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england_n	charles_n	king_n	stuart_n	2,711	5	13.1708	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84920	A proclamation of his Excellency: Tho. L. Fairfax, L. Gen. requiring all persons who have engaged for the King in the first or latter warres now in London, to depart the City, and ten miles distant therefrom, within twenty foure houres after the publication hereof. With a petition of the officers and souldiers, together with the wel-affected inhabitants in the Isle of Weight [sic], Portsmouth, and Hurst, presented to his Excellency. / Published by speciall command.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; England and Wales. Army.	1649 (1649)	Wing F220; Thomason E537_36; ESTC R19801	3,418	8

His Majesties DECLARATION Concerning The Proclamation of the Army proclaimed by sound of Trumpet throughout the Cities of London and VVestminster and His Resolution touching their bringing of Him to Tryall With a Letter from Denmark a Message to His Majesty and His new and latter Game to be disputed with the Army Dated from Windsor on VVednesday Jan 10. 1648. Also the Scots new Declaration in behalf of their Native Soveraign and their Desires and Proposals to the Commons of England Together with a Declaration from the honest party in the West of England touching the King and their raising of 12000 Horse and Foot for preservation of Liberty and Freedome C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT Printed for John Gilbert neer Temple-Bar 1648. A DECLARATION From the Kingdom of SCOTLAND Concerning The apparent danger of his Majesties Royall person and the present proceedings of the Parliament and Army in order to the deposing of Charles King of great Brittain their native and lawfull Soveraign Right Honorable THE Parliament of Scotland are conveened at Edenburgh and begin to debate and consult much upon the transaction of affaires in the kingdome of England divers pressing hard for unity concord between the two Nations others That their Native Soveraign may be inthroned and his just Rights and priviledges confirmed and established and to that end forthwith sent post to their Commissioners resident at London purporting the sense desires of that kingdom requiring them to negotiate with the two Houses of Parliament and his Excellency the Lord Gen. Fairfax in behalf of their dread Soveraign to the end that no prosecution so tryall may bee put in execution against his royal person without the advice and concurrence of the Nation thereto and that nothing be done or acted contrary to the Solemn League and Covenant between the two Kingdoms Our intelligence from thence further saith That divers of the Scottish peers have transmitted a Message to the Kings Majesty intimating Their loyalty and affection to his Royall person and their Resolution to leave no means unassayed for the advancing his Honour and Greatnesse But notwithstanding their great forwardnesse to make the Royal party glorious yet there are many dissenting Brethren amongst them who are resolved to confide with the parliament of England and the Army The revolutions and transactions of affairs in this kingdom now give a caution to all the well affected in our Neighbour Nation to carry a strong hand and an Eagles eye over the proceedings of the Adverse party We hear of a new storme arising in Lancashire and of great under-hand listing there but the well-affected are putting themselves in a posture to receive them and have in readinesse 4000 Horse and Foot to attend their motion We hear that the honest party in the West of England have also put themselves into a posture of defence and have raised and listed 12000 Horse and Foot to ingage with the parliament and army upon any occasion for common Justice Freedom and Safety and for promoting the Remonstrance of the Army to the end that impartiall Justice may be executed upon the capitall Enemy of this Nation viz. Charles Stuart for the high crimes and misdemeanours committed by him against his subjects of England in levying war massacring and spilling the bloud of neer upon 400000 soules within the Bowels of these his Realms and Dominions Hallifax 6 Jan 1648 A Declaration of the proceedings of the high Court of Iustice against the said Charles Stuart Munday the 8 of this instant the Lord Gen. Fairfax and the rest of the Commissioners appointed for the tryall of Charles Stewart king of England met in the painted Chamber at Westminster about 3 of the clock in the afternoon and after some debate touching the tryall of his Majesty they came to this Resolution viz. That on Wednesday morning a Herauld should be appointed to make proclamation and proclaime throughout City and Country That the Commons of England assembled in Parliament and the Commissioners for tryall of the King Do in the name of themselvs and the free-born people of this Nation declare That all persons whatsoever who have any matter of Fact against Charles Stuart King of England are desired and invited to bring in their Charges on VVednesday the 10 of this instant January to the said Commissioners sitting in VVestminster-Hall for triall of the King to the end that Iustice may be executed and peace and Righteousnesse established Having thus named