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His Majesties answer to the XIX propositions of both Houses of Parliament
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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and the like Propositions for reconciliation of Differences would be then sent to them as they now have joyned to send to Us till all Power being vested in the House of Commons and their number making them incapable of transacting Affairs of State with the necessary Secrecie and Expedition those being retrusted to some close Committee at last the Common people who in the mean time must be flattered and to whom Licence must be given in all their wilde humors how contrary soever to established Law or their own reall Good discover this Arcanum Imperii That all this was done by them but not for them grow weary of Journey-work and set up for themselves call Parity and Independence Liberty Devour that Estate which had devoured the rest Destroy all Rights and Proprieties all distinctions of Families and Merit And by this means this splendid and excellently distinguished Form of Government end in a dark equall Chaos of Confusion and the long Line of Our many noble Ancestors in a Iack Cade or a Wat Tyler For all these Reasons to all these Demands Our Answer is Nolumus Leges Angliae mutari But this We promise that We will be as carefull of preserving the Laws in what is supposed to concern wholly Our Subjects as in what most concerns Our Self For indeed We professe to beleeve That the preservation of every Law concerns Us those of obedience being not secure when those of protection are violated And We being most of any injured in the least viclation of that by which We enjoy the highest Right and greatest Benefits and are therefore obliged to defend no lesse by Our interest then by Our duty and hope that no Jealousies to the contrary shall be any longer nourished in any of Our good People by the subtill insinuations and secret practices of men who for private ends are disaffected to Our Honour and Safety and the Peace and Prosperity of Our People And to shew you that no just indignation at so reproachfull offers shall make Us refuse to grant what is probable to conduce to the good of Our good People because of the ill company it comes in We will search carefully in this heap of unreasonable Demands for so much as We may complying with Our Conscience and the dutie of Our Trust assent unto and shall accordingly agree to it In pursuance of which Search in the 4th Proposition under a Demand which would take from Us that trust which God Nature and the Laws of the Land have placed in Us and of which none of you could endure to be deprived We finde something to which We give this Answer That We have committed the principall places about Our Children to persons of Quality Integrity and Pietie with speciall regard that their tener yeers might be so seasoned with the Principles of the true Protestant Religion as by the blessing of God upon this Our care this whole Kingdom may in due time reap the fruit thereof And as We have been likewise very carefull in the choice of Servants about them that none of them may be such as by ill Principles or by ill Examples to crosse Our endeavours for their Pious and Vertuous Education so if there shall be found for all Our care to prevent it any person about Our Children or about Vs which is more then you ask against whom both Houses shall make appear to Vs any just exception We shall not onely remove them but thank you for the Information Onely We shall expect that you shall be likewise carefull that there be no under-hand dealing by any to seek faults to make room for others to succeed in their places For the 5th Demand as We will not suffer any to share with Vs in Our power of Treaties which are most improper for Parliaments and lest in those Treaties in which We are neerliest concerned not onely as a King but as a Father yet We do such is Our desire to give all reasonable satisfaction assure you by the word of a King that We shall never propose or entertain any Treaty whatsoever for the marriage of any of Our Children without due regard to the true Protestant Profession the good of Our Kingdoms and the Honour of Our Family For the 6th Demand concerning the Laws in force against Iesuites Priests and Popish Recusants We have by many of Our Messages to you by Our voluntary promise to you so solemnly made never to pardon any Popist Priest by Our strict Proclamations lately published in this point and by the publike Examples which We have made in that case since Our Residence at York and before at London sufficiently expressed Our zeal herein Why do you then ask that in which Our own Inclination hath prevented you And if you can yet finde any more effectuall Course to disable them from Disturbing the State or eluding the Law by trusts or otherwise We shall willingly give Our Consent to it For the 7th concerning the Votes of Popish Lords We understand that they in discretion have withdrawn themselves from the service of the House of Peers and had done so when use was publiquely made of their names to asperse the Votes of that house which was then counted as Malignant as those who are called Our unknown and unsworn Counsellours are now neither do We conceive that such a positive Law against the Votes of any whose blood gives them that right is so proper in regard of the Priviledge of Parliament but are content that so long as they shall not be conformable to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England they shall not be admitted to sit in the House of Peers but onely to give their Proxies to such Protestant Lords as they shall chuse who are to dispose of them as they themselves shall think fit without any Reference at all to the Giver As to the desires for a Bill for the Education of the Children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant Profession many about Us can witnesse with Vs That We have often delivered Our Opinion that such a Course with Gods blessing upon it would be the most effectuall for the rooting out of Popery out of this Kingdom We shall therefore thank you for it and encourage you in it and when it comes unto Vs do Our Dutie And we heartily wish for the publike good that the time you have spent in making Ordinances without Vs had been imployed in preparing this and other good Bills for Vs. For the 8th touching The Reformation to be made of the Church Government and Liturgie We had hoped that what We had formerly declared concerning the same had been so sufficiently understood by you and all good Subjects that We should not need to have expressed Our Self further in it We told you in Our Answers to your Petition presented to Vs at Hampton-Court the first of December That for any illegall Innovations which may have crept in We should willingly concur in the removall of them That if Our Parliament should
