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THE Parliament doth Declare, That the Recognition of the Government by the Members of this Parliament in the words following; viz.

I do hereby freely Promise and Engage, to be True and Faithfull to the Lord Protector, and the Common-wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and shall not (according to the Tenor of the Indenture, whereby I am Returned to serve in this present Parliament) Propose, or give my Con­sent to alter the Government, as it is setled in one Person, and a Parlia­ment,

Doth not comprehend, nor shall be construed to comprehend therein the whole Government, consisting of Fourty two Articles; but that the same doth only include what concerns the Government of the Commonwealth by a single Person, and Successive Parliaments.

Thursday Septemb. 14. 1654.

ORdered by the Parliament that this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Pub­lished.

Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.

London, printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His High­ness the Lord Protector, 1654.

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