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Julii 4. 1642. The declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. Or, Five severall passages of state, : viz. 1. His Majesties Commission of Array. 2. His proclamation upon the same. 3. His Majesties letter to the county of Leycester. 4. The declaration of both houses of Parliament concerning the said Commission of Array and His Majesties proclamation. Lastly, divers acts and statutes thereunto annexed. Whereby it appeares that the said commission is not warranted by any act of Parliament: that it is contrary to the lawes and customes of the realme, destructive to the liberty and property of the subject contrary to the Petition of Right, and the statute made this present Parliament. Veneris 1. Julii. 1642. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that these five severall particulars shall be forthwith printed and published. Io. Brown Cleric. Parlamentorum