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A78598	The charge against the King discharged: or, The king cleared by the people of England, from the severall accusations in the charge, delivered in against him at Westminster-Hall Saturday last, Jan. 20. by that high court of justice erected by the Army-Parliament; which is here fully answered in every particular thereof. Viz. The Parliaments propositions to the King. The Kings to the Parliament. The Kings condescentions to the Parliaments propositions. The overture of a treaty at Windsor. The massacre in London by vertue of the Kings commission. The coronation oath. The private articles, match with Spaine, and the match of France., King James death, Rochel. The German horse, loanes, and conduct money, privy seales, monopolies. Torturing our bodies, and slitting noses. The long intermission of Parliaments. The new liturgie sent to Scotland, calling and dissolving the short Parliament. The summoning this present Parliament. The Queens pious design, commissions to popish agents. The bringing up the northern Army. The Kings offer to the Scots of the plunder of the city. The Kings journey into Scotland. The businesse of Ireland solely cleered. The cloathes seized by his Majesties souldiers. The Kings letter to the Pope. The Kings charging the Members with his coming to the House. The list of armes and ammunition taken in his papers. ... The calling the Parliament at Oxford. The cessation in Ireland. The peace made there. The Kings protestation against popery. The letters to Marquesse Ormond.		1649 (1649)	Wing C2046; Thomason E542_10; ESTC R204182	27,986	35

that you had Sir Kenelme Digby Mr. Mountague and divers others before you in the House of Commons and that when you had most narrowly sifted the businesse you proceeded no farther in it nor against them for it And for Secretary Windebank That he was in the House of Commons after the report made and so you might have proceeded against him Concerning Commissions given to Popish Agents for private Levies c. We find that not the Papists only but the Lords of the Privy Counsell and divers Protestants of the best quality in the Kingdome contributed toward his Majesties Expedition into the North and if by private Levies you understand other Sums collected for his Majesties use we desire to know what they are and untill then we must account this and the other particulars annext unto it amongst the uncertainties of your Declaration Concerning the bringing up of the Northern Army We find that whereas 50000. l. were ordered for the payment of that Army and 10000. l. were taken by an after Order out of that summe to satisfie a new motion and importunity of the Scot some of the Officers of the Kings Army took offence and dislike thereat and in discourse said that they were disobliged by the Parliament and not by the King and thereupon concluded to serve his Majesty in all things that were honourable and agreeable to the Fundamentall Constitution of the Kingdome And that afterwards their discontent being heightned mention was made by some of the bringing up the Army to London and making sure the Tower but that was earnestly opposed and suddainly deserted by the Army it selfe as would have appeared by the second examination of Mr. Goring purposely suppressed by you Wherein also are many contradictions to what you have published concerning this businesse as we find in his Majesties Declanation of the 12. Aug. 1642. Exact Col. pag. 514. which you have not answered to this day And as concerning his Majesty himselfe we find in one of the depositions taken and published by you that when he was made acquainted with it he said those waies are vain and foolish and that they should think of them no more Nor can we find in any thing by you publisht though we have again and again read over the depositions printed together with your Declaration of May 19. 1642. Exact Col p 215 and more particularly those of Sir Jac. Ashley Sir John Conyers and Col. Leg in your present Declaration mentioned we say we cannot find that there was any reall transaction between his Majesty and that Army other then the signing of Capt. Legs Petition Wherein the Army offred their service to the King and Parliament Exact Col. p. 563 for securing them against the violence of Tumults then frequent in London For which reason did not you also call up the Army in Aug. 1647. And we must needs say considering those depositions all other the particulars recited by you as incident to this businesse are to be reckoned amongst the uncertainties and insufficiencies of your Declaration But we have been informed that others have endeavoured to seduce that Army from the Kings service and from the Earle of Strafford their Generall and that the said E. would have impeached them of high Treason for so doing had they not prevented it by impeaching him a day or two before his impeachment against them was ready Concerning the Kings offer to the Scots of the Plunder of London c. We find indeed in one of Sir Jacob Ashleys examinations that