A DECLARATION OF The LORDS and COMMONS assembled in Parliament, Concerning a late Proclamation of His Majesties, for the keeping of Trinity term at Oxford, which in regard of the many inconveniences thereof, it is by them ordered to be held only in the usual places: Also that no Order, or proceedings, given or had elsewhere, shall bind any Person without his own voluntary consent: And further, that if any shall disobey this Order, they will proceed against them as wilful contemners of the authority of Parliament, and disturbers of the Peace of the kingdom.  

Die Martis, 30. Maii, 1643.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this Declaration shall be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Joh. brown clear. Parliam.   
London, Printed for John Wright in the Old-Bayley.  
june 2. 1643.   

A Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament.  
Die Martis 30. Maii, 1643:  
THe Lords and Commons in Parliament, having taken into their serious consideration a Proclamation dated at Oxford the nineteenth of this instant May, for the holding and continuing of the Court of Chancery, and all proceedings therein, the receipt of his majesties Exchequer, and of the first Fruits and Tenths, the Court of the duchy of Lancaster, Court of Wards and Liveries, and Court of Requests, at the City of Oxford, for the whole term of Trinity then next ensuing, upon and from the second day of june next coming, until and upon the 21. day of june aforesaid: And for adiourning the Courts of Kings bench common Pleas and Exchequer, from the said second day of june until the return of Quindena Trinitatis next ensuing, do find that it will much tend to the prejudice of the common-wealth to have the said Courts and Receipts held and continued at Oxford, where great part of an Army raised against the Parliament and the authority thereof, now resides: And the said Lords and Commons apprehending and foreseing the great inconveniences and mischiefs that necessary must happen to many of his majesties most faithful and best subiects, in case those Courts and Receipts be held at Oxford, where such of them as have occasion to attend cannot with any safety of their persons or estates repair to his majesty, having in effect declared all persons that have contributed any thing in aid or defence of the Parliament, and the privileges thereof, to be guilty of high Treason, and in pursuance thereof, by the force and power of the Army there remaining, have seized upon many of their persons, where they are detained prisoners, and some proceeded against as Traytors, having nothing laid to their charge, but their assisting the Parliament, and opposing that Army raised to destroy it and the kingdom. And finding that divers, both Iudges and others,( whose attendance upon the said Courts and Receipts will be necessary) are members or assistants to one or both Houses of Parliament, whose presence at this time cannot be spared; and that if the Records necessary to be used in the said Courts should be removed from the usual places to Oxford, in a time when two Armies are residing near thereabouts, it would endanger the miscarriage of them, which might ruin many of his majesties subiects, whose estates depend thereupon; and that so far a distance between the said Courts of Law and Equity, which have necessary dependence one upon another, would prove exceeding prejudicial to many: and finding as great cause to take care for preventing the said mischiefs and inconveniences as was in Easter term last, in that the said Army is still continuing: The said Lords and Commons do therefore declare and order, that no judge, Minister, or other person beloning to any of the said Courts or Receipts shall repair to the said City of Oxford, or do or execute any thing belonging to the said Offices and employments, but in the places usual of the doing and executing thereof: and the said Lords and Commons do enjoin the said several Iudges Officers, and Ministers, to attend the execution of the said Offices at the usual times and places for the execution thereof, and not elsewhere; and that no member of, or assistant to either of the two Houses of Parliament, that have any place, Office, or employment, about any of the said Courts or Receipts, shall presume to depart from their attendance upon the Parliament▪ without the special leave of that House whereof they are members or assistants; and that those departed do teturne forthwith. And do further order, that no person shall remove or cause to be removed any records or writings of any the said Courts or Receipts, to or towards the said City of Oxford: And the said Lords and Commons do declare, that if any person shall disobey this Order, they will proceed against them as wilful contemners of the authority of Parliament, and disturbers of the peace of the kingdom: and it is further Declared and Ordered by the said Lords and Commons, that no Iudgement, Decree, Order or Proceedings whatsoever, that shall be given, made, or had, by, or in, any of the said Courts or receipts, out of the usual places where the said Courts and receipts, have been accustomend to be held and kept, shall bind any person that may be concerned therein, without his own voluntary consent: and that all Iudges, Officers, and other persons, shall be protected and kept indemnified, from any damage or inconvenience that may, or can happen to them, for yielding obedience to this Ordinance, or by the not prosecution of any just svit or action in the said Courts at Oxford, or any of them.  
FINIS.