A DECLARATION OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
Martis ult. Februarii, 1642.  
THe Lords and Commons taking into Consideration, the miserable Distractions and Calamities, with which this whole kingdom and Nation is now infested, the Face and cruel Effects of an unnatural Civill War, being too visible and apparent in all the parts thereof, and the Power of the Sword so prevailing, as that the public Iustice of the Kingdom cannot be expected to be administered in a just and indifferent way, but that the Iudges and Ministers thereof may be terrified and awed by the Power of Armed men, And also for preventing of Inconveniences which may happen by Assemblies of multitudes of people in these times of miserable Distraction, have thought fit to Order, And the said Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, do ordain and Declare, that the several Iudges and Iustices of Assize, and Nisi Prius, and Iustices of Oier and Terminer, and goal delivery, and their associates, and the Clerkes of the Assize and every of them, of, or within any of the Counties or Cities of England and Dominion of Wales, do forbear to Execute any of the said Commissions, or to hold or keep any Assizes, or goal delivery at any time during this Lent vacation, or to issue out any Warrant for summoning the Assizes within any County in which they shall be appoynted Iudges or Iustices; And if they have already issued any, that they forthwith revoke and recall the same, and herein their ready and perfect obedience is expected and required, as they will answer the Contempt and neglect hereof, before the Lords and Commons in Parliament.   

Martis ult. Februarii, 1642.  
O Ordered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, that this Declaration shall be forthwith Printed and published.  
John brown Cleri. Parliamentorum.   

March 1. London Printed for John Wright, in the Old-bailey. 1642,