A DECLARATION OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT, For the Protecting of all those that obey the Orders and Commands of Parliament.  
ALSO, Declaring all those to be Enemies to the Commonwealth, and Disturbers of the peace of the Kingdom, who either seize, apprehended or detain in prison, or sand out their Warrants for the apprehending, or otherwise molesting any person or persons for obeying the Ordinance and Commands of the Parliament, or for the refusing to obey the Commission of Array.  

September 8. 1642.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That this Declaration be forthwith printed and published.  
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London, Printed by LUKE NORTON and JOHN FIELD, for E. Husband and J. frank, and are to be sold at their shops in the Middle-Temple, and next door to the Kings-head in Fleetstreet. September 9. 1642.   

A DECLARATION Of the LORDS AND COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT.  
WHereas information hath been given, that divers Persons well affencted to the peace and safety of the King and Kingdom, have been seized, apprehended and imprisoned, and divers worthy Ministers attached and bound over to the next assizes to be holden at Chester, for yielding obedience to the Ordinance and command of Parliament, and for refusing to obey the illegal commands of the Commissioners of Array; The Lords and Commons do therefore hereby declare all those to be Enemies to the Commonwealth, and disturbers of the peace of the Kingdom, who seize, apprehended, or detain in prison, or sand out their Warrants for the apprehending, or otherwise molesting any person or persons for obeying the Ordinances and commands of the Parliament, or for refusing to obey the Commission of Array.  
And do require and command all Lord Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Justices of peace, Sheriffs, Majors, Constables, and all other His Majesties Officers and loving Subjects, That they do not onely forbear to execute any Warrants sent out by the Commissioners of Array, for the apprehending or binding over to the Assizes, or otherwise molesting any of His Majesties good Subjects, for not yielding obedience to the illegal Warrants and commands of the Commissioners of Array, but that they also assist, to the protection and defence of all those who are in danger to be apprehended, oppressed or molested by the violence and tyranny of the Commissioners of Array:  
Whereof they require the Justices of Assize of the County Palatine of Chester, and the Keeper of the castle of Chester, and of other prisons in the said County, and all other His Majesties Officers and Subjects whom it may concern, to take especial notice, that so those that are already imprisoned, or bound over by the Commissioners of Array in that County, may be discharged, and no further prosecuted and molested by any usurped Power and Authority against the Laws of this Land.  
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September 8. 1642.  
Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That this Declaration bee forthwith Printed and Published.  
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