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A22757 His Majesties declaration: to all his loving subjects, of the causes which moved him to dissolve the last Parliament. Published by His Majesties speciall command England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Finch of Fordwich, John Finch, Baron, 1584-1660. 1640 (1640) STC 9262; ESTC R212833 13,649 60

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graciously assuring them that he would go along with them for their advantage through all the expressions of a gracious and pious King to the end there might be such a happy conclusion of that as might be the cause of many more meetings with them in Parliament From their first assembling untill the 21. of April the house of Commons did nothing that could give his Majestie any content or confidence in their speedy supplying of him Whereupon he commanded both the houses to attend him in the Banquetting house at Whitehall in the afternoon of that 21. day of April Where by the Lord Keeper his Majestie put them in minde of the end for which they were assembled which was for his Majesties supply That if it were not speedy it would be of no use unto him Part of the Army then marching at the charge of above a hundred thousand pounds a moneth which would all be lost if his Majestie were not presently supplied so as it was not possible to be longer forborn Yet his Majestie then exprest that the supply he for the present desired was onely to enable him to go on with his designes for three or four moneths and that he expected no further supply till all their just grievances were relieved And because his Majestie had taken notice of some misapprehensions about the levying of the Shipping-money his Majestie commanded the Lord Keeper to let them know That he never had any intention to make any Revenue of it nor had ever made any but that all the money Collected had been paid to the Treasurer of the Navie and by him expended besides great sums of money every yeer out of his Majesties own purse That his Majestie had once resolved this yeer to have levied none but that he was forced to alter his resolution in regard he was of necessity to send an Army for reducing those of Scotland during which time it was requisite the Seas should be well guarded And besides his Majestie had knowledge of the great Fleets prepared by all neighbouring Princes this yeer and of the insolencies committed by those of Algiers with the store of Ships which they had in readinesse And therefore though his Majestie for this present yeer could not forbear it but expected their concurrence in the levying of it yet for the future to give all his Subjects assurance how just and Royall his intentions were and that all his aime was but to live like their King able to defend himself and them to be usefull to his friends and considerable to his enemies to maintain the Soveraigntie of the Seas and so make the Kingdom flourish in trade and commerce he was graciously pleased to let them know That the ordinary Revenue now taken by the Crown could not serve the turn and therefore that it must be by Shipping-money or some other way wherein he was willing to leave it to their considerations what better course to finde out and to settle it how they would so the thing were done which so much imported the honour and safety of the Kingdom and his Majestie for his part would most readily and cheerfully grant any thing they could desire for securing them in the propriety of their goods and estates and in the liberty of their persons His Majestie telling them it was in their power to make this as happy a Parliament as ever was and to be the cause of the Kings delighting to meet with his people and his people with him That there was no such way to effect this as by putting obligations to trust and confidence upon him which as it was the way of good manners with a King so it was a surer and safer course for themselves then any that their own jealousies and feares could invent his Majestie being a Prince that deserved their trust and would not lose the honour of it and a Prince of such a gracious nature that disdained his people should overcome him by kindnesse He had made this good to some other Subjects of his and if they followed his counsell they should be sure not to repent it being the people that were neerest and deerest to him and Subjects whom he did and had reason to value more then the Subjects of any his other Kingdoms His Majestie having thus graciously expressed himself unto them he expected the House of Commons would have the next day taken into consideration the matter of Supply and laid aside all other debates till that were resolved of according to his desire But instead of giving an answer therein such as the pressing and urgent occasions required they fell into Discourses and Debates about their pretended Grievances and raised up so many and of so severall natures that in a Parliamentary way they could not but spend more time then his Majesties great and weighty affaires could possibly afford His Majestie foreseeing in his great wisdom that they were not in the way to make this a happy Parliament which he so much desired and hoped That nothing might be wanting on his part to bring them into the right way for his honour the safety of the Kingdom and their own good he resolved to desire the assistance of the Lords of the higher house as persons in rank and degree neerest to the Royall Throne and who having received honour from him and his Royall Progenitors he doubted not would for those and many other reasons be moved in honour and dutifull affection to his Person and Crown to dispose the house of Commons to expresse their duties to his Majestie in expediting the matter of Supply for which they were called together and which required so present a dispatch For this purpose his Majestie in his Royall Person came again to the Lords house on Wednesday the 24. day of April where himself declared to the Lords the cause of his coming which was to put them in minde of what had been by the Lord Keeper in his name delivered unto both houses the first day of the Parliament and after at Whitehall how contrary to his expectation the house of Commons having held consultation of Matter of Religion Property of goods and Liberty of Parliament and voted some things concerning those three heads had thereby given them the precedence before the matter of his supply That his necessities were such they could not bear delay That what ever he had by the Lord Keeper promised he would perform if the house of Commons would trust him For Religion that his heart and conscience went together with the Religion established in the Church of England and he would give order to his Archbishops and Bishops that no innovation in matter of Religion should creep in For the Ship-money that he never made or intended to make any profit to himself of it but onely to preserve the Dominion of the Seas which was so necessary that without it the Kingdom could not subsist but for the way and means by Ship-money or otherwise he left it to them For property of