A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT: For the Vindication of Ferdinando Lord Fairefax, and others employed in their service against the earl of New-Castle, and his Army of Papsts, which threatens ruin and Desolation of our Religion laws and Liberties.  
Also requiring and commanding all Persons whatsoever, as they tender the good and prosperity of the true Protestant Religion, forthwith to withdraw themselves from his Assistance, and no longer to aid him nor any of his Adherents.  

Die Veneris, 3 Feb. 1642.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, that this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published.  
brown, clear. Parliament.   
Feb. 4. Printed for John Wright in the Old Bailey. 1642.   

A DECLARATION Of the LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
Veneris, 3. Februarii, 1642:  
WHereas Henry Earl of Cumberland,& William earl of Newcastle, have not only traiteroufly raised War against the Parliament, but likewise the said earl of Newcastle, out of a wicked design to suppress the Protestant Religion, and to advance the Popish Idolatry and Superstition, hath raised and Armed a great number of Papists, And having brought them together in the body of an army, is become their head and captain general, And further in pursuance of that wicked design, and for the terrifying and destroying of those, who out of conscience and duty to God and the kingdom, should oppose them in the execution thereof, they have by several Proclamations, that is to say, by one bearing Date the first of December last, under the name of the said earl of Cumberland, and another Dated the seventeenth of january last, under the name of the said earl of Newcastle, falsely, and Maliciously, and traitorously published Ferdinando Lord Fairefax, Sir Thomas Fairefax Knight, Sir Edward Loftus Knight, Sir matthew Bointon Knight and Baronet, Sir Henry Fowlis, and Sir Thomas Maileverer Baronets, Sir Richard Darley, Sir Christopher Wray, Sir Henry Anderson, Sir John Savile, Sir Edward Rodes, Sir Hugh Cholmley, Sir Thomas Reinington, Sir Thomas Norclisse Knights, John Hotham, Thomas Hatcher, William Lister, John Legard, of Malton, John Dodsworth, John Wastell, John pierce, esquires, William White, John Robinson, Arthur Beckwich, Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Stackdell Gent. and divers others, and all their Adherents to be Traytors, The Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament do hereby Declare, that the said Ferdina do Lord Fairefax, is by them or by Authority directed from them, appoynted captain general of the Forces raised, and to be raised for the defence of Religion, the liberty of the kingdom, and of the Parliament; And whatsoever he or any of the persons aforenamed, or any under him or them, have done by virtue of that Authority, they have done lawfully and according to that duty which all good Subjects owe to God, the King, and their Country; And that they shall for their so doing, be maintained by the power and Authority of Parliament; And they do further Authorize, and regard the said Ferdinando Fairefax, the said persons aforenamed, and all others to continue and proceed in this so necessary and acceptable a Service: And that all means may be used for the suppressing that Army of Papists, and persons Popishly affencted, now under the command of the said earl of Newcastle▪ which evidently threatens ruin and dissolution to our Religion, laws and Liberties, and will( if not prevented) make us undergo those Cruelties, Rapines, spoiling, and murdering, that our Brethren of Ireland, have suffered by the Popish Rebels there, which must also expect from these if they be not timely and powerfully resisted, The said Lords and Commons do further Declare the said Henry earl of Cumberland, and William earl of Newcastle, and all that shall assist them or either of them in their persons, or with arms, Money, Provision, or otherwise howsoever to be guilty of High Treason, for raising arms against the Parliament and kingdom; And that the said earl of Newcastle, having made himself head of a Popish party now in arms, hath thereby after a more horrid and detestable manner, manifested himself to be a traitor and an Enemy to all true Religion and goodness▪ And therefore the said Lords and Commons do further require and command, all persons of what Estate, degree, or quality, whatsoever they be, as they tender the good and prosperity of the true Protestant Religion by Law established, and preservation of themselves, their laws, and Liberties, and as they will answer it before Almighty God, that they do forthwith wholly and absolutely withdraw themselves from giving any aid or Assistance to the said earl of Newcastle, or any of the Forces raised by him or under his command, and that they fail not to give all ready and cheerful obedience, and assistance to the command and Authority of the said Lord Fairefax, so much conducing to the preservation of Religion, and to the peace of the County of york, and weal of the whole kingdom, whereunto, the Lords and Commons are confident, that all persons which are, or desire to be accounted true Protestants, and rightly affencted to Gods true Religion, the peace of the kingdom, and the Liberty of the Subject will( to their utmost endeavours) willingly and resolutely submit, comforme, and apply themselves.  
FINIS.