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A78598	The charge against the King discharged: or, The king cleared by the people of England, from the severall accusations in the charge, delivered in against him at Westminster-Hall Saturday last, Jan. 20. by that high court of justice erected by the Army-Parliament; which is here fully answered in every particular thereof. Viz. The Parliaments propositions to the King. The Kings to the Parliament. The Kings condescentions to the Parliaments propositions. The overture of a treaty at Windsor. The massacre in London by vertue of the Kings commission. The coronation oath. The private articles, match with Spaine, and the match of France., King James death, Rochel. The German horse, loanes, and conduct money, privy seales, monopolies. Torturing our bodies, and slitting noses. The long intermission of Parliaments. The new liturgie sent to Scotland, calling and dissolving the short Parliament. The summoning this present Parliament. The Queens pious design, commissions to popish agents. The bringing up the northern Army. The Kings offer to the Scots of the plunder of the city. The Kings journey into Scotland. The businesse of Ireland solely cleered. The cloathes seized by his Majesties souldiers. The Kings letter to the Pope. The Kings charging the Members with his coming to the House. The list of armes and ammunition taken in his papers. ... The calling the Parliament at Oxford. The cessation in Ireland. The peace made there. The Kings protestation against popery. The letters to Marquesse Ormond.		1649 (1649)	Wing C2046; Thomason E542_10; ESTC R204182	27,986	35

Exact Col. p. 630. That his Majesty sometimes denyed to receive your humble Petitions for Peace We conceive you meant the Petition which you sent to the Earle of Essex at Worcester about the end of Sept. 1642. to be presented to his Majesty then at Shrewsbury upon notice whereof his Majesty declared that he was ready to receive any Petition from you only he required that none of those persons whom he had particularly accused of High Treason should by Colour of that Petition be employed to his Majesty And so we accompt this charge amongst the insufficiencies of your Declaration Concerning the Overture of a Treaty at Windsor and his Majesties advance to Brainford We finde that when you sent your Messenger about this overture to the King at Colebrook the Earle of Essex being returned to London drew a great part of his forces and the London Trained Bands towards his Majesty sending others by the way of Acton on the one side and of Kingston on the other Wind for also being then Garrisoned by you so that if his Majesty had remained at Colebrook he would have been invironed by your forces Whereupon he resolved suddainly to fall upon the body at Brainford and having defeated them he made his way over Kingston and so retreated to Reading Nor was there any Cessation mentioned by your Messenger who brought that Overture to his Majesty And 't was not your feare for London or the slaughter at Brainford but the Kings escape that so much troubled you Concerning the bloudy Massacre in London by vertue of the Kings Commission Wee finde that to bee no other then a Commission of Array in English which was to have been made use of upon the Kings Motion with his Army toward the City As you had your Ordinances for the Militia ready upon all occasions to be executed in the Kings Quarters Concerning the Kings Coronation Oath We find it to be this and to be administred and taken thus Exact Col. 290. At the Coronation the Sermon being done the Arch-Bishop goeth to the King and askes his willingnesse to take the Oath usually taken by his Predecessors The King sheweth himselfe willing ariseth and goeth to the Altar The Arch-Bishop administreth these Questions and the King answereth them severally The Bishop Sir will you grant and keep and by your Oath confirm to the People of England the Lawes and Customs to them granted by the Kings of England your lawfull and religious Predecessors and namely the Laws Customs and Franchises granted to the Clergy by the glorious King S. Edward your Predecessor according to the Lawes of God the true Profession of the Gospell established in this Kingdome and agreeable to the Prerogative of the Kings thereof and the ancient Customs of this Realme The King I grant and promise to keep them Bishop Sir Will you keep Peace and godly Agreement entirely according to your Power both to God the holy Church the Clergy and the People King I will keep it Bishop Sir Will you to your Power cause Law Justice and discretion in Mercy and Truth to be executed in all your Judgements King I will Bishop Sir Will you grant to hold and keep the Lawes and rightfull Customs which the Commonalty of this your Kingdome have and will you defend and uphold them to the Honour of God so much as in you lyeth King I grant and promise so to do Then one of the Bishops reades this admonition to the King before the People with a loud voice Our Lord and King we beseech you to pardon and to grant and to preserve unto us and to the Churches committed to our Charge all Canonicall Priviledges and due Law and Justice and that you would protect and defend us as every good King in his Kingdomes ought to be Protector and Defender of the Bishops and the Churches under their Government The King answereth With a willing and devout Heart I promise and grant my Pardon And that I will preserve