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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84261	Exceeding joyfull nevves from the treaty containing the acts of agreement, between the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and the Parliaments commissioners, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last. Brought by the post on Sunday Novemb. 5. 1748. With His gracious speech at the councell table, for His present comming to London, and proclaiming of Peace throughout His realmes and dominions. And the Earl of Northumberlands Declaration thereupon.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3767; Thomason E470_8; ESTC R205537	2,721	8

Exceeding Joyfull NEVVES FROM THE TREATY CONTAINING The Acts of Agreement between the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Parliaments Commissioners on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday last Brought by the Post on Sunday Novemb. 5. 1648. With His gracious Speech at the Councell Table for His present comming to London and proclaiming of Peace throughout His Realmes and Dominions And the Earl of Northumberlands Declaration thereupon DIEV ET MON DROIT C. R. HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE Imprinted at London for P. LOVNDEL 1648. JOYFULL NEWES FROM THE TREATY Communicating the proceedings of the Kings Majesty and the Commissioners on Wednesday Thursday and Friday last Right Honourable ON Wednesday morning last the Kings Majesty and the Commissioners met in the Treaty Chamber and taking their places at the Councell Table according to the usuall manner the Earl of Northumberland rose up and made a short Speech Humbly defiring his Majesty to remove his aversnesse from the setling of Religion and to hearken unto the advice of His great and loyall Councell so much tending to the honour of His Majesty and Posterity and the setling of a true and lasting peace throughout all His Realms and Dominions Which done his Lordship presented a Copy of the Parliaments last Votes brought by Sir Peter Killegrey on Tuesday night last in answer to his Majesties Enlargement of Concessions touching Episcopacy His Majesty after reading the same rose up out of the Chair of State and made a very learned and excellent Speech to the Commissioners the effect whereof was as followeth My Lords and Gentlemen WHereas I find by your present paper that the two Houses of Parliament are not satisfied with my last Concessions I shall therefore indeavour as a further testimony of Our candid Desires for peace to give you a more ample and satisfactory Answer touching the said particulars especially that concerning Religion and therefore considering the period of our dayes desire no longer detraction of time but that we may forthwith insist thereon to the end that all differences may be composed and peace and unity established throughout Our Realmes and Dominions which God of his infinite mercy grant His Majesty having thus graciously declared Himself the Commissioners began to proceed according to their Instructions and desired a more fuller and satisfactory Answer touching the utter extirpation of Episcopacy which took up some time of debate in pro and con and the day being far spent they referred the further results thereof to the happy succession of the morrow following And accordingly yesterday morning they met again where the streames of joy issued from the current of the hearts both of Priuce and People who came to a finall close upon all the Proposals His Majesty promising upon his Royall Word to passe those Bills into Acts which He had already assented to And being further pressed by the Commissioners so signe to the Bill for the establishing of Episcopacy his Majesty desired respite of time till Saturday morning which was accordingly granted And this morning about the accustomed houre his Majesty gave the Commissioners a visit and sitting down in the Chair of State presented a Paper to them which is said to be very satisfactory containing His Royall Assent to the Proposition of the Church and likewise to all the rest of the Bills and Proposals This joyfull tydings were soon eccho'd throughout the Island insomuch that the Bels rang tryumphantly in all the respective Parishes But by reason of the sudden dispatch of the Post I am forced to conclude and remain Your Honours devoted servant J. RISHTON Newport 4 Octob. 1648. The voice of the Kingdom touching King Charles VVHereas base degenerate Spirits would sell or their Birthrights for a messe of pottage or a deceitfull smile of a shadowing Prince induce them to a belief that He would fight for their freedoms when they know that the people throughout all Nations are now staves to their Princes and cannot be ignorant likewise how for many Ages together this Design hath been violently prosecuted against the free Commoners of this Nation And could it ever be expected that Christians should be so inhumane and self destructive to sheath their swords in their own bowels and fight with their Enemies against themselves to make themselves staves to their enemies and their posterities for ever but that they were not sensible of their own freedomse both by the Law of God Man and Nature but deluded by false prophets who taught the works of the Law and not of Grace making the people believe that all power were ordained of God and to resist these powers And lest there should be any of this seed yet left in the Nation spreading abroad this doctrine to deceive the people with these fallacies I shall give them an explanation of the true sense thereof and represent these ensuing Articles or Charge against a perfidious Prince or an unfaithfull Parliament viz. 1 God hath ordained all things in heaven and earth for the good and well being of man and what power soever is contrary to or acting against the same is no power of God but again his expresse will and pleasure and therefore most lawfull to be disobeyed whereupon the Parl. levyed war against the King and disobeyed his pretended power 2 Every Officer appointed for the good of the republike and well-government of the people as the King parliament Iustices of peace c. is elected by the people the King by three severall voices by way of consent and approbation of the people before his Coronation 3 The Kingly Office as it is a great trust so the people will not admit him to the execution thereof without He swears to be faithfull in performing the trust reposed in Him executing their Laws and Statutes for their peaceable government and not otherwise 4 In case any of the Trustees shall forfeit their trust reposed in them by the people in breaking their Oaths violating the peoples lawes faeedoms and priviledges leavying war against them to destroy them the people are bound by the Law of God Man and Nature to disobey them and bring them to speedy tryall for breach of that trust which they reposed in them 5 It is lawfull for the people after such breach of trust to use all Coercive power for bringing to condigne punishment such Trustees and to fight with kill and slay all such as shall oppose them therein And it it is further declared That if God hath ordained all things for the good of the people what earthly principalities or powers which the people have chosen for their good can injoyn them to obedience in destructive and unlawfull Is not Salus populi suprema Lex The peoples safety the supream Law And what Lawes and powers there are contrary hereunto are not they all void being against the supreme and highest of all Lawes to which all other must give place and precedency and all Kings and Parliaments vaile to and stand in feare of SIR SInce my last Here hath hapned severall Overture between his Majesty and the Parliaments Commissioners they have had much debate upon the Propositions especially that concerning the Church which the King stuck much at but the dark Cloud being expelled and the splendor of the Gospell shining most gloriously in the eyes of his Majesty He was graciously pleased to declare his Royall Assent to all the Propositions and to grant His Royall Word to passe all things desired by his two Houses that may be agreeable and consonant to the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdom And as to the busines of the Church which is all they stick at the King hath promised to give his concurrence therein rather then his People shall suffer for his dis-assenting Just upon the close hereof news came that all things were agreed on but the Treaty not to break off till ten at night Brought by the Post on Sunday Novemb. 5. 1648. And dated from Newport on Saturday last at 3. of the clock in the Afternoon FINIS