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A82730 A declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament: with the additionall reasons, last presented to His Maiestie. Sabbathi 12 Martij. 1641. Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that the declaration, with the additional reasons last presented to his Majesty, shall be forthwith printed and published. Io. Browne, Cleric. Parl. H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Whereunto is annexed, His Majesties speech to the committe, the 9 of March, 1641. when they presented the declaration of both Houses of Parliament at New-market. England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). aut 1642 (1642) Wing E1483; Thomason E138_20; ESTC R13092 6,734 18

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long in pay endeavouring to ingage the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the same course The plotting and designing of a perpetuall Guard about your Majesty The labouring to infuse into your Majesties Subjects an evill opinion of the Parliament thorow the whole Kingdom and other Symptomes of a disposition of raysing Arms and dividing your people by a Civill Warre in which combustion Ireland must needs be lost and this Kingdom miserably wasted and consumed if not wholly ruined and destroyed That after a Vote had passed in the House of Commons declaring That the Lord Digby had appeared in a warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames to the terror and fright of your Majesties good Subjects and disturbance of the publike peace of the Kingdom and that therefore the Lords should be moved to require his attendance he should neverthelesse be of that credit with your Majesty as to be sent away by your own Warrant to Sir Iohn Fennington to Land him beyond rhe Sea from whence he vented his own Trayterous conceptions That your Majesty should declare your self and retire to a place of strength in this Kingdom as if your Majesty could not be fafe among your people And withall took that transcendent boldnesse to write to the Queen offering to entertain correspondency with her Majesty by Cyphers intimating some service which he might do in those Parts for which he desired your Majesties instructions whereby in probability he intended the procuring of some forraign force to strengthen your Majesty in that condition into which he would have brought you Which false and malicious counsell and advice we have great cause to doubt made too deep an Impression in your Majesty considering the course you are pleased to take of absenting your self from your Parliament and carrying the Prince with you which seems to expresse a purpose in your Majesty to keep your self in a readinesse for the acting of it The manifold Aduertisements which we have had from Rome Venice Paris and other parts that they still expect that your Majestie has some great designe in hand for the altering of Religion the breaking the neck of your Parliament That you will yet finde meanes to compasse that designe that the Popes Nuncio hath sollicited the Kings of France and Spaine to lend your Majestie foure thousand men apiece to helpe to maintain your Royaltie against the Parliament And this forraign force as it is the most pernicious and malignant designe of all the rest so we hope it is and shall alwayes bee farthest from your Majesties thoughts because no man can beleeve you will give up your people and Kingdome to bee spoyled by strangers if you did not likewise intend to change both your owne profession in Religion and the publique profession of the Kingdome that so you might still be more assured of those forraign States of the Popish Religion for your future suport and defence These are some of the grounds of our feares and Iealousies which made us so ernestly to implore your royall Authoritie and protection for our defence and securitie in all the wayes of Humilitie and submision which being denied by your Majestie sedused by evill Counsell wee doe with sorrow for the great and inavoydable miserie and danger which thereby is like to fall upon your owne person and your Kingdomes apply our selves to the use of that power for the securitie and defence of both which by the fundamentall Lawes and Constitutions of this Kingdome resides in us yet still resoluing to keepe our selves within the bounds of faithfulnesse and allegeance to your sacred Person and your Crown so as to the second sort of jealousies and fears of us exprest by your Majestie we shall give a shorter but as true and as faithfull an Answer Whereas Your Majesty is pleased to say that for your residence neer the Parliament you wish it might be so safe and honourable that you had no cause to absent your self from Whitehall This we take as the greatest breach of Priviledge of Parliament that can be offered As the heaviest misery to your self and imputation upon us that can be imagined And the most mischievous effect of evill Councells it roots up the strongest foundation of the safety and honour which your Crown affords It seems as much as may be to cast upon the Parliament such a charge as is inconsistent with the nature of that great Councell being the body whereof your Majesty is the head it strikes at the very being both of King and Parliament depriving your Majesty in your own apprehension of their fidelity and them of your protection which are the mutuall bands and supports of Government and Subjection We have according to your Majesties desire laid our hands upon our hearts we have askt our selves in the strictest examination of our Consciences we have searcht our affections our thoughts considered our Actions and we finde none that can give your Majestie any just occasion to absent your self from Whitehall and the Parliament but that you may with more honour and safety continue there then in any other place Your Majesty layes a generall taxe upon us If you will be gratiously pleased to let us know the particulars we shall give a cleer and satisfactory Answer But what hope can we have of ever giving your Majesty satisfaction when those particulars which you have been made beleeve were true yet being produced and made known to us appeared to be false and your Majesty notwithstanding will neither punish nor produce the Authors but go on to contract new jealousies and fears upon generall and uncertain grounds affording us no means or possibility of particular Answer to the cleering of our selves For proof whereof we beseech your Majesty to consider these Instances The Speeches alleadged to be spoken in a meeting of divers Members of both Houses at Kensington concerning a purpose of restraining the Queen and Prince which after it was denyed and disavowed yet your Majesty refused to name the Authors though humbly desired by both Houses The report of Articles framed against the Queens Majesty given out by some of neer relation to the Court but when it was publikely and constantly disclaimed the credit seemed to be withdrawn from it but the Authors being kept safe will alwayes be ready for exploits of the same kinde wherewith your Majesty and the Queen will be often troubled if this course be taken to cherish and secure them in such wicked and malicious slanders The heavy charge and accusation of the Lord Kimbolton and the five Members of the House of Commons who refused no tryall or examination which might stand with the Priviledge of Parliament yet no Authors no witnesses produced against whom they may have reparation for the great injury and infamy cast upon them notwithstanding three severall Petitions of both Houses and the authority of two Acts of Parliament vouched in the last of those Petitions We beseech your Majesty to consider in what State you are how easie and fair