and maintain to you and the Churches committed to your charge all Canonicall Priviledges and due Law and Justice and that I will be your Protector and Defender to my Power by the Assistance of God as every good King in his Kingdome in right ought to protect and defend the Bishops and Churches under their Government Then the King ariseth and is led to the Communion Table where he makes a solemn Oath in the sight of all the People to observe the Premises And laying his hand upon the Book saith The Oath The things which I have before Promised I shall perform and keep So help me God and the Contents of this Book So the defence and maintenance of the Lawes Customes and Franchises of the People and Clergy and of peace and godly agreement amongst them And of Law Justice and Mercy and of the Lawes and Rightfull Customes of the Commonalty and the Preservation and Protection of the Bishops their Churches and Priviledges is the sum of the Kings Coronation Oath And is not this also the ground of his late Quarrell For why did he at first refuse to grant you the Militia but in order to his Oath Exact Col. 290. because without that Power he could not as he was bound defend the Lawes the People and the Church And why doth he refuse to passe your Bill for abolishing Bishops Deans and Chapters c. but because he is bound by his Coronation Oath to protect them And were not these the particulars first controverted between you And were there not first Bills brought into your House about them and the Bils being rejected were they not afterward revived by Tumults And these two things are they not principally insisted on in all your Propositions and Treaties And in truth you are offended with his Majesty not because he hath broke his Oath but because he will not break it And would God you were as religious observers of your Oathes so often renewed before God and the whole World 8. Ecclesias 2.17 Ezek. 16.18.19 and especially of the Oath of Supremacie wherein you protest and declare that King Charles is the onely Supreme Governour in this Realm And you promise from henceforth to beare faith and true allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successors and to your power to assist and defend all Jurisdiction Priviledges Preheminence and Authority granted or belonging to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and Successors and united and annexed to the Imperiall Crown And for our parts we are resolved to adhere to our Oath of Allegiance wherein we promise that from henceforth we will bear faith and true allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of our Power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity Of other his Majesties Vowes and Protestations and of the pacification with the Scots c. we shall speak more conveniently hereafter

Seale of Ireland since the cessation 15. Sept. 1643. And whatsoever Honors have been conferd by that Seal since that time And now let the world judge also whether it be fit for Subjects to offer such Propositions to their Soveraign whereby you take away from the King and from the Crowne t he chiefe Power and Government of the two Kingdomes of England and Ireland and would settle it in the two Houses of Parliament And we appeale to your own Consciences whether ever any Protestant Parliament made the like assaults upon the King And whether ever any Popish Parliament attempted the like against the Crown Also let the world judge whether the King did not offer Propositions fit for you to receive at the Treaties both of Oxford and Uxbridge The Kings Propositions Exact Col. p. 912. 1. THat his Majesties own Revenue Magazine Townes Forts and Ships which have bin taken or kept from him by force be forthwith restored unto him 2. That whatsoever hath bin done or published contrary to the Lawes of the Land or derogatory to his Majesties Legall and known Power and Rights be renounced and recalled that no seed may remain for the like to spring out for the future 3. That whatsoever illegall Power hath been claimed or exercised by or over his Subjects as imprisoning their persons without Law stopping their Habeas Corpusses and imposing upon their Estates without Act of Parliament c. either by both or either House or any Committee of both or either or by any persons appointed by any of them be disclaimed and all such persons so committed forthwith descharged 4. That as his Majesty will readily consent having done so heretofore to the execution of all Lawes already made and to any good Acts to be made for the suppressing of Popery and for the firme setling the Protestant Religion now established by Law so he desires that a good Bill may be framed for the better preserving the Book of Common Prayer from the scorn and violence of Brownists Anabaptists and other Sectaries with such clauses for the ease of tender Consciences as his Majesty hath formerly offered 5. That all such Persons as upon the Treaty shall be excepted out of the generall Pardon shall be tryed per Pares according to the usuall course and known Lawes of the Land and that it be left to that either to acquit or condemn them And now we appeale to your own Consciences whether it were not fit for you to have received and acquiesced in these his Majesties Propositions for conserving the rights of the Crown the Law of the Land the Liberty of the Subject the establisht Religion and the Fundamentall Justice of the Kingdome who when you published your Propositions for bringing in Money and Plate June 10. 