A DECLARATION OF THE Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Chester, WHOSE NAMES ARE subscribed, Summoned to appear before His majesty's Commissioners for the Array at the Roodey, within the Liberties of the said City, for their clear manifestation of their Allegiance to His majesty, and duty to His Parliament;  
Do Declare,  
THat as it is a Sacred truth that a Kingdom divided cannot stand, so it is a legal principle, that His most Sacred majesty is the head, and the Parliament the representative body of His Kingdom, and that in the cordial union of His majesty and His Parliament consists the safety, glory, and the happiness thereof.  
And They for their parts heartily wish they may be accursed as Corah and his complices, that do or shall purposely occasion or foment any difference between His majesty and His Parliament, And therefore they further declare their readiness with their Lives and Fortunes to obey His majesty as their most dear and Dread sovereign according to their due Allegiance, and the resolution to defend the just privileges of Parliament according to their free and just Protestation, and that as God and the fundamental Laws of this Kingdom hath joined His majesty and the Parliament together, So they cannot agree unto a disjointed obedience, but do Declare themselves Enemies to all such as shall go about to put His majesty and the Parliament asunder.  
And for this Resolution they have great encouragement from His majesty's own Declaration attested with forty of the Nobility and privy council, whereby He hath most graciously assured them and all other His People, that He hath no more thoughts of making war against His Parliament, then against His own Children, & that He will defend the just Privileges of Parliament, and maintain and observe the Acts assented to by His Gracious majesty this present Parliament without violation; for which as for other His majesty's several gracious Protestations, for the defence of the Protestant Religion, and the Laws of the Land, they return most humble thanks to His majesty.  
This Declaration w●●delivered by the Citizens of Chester to His majesty's Commissioners for the Writ of Array.   

London, Printed for Edward Husbands and John Frank▪ July 20, 1642.