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A69922 The answer of both Hovses of Parliament to His Majesties message of the 12 of November with His Majesties reply thereunto.; His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, of his true intentions in advancing lately to Brainceford England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1642 (1642) Wing E1221; ESTC R224452 6,437 17

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HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His loving SUBjECTS OF HIS TRVE INTENTIONS in advancing lately to BRAINCEFORD Printed by his MAIESTIES Command AT OXFORD By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1642. HIS MAjESTIES DECLARATION To all his loving Subjects of His true Intentions in advancing lately to BRINCEFORD THough Our Reputation be most deare to Us and especially in those cases wherein the truth of Our most solemne Professions and by consequence of Our Christianitie is questioned yet it is not onely for the Vindicaton of that and to cleare Our selfe from such Aspersions but withall to preserve Our Subjects in their just Esteeme of and Duty to Us and from being engaged into Crimes and Dangers by those malicious reports so spightfully fram'd and cunningly spread against Us concerning Our late advancing to Brainceford That Wee have resolv'd to publish this Our following Declaration AT Colebrooke on Friday the eleventh of November We● received a Petition from both Our Houses of Parliament by the Earle of Northumberland the Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery the Lord Wenman Master Perpoint and Sir Iohn Hippisly And indeed We were well pleased to see it so much liker to a Petition then the other Papers Wee had often of late received under that name and return'd to it the next day so gracious an Answer that Wee assure Our selves could not but be very satisfactory to all that were truely lovers of Peace The copies of both doe here follow To the Kings most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons now assembled in PARLIAMENT WE Your Majesties most loyall Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled being affected with a deep and pierceing sence of the miseries of this Kingdome and of the dangers to Your Majesties Person as the present Affaires now stand and much quickned therein with the sad consideration of the great effusion of Blood at the late Battell and of the losse of so many eminent persons And farther weighing the Addition of Losse miserie and danger to Your Majestie and Your Kingdome which must ensue if both Armies should againe joyne in another Battell as without Gods especiall Blessing and Your Majesties concurrence with Your Houses of Parliament will not probably be avoided We cannot but believe that a sutable Impression of tendernesse and Compassion is wrought in your Majesties Royall Heart being Your selfe an eye-witnesse of the bloody and sorrowfull destruction of so many of your Subjects And that Your Majestie doth apprehend what diminution of Your owne Power and Greatnesse will follow and that all Your Kingdomes will thereby be so weakned as to become subject to the Attempts of any ill-affected to this State In all which respects we assure our selves that Your Majestie will bee inclined graciously to accept this our humble Petition that the misery and desolation of this Kingdome may be speedily removed and prevented for the effecting whereof we most humbly beseech Your Majesty to appoint some convenient place not farre from the City of London where your Majesty will be pleased to reside untill Committees of both Houses of Parliament may attend your Majestie with some Propositions for the removeall of these bloody Distempers and Distractions and setling the State of the Kingdome in such a manner as may conduce to the Preservation of Gods true Religion your Majesties Honour Safety and Prosperity and to the Peace Comfort and Security of all your People His MAIESTIES Answer to the aforesaid Petition WEe take God to witnesse how deepely Wee are affected with the miseries of this Kingdome which heretofore Wee have stroven as much as in Us lay to prevent It being sufficiently knowne to all the World That as Wee were not the first that tooke up Armes so Wee have shewed Our readinesse of Composing all things in a faire way by Our severall offers of Treaty and shall bee glad now at length to find any such Inclinations in others The same tendernesse to avoyd the Destruction of Our Subjects whom Wee know to bee Our greatest strength which would alwayes make Our greatest Victories bitter to Us shall make Us willingly hearken to such Propositions whereby these bloudy distempers may bee stopped and the great distractions of this Kingdome setled to Gods glory Our Honour and the welfare and flourishing of Our People And to that end shall reside at Our owne Castle at Windfore if the Forces there shall bee removed till Committees may have time to attend Us with the same which to prevent the Inconveniences that will intervene Wee wish may bee hastned and shall bee ready there or if that bee refused Vs at any place where Wee shall bee to receive such Propositions as aforesaid from both our Houses of Parliament Doe you your Duty Wee will not bee wanting to Ours God of his mercy give a Blessing BVt the same night after the Messengers were gone certaine Information was brought unto Vs That the same day the Earle of Essex had drawne his forces with great store of Ordinance out of London towards us upon which a Councell of Warre being present and Wee having there considered upon debate Our present Condition That being already almost surrounded by his forces some at Windsore some at Kingston and some at Acton If Wee suffered the Remainder to possesse Brainceford Wee should bee totally hemm'd in and Our Army deprived of all convenience of either moving or subsisting Yet how necessary soever it appear'd Wee could not obtaine Our owne Consent to advance towards Brainceford and either prepossesse it or dispossesse them of it till Wee had satisfied Our selves that it was as lawfull as necessary and fully weighed all that not onely reason but malice it selfe which Wee knew to bee very watchfull upon Our Actions could object against it Wee consider'd first that it could not reasonably bee esteem'd an Aversion from Peace and an Intention to interrupt the Treaty then in expectation Since on the other side Wee had cause to beleeve by the former rejection of Our offers of Treaty when Wee were suppos'd to bee in no condition of strength That if Wee would not thus preserve Our Selves from being so encompass'd as to come into their Powers the very possibility of a Treaty would immediately vanish Wee considered next that much lesse could it bee interpreted any Breach of Faith since willingnesse to receive Propositions of Treaty was never held to amount to a suspension of Armes Since otherwise Wee must because mention of a Treaty had beene once made by the same Logick have beene bound not to hinder them to encompasse Vs on all parts to Colebrooke Townes end Since no word to that purpose of any suspension was in Our Answer Nay since in that by wishing their Propositions might bee hastned to prevent the Inconveniences which would intervene Wee implyed that by this Armes were not suspended And since their owne Votes of proceeding vigorously notwithstanding the Petition and their owne actions in sending after their Messengers great store of forces with