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A32002 His Majesties message to the Lords and Commons in Parliament, Sept. 5 together with a declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament in answer to the said message. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament. 1642 (1642) Wing C2489A; ESTC R28556 1,290 12

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His Majesties MESSAGE To the Lords and Commons in Parliament Sept. 5. Together with A DECLARATION of the Lords and Commons in PARLIAMENT IN ANSWER to the said MESSAGE Lunae 5. September 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That this be forthwith printed and published H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. Dom Com. Printed for Edw. Husbands and John Franck and are to be sold at their shops in the middle Temple and next door to the sign of the Kings-head in Fleet-street Septem 7. 1642. His Majesties Message to the Lords and Commons in Parliament Sept. 5. WE will not repeat what means We have used to prevent the dangerous and distracted estate of the Kingdome nor how those means have bin interpreted because being desirous to avoid effusion of blood We are willing to decline all memory of former bitternes 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 Kingdome 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 Us We hereby Promise so that a day be appointed by you for the revoking of your Declarations against all Persons as Traitours or otherwayes for assisting of Us We shall with all cheerfulnesse upon the same day recall Our Proclamations and Declarations and take downe 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 Selfe to do And assuring you that Our chiefe desire in this world is to beget a good understanding and mutuall confidence betwixt Us and Our two Houses of Parliament A Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament In Answer to His Majesties Message WHereas His Majesty in a Message received the fifth of September requires that the Parliament would revoke their Declarations against such persons as have assisted His Majesty in this unnaturall War against His Kingdom It is this day Ordered and Declared by the Lords and Commons That the Arms which they have been forced to take up and shall be forced to take up for the preservation of the Parliament Religion the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom shall not be laid down untill His Majesty shall withdraw His Protection from such persons as have been Voted by both Houses to be Delinquents or that shall by both Houses be voted to be Delinquents and shall leave them to the Justice of the Parliament to be proceeded with according to their demerits to the end that both this and succeeding Generations may take warning with what danger they incur the like haynous crimes and also to the end that those great charges and damages wherewithall the Common wealth hath been burthened in the Premisses since His Majesties departure from the Parliament may be born by the Delinquents and other malignant and disaffected persons And that all His Majesties good and well-affected Subjects who by Loan of Monies or otherwise at their charge have assisted the Common-wealth or shall in like manner hereafter assist the Common wealth in time of extreme danger may be repayed all Sums of Money by them lent for those purposes and be satisfied their charges so sustained out of the Estates of the said Delinquents and of the malignant and dis-affected party in this Kingdome Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That this Declaration bee forthwith Printed and Published H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com.