate ALEXEA, Emperor of RUSSIA, and great-Duke of MUSCOVIA, &c  
Wherein is contained his Detestation of the Murder of CHARLES the First, King of Great-Britain and Ireland; his propensity to restore King CHARLES the Second; That he hath forbidden all Trade with England; and Means propounded for the establishing of a generall-Peace throughout Christendom.  
Printed in the year 1650.   

ALEXEA Imperator;  
HAVING, with very much regret, taken into our High and Imperial Consideration, the sad and desperate Condition, into which the State of Christendom is at present almost inevitably plunged, as well by the Divisions of Princes, as by sub-Divisions and secret Discontents, which begin to break forth between them and their Subjects; The Rebellion of England, as an universal Contagion being become epidemical, hath poisoned and infected most parts of Christendom: And likewise that that common Sower of all infand wickedness, most falsely called the Parliament of England, with whom no Law of God nor Man, Nature nor Nation escapeth breaking, do at this present employ their Agents, the Bustuaries of humane States, in all Kingdoms and Territories of Europe; whose restless industry is to crack the bonds of Allegiance and fealty between Subjects and their Sovereigns, by persuading the common People (whose ears are ever greedy of novelties) of the Tyranny of Monarchy, and insinuating delusive fancies of Liberty and Freedom, by which policy that spurious generation (more degenerated then ever Nebuchadonoser was, not Men into Beasts, but very Devils incarnate) hope to overwhelm the whole World with an inundation of Blood and Confusion, to bury Monarchy in a common grave of confused Anarchy, and establish their aepicene Government in a more fixed orb of certain security: For prevention whereof, We have thought good to propound such means as We judge convenient for the conservation of a general Peace in all Christian Kingdoms, and reducing that Rebellious Nation to that due obedience and fealty, which by undoubted Right and divine Ordination, they own to their Sovereign.  
And now We know not whether it will more become Us to Declaim or Declare; so monstrous is the nature of the Crime that gives present employment to Our Royal Pen, that Our just indignation hath put Us upon a strain, more bitter than is suitable with the common Majesty of Our Imperial Style. For whereas, about eight years since, some certain Lords and Commons that were assembled by Royal edict in the Parliament of England, pretending (and as they then alleged upon very good grounds) divers fears and jealousies upon their King's departure from that his great Council; and refusing to hearken to their wholesome advice, while he lent an indulgent ear to the Malignant Counsels of divers desperate Delinquents, whom his Majesty protected from the hand of Justice, to the apparent hazard of the established Religion, the absolute overthrow of the ancient and fundamental Laws of the Land; the irrecoverable breach of the privilege of Parliament, and the final ruin of all his good Subjects: For the defence and preservation whereof, and for no other ends, as they then most falsely asserted, they were necessitated to take up Arms to defend themselves from the fury of that mighty Host, which his Majesty had raised for the accomplishment of those (as they scandalously termed them) his destructive Designs; and they solemnly protested that they intended nothing prejudicial to his Majesty or his Royal Issue, or the abatement of any of his just Prerogatives: But in testimony of their Loyalty and tender affection to him and his Issue, they published many fair and glorious Declarations, which they confirmed by divers Oaths, Covenants and Sacraments, that they did no ways intent in the least to eclipse the splendour of his Majesty's Government, but were faithfully resolved to make him the most great and glorious Prince in Christendom; by which fair and plausible delusions they drew from the credulous People vast and infinite sums of Money; begat a good understanding in the opinion of Foreign Princes, and insinuated too fare into the charity of Our sacred judgement: Thus by fair and specious pretences they deluded the whole World, while, by policy and treachery more than valour, they had subdued the Royal Army, overcome the whole Kingdom, and gotten the possession of his Majesty's Person; whom, instead of making a glorious King, they reduced to the condition of a miserable captive, hurrying him about from one prison to another, not vouchsafing to hearken to any conditions of Peace, but such as neither suited with the modesty of Subjects to ask, nor the Majesty of a King to grant: And although the effects of Rebellion accompanied with prosperity will prove strange and wonderful, even in the sense of common apprehensions; yet beyond the imagination of man or expectation of Devils, that the souls of mortal men instructed in the principles of Christianity should proceed to such a gradation of wickedness as those most deperditely wicked miscreants have lately done, who have found out a new method of Treason, so miraculously proditorious, that the whole counsel of Devils could give them no direction in, nor the Records of Hell afford a pattern; For, even in the time of a Treaty, when they had plighted their faith and the whole Kingdoms