A DECLARATION of Great LUCIFER, Prince of the Air, and of Devils, and of all the damned crew in Hell. In Answer to a Petition presented to them by a Parliament Man, Dated in August 1648.  
Printed in Hell near Westminster. 1648.   

A Declaration of great Lucifer, etc.  
TRue, trusty, and wellbeloved servants of great Lucifer throughout the whole world, especially you of the Kingdom of England, our special benediction; whereas we have received a petition which was lately presented to us by the hands of some of our obedient servants, containning sundry Acts, Passages, Orders and Ordinances, by you commanded, and by the people in general performed to the great advance of our Kingdom, in which you desire our approbation by way of petition, which we have looked upon as acts of great concernment; for whereas you say you have shaken off all Loyalty and honesty, and have raised an Army and fought against your King, and took him prisoner, where he at this day remains under your custody to your great applause, and have managed a war for the space of seven years or well nigh; and hunted your Queen out of the Land, and driven your Prince away, took your King's revenue from him, and left him nothing but what you judge meet for such a one, and maintained yourselves like Princes with congratulatory gifts, and also as you say, you have sold many or all the Bishop's Lands, wherewith you have increased your own estates and Lands, and murdered the good people of the Land, and voted those to be Traitors that have risen in arms against you, and set up an Exicise Office, where you receive and gather in the fat of the Land, and the fruits of the Kingdom: And also have (to keep the people in subjection) settled a Committee at Goldsmith's Hall, at Derby house, and such like places, that whosoever misbehaveth himself, breaks your Orders, or will not pay those assessments that you in your wisdom think meet to be paid for your use, and have issued many warrants to bring refractory persons, and have procured Knights of the Post to swear point blank against such, and have commanded to plunder, to kill and slay your opposers, and have maintained Sectaries, Divisions, Heresies, Anabaptists, Independency, Presbyters, Sects, Schisms, sacrilege, blasphemy, and what not, to the advance of our Kingdom, and have countenanced treason, and rebellion, applauded Rebels, rewarded murders, fomented untruths, falcified Oaths broken Covenants, rob the people, and used that most excellent art of equivocating; for these Acts, and deeds, and such like, which we have not time at present to recapitulate; we accept, affect, applaud, and approve; and put the case you fail in any thing that you cannot procure, nor compass by wit or art to obtain, be it on the Seas, or on the Land, or under the earth; yea be it in the air, we with our politic, wise, crafty complices, will accomplish your desire, though the whole world were engaged against you; for what have we not power to command the whole earth? yea we have, and it will obey, for in the twinkling of an eye we have our desire, and our servants shall be yours to command, be the act never so unjust, for with their help you shall subdue, only thus much you must acknowledge this to be of our great power, and impute nothing of it to yourselves; in this throne we are greatest, and as you have done most worthily hitherto, and as it becomes our obedient servants; so we exhort you, and command you in our name to persist in these ways, for we are the great paymaster in the world, and if we set you on work be sure we will pay you your wages.  
Wherefore we say again, that we do approve of all and every act by you done, or shall do in this kind, for it's done to the advancement of our Kingdom, and we are joyful to hear that we have such faithful and diligent servants, that are so willing to perform our will, and as you have been thus careful and forward to execute our Laws, and maintain such acts; we do here add and ordain other Laws to be executed and put in practice by you, as you will answer the contrary at you peril.   

