C. R.  
By the KING.  
A Proclamation warning all His majesty's good Subjects no longer to be misled by the Votes, Orders, and pretended Ordinances, of One, or both Houses, by reason the Members do not enjoy the freedom and Liberty of Parliament. With His majesty's Gracious Offer of Pardon to the Members of both Houses, and of Protection to such of them as shall repair to Him.  
WHereas We have been long since driven by Force and Violence from Our palace at Westminster (the place of sitting for Us, and Our two Houses of this Parliament) so that We could not with safety of Our Life be present with Our great council, and much the greater part of the Members of both Houses of Parliament have been likewise driven by Tumults and Force for their safety from their attendance upon that council, the said Members having been threatened and assaulted for delivering their Opinions freely in the Houses; or have out of Conscience and Duty withdrawn themselves from being present at the Debates and Resolutions, which they have well known to be so contrary to their Duty and Allegiance, or for so withdrawing, or for freely speaking in the Houses, have been expended or suspended from being Members of that council, contrary to the ancient Practice, and just privileges of Parliament. Since which time, and by which means, a great and Rebellious Army hath been raised against Us, under the Command of Robert Earl of Essex, which Army hath not only endeavoured to take away Our Life from Us in a set Battle, but the same, and other Forces raised by the like means, hath committed all the Acts of Outrage, Robbery, and Murder, upon Our good Subjects throughout the kingdom, and still continues to do the same. And though in truth, a very small part of that great council remain there together, yet under pretence of having the countenance of Our two Houses of Parliament, some seditious persons assume to themselves (with the assistance of those Rebellious Armies, and of divers mutinous and desperate Brownists, Anabaptists, and other ill affected persons in Our City of London, by whose means they awe such Members of both Houses who yet continue amongst them) a power to do things abslolutely contrary to the laws of the Land, and destructive to Our Rights, and to the Liberty and Property of the Subject, and to alter the whole Frame and Government of this kingdom, disposing of the Lives and Fortunes of Us, and Our good Subjects, according to their discretion, subjecting both to their own unlimited arbitrary Power and Government: We have only accused some particular persons, whom We well know to be the authors and Contrivers of these desperate Counsels, and Actions, and have forborn to censure or charge the whole number of the Members remaining, by whose Orders and Authority the evils have been pretended to be done, We hoping that the sense of the miserable Distractions of the Kingdom would at length have brought them to discern where they had erred, and Our ●ften Messages, and Complaints of the violence offered to Us, and to the Members of both Houses, would have procured justice & redress and that the Power and Reputation of such amongst them, who wished well to the Peace of the Kingdom, and honour & Dignity of Parliaments, would at last so far prevailed, that a right understanding might have been begotten betwixt Us and Our People, and all show of Force and Violence so taken away and suppressed, that We might in a full and peaceable convention of Parliament, with the advice of that Our great council, have so settled the present distempers, that there might be no fear left of the like for the future. But finding to Our great grief, that the power of those seditious persons, who first contrived these desperate and bloody Distractions, continues so great, that as they have driven, and now keep Us, and the much greater part of both Houses, from being present at that council, so they so far awe those who remain there, that they cannot with freedom give their Votes and Resolutions according to their Consciences, and the Laws and Constitutions of the kingdom, that the Members of both Houses have been compelled to make Protestations to live and die with the Earl of Essex, the general of the Rebellious Army, and other unlawful and Treasonable Protestations; and that such who have refused to take the said Protestations, have been expelled and imprisoned for such their refusal. That the great affairs of the kingdom are managed and concluded by a private Committee without being ever reported to the Houses, contrary to the Laws and Rules of Parliament. That the common-council of London (most of them being persons factiously chosen out of Brownists, Anabaptists, and such who oppose the regular wholesome Government of that City, and have promised themselves the destruction of the Church, are grown the superintendents over both Houses, and obtrude upon them what conclusions and resolutions they please. That they take upon them to justify this Rebellion against Us; And have presumed under pretence of the Order of both Houses, to invite foreign Forces to invade this kingdom. To send Agents to foreign Princes to Negotiate and Treat with them in their own names. To imprison Our good Subjects contrary to Law, prohibiting Our Judges to grant Habeas Corpus according to Law. To introduce a new Clergy throughout the kingdom, by displacing godly learned Divines, Without the least colour of Law, or judicial, proceedings, and putting ignorant and seditious Preachers in their places to poison the hearts of the People. To countenance the vilifying of the book of commonprayer established