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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32037	By the King, a proclamation declaring His Majesties resolution for settling a speedy peace by a good accommodation, and an invitation to all his loyall subjects to joyne together for his assistance therein	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1644 (1644)	Wing C2577; ESTC R39047	2,020	1

C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A Proclamation declaring His Majesties Resolution for settling a speedy Peace by a good Accommodation and an Invitation to all His Loyall Subjects to joyne together for His Assistance therein AMongst the many Troubles wherewith for more then two yeares last past We have beene involves nothing hath more afflicted Vs then the reall sense of our Subiects sufferings occasioned by this most unnaturall Warre And the chiefe of Our Care hath beene and by Gods assistance shall still be to settle them in a happy Peace with that freedome of enioying the exercise of their Religion Rights and Liberties according to the Lawes of this Kingdome as they or any of their Ancestors enioyed the same in the best times of the of the late Queene Elizabeth or Our Royall Father And as we have allwayes profest in the sincerity of Our heart That no successe should ever make Vs averse unto Peace so have We alwayes when God hath blest Vs with any eminent Victory sollicited the Members of both Houses of Parliament remaining at Westminster by frequent Messages for a Treaty conducing thereunto and in particular upon Our late Victory over the Earle of Essex his Army in Cornwall which We wholly attribute to the immediate hand of God We presently dispatcht a Message to them to desire a Treaty for Peace and Accommodation of which as likewise of that former Message for Peace which We sent them from Evesiam the fourth of July late We have yet received no answer And therefore have resolved with Our Army to draw presently towards London and Our Southern and Eastern Counties not looking upon those parts as Enemies to Vs and so to suffer by the approach of Our Army or the disorders thereof which We will use all possible meanes to prevent but as Our poore Subiects oppressed by power of which We rest assured the greater part remaine loyall to Vs and so deserving Our protection And We hope that at a nearer distance of place there may beget so right an understanding betweene Vs and Our People that at length We may obtaine a Treaty for Peace and a full free and peaceable Convention in Parliament and therein make an end of these umhappy differences by a good Accommodation In which We hereby assure all Our People upon Our Royall Word and the Faith of a Christian which is the greatest Security We can give them that We will insist onely upon the setling and continuance of the true Reformed Protestant Religion Our owne undoubted Knowne Rights the priviledges of Parliament and Our Subiects Liberty and Property according to the Lawes of the Land and to have all these setled in a full and free Parliament whereby the Armies on both sides may be presently disbanded this Kingdome may be secured from the danger of a Conquest by Forraigne Forces all Strangers now in Armes may returne to their owne Countreys and Our poore Subiects be forced of those grievous burthens which by reason of the late Distractions have much against Our will too much pressed them And to the end Our Subiects may no longer be missed by false pretences We doe desire all of them as well in Our owne Quarters as where the Rebells have usurped a power to take into serious consideration the duty and loyalty which by the Law of God and their Oath of Allegiance they owe unto Vs and more particularly that part thereof which concernes the defence of Our Person and assistance of Vs against Rebells and such as rise in Armes against Vs which they may find plainely set downe in the Statute of the II. yeare of King Henry the 7. Cap. I. And We doe hereby require Our Subiects within Our owne Quarters thorow or neare which We shall passe by that duty they owe to Vs and their Country that they forthwith prepare themselves with the best Armes they can get to be ready and to ioyne and go along with Vs in this present Expedition We resolving to take speciall care to place them under the Command of Gentlemen of Quality of their owne Countreys to their good content and satisfaction And We likewise require and authorize all Our good Subjects as well the Trayned Bands as others of Our City of London and Our Southern and Eastern Counties to choose their owne Commanders and Leaders amongst those Gentlemen and Citizens that are of approved loyalty to Vs and Lovers of the Peace of their Country and upon Our approach towards those parts to put themselves into Armes and march in warlike manner to assist Vs in this good worke and free themselve from the Tyranny of their fellow Subiects under which they groane Commanding and authorizing them to seize such places of Strength in those Southerne and Easterne Counties as the Rebells have possessed themselves of to oppose with force of Armes such persons as shall resist them in obeying these Our Commands and to apprehend and secure the persons of all such as shall endeavour to continue this Rebellion and to hinder the setling of the Peace of this Kingdome in a full and free Convention of Parliament the onely visible meanes left by the blessiing of God to redeeme this Nation from utter ruine wherein We will afford Our utmost protection and safety unto all Our Subiects that shall give Obedience to these Our Commands And as We doubt not but that all Our good Subiects will come chearefully to Our assistance for so good an end beyond which We doe not requre it so We trust that God who hath hitherto wonderfully preserved Vs will crowne this action with happy successe for his glory and the welfare of this poore Nation Given at Our Court at Chard the 30. day of September1644 God save the King P●●●●●● 〈…〉 by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversitie 1644.