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A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in Parliament, For the defence and preservation of Hertfordshire, and other places and Counties adjoining from the barbarous cruelties of Papists and other ill-affected persons who being in actual War against the whole kingdom, have now drawn their Forces to Brill in the County of Buckingham, and threaten to overrun all places thereabouts.  
WHereas great forces of Papists, and other ill affected persons are now in actual War against the King, the Parliament, and the whole kingdom; and part of those Forces being now drawn to Brill in the County of Buckingham, and other places adjoining, have according to their usage, plundered, robbed, pillaged and murdered divers good Protestants thereabouts; and threaten to march into the County of Hertford, and other Counties that way, there to commit the like outrages, and barbarous cruelties, as they have done in places where they have formerly been.  
The Lords and Commons in Parliament, being most desirous to prevent these miseries, and to suppress the Authors of them; For the better effecting thereof, do hereby desire all well affected persons of the County of Hertford, and other Counties and places adjoining, forthwith to raise all such Forces of Horse, and Foot, as they can make; and to march with them to Alesbury in the County of Buckingham, or to such other place as they shall be directed by order from both Houses of Parliament, or from the Earl of Essex Lord general, and to join with, and assist the Forces raised by authority of Parliament, for the defence of themselves, their families, and estates, and the true Protestant Religion, and for the suppressing and punishing those Forces at Brill, and all other their adherents, notorious enemies to the King, and kingdom; And such well affected persons as the County of Hertford, or any other Counties, or places whatsoever, that shall join with, and assist the Forces raised by Authority of Parliament, for the purposes above mentioned, shall therein do a very acceptable service to the commonwealth, and shall be assisted and protected by the power and authority of Parliament.  

Die Lunae, 2 Januar. 1642.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That this Declaration be forthwith printed and published.  
I. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.    

London, Printed for J. Wright in the Old-bailey. 1642.