Oneal put the question to him Exact Col. p. 229. What if the Scots would be made newtrall And that Sir Jac. answered him that the Scots would lay him by the heeles if he should come to move such a thing for that they would never break with the Parliament But we find not in ought you have published any positive proofe of this charge against his Majesty And therefore we must refer this with what followes concerning Propositions made by Oneal Sir John Henderson and others with Letters of credence from the King to the uncertainties insufficiencies in your Declaration Concerning the Kings Journey into Scotland c. We find that after his Majesty had promised his Scottish Subjects to go into Scotland for setling the unhappy differences there at your intreaty he was perswaded to defer his Journey Exact Col. p. 525 to a day agreed on by your selves and that he took his Journey accordingly And that he left such a Commission behind him as was agreeable to Law and which might be sufficient to prevent any inconveniencies that might arise in his absence though he refused to passe it with that extent which was desired viz. for the Commissioners to consent to all Acts you should passe before he returned from Scotland Nor doth it appeare that the Commissions issued out by Secretary Windebank were other then according to the Law of the Land Concerning the businesse of Ireland Concerning the Kings Letters sent into Ireland by the Lord Dillon seeing you have not published them we must reckon them amongst the insufficiencies and uncertainties in your Declaration As we must that Commission sealed at Edenburgh to the Irish Rebells and the Oaths and depositions of those who have seen it and the promise of it to the Committee of London for the reason aforesaid Though it were an easie matter for the Rebells to take off a great Seale affixed to their Patents and fasten it to Commissions of this kind as we are credibly informed they did to gain credit to their action amongst the People Concerning the Irish Committee we find that they were chosen according to the constitution of that Parliament more Papists then Protestants 7. of the one and 6. of the other Religion sent under the notion of a Committee from the Parliament for redresse of grievances Sir John Temple pa. 13. and under that notion they complaine that the Earl of Strafford had taken a fourth part of the 5. Counties from the owners thereof and intiled the King to it and this is a particular Article of the impeachment against the Earle of Stafford Now the King only released that fourth part to the owners which was equally beneficiall to the English and Irish Protestants and Papists and how can you justly charge both the King for releasing it and Strafford for seizing it Concerning the not disbanding the Irish Army we find that that Army was raised to oppose the Scots invading England and that his Majesty resolved to disband the one so soon as he was affured of the return of the other but wisely considering that it might not be safe for the peace of Ireland if such a Bodie were disbanded as if it were transported his Majesty gave leave to the Spanish Embassadour to transport 3. or 4000. of them for his Masters service which you opposed giving reasons to the contrary at the instance of the aforesaid Irish Committee then at London having otherwise designed the service

of those men And this we conceive to have been the sence of Mac Cart and Macquires confession by you cited And so his Majesty consented to the disbanding and sending back of that Army into Ireland which doubtlesse gave a great rise and contributed much to the Irish Rebellion But that his Majesty knew nothing of any such designe doth appeare by the confession of Macquire at his Execution who to use his own words did acquit the King upon his death and any other man in England except one and he but a private Gentleman who came by chance to the knowledge thereof from being guilty so much as of knowing it Concerning the first Clause of their Oath to beare true faith and Allegiance to King Charles We know that in all Rebellions the chiefe Authors and contrivers of them make faire pretences and specious Oaths to seduce the People to joyn with them in their undertakings And whereas they stile themselves the Kings or Queenes Army that was meerly to countenance the Rebellion if not also to raise farther jealousies between the King and you and to set you at farther odds that so upon your divisions in England they might with more ease carry on the Rebellion in Ireland Concerning the 40. Proclamations sent into Ireland Exact Col. p. 247 We find not that you ever so much as moved for any Proclamation against the Rebells but the first motion came from the Lords Justices of that Kingdome who also sent a draught of such a Proclamation as they conceived best for the suppressing of the Rebellion And whereas ordinarily the King never signes more then the first draught of a Proclamation fairly ingrossed in Parchment and by it Copies are printed and dispersed in Ireland as in England the Lords Justices