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A78747	His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, upon occasion of his late messages to both Houses of Parliament, and their refusall to treat with him for the peace of the kingdome. Charles R. Our expresse pleasure is, that this our Declaration be published in all churches and chappels within the kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, by the parsons, vicars, or curates of the same.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1642 (1642)	Wing C2259; Thomason E126_47; ESTC R19891	12,955	16

whereby their Actions are declared Treasonable and their Persons Traitors And thereupon Your Majestie hath set up Your Standard against them whereby You have put the two Houses of Parliament and in them this whole Kingdome out of Your protection so that untill Your Majestie shall recall those Proclamations and Declarations whereby the E. of Essex and both Houses of Parliament and their adherents and assistants and such as have obeyed and executed their commands and directions according to their duties are declared Traitors or otherwise Delinquents And untill the Standard set up in pursuance of the said Proclamations be taken down Your Majestie hath put us into such a condition that whilst we so remain we cannot by the fundamentall priviledges of Parliament the publique trust reposed in us or with the generall good safety of this Kingdome give Your Majestie any other Answer to this Message Joh. Browne Cler. Parliament H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. THis strange Answer might well have discouraged Us from any thought of proceeding further this way and informed Us sufficiently what spirit still governed amongst those few who continued still in both Houses otherwise after so many bitter and invective Messages and Declarations sent to Us and published against Us We should not have been reproched with Our Proclamations and Declarations set forth by Us as the effect of such evill Counsel as was unparallel'd by any former Examples We beleeve indeed such Proclamations and Declarations have never been before set forth but were former times ever acquainted with such intolerable provocations were there ever before these Twelve months Declarations published in the name of either or both Houses of Parliament to make their King odious to the People Have either or both Houses ever before assumed or pretended to a Power to raise Arms or levy War in any Cause or can both Houses together exercise such a Power Are those Actions which the Law hath defined literally and expresly to be Treasonable or such Persons to be Traitors not so because they are done by Members of either House or their appointment And must not We declare such who march with Arms and Force to destroy Us to be Traitors because the E. of Essex is their Generall Those whom We have or doe accuse We have named together with their crimes notorious by the known Law of the Land a favour not granted to our evill Counsellors and appeal to that known Law to judge between Us And now that by this we should have put the whole Kingdome out of Our Protection in whose behalfe We doe all that We have done is a corrupt Glosse upon such a Text as cannot be perverted but by the cunning practices of such who wish not well to King or People yet that no weak persons might be missed by that Imputation upon Us We sent a Reply to that Answer in these words His Majesties Reply to an Answer sent by the two Houses of Parliament to His Majesties Message of the 25. of August concerning a Treaty of Accommodation VVE will not repeat what meanes We have used to prevent the dangerous and distracted estate of the Kingdom nor how those means have been interpreted because being desirous to avoid effusion of blood We are willing to decline all memory of former bitternesse 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 Traitors or set up Our Standard against them and much lesse to put them and this Kingdom out of Our Protection Wee 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 Wee shall with all cheerfulnesse upon the same day recall Our Proclamations and Declarations and take down Our Standard In which Treaty We shal 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 Self to do And assuring you that Our chief desire in this is to beg●t a good understanding mutuall confidence betwixt Us and Our two Houses of Parl. This Message produced an Answer little differing from the former like men who had no other measure of the Justice of their cause then their Power to oppresse Us forgetting their own duties they sharply informe Us of Ours in these words The humble Answer and Petition of the Lord and Commons Assembled in Parliament unto the Kings last Message May it please Your Majesty IF we the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled should repeat all the wayes we have taken the endeavours we have used and the expressions we have made unto Your Majestie to prevent those distractions and dangers Your Majestie speaks of likely to fall upon this Kingdome we should too much inlarge this Reply Therefore as we humbly so shall we onely let Your Majestie know that we cannot recede from our former Answer for the reasons therein expressed For that Your Majestie hath not taken down Your Standard recalled Your Proclamations and Declarations whereby You have declared the Actions of both Houses of Parliament to be Treasonable and their Persons Traitors And You have published the same since Your Message of the 25. of Aug. by Your late Instructions sent to Your Commissioners of Array which Standard being taken downe and the Declarations Proclamations and Instructions recalled If Your Majesty shall then upon this our Humble Petition leaving Your Forces returne unto Your Parliament and receive their faithfull advice Your Majestie will find such expressions of our fidelities and duties as shall assure You that Your Safety Honour and Greatnesse can onely be found in the affections of Your people and the sincere counsels of Your Parliament whose constant and undiscouraged endeavours and consultations have passed through difficulties unheard of onely to secure Your Kingdoms from the violent Mischiefs dangers now ready to fall upon them and every part of them who deserve better of Your Majestie and can never allow themselves representing likewise Your whole Kingdome to be ballanced with those persons whose desperate dispositions and counsels prevaile still so to interrupt all our indeavours for the relieving of bleeding Ireland as we may fear our labours and vast expences will be fruitlesse to that distressed Kingdom As Your presence is thus humbly desired by us So is it in our hopes Your Majestie will in Your reason beleeve there is no other way then this to make Your Self happy and Your Kingdom safe Joh. Brown Cler. Parl. VVIthout any bitternesse or reprehension of their neglect of Us and the publique Peace to expresse Our deep sense of the Calamities at hand We yet once

