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The Declaration of the Knights, Gentry, and Trained Bands of the Couuty of Kent ... Wherein they declare their Resolution to march against the Kings Army ... and rescue his Majesty out of the Cavaleers hands. Likewise the answer of the House of Parliam

      [London]: For J. Barks. December 22, 1642. First Edition. Disbound. Pamphlet measuring 18cm by 14cm, title page with woodcut border, verso of title page blank, the Declaration and Parliament's reply each have wood engraved headpiece and run to 3 pages each. The pamphlet is in very good condition with just a few marginal to the title page which extends to the top edge of subsewquent leaves but which does not affect the text. Printed four months after the King had raised his standard at Nottingham on August 22nd, an action seen to mark the start of the 1st Civil War and just a few months after the war's first major battle at Edgehill this pamphlet is interesting because it clearly shows that the war was not seen as a war with the King so much as a war for the King. At this point those engaged on the Parliament's side were far from abandoning ideas of monarchy, rather they wished to bring the monarchy back within what they saw as the laws of England and to free it from, in the words of this document, "the malevolent counsell of an ill-affected party of Malignants and Cavaleirs". Wing D698 , 4to , 8 pp .