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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78645	His Majesties answer to the XIX. propositions of both Houses of Parliament.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Colepeper, John Colepeper, Baron, d. 1660.; Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, 1610?-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2122; Thomason E151_25; ESTC R10823	17,528	34

writ and printed in a tongue unknown to Vs and Our people it might have been possible We and they might have charitably beleeved the Propositions to be such as might have been in Order to the ends pretended in the Petition to wit the establishing of Our Honour and Safety the welfare and Security of Our Subjects and Dominions and the removing those Jealousies and Differences which are said to have unhappily fallen betwixt Us and Our people and procuring both Us and them a constant course of Honour Peace and happinesse But being read and understood by all We cannot but assure Our Self that this Profession joyned to these Propositions will rather appear a Mockery and a Scorne The Demands being such as We were unworthy of the trust reposed in Vs by the Law and of Our Descent from so many great and famous Ancestours if We could be brought to abandon that power which onely can inable Vs to performe what We are sworne to in protecting Our People and the Lawes and so assume others into it as to devest Our self of it Although not onely Our present Condition which it can hardly be were more necessitous then it is and We were both vanquisht and a Prisoner in a worse condition then ever the most unfortunate of Our Predecessours have been reduced to by the most criminall of their Subjects And though the Bait laid to draw Vs to it and to keep Our Subjects from indignation at the mention of it the promises of a plentifull and unparaleld Revenue were reduced from generals which signifie nothing to cleer and certain particulars since such a Bargain would have but too great a resemblance of that of Esaus if We should part with such Flowers of Our Crowne as are worth all the rest of the Garland and have been transmitted to Vs from so many Ancestours and have been found so usefull and necessary for the welfare and Security of Our Subjects for any present necessity or for any low and sordid Considerations of Wealth and gain And therefore all men knowing that those Accommodations are most easily made and most exactly observed that are grounded upon reasonable and equall Conditions We have great Cause to beleeve that the Contrivers of these had no intention of setling any firm Accommodation but to increase those Iealousies and widen that division which not by Our fault is now unhappily fallen betweene Vs and both Houses It is asked That all the Lords and others of Our privy Councell and such We know now what you mean by such but We have cause to think you mean all great Officers and Ministers of State either at home or beyond the Seas For care is taken to leave out no Person or place that Our dishonour may be sure not to be bounded within this Kingdom though no subtile Insinuations at such a distance can probably be beleeved to have been the cause of Our distractions and dangers should be put from Our Privy Councell and from those Offices and imployments unlesse they be approved by both Houses of Parliament how faithfull soever We have found them to Vs and the publike and how far soever they have been from offending against any Law the onely rule they had or any others ought to have to walk by We therefore to this part of this demand return you this Answer That we are willing to grant that they shall take a larger Oath then you yours selves desire in your 11th Demand for maintaining not of any part but of the whole Law And We have and do assure you That We will be carefull to make election of such persons in those places of trust as shall have given good testimonies of their abilities and integrities and against whom there can be no just cause of exception whereon reasonably to ground a diffidence That if We have or shall be mistaken in Our election We have and do assure you that there is no man so near to Vs in place or affection whom we will not leave to the Iustice of the Law if you shall bring a particular charge sufficient proofs against him And that We have given you the best pledge of the effects of such a promise on Our part and the best security for the performance of their duty on theirs a Trienniall Parliament the apprehension of whose Iustice will in all probability make them wary how they provoke it and Vs wary how We chuse such as by the discovery of their faults may in any degree seem to discredit Our election But that without any shadow of a fault objected only perhaps because they follow their conscience and preserve the established Laws and agree not in such Votes or assent not to such Bils as some persons who have now too great an Influence even upon both Houses judge or seem to judge to be for the publike good and as are agreeable to that new Utopia of Religion and Government into which they endeavour to transform this Kingdom for We remember what names and for what Reasons you left out in the Bill offered Vs concerning the Militia which you had your selves recommended in the Ordinance We will never consent to the displacing of any whom for their former merits from and affection to Vs and the publike We have intrusted since We conceive That to do so would take away both from the affection of Our servants the care of Our service and the Honour of Our Iustice And We the more wonder That it should be askt by you of Vs since it appears by the 12th Demand That your selves count it reasonable after the present turn is served that the Judges and Officers who are then placed may hold their places quàm diu se bene gesserint And We are resolved to be as carefull of those We have chosen as you are of those you would chuse and to remove none till they appear to Vs to have otherwise behaved themselves or shall be evicted by legall proceedings to have done so But this Demand as unreasonable as it is is but one link of a great Chaine and but the first round of that Ladder by which Our Iust Ancient Regall Power is endeavoured to be fetched down to the ground For it appears plainly that it is not with the persons now chosen but with Our choosing that you are displeased For you demand That the persons put into the places imployments of those who shal be removed may be approved by both Houses which is so far as to some it may at first sight appear from being lesse then the power of nomination that of two things of which We will never grant either We would sooner be content that you should nominate and We approve then you approve and We nominate The meer nomination being so far from being any thing that if We could do no more We would never take the paines to do that when We should onely hazard those whom We esteemed to the scorn of a refusall if they hapned not to be agreeable