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A78808	His Majesties gracious message to both Houses of Parliament, sent from Nottingham, August 25. With the answer of the Lords and Commons to the said message: and His Majesties reply to the same. Sept. 2. Together with the answer and humble petition of both Houses to His Majesties last message: and also His Majesties message in reply to the said answer, Sept. 11. 1642.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Dorset, Edward Sackville, Earl of, 1591-1652.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). His Maiesties gracious and last message, sent by the Earle of Dorset ... from Nottingham 25 August 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2334; Thomason E116_47; ESTC R19423	3,810	17

HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS MESSAGE To both Houses of Parliament sent from Nottingham August 25. With the Answer of the Lords and Commons to the said Message And HIS MAJESTIES REPLY to the same Sept. 2. TOGETHER With the Answer and humble Petition of both Houses to His Majesties last Message And also His Majesties Message in Reply to the said Answer Sept. 11. 1642. LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL MDCXLII DIEV ET MON DROIT CR His Majesties gracious Message to both Houses of Parliament sent from Nottingham 25. August 1642. By the Earles of Southampton and Dorset Sir Iohn Culpeper Knight Chancellour of the Exchequer and Sir VVilliam Vvedall KNIGHT WE have with unspeakable grief of heart long beheld the distractions of this Our Kingdom Our very soul is full of anguish untill We may finde some remedy to prevent the Miseries which are ready to overwhelm this whole Nation by a civill War And though all Our endeavours tending to the Composing of those unhappy differences betwixt Vs Our two Houses of Parliament though pursued by Vs with all Zeal and Sincerity have bin hitherto without that Successee Whoped for Yet such is Our constant and earnest care to preserve the publike Peace that We shall not be discouraged from using any Expedient which by the blessing of the God of Mercy may lay a firm foundation of Peace and Happinesse to all Our good Subjects To this end observing that many Mistakes have arisen by the Messages Petitions and Answers betwixt Vs and Our two Houses of Parliament which happily may be prevented by some other way of Treatie wherein the Matters in difference may be more cleerly understood and more freely transacted We have thought fit to propound to you That some fit persons may be by you inabled to treat with the like number to be authorized by Vs in such a manner and with such freedom of Debate as may best tend to that happy Conclusion which all good-men desire The Peace of the Kingdom Wherein as We promist in the Word of a King all safety and encouragement to such as shall be sent unto Vs if you shall choose the place where We are for the Treaty which We wholly leave to you presuming of the like care of the safety of those We shall imploy if you shall name another place So We assure you and all Our good Subjects that to the best of Our understanding nothing shall be therein wanting on Our part which may advance the True Protestant Religion Oppose Poperie and Superstition Secure the Law of the Land upon which is built as well Our just Prerogative as the Propriety and Liberty of the Subject Confirm all just Power Priviledges of Parliament and render Vs and Our people truely happy by a good Vnderstanding betwixt Vs and Our two Houses of Parliament Bring with you as firm Resolutions to do your duty and let all Our good People joyn with Vs in Our prayers to Almighty God for his blessing upon this Work If this Proposition shall be rejected by you We have done Our duty so amply that God will ab●olve Vs from the Guilt of any of that blood which must be spilt And what opinion soever other Men may have of Our Power We assure you nothing but Our Christian Pious care to prevent the Effusion of blood hath begot this Motion Our Provision of Men Arms and Money being such as may secure Vs from further violence till it please God to open the eyes of Our People ❧ The Answer of the Lords and Commons to His Majesties Message of the 25. of August 1642. May it please Your Majestie THe Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled having received Your Majesties Message of the 25 of August do with much grief resent the dangerous and distracted state of this Kingdom which we have by all means endeavoured to prevent both by our severall Advices and Petitions of Your Majesty which have bin not only without successe but there hath followed that which no ill counsell in former times hath produced or any age hath seen namely those severall Proclamations and Declarations against both the Houses of Parliament whereby their Actions are declared Treasonable and their Persons Traitors And thereupon Your Majestie hath set up Your Standard against them whereby You have put the two Houses of Parliament and in them this whole Kingdom out of Your Protection so that untill Your Majestie shall recall those Proclamations and Declarations whereby the Earl of Essex and both Houses of Parliament and their adherents and assistante and such as have obeyed and executed their commands directions according to their duties are declared Traitors or otherwise delinquents And untill the Standard set up in pursuance of the said Proclamations be taken down Your Majestie hath put us into such a condition that whilest we so remain we cannot by the fundamentall Priviledges of Parliament the publike trust reposed in us or with the generall good and safetie of this Kingdome give Your Majestie any other Answer to this Message Joh. Browne Cler. Parliament H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. s His MAJESTIES Reply To an Answer