THE EARL OF PEMBROKE HIS DECLARATION and RESOLUTION, to the High Court of Parliament, CONCERNING His Election by the Parliament to be General for the Western Parts of the Kingdom, containing these Counties following: viz. 

Wiltshire.  
Somersetshire.  
Hampshire.  
Dorsetshire.  
Devonshire.  
Cornwall.  
The Isle of Wight.    
Wherein is showed his good affection to the King and Parliament, with his noble and undaunted Resolution for preserving the peace of the Kingdom.  
ALSO An Ordinance of Parliament for setting out ten ships for a Winter-guard for Ireland, with Letters of Surprisal for the taking of the Rebels ships, or any others that shall offer to assist them.  
LONDON, Novemb. 1. Printed for Thomas Holt. 1642.   

THE EARL OF PEMBROKE HIS DECLARATION and RESOLUTION concerning his being made General for the Western parts of the Kingdom.  
ALSO An Ordinance of Parliament for the setting forth of ten ships more for a winter-guard for Ireland, with a Letter of Surprisal for taking of the Rebels ships, and all others that shall assist them.  
THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, taking into consideration the great danger and manifold inconveniences which might happ●● to the whole Kingdom, if Sir Ral●● Hopton and the other Malignant's th●● take part with him, should in that rebellious manner as they have already begun, contin●e ●o raise more Force in the County, and commit such outrages as they have done, in plundering and disarming those who stand well-affected to the King and Parliament in that County, have thought it necessary to nominate the Earl of Pembroke to be General for the Western parts of the Kingdom, a Person of honour, power, fidelity and undaunted courage, whose affection to this cause is such, that he hath in a public manner declared his willingness to obey the commands of both Houses of Parliament, in adventuring his life and fortunes in this cause, which so much conduceth to the honour and good of the King, the preservation of the Privileges of Parliament, the maintenance of Religion, and the general peace and safety of the whole Kingdom. His Lordship hath sufficiently declared his resolution & good affection to the public good in his late Speech at Guild-Hall, intimating, that he had ever so good a heart to this business, that he was resolved to live and die in it.  
The Counties of which he is made General are these: viz. Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, and the Isle of Wight, and hath the like power with the Lord General the Earl of Essex, and is to disarm the malignants and illaffected parties of those Counties, and to quarter on their estates for the service of the Commonwealth.  
After the late battle betwixt Banbury, and Stratford upon Avon, between the Earl of Essex, and the King's Forces, wherein many were slain on both sides, and divers eminent men of the King's Party taken prisoners, as the Earl of Lindsey Lord chief General of His Majesty's Forces, the Lord Willoughby of Eresby his son, Sir Edmund straddling, Colonel Vavasor, Colonel Lunsford, and divers more, his Excellency remaining Master of the field, marched with his Forces to Warwick, and is come safe thither, and hath laid his prisoners in the Castle, but the Earl of Lindsey, who was sorely wounded when he was taken prisoner, in the said battle, is since dead.  
There was a Priests lately taken at Clarkenwell, who had a Letter found about him full of treachery against the King and Parliament, wherein are discovered their policy used for the subversion of the Protestant Religion, the substance of it was as followeth in the vere words of the Letter found about him.  
We have now many strings to our bow, and have strongly fortified our faction, and we have added two bulwarks more. For when K. JAMES was very violent against Arminianism, and interrupted with his pestilent wit and deep learning our strong designs in Holland, and was a great friend to that old rebellious heretic the Prince of Orange; now we have planted the sovereign drug of Arminianism, which we hope will purge the Protestants from their heresy, and will flourish and bear fruit in due season.  
But to return again to our main fabric: In the first place we take into consideration the King's honour & present necessity, and we show how the King may free himself from his wardship as Lewis the 11. did; and for his great splendour and lustre, he may raise vast sums, and not be beholden to his subjects, which is by way of imposition and Excise: we instance the Low-countrieses, and show what a mass of money they raise to pay their armies both by sea and land merely out of Excise.  
Then our Church Catholics proceed to show the means how to settle this Excise which must be by an Army of horse and foot; for we have made it sure: they shall be Foreigners, and Germans, who will eat up the King's revenues, and spoil the countries wheresoever they come, though they be well paid; what havoc will they make then when they have no pay. If the country be too hard for the soldiers, they must consequently outrage, which is equally advantageous to us.  
There are three Troops of horse gone out of Lincolne-shire into Yorkshire for the aid of the Lord Fairfax and Captain Hotham, against the Earl of Cumberland and his Cavaliers: Captain Hotham hath made good Cawood Castle and Selby, and is now to join his Forces with the Lord Fairfax, who hath raised great store of men for the defence of the King & Parliament. There is a Lieutenant Colonel and a Sergeant Major of the King's Party taken in Buckinghamshire, and brought up to the Parliament and committed to safe custody.  
Both Houses of Parliament have passed an Ordinance for the present setting forth to sea of ten ships for a winter guard for Iteland, and that for all the prizes they shall take, a third part be divided amongst the Commanders and Sailors in the Ship for their better encouragement; besides the Parliament have also granted Letters of Surprisal to other Merchants, to take the Rebels ships, or any others that shall offer to assist them.  
FINIS.