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A78713	A declaration of the Kings Majesties most gracious messages for peace: sent to the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster. Charles R. Our pleasure and command is, that these messages, with their answers, be forthwith published in all churches and chappels within our dominions. Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield printer to the Vniversity. 1645. With a full answer thereunto in the behalfe of the Parliament.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Collection of His Majesties most gracious messages for peace.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing C2214; Thomason E320_3; ESTC R200566	9,204	17

choose to spend forty dayes in sending two denials The Answer 1. IT is here said This and no more is all they Answered Thus when Naaman came with his Horses and with his Chariot and stood at the door of the House of Elisha 2 King 5.9 He in stead of receiving and humoring him sent a Messenger to him saying Go and wash in Jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come to thee and thou shalt be clean But Naaman was wrath at first and went away yet afterwards he was perswaded to it and so had his flesh come fresh again O that His Majesty may be resolved to Signe the seven Bills to be presented to Him in the floods of His Peoples Tears it will wash off all the Leprous rabble of Papists and Delinquents from about Him and restore Him fresh again in the glory of His strength in His Parliament and People 2. It is said this is all of five Messages and six weeks Expectation But who knoweth not but that whereas His Majesty can dispatch away a Message at an instant what and when He pleaseth yet it is not so with the Parliament there must be such an Answer drawn as is the Sence of the major part of the House that Voted by them then to that the House of Lords must give their Concurrence and after both our Brethren of Scotland and if any alterations be made in it it must passe all round again and there can be no remedy to prevent it 3. But it is further said Such as are not drenched so deep in blood as to abhor all Peace would cheerfully embrace His Majesties Proposition for a Personal Treaty The Kingdom is drenched in blood indeeds and to stop that effusion O that His Majesty would return this one Message to the Parliament recorded in Holy Writ more conducing to Peace then all Treaties Whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven let it be diligently done for the house of the God of Heaven for why should there be wrath against the Realm of the King and his Sons Ezra 7.23 That we might say Blessed be the Lord God of our Fathers which hath put such a thing as this in the Kings heart Vers 27. 4. Yet it is argued 'T is the very expedient themselves proposed in all their Messages Declarations and Speeches but now they renounce it But Treaties have heretofore alwayes been of ill consequence and lengthned the Wars and the Parliaments of both Kingdoms have since considered of better wayes for a safe and well-grounded Peace The manner drawn into Propositions to be sent to His Majesty by way of Bills which being Signed the Wars are at an end and both Kingdoms Church and State setled at once 5. It is said again That to renounce it forasmuch as they finde His Majesty in Hostility and Prince Charls in the Head of an Army in the West is a strange consequence That because it is now War therefore it shall never be Peace Truely the Kingdom is now sad but would be much more if His Majesty should come and treat and go again to continue in Hostility 6. It follows though it is as notorious who was first in Arms as who first began to plunder There are two Witnesses Windsor for the English and York for the Irish both Armed by Authority who after rison they soon fell to plunder 7. But it is propounded thus What they here intend by demanding of His Majesty satisfaction for bloodshed no modest Christian but trembles to understand That which they desire is this That His Majesty by sealing of those Bills gives His Royal Assent for the permitting of Irish Rebels and Popish Incendiaries and Delinquents to be brought to a legal Tryal to satisfie the Law for the innocent blood that by their means hath been spilt in His Kingdoms which will give great satisfaction to all Protestants and well-affected Christians 8. But it is alleaged again And 't is as strange that His Majestie in desiring the joynt ingagement of the City of London for His security at Westminster should violate the Priviledges of Parliament Remember what forced His Majesty from White-Hall those tumults they pretended received to influence from any Vote of theirs This hath been cleared by many Declarations from the Parliament and His Majesties entertainment by the City when he came from Scotland was a good testimony of their Loyaltie and Affection 9. Then it fellows And for like assurance from Sir Thomas Fairfax his Army His Majesty asked no more then Himself offered to the Earl of Essex in Cornwal in a Letter Signed by all the chief Officers of His Majesties Army whom sure they 'l grant as much at His Majesties Command as Sir Thomas Fairfaxes Officers or the Citizens of London can be subject to the Parliament If His Majesty will disband His Forces and come to London and joyn with the Parliament He needs not doubt but their Subordination to Him and the Parliament will tender him their hands and hearts estates and lives for the Protection of His Person Estate and Honour and the Peace and Safety of all His Kingdoms 10. The Conclusion is this This is manifest that His Majesty hath endeavoured all Expedients in the World to heal His bleeding People though at Westminster they 'l not grant so much as a Pass that His Majesty should either send Peace or bring it but rather choose to spend fourty dayes in sending two denials The Propositions for Peace will be speedily sent whereby His Majesty may see how desirous they are both to enjoy His Presence and Peace too God direct that work which was done from above which James saith Jam. 3.17 Its first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entertained full of mercy and good fruits without partialitie and without hypocrisie FINIS Published according to Order

