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majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78795	His Majesties gracious ansvver to the message sent from the honourable Citie of London, concerning peace. Delivered by the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Faukland, Principall Secretarie of State. As it was spoken by his Majestie to the said secretarie. The true copie.	Glapthorne, Henry.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1643 (1643)	Wing C2320; Thomason E84_41	3,394	8

HIS MAIESTIES Gracious Ansvver TO The Message sent from the Honourable Citie of LONDON Concerning PEACE Delivered by the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Faukland Principall Secretarie of State As it was spoken by his Majestie to the said Secretarie The true Copie Printed at London for Thomas Massam 1643. His Majesties gracious Answer to the Message sent from the Honourable Citie of LONDON concerning PEACE Mr. Secretarie YOu could not have presented Us any object of more welcome consequence than those desires of our well respected Citie of London of which wee have alwayes retained that good opinion that it was as impossible for the Inhabitants of that our Capitall Citie to forget their duties and due respects to Us their King as it was impossible for Us to give off the just opinion Wee have alwayes had of their loyaltie to Us or the good affections We have alwayes held of them the maine Upholders of the dignitie of our Kingdome the wealth of that Citie is not unknowne to Us nor the zeale We have found continually in them to our service Neither are We ignorant of the many notable supplyes our Ancestours have received from their contributions to the maintenance of the wars in forraine parts All which considerations meeting with our owne royall inclinations to the weale and commoditie of that Citie must needs render Us verie willing and concurrent to any propositions which shall arrive from them concerning an accommodation for peace which Wee have alwayes coveted with as much ardour as We have detested the miseries and oppressions of this present war this lamentable and calamitous civill war which hath unmade the peace and safetie of our Kingdome nay as it were uncreated our native royaltie dependent upon Us from our Ancestours and left Us a King in title rather than in essence the best Pillars of our Kingdome being shrunk from Us our High Court of Parliament whom had Wee never so unfortunately by some idle mutinous spirits been as it were enforced to desert when Wee were in a manner driven from our palace at White-Hall our subjects had not in such numbers relinquished Us. But Wee hope the best time moderation and good counsell will give a happie period to these distractions which the present wars doe continue to the destruction of our people and diminution of our regall estate and dignitie We are sensible of the horrid and great afflictions and oppressions that like fatall clouds over-shadow the face of our Dominions the many bloud-sheds rapines and spoyles which have been acted upon the persons and estates of our good subjects especially the detriments that have fallen with a heavie hand upon our Citie of London Wee know these wars have deprived the Merchant of the benefit of exporting his commodities into forraine parts and importing others from thence into our Citie of London which must needs occasion a generall defect of trade there which hath been ever held the chiefe supportment and encrease of the riches of our English Common-wealth which as rivers derive themselves from fountaines have been devolved thorow all our Dominions from London it being the spring of commerce and traffique that flowes thorow all parts of this Nation But surely Wee have just occasion in this to vindicate Our Selves that We have never in our soule occasioned these fatall miseries violence in some and mis-understanding in others having begot these Hyara-headed confusions which Heaven no longer prosper Us than We shall with our utmost endevour strive to reduce to a sudden and certaine conclusion that all our people may evidently perceive We desire no longer to be esteemed their Soveraigne than we shall give them occasion to credit We intend meerly their advancement peace and profit Subjects are a Kings best inheritance the flower of his Crowne and glorie of his Scepter which far be it from all just Kings and Wee include Our Selfe in that number to abridge or violate the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome We have ever maintained and so shall ever do with our best abilities and power the priviledges of our High Court of Parliament and the libertie and the propertie of the Subject In especiall the Immunities and Franchises of our Citie of London which Wee alwayes esteemed so precious in our thoughts that Wee shall study alwayes to augment rather than decrease them You have Mr. Secretarie delivered Us the intentions of our Citie of London presented by their Agents now in our Court the maine of which as you have delivered to Us is that Wee would please to let them understand whether We will receive any propositions from our said Citie concerning an accommodation of peace betweene Us