A Declaration and Protestation of Will: Prynne and Cle: walker, Esquires, Members of the House of Commons, against the present Actings and Proceedings of the general, and general council of the Army, and their Faction now remaining and sitting in the said House.  
WHereas long since, for ease of the People, both Houses in a full and free Parliament Voted the Disbanding of this Army: in opposition to which, some great Officers of the said Army, (to continue their rich Commands) with some Members of the House of Commons, (who daily enrich themselves by the troubles of the times) secretly mutinied the Army against the Parliament. And whereas, lately the far major part of the House of Commons, pitying the bleeding condition, and tears of the oppressed People, Voted, and entered into a personal Treaty with the King: without which (by the Armies own confession in their Remonstrance at St. Albon, pag. 64.) there can be no Peace; which the Army interrupted by obtruding upon the Commons a Treasonable Remonstrance, 20 Novemb. 1648. tending to destroy the King, and His Posterity, and wholly to subvert all Parliaments, Religion, laws, and Liberties for ever; whereby the Commons in Parliament found it absolutely necessary to prevent such pernicious innovations, by concluding a safe Peace with His Majesty; whereupon (after mature debate) the House of Commons the 5 Decemb. 1648. Voted, That the King's Answer to the Propositions of both Houses upon the Treaty, were a ground for the Houses to proceed to the settlement of a safe and well-grounded Peace: Upon which, the general, and council of war, Wednesday morning 6 December 1648. Seized and Imprisoned 41 of the Members going to the House of Commons to do their Duty, secluded above 160 other Members, besides 40 or 50 Members who voluntarily withdrew themselves to avoid their violence; leaving only their own engaged party of 40 or 50 Members sitting, who now pass Acts of Parliament, of the House of Commons (as they call them) without the Lords; and comply with the said council of war, to carry on their said Remonstrance: To which purpose this present remnant of the Commons have unvoted in a thin House, under the force of the Army, what was deliberately Voted in a full and free House; whereas by their own Ordinance passed upon the Tumult of apprentices, 20 August 1647. to null, and make void ab initio, all Acts, Orders, Votes, &c. passed under the said force; This remaining Party ought not to sit, act, nor take upon them the style of a House, under so visible, actual, and horrid a Force.  
The premises considered, We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, Members of the House of Commons, do Declare and Protest, That the said general, Commissioned Officers, and general council of the Army, by the said Act of violence, upon the major part of the House, which legally, and virtually is the whole House, have waged war, and Rebelled against the Parliament, their Masters, who raised them to defend the privileges of Parliament, and the King's Person and Authority, in defence of Religion, laws, and Liberties, and have thereby forfeited their Commissions, and have broken and discontinued this Parliament; so that, until this force be removed, punished, the Honour of the Parl. and their wronged Members vindicated, and all the Members resummoned, all the Votes, Orders, and Actings, Passed, and to be Passed by this nominal House of Commons, are, and will be void, ab initio, and all such as do, or shall obey them, are and will be punishable, both by the Armies own judgement in their Remonstrance, August 18. and by the Houses Declaration, and the said Ordinnnce, 20 August 1647. We do farther Declare, and protest against this present House of Commons illegal Acts, Order, or Ordinance, for erecting a High Court of Justice, and usurping a Power, without any Law or precedent, to Try, Depose, and bring to capital punishment the King, and to disinherit His Posterity, or any of them, and against the said general council of Officers, aiding & abetting them therein, as highly impious against the Law of God, Nations, & the Protestant Profession, Traitors against the Stat. of Treasons, 25 Ed. 3. and against all laws & our Statutes, Perjurious and perfidious, against the Oaths of allegiance, Supremacy, national Covenant, and Protestation; all the Parliaments Declarations and Remonstrances held forth to the world; their treaties and promises made to the Scots, when they delivered the King's person into our hands; against our promises made to the Hollanders, and other Nations, and against all the Professions, Declarations, Remonstrances, and proposals made by this Army, when they made their Addresses to the King at New-market, Hampton Court, and other places.  
19 Janu. 1648. Will: Prynne, Cle: Walker.