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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

A Collection of His Majesties Gracious Messages for Peace sent to the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster since the 5 of Dec. 1645. CHARLES R. HIS Majesty being deeply sensible of the Continuation of this bloody and unnatural War cannot think Himself discharg'd of the duty he owes to God or the affection and regard He hath to the preservation of His People without the constant application of His earnest endeavours to finde some expedient for the speedy ending of these unhappy Distractions if that may be doth therefore desire That a safe Conduct may be forthwith sent for the Duke of Richmond the Earl of Southampton John Ashburnham and Jeffery Palmer Esquires and their Attendants with Coaches Horses and other Accommodations for their Journey to Westminster during their stay there and return when they shall think fit Whom His Majesty intends to send to the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland furnished with such Propositions as His Majesty is confident will be the Foundation of a happy and well-grounded Peace Given at the Court at Oxford the 5. of Decem. 1645. For the Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore SIR VVE have received Your Letter of the fifth of this instant December with His Majesties inclosed and have sent back Your Trumpet by Command of both Houses who will with all convenient speed return an Answer to His Majesty and rest Your loving Friends Grey of Wark Speaker of the House of Peers pro Tempore William Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons For Sir Thomas Glemham Governour of Oxford CHARLES R. HIs Majesty cannot but extremely wonder that after so many Expressions on your part of a deep and seeming sense of the miseries of this afflicted Kingdom and of the dangers incident to His Person during the continuance of this unnaturall War your many great and so often repeated Protestations that the raising of these Arms hath been only for the necessary defence of Gods true Religion His Majesties Honour Safety and Prosperity the Peace Comfort and Security of His People you should delay a safe Conduct to the persons mentioned in His Majesties Message of the fifth of this instant December which are to be sent unto you with Propositions for a well grounded Peace A thing so far from having been denied at any time by His Majesty whensoever you have desired the same that he believes it hath been seldom if ever practised among the most avowed and professed enemies much lesse from Subjects to their King But His Majesty is resolved that no discouragements whatsoever shall make Him fail of His part in doing His uttermost endeavours to put an end to these Calamities which if not in time prevented must prove the ruine of this unhappy Nation And therefore doth once again desire That a safe Conduct may be forthwith sent for those persons expressed in His former Message and doth therefore Conjure you as you will answer to Almighty God in that day when he shal make inquisition for all the Blood that hath and may yet be spilt in this unnaturall War as you tender the preservation and establishment of the true Religion by all the Bonds of Duty and Allegiance to your King or compassion to your bleeding and unhappy Country and of Charity to your selves that you dispose your hearts to a true sense and imploy all your faculties in a more serious endeavour together with His Majesty to set a speedy end to these wasting Divisions and then he shall not doubt but that God will yet again give the blessing of Peace to this distracted Kingdom Given at the Court at Oxford the 15. of December 1645. For the Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore CHARLES R. NOtwithstanding the strange and unexpected delayes which can be presidented by no former times to His Majesties two former Messages His Majesty will lay aside all Expostulations as rather serving to lose time then to contribute any remedy to the evils which for the present do afflict this distracted Kingdom Therefore without farther Preamble His Majesty thinks it most necessary to send these Propositions this way which He intended to do by the Persons mentioned in His former Messages though He well knows the great disadvantage which Overtures of this kinde have by the want of being accompanied by well instructed Messengers His Majesty conceiving that the former Treaties have hitherto proved ineffectual chiefly for want of power in those persons that Treated as likewise because those from whom their power was derived not possibly having the particular informations of every several debate could not give so clear a Iudgement as was requisite in so important a businesse If therefore His Majesty may have the engagement of the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland the Major Aldermen Common-Councel and Militia of London of the chief Commanders in Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army as also of those in the Scots Army for His Majesties free and safe coming to and abode in London or Westminster with such of His Servants now attending Him and their Followers not exceeding in all the number of 300 for the space of forty dayes and after the said time for his free and safe repair to any of His Garrisons of Oxford Worcester or Newark which His Majesty shall nominate at any time before His going from London or Westminster His Majesty propounds to have a Personal Treaty with the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland up on all matters which may conduce to the restoring of Peace and happiness to these miserably distracted Kingdoms And to begin with the three Heads which were Treated on at Vxbridge And for the better clearing of His Majesties earnest sincere intentions of putting an end to these unnatural Distractions knowing that point of security may prove the greatest obstacle to this most blessed work His Majesty therefore Declares That He is willing to commit the great Trust of the Milition of this Kingdom for such time and with such Powers as are exprest in the Paper delivered by His Majesties Commissioners at Vxbridge the 6. of February last to these Persons following viz. The Lord Privy Seal the Duke of Richmond the Marquesse of Hereford the Marquesse of Dorchester the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Essex Earl of Southampton Earl of Pembroke Earl of Salisbury Earl of Manchester Earl of Warwick Earl of Denbigh Earl of Chichister Lord Say Lord Seymour Lord Lucas Lord Lexington M. Denzill Hollis M. Pierrepent M. Henry Bellasis M. Richard Spencer Sir Thomas Fairfax M. John Ashburnham Sir Gervas Cliseon Sir Henry Vane junior M. Robert Wallop M. Thomas Chichely M. Oliver Cromwell and M. Philip Skippon supposing that these are Persons against whom there can be no just exception But if this doth not satisfie then His Majesty offers to name