and our High Court of Parliament Certainly Wee should appeare a strange and publike enemy to Our Selfe the peace and prosperitie of our Kingdome and People should We neglect to embrace any such just and honest propositions We are assured since our City of London can desire this really heartily as by this expresse is manifested the rest of our People Cities and Corporations must be of the same mind and surely Our high Court of Parliament must needs concurre with them in the same intentions they having by divers of their Declarations given the world to understand that they have made it the maine cause of their endevours to seek peace and ensue it We do therefore Master Secretary give you to understand Our Royall will and pleasure concerning this precedent point of their Message that Wee shall not onely be ready to receive graciously any such Propositions for an Accommodation of Peace between Our self and Our high Court of Parliament for We have much and evident reason when We see Our Kingdome torne in pieces by these civill dissensions Our People up in Armes one against another and shedding the blood of each other who are all Our native subjects Our Townes Cities and Villages impoverished by daily plundrings firings and outrages but likewise to propound them Our selves The true Religion of God Almighty lies and languishes under a storme of fatall schismes and opinions Our owne Royalty hath not halfe its wonted attributes its traine or attendants Our Lawes are neglected Lawes which are the Ensignes of Majesty and the immediate Ministers of Our Justice the safeguard and patrimony of Our Subjects and the staffe and upholder of their liberties We must therefore considering all the fatall misfortunes and incombrances of a civill War and the immediate blessings and over-flowing benefits of a setled and continued Peace have rather a greater propension in Our selfe to peace then can be any way in any of Our People We being divers wayes more interessed in the common utility then they can be possible Never had any We may speak that without any partiall boast more desires to acquire and atchieve the good of his subjects then Our selfe nor ever hath any King been more crossed in his determinations and intentions then Our selfe frequent and fatall jealousies arising betweene Our high Court of Parliament and Our selfe which have thus long separated Us from the body of Our Kingdom and Our Kingdome from Us. The Parliament We will not blame nor by any meanes seeke to rip up old discontents betwixt Us would they had never been or at least so ended now that by an absolute Act of oblivion they were utterly forgotten We shall labour to throw balme and oyle into the wounds of the Common-wealth and so comply with the desires both of Our Parliament and Our City of London that if it be possible a suddain and happy Union may once more be knit up betwixt Us that all the inconveniences happening to the Common-wealth by these intemperate distractions may be utterly wiped away from the face of Our English Earth and that We may live to govern the Natives of this Island as their King and they live to honour and obey Us as Our People Furthermore Master Secretary We would have you intimate to these Agents from Our City of London that We in all love embrace their request concerning Our returne to Our said City and Parliament and would have them beleeve it were far more correspondent to be in quiet at White-hall Hampton Court or any of Our Palaces thereabout then here at Oxford where though We have all the accommodation the countrey can affoord yet doe they not countervaile with those We could have as We are confident in or about Our City of London which hath alwayes been the supreme chamber of Our Ancestors and Our owne best beloved residence till these fatall stirres dis-united us and forced Us to depart from thence whither you may certifie them We would with as much willingnesse return as ever We did in time of the happiest tranquillity from any of Our sedentary Progresses never beleeving Our Person in more or better security then when guarded with the faithfull hearts and valiant hands of those couragious and well-experienced Citizens who have alwayes had and ever shall have a neare and deare roome in Our Royall intention and well-wishes But such is the necessity of Our affaires so urgent the consequence of Our presence to Our Army that We are utterly impossibilited of transferring Our Person from them who conceiving themselves discountenanced and neglected by Our absence would be very apt to grow into dangerous distempers But for their Propositions concerning an Accommodation of Peace let them be sent to Us and We shall give them so ample and gracious hearing as shall be fit Us to give and them to receive And as soone as things shall by faire treaty be made ripe for an enter view between Our selfe and Parliament We shall with all convenient haste repaire according to their desires to Our City of London In the meane time desire them from Us to continue their good intentions concerning Peace and We shall esteeme it a principall demonstration of their loyalty towards Us and ever study the advancement of their City and the whole Common-wealth FINIS