A DECLARATION And RESOLUTION Of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
Concerning His Majesties late Proclamation for suppressing the present Rebellion, Under the Command of Robert earl of Essex, and the gracious Offer of his Majesties free pardon to him and all such of his adherents, as within 6 dayes after the date thereof, shall lay down their arms.  

Ordered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, that this Declaration and Resolution be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen. elsing clear. Parl. D. come.   
August 15.  
London, Printed for John Wright. 1642.   

A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS.  
The Lords and Commons having received in a letter from his Majesty a Printed paper, entitled, A Proclamation for the suppressing of the present Rebellion under the Command of Robert earl of Essex, and the gracious offer of his Majesties free pardon to him and all such of his adherents, as shal within six dayes after the date thereof lay down their arms, do publish and declare, that the matter of this libellious and scandalous paper, is the venom of those traitorous Councellors about his Majesty, long since discovered, and so often complained of by both Houses of Parliament, who having for many yeares together carried on a wicked design, to alter Religion, and to introduce Popery, Superstition, and Ignorance, the ready way to an Arbitrary and tyrannical government, and for that purpose, not onely maintained Agents at Rome, but invited and procured sundry nuntios, or Agents, to be sent into this kingdom from the Pope, by which means Popery and Superstition was so far advanced, that nothing but the convening of this Parliament, occasioned by the coming of the Scots, could in all humane reason have prevented them in their design, the onely true reason which these mischievous Councellors, maligning that Power which opposes itself against their destructive and horrid Counsels, have now at last, as the Master-piece of all their Machinations, advised his Majesty, in effect, to proclaim at once, his House of peers, the Hereditary Councellors of the kingdom, and his House of Commons, the representative Body of the whole Commons of the kingdom, to be all Rebels and Traytors, & by that paper have endeavoured so to blind the eyes of the people, as to make them guilty of their own destruction, by helping to subdue and destroy the Parliament,( the onely means under God, to preserve their Religion, Law, and Liberties) and to persuade the Kingdom that his Majesty by assistance of Papists and persons popishly affencted, will maintain the Protestant Religion. That by the help of men utlawed and of desperate fortunes will maintain the laws of the Land, and with Fugitives from parliament, and Delinquents to the Parliament▪ will preserve the privileges therof: an attempt so desperate and so transcendently wicked, that the Lords and Commons do unanimously publish and declare, that all they who have advised, contrived, abetted, or countenanced, or hereafter shall abet, or countenance the said Proclamation to be Traitors and Enemies to God, the King, and kingdom, and to be guilty of the highest degree of Treason that can be committed against the King and kingdom, and that they will by the assistance of Almighty God, and of all honest English Protestants, and lover of their Country, do their best endeavours( even to the utmost hazard of their lives and fortunes, to bring all such unparall'd Traytors to a speedy and exemplary punishment. And whereas the Lords and Commons in Parliament did formerly choose the earl of Essex to be captain general of such Forces as are, or shall be raised, for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion, the Kings person, the laws of the Land, the peace of the kingdom the Liberty and propriety of the Subject▪ and the rights and privileges of Parliament, The said Lords and Commons do declare, that they will maintain and assist him, and adhere unto him the said earl, with their Lives and Estates in the same cause, as in conscience and duty to God, the King, and their Country they are bound to do. And lastly the Lords and Commons do further declare, that notwithstanding those wicked Councells which inclined his Majesty to make war against our brethren of Scotland, and by prayers and proclamations red in Churches to pronounce them Rebels and Traytors that with-held his Majesty from setting forth any Proclamation against those bloody and barbarous Rebells in Ireland, till January last, although the rebellion brak forth the 23 of October before, and notwithstanding the importunity of both Houses of parliament that a Declaration might issue to that purpose, have now advised and prevailed with his Majesty by this proclamation, to invite his Subjects to destroy his parliament and good people by ● Civill War, ●nd by tha● me●●es to bring ruin, confusion and perpetual savery upon the surviving part of a then wretched kingdom. Yet the Lords and Common, to witness their constant and unshaken Loyalty and affection to his Majesty, do solemnly declare, That if his Majesty shall immediately disband all his forces, and be pleased to abandon those wicked Councellors,& leave them to condign punishment, and return and harken to the wholesome advice of his Great counsel: they will really endeavour to make both his Majesty and his Posterity, as Great, Rich, and Potent, as much beloved at home, ●●d feared abroad, as an Prince that ever swayed this sceptre: which is their firm and constant Resolution.  
FINIS.