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A32015	A part of the late King's answer to the humble petition and advice of both Houses of Parliament sent unto His Majesty with nineteen propositions the second of June, 1642 printed at the request and charge of Sir Francis Nethersole knight, for the setling [sic] of the mindes of all the good people of this kingdom in the love of the ancient legal form of government, whosoever may become the governor thereof ; with two letters of the said Sir Francis Nethersole, one already printed before his project for an equitable and lasting peace, and the other a written letter therewith sent to divers persons, never before printed.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Nethersole, Francis, Sir, 1587-1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing C2536; ESTC R29200	8,404	17

adjumentum intemerata fides And that though this hand be unknown to you yet he is not that maketh use of it to subscribe himself as in truth he is Sir Your most humble and faithful servant P. D. A Letter sent to divers prudent persons of all sorts SIR I Humbly pray you to take the paines to peruse first the Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament of the fourth and his Majesties of the twelfth of August 1642. After them the Considerations Dedicated to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City in the yeare 1642. Comparing the second sheet thereof with a part of the Declaration of the Army of the 14. of June 1647. from those words But because neither the granting of this alone c. to these we desire that the right and freedome of the people to represent c. And in the last place the Project I send you with this built upon the same foundation which was first layed in the Considerations and which the Army once thought firme enough to support their hopes of common and equall right and freedom to themselves and to all the freeborn people of this Land at as much leisure as you may obtain from your many other great occasions and with as much attention as you may think fit to bestow upon a piece of no more worth bearing these thoughts in your minde while you are reading it 1. Whether it had not been honourable for the King and his Party safe for the Parliament and theirs and equitable for both to have made a Peace upon the termes therein designed at the time of the writing thereof which was upon the first newes of the Scots resolution to come into England the second time and from a desire to have kept them out then by agreeing among our selves 2. Whether under favour and with all humbleness be it written it had not been more conducible to the Reformation and establishment of Religion in the Kingdomes of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God which ought to be the onely rule thereof and to the extirpation of Popery Superstition Heresie Schisme Prophaneness and whatsoever may be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of godliness And to the preservation and defence of the Kings Majesties person and authority of the rights and liberties of the Parliament of England and the liberties and publick weale of this Kingdom for the King and all the subjects thereof at that time to have come to a peace among themselves upon the said designed terms then to have continued the War by calling in strangers to their respective assistance upon the terms practised by one side and in probability designed by the other 3. Whether it may not be thought more expedient for the two Houses of the Parliament of England and the whole people thereof to come to an agreement with his Majesty upon the same terms at this time notwithstanding the great alteration of affairs in their favor since the Project was designed then either to engage in a new War against the Scots with such a division among Englishmen as will be an indubitable consequent if not an antecedent thereof or to admit them to be Umpires in the affairs of England as they will become if the differences between his Majesty and his English Subjects should by Gods mercy come to an Accommodation upon their third as those between his Majesty and the Scots did upon their first bringing an Army into this Kingdom 4. Wheather any and what exception can be taken to the justice or equitableness of any particular Article of the Project even at this time without having respect to this practicableness thereof whereof perhaps there may be lesse doubt ere long though I yet see no other sufficient ground for it but this that methinks the tyde is turning Such are the revolutions of humane affairs And lastly in case any of the said Articles shall be judged though neither unjust now unequal yet impracticable as things now stand wheather the said Project may not be reduced to fit the present conjuncture of affairs with some additions abatements or alterations and what alterations abatements or additions may be found just and reasonable for the two Houses of Parliament to insist upon for his Majesty to yeeld unto in respect of the change present state of affairs Secondly to passe your censure and let me know your sense upon all the aforesaid particulars with the freedom a freeman of this Kingdom for whom I conceive it to be lawfull with due submission to those in authority to confer together in a private way about the best means to recover and maintain a lasting Peace in the Realm especially at a time when there is cause of fear that it may be yet longer discontinued by the coming in of strangers in Arms which is once more our condition at the present And in particular How you conceive the Militia may be settled so as may be honourable for the King and yet safe for his Parliament and Kingdom of England according as is designed in the Project Upon the recept of which favour from you I do hereby engage myself to make you a return of my thoughts upon the fifth and last Article and by way of Advance do now let you know that to the three first I should make a short Answer in the Affirmative to the fourth in the Negative In the last place I do here promise you to keep your Answer to my self only if you shall so require me or if I shall publish it with your leave yet never to discover your name if you shall command me to conceal it In exchange of which promise I must crave one from you to suffer no copy to be taken in writing nor any new impression to be made either of the Project or of this Letter until I may find the season opportune for the Publication of them which I do not as yet And for that reason though I send you them in Print to ease the trouble of transcribing I have made sure to have all the Copies in my own keeping And so I remain Sir Your most humble servant P.D. Dated Junii 1648. the Climacterical year of this Kingdome POSCRIPT SIR UPon second thoughts I find it necessary for me to give you a brief account why I did not publish this Project when it was first designed nor in all the long time sit hence elapsed and yet have thoughts of doing it now You may therefore please to understand that my purpose at first was to have printed two Copies thereof the one at London the other at Oxford to avoid the great prejudice of being reputed partial But before I could effect this it came to my knowledge that the writer of the Considerations had found means to have them put into the hands of certain persons of prime quality and credit in both places and had found that the corner-stone of his Considerations and of my Project borrowed from him was rejected by some of too great power on both sides as he foresaw foretold it was like to be This made me give over my purpose at that time And from that time the Design lay by me as a neglected and uselesse piece till the Army having gotten the King into their power was upon their march from Newmarket with an intention as was voiced to have brought his Majesty up to London without more ado The apprehension I then had that this might prove very dangerous to the Common-wealth to the prosperity whereof and of his Majesty if I know my own heart it beareth with an equal pulse stirred me so far that I was once more determined to have published my conceipt what and no more was needful to be transacted before his Majesties return to his Palace at Westminster and to that end had sent this simple Project to a Licencer In this nick of time forth came the Armies Declaration of the 14. of June 1647. Wherein finding the maine of what I had ever thought very expedient if not altogether necessary to be mainly insisted on by Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Officers and souldiers I was much rejoyced to see the work whereunto I desired to have contributed my weak endeavours to be taken into abler hands and there I left it Whether his excellency and his chief Officers for the opinion of his common souldiers and their Agitators is to be of no regard be since fallen from what they 〈◊〉 declared to be their deliberate and determinate judgement I leave him and them to give an account to God and the World I am sure 't is commonly believed that they only made shew of being of the mind at large ●●pressed in the fore mentioned Declaration to ingratiate themselves with the Kingdom till by that means they had quietly gotten all the strength thereof into their own and their parties hands And that they are at present the most averse of any other to a Personal Treatie at London On the other side it is too manifest that the generality of the City and Countrey are perhaps too violent for his Majesty coming thither without engaging his Royal word to pass the three Preparatory Bills apprehended like to be of hard digestion to his Majesty and it is further apprehended that the two Houses of Parliament may also happen to be divided upon this point Perchance a middle way may be found as faire and safe as either of the former and not impassable either with his Majesty or with the two Houses This induced me now to submit my conceipt to censure of wiser men And if for the ground-work it shall be so happy as to receive any measure of approbation from any considerable number of such as your self it is not impossible that I may be thereby emboldened to expose it to the eye of the people which I conceive to be sharper then the sight of any one or of any few of the wisest men of the land Sir I crave your pardon for this addition to your trouble and remain as before and ever FINIS