WHereas several Printed Forms of Petitions have been lately dispersed up and down the Kingdom, to procure Subscriptions: And whereas the Proceedings thereupon have been adjudged, and Declared, by his Majesty, and his Right Honourable Privy Counsell, to be Contrary to Law, and tending to the raising of Sedition, and Treason: The said Petitions be­ing still carry'd on in a private way, by Obscure and Ill-affect­ed persons, as the Act, and sense of the Generality of the City, and Nation; to the Scandal of his Majesties Loyall, and Prote­stant Subjects, and all true Lovers of their Prince and Country.

We whose Names are here under Subscribed, out of a sense of our Duty both to Church and State, and to Witnesse our detestati­on of all Illegall, and Ʋndutyfull practices, do hereby unani­mously declare unto the World, that we abhor the thought of any such Confederacy, and that we will have nothing to do in the Agitating, Promoting or Subscribing of any such Petition as aforesaid, in Opposition to his Majesties Royall Will and Pro­clamation.