1642. declared Exac Col. 342. that whatsoever is brought in shall not at all be employed upon any other occasion then to maintain the Protestant Religion the Kings Authority and his Person in his Royall dignity the free course of Justice the Lawes of the Land the Peace of the Kingdome and Priviledges of Parliament But if his Majesties Propositions were not yet his Condescentions to your Propositions tendred and published before this your Declaration were doubtlesse not unfit for you to accept The Kings Condescentions to the Parliaments Propositions 1. Concerning the great Officers of State c. See the Book called the Kings most gracious Messages for peace p. 86. That their Patents and Commissions being taken from his Majesty they should be nominated by the two Honses of Parliament during his Majesties Reigne and afterwards to return to the Crown 2. Touching the Church Government See the Book called the Kings most gracious Messages for peace p. 85. That the Presbyteriall Government be legally permitted to stand for 3. yeares provided his Majesty or any others who cannot in Conscience submit thereunto may have free practise of their own Profession And a free debate be had with the Divines at Westminster 20. of his Majesties Nomination being added unto them whereby it may be determined by his Majesty and the two Houses how Church-Government after the same time shall be setled as is most agreeable to the Word of God 3. Touching the Militia p. 86. That the whole power of the Militia both by Sea and Land shall be ordered by the two Houses of Parliament during his Majesties Reigne yet so as all Commissions and other Acts concerning the Militia be made and acted as formerly and after his Majesties Reign all the Power of the Militia shall return entirely to the Crown as it was in the times of Q. Elizabeth and King James of happy memory 4. Touching his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations against the two Houses and their Proceedings p. 88. That he will consent to an Act of Parliament for making them null And he further proposeth as the best expedient to take away all seeds of future differences that there be an Act of Oblivion to extend to all his Subjects 5. Touching the taking of the Covenant p. 66. That though his Majesty be not therein satisfied yet he will make clearly appeare both his Zeale to the Protestant Profession and the union of these two Kingdomes which he conceives to be the main drift of the Covenant 6. Touching the Treaties between the two Kingdomes p. 68. That he would agree to all things that are propounded touching the confirming of the Peace of the two Kingdomes 7. Touching the Payments of the Publique debts p. 87. That he would consent to such Acts as the two Houses shall agree upon 8. Touching the Court of Wards p. 87. That his Majesty would consent to an Act for taking it away so as a full recompence be setled upon his Majesty and his Successors for ever hereafter 9. Touching Ireland p. 88. that the Cessation there is long since determined And for the future that his Majesty would give you full satisfaction concerning that Kingdome 10. Touching the City of London p. 69. That his Majesty consented to all the Propositsons concerning it 11. Touching the Acts passed under the great Seales p. 88. his Majesty promised after perusall of particulars to give you satisfaction to what may reasonably be desired by you And now indeed hath his Majesty offred such Tenders to you as were not fit for him to make nor for you to receive but in order to an Accommodation and peace And we cannot but be sensible of his Majesties grace and goodnesse to us who was pleased to condescend even to the dethroning of himselfe for our Peace and quiet and we cannot enough blame you who would not accommodate upon these Condescentions but rather renew the War again And being as you were pre-ingaged against Monarchy you could not deem any thing fit for you to offer or accept that came short of your design And to it have you sacrificed our Peace also You go on with the same confidence and declare

of those men And this we conceive to have been the sence of Mac Cart and Macquires confession by you cited And so his Majesty consented to the disbanding and sending back of that Army into Ireland which doubtlesse gave a great rise and contributed much to the Irish Rebellion But that his Majesty knew nothing of any such designe doth appeare by the confession of Macquire at his Execution who to use his own words did acquit the King upon his death and any other man in England except one and he but a private Gentleman who came by chance to the knowledge thereof from being guilty so much as of knowing it Concerning the first Clause of their Oath to beare true faith and Allegiance to King Charles We know that in all Rebellions the chiefe Authors and contrivers of them make faire pretences and specious Oaths to seduce the People to joyn with them in their undertakings And whereas they stile themselves the Kings or Queenes Army that was meerly to countenance the Rebellion if not also to raise farther jealousies between the King and you and to set you at farther odds that so upon your divisions in England they might with more ease carry on the Rebellion in Ireland Concerning the 40. Proclamations sent into Ireland Exact Col. p. 247 We find not that you ever so much as moved for any Proclamation against the Rebells