A Declaration Of the Commons assembled in Parliament, Upon Two Letters sent by Sir John Brooks, (sometimes a Member of the Commons House this Par- liament, till he was disabled, being a Projector, Monopolist, and Fomentor of the present bloudy and unnaturall War; for bearing of Arms actually against the Parliament) to Sir William Killegrew at Oxford (intercepted neer Coventrey) giving his advice how the King should proceed in the Treaty upon the Propositions for Peace, pre- sented unto Him by the Parliament. With the Names of the Lords, Baronets, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen, Ministers and Freeholders, indicted the last Sessions at Grantham, of high-Treason, by Sir Pere- grine Bartue and the said Sir John Brooks, before themselves, and other their fellow-Cavaliers, Rebels and Traitors, Commissioners, appointed (as they say) for that purpose. Who, contrary to the known Laws of this Kingdome, seize all the Estates of the persons indicted, require their Tenants to pay in all their Rents of the said Lords and others, unto themselves, being Commissioners and sharers therein. Also, the Ordinance of both Houses, made the 17 of Decemb. 1642. that the pretended Commissioners, and all others, Sheriffs, Officers, Iurors, and any whom it may concern, may know what to expect, that shall presume to molest the Persons or Estates of any for their service to the Parliament and Kingdom. With some Abstracts of credible Letters from Exceter, who give a further Relation concerning the late Expedition under the command of Sergeant Major James Chudleigh against the Cornish. ... (2 lines; order to print)
Contributors: Bartue, Peregrine, Sir, royalist; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649; Chudleigh, James, Sergeant Major; Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695; McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Printed for Edw. Husbands in the Middle-Temple
Published: 1643
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Notes: Misnumbered.