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A82805	The humble desires and propositions of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, tendred to His Majestie, Febr. 1. And His Majesties gracious answer and propositions, Febr. 3. 1642.	England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). His majesties answer to the desires and propositions, Febr. 3, 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1563D; ESTC R175106	5,861	15

not before named that do now hold any of these places before mentioned may be removed IX That all such persons as have been put out of the Commissions of peace or of Oyer and Terminer or from being Custodes Rotulorum since the first day of Aprill 1642. other then such as were put out by the desire of both or either Houses of Parliament may again be put into those Commissions and Offices and that such persons may be put out of those Commissions and Offices as shall be excepted against by both Houses of Parliament X. That your Majesty will be pleased to passe the Bill now presented to your Majesty to vindicate and secure the Priviledge of Parliament from the ill consequence of the late president in the charge and proceedings against the Lord Kimbolton now Earle of Manchester and the five Members of the House of Commons XI That your Majesties Royall assent may be given unto such Acts as shall be advised by both Houses of Parliament for the satisfying and paying of the debts and dammages wherein the two Houses of Parliament have engaged the Publike Faith of the Kingdome XII That your Majesty will be pleased according to a gracious Answer heretofore received from you to enter into a more strict Alliance with the States of the United Provinces and other neighbour Princes and States of the Protestant Religion for the defence and maintenance thereof against all Designes and Attempts of the Popish and Jesuiticall Faction to subvert and suppresse it whereby Your Subjects may hope to be free from the mischiefes which this Kingdome hath endured through the power which some of that party have had in your Counsells and will be much encouraged in a Parliamentary way for Your aid and assistence in restoring Your Royall Sister and Prince Elector to those Dignities and Dominions which belong unto them and relieving the other Protestant Princes who have suffered in the same Cause XIII That in the generall Pardon which Your Majestie hath been pleased to offer to Your Subjects all Offences and Misdemeanours committed before the 10. of Jan. 1641. which have been or shall be questioned or proceeded against in Parliament upon complaint in the House of Commons before the 10. of Jan. 1643. shall be excepted which Offences and Misdemeanors shall neverthelesse be taken and adjudged to be fully discharged against all other inferiour Courts That likewise there shall be an exception of all offences committed by any person or persons which hath or have had any hand or practise in the Rebellion of Ireland which hath or have given any councell assistence or encouragement to the Rebells there for the maintenance of that Rebellion as likewise an exception of William Earle of Newcastle and George Lord Digby XIIII That Your Majesty will be pleased to restore such Members of either House of Parliament to their severall places of service and imployment out of which they have been put since the beginning of this Parliament that they may receive satisfaction and reparation for those places and for the profits which they have lost by such removall upon the Petition of both Houses of Parliament And that all others may be restored to their Offices and Employments who have bin put out of the same upon any displeasure conceived against them for any assistence given to both Houses of Parliament or obeying their Commands or forbearing to leave their Attendance upon the Parliament without License or for any other occasion arising from these unhappy differences betwixt Your Majesty and both Houses of Parliament upon the like Petition of both Houses These things being granted and performed as it hath alwayes been our heartie prayers so shall we be enabled to make it our hopefull endeavour That Your Majesty and Your people may enjoy the blessngs of Peace Truth and Justice The Royalty and Greatnesse of Your Throne may be supported by Your loyall and bountifull Affections of Your People Their Liberties and Priviledges maintained by Your Majesties Protection and Justice And this publike Honour and Happinesse of Your Majesty and all Your Dominions communicated to other Churches and States of Your Alliance and derived to Your Royall Posterity and the future Generations of this Kingdome for ever His MAJESTIES Answer IF His Majesty had not given up all the Faculties of His Soule to an earnest endeavour of a Peace and Reconciliation with His People Or if He would suffer Himselfe by any provocation to be drawne to a sharpnesse of Language at a time when there seems somewhat like an Overture of Accommodation He could not but resent the heavy charges upon Him in the Preamble of these Propositions and would not suffer Himselfe to be reproached with protecting of Delinquents by force from Justice His Majesties desire having alwayes been That all Men should be tryed by the known Law and having been refused it with raising an Army against His Parliament And to be told That Arms have been taken up against Him for the defence of Religion Laws Liberties Priviledges of Parliament And for the sitting of the Parliament in safety with many other particulars in that Preamble so often and so fully answered by His Majesty without remembring the world of the time and circumstances of raising those Arms against Him When His Majesty was so farr from being in a condition to invade other mens Rights that He was not able to maintaine and defend His own from violence And without telling His good Subjects