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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31787	His Majesties answer to a book, intituled, The declaration, or remonstrance of the Lords and Commons, the 19 of May, 1642.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2096; ESTC R31642	16,182	36

Shall We believe those Reproches to be the voice of the Kingdome of England That all Our loving Subjects cased refreshed strengthened and abundantly satisfied with Our Acts of Grace and Favour towards them are willing to be involved in these unthankfull expressions We must appeal to the Thanks and Acknowledgements published in the Petitions of most of the Counties of England to the testimony and thanks We have received from both Houses of Parliament how seasonable how agreeable this usage of Vs is to Our merit or their former expressions We have not at all swarved or departed from Our Resolution or words in the beginning of this Parliament We said We were resolved to put Our Self freely and clearly upon the Love and Affection of Our English Subjects and We say so still as farre as concernes England And We call Almightie God to witnesse all Our Complaints and Jealousies which have never been causelesse nor of Our Houses of Parliament but of some few Schismaticall Factious and Ambitious Spirits and upon grounds as short time We fear will justifie to the world Our deniall of the Militia Our absenting Our Self from London have been the effects of an upright and faithfull Affection to Our English Subjects that We may be able through all the inconveniences We are compelled to wrastle with at last to preserve and restore their Religion Laws and Liberties unto them Since the proceeding against the Lord Kimbolton and the five Members is still looked upon and so often pressed as so great an advantage against Vs that no retractation made by Vs nor no Actions since that time cōmitted against Vs and the Law of the Land under pretence of vindication of Priviledge can satisfie the Contrivers of that Declaration but that they would have Our good Subjects believe The Accusation of those six Members must be a plot for the breaking the neck of the Parliament a strange Arrogance if any of those Members had the penning of that Declaration and that it is so often urged against Vs as if by that single casuall mistake of Ours in form onely We had forfeited all Duty Credit and Allegiance from Our people We must without endeavouring to excuse that which in truth was an errour Our going to the House of Commons give Our people a clear and full narration of the matter of fact assuring Our Self that Our good Subjects will not find Our carriage in that businesse such as hath been reported When We resolved upon such grounds as when they shall be published will satisfie the world That it was fit for Our own Safety and Honour and the Peace of the Kingdome to proceed against those persons though We well know there was no degree of Priviledge in that case yet to shew Our desire of correspondencie with the two Houses of Parliament We chose rather then to apprehend their persons by the ordinary Ministers of Justice which according to the Opinion and Practice of former times We might have done to command Our Atturney Generall to acquaint Our House of Peers with Our intention and the generall matters of Our charge which was yet more particular then a meer Accusation and to proceed accordingly and at the same time sent a sworn Servant a Segeant at Arms to Our House of Commons to acquaint them That We did accuse and intended to prosecute the five Members of that House for high Treason and did require that their persons might be secured in custody This We did not onely to shew that We intended not to violate or invade their Priviledges but to use more Ceremony towards them then We then conceived in Justice might be required of Vs and expected at least such an Answer as might inform Us if We were out of the way But We received none at all Onely in the instant without offering any thing of their Priviledges to Our consideration an Order was made and the same night published in Print That if any person whatsoever should offer to Arest the person of any Member of that House without first acquainting that House therewith and receiving further Order from that House That it should be lawfull for such Members or any person to assist them and to stand upon his or their Guard of Defence and to make resistance according to the Protestation taken to defend the Priviledges of Parliament And this was the first time that We heard the Protestation might be wrested to such a sense or that in any Case though of the most undoubted and unquestionable Priviledge it might be lawfull for any Person to resist and use violence against a publick Minister of Justice armed with lawfull Authority though We well knew that even such a Minister might be punished for executing such Authority Upon viewing this order We must confesse We were somewhat amazed having never seen or heard of the like though We had known Members of either House committed without so much Formality as We had used and upon Crimes of a far inferiour nature to those We had suggested and having no course proposed to Vs for Our proceeding We were upon the matter onely told That against those Persons We were not to proceed at all That they were above Our reach or the reach of the Law it was not easie for Vs to resolve what to do If We imployed Our Ministers of Justice in the usuall way for their apprehension who without doubt would not have refused to execute Our lawfull commands We saw what Resistance and Opposition was like to be made which very probably might cost some blood If We sat still and desisted upon this terrour We should at the best have confessed Our own want of power and the weaknesse of the Law In this strait We put on a sudden Resolution to try whether Our own presence and a clear discoverie of Our Intentions which haply might not have been so well understood could remove those doubts and prevent those Inconveniencies which seemed to have been threatned and thereupon We resolved to go in Our own Person to Our House of Commons which We discovered not till the very minute of Our going when We sent out That Our Servants and such Gentlemen as were then in Our Court should attend Vs to Westminister but giving them expresse command as We have expressed in Our Answer to the Ordinance that no Accidents or Provocation should draw thē to any such Action as might imply a purpose of force in Vs Our Self requiring those of Our Train not to come within the doore went into the House of Commons the bare doing of which We did not then conceive would have been thought more a breach of Priviledge then if We had gone to the House of Peers and sent for them to come to Us which is the usuall custom We used the best expressions We could to assure them how far We were from any Intention of violating their Priviledges That We intended to proceed Legally and Speedily against the persons We had accused and desired therefore if they