by the Law of the Land. To seize, levy, and take away what they please of the Estates and Fortunes of Our Subjects by disposing of the twentieth part of their Estates, by exhausting them with unsupportable weekly Taxes for the maintenance of their Rebellious Army; and by endeavouring to lay odious Excises upon Victuals, Goods and merchandise of Our People for the same purpose, while they suffer Our poor Protestant Subjects of Our kingdom of Ireland, whose defence was undertaken by Our two Houses, and that Army raised for the suppressing of that horrid Rebellion, to be starved, and in danger of disbanding, or necessitated to desert that kingdom for want of money, victual, and such other necessaries as were to be provided for them by Act of Parliament, out of those moneys which they have spent to destroy Us and this kingdom, by exacting from merchant's tonnage and Poundage, and other impositions upon merchandises, as well Native as foreign, contrary to an Act made this present Parliament, with a penalty of praemunire on those who shall pay or receive it. And lastly, That they have (after the breaking of the late Treaty, by a peremptory recalling the Committee, who in truth, during their abode with Us, had no power to Treat by reason of their strict limitation) so far rejected all possible means and overtures of Treaty and Accommodation, that instead of answering Our Gracious Messages, the House of Commons hath imprisoned Our Messenger sent by us to them, to invite both Houses to an Accommodation, and especially to move them to take such a course for the freedom of Parliament which we might safely advise with that Our great council for the settling those miserable Distractions, and Distempers. And hath maliciously and in contempt of Us (and after an attempt to murder Her at Burlington Rode, the place of Her landing) impeached Our royal Consort of High Treason, for assisting Us with arms and Ammunition to defend Us from this Rebellion. 'tis time now to let Our good Subjects know, that they may no longer look upon the Votes and Actions of the persons now remaining, as upon Our two Houses of Parliament, freedom and Liberty to be present, and of opinion and debate there, being essential to a Parliament, which freedom and Liberty, all men must confess to be taken away from this Assembly, when they remember the great Tumults brought down to awe and terrify both Houses, and that they were then brought down when any great Debate was in either House, and not like to be so carried as some seditious persons who governed those Tumults did desire; that in the greatest heat and fury of those Tumults the principal governors amongst them directed the unruly people to go to White-Hall, where Our own Person then was, and designed by force to have surprised the Person of Our Son the Prince; that when it was desired that a Declaration might be made against such Tumults, in stead of consenting thereunto, the Tumults themselves were justified; and when a legal course was prescribed by the Lords, and taken by the proper Ministers of Justice to suppress and prevent such Tumults, and Riots, that legal course was superseaded by those who were then present of the House of Commons, and the Ministers of Justice punished and imprisoned for executing the Law, when they remember that several Members of either House have been threatened and assaulted in those Tumults, and their own names prescribed as persons disaffected, because they freely used to speak their consciences in both Houses. That the House of Peers have been so far threatened and menaced, that the names of those have been with threats demanded by the House of Commons at the Bar of the Lord's House, who refused to consent to this or that Proposition which had been in debate before them: And tumultuous petitions countenanced which have been presented to that same purpose. That the Members of both Houses have been imprisoned, and forbid to be present at those counsels, for no reasons but because their opinion have not been liked. That Our Negative Voice (Our greatest and most sovereign privilege) is boldly denied. That a presumptuous attempt hath been made by the major part of the remaining part of the House of Commons to make Our Great seal of England, the making of which by the express letter of the Law, is high Treason, and would subvert the ancient and fundamental administration of Justice. That at this time, We and the Major part of both Houses are kept by a strong and Rebellious Army from being present at that council, and that those who are present, are by the same Army awed and forced to take unlawful and Treasonable Protestations to engage their Votes. And that such Resolutions and Directions which concern the Property and Liberty of the Subjects are transacted and concluded by a few persons (under the name of a close Committee consisting of the Earl of Manchester, the Lord Say, Mr. Pym, Mr. Hampden, Mr. Strood, Mr. Martin, and others, the whole number not exceeding the number of 17 persons) without reporting the same to the Houses, or having the same confirmed by the Houses, contrary to the express Law and customs of Parliament. All which for the matter of fact, We are ready to make proof of, and desire nothing but to bring the Contrivers of all the aforesaid mischiefs o their trial by Law, and till that be submitted to, We must pursue them by arms or any other way, in which Our good Subjects ought to give Us assistance to that purpose. The imagining the death of Us, Our royal comfort, or Our eldest Son, the levying War against Us in Our realm, giving to them aid of comfort, the