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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28816	The propositions of their excellencies the ambassadovrs of the high and mighty states generall of the united provinces in the Netherlands delivered by them, by word of mouth, in both Houses of the Parliament of England, the 22/12 of July, 1644 / translation in English, delivered to both Houses was subscribed W. Borell, Iohn Reede de Renswoude, Alb. Ioachimi.	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.; Joachimi, Albert, 1560-1654.; Reede van Renswoude, Johan, baron van, 1593-1682.; Boreel, Willem, baron van Vreendijke, 1591-1668.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3752; ESTC R287	3,663	15

re-union sincere and perfect founded upon the Basis of the true Religion and Iustice which shall re-establish respectively the good correspondence confidence love and the respects between the King and his Parliament and between all the good subjects of these great Kingdomes The King hath so much approved of the reasons and proffers of our said Lords that his Majesty hath accepted on his part Our Interposition and hath consented to a Conference between Commissioners to be sent from both parties if you find it good and that you shall chuse the place the time and the number of the persons who shall be imployed in this action Right Honourable Now Wee come unto you by command of Our Superiours to make the same proffer of mediation and to understand whether also it may bee agreeable and acceptable unto you VVe have alwayes observed that your good inclinations have been carryed to peace if you receive satisfaction to your just and reasonable demands Your wisedomes also may well judge that the wayes of Armes are no alwayes the surest their successes being very uncertaine and which changeth face in a moment The good Cause which is proposed doth not alwayes promise an assured and certain successe for we are all men and God sometimes permits the good Cause to suffer for our sins All warre is an affliction and punishment of God in which we are not to take del●ght when we can be freed of it upon honest and sure termes and conditions that the wrath of God be not longer provoked against us It is to be considered also if no reasonable accommodation be found that the decision of your differences by Armes is not to be expected so soon but rather on the contrary that it shall bee the cause of perpetuating the warres in these Kingdomes because the King shall ever live in his Royall Posterity and the Parliament never dyes to suscitate always the former evill successes by new warres which at length shall cause the totall ruine and destruction of State and Religion onely to the great advantage of the common enemy of our Faith Right Honourable If it please you to make use of our intercession unto which the King consented at our first Proposition and offer VVe promise you to proceed and labour in it with all sincerity and fidelity as Ambassadors sent by your best friends and allies making profession of one and the same Religion And we shall spare no endeavour travaile nor paine by the good will which his Majesty hath declared to us and by your good intention to make the affections of our Lords succeed to such perfection that the King and his Parliament and all good and loyall Subjects of the King and lovers of their Country shall finde their desired contentment and tranquility with all assurance Right Honourable We must yet adde these few words that your troubles and warres trouble and indanger us also for many Merchants and Masters of Ships dayly present themselves to Our Lords the States Genenerall and to us here with their complaints that your men and ships of war trouble their course of trading and traffique and take their ships and goods without any just cause and without reason and any right at all as may be seen by a Memorandum hereunto anneed which you are desired to take notice of and to give order for restitution and reparation of the dammages sustained for the present and to take such course that in the future the like excesses may be prevented And if any doubts be found in the said Memorandum that it may please you to appoynt us some Commissioners to settle the poynts of which wee are complaining as shall be found to agree with reason FINIS