the one half and leave the other to the election of the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster with the Powers and Limitations before mentioned Thus His Majesty calls God and the World to witnesse of His sincere Intentions and reall Endeavours for the composing and seting of these miserable Distractions which He doubts not but by the blessing of God will soon be put to a happy Conclusion if this His Majesties offer be accepted Otherwise He leaves all the World to Iudge who are the Continuers of this unnaturall War And therefore He once more Conjures you by all the Bonds of Duty you owe to God and your King to have so great a Compassion on the bleeding and miserable Estate of your Country That you joyne your most serious and hearty Endeavours with His Majesty to put a happy and speedy end to these present Miseries Given at the Court at OXFORD the 26 of December 1645. For the Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore To be Communicated to the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland May it please your Majesty THE Lords and Commons Assembled in the Parliament of England at Westminster have received your Letters of the 5th and 15th of this instant December and having together with the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland taken the ame into their serious consideration do humbly return this Anwer They have in all their Actions manifested to Your Majesty and the World their sincere and carnest desires that a safe and well grounded Peace might be setled in Your three Kingdoms and for the obtaining so great a Blessing shall ever pray to God and use their utmost endeavours and beseech Your Majesty to believe that their not sending a more speedy Answer hath not prooceeded from any intention to retard the means of putting an end to these present Calamities by a happy Peace but hath been occasioned by the Considerations and Debates necessary in a businesse of so great importance wherein both Kingdoms are so much concerned As to Your Majesties desire of a safe Conduct for the coming hither of the Duke of Richmond the Earl of Southampton John Arshburnham and Ieffrey Palmer Esquires with Propositions to be the foundation of a happy and well grounded Peace They finding that former Treaties have been made use of for other ends under the pretence of Peace and have proved delatory and unsuccesseful cannot give way to a safe Conduct according to Your Majesties desire But both Houses of the Parliament of England having now under their Consideration Propositions and Bills for the setling of a safe and well grounded Peace which are speedily to be communicated to the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland do resolve after mutuall agreement of both Kingdoms to present them with all speed to Your Majesty Westminster the 25. December 1645. Gray of Wark Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore William Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons CHARLES R. ALthough the Message sent by Sir Peter Killegrew may justly require an expostulatory Answer yet His Majesty layes that aside as not so proper for His present Endeavours leaving all the World to judge whether His Proposition for a Personal Treaty or the flat denial of a safe Conduct for Persons to begin a Treaty be greater signes of a real Intention to Peace and shall now onely insist upon His former Message of the 26 of this December That upon His repair to Westminster He doubts not but so to joyn His Endeavours with His two Houses of Parliament as to give just satisfaction not onely concerning the businesse of Ireland but also for the setling of a way for the payment of the Publike Debts as well to the Scots and to the City of London as others And as already He hath shewn a fair way for the setling of the Militia so He shall carefully Endeavour in all other Particulars that none shall have cause to complain for want of security whereby just Jealousies may arise to hinder the continuance of the desired Peace And certainly this Proposition of a Personal Treaty could never have entred into His Majesties Thoughts if He had not resolv'd to make apparent to all the World that the Publike good and Peace of this Kingdom is far dearer to Him then the respect of any particular interest Wherefore none can oppose this Motion without a manifest demonstration that he particularly envies His Majesty should be the chief Author in so blessed a Work besides the declaring Himself a direct opposer of the happy Peace of these Nations To conclude whosoever will not be ashamed that His fair and specious Protestations should be brought to a trune and Publike Test and those who have a real sence and do truely commiserate the miseries of their bleeding Country let them speedily and cheerfully embrace His Majesties Proposition for His Personal Treaty at Westminster which by the blessing of God will undoubtedly to these now distracted Kingdoms restore the happinesse of a long wisht for and lasting Peace Given at the Court at Oxford the 29 day of December 1645. For the Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore to be Communicated to the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Partiament of Scotland CHARLES R. BUt that these are times wherein nothing is strange it were a thing much to be marvailed at what should cause this unparalell'd long detention of His Majesties Trumpet sent with His Gracious Message of the 26 of December last Peace being the only Subject of it and His Majesties Personal Treaty the means proposed for it And it were almost as great a wonder that His Majesty should be so long from inquiring after it if that the hourly expectation thereof had not in some measure satisfied His Impatience But least His Majesty by His long silence should condemn himself of Carelesnesse in that which so much concerns the good of all His People He thinks it high time to inquire after His said Trumpeter For since all men who pretend any goodnesse must desire Peace and that all men know Treaties to be the best and most Christian way to procure it and there being as little question that His Majesties Personal Presence in it is the likeliest way to bring it to a happy Issue He judges there must be some strange variety of accidents which causeth this most tedious delay Wherefore His Majesty earnestly desires to have a speedy Account of His former Message the subject whereof is Peace and the means His Personal Presence at Westminster where the Government of the Church being setled as it was in the times of the happy and glorious Reignes of Queen Elizabeth and King Iames with full Liberty for the ease of their Consciences who will not communicate in that Service established by Law and likewise for the free and publike use of the Directory prescribed and by Command of the two Houses of Parliament now practised in