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DECLARATION SIGNED BY THE CLERGIE AND
NOBILITY 28 JULY 1681.*
Wee do fincerelie affirm and declare That Wee judge it
unlawfull to Subjeds vpon pretence of Reformation or other
pretence whatfomevir To enter into Leagues and Covenants
or to take up Armes againft the King or thefe Commiffionat
by him, And that all thefe Gatherings, Convocations, Peti-
tions, Proteftations, and erecting and keeping of Councill
Tables that were ufed in the beginning of and for Carieing
on of the late Troubles were unlauful and feditious And
particularly thefe Oaths wherof the one was commonly called
THE NATIONAL COVENANT as it was fworne and ex-
* This Declaration, of which a fac-simile is here given, is printed
from the Original, preserved in Her Majesty's General Register House.
There are two others of the same date and tenor, subscribed, the one
by the Barons, and the other by the Commissioners of Burghs. The
above has been given chiefly on account of its bearing the names of so
many of the Dignitaries of the Church in the reign of King Charles 1 1.