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A69703	His Maiesties declaration to all his loving subiects vpon occasion of his late messages to both Houses of Parliament, and their refusall to treat with him for the peace of the kingdome. Charles R. Our expresse pleasure is, that this our declaration be published in all churches and chappels within the kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, by the parsons, vicars or curates of the same. Printed by His Majesties command at Oxford.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. aut; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2258; ESTC R222628	13,388	16

Declarations against both the Houses of Parliament whereby their Actions are declared Treasonable and their persons traitors And thereupon your Majesty hath set up your Standard against them whereby you have put the two Houses of Parliament an lin them thu whole kingdome out of your Protection so that untill your Maiesty shall recall those Proclamations and Declarations whereby the Earle of Est●x and both Houses of Parliament and their adherents and assistants and such as have obeyed and executed their commands and directions according to their duties are declared traitors or otherwise delinquents And untill the Standard set up in pursuance of the said Proclamations bee taken downe your Maiesty hath put us into such a condition that whilest we so remaine we cannot by the sundamentall priviledges of Parliament the publicke trust reposed in us or with the generall good and safety of this kingdome give your Maiesty any other answer to this Message Ioh. Browne Cler. Parl. H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. THis strange Answer might well have discouraged Vs from any thought of proceeding further this way and informed Vs sufficiently what spirit still governed amongst those few who continued still in both Houses therwise after so many bitter and invective Messages and Declarations sent to Vs and published against Vs we should not have beene reproached with our Proclamations and Declarations s●t for●h by Vs as the effect of such ●v l● Counsell as was unparalle'd by any former examples VVe beleeve indeed such Proclamations and Declarations have never been before set forth but were former times ever acquainted with such intolerable provocations were there ever before these Twelve Months Declarations published in the name of either or both Houses of Parliament to make their King odious to the people Have either or both Houses ever before assumed or pretended to a power to raise Armes or leavie Warre in an cause or can both Houses together exercise such a Power Are those Actions which the Law hath defined literally and expresly to be treasonable or such Persons to be Traitours not so because they are done by Members of either House or their appointment And must not We declare such who March with Armes and Force to destroy Vs to be Traitours because the Earle of Essex is their Generall Those whom Wee have or doe accuse We have named together with their Crimes notorious by the knowne Law of the Land a favour not granted to our Evill Counsellors and appeale to that knowne Law to judge betweene Vs And now that by this we should have put the whole Kingdome out of our Protection in whose behalfe we do all that we have done is a corrupt Glosse upon such a Text as cannot bee perverted but by the cunning practices of such who wish not well to King or People yet that no weake Persons might bee misled by that imputation upon Vs we sent a Reply to that Answer in these words WEE will not repeate what meanes We have used to prevent the dangerous and distracted estate of the Kingdome ●is Maje●ies Reply 〈◊〉 an An●wer sent ●y the two ●ouses of ●arlia●ent to ●is Maje●ies Mes●age of the ●5 of Aug Concerning a trea●e of accō●●odation nor how those meanes have beene interpreted because being desirous ●o avoyd effusion of bloud We are willing to decline all memory of former bitternesse that might make Our offer of a Treaty lesse readily accepted We never did Declare nor ever intended to Declare both Our Houses of Parliament Traitours or set up Our Standard against them and much lesse to put them and this Kingdome out of Our Protection Wee utterly professe against it before God and the World And further to remove all possible Scruples which may hinder the Treaty so much desired by Vs We hereby promise so that a day be appointed by you for the revoking of your declarations against all Persons as Traitours or other wayes for assisting of Vs wee shall with all cheerefulnesse upon the same day recall our Proclamations Declarations and take downe Our Standard In which Treaty We shall be ready to grant any thing that shall bee really for the good of Our Subjects Conjuring you to consider the bleeding condition of Jreland and the dangerous condition