for his security; after he had enlarged his Royal benignity to such an extent of gracious Concessions as the modesty of former Rebels did never presume to crave, nor themselves could in reason expect; For, he had not only admitted them to a copartnership, but for a certain time surrendered his whole Rule and Royal Authority into their power; yet those sanguinolent Caitiffs whose Lupine-fury could be satisfied with nothing but their Sovereign's blood, ravished his sacred Person from his Court by an unruly crew of their armed Janissaries, the off-fall and surfeit of that distempered Kingdom, in which riotous crowd they brought him to a Bar in an unknown Court which themselves had erected, where themselves, his Vassals, became his Judges, who loading him sufficiently with scorn and contempt, with faces worse than Luciferian, dismissed him with a ghastly Sentence, which was executed not in a corner, but in the light of the Sun, that all the World might take notice of it: For, on a Scaffold which, in aggravation of his sorrow they had caused to be erected at the entrance into his Royal Court, at their command by the common Executioner that head was struck off, which the absolute Monarch of Heaven and Earth had crowned with a diadem of Imperial Majesty; an act of that horrible and prodigious nature, that it ' cannot be effigiated and shaped forth to any pattern, it being a prodition of such vast dimensions, monstrous latitude and prodigious nature, that it wants an apt name; for never any Legist either ancient or modern that ever made or writ of any Laws hath left any name to posterity which might be adequate sufficient to express it.  
The judgement of the Law in all Nations affirms it Treason, not to be expiated save by death, but to imagine or contr●ve the death of a King, though a Usurper or Tyrant; but this viperous brood whose breath is slaughter and destruction, have not only imagined or contrived, but really acted the Murder of a lawful King as unpatterned in his virtues, as themselves are in their vices, whose universal endowments of grace and nature, as well as his deputation, justly rendered him a terrestrial deity; for, he was the perfect Model of all contracted virtues, the blessing of his age, the pleasure of mankind, the exaltation of nature, the Diamond in the Ring of the Monarches of the Earth, the Miracle of the Christian, and the mark and scope of the heathen World; wherefore to have assassinated him by the hand of a Raviliack, had been a supergra●uate sin; but to execute him publicly, as a common Malefactor, was the marrow and spirits of the mystery of Iniquity, so exorbitant, outrageous and portentous a Treason, that the prodigies of lost humanity could not have acted it worse; the blackest that ever the Sun looked upon, the most cursed and infamous that ever was accounted in any Calendar of time; for, in so many thousand years, from the fall of the Reprobate Angels, it never came into the head of any Devil, to suggest, to the heart of any man, before this time, so nefarious, patricidous, and flegitonticall a wickedness as this was.  
And having sent the father into the other World, through a Red-Sea of his own precious blood, that they might manifest themselves to be the very offspring of the Devil, the falsest Sinon's and Impostors that ever studied or put in practise the Art of delusion, with whom no bond of Alliance, Allegiance, Oath, or Sacrament can stand firm, if they list to dissolve it: They have proscribed his eldest son, their present Sovereign, with the Duke his brother, and by a pretended Law, which to that purpose they have enacted, have made him, or any of the Royal Family, for ever uncapable of exercising the Kingly Government in any of those Kingdoms; And by the same Act, have made it absolutely Lawful, with an assurance of a reward, for any one that shall Murder the young King, and the Duke his brother, as Traitors, Spies, and Enemies to that Commonwealth; And having swallowed a plentiful hope of an eternal fruition of their usurped Dominion, they have broken the Diadem of State, seized upon the Regalia to their own benefit, put to sale the ornament and furniture of the Royal Household, divided the Crown Revenues among themselves and their adherents, overthrown the fundamental Government of those Kingdoms, from a well-composed Monarchy, to a confused-Anarchy; and reduced the Subjects thereof from a glorious condition of perfect freedom, to a fare worse than Aegyptiacall bondage: Nor will the free possession of one Kingdom satiate their ambitious appetites; but that they may stretch forth their Tyranny into Foreign parts, they have landed an Host of ravenous Wolves, or rather incarnate Devils, in Ireland, who have outgone the most barbarous Heathens, in bloody Massacres, not sparing whole Cities and Towns; but, without respect of Age or Sex, wheresoever they come, give free scope to the merciless fury of their uncurbed Swords; Nor are those a abaddon's and Apollions, these destroyers of nature and mankind, sensible of so small a tincture of grace as to blush at, or palliate their unprecedented outrages; but with the faces of Sodom and Gomorah, do publish and patronage their unmatchable Villainies, and seek to persuade the whole World of the Justice and legality of their unparralelled, regicide, and heterogeneous Government.  
