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Another declaration from both Houses of Parliament: sent to His Majesty, March 22. 1641
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ANOTHER DECLARATION FROM BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT Sent to His Majesty March 22 1641. LONDON Printed by R. Oulton G. Dexter 1641. ANOTHER DECLARATION FROM BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT to His Majestie May it please your Majestie YOUR Majesties most Loyall Subjects the Lords and Commons cannot conceive that the Declaration which your Majesty received from Us at Newmarket was such as did deserve that Censure your Majesty was pleased to lay upon Us in that Speech which your Majesty made to Our Committees there and sent in writing to both Houses Our Adresses therein being accompanied with Plainnesse Humility and Faithfullnes We thought more proper for the removing the Distraction of the Kingdome then if We had then proceeded according to your Majesties Message of the 20. of January by which your Majesty was pleased to desire that we would declare what we intended to doe for your Majesty and what We expected to be done for Our Selves in both which We have bin very much hindred by your Majesties Deniall to secure Us and the whole Kingdome by disposing the Militia as We had divers times most humbly Petitioned and We have not bin altogether negligent of either having lately made good proceedings in preparing a Book of Rates to be passed in a Bill of Tunnage and Poundage and likewise the most Materiall Heads of those Humble desires which We intended to Make to your Majesty for the good and contentment of your Majestie and your People But now if these could not bee perfected till the Kingdome bee put into Safety by settling the Militia and untill your Majesty shal be pleased to Concurre with your Parliament in those necessary things We hold it impossible for you to give the world or your People such satisfaction concerning the Feares and Jealousies which We have expressed as We hope your Majesty hath already received touching that Exception which you were pleased to take to Mr. PYMS Speech As for your own Feares and Doubts the ground whereof being from Seditious Pamphlets and Sermons We shall as carefully indeavour to remove it assoone as We understand what Pamphlets are by your Majesty intended as we have bin to prevent all dangerous Tumults And if any Extraordinary Concourse of People out of the City to Westminster had the face and shew of Tumult and Danger in your Majesties apprehensions it will appeare to be caused by your Majesties Deniall of such a Guard to your Parliament as they might have cause to Confide in And by taking in White-Hall such a Guard for your selfe as gave just Cause of Jealousie to the Parliament and of Terrour and offence to your People We seeke nothing but your Majesties peace and the prosperity of your Kindomes and Wee are heartily sorrie We have such plentifull Matter of an Answere to that Question Whether you have viclated Our Laws We beseech your Majesty to remember that the Government of this Kingdome as it was in great part managed by your Ministers before the beginning of the Parliament consisted of many continued and multiplyed Acts of violation of Laws the wounds whereof were scarcely healed when the Extremity of all their violations was farre exceeded by this late strange and unheard of breach of our Laws in the accusation of the Lord Kimbolton and the five Members of the Commons House and proceedings thereupon for which we have yet received no full satisfaction To your Majesties next Question Whether you had denied any Bill for the case and security of your Subjects We wish we could stoppe in the midst of our Answer That with much thankfulnesse we acknowledge that your Majesty hath passed many good Bills fâ—ll of contentment and advantage to your People but truth and necessity inforceth us to adde this That even in or about the time of passing those Bills some designe or other hath bin a foote which if it had taken effect would not only have deprived us of the fruit of those Bills but have reduced us to a worse condition of confusion then that wherein the Parliament found us And if your Majesty had asked us the third Question Intimated in that Speech What Wee had done for your Selfe Our Answere would have bin much more easie That Wee have paid two Armies wherewith the Kingdome was burdened last yeare That we have undertaken a Warre with Ireland all which great mischiefe and the Charges thereupon have bin occasioned by the evill Councells so powerfull with your Majesty which have and will cost this Kingdome more then two Millions all which in Justice ought to have bin borne by your Majesty As for the free and generall pardon your Majestie hath bin pleased to offer it can be no security to our Feares and Jealousies for which your Majesty seems to propound it because they arise not from any Guilt of our owne Actions but from the evill designes and attempts of others To this our humble Answer to that Speech we desire to adde an information which we lately received from the Deputy Governour of the Marchant Adventurers at Rotterdam in Holland That an unknowne Person appertaining to the Lord Digby did lately sâ—llicite on Iames Henly a Marriner to goe to Ellinore and there to take charge of a Ship in the Fleece of the King of Denmark there prepared which he should conduct to Hull in which Ships likewise he said a great Army was to be transported And although we are not apt to give credit to Informations of that nature yet we cannot altogether think it fit to be neglected but that it adds somewhat to our feares and Jealousies considering with what Circumstances it is accompanied of the Lord Digbyes preceding expressions in a Letter to her Majesty and Sir Lewis Diues and your Majesties succeeding course of withdwrawing your selfe North-ward from your Parliament in a manner very sutable and correspondent with that evill Counsell which we doubt will make much deeper impression in the generality of your people and therefore we most humbly desire for the procuring and setling our and their confidence and the other Reasons concerning the recovery of Ireland and securing this Kingdome which have beene formerly presented to your Majestie you will be graciously pleased with all convenient speed to returne to these parts and to close with the advise and desire of your Parliament Where you shall find their dutifull affections and endeavours ready to attend your Majestie with such entertainment as shall not onely give your Majestie just cause of security in their faithfulnesse but other manifest evidences of their earnest desires to advance your Majesties service Honour and contentment and to establish it upon the sure foundation of the Peace and Prosperity of all your Kingdomes FINIS