HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His Loving Subjects.  
After His Victories over THE LORD FAIRFAX IN THE NORTH, AND, sir WILLIAM WALLER IN THE WEST, AND, THE TAKING OF bristol by His Majesties Forces.  

Charles R.  
OUr express pleasure is, That this Our Declaration be Published in all Churches and Chapples within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, by the Parsons, Vicars or curates of the same.   
Printed by His Majesties Command At Oxford, July 30.  
And re-Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley, 1643.  
By special Command.   

HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His loving Subjects. AFTER HIS VICTORIES OVER The Lord Fairfax in the North, Sir William Waller in the West, and the taking of bristol by His Majesties Forces.  
AS the Grievances and Losses of no particular Persons since these miserable bloody Distempers have disquieted this poor Kingdom, can be compared to the loss and damage. We ourself have sustained, there having been no Victory obtained but in the Blood of Our own Subjects, nor no Rapine or Violence committed but to the Impoverishment, and ruin of Our own People; so a blessed and a happy Peace cannot be so acceptable and welcome to any man as to Us. Almighty God to whom all the secrets of Our Heart are open, who hath so often, and so miraculously preserved Us,& to whose power alone We must attribute the goodness of Our present Condition,( how unhappy soever it is with reference to the public Calamities) knows with what unwillingness, with what anguish of soul, We submitted ourself to the necessity of taking up Defensive arms; and the World knows with what Justice add Bounty We had repaired Our Subjects for all the Pressures and Inconveniences they had born, by such excellent Laws as would for ever have prevented the like; and with what earnestness and importunity We desired to add any thing for the establishment of the Religion, Laws, and Liberty of the Kingdom. How all these have been disturbed, invaded, and almost destroyed by Faction, Sedition, and Treason, by those who have neither Reverence to God, or Affection to Men, but have sacrificed both to their own Ends and Ambition, is now so evident, that We hope, as God hath wonderfully manifested his care of Us, and his defence of his and Our most just Cause, so he hath so far touched the hearts of Our People, that their Eyes are at last opened to see how miserable they have been seduced, and to abhor those Persons whose Malice and subtlety have seduced them to dishonour him, to rebel against Us, and to bring so such misery and calamity upon their Native Country.  
We well remember the Protestation voluntarily made by Us, in the head of that small Army We were Master of in September last, to defend and maintain the true reformed Protestant Religion, and if it should please God by his blessing upon that Army to preserve Us from this Rebellion, that We would maintain the Just privileges and Freedom of Parliament, and govern by the known laws of the Land, for whose defence in truth that Army was onely raised, and hath been since kept. And there cannot be a more seasonable time to renew that Protestation then now, when God hath vouchsafed Us so many Victories and successses, and hath rendered the power of those who seek to destroy Us, less formidable then it hath been,( so that We shall probably not fall under the scandalous Imputation which hath usually attended Our Messages of Peace, That they proceeded from the weakness of Our power, not love of Our People,) and when there is more freedom in many counties for Our good Subjects to receive true Information of their own and Our Condition, the knowledge whereof hath been with equal Industry and Injustice kept from them, as other Acts of Cruelty have been imposed on them. We do therefore declare to all the World in the presence of Almighty God to whom we must give a strict account of all Our Professions and Protestations, That We are so far from intending any alteration of the Religion established, as hath been often falsely, scandalously, and against the Conscience of the Contrivers themselves of that rumour suggested to Our people) or from the least thought of invading the Liberty and property of the Subject, or violating the just privileges of Parliament, that We call that God to witness, who hath covered Our Head in the day of battle, That We desire from Our soul, and shall always use Our utmost endeavour to preserve and advance the true reformed Protestant Religion established in the Church of England, in which We were born, have faithfully lived, and by the grace of God shall resolutely die; That the preservation of the Liberty and Property of the Subject in the due observation of the known laws of the Land, shall be equally Our care as the maintenance