and Counsell taking notice of the rumour spread amongst the Rebells that they had the Kings Authority for what they did desired that they might have 20. Proclamations sent over signed by the Kings Sign Manuall to the end that besides the Printed Copies which they would disperse according to custome they might be able to send an Origin all with the Kings hand to it to those considerable persons whom they might suspoct to be misled by that false rumour and who when they saw the Kings very hand would be without excuse if they persisted Whereupon the King signed double the number and for expedition of the service commanded them to be printed as is well known to some Lords now sitting in Parliament and then sitting with his Majesty in Counsell Concerning the Letters written to the Lord Muskery from Court We find not how it reflects upon his Majesty but that rather it is to be referred to the insufficiencies and uncertainties in your Declaration And concerning the Kings Letter to the Marq. of Ormond for giving perticular thanks to Muskery and Plunket we find it to be for the Professions of their endeavours to bring their Countrymen to moderation and obedience at that time when they were at Oxford employed by the Irish to his Majesty during the Cessation Of the delaying and detaining of the Earl of Leicester We find that the King often pressed you that he might be dispatched and sent away to Ireland and that in his Answer to your Petition of the 28. Ap. 1642. Exact Col. p. 144 it is one of the reasons of his resolution to go in person into Ireland because the Lord Lieftenant did not repaire to his command there Nor came he to his Majesty at York till three moneths after and when he had received his Majesties instructions there and took his leave with profession to go to Chester he went not according to promise but returned to the two Houses at London Two months after you commanded him to Chester where he stayed 3. weekes in Expectation of Ships to transport him and his Majesty hearing that he had neither Provision of Money nor any force to be sent with him but his own retinue the Regiments of Foot and Troopes of horse which had been raised for that service having been imployed against his Majesty at Edg-Hill and being still kept as a part of the Earle of Essex his Army considering that the Protestants there would have been much disheartned and the Rebells equally incouraged if the Lord Lievtenant had arrived in so private a manner therefore his Majesty sent for him to Oxford till he could receive better satisfaction from the two Houses concerning the preparations for that Kingdom Concerning the Commission for the Lord Brooke and the Lord Wharton We find that the Commission desired was to have been Independent upon his Majesties Lieftenant of that Kingdome and therefore his Majesty refused it Concerning Papists and others passed by the Kings speciall Warrant into Ireland named by you We find that Mr. Pym at a Conference with the Lords about the beginning of Feb. 1641. declared Exact Col. p. 69 71. 117 118. that after the Ports were shut by both Houses of Parliament divers Papists passed from hence by his Majesties especiall Warrant and headed the Rebells in Ireland whereof his Majesty having notice required him and you again and again to name any one person so passed by his Majesty and now in the head of the Rebells and you have not named any one to this day and so we must refer this to the uncertainties and unsufficiencies in your Declaration as also what followes concerning the Commanders and Officers called off from their trust against the Rebells and the supplies which the Rebells had by the E. of Antrim L. Aboine and others from the Queen And lastly concerning the peices of battery from hence desired by the Counsell of Ireland of all which no evidence or instance hath been offred unto us save only that the King commanded the two Ships under Capt. Kettleby Capt. Stradling to attend him at Newcastle having before given you notice thereof to take care for the guarding of that Coast all other his Majesties Ships besides those two being at that time at your disposall But we cannot but remember how the Earle of Leven sent Generall of the Scots into Ireland against the Rebells was called from thence to lead an Army into England against his Majesty And how many Officers both Scots and English left the service in Ireland and were employed by you here in England being necessitated thereto for the recovery of their Arreares which they could not obtain otherwise as Sir Richard Greenvile c. Concerning the Cloathes seized by his Majesties Souldiers We find that it was done about Coventry when that City stood out against his Majesty and we conceive you should have sent for a safe conduct for passing them through his Majesties Quarters Also we find that when his Majesty had taken Chester he sent over into Ireland 3000. suites of cloathes provided by you for that service although his own souldiers were in great want of them And now let all the world judge how much reason you had to beleeve the