but the first motion came from the Lords Justices of that Kingdome who also sent a draught of such a Proclamation as they conceived best for the suppressing of the Rebellion And whereas ordinarily the King never signes more then the first draught of a Proclamation fairly ingrossed in Parchment and by it Copies are printed and dispersed in Ireland as in England the Lords Justices and Counsell taking notice of the rumour spread amongst the Rebells that they had the Kings Authority for what they did desired that they might have 20. Proclamations sent over signed by the Kings Sign Manuall to the end that besides the Printed Copies which they would disperse according to custome they might be able to send an Origin all with the Kings hand to it to those considerable persons whom they might suspoct to be misled by that false rumour and who when they saw the Kings very hand would be without excuse if they persisted Whereupon the King signed double the number and for expedition of the service commanded them to be printed as is well known to some Lords now sitting in Parliament and then sitting with his Majesty in Counsell Concerning the Letters written to the Lord Muskery from Court We find not how it reflects upon his Majesty but that rather it is to be referred to the insufficiencies and uncertainties in your Declaration And concerning the Kings Letter to the Marq. of Ormond for giving perticular thanks to Muskery and Plunket we find it to be for the Professions of their endeavours to bring their Countrymen to moderation and obedience at that time when they were at Oxford employed by the Irish to his Majesty during the Cessation Of the delaying and detaining of the Earl of Leicester We find that the King often pressed you that he might be dispatched and sent away to Ireland and that in his Answer to your Petition of the 28. Ap. 1642. Exact Col. p. 144 it is one of the reasons of his resolution to go in person into Ireland because the Lord Lieftenant did not repaire to his command there Nor came he to his Majesty at York till three moneths after and when he had received his Majesties instructions there and took his leave with profession to go to Chester he went not according to promise but returned to the two Houses at London Two months after you commanded him to Chester where he stayed 3. weekes in Expectation of Ships to transport him and his Majesty hearing that he had neither Provision of Money nor any force to be sent with him but his own retinue the Regiments of Foot and Troopes of horse which had been raised for that service having been imployed against his Majesty at Edg-Hill and being still kept as a part of the Earle of Essex his Army considering that the Protestants there would have been much disheartned and the Rebells equally incouraged if the Lord Lievtenant had arrived in so private a manner therefore his Majesty sent for him to Oxford till he could receive better satisfaction from the two Houses concerning the preparations for that Kingdom Concerning the Commission for the Lord Brooke and the Lord Wharton We find that the Commission desired was to have been Independent upon his Majesties Lieftenant of that Kingdome and therefore his Majesty refused it Concerning Papists and others passed by the Kings speciall Warrant into Ireland named by you We find that Mr. Pym at a Conference with the Lords about the beginning of Feb. 1641. declared Exact Col. p. 69 71. 117 118. that after the Ports were shut by both Houses of Parliament divers Papists passed from hence by his Majesties especiall Warrant and headed the Rebells in Ireland whereof his Majesty having notice required him and you again and again to name any one person so passed by his Majesty and now in the head of the Rebells and you have not named any one to this day and so we must refer this to the uncertainties and unsufficiencies in your Declaration as also what followes concerning the Commanders and Officers called off from their trust against the Rebells and the supplies which the Rebells had by the E. of Antrim L. Aboine and others from the Queen And lastly concerning the peices of battery from hence desired by the Counsell of Ireland of all which no evidence or instance hath been offred unto us save only that the King commanded the two Ships under Capt. Kettleby Capt. Stradling to attend him at Newcastle having before given you notice thereof to take care for the guarding of that Coast all other his Majesties Ships besides those two being at that time at your disposall But we cannot but remember how the Earle of Leven sent Generall of the Scots into Ireland against the Rebells was called from thence to lead an Army into England against his Majesty And how many Officers both Scots and English left the service in Ireland and were employed by you here in England being necessitated thereto for the recovery of their Arreares which they could not obtain otherwise as Sir Richard Greenvile c. Concerning the Cloathes seized by his Majesties Souldiers We find that it was done about Coventry when that City stood out against his Majesty and we conceive you should have sent for a safe conduct for passing them through his Majesties Quarters Also we find that when his Majesty had taken Chester he sent over into Ireland 3000. suites of cloathes provided by you for that service although his own souldiers were in great want of them And now let all the world judge how much reason you had to beleeve the