Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that this be forthwith Printed.
WHereas Robert Smith Eſquire, now high Sheriffe of the County of Eſſex, hath lately received a Writ bearing date the twenty ſeventh day of May, in the eighteenth yeere of his now Majeſties reigne, thereby commanding him to publiſh a Proclamation, whereby all his Majeſties Subjects belonging to the Trained Bands or Militia of this Kingdome, are forbidden to raiſe, March, Muſter, or exerciſe by vertue of any Order or Ordinance, of one or both Houſes of Parliament, without conſent or warrant from his Majeſtie upon paine of puniſhment according to the Lawes. And whereas the ſaid high Sheriffe hath now addreſſed himſelfe to both Houſes of Parliament, for advice and directions therein concerning the ſaid Proclamation to be contrariant and repugnant to the Oedinance and Judgement of both Houſes of Parliament concerning the Militia.
It is therefore Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament (they intending nothing by the ſaid Ordinance, but the protection and ſecurity of his Majeſties perſon the defence of the Kingdome againſt Forraigne invaſion, and preſervation of the publike peace againſt inteſtine Rebellions and Inſurrections here at home, the maintenance of the Priviledges and Authority of Parliament according to the Proteſtation.
That the ſaid Writ is illegall for that the conſtitution and policy of this Kingdome, and the King by his Proclamation cannot declare the Law contrary to the reſolution of any of the inferiour Courts of Juſtice, much leſſe againſt the high Court of Parliament. And likewiſe for that this Writ forbiddeth that to be done which they are obliged unto by their duty to God, their alleagiance to his Majeſty, and the truſt repoſed in them by the Common-wealth, (the Law having intruſted them to provide for the good and ſafety thereof.) And that the ſaid high Sheriffe hath done nothing in forbearing to publiſh the ſaid Proclamation, but according to his duty, and in obedience to the Order of both Houſes. And he is hereby required not to publiſh the ſaid Proclamation, or any other Proclamations or Declarations of the like nature, that concerne the Parliament, without firſt acquainting the ſaid Houſes.
And it is further declared that the ſaid high Sheriffe and other Sheriffes of other Counties within this Kingdome of England, and the Dominion of Wales, for their obedience to the Orders and Ordinances of Parliament; Or that have, or hereafter ſhall doe any thing in the execution thereof, ſhall be protected by the power and authority of both the ſaid Houſes.
London Printed for Thomas Androes, 1642.
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