the time and place his Majesty is expected to be sent for from Windsor this present Thursday and to be guarded to St. James'es by two Regiments of Aorse there to remaine during the pleasure of the High Court of Justice The presbyterians Declaration touching the King AFter mature deliberation upon the proceedings of the Lord Generall Fairfax and the General councel of Officers in relation to the establishing of a firm and lasting peace within this bleeding torne and tottering kingdom and the erecting of a pure and sound Government according to the Law of Nature and the fundamental laws of this Realm and after several conferences and disputations in order thereunto divers of the Presbyterian party frequented to Westminster and other places where they had severall disputations and conferences with the Officers and other members of the Army and after some debate upon the Foundation of the grounds and principles of the Agreement of the People the Presbyterians declared a great dislike thereof remonstrating That it was not founded upon a firm Rock to which objections severall answers were made for cleering such scruples and cautions as seemed difficult to many And as for the person of the King they further declared that notwithstanding the present Ordnance of Attainder against his Maj. yet they conceived it requisite and lawfull that the prayers of the Ministery bee still continued in every Congregation throughout his Maj. Realmes and Dominions desiring that he may have a legal tryall and that Hee may not be degraded of his Titles and Honours Concerning which be pleased to peruse this ensuing Letter from Holland touching the degrading of his Majesty Sir We are here in a kind of amazement to hear that your King should be designed for the grave before his time Believe it there 's nothing more characterizes men wise in the opinion of the wisest meer man then that they see a far off not the plague of the body only though that but judgments somtimes for evildoing somtimes for acting indiscreetly in matters that may be done That which may lawfully bee done it may be absurd to do at some time The taking away life which is that prized above all by him that all account wise is not just say some at any time unlesse there be a law that makes the thing done death and death to him that doth it The supream power of England that forbids any to judge of treason in a constructive way but themselvs have retaind in themselvs a power to judge such and such practises and endeavours to amount to treason or death In particular supose there were law or it were in the power of the Lords and Commons to take awoy the life of the present King yet if England Scotland and Ireland shal be made more miserable thereby in reason and the waas renewed to the probable ruine of the Nations and chiefly to those who pretend most to piety and justice therein it were better not That it 's dangerous this may be said If you cut off you must set up vacuities of that nature suddainly introduce confusion If you set up it must either be a new King or a new Government if a new King then the next of kinne and if him then let his complyance be what it will his Fathers death cannot bee forgot no the danger of his mothers influence who will remain in banishment be easily got over refuse he to come in as it 's most like he hath the afore-named written upon his brest hesides his hereditary claim his marriage which no man that hath a purse but will endowry with a daughter raise an army of 20000 to restore a son in law and make his daughter Queen of 3 kingdoms which by reason of scituation and inherent accommodations may well managed be the ballancing power of Christendom If any other or a new Government the objections are the same all the line that successively are made enemies to boot besides hath the Parl. or army yet got so much love are they so deep in the hearts of the people that they can assure them selves the newtrals or those who have gone farre with them will quiesce But the answer is ready we have an Army that can not be overcome neither by what can rise here or come from abroad So had Alexander but Alexander was poysoned and what then became of his Army ruin approached c. Copenhague Jan 4. 1648. Sir Yesterday in the evening here arrived a messenger from London who secretly conveyed a Letter to his Maj. hands purporting That the Commissioners for his tryall had by an Act of the Commons assembled in Parliament made proclamation throughout the City of London for the speedy bringing of him to tryall and executing of Justice and Judgment upon his person proclaiming him by the name of Charles Stuart c. And after serious meditation upon the said lines It is given out by some Gentlemen resident with his Majesty That after reading the same Hee declared That if his Charge and Tryall were legall and according to the known Laws of the Realm He feared not what man could do against Him but if they acted contrary He was resolved not to make any answer thereunto not doubting but Hee should have a time of redemption and that with honour and freedome Thus confident is He of restauration For not long since He publikely declared That He had a new and latter Game to dispute with the Army which might prove more fatall then all the former FINIS