sent by the two Houses of Parliament to His MAJESTIES Message of the 25. of August concerning a Treatie of Accommodation WE will not repeat what means We have used to prevent the dangerous and distracted estate of the Kingdom nor how those meanes have been interpreted because being desirous to avoid effusion of blood We are willing to decline all memory of former bitternesse that might make Our offer of a Treatie lesse readily accepted We never did Declare nor ever intended to Declare both Our Houses of Parliament Traitours or set up Our Standard against them and much lesse to put them and this Kingdom out of Our Protection We utterly Professe against it before God and the World And further to remove all possible Scruples which may hinder the Treaty so much desired by Vs We hereby Promise so that a day he appointed by you for the revoking of your Declarations against all Persons as Traitours or otherwayes for assisting of Vs We shall with all cheerfulnesse upon the same day recall Our Proclamations and Declarations and take down Our Standard In which Treaty We shall be ready to grant any thing that shall be really for the good of Our Subjects Conjuring you to consider the bleeding condition of Ireland and the dangerous condition of England in as high a degree as by these Our offers We have declared Our Self to do And assuring you that Our chief desire in this world is to beget a good understanding and mutuall confidence betwixt Vs and Our two Houses of Parliament To the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTIE The humble Answer and Petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament unto the KINGS last Message May it please Your Majestie IF we the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled should repeat all the

waies we have taken the endeavours we have used and the expressions we have made unto Your Majestie to prevent those Distractions and Dangers Your Majestie speaks of likely to fall upon this Kingdom we should too much enlarge the Reply therefore as we humbly so shall we onely let Your Majestie know that we cannot recede from our former Answer for the Reasons therein expressed For that Your Majestie hath not taken down Your Standard Recalled Your Proclamations and Declarations whereby You have declared the Actions of both Houses of Parliament to be Treasonable and their Persons Traitours and You have published the same since Your Message of the 25 of August by Your late Instructions sent to Your Commissioners of Array Which Standard being taken down and the Declarations Proclamations and Instructions recalled if Your Majestie shall then upon this our humble Petition leaving Your Forces Return unto Your Parliament and receive their faithfull Advice Your Majestie will finde such Expressions of our fidelities and duties as shall assure You That Your Safety Honour and Greatnesse can onely be found in the Affections of Your People and the sincere Counsels of Your Parliament whose constant and undiscouraged Endeavours and Consultations have passed through Difficulties unheard of onely to secure Your Kingdoms from the violent Mischiefs and Dangers now ready to fall upon them and every part of them who deserve better of Your Majestie and can never allow themselves representing likewise Your whole Kingdom to be balanced with those persons whose desperate Dispositions and Counsels prevail still so to interrupt all our Endeavours for the relieving of bleeding Ireland as we may fear our Labours and vast expences will be fruitlesse to that distressed Kingdom As Your presence is thus humbly desired by vs so is it in our hopes Your Majestie will in Your Reason beleeve there is no other way then this to make Your Majesties self happy and Your Kingdom safe Jo. Brown Cler. Par. His Majesties Message In Reply to the Answer and humble Petition of both Houses of Parliament WE have taken most wayes used most endeavours and made most reall expressions to prevent the present Distractions and Dangers let all the world judge as well by former Passages as by Our two last Messages which have been so fruitlesse that though We have descended to desire and presse it not so much as a Treatie can be obtained unlesse We would denude Our Self of all Force to defend Vs from a visible Strength Marching against Vs and admit those Persons as Traitours to Vs who according to their Duetie their Oathes of Allegiance and the Law have appeared in defence of Vs their King and Liege Lord whom We are bound in Conscience and Honour to preserve though We disclaimed all Our Proclamations and Declarations and the erecting of Our Standard as against Our Parliament All We have now left in Our Power is to expresse the deep Sense We have of the publike misery of this Kingdom in which is involved that of Our distressed Protestants of Ireland and to apply Our Self to Our necessary Defence wherein We wholly rely upon the providence of God the Iustice of Our Cause and the Affection of Our good People so far We are from putting them out of Our Protection When you shall desire a Treaty of Vs We shall piously remember whose Blood is to be spilt in this Quarrell and cheerfully embrace it And as no other Reason induced Vs to leave Our city of London but that with Honour and Safety We could not stay there nor raise any Force but for the necessary Defence of Our Person and the Law against Leavies in opposition to both so We shall suddenly and most willingly return to the One and disband the Other as soon as those Causes shall be removed The God of Heaven direct you and in mercy divert those Iudgements which hang over this Nation and so deal with Vs and Our Posterity as We desire the Preservation and Advancement of the true Protestant Religion the Law and the Liberty of the Subject the just Rights of Parliament and the Peace of the Kingdom FINIS