Ancestours either by commanding or inhibiting any thing besides the known Rule of the Law then Our single Direction or Mandate can do to which We do not ascribe the Authority But that Declaration informs our People that the Malignant Partie hath drawn Vs into the Northern parts far from Our Parliament It might more truly and properly have said That it hath driven then drawn Vs hither For We confesse Our Journey hither for which We have no other reason to be sorry then with reference to the cause of it was onely forced upon Vs by the true Malignant Party which contrived and countenanced those barbarous Tumults and other seditious Circumstances of which We have so often complained and hereafter shall say more and which indeed threatens so much danger to Our Person and laid so much scandall upon the whole Priviledge and Dignitie of Parliament that We wonder it can be mentioned without Blushes or Indignation But of that anon But why the Malignant Party should be charged with causing a Presse to be transported to York We cannot imagine neither have any Papers or Writings issued from thence to Our knowledge but what have been extorted from Vs by such provocations as have not been before offered to a King And no doubt it will appear a most triviall and fond Exception when all Presses are open to vent whatsoever they think fit to say to the people a thing unwarranted by former custome that We should not make use of all lawfull means to publish Our just and necessary Answers thereunto As for the authoritie of the great Seal though We do not know that it hath been necessary to things of this nature the same shall be more frequently used hereafter as occasion shall require to which We make no doubt the greater and better part of Our Privy Councell will concurre and whose Advice We are resolved to follow as farre as it shall be agreeable to the good and welfare of the Kingdome Before that Declaration vouchsafes to insist on any particulars it is pleased to censure both Our Declaration and Answer to be filled with harsh Censures and Causelesse Charges upon the Parliament still mis-applying the word Parliament to the Vote of both Houses concerning which they resolve to give satisfaction to the Kingdome since they find it very difficult to satisfie Vs If as in the usage of the word Parliament they have left Vs out of their thoughts so by the word Kingdome they intend to exclude all Our people who are out of their walls for that 's grown another Phrase of the Time the Vote of the major part of both Houses and sometimes of one is now called The Resolution of the whole Kingdome We believe it may not be hard to give satisfaction to themselves otherwise We are confident and Our confidence proceeds from the uprightnesse of Our own Conscience they will never be able so to sever the affections of Us and Our Kingdome that what cannot be satisfaction to the one shall be to the other Neither will the Style of Humble and Faithfull and telling Us That they will make Vs a Great and Glorious King in their Petitions and Remonstrances so deceive Our good Subjects that they will passe over the Reproches Threats and Menaces they are stuffed with which sure could not be more gently reprehended by Vs then by saying Their expressions were different from the usuall Language to Princes which that Declaration tells you We had no occasion to say But We believe whosoever looks over that Declaration presented to Vs at Newmarket to which Ours was an Answer will find the Language throughout it to be so unusuall that before this Parliament it could never be parallel'd whiles under pretence of justifying their fears they give so much countenance to the discourse of the Rebels of Ireland as if they had a mind Our good Subjects should give credit to it Otherwise being warranted by the same evidence which they have since published they would have as well declared That those Rebels publickly threaten the rooting out the name of the English and that they will have a King of their own and no longer be governed by Vs as that they say That they do nothing but by Our Authority and that they call themselves The Queens Army And therefore We have great reason to complain of the absence of Justice and Integrity in that Declaration besides the unfitnesse of other expressions Neit her did We mistake the Substance or Logick of the Message to Us at Theobalds concerning the Militia which was no other and is stated to be no other even by that Declaration which reproved Us then a plain threat That if We refused to joyn with them they would make a Law with out Vs nor hath the Practice since that time been other which will never be justified to the most ordinary if no partiall Understandings by the meer averring it to be according to the fundamentall Laws of this Kingdome without giving any direction that the most cunning and learned men in the Laws may be able to find those foundations And We must appeal to all the World Whether they might not with as much Justice and by as much Law have seized upon the estate of every Member of both Houses who dissented from that pretended Ordinance which much the major part of the House of Peers did two or three severall times as they have invaded that Power of Ours over the Militia because We upon Reasons they have not so much as pretended to answer refused to consent to that Proposition And if no better effects then losse of Time and Hinderance of the publick Affairs have been found by Our Answers and Replies let all good men judge by whose default and whose want of duty such effects have been For as Our end indeed onely end in those Answers and Replies hath been The settlement and composure of publick Affairs so We are assured and most men do believe That if that due Regard and Reverence had been given to Our Words and that Consent and Obedience to Our counsels which We did expect there had been before this time a cheerfull Calm upon the face of the whole Kingdome every man enjoying his own with all possible Peace and Security that can be imagined which surely those men do not desire who after all those Acts of Justice and Favour passed by Vs this Parliament all those Affronts and Sufferings endured and undergone by Vs think fit still to reproch Vs with Ship-Money Coat and Conduct-Money and other things so abundantly declared as that Declaration it self confesses in the generall Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome published in November last which We wonder to find now avowed to be the Remonstrance of both Houses which We are sure was presented to Vs onely by the House of Commons and did never and We are confident in that time could never have passed the House of Peers the Concurrence and Authority of which was not then thought necessary