Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

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majesty_n	house_n	parliament_n	speaker_n	3,357	5	10.8139	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78928	His Maiesties most gratious ansvver to the votes of the two Houses of Parliament: presented to him at Carisbrook Castle, by the Right Honourable the Earle of Middlesex; Sir Io. Hipsley knight; and John Bulkley esquier, on Munday the 7th of this present, August. 1648. In order to a personall treaty for the settling a safe and a well grounded peace.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1648 (1648)	Wing C2503; Thomason E458_11; ESTC R205030	4,159	16

His Maiesties Most gratious ANSWER TO THE VOTES Of the two Houses OF PARLIAMENT Presented to Him at Carisbrook Castle by the Right Honourable the Earle of Middlesex Sir Io. Hipsley Knight and John Bulkley Esquier on Munday the 7th of this present August 1648. In order to a Personall Treaty for the settling a safe and a well grounded Peace LONDON Printed August 14. 1648. C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE The Kings most gratious Answer to the Votes of both Houses of Parliament In order to a Personall Treaty for the setling of a safe and a well grounded Peace Carisbrook Castle 10 August 1648. IF the Peace of my Dominions were not much dearer to mee then any particular Interest whatsoever I had too much reason to take notice of the severall Votes which passed against me and the sad condition I have been in now above these seven Moneths But since you my two Houses of Parliament have opened as it seemes to me a faire beginning to a happy Peace I shall heartily apply my selfe thereunto and to that end I will as clearly and shortly as I may set you downe those things which I conceive necessary to this blessed Worke so that we together may remove all impediments that may hinder a happy conclusion of this Treaty which with all cheerfulnesse I do embrace And to this wished end your selves have laid most excellent grounds for what can I reasonably expect more then to Treat with Honour Freedome and Safety upon such Propositions as you have or shall present unto me and such as I shall make to you But withall remember that it is the definition not names of things which make them rightly known And that without means to perform no Proposition can take effect And truly my present condition is such that I can no more Treat then a blind man judge of colours or one run a race who hath both his feet fast tide together wherefore my first necessary demand is That you will recall all such Votes and Orders by which people are frighted from comming writing or speaking freely to me Next that such men of all Professions whom I shall fend for as of necessary use to me in this Treaty may bee admitted to wayt upon me In a word that I may be in the same state of freedom I was in when I was last at Hampton Court And in deed lesse cannot in any reasonable measure make good those offers which you have made me by your Votes for how can I treat with honour so long as people are terrifi'd with Votes and Orders against coming to speak or write to mee And am I honourably treated so long as there is none about mee except a Barber who came now with the Commissioners that ever I named to wayt upon mee Or with freedome untill I may call such unto me of whose services I shall have use in so great and difficult a work And for safety I speake not of my Person having no apprehension that way how can I judge to make a safe and well grounded Peace untill I may know without disguise the true present State of all my Dominions and particularly of all those whose Interests are necessarily concern'd in the Peace of these Kingdomes which leads me naturally to the last necessary demand I shall make for the bringing of this Treaty to a happy end which is That you alone or you and I joyntly do invite the Scots to send some Persons authorised by them to Treat upon such Propositions as they shall make for certainly the pulique and necessary Interesse they have in this great Settlement is so clearly plain to all the world that I believe no body will deny the necessity of their concurrence in this Treaty in Order to a durable Peace Wherefore I will onely say that as I am King of both Nations so will I yeild to none in either Kingdom for being truly and zealously affected for the Good and Honour of both my resolution being never to be partiall for either to the prejudice of the other Now as to the Place because I conceive it to be rather a circumstanstiall then reall part of this Treaty I shall not much insist upon it I name Newport in this Isle yet the fervent zeale I have that a speedy end be put to these unhappy distractions doth force me earnestly to desire you to consider what a great losse of time it will be to Treat so farre from the Body of my two Houses when every small debate of which doublesse there will be many must be transmitted to Westminster before it be concluded And really I think though to some it may seeme a paradox that peoples minds will be much more apt to settle seeing mee Treat in or neare London then in this Isle because so long as I am here it will never be believed by many that I am really so free as before this Treaty begin I expect to be And so I leave and recommend this point to your serious consideration And thus I have not only fully accepted of the Treaty which you have proposed to mee by your Votes of the third of this Month but also given it all the furtherance that lies in me by demanding the necessary meanes for the effectuall performance thereof All which are so necessarily employed by though not particularly mentioned in your Votes as I can no wayes doubt of your ready complyance with me herein I have now no more to say but to conjure you by all that is deare to Christians Honest men or good Patriots that yee will make all the expedition possible to begin this happy work by hasting down your Commissioners fully Authorized and well instructed and by enabling mee as I have shewed you to Treat Praying the God of peace so to blesse our endeavors that all my Dominions may speedily enjoy a safe and well-grounded Peace CHARLES R. To the Speaker of the Lords House pro tempore to be communicated to the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England at Westminster HIS MAIESTIES Message To both Houses of Parliament Brought from the Isle of WIGHT upon Mouday the fourteenth of August 1648. By the Right Honourable the Earle of Middlesex Sir Iohn Hipsley and Master Bunckley concerning the Personall Treaty C R DI●V ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y 〈◊〉 Printed in the Yeare 1648. CARISBROOKE Aug. 10. 1648. IF the peace of my Dominions were not much dearer to me than any particular interest whatsoever I had too much reason to take notice of the severall Votes which passed against Me and the sad condition I have bin in now above these seven moneths But since you my two Houses of Parliament have opened as it seemes to me a faire beginning to a happy Peace I shall heartily apply my selfe thereunto and to that end I will as clearly and shortly as I may set you downe those things which I conceive necessary to this blessed worke so that we together may