Now whereas it is the Office of Princes to execute Justice and Judgement, and to punish Vice and subdue Rebellion; We have thought it our Duty both to God and Man, to vindicate the cause of the late Murdered King of Great Britain, and restore his exiled son to the possession of his Thrones, in Triumph and Majesty: And for as much as all Christian Princes are equally concerned in this Cause with Us; We have thought good to invite them to a general Diet; Which we desire may be convoked at Antwerp in the Dukedom of Brabant; where, upon the tenth of April, in the year of Grace 1650. plenipotentiaries may meet from all Emperors, Kings, and Princes that profess Christianity; where a general and holy League being coucluded, and all ancient and private Quarrels laid aside, We may all agree to fight under one Banner; that there a set Model may be concluded on and drawn up, wherein every Prince shall bear a proportionable share, in raising and maintaining a great numerous Army, in which the whole Forces of Christendom shall be united in prosecution of this second holy War, wherewith we will Invade that Kingdom both by Sea and Land; faithfully resolving never to desert this just and honourable Engagement, till (by the blessing of God) We have subdued that People to the obedience of their Sovereign, and restored that injured King to the quiet possession of his undoubted Rights: And for as much as the inexorable malice of those unmatchable Rebels, extends to the general Ruin of Father, Son, and whole family; so the extent of our Justice shall range to the utter extirpation and irradication of them, their wives, children and allies; and an absolute deletion of their names and memories: But if Chronicles shall entail any of their prodigious Acts to ensuing Ages, their dreadful destruction shall be therewith Recorded; that Posterity may be as well affrighted and amazed at the punishment, as progression of their Rebellion: And for the better encouragement of this honourable enterprise, being the common Cause of abused Sovereignty; We are pleased of our own Royal benignity, besides our proportionable contribution to the general charge, to raise and maintain ten thousand well experienced Soldiers, both Horse and Foot, and furnish them with a Train of Artillery, and all necessary habiliments of War, out of our proper Treasury.  
And for as much as examples are the most compendious teachers, and perfect illustrations; We have thought it convenient to signify to the World, how fare We have expanded Our just indignation against that Rebellious People: For, by Our special Decree, which We have caused to be Proclaimed throughout all Our Dominions; We have commanded all Englishmen by a certain day to departed our Empires, notwithstanding all former grants, licenses and Acts of naturalisation; and after that day We have forbid all Trade and Commerce with that Nation, prohibiting any one of that Nation, upon any occasion, how urgent soever, upon pain of High-Treason, to remain in any part of Our Empire or other Dominions: And if any shall presume, after that aforesaid day notwithstanding this Our Decree, to stay in any part of Our Dominions, that they be forthwith executed as Spies and Traitors: Provided always, that the Penalty of this Decree extend not to any who either are, or hereafter shall be employed in any of our Territories from the King of Great Britain: And We desire that all Kings and Princes of Christendom would herein follow Our Royal example; That as those unmatchable Rebels have outgone all other Nations in their sin; so they may in their sufferings in becoming an offscouring and abomination to mankind. And We do solemnly protest Ourself to be an eternal friend to the King of Great Britain and his friends; and an irreconciliable foe to his enemies.  
Given at Our Court, at Moscow, the 20. of September 1649.  
FINIS.