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A78740	His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects; shewing his true intentions in advancing lately to Brainford: together with the answer of both Houses of Parliament to his message of the 12th of November; with His Majesties reply thereunto.	Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, 1610?-1643.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2254; Thomason E128_40; ESTC R3594	6,459	15

HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His loving SUBJECTS Shewing His true Intentions in advancing lately to Brainford TOGETHER With the Answer of both Houses of Parliament to His Message of the 12th of NOVEMBER WITH His Majesties REPLY thereunto LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL MDCXLII HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT His MAJESTIES Declaration To all His loving Subjects of His true Intentions in advancing lately to Brainford THough Our Reputation be most dear to Us and especially in those cases wherein the truth of Our most solemn Professions and by consequence of Our Christianity is questioned yet it is not onely for the Vindication of that and to clear Our Self from such Aspersions but withall to preserve Our Subjects in their just Esteem of and Duty to Us and from being engaged into Crimes and Dangers by those malicious reports so spitefully framed and cunningly spread against Us concerning Our late advancing to Brainford That We have resolved to publish this Our following Declaration AT Colebrook on Friday the 11th of November We received a Petition from both Our Houses of Parliament by the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Pembrooke and Montgomerie the Lord Wenman Master Perpoint and Sir John Hippisly And indeed We were well pleased to see it so much liker to a Petition then the other Papers We had often of late received under that Name and returned to it the next day so gracious an Answer that We assure Our selves could not but be very satisfactory to all that were truly lovers of Peace The copies of both do here follow To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament WE Your Majesties most loyall Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled being affected with a deep and piercing sense of the miseries of this Kingdom and of the dangers to Your Majesties Person as the present Affairs now stand and much quickned therein with the sad consideration of the great effusion of Blood at the late Battell and of the losse of so many eminent Persons And further weighing the addition of losse misery and danger to Your Majestie and Your Kingdom which must ensue if both Armies should again joyn in another Battell as without Gods especiall Blessing and Your Majesties concurrence with Your Houses of Parliament will not probably be avoided We cannot but beleeve that a sutable Impression of tendernesse and compassion is wrought in Your Majesties Royall Heart being Your Self an eye-witnesse of the bloody and sorrowfull destruction of so many of Your Subjects And that Your Majestie doth apprehend what diminution of Your own Power and Greatnesse will follow and that all Your Kingdoms will thereby be so weakned as to become subject to the attempts of any ill-affected to this State In all which respects we assure our selves that Your Majestie will be inclined graciously to accept this our humble Petition that the misery and desolation of this Kingdom may be speedily removed and prevented For the effecting whereof we most humbly beseech Your Majestie to appoint some convenient place not far from the City of London where Your Majestie will be pleased to reside untill Committees of both Houses of Parliament may attend Your Majestie with some Propositions for the removall of these bloody Distempers and Distractions and setling the State of the Kingdom in such a manner as may conduce to The preservation of Gods true Religion Your Majesties Honour Safety and Prosperity and to The Peace Comfort and Security of all Your People His Majesties Answer to the aforesaid Petition WE take God to witnesse how deeply We are affected with the miseries of this Kingdom which heretofore We have stroven as much as in Us lay to prevent it being sufficiently known to all the world That as We were not the first that took up Arms so We have shewed Our readinesse of Composing all things in a fair way by Our severall offers of Treaty and shall be glad now at length to finde any such inclinations in others The same tendernesse to avoid the Destruction of Our Subjects whom We know to be Our greatest strength which would alwayes make Our greatest Victories bitter to Us shall make Us willingly hearken to such Propositions whereby these bloody distempers may be stopped and the great distractions of this Kingdom setled to Gods glory Our Honour and the welfare and flourishing of Our People And to that end shall reside at Our own Castle at VVindsore if the Forces there shall be removed till Committees may have time to attend Us with the same which to prevent the Inconveniencies that will intervene We wish may be hastned and shall be ready there or if that be refused Us at any place where We shall be to receive such Propositions as aforesaid from both Our Houses of Parliament Do you your duty We will not be wanting to Ours God of his mercy give a Blessing BUt the same night after the Messengers were gone certain information was brought unto Vs That the same day the Earl of Essex had drawn his forces with great store of Ordnance out of London towards Vs upon which a Councell of War being present and We having there considered upon debate Our present Condition That being already almost surrounded by his forces some at Windsore some at Kingstone and some at Acton If We ●…ered the remainder to possesse Brainford We should be totally hemmed in and Our Army deprived of all convenience of either moving or subsisting Yet how necessary soever it appeared We could not obtain Our own consent to advance towards Brainford and either prepossesse it or dispossesse them of it till We had satisfied Our selves that it was as lawfull as necessary and fully weighed all that not onely reason but malice it self which We knew to be very watchfull upon Our Actions could object against it We considered first that it could not reasonably be esteemed an aversion from Peace and an intention to interrupt the Treaty then in expectation Since on the other side We had cause to beleeve by the former rejection of Our offers of Treaty when We were supposed to be in no condition of strength That if We would not thus preserve Our Selves from being so encompassed as to come into their Powers the very possibility of a Treaty would immediately vanish We considered next that much lesse could it be interpreted any breach of Faith since willingnesse to receive Propositions of Treaty was never held to amount to a suspension of Arms Since otherwise We must because mention of a Treaty had been once made by the same Logick have been bound not to hinder them to encompasse Vs on all parts to Colebrook Towns end Since no word to that purpose of any suspension was in Our Answer Nay since in that by wishing their Propositions might be hastned to prevent the inconveniences which would

