352 Mr.NLAL'sIId Vol. ofthe wealthier) our Parliament could have fettled upon us.' Neal, p. 566. It was now apparent to all Men, that this Controverfj, which had hitherto been debated by the Pen, mull be decided by the Sword ; for this purpofe the oueen was all this while in Holland, ne- gotiating Foreign Supplies. The Parliament had given fufficient Provocation for fo doing : The %teen, at her firlt going into Hol- land, prevail'd upon the Prince of Orange, and the States of Holland, to iffue out a Proclamation, to command the Ablence ofDelinquents from her Ma- jefty's Court, in the following Words : * ' Whereas we have conne&ed and knit our- ' felves in the BoundsofArnity,and a molt filial and ' reciprocal Friend1hip,with our molt Royal Father the King of England, and his molt Honourable Parliament, now conjoin'd for removal of Grie- yances in the faid Kingdom ; we are bound in all due Refpet, and more efpecially by the mutual Duty 1 owe his molt Sacred 1Vlajefty, not to har- bou. or detain any Enemies to that State, or his Royal Perlon in this Kingdom ; whereas, there- ' fore, there are certain pernicious and ill-meaning ' Perfons here found with us, who have been, and 6 fill areD.:Unguents to the faid Houles of Parlia- ment ; who have boldly undertaken to intercede by petition to her Majefly, to be entertain'd into her Majefly's Service at her Court, now holden at the Hague ; it being contrary to the Refp _& fhe bath, and cloth continually owe to his Male- ' fly and that honourable Afiernbly ; and alto fo far from her molt real Intentions, as fie has re- ' quefted us to chew thus much by Proclamation * An Ordinance or Proclamation by the Prince of Orange, and States of Holland, in her Majetty's Behalf and at her Regueft, 6c. London, 1641. Penes ?no.. 4 d
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