That their Religion the true Protestant Religion in which His Majesty was born hath faithfully lived and to which He will dye a willing Sacrifice their Laws Liberties Priviledges and safety of Parliament were so amply settled and established or offered to be so by His Majestie before any Army was raised against Him and long before any raised by Him for His defence That if nothing had been directed but that Peace and Protection which His Subjects and their Ancectors had in the best times enjoyed under His Majesty or His Royall Predecessors this misunderstanding and distance between His Majesty and His People and this generall misery and distraction upon the Face of the whole Kingdom had not been now the Discourse of Christendom But His Majesty will forbear any expressions of bitternesse or of a sense of His own sufferings That if it be possible the memory thereof may be lost to the World And therefore though many of the Propositions presented to His Majesty by both Houses appear to Him very derogatory from and destructive to His Just Power and Prerogative and no way beneficial to His Subjects few of them being already due unto them by the Laws established And how unparliamentary it is by Arms to require new Laws all the world may judge yet because these may be waved or mollified and many things that are now dark or doubtfull in them cleered and explained upon debate His Majesty is pleased such is His sence of the miseries this Kingdom suffers by this unnaturall Warre and His earnest desire to remove them by a happy peace That a speedy time and place be agreed upon for the meeting of such Persons as His Majesty and both Houses shall appoint to discusse these Propositions and such others here following as His Majestie doth propose to them I. THat His Majesties own Revenue Magazines Towns Forts and Ships which have been taken or kept from Him by Force be forthwith restored unto Him II. That whatsoever hath been done or Published contrary to the known Laws of the Land or derogatory to His Majesties Legall and known Power and Rights be renounced and recalled that no seed may remain for the like to spring out of for the future III. That whatsoever Illegall Power hath been claimed and exercised by or over His Subjects as Imprisoning their Persons without Law stopping their Hebeas Corpusses and imposings upon their Estates without Act of Parliament c. Either by both or either Houses or any Committee of both or either or by any Persons appointed by any of them be disclai●●d and all such Persons so committed forthwith discharged IV. That as His Majesty will readily consent having done so heretofore to the Execution of all Laws already made and to any good Acts to be made for the suppressing of Popery and for the firm setling of the Protestant Religion now established by Law So He desires that a good Bill may be framed for the better preserving of the Book of Common Prayer from the scorn and violence of Brownists Anabaptists and other Sectaries with such Clauses for the ease of tender Consciences as His Majesty hath formerly offered V. That all such Persons as upon the Treaty shall be excepted out of the generall pardon shall be tryed per Pares according to the usuall Course and known Laws of the Land and that it be left to that either to acquit or condemne them VI. And to the intent this Treaty may not suffer Interruption by any intervening accidents That a Cessation of Arms and a free trade for all His Majesties Subjects may be first agreed upon This Offer and desire of His Majesty He hopes will be so cheerfully entertained that a speedy and blessed Peace may be accomplished If it shall be rejected or by insisting upon unreasonable Circumstances be made impossible which He hopes God in his mercy to this Nation will not suffer the guilt of the Blood which will be shed and the desolation which must follow will lye upon the Heads of the refusers However His Majesty is resolved through what Accidents soever He shall be compelled to recover His Rights and with what prosperous successes soever it shall please God to blesse Him That by his earnest constant Endeavours to Propogate and Promote the true Protestant Religion and by His governing according to the known Laws of the Land and upholding the just Priviledges of Parliament according to His frequent Protestations made before Almighty God which He will alwayes inviolably observe the world shall see That He hath undergone all these difficulties and hazards for the defence and maintenance of those The zealous preservation of which His Majestie well knows is the onely foundation and means for the true happinesse of Him and His People FINIS

The humble Desires and PROPOSITIONS OF THE Lords and Commons in Parliament tendred to His Majestie Febr. 1. AND HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOVS ANSWER And PROPOSITIONS Febr. 3. 1642. Die Lunae 6. Febr. 1642. IT is this Day Ordered by the Commons in Parliament Assembled That the Propositions from both Houses to His Majesty and His Majesties Answer unto them this day received be forthwith Printed and Published H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley 1642. By speciall Command WE Your Majesties most humble and faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled having in our thoughts the glory of God Your Majesties Honour and the prosperity of Your People and being most grievously afflicted with the pressing miseries and calamities which have overwhelmed Your two Kingdoms of England and Ireland since Your Majestie hath by the perswasion of evill Councellors withdrawn Your selfe from Your Parliament raised an Army against it and by force thereof protected Delinquents from the Justice of it and constraining us to take Arms for the defence of our Religion Laws Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament and for the sitting of the Parliament