of England in as high a degree as by these Our offers We have declared Our selfe to do And assuring you that Our chiefe desire in this world is to beg●t a good understanding and mutuall confidence betwixt Vs and Our two Houses of Parliament THis Message produced an Answer little differing from the former like men who had no other measure of the Justice of their cause then their power to oppresse Vs forgetting their owne duties they sharply informe Vs of Ours in these words May it please Your Majesty If We the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled The hu●●ble answer and Pet●● on of th● Lords a● Commo●● Assemb●● in Parl●ment u●● the King● last Mes●age should Repeal all the wayes wee have taken the endeavours we have used and the expressions wee have made unto Your Majestic to prevent thefe distractions and dangers Your Majesty speakes of likely to fall upon this Kingdome we should too much inlarge this reply Therefore as wee humbly so shall we onely let Your Majesty know that we cannot Recede from our former Answer for the reasons therein expressed For that Your Majesty hath not taken down● your Standard rec●l led Your Proclamations and Declarations whereby You have declared the Actions of both Houses of Parliament to bee Treasenable and their persons Traytors And you have published the same since Your Message of the twentie fifth of August by your late instructions sent to your Commissioners of Aray which Standard bring taken downe and the Declarations Proclamations and instructions recalled If your Majestic shall then upon this our humble perition leaving Your Forces returne unto your Parliament and receive their faithfull advice Your Maiesty will finde such expressions of our fidelities and duties as shall assure You that Your safety Honour and greatnesse can only be found in the affections of Your people and the sincere Counsells of Your Parliament whose constant and undiscouraged endeavours and consultations have passed through difficulties unheard of onely to secure Your Kingdomes from the violent Mischiefes and dangers now ready to fall upon them and every part of them who deserve better of Your Majesty and can never allow themselves representing likewise your whole Kingdome to be ballanced with those persons whose desperate dispositions and counsells prevaile still so to interrupt all our endeavours for the relieving of bleeding Ireland as we may feare our labours and vast expences will be fruitlesse to that distressed Kingdome As your presence is thus humbly desired by us So is it in our hopes your Majesty will in your reason believe there is no other way then this to make your selfe happie and your Kingdome safe John Browne Cler. Parliament WIthout any bitternesse or reprehension of their neglect of

Vs and the publike Peace to expresse Our deepe sense of the Calemities at hand We yet once more hoping to awake them to a Christian tendernesse towards the whole Kingdome sent to them in these words WHo have taken most wayes used most endeavours and made most reall expressions to prevent the present distractions and dangers let all the world judge as well by former Passages as by our two last Messages which have beene so fruitlesse that though wee have descended to desire and presse it not so much as a Treaty can be obtained unlesse we would denude our selfe of all force to defend Vs from a visible strength marching against Vs and admit those Persons as Traitors to Vs who according to their duty their Oaths of Allegiance and the Law have appeared in defence of Vs their King and Liege Lord whom we are bound in Conscience and Honour to preserve though we disclaimed all our Proclamations and Declarations and the erecting of our Standard as against our Parliament All we have now left in our Power is to expresse the deepe sense wee have of the publike misery of this Kingdome in which is involved that of Our distressed Protestants of Ireland and to apply our selfe to our necessary defence wherein we wholly rely upon the Providence of God and the justice of our Cause and the affection of our good People so far we are from putting them out of our protection VVhen you shall desire a Treaty of Vs we shall piously remember whose blond is to be spilt in this quarrell and cheerefully embrace it And as no other Reason induced Vs to leave our Citie of London but that with honour and safety we could not stay there nor raise any force but for the necessary defence of our Person and the Law against Leavies in opposition to both so we shall suddenly and most willingly returne to the one and disband the other as soone as those causes shall bee removed The God of Heaven direct you and in mercy divert those judgements which hang over this Nation and so deale with Vs and our Posterity as We desire the Preservation and Advancement of the true Protestant Religion the