THE DECLARATION OF THE Lords, Gentlemen, Citizens, Freeholders, and Yeomen of this once happy Kingdom of ENGLAND.  
SInce it hath pleased Almighty God to suffer the Spirit of Division to continue in this distracted Nation, and to leave us without any settled foundation of Religion, Liberty, or Property, the Legislative power usurped and contemned at pleasure, the Armies raised at first for our defence, abused and misled into unwarrantable Actions, by the Cunning and Ambition of some of their superior Officers; no face of Government appearing either in any single Person, or Body of Men in Counsel lawfully constituted, to whom the grievances of the People may with any probability of success be properly addressed.  
We being conscious of our Duty, and sensible of our own, and the Nations ruin, if these Distractions continue, or resolve into a more fixed Oppression, by some corrupt settlement, inconsistent with the Laws, Peace, and interest of the Nation, have taken Arms, in defence of ourselves, and all others, who will partake with us in the vindication and maintenance of the Freedom of Parliaments, against all violence whatsoever of the known Laws, Liberty, and Property of the Good People of this Nation, who at present groan under illegal, arbitrary, and insupportable Taxes and payments, unknown to our Ancestors.  
This being our Duty to God and Man, and our only Design, we cannot despair of the Blessing of him that gives victory, nor of the cheerful concurrence of all good men, nor of the undeceived part of the Army, whose Arrears, increase of future pay, and advancement to higher Commands, we shall by all means procure; suffering no imposition or force on any man's Conscience: To this we doubt not but all honest Englishmen will say  
AMEN.