of Our own Rights, We desiring to govern onely by those good laws, which till they were oppressed by this odious Rebellion, preserved this Nation happy; and We do aclowledge the just privileges of Parliament to be an essential part of those laws, and shall therefore most solemnly defend and observe them. So that in truth if either Religion, Law or Liberty be precious to Our People, they will by their submission to Us join with Us in the defence of them, and thereby establish that Peace, by which only they can flourish and be enjoyed. Whether these men, who are professed Enemies to the established ecclesiastical Government, who reproach and persecute the Learned Orthodox Ministers of the Church, and into their places put Ignorant, Seditious, and schismatical Preachers, who vilify the Book of Common-Prayer, and impiously profane Gods Worship with their scurrilous and seditious demeanour, are like to advance that Religion; whether those men who boldly, and without the least shadow or colour of Law, impose insupportable Taxes and odious Excises upon their fellow Subjects, Imprison, Torment, and murder them, are like to preserve the Liberty, and Property of the Subject; and whether those men who seize and possess themselves of Our own unquestionable Revenue, and Our just Rights, have denied Us Our Negative voice, have by Force& Violence awed and terrified the Members of both Houses, and lastly, have, as far as in them lies, dissolved the present Parliament by driving away& Imprisoning the Members, and resolving the whole power thereof, and more, into a Committee of a few Men, contrary to all Law, custom, or President, are like to vindicate and uphold the privileges of Parliament, all the world may judge. We do therefore once more conjure Our good Subjects by their memory of that excellent Peace, and firm happiness with which it pleased God to reward their Duty and Loyalty in time past, by their oaths of Allegiance, and Supremacy which no new Vow, or Covenant contrived, and administered to and by themselves, can cancel or evade, by whatsoever is dear and precious unto them in this life, or hoped or prayed for in the life to come. That they will remember their Duty and consider their Interest, and no longer suffer themselves to be misled, their Prince dishonoured, and their Country wasted and undone, by the malice& cunning of these State impostors, who under pretence of Reformation would introduce whatsoever is monstrous& unnatural both to Religion and Policy, but that they rather choose quietly to enjoy their Religion, Property, and Liberty founded and provided for by the wisdom and Industry of former times, and secured and enlarged by the blessings upon the present Age, then to spend their lives and fortunes to purchase Confusion, and to make themselves liable to the most intolerable kind of slavery, that is, to be slaves to their fellow Subjects, who by their prodigious unheard of Acts of oppression and Tyranny, have given them sufficient evidence what they are to expect at their hands. And let not Our good People, who have been misled, or through want of understanding, or want of Courage submitted themselves to unwarrantable and disloyal Actions be taught by their Seducers, that their safety now consists in despair, and that they can only secure themselves for the Ills they have done, by a resolute and peremptory Disobedience. Revenge and Blood-thirstynesse have never been imputed to Us by those, who have left neither Our Government or Nature unexamined with the greatest boldness and malice; and all those who since these bloody Distractions out of Conscience have returned from their evil ways to Us, have found that it was not so easy for them to repent, as to Us to forgive; and whosoever hath been misled by those, whose hearts from the beginning have designed all this mischief, and shall redeem their past Crimes by their present service and Loyalty in the apprehending, or opposing such who shall continue to bear arms against Us, and shall use their utmost endeavours to reduce those men to their due Obedience, and to restore this Kingdom to it's wonted Peace, shall have cause to magnify Our mercy, and to repent the Trespasses committed against so Just and Gracious a sovereign. Lastly, We desire all our good Subjects, who have really assisted or really wished Us well, now God hath done such wonderful things for Us, vigorously to endeavour to put an end to all these miseries, by bringing in Men, Money, Plate, Horses, or arms to Our aid, that so, We being not wanting to ourselves, may with confidence expect the continuance of Gods favour to restore Us all to that blessed Harmony of Affections, which may establish a firm Peace, without the speedy obtaining of which this poor Kingdom will be utterly undone, though not absolutely lost.  
FINIS.