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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79212	His Majesties gracious letter and declaration, sent to the House of Peers, by Sir John Greenvill, Knight. from Breda: and read in the House the first of May, 1660 Die Martis, 1⁰ Maii, 1660. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that his Majesties gracious letter and declaration be forthwith printed and published, for the service of the House and satisfaction of the kingdom: and that no person do presume to re-print either of them. Jo. Browne Cleric. Parliamentorum.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. Proceedings. 1660-05-01.	1660 (1660)	Wing C3015; ESTC R223541	2,680	16

C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT HIS MAJESTIES Gracious Letter And DECLARATION Sent to the House of PEERS By Sir John Greenvill Knight From BREDA And read in the House the first of May 1660. Die Martis 1º Maii 1660. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled That His Majesties Gracious Letter and Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published for the Service of the House and Satisfaction of the Kingdom And that no Person do presume to Re-Print either of them JO. BROWNE Cleric Parliamentorum London Printed by John Macock and Francis Tyton Printers to the House of Lords 1660. TO THE SPEAKER OF THE House of Peers And to the LORDS There Assembled CHARLES R. RIght Trusty and Right Well-Beloved Cosins and Right Trusty and Well-Beloved Cosins and Trusty and Right Well-Beloved We Greet you Well We cannot have a better reason to promise Our Self an end of Our Common Sufferings and Calamities and that Our Own Just Power and Authority will with Gods Blessing be Restored to Us then that We hear You are again acknowledged to have that Authority and Jurisdiction which hath alwaies belonged to You by Your Birth and the Fundamental Laws of the Land And VVe have thought it very fit and safe for Us to call to you for your help in the composing the confounding Distempers and Distractions of the Kingdom in which your Sufferings are next to those VVe have undergone Our Self And therefore you cannot but be the most proper Counsellors for removing those Mischiefs and for preventing the like for the future How great a Trust We repose in you for the Procuring and Establishing a Blessed Peace and Security for the Kingdome will appear to You by Our Enclosed Declaration which Trust VVe are most confident You will discharge with that Justice and VVisdome that becomes You and must alwayes be expected from You and that upon your Experience how one Violation Succeeds another when the known Relations and Rules of Justice are once transgressed you will be as jealous for the Rights of the Crown and for the Honour of your King as for your Selves And then you cannot but discharge your Trust with good Success and provide for and Establish the Peace Happiness and Honour of King Lords and Commons upon that Foundation which can only support it and VVe shall be all happy in each other And as the whole Kingdome will bless God for you all so VVe shall hold Our Self obliged in an especial manner to thank you in particular according to the Affection you shall express towards Us VVe need the less enlarge to you upon this Subject because VVe have likewise writ to the House of Commons which VVe suppose they will Communicate to you And VVe pray God to bless your joynt Endeavours for the good of Us all and so VVe bid you very heartily farewel Given at our Court at Breda this _____ Day of April 1660. In the Twelfth Year of our Reign Charles R. CHARLES By the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all Our Loving Subjects of what degree or quality soever Greeting If the generall Distraction and Confusion which is spread over the whole Kingdome doth not awaken all men to a desire and longing that those wounds which have so many yeers together been kept bleeding may be bound up all We can say will be to no purpose However after this long silence We have thought it Our duty to Declare How much We desire to Contribute thereunto and that as We can never give over the hope in good time to obtain the possession of that Right which God and Nature hath made Our Due So We doe make it Our daily Suit to the Divine Providence That He will in compassion to Us and Our Subjects after so long Misery and Sufferings remit and put Us into a quiet and peaceable possession of that Our Right with as little blood and dammage to Our people as is possible Nor doe We desire more to enjoy what is Ours then that all Our Subjects may enjoy what by Law is theirs by a full and entire Administration of Justice throughout the Land and by extending Our Mercy where it is wanted and deserved And to the End that the feare of Punishment may not engage any conscious to themselves of what is passed to a perseverance in guilt for the future by opposing the Quiet and Happinesse of their Country in the Restoration both of King Peers and People to their just ancient and Fundamentall Rights We doe by these presents Declare That We doe grant a Free and General Pardon which We are ready upon demand to passe under Our Great Seal of England to all Our Subjects of what degree or quality soever who within forty dayes after the publishing hereof shall lay hold upon this Our Grace and Favour and shall by any publick Act declare their doing so and that they return to the Loyalty and obedience of good Subjects Excepting only such persons as shall hereafter be excepted by Parliament Those onely excepted let all Our Subjects how faulty soever relie upon the Word of a King solemnly given by this present Declaration That no crime whatsoever committed against Us or Our Royall Father before the publication of this shall ever rise in judgement or be brought in question against any of them to the least endammagement of them either in their Lives Liberties or Estates or as far forth as lyes in Our power so much as to the prejudice of their Reputations by any Reproach or term of distinction from the rest of Our best Subjects We desiring and Ordaining that hence forward all Notes of discord separation and difference of parties be utterly abolished among all Our Subjects whom We invite and conjure to a perfect Union among themselves under Our Protection for the Re-settlement of Our just Rights and theirs in a Free Parliament by which upon the Word of a King We will be advised And because the Passion and uncharitablenesse of the times have produced severall Opinions in Religion by which men are engaged in parties and animosities against each other which when they shall hereafter unite in a freedom of conversation will be composed or better understood We do declare a Liberty to tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or call'd in question for differences of opinion in matter of Religion which doe not disturbe the Peace of the Kingdom And that We shall be ready to Consent to such an Act of Parliament as upon mature deliberation shall be offered to Us for the full granting that Indulgence And because in the continued distractions of so many yeares and so many and great Revolutions many Grants and Purchases of Estates have been made to and by many Officers Souldiers and others who are now possessed of the same and who may be lyable to Actions at Law upon severall Titles We are likewise willing That all such Differences and all things relating to such Grants Seals and Purchases shall be determined in Parliament which can best provide for the just satisfaction of all men who are concerned And We doe further declare That We will be ready to consent to any Act or Acts of Parliament to the purposes aforesaid and for the full satisfaction of all Arreares due to the Officers and Souldiers of the Army under the Command of Generall Monck And that they shall be received into Our Service upon as good pay and Conditions as they now enjoy Given under Our Signe Manuall and Privy Signet at Our Court at Breda this 4 14 day of April 1660. in the twelfth year of Our Raign LONDON Printed by John Macock and Francis Tyton Printers to the House of LORDS 1660.