Lawes and the Libertie of the Subiect the iust Rights of Parliament and the Peace of the Kingdome BVt as if all these Gracious Messages had beene the effects only of our weaknesse and instances of Our want of Power to resist that torment they deale at last more plainly with Vs and after many sharpe causelesse and unjust reproaches they tell Vs in plaine English that without putting our Selfe absolutly into their hands and deserting all our owne Force and the protection of all those who have faithfully appeared for Vs according to their duty there would be no meanes of a Treaty although our extraordinary desire of Peace had prevailed with Vs to offer to recall our most just Declarations and to take downe our Standard set up for our necessary defence so their unjustifiable Declarations might bee likewise recalled their Answer followes in these words WEE the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled do present this our humble Answer to Your Majesties Message of the eleventh of this instant Month of Septem when wee consider the oppressions Rapines Firing of Houses The hu●ble Answer of the Lord and Commons A●semble d● in Parliament un● His Maj●sties last Message Murthers even at this time whilest Your Majesty propounds a Treaty committed upon Your good Subjects by Your Souldiers in the presence and by the Authority of their Commanders being of the number of those whom Your Majesty holds Your selfe bound in Honour and Conscience to protect as per ons doing their duties We cannot thinke Your Majesty hath don● all that in You lies to prevent or remove the present distractions nor so long as Your Majesty will admit no peace without securing the Authors and Instruments of these mischi●fes from the Iustice of the Parliament which yet shall bee ever dispenced with all requisite moderation and distinction of offences Although some of those persons be such in whose preservation Your Kingdome cannot be safe nor the unquestionable rights and Priviledges of Parliament be maintained without which the power and dignity thereof will fall into contempt We beseech Your Majesty therefore to consider Your expressions That God should deale with You and Your posterity as Your Majesty desir●s the preservation of the Just Rights of Parliament which being undeniable in the trying of such as We have declared to bee Delinquents We shall believe Your Majesty both towards Your selfe and Parliament will not in this priviledge We are most sensible of deny us that which belongs unto the meanest Court of Iustice in this Kingdome Neither hath Your Majesty cause to complain that You are denied a Treaty when We offer all that a Treaty can produce or Your Majesty expect Security Honour Service Obedience Support and all other effects of an Humble Loyall and faithfull subjection and seeke nothing but that our Religion Liberty peace of the Kingdome safety of the Parliament may be secured from the open violence and cunning practices of a wicked party who have long plotted our ruine and destruction And if there were any cause of Treaty we know no competent Persons to Treat betwixt the King and Parliament And if both cause and persons were such as to invite Treaty the season is altogether unfit whilest Your Majesties Standard is up and Your Preclamations and Declarations unrecalled whereby Your Parliament is charged with Treason If Your Majesty shall persist to make Your selfe a shield and defence to those Instruments and shall continue to reject our faithfull and necessary advice for securing and main●aing Religion and Liberty with the Peace of the Kingdome and safety of the Parliament Wee doubt not but to indifferent judgements it will easily appeare who is most tender of that innocent Bloud which is like to be spilt in this cause Your Majesty who by such persisting doth endanger Your selfe and Your Kingdomes or We who are willing to hazard our selves to preserve both Wee humbly beseech Your Majesty to consider how impossible it is that any Protestation though published in Your Majesties name of the tendernesse of the miseries of Your Protestant Subjects in Jreland of Your Resolution to maintaine the Protestant Religion and Lawes of this Kingdome can give satisfaction to reasonable and indifferent Men 〈…〉 of them and agents for them are admitted to Your Majesties presence with Grace and Favour and some of them imployed in Your service when the Cloaths Munition Horses and other Necessaries bought by Your Parliament and sent for the supply of the Army against the Rebells there are violently taken away some by Your Majesties command others by Your Ministers and applyed to the maintenance of an unnaturall War against your people here All this notwithstanding as we never gave Your Majesty any just cause of withdrawing Your selfe from Your great Councell so it hath ever been and shall ever be farre from