counterfeiting Our great Seal or Money, being by the express words of the Stat. of the 25 year of King Edw. 3. Cap. 2. high Treason, and how applicable this is to those who have borne arms against Us, and to those who have consented that such Arms be borne, to those who have promised to live and die with the Earl of Essex, and to those who every day consent to some Act for the support and increase of that Army, We shall leave to all the world to judge, and hope that this Gracious Warning and Information now given by Us, will make that Impression in the hearts of Our People, that they will no longer suffer themselves to be misled from their Duty and Allegiance upon any pretences whatsoever: And We do declare, That We shall proceed with all severity against all persons whatsoever, who shall hence forward, insist, vote, or incur in any kind toward the maintenance and countenancing such Actions and Resolutions, which by the known and express laws of the Land, are high Treason, and against all those who shall adhere to them who are in Rebellion against Us, against rebels and Traitors, in such manner as by the Laws and Statutes of the realm is directed and appointed: And since by the power of seditious persons, We and both Houses are kept from being secured against tumultuous Assemblies, and both Houses from adjournment to some place of safety, which being done, might quickly make an end of these miserable distractions, whereby We are debarred from the benefit and advice We expected from that Our great council, the Members thereof being scattered into several places; Therefore that the whole kingdom may see that We are willing to receive Advice from those who are trusted by them though We cannot receive the same in the place to which they were called, for the Reasons aforesaid, nor intend to receive advice from them elsewhere in the capacity of Houses of Parliament: We do hereby declare, That such of the Members of both Houses, as well those who have been by the faction of the Malignant party expelled for performing their duties to Us, and into whose rooms no persons have been since chosen by their Countries, as the rest who shall desire Our protection, shall be welcome to Us at Our City of Oxford, until by the adjournment of the Houses to some fit and free place, or otherwise due course be taken for the full and free convention in Parliament of Us, and all the Members of both Houses. And for their better encouragement to resort to Us, We do hereby will and command all the Officers and soldiers of Our Army to suffer all such persons who are Members of either House, with their attendants and servants to come to Us to this Our City of Oxford: And that none of Our good Subjects may believe that by this Our necessary Declaration against the freedom & liberty of that present Assembly, We may have the least intention to violate or to avoid any Act or Acts passed by Us for the good and benefit of Our people this Parliament: We do hereby declare to all the world, That We shall, as We have often promised as inviolably observe all those Acts, as if no such unhappy interruption had happened of the freedom and liberty in that council: And desire nothing more than to have such a free convention in Parliament, that We may add such further Acts of Grace as shall be thought necessary for the advancement of the true Protestant Religion, for the maintenance of the Liberty & Property of the Subjects, and the preservation of the Liberty, freedom and privileges of Parliament. And that all the world may see how willing and desirous We are to forget all the Injuries and Indignities offered to Us by such who have been misled through weakness or fear, or who have not been the principal Contrivers of the present miseries: We do offer a free and general pardon to all the Members of either House (except Robert Earl of Essex, Ro●ert Earl of Warwick, Edward Earl of Manchester, Hen. Earl of Stamford, William Vis. Say and Seal, Sir John Hotham Knight and Baronet, Sir Arthur Haslerig baronet, Sir Henry Ludlow, Sir Edward Hungerford, Sir Francis Popham Knights, Nathaniel Fines, John Hampden, John Pym, William Strood, Henry Martin, & Alexande Popham Esquires, Isaac Pennington Alderman of London, and Captain Ven, who being the principal Authors of these present Calamities, have sacrificed the Peace and Prosperity of their Country to their own pride, malice and ambition. And against whom We shall proceed as against persons guilty of high Treason by the known Laws of the Land, & shall in the proceeding be most careful to preserve to them all privileges in the fullest manner that by the Law or the usage of former times is due to them,) If they shall within ten days after the publishing of this Our Proclamation return to their Duty and Allegiance to Us. And lastly, We further enjoin and Command all Our Subjects upon their Allegiance to Us, as they will answer the contrary to Almighty God, and as they desire that they and their Posterity should be freed from the foul taint of high Treason, and as they tender the peace of this kingdom, that they presume not to give any assistance to the before mentioned Rebellious Armies in their persons or estates in any sort whatsoever, but join with us according to their Duty and the Laws of the Land to suppress this horrid Rebellion. And Our Pleasure and Command is, That Our Proclamation be read in all Churches and chapels within this Our kingdom.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford, the 20 day of June, in the 19 Year of Our reign. 
 God save the KING.   

Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, 1643.