His Majesties ANSWER TO THE XIX PROPOSITIONS OF BOTH HOVSES OF Parliament C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie and by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. His Majesties Answer To the nineteen PROPOSITIONS of both Houses of PARLIAMENT BEfore We shall give you Our Answer to your Petition and Propositions We shall tell you that We are now clearly satisfied why the Method which We traced out to you by Our Message of the 20th of January and have since so often pressed upon you as the proper way to compose the distractions of this Kingdom and render it truly happy hath been hitherto declined and is at length thought fit to be looked upon We now see plainly and desire that you and all other Our good Subjects should do so too that the Cabalists of this businesse have with great Prudence reserved themselves untill due preparations should be made for their Designe If they had unseasonably vented such Propositions as the Wisdom and Modestie of your Predecessours never thought fit to offer to any of Our Progenitours nor We in honour or regard to Our Regall authority which God hath entrusted Us with for the good of Our People could receive without just indignation and such many of your present Propositions are their hopes would soon have been blasted and those Persons to whom Offices Honours Power and Commands were designed by such ill timing of their businesse would have failed of their expectation not without a Brand upon the attempt Therefore before any of this nature should appear they have certainly with great wisdom in the Conduct of it thought fit to remove a troublesome Rub in their way The Law To this end that they might undermine the very foundations of it a new Power hath been assumed to interpret and declare Laws without Us by extemporary Votes without any Case judicially before either House which is in effect the same thing as to make Laws without Us Orders and Ordinances made onely by both Houses tending to a pure arbitrary power were pressed upon the people as Laws and their obedience required to them Their next step was To erect an upstart Authority without Us in whom and onely in whom the Laws of this Realm have placed that Power To command the Militia very considerable to this their Designe In further order to it they have wrested from Us Our Magazine and Town of Hull and bestrid Sir Iohn Hotham in his bold-faced Treason They have prepared and directed to the People unpresidented Invectives against Our Government thereby as much as lay in their power to weaken Our just Authority and due esteem among them They have as injuriously as presumptuously though We conceive by this time Impudence it self is ashamed of it attempted to cast upon Us aspersions of an unheard of nature as if We had favoured a Rebellion in Our own bowels They have likewise broached new Doctrine That we are obliged to passe all Laws that shall be offered to Vs by both Houses howsoever Our own Judgement and Conscience shall be unsatisfied with them a Point of Policie as proper for their present businesse as destructive to all Our Rights of Parliament And so with strange shamelesnesse will forget a Clause in a Law still in force made in the second yeer of King H. 5. wherein both Houses of Parliament do acknowledge That it is of the Kings Regality to grant or deny such of their Petitions as pleaseth Himself They have interpreted Our necessary Guard legally assembled for the defence of Us and Our Childrens Persons against a Traitour in open Rebellion against Us to be with intent to leavie War against Our Parliament the thought whereof Our very soul abhorreth thereby to render Us odious to Our people They have so awed Our good Subjects with Pursivants long chargeable Attendance Heavie Censures and illegall Imprisonments that few of them durst offer to present their tendernesse of Our sufferings their own just Grievances and their sense of those violations of the Law the Birthright of every Subject of this Kingdom though in an humble Petition directed to both Houses and if any did it was stisled in the Birth called Sedition and burnt by the common Hangman They have restrained the Attendance of Our ordinary and necessary Houshold-servants and seized upon those small sums of Money which Our Credit had provided to buy Us Bread With Injunctions That none shall be suffered to be conveyed or returned to Us to York or any of Our Peers or Servants with Us so that in effect they have blocked Us up in that County They have filled the ears of the People with the noise of Fears and Jealousies though taken up upon trust tales of Skippers Salt-Fleets and such like by which Alarms they might prepare them to receive such impressions as might best advance this Designe when it should be ripe And now it seemes they think We are sufficiently prepared for these bitter Pills We are in a handsome Posture to receive these humble Desires which probably are intended to make way for a Superfetation of a yet higher nature if We had not made this discovery to you for they do not tell us this is all In them We must observe that these Contrivers the better to advance their true ends disgulsed as much as they could their intents with a mixture of some things really to be approved by every honest man Others specious and popular And some which are already granted by Us All which are cunningly twisted and mixed with those other things of their main Designe of Ambition and private interest in hope that at the first view every eye may not so cleerly discern them in their proper colours We would not be understood That We intend to fix this Designe upon both or either House of Parliament We utterly professe against it being most confident of the Loyalty good affections and integrity of the intentions of that great Body and knowing well that very many of both Houses were absent and many dissented from all those particulars We complain of But We do beleeve and accordingly professe to all the world that the Malignity of this Designe as dangerous to the Laws of this Kingdom the Peace of the same and the Liberties of all Our good Subjects as to Our self and Our just Prerogative hath proceeded from the subtill Informations mischievous Practices and evill Counsels of ambitious turbulent Spirits disaffected to Gods true Religion and the Vnity of the Professors thereof Our Honour and Safety and the publike Peace and prosperity of Our people not without a strong influence upon the very actions of both Houses But how faulty soever others are We shall with Gods assistance endeavour to discharge Our duty with uprightnesse of heart And therefore since these Propositions come to Vs in the name of both Houses of Parliament We shall take a more particular notice of every of them