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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78637	His Majesties answer, to a printed book, intituled, A remonstrance, or the declaration of the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament, 26. May 1642 In answer to a declaration under His Majesties name, concerning the business of Hull.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2105; ESTC R229539	17,902	16

your charge all Canonicall Privilenges 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 solemne Oath in sight of all the people to observe the Premises And laying his hand upon the Booke saith The Oath The things which I have before promised I shall performe and keep So helpe me God and the Contents of this Booke Let all the world judge whether such Doctrine or such Conclusions as these Men teach can follow or have the least pretence from this Oath For the Preamble of the Statute they cite that tels us That the King is bound to remedy by Law the Mischiefes and Dammages which happen to His people He is so But is the King bound by the Preamble of that Statute to renounce his owne judgement His owne understanding in these Mischiefes and of those remedies How farre forth He is obliged to follow the judgement of His Parliament that Declararation still confesseth to be a question without question none can take upon them to remedy even mischiefes but by Law for feare of greater mischiefes then those they goe about to remedy But Wee are bound in Justice to consent to their proposalls because there is a Trust reposed in Vs to preserve the Kingdome by making new Lawes VVe are glad there is so Then we are sure no new Lawes can be made without Our consent and that the gentlenesse of our Answer Le Roys ' avisera if it be no denyall is no consent and then the matter is not great They will allow Vs yet A greater latitude of granting or denying as We shall thinke fit in publike Acts of Grace as Pardons or the like Grants of Favour why doe they so If those Pardons and publike Acts of Grace be for the publike good which they may Vote they are they will then be absolutely in their owne disposall But have they left Vs this power They have sure at least shared it with Vs How else have they got the power to pardon Sergeant-major-Generall Skippon a new Officer of State and a Subject we have no authority to sent to speak with and all other persons imployed by them and such as have imployed themselves for them not onely for what they have done but for what they shall doe If they have power to declare such Actions to be no Treason which we would not pardon and such Actions to be Treason which needs no pardon the Latitude they allow Vs of granting or denying of Pardons is a Jewell they may still be contented to suffer Vs to weare in our Crowne and never thinke themselves the more in danger All this considered The Contriver of that Message since they will afford him no better Title whom they are angry with doth not conceive the people of this Land to be so void of common sense as to beleeve Vs who have denyed no one thing for the ease and benefit of them which in Justice or Prudence could be asked or in honour and conscience could be granted to have cast off all care of our Subjects good and the Framers and Devisers of that Declaration who have endeavoured to render us odious to our Subjects and them disloyall to us by pretending such a trust from them to have onely taken it up Neither we are confident will they be satisfied when they feele the misery and the Burthens which the fury and the malice of those people will bring upon them with being told that Calamity proceeds from evill Councellors whom no body can name from Plots and Conspiracies which no man can discover and from Feares and Jealousies which no man understands And therefore that the consideration of it be left to the Conscience Reason Affection and Loyalty of Our good Subjects who doe understand the Government of this Kingdome we are well content Where will the folly and madnesse of these people end who would have our people beleeve that our absenting our self from London where with our safety we could not stay and the continuing Our Magazine at Hull proceeds from the secret plots of the Papists here and to advance the designes of the Papists in Ireland But it is no wonder that they who can beleeve Sir Iohn Hothams shutting us out of Hull to be an act of affection and loyalty will beleeve that the Papists or the Turks perswaded us to go thither An can any sober man think that Declaration to be the consent of either or both Houses of Parliament unaltered either by Fraud or Force which after so many Thanks and humble Acknowledgement of our gratious favour in our Message of the 20. of January so often and unanimously presented unto us from both Houses of Parliament tells us that the Message at first was and as often as it hath been since mentioned by us hath been a breach of Priviledge of which they have not used to be so negligent as in four moneths not to complain if such a breach had been and that the way and method of proceeding should not be proposed to them as if we had onely authority to call them together none to tell them what they were to do not so much as with reference to our own affairs what their own Method hath been and whither it hath led them and brought the Kingdom all men see what ours would have been if seasonably and timely applied unto let all men judge We will speak no more of it But see now what excellent Instances they have found out to prove an Inclination if not in Vs in some about Vs to civill warre Their gving with Vs to the House of Commons so often urged and so fully answered Their attending on Vs to Hampton Court and appearing in a warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames Our going to Hull Their drawing their Swords at York demanding Who world be for the King the declaring Sir Iohn Hotham Traitor before the Message sent to the Parliament the Propositions to the Gentry in Yorkshire to assist Vs against him before We had received an answer from the Parliament All desperate Instances of an Inclination to a civill warre Examine them againe The manner and intent of Our going to the House of Commons Wee set forth at large in Our Answer to their Declaration of the nineteenth of May let all men judge Next Doe these men themselves beleive to what purpose soever that Rumour hath served their turns that there was an Apparence in warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames Doe they not know that whensoever Wee have been at Hampton Court since Our first comming to the Crowne there was never a lesse Apparence or in a lesse warlike manner then at the time they meane Wee shall say no more But that Our Apparence in a warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames and