{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{For-text|the 2007 interim process in the cluster bomb convention|Convention on Cluster Munitions|the strategic agreement between New Zealand and the United States|New Zealand–United States relations#Wellington Declaration}} The "'''Wellington Declaration'''" (otherwise known as the '''Declaration of Wellington''') was a manifesto by King Charles I near the start of the English Civil War.
On 18 September 1642,<ref>{{citation|first=Peter Maurice |last=Daly|year=1995 |title=The English Emblem Tradition: Emblematic flag devices of the English civil wars, 1642-1660 |volume=3 of Index emblematicus |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0-8020-5739-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uGBG25-u67kC&dq=Charles+Wellington+declaration+September+19+1642&pg=PR38 xxxviii]|display-authors=etal}}</ref> before the first major pitched battle of Civil War, King Charles I raised his standard "in the vicinity of" (i.e. not actually in) Wellington, at the time a small, though highly influential, market town in Shropshire and addressed his troops the next day. He declared that he would uphold "the Protestant Religion, the Laws of England, and the Liberty of Parliament".<ref>{{citation|last=Purvey |first=P. F. |year=1996|title=Coins of England and the United Kingdom|publisher=Sanford J Durs|volume=1|edition=31|isbn=978-0-7134-7677-4}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=G0NmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Protestant+religion,+the+laws+of+England,+and+the+liberty+of+Parliament%22 p. 189]</ref>
The ''Wellington Declaration'' was held to be so important that the Royal Mint stamped its slogans on the reverse of the 10/- silver coins ''RELIG:PROT:LEG:ANG:LIBER:PAR''<ref>[http://www.24carat.co.uk/halfpoundcharlesi.html Hammered Silver "Declaration" Half Pound of Charles I]</ref> and silver half crowns (2/6) ''REL.PRO.LEG.ANG.LIB.PAR''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.gov.uk/timetrail/09_civilwar/object_detail.asp?photoref=9_19 |title=The reverse of an Exeter half-crown |access-date=6 September 2006 |archive-date=6 September 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030906023322/http://www.exeter.gov.uk/timetrail/09_civilwar/object_detail.asp?photoref=9_19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> that it produced at that time. The inscriptions abbreviate the words "''RELIGIO PROTESTANTIUM, LEGES ANGLIAE, LIBERTAS PARLIAMENTI''", which is the declaration in Latin.<ref>{{citation|last=British Museum Dept. Of Coins Medals|year=2009|title=Coins and Medals: Their Place in History and Art|publisher=BiblioBazaar, LLC|isbn=978-1-110-17839-1}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=6OxSsoryaFQC&dq=%22Protestant+religion%2C+the+laws+of+England%2C+and+the+liberty+of+Parliament%22&pg=PA134 p. 134]</ref>
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==Further reading== {{Portal|Money}} *Saul B, Needleman ''[http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/eod.html Economics of English coniage denominations]: Rise in silver and gold coinage''
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