in safety Which Fears and Dangers are continued and encreased by the raising drawing together and arming of great numbers of Papists under the Command of the Earl of Newcastle likewise by making the Lord Herbert of Ragland and other known Papists Commanders of great Forces whereby many grievous Oppressions Rapines and Cruelties have bin and are dayly exercised upon the Persons and Estates of Your People Much innocent blood hath been spilt and the Papists have attained means of attempting with hopes of effecting their mischievous designe of rooting out the Reformed Religion and destroying the Professors thereof In the tender sence and compassion of these Evils under which the People and Kingdom lye according to the Duty which we owe to God Your Majesty and the Kingdom for which we are trusted Do most earnestly desire that an end may be put to these great Distempers and Distractions for the preventing that Desolation which doth threaten all Your Majesties Dominions and as we have rendred and still are ready to render to Your Majesty that Subjection Obedience and Service which we owe unto You So we most humbly beseech Your Majestie to remove the Causes of this War and to vouchsafe us that Peace and Protection which we and our Ancestors have formerly enjoyed under Your Majesty and Your Royall Predecessors and graciously to accept and grant these our most humble Desires and Propositions I. THat Your Majesty will be pleased to disband Your Armies as we likewise shall be ready to disband all those Forces which we have raised and that you will be pleased to return to Your Parliament II. That You will leave Delinquents to a Legall Tryall and Judgement of Parliament III. That the Papists may not onely be disbanded but disarmed according to Law IV. That Your Majesty will be pleased to give Your Royall assent unto the Bill for taking away Superstitious Innovations To the Bill against scandalous Ministers To the Bill against Pluralities To the Bill for the utter abolishing and taking away of all Archbishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Sub-Deans Deans and Chapters Arch-Deacons Canons and Prebendaries and all Chantors Chancellors Treasurers Sub-Treasurers Succentors and Sacrists And all Vicars Chorall and Choristers Old Vicars and New Vicars of any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church and all other their under-Officers out of the Church of England And to the Bill for Consultation to be had with godly religious and learned Divines That Your Majestie will be pleased to promise to passe such other good Bills for setling of Church-Government as upon Consultation with the Assembly of the said Divines shall be resolved on by both Houses of Parliament and by them be presented to Your Majestie V. That Your Majesty having express'd in Your Answer to the Nineteen Propositions of both Houses of Parliament a hearty Affection and Intention for the rooting out of Popery out of this Kingdom And that if both the Houses of Parliament can yet find a more effectuall course to disable Jesuits Priests and Popish Recusants from disturbing the State or eluding the Laws that you would willingly give your consent unto it That You would be graciously pleased for the better discovery and speedier conviction of Recusants that an oath may be established by Act of Parliament to be administred in such manner as by both Houses shall be agreed on wherein they shall abjure and renownce the Popes Supremacie the Doctrine of Transubstantiation Purgatory Worshipping of the consecrated Hoast crucifixes and images and the refusing of the said oath being tendred in such manner as shall be appointed by Act of Parliament shall be a sufficient conviction in law of Recusancie And that Your Majestie will be Graciously pleased to give Your Royall Assent unto a Bill for the education of the Children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant Religion That for the more effectuall execution of the Laws against Popish Recusants Your Majesty would be pleased to consent to a Bill for the true leavying of the Penalties against them and that the same Penalties may be leavied and disposed of in such manner as both Houses of Parliament shall agree on so as Your Majesty be at no losse And likewise to a Bill whereby the practises of Papists against the State may be prevented and the Laws against them duely executed VI. That the Earl of Bristoll be removed from Your Majesties Councells and that both he and the Lord Harbert eldest Son to the Earl of Worcester may likewise be restrained from comming within the Verge of the Court and that they may not bear any Office or have any imployments concerning the State or Common-wealth VII That Your Majesty would be graciously pleased by Act of Parliament to settle the Militia both by Sea and Land and for the Forts and Ports of the Kingdom in such manner as shall be agreed on by both Houses VIII That Your Majesty will be pleased by Your Letters Patents to make Sir John Bramston Chiefe Justice of Your Court of Kings Bench William Lenthall Esquire the now Speaker of the Commons House Master of the Rolls and to continue the Lord Chiefe Justice Bankes Chiefe Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas and likewise to-make Master Serjeant Wilde Chief Baron of Your Court of the Exchequer and that Master Justice Bacon may be continued and Master Serjeant Rolls and Master Serjeant Atkins made Justices of the King Bench that Master Justice Reeve and Master Justice Forster may be continued Serjeant Pheasant made one of Your Judges of Your Court of Common-Pleas That Mr. Serjeant Creswell Mr. Samuel Brown and Mr. John Puleston may be Barons of the Exchequor and that all these and all the Judges of the same Courts for the times to come may hold their places by Letters Patents under the great Seale Quamdiu se bene Gesserint and that the severall persons