intervene We implyed that by this Arms were not suspended And since their own Votes of proceeding vigorously notwithstanding the Petition and their own actions in sending after their Messengers great store of forces with Ordnance so neer to Vs having before girt Vs in on all other parts and sent men and Ordnance to Kingstone after the safe conduct asked of Vs implied the same Being resolved upon these Reasons That this advancing was necessary and just We were not yet satisfied till We had endeavoured the same day though the interruptions of shooting stopt up the way till the next to satisfie Our Parliament and People of the same and that Peace was still Our desire We to that end directed a Message by John White Esquire which was so received that his danger of being put to death for bringing it and the imprisonment of him and the Trumpeter that went with him in the Gatehouse shewed that the very Law of Nations was by some no more considered then all other Laws had been before A Copy of which Message hereafter follows to shew how little temptation the matter of that gave them for such an usage His MAJESTIES Message of the 12. of NOVEMBER WHereas the last night being the eleventh of November after the departure of the Committee of both Our Houses with Our gracious Answer to their Petition We received certain Information having till then heard nothing of it either from the Houses Committee or otherwise That the Lord of Essex had drawn his Forces out of London towards Us which hath necessitated Our sudden Resolution to march with Our Forces to Brainford We have thought hereby fit to signifie to both Our Houses of Parliament That We are no lesse-desirous of the Peace of the Kingdom then We exprest in Our aforesaid Answer The Propositions for which We shall willingly receive where ever We are And desire if it may be to receive them at Brainford this night or early to morrow morning That all possible speed may be made in so good a work and all inconveniencies otherwise likely to intervene may be avoided ANd to justifie yet further that Our intention was no other then was here profest assoon as We were informed that the Earl of Essex his Forces were departed from Kingstone before any appearance or notice of further Forces from London Our end of not being inclosed being obtained We gave orders to quit Brainford and to march away and possesse that place We cannot but make one Argument more of the truth of Our Profession that this was all Our end and that We had not the least thought by so advancing to surprise and sack London which the malignant Party would infuse into that Our City And that is That probably God Almighty would not have given such a Blessing to Our journey as to have assisted Vs so both by Land and Water as with lesse then a third part of Our Foot and with the losse but of ten men to beat two of their best Regiments out of both Brainfords for all the great advantage of their works in them to kill him who commanded in chief and kill and drown many others To take five hundred Prisoners more Arms eleven Colours and good store of Ammunition fifteen pieces of Ordnance whereof We sunk most that We brought not away and then unfought with and unoffered at neerer then by Ordnance to march away notwithstanding the great disadvantage of Our Forces by the difficulties of the Passages if He who is the Searcher of all hearts and Truth it self had not known the truth of Our Professions and the innocencie of Our heart and how far We were from deserving those horrid Accusations of Falshood and Treachery cast so point blank upon Our own Person that it would amase any man to see them suffered to be printed in Our City of London if any thing of that kinde could be a wonder after so many of the same and how really they desire Accommodation who upon this have Voted they will have none These Our Reasons for this Action This Our satisfaction sent for it and this Blessing of Gods upon it will We doubt not cleer Vs to all indifferent persons both of the Iesuiticall Counsells and the personall Treachery to which some have presumed so impudently to impute it And God so blesse Our future Actions as We have delivered the truth of this The Answer of both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT To His MAjESTIES Message of the twelfth of November TO Your Majesties Message of the twelfth of this Moneth of November We the Lords and Commons in Parliament do make this humble Answer That this Message was not delivered to us till Monday the 14th We thought it a strange Introduction to Peace that Your Majesty should send Your Army to beat us out of our Quarters at Brainford and then appoint that place to receive our Propositions which yet it plainly appears Your Majestie intended not to receive till You had first tryed whether You could break thorow the Army raised for the defence of this Kingdome and Parliament and take the City being unprovided and secure in expectation of a fair Treaty made to secure the City If herein Your Majesty had prevailed after You had destroyed the Army and mastered the City it is easie to imagine what a miserable Peace we should have had and whether those courses be sutable to the expressions Your Majestie is pleased to make in Your Answer to our Petition of Your earnestnesse to avoid any further effusion of blood let God and the world judge As for our Proceedings they have in all things been answerable to our Professions we gave directions to the Earl of Essex to draw the Army under his Command out of the City and Suburbs before we sent any Message to Your Majesty So that part of it was inquartered at Brainford before the Committee returned with Your Answer And immediatly upon the receit thereof that very morning Order was taken that the Souldiers should exercise no act of hostility against any of Your Majesties people We sent a letter by Sir Peter Killigrew to know Your Majesties pleasure whether you intended the like forbearance of hostility But the fury of Your Souldiers thirsting after blood and spoil prevented the delivery of the letter For coming upon Saturday in his way towards Your Majestie as far as Brainford he found them in fight there and could passe no further God who sees our innocencie and that we have no aims but at his glory and the publike good will we hope free Your Majestie from those destructive Counsels who labour to maintain their own power by blood and rapine and blesse our endeavours who seek nothing but to procure and establish the Honour Peace and Safety of Your Majestie and Kingdoms upon the sure foundation of Religion and Justice To the Answer of both HOUSES of Parliament to His MAjESTIES Message of the twelfth of November His MAjESTIE makes this REPLY THat His Message of the twelfth though not