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

some parts of the City of London to such as shall desire to use the same and all Forces being agreed to be Disbanded His Majesty will then forthwith as He hath in His Message of the 29 of December last already offered joyn with His two Houses Parliament in setling some way for the payment of the Publike Debts to His Scots Subjects the City of London and others And His Majesty having proposed a fair way for the setling of the Militia which now by this long delay seems not to be thought sufficient security His Majesty to shew how really He will imploy Himself at His comming to Westminster for making this a lasting Peace and taking away all jealousies how groundlesse soever will endeavour upon debate with His two Houses so to dispose of it as likewise of the businesse of Ireland as may give to them and both Kingdoms just satisfaction not doubting also but to give good contentment to His two Houses of Parliament in the choice of the Lord Admiral the Officers of State and others if His two Houses by their ready inclinations to Peace shall give Him encouragement thereunto Thus His Majesty having taken occasion by His just impatience so to explain His 〈…〉 that no man can doubt of a happy Issue to this 〈…〉 ●reaty If now there shall be so much as a delay of the same He calls God and the World to witnesse who they are that not only hinder but reject this Kingdoms future happinesse It being so much the stranger that His Majesties coming to Westminster which was first the greatest pretence for taking up Arms should be so much as delayed much lesse not accepted or refused But His Majesty hopes that God will no longer suffer the malice of Wicked men to hinder the Peace of this too much afflicted Kingdom Given at the Court at Oxford the 15 of Ianuary 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 VVE Your Humble and Loyal Subjects of both Kingdoms have received Your Letters of the 26 and 29 of December last unto which we humbly return this Answer That there hath been no delay on our parts but what was necessary in a businesse of so great consequence as is expressed in our former Letter to Your Majesty Concerning the personal Treaty desired by Your Majesty There having been so much innocent blood of Your good Subjects shed in this War by Your Majesties Commands and Commissions Irish Rebels brought over into both Kingdoms and endeavours to bring over more into both of them as also Forces from Forraign parts Your Majesty being in Arms in these parts the Prince in the head of an Army in the West divers Towns made Garrisons and kept in Hostility by Your Majesty against the Parliament of England There being also Forces in Scotland against that Parliament and Kingdom by Your Majesties Commission The War in Ireland f●●●ented and prolonged by Your Majesty whereby the three Kingdoms are brought near to utter ruine and destruction We conceive That until satisfaction and security be first given to both Your Kingdoms Your Majesties coming hither cannot be convenient nor by in assented unto Neither can we apprehend in a means conducing to Peace That Your Majesty should come to Your Parliament for a few dayes with any thoughts of leaving it especially with intentions of returning to Hostility against it And We do observe That Your Majesty desires the Ingagement not only of the Parliaments but of the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common-Councel and Militia of the City of London the chief Commanders of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army and those of the Scots Army which is against the Priviledges and Honour of the Parliaments these being joyned with them who are subject and subordinate to their Authority That which Your Majesty against the freedom of the Parliaments inforces in both Your Letters with many earnest expressions as if in no other way then that propounded by Your Majesty the Peace of Your Kingdoms could be established Your Majesty may please to remember That in Our last Letter We did Declare That Propositions from both Kingdoms were speedily to be sent to Your Majesty which We conceive to be the only way for attaining a happy and well-grounded Peace and Your Majesties assent unto those Propositions will be an effectual means for giving satisfaction and security to your Kingdoms will assure a firm Vnion between the two Kingdoms 〈◊〉 ●●nch desired by each for other as for themselves And settle Religion and secure the Peace of the Kingdom of Scotland whereof neither is so much as mentioned in Your Majesties Letters And in proceeding according to these just and necessary grounds for the putting an end to the bleeding Calanities of these Nations Your Majesty may have the Glory to be a Principal Instrument in so happy a Work and We however misinterpreted shall approve our selves to God and the world to be real and sincere in seeking a safe and well-grounded Peace Westminster 13. Jan. 1645. Grey of Wark Speaker of the House of Peers pro Tempore William Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons Signed in the name and by warrant of the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland BALMERINOTH For Your Majesty THis and no more is all they Answer'd to His Majesties five Messages and six weeks Expectation Such as are not drencht so deep in blood as to abhorre all Peace would chearfully embrace His Majesties Proposition for a Personal Treaty 'T is the very expedient Themselves propos'd in all their Messages Declarations and Speeches But now They renounce it forasmuch as they finde His Majesty in Hostility and Prince Charls in the Head of an Army in the West a strange consequence That because 't is now War therefore it shall never be Peace Though 't is as notorious who was first in Arms as who first began to Plunder What they here intend by demanding of His Majesty Satisfaction for blood-shed no modest Christian but trembles to understand And 't is as strange that His Majesty in desiring the joynt engagement of the City of London for His Security at Westminster should violate the Priviledges of Parliament Remember what forc'd His Majesty from White-Hall those tumults they pretended received no influence from any Vote of theirs and for like assurance from Sir Tho. Fairfax's Army His Majesty askes no more then Himself offer'd to the Earl of Essex in Cornwal in a Letter sign'd by all the chief Officers of His Majesties Army whom sure they 'l grant as much at His Majesties command as Sir Thomas Fairfax's Officers or the Citizens of London can be subject to the Parliament This is manifest that His Majesty hath endeavour'd all expedients in the World to heal His bleeding People though at Westminster they 'l not grant so much as a Passe that His Majesty should either send Peace or bring it But rather