A Declaration of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Councell of Warre, against a printed Pamphlet, pretending Authority from the Army, to dispossesse or interrupt such Ministers as were put into sequestred Livings by the Parliament, or Authority derived from them.
WHereas it appeares by sufficient proofe, that many violent tumults and outrages, are committed by severall persons against divers Ministers placed by order or ordinance of Parliament, in sequestered livings. And for their so violent carriages to and detaining from the said ministers their profits, there is pretended by the said parties power and authority from the Generall and the Army, and for the more plausible justifying of their undue pretences therein, have caused to be printed and published a pamphlet intituled, two Petitions of the sequestred Clergy of England and Wales, one to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the other to Sir Thomas Fairfax, with a (pretended) Declaration of the Generall and his Councell of Warre thereupon. Of all which actions we cannot but testifie a very ill resentment, and doe hereby declare a dislike of such proceedings, disclaiming not only the actions themselves, to have had any incouragement from us, but also any ends or intentions to that purpose. And to the clearing our selves herein, we shall henceforth endeavour the bringing to condigne punishment, such who have or shall exercise the like upon any pretence whatsoever.