more hoping to awake them to a Christian tendernesse towards the whole Kingdome sent to them in these words VVHo have taken most wayes used most endeavours made most reall expressions to prevent the present distractions and dangers let all the World judge as well by former Passages as by Our two last Messages which have been so fruitlesse that though We have descended to desire and presse it not so much as a Treaty can be obtained unlesse We would denude Our selfe of all force to defend Us from a visible strength marching against Us and admit those Persons as Traitors to Us who according to their duty their Oaths of Allegiance and the Law have appeared in defence of Us their King and Liedge Lord whom We are bound in Conscience and honour to preserve though We disclaimed all Our Proclamations Declarations the erecting of Our Standard as against our Parliament All We have now left in Our Power is to expresse the deep sense We have of the publike misery of this Kingdom in which is involved that of Our distressed Protestants of Ireland and to apply Our self to Our necessary defence wherein We wholy rely upon the Providence of God the Iustice of 〈◊〉 Cause and the affection of Our good People so farre We are from putting them out of Our protection When you shall desire a Treaty of Us We shall piously remember whose blood is to be spilt in this quarrell and cheerfully embrace it And as no other Reason induced Us to leave Our City of London but that with honour and safety We could not stay there nor raise any force but for the necessary defence of Our Person and the Law against Leavies in opposition to both so we shall suddenly and most willingly returne to the one and disband the other as soon as those causes shal be removed The God of heaven direct you and in mercy divert those judgements which hang over this Nation so deale with Us and Our Posterity as We desire the Preservation Advancement of the true Protestant Religion the Laws and Liberty of the Subject the just Rights of Parliament and the Peace of the Kingdome BUt as if all these gracious Messages had been the effects onely of Our Weaknesse and instances of Our want of Power to resist that torment they deale at last more plainly with Us and after many sharp causelesse and unjust reproaches they tell Us in plaine English that without putting Our Self into their hands and deserting all Our own Force and the protection of all those who have faithfully appeared for Vs according to their duty there would be no means of a Treaty although Our extraordinary desire of Peace had prevailed with Vs to offer to recall Our most just Declarations and to take downe Our Standard set up for Our necessary defence so their unjustifiable Declarations might be likewise recalled their Answer follows in these words The humble Answer of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament unto His Majesties last Message VVE the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled doe present this our humble Answer to Your Majesties Messag● of the 11. of this instant month of September when we consider the Oppressions Rapines Firing of houses Murthers even at this time whilst Your Majesty propounds a Treaty committed upon Your good Subjects by Your Souldiers in the presence and by the Authority of their Commanders being of the number of those whom Your Majesty holds Your Selfe bound in Honour and Conscience to Protect as Persons doing their Duties We cannot think Your Majesty hath done all that in You lies to prevent or remove the present destractions nor so long as Your Majesty will admit no Peace without securing the Authors and Instruments of these mischiefs from the Iustice of the Parl. which yet shall be ever dispenced with all requisite moderation distinction of offences Although some of those Persons be such in whose Preservation Your Kingdome cannot be safe nor the unquestionable Rights and Priviledges of Parl. be maintained without which the power and dignity thereof will fall into contempt We beseech Your Majesty therefore to consider Your expressions That God should deale with You and Your Posterity as Your Majesty desires the preservation of the just Rights of Parliament which being undeniable in the Trying of such as we have declared to be Delinquents we shall beleeve Your Majesty both towards Your Self and Parliament will not in this Priviledge we are most sensible of deny us that which belongs unto the meanest Court of Iustice in this Kingdome Neither hath Your Majestie cause to complain that You are denyed a Treatie when we offer all that a Treatie can produce or Your Majestie expect Security Honour Service Obedience Support and all other effects of an Humble Loyall and faithfull subjection and seek nothing but that our Religion Liberty peace of the Kingdome safety of the Parliament may be secured from the open violence and cunning practices of a wicked party who have long plotted our ruine and destruction And if there were any cause of Treason we know no competent persons to Treat betwixt the King and Parliament And if both Cause and Persons were such as could invite Treatie the Season is altogether unfit whilst Your Majesties Standard is up and Your Proclamations and Declarations unrecalled whereby Your Parliament is Charged with Treason If Your Majestie shall persist to make Your Self a shield and defence to those Instruments and shall continue to reject our faithfull and necessary advice for securing and in intaining Religion and Liberty with the peace of the Kingdome and safety of the Parliament we doubt not but to indifferent judgements it will easily appeare who is most tender of that Innocent Bloud which is like to be spilt in this Cause Your Ma●stie who by such persisting doth endanger Your Self and Your Kingdoms or We who are willing to hazard our selves to preserve both We humbly beseech Your Majesty to consider how impossible it is that any Protestation though published in Your Majesties Name of the tendernesse of the miscries of Your Protestant Subjects of Ireland of Your Resolution to maintain the Protestant Religion and Laws of this Kingdom can give satisfaction to reasonable and indifferent men when at the same time divers of the Irish Traiters and Rebels the known favourers of them and Agents for them are admitted to Your Majesties presence with grace and favour and some of them imployed in Your service when the Cloathes Munition Horses and other Necessaries bought by Your Parliament sent for the supply of the Army against the Rebels there are violently taken away some by Your Majesties command others by Your ministers and applyed to the maintenance of an unnaturall War against Your People here All this notwithstanding as we never gave Your Majesty any just cause of withdrawing Your Self from Your great Councell so it hath over been and shall ever be far from us to give any impediment to Your return or to

HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His Loving Subjects Vpon occasion of his late MESSAGES to both Houses of PARLIAMENT And their Refusall to treat with Him for the Peace of the KINGDOME Charles R. OUr expresse pleasure is That this our Declaration be published in all Churches and Chappels within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales by the Parsons Vicars or Curates of the same Printed by His Majