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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

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

HIS MAJESTIES ANSWER To a Book intituled The Declaration or Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons The 19 of May 1642. Printed by his Majesties speciall command At CAMBRIDGE By ROGER DANIEL Printer to the famour Universitie 1642. His MAJESTIES Answer to a Book intituled The Declaration or Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons of the 19 of May IF We could be weary of taking any pains for the satisfaction of our people and to undeceive them of those specious mischievous Infusions which are daily instilled into them to shake and corrupt their loyalty and affection to Us and Our Government after so full and ample Declaration of Our Self and Intentions and so fair and satisfactory answers to all such matters as have been objected to Vs by a major part present of both Houses of Parliament We might well give over this labour of Our Pen and sit still till it shall please God so to enlighten the Affections and Understandings of Our good Subjects on our behalf which We doubt not but that in his good time he will do that they may see Our sufferings are their sufferings But since in stead of applying themselves to the Method proposed by Vs of making such solid particular Propositions as might establish a good Understanding between Us or of following the advice of Our Councel of Scotland with whom they communicate their affairs in forbearing all means that may make the breach wider and wound deeper they have chosen to pursue Vs with new Reproches or rather to continue and improve the old by adding varying little Circumstances and Language in matters formerly urged by them and fully answered by Vs We prevailed with Our Self upon very mature and particular consideration of it to answer the late printed Book intituled A Declaration or Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons which was ordered the nineteenth of May last to be printed and published hoping then that they would put Vs to no more of this trouble but that that should have been the last of such a nature they would have communicated to Our people and that they would not as they have done since thought fit to assault us with a Newer Declaration indeed of a very new Nature and Learning which must have another Answer And We doubt not but that Our good Subjects in short time will be so well instructed in the differences and mistakings between Vs that they will plainly discern without resigning their reason and understanding to Our Prerogative or the infallibility of a now major part of both Houses of Parliament infected by a few malignant spirits where the fault is Though We shall with humility and alacritie be alwayes forward to acknowledge the infinite Mercy and Providence of Almighty God vouchsafed so many severall wayes to Our Self and this Nation yet since God himself doth not allow that We should fancy and create dangers to Our Self that we might manifest and publish his Mercy in Our deliverance We must professe We do not know those deliverances mentioned in the beginning of that Declaration from so many wicked Plots and Designes since the beginning of this Parliament which if they had taken effect would have brought ruine and destruction upon this Kingdome We well know the great labour and skill hath been used to amate and afright Our good Subjects with fears and apprehensions of Plots and Conspiracies the severall Pamphlets published and Letters scattered up and down full of such ridiculous contemptible Animadversions to that purpose as though they found for what end God knows very unusuall countenance no sober man would be moved with them But We must confesse We have never been able to inform Our Self of any such pernicious formed designe against the Peace of this Kingdome since the beginning of this Parliament as is mentioned in that Declaration or might be any warrant to those great Fears both Our Houses of Parliament seemed to be transported with but we have great cause to believe more mischief and danger hath been raised and begotten to the disturbance of this Kingdome then cured or prevented by those Fears and Jealousies And therefore however the rumour and discourse of Plots and Conspiracies may have been necessary to the designes of particular men they shall do well not to pay any false devotions to Almighty God who discerns whether Our dangers are reall or pretended For the bringing up of the Army to London as We have heretofore by no other direction then the testimony of a good conscience called God to witnesse We never had or knew of any such Resolution so upon the view of the Depositions now published with that Declaration it is not evident to Us there was ever such a Designe unlesse very loose Discourse or Argument be instance enough of such a Designe And it is apparent that what was said of it was near three moneths before the discovery to both Houses of Parliament so that if there were any danger threatned that way it vanished without any resistance or prevention by the Wisdome Power or Authority of them It seems the intention of that Declaration whatsoever other end it hath is to Answer a Declaration they received from Vs in Answer to that which was presented to Us at Newmarket the ninth of March last and likewise to Our Answer to the Petition of both Houses presented to Vs at York the twenty sixth of March last But before that Declaration fals upon any particulars of Our said Declaration or Answer it complains That the heads of the Malignant Party have with much Art and Industry advised Vs to suffer divers unjust Scandals and Imputations upon the Parliament to be published in our Name whereby they might make it odious to the people and by their help destroy it But not instancing in any one Scandall or Imputation so published by Vs We are still to seek for the Heads of that Malignant Partie But Our good Subjects will easily understand That if We were guilty of that Aspersion We must not onely be active in raising the Scandall but passive in the Mischief begotten by that Scandall We being an essentiall part of the Parliament and We hope the just defence of Our self and Our Authority and the necessary vindication of Our Innocence and Justice from the Imputation laid on Vs by a major part then present of either or both Houses shall no more be called a Scandall upon the Parliament then the opinion of such a part be reputed an Act of Parliament And We hope Our good Subjects will not be long mis-led by that common expression in all the Declarations wherein they usurp the word Parliament and apply it to countenance any Resolution or Vote some few have a mind to make by calling it The Resolution of Parliament which can never be without Our consent Neither can the Vote of either or both Houses make a greater alteration in the Laws of this Kingdome so solemnly made by the advice of their Predecessours with the concurrence of Us and Our

would alwayes use that Liberty not to consent to any thing evidently contrary to Our Conscience and Vnderstanding and We have and shall alwayes give as much estimation and regard to the Advice and Counsell of both Our Houses of Parliament as ever Prince hath done But We shall never and We hope Our people will never account the contrivance of a few Factious Seditious persons a Malignant Party who would sacrifice the Commonwealth to their own furie and ambition the wisdome of Parliament and that the justifying and defending such persons of whom and of their particular sinister wayes to compasse their own bad ends We shall shortly inform the world is not the way to preserve Parliaments but is the opposing and preferring the consideration of a few unworthy persons before their Duty to their King or their care of the Kingdome They would have Vs remember that Our Resolutions do concern Kingdomes and therefore not to be moulded by Our own Understanding We well remember it But we would have them remember That when their Consultations endeavour to lessen the Office and Dignity of a King they meddle with that which is not within their determination and of which We must give an account to God and Our other Kingdomes and must maintain with the sacrifice of Our life Lastly that Declaration tells you of a present desperate and malicious Plot the Malignant Partie is now acting under the plausible Notions of stirring men up to a care of preserving the Kings Prerogative maintaining the Discipline of the Church upholding and continuing the Reverence and Solemnitie of Gods Service and encouraging Learning indeed plausible and honourable Notions to act any thing upon and that upon these grounds divers mutinous Petitions have been framed in London Kent and other Places Vpon what Grounds would these men have Petitions framed Have so many Petitions even against the Form and Constitution of the Kingdome and the Laws established been joyfully received and accepted And shall Petitions framed upon these Grounds be called Mutinous Hath a multitude of mean unknown inconsiderable contemptible Persons about the Citie and Suburbs of London had libertie to Petition against the Government of the Church against the Book of Common Prayer against the Freedome and Priviledge of Parliament and been thanked for it And shall it be called Mutinie in the gravest and best Citizens of London in the Gentry and Commonaltie of Kent to frame Petitions upon these grounds and to desire to be governed by the known Laws of the Land not by Orders and Votes of either or both Houses Can this be thought the Wisdome and Justice of both Houses of Parliament Is it not evidently the work of a Faction within or without both Houses who deceive the Trust reposed in them and have now told Vs what Mutinie is to stirre Men up to a Care of preserving Our Prerogative maintaining the Discipline of the Church upholding and continuing the Reverence and Solemnitie of Gods Service encouraging of Learning is Mutinie Let Heaven and Earth God and Man judge between Vs and these Men And however such Petitions are there called Mutinous and the Petitioners Threatned Discountenanced Censured and Imprisoned If they bring such lawfull Petitions to us We will graciously receive them and defend them and their Rights against what power soever with the uttermost hazard of Our being We have been the longer to Our very great pain in this Answer that We might give the World satisfaction even in the most triviall Particulars which have been objected against Vs and that we may not be again reproched with any more prudent Omissions If We have been compelled to sharper Language then we affect let it be considered how vile how insufferable Our Provocations have been And except to repell Force be to assault and to give punctuall necessary Answers to rough and insolent Demands be to make invectives We are confident the world will accuse Vs of too much Mildnesse and all Our good Subjects will think We are not well dealt with and will judge of Vs and of their own happinesse and securitie in Vs by our Actions which We desire may no longer prosper or have a blessing from God upon them and Vs then they shall be directed to the glory of God in the maintenance of the true Protestant Profession to the preservation of the Propertie and the Libertie of the Subject in the observation of the Laws and to the maintenance of the Rights and Freedome of Parliament in the allowance and protection of all their just Priviledges FINIS