A Declaration with Orders of Lucifer, Prince of Devils, and of all the infernal Princes, and damned crew in Hell.  
For as much as our Kingdom extends itself to the uttermost parts of the earth; and we are the greatest Conquerors that ever the world bred; for no Emperor, King, or Potentate, be he or they never so mighty, is able to withstand our strength, or any of our servants or agents whom we employ in our cause.  
Wherefore we great Lucifer, Prince of Devils, with the approbation of our infernal privy Counsel, do order and declare (for there's no cause but we may declare as well as others, having the most politic and subtelest under the earth to be our Counselors) and by whom other Counsels are engaged for advice, as followeth:  
That I great Lucifer, Prince of the air, am the Father of all lies, murders, adulteries, blasphemies, incest, sacrilege, rapines, covetousness, drunkenness, swearing, whoredoms, contempts, backbiting, slanders, dissembling, and all manner of wickedness whatsoever can be named: and I with the rest of my devilish Counselors, will maintain, defend, preserve, and put in practice, set forward, and help these and the like designs upon any person or persons, he or she, of what degree or calling so ever they be, whether Kings, Princes, Lords, Earls, or Potentates, rich or poor, young or old, I, I say will tempt, entice, provoke, and persuade withal manner of slights, baits and suggestions; that men and women commit these, and such like, by all the means and ways that can be used, whether in secret or public, openly or privately, by night or by day, sleeping or waking, without giving rest to any, no not for a minute; yea their best actions shall be worst performed, and to make this more evident to the whole world, I with advice of my hellish infernal Counsel of the upper Region, and the lower Hell, do order.  
Imprimis, 'tis ordered and judged meet by us Imps of Hell, that all creatures shall and may have as many Idols as they please, whether Parliament Idols, Goldsmith's Hall Idols, or Excise Idols, and shall and may make as many kind of Idols, of gold or silver, wood or stone, Parliament man or Committee man, to hug them, and shall and may set them up in any place wheresoever in earth or hell, sea or land, Temple or market place, Westminster or London, or in their own hearts, and shall bow, and cringe to them as oft as they please.  
Item, it's agreed by the infernal Council of Hell that all days shall be alike to do any kind of service, except Fasting days; and 'tis ordered that they keep one day in a Moonshine, and to offer up their little Idol money as a sacrifice to us: And before such Moonshine day, the four Winds shall blow four several ways to give notice, and to put them in mind to prepare themselves for that day of Moonshine, to meet at the unholy Court called the sacrificing Mount: in English, the Committees of Goldsmiths Hall.  
Item, we act if any man come into the world without Father or Mother, or our help to beget them, or if any Malignant beget another, they shall curse their begetters, and their genitors (Parliament and godless men excepted) and toleration shall be given to all Rebels to curse, Authorities to rail at government, and Governors, to despise dignities, to live without order, to make one another odious, to practise treasons and rebellions, and to make every thing mine and thine, and the longest liver take all, what the Devil leaves.  
Item, we hold it Lawful, and it is a commendable deed of darkness, to imbrue one another's hands in the blood of others, and to hang up all Royalists, especially those that will not submit to our Laws, and whether this act be done inwardly by potions, or outwardly by weapons, we value it not, provided it be done to the life, yea of Kings.  
Item, it is acted that it shall be Lawful for any one to cover, or any to prostitute themselves to any one, whether his or hers be sleeping or waking: provided it be done that none sees it; and further by the said power it is held Lawful, that if any attempt this act, to any kind of cattle, beast, swine, or Dogs, it shall be tolerable, yea and to foul Martin.  
Item, we judge it Lawful to rob, carry away, or to take any thing that is another's in spite of their noses, whether we want it or not, and who so shall withstand us shall be torn in pieces with Devils: the Devil take them.  
Item, it is Lawful to backbite, slander, revile, and betray any one, be they friend or foe. Noble or ignoble, always provided that before such an act they have recourse to our high Court, or to some of our Committees, and from them procure a commission for the same.  
Item, it is ordered, and held Lawful to desire another's estate, Land, money, riches, wealth, wives, or children, or whatsoever is another's, be it never so good, or never so fair, or never so much, so it be to satisfy our lusts, and to take any thing from any man's dwelling, bed, or board: provided it be done in a covetous way, and he esteemed a malignant or popish delinquent.  
Lastly, it is agreed and concluded upon that we will that all men be as we are, Liars, murderers, blasphemers, swearers, dissemblers, hypocrites, drunkards, idolaters, revellers, covenant breakers, haters of honest men, because we shall never come or have to do where honest men are, but shall always remain bathing ourselves in the lake of hell where we would that all false assemblers should be partakers with us, to the advancement of our Kingdom without any dissolution or rejouring.  
Unto which Articles, and orders we Lucifer with our Princes, Lords, Earls, and Precedents of our Kingdom whose names are here under written, have sealed, signed, and assented unto, and set their hellish claws. 

Lucifer.  
Belzebub a King.  
Astoroth a Duke.  
Berith a Duke.  
Bilith a Precedent.  
Demas a marquis.  
Baal Peor a Lord.  
Satan a Captain.  
Belimoth a Duke.  
Diabolus a Lord.  
Demonon a King.   Given at our high infernal Court and Palace of darkness, this 32. of the month, and in the five thousand six hundred and fifty eighth year of our reign over the whole world.  
If any be pleased to list themselves under any of our Officers whom we shall appoint, and set over to fight our Battles, let them repair to our Court of Limbo, or Purgatory, near Westminster, where they may list soul or body, go as fast on foot or horseback as any of the Members.  
FINIS.