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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89919	A project for an equitable and lasting peace. Designed in the year 1643. when the affairs stood in ballance before the second coming of the Scots into this kingdom, from a desire to have kept them out then. With a disquisition how the said project may now be reduced to fit the present conjuncture of affairs, in a letter sent to divers prudent persons of all sorts. For preventing the Scots bringing an army into England a third time, or making themselves umpires of our affaires. By a cordiall agreement of the King, Parliament, City, Army, and of all the people in this kingdome among our selves.	Nethersole, Francis, Sir, 1587-1659.; England and Wales, Army.	1648 (1648)	Wing N498; Thomason E459_16; ESTC R203019; ESTC R205087	17,014	32

sure to have all the Copies in my own keeping And so I remaine Dated Iunii 1648. the Climacterical yeer of this Kingdome Sir Your most humble servant P. D. Postscript SIR UPon second thoughts I finde it necessary for me to give you a briefe account why I did not publish this Project when it was first designed nor in all the long time sithence elapsed and yet have thoughts of doing it now You may therefore please to understand that my purpose at first was to have printed two Copies thereof the one at London the other at Oxford to avoyde the great prejudice of being reputed partiall But before I could effect this it came to my knowledge that the writer of the Considerations had found meanes to have them put into the hands of certaine persons of prime quality and credit in both places and had found that the corner-stone of his Considerations and of my Project borrowed from him was rejected by some of too great power on both sides as he foresaw and foretold it was like to be This made me give over my purpose at that time And from that time the Designe lay by me as a neglected and uselesse piece till the Army having gotten the King into their power was upon their march from Newmarket with an intention as was voyced to have brought his Majesty up to London without more ado The apprehension I then had that this might prove very dangerous to the Common-wealth to the prosperity whereof and of hit Majesty if I know my owne heart it beateth with an equall pulse stirred me so farre that I was once more determined to have published my concept what and no more was needfull to be transacted before his Majesties returns to his Palace at Westminster and to that end had sent this simple Project to a Licencer In this nick of time forth came the Armies Declaration of the 4. of June 1647. Wherein finding the maine of what I had ever thought very expedient if not altogether necessary to be mainely insisted on by Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Officers and Souldiers I was much rejoyced to see the work whereunto I desired to have contributed my weake indeavours to be taken into abler hands and there I left it Whether his Excellency and his chiefe Officers for the opinion of his common souldiers and their Agitators is to me of no regard be since fallen from what they then declared to be their deliberate and determinate judgement I leave Him and them to give an account to God and the World I am sure t is commonly believed that they onely made shew of being of the minde at large expressed in the forementioned Declaration to ingratiate themselves with the Kingdome till by that meanes they had quietly gotten all the strength thereof into their own and their parties hands And that they are at present the most averse of any other to a Personall Treaty at London On the other side it is too manifest that the generality of the City and Country are perhaps too violent for his Majesties coming thither without ingaging his Royall word to passe the three Praeparatory Bills apprehended like to be of hard digestion to his Majesty and it is further apprehended that the two Houses of Parliament may also happen to be divided upon this point Perchance a middle way may be found as faire and safe as either of the former and not impassable either with his Majesty or with the two Houses This induced me now to submit my conceipt to the censure of wiser men And if for the ground-work it shall be so happy as to receive any measure of approbation from any considerable number of such as your selfe it is not impossible that I may be thereby emboldened to expose it to the eye of the people which I conceive to be sharper than the sight of any one or of any few of the wisest men of the Land Sir I crave your pardon for this addition to your trouble and remained before and ever A PROJECT For an Equitable and lasting PEACE Designed in the year 1643. when the affairs stood in the ballance Printed in the yeare 1648. TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTIE And to the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble petition of P. D. a plain Countreyman a well-wisher of the City and lover of truth righteousnesse and peace in his own name and all theirs that may subscribe hereunto Most humbly sheweth THat whereas in a Petition of both houses of Parliament presented to your Majesty in the beginning of your Reigne it was declared That they found it an undoubted right and constant priviledge of Parliament that no member of Parliament sitting the Parliament or within the usuall times of Priviledge of Parliament is to be imprisoned or restrained without sentence or order of the House unlesse it be for treason felony or for refusing to give surety for the peace And whereas in the Petition of right made to your Majesty by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in the third yeer of your reigne it was declared That no offender of what kind soever is exempted from the proceedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the Lawes and Statutes of this your Realme And whereas by the expresse Lawes and Statutes thereof that is to say by the Statute called the Great Charter of the Liberties of England and by a Statute made in the 28. yeere of the reigne of your most noble Progenitor King Edward the third it is declared and enacted That no Freeman may be taken or imprisoned but by the lawfull judgement of his Peers or by the Law of the Land nor without being brought to answer by due processe of Law And whereas by two other Acts of Parliament the one made in the 38. yeer of your said glorious ancestor it is ordained and assented That all they that make suggestions to the King himselfe be sent with the suggestions before the Chancellour Treasurer and his great Councell and that they there finde sureties to pursue their suggestions and that then processe of the Law be made against the persons in that manner accused and that if he that maketh the complaint cannot prove his intent against the Defendant by the processe limited as aforesaid he shall be commanded to prison there to abide till he hath made gree to the parry of his damages and of the slander that he hath suffered by such occasion and after shall make fine and ransome to the King According to and by the meanes of which good Lawes and Statutes so enacted and declared as aforesaid justice hath heretofore proceeded against all offenders without exception and all innocent subjects of this kingdome of what condition soever have in former times found themselves sufficiently secured against false accusers untill the moneth of January in the seventeenth yeere of your Majesties reigne At which time Articles of high treason and other misdemeanours having by your Majesties Atturney been preferred against certaine