HIS MAJESTIES Instructions To His Commissioners of Array, for the several Counties of England, and the Principality of Wales; And to be observed by all Sheriffs, Majors, Justices of the Peace, bailiffs, Headboroughs, Constables, and all other His Majesties loving Subjects whatsoever.  
YORK: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL. 1642.   

His majesties Instructions to His Commissioners of Array for the several Counties of England and the Principality of Wales; And to be observed by all Sheriffs, Majors, Justices of the Peace, bailiffs, Headboroughs, Constables, and all other His Majesties loving Subjects whatsoever.  
WHereas a desperate and dangerous Rebellion is raised, and an Army marching against us, and such other of Our good Subjects whole Loyalty and Affection is eminent unto us, in several Counties of the Kingdom, under pretence of some Authority from both Our Houses of Parliament, and the same is done by Our consent, and for the safety of Our Person, whereby many of Our loving Subjects are missed and engaged in undutiful and disloyal Actions against us their sovereign, and to oppose persons immediately authorised by us, as disturbers of the peace; We do, for the Information of all Our good Subjects, that they may be no longer corrupted or seduced by these false and damnable infusions, declare, That We do disavow Our consent to any of the pretended Ordinances, and do protest against the same, and all the proceedings thereupon, as seditious and treasonable to Our Person, Crown, and Dignity: And do declare, That the Army now under the command of the earl of Essex, and raised in any part of the Kingdom by his direction, or by the direction of any pretended Ordinance, is raised against us, and to take away Our life from us, And that he, and all who shall adhere to him, are Traytors by the known established laws of this kingdom: And therefore Our express command unto you, and to every of you is,  

I.  
That you forthwith raise all possible power for the apprehension of the said earl of Essex, and his Confederates; and that with such forces of Horse and Foot you shall fight with, kill, and slay all such as shall by force oppose you in the execution of these Our Commands, and such who shall presume to put the Ordinance of the Militia in execution against Our express pleasure and consent. And you shall pursue the said Rebels and Traytors in the said Counties, or in any other Counties or parts of the Kingdom into which they shall retire themselves. All which forces, so to be raised, shall have the same pay as the rest of Our Army is to have.   

II.  
You shall defend and protect all Our Subjects from violence and oppression by the illegal pretended Ordinance concerning the Militia, the pretended Ordinance for the earl of Essex to be general, or any other Ordinance to which We have not or shall not give Our consent. And shall not suffer any of Our loving Subjects to be troubled or molested for refusing to submit to the said pretended Ordinances, but shall assist and defend them from any Summons, Messengers, sergeant, or Warrant, which shall disturb them for the same. And the said Messengers or Serjeants you shall apprehended and commit to Prison as seditious Disturbers of the peace of the Kingdom.   

III.  
You shall, to your utmost power, assist the execution of Our Commission of Array, which ought to be obeied by the known Laws of the Land; And if any Factious or Seditious Persons shall raise any Power to oppose Our said legal Commission, or the execution thereof, you shall, in your several Counties, levy men, and them led out of your said Counties to the place where such force is raised, and suppress the same. More especially, you shall be aiding and assisting to the Lord marquis Hertford, who is authorised, by Our Commission, general of Our Forces in the Western parts; and to the earl of Cumberland Our Lieutenant general for the County of York; and to the Lord Strange, and colonel Goring: And to that purpose you shall levy such other Forces of Horse and Foot as the said marquis shall, by his Commission, give you power to do, under such Colonels, Commanders, and other Officers as shall be, by him, appointed or directed within the several Counties mentioned in His Commission, as the earl of Cumberland, and as the Lord Strange shall likewise direct in the Counties within their several Commissions.   

IV.  
Our express pleasure and Command is, That you disarm all Popish Recusants, and all such other dangerous and ill-affected Persons, and Brownists, Anabaptists, and other Sectaries, as well Clergymen, as others, as have testified, or shall testify their ill disposition to the peace and government of the Kingdom. And you shall endeavour, by causing Our several Declarations, Messages and Answers to be publicly red in Churches and other places, to clear Our proceedings from all false imputations& aspersions; and shall from time to time certify us of all things necessary for the public Service. And that Our directions to you, and your advertisements to us may have a clear and ready passage, We do hereby Command all Post-masters, That they do not suffer any Letters or other Dispatches, to or from us, to be intercepted or stayed, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils. And if any bold person, by what authority soever, shall presume to make such stay of those Dispatches, you shall apprehended such persons, and shall give all assistance, and protection to those persons employed in such Dispatches.   

V.  
If you shall find any disaffected persons raising any parties against us, spreading scandals or imputations to Our proceedings, like to disturb the peace of the Kingdom, you shall cause all such persons( upon good proofs of their misdemeanours) to be apprehended and committed to prison, till they shall answer their offences in such manner as is agreeable to Law and Iustice.   

VI.  
You shall take from the said Rebels and Traytors, and their Adherents, all Arms, Ordnance, and Ammunition; and such as they have taken from any of Our good Subjects, you shall restore again to the true Owners. And whereas divers Seditious persons, under pretence of Commissions from the earl of Essex, presume to levy Horse and Foot, and to collect money for the same, you shall seize upon all Horses, Arms, Ammunition, Money, Plate, or other provisions whatsoever, raised or provided under any such pretences, and without Our express Authority, for the somenting, or maintaining any such unnatural and unlawful War against us, the Religion, and Law of the Kingdom. And you shall assure all such Our well affencted Subjects, who shall contribute any Aid and Assistance to us, in this Our great necessity, or observe these Our Instructions, That We will protect them with Our utmost Power, and venture Our Life, and Crown in their just Defence. Which Resolution of Ours, you shall publish and declare upon all occasions for the better encouragement of all Our good Subjects in that behalf.  
Given under Our Privy Signet, at Our Court at Nottingham, the 29. of August, 1642.  
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