His Majesty's SPEECH AND PROTESTATION, Made in the Head of His Army, between Stafford and Wellington, the 19th of September, 1642. After the Reading of His Orders. C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms LONDON: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: And by the Assigns of JOHN BILL. 1642. ΒΆ His Majesty's Speech and Protestation, Made in the Head of His Army, between Stafford and Wellington, the 19 of September, 1642. after the reading of His Orders. Gentlemen, YOu have heard these Orders read; It is your part in your several places to observe them exactly: The time cannot be long before We come to Action, therefore you have the more reason to be careful: And I must tell you, I shall be very severe in the punishing of those, of what condition soever, who transgress these Instructions. I cannot suspect your Courage & Resolution; your Conscience and your Loyalty hath brought you hither to fight for your Religion, your King, and the Laws of the Land; you shall meet with no Enemies, but Traitors, most of them Brownists, Anabaptists, and Atheists, such who desire to destroy both Church and State, and who have already condemned you to ruin for being Loyal to Us. That you may see what use I mean to make of your valour, if it please God to bless it with Success, I have thought fit to publish my Resolution to you in a Protestation, which when you have heard Me make, you will believe you cannot fight in a better Quarrel; in which I promise to live and die with you.