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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78740	His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects; shewing his true intentions in advancing lately to Brainford: together with the answer of both Houses of Parliament to his message of the 12th of November; with His Majesties reply thereunto.	Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, 1610?-1643.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2254; Thomason E128_40; ESTC R3594	6,459	15

HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His loving SUBJECTS Shewing His true Intentions in advancing lately to Brainford TOGETHER With the Answer of both Houses of Parliament to His Message of the 12th of NOVEMBER WITH His Majesties REPLY thereunto LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL MDCXLII HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT His MAJESTIES Declaration To all His loving Subjects of His true Intentions in advancing lately to Brainford THough Our Reputation be most dear to Us and especially in those cases wherein the truth of Our most solemn Professions and by consequence of Our Christianity is questioned yet it is not onely for the Vindication of that and to clear Our Self from such Aspersions but withall to preserve Our Subjects in their just Esteem of and Duty to Us and from being engaged into Crimes and Dangers by those malicious reports so spitefully framed and cunningly spread against Us concerning Our late advancing to Brainford That We have resolved to publish this Our following Declaration AT Colebrook on Friday the 11th of November We received a Petition from both Our Houses of Parliament by the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Pembrooke and Montgomerie the Lord Wenman Master Perpoint and Sir John Hippisly And indeed We were well pleased to see it so much liker to a Petition then the other Papers We had often of late received under that Name and returned to it the next day so gracious an Answer that We assure Our selves could not but be very satisfactory to all that were truly lovers of Peace The copies of both do here follow To the Kings most Excellent Majestie 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 piercing sense of the miseries of this Kingdom and of the dangers to Your Majesties Person as the present Affairs 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 further weighing the addition of losse misery and danger to Your Majestie and Your Kingdom which must ensue if both Armies should again joyn 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 beleeve that a sutable Impression of tendernesse and compassion is wrought in Your Majesties Royall Heart being Your Self 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 own Power and Greatnesse will follow and that all Your Kingdoms 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 be inclined graciously to accept this our humble Petition that the misery and desolation of this Kingdom may be speedily removed and prevented For the effecting whereof we most humbly beseech Your Majestie to appoint some convenient place not far from the City of London where Your Majestie will be pleased to reside untill Committees of both Houses of Parliament may attend Your Majestie with some Propositions for the removall of these bloody Distempers and Distractions and setling the State of the Kingdom 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 Majesties Answer to the aforesaid Petition WE take God to witnesse how deeply We are affected with the miseries of this Kingdom which heretofore We have stroven as much as in Us lay to prevent it being sufficiently known to all the world That as We were not the first that took up Arms so We have shewed Our readinesse of Composing all things in a fair way by Our severall offers of Treaty and shall be glad now at length to finde any such inclinations in others The same tendernesse to avoid the Destruction of Our Subjects whom We know to be Our greatest strength which would alwayes make Our greatest Victories bitter to Us shall make Us willingly hearken to such Propositions whereby these bloody distempers may be stopped and the great distractions of this Kingdom setled to Gods glory Our Honour and the welfare and flourishing of Our People And to that end shall reside at Our own Castle at VVindsore if the Forces there shall be removed till Committees may have time to attend Us with the same which to prevent the Inconveniencies that will intervene We wish may be hastned and shall be ready there or if that be refused Us at any place where We shall be to receive such Propositions as aforesaid from both Our Houses of Parliament Do you your duty We will not be wanting to Ours God of his mercy give a Blessing BUt the same night after the Messengers were gone certain information was brought unto Vs That the same day the Earl of Essex had drawn his forces with great store of Ordnance out of London towards Vs upon which a Councell of War being present and We having there considered upon debate Our present Condition That being already almost surrounded by his forces some at Windsore some at Kingstone and some at Acton If We ●…ered the remainder to possesse Brainford We should be totally hemmed in and Our Army deprived of all convenience of either moving or subsisting Yet how necessary soever it appeared We could not obtain Our own consent to advance towards Brainford and either prepossesse it or dispossesse them of it till We had satisfied Our selves that it was as lawfull as necessary and fully weighed all that not onely reason but malice it self which We knew to be very watchfull upon Our Actions could object against it We considered first that it could not reasonably be esteemed an aversion from Peace and an intention to interrupt the Treaty then in expectation Since on the other side We had cause to beleeve by the former rejection of Our offers of Treaty when We were supposed to be in no condition of strength That if We would not thus preserve Our Selves from being so encompassed as to come into their Powers the very possibility of a Treaty would immediately vanish We considered next that much lesse could it be interpreted any breach of Faith since willingnesse to receive Propositions of Treaty was never held to amount to a suspension of Arms Since otherwise We must because mention of a Treaty had been once made by the same Logick have been bound not to hinder them to encompasse Vs on all parts to Colebrook Towns end Since no word to that purpose of any suspension was in Our Answer Nay since in that by wishing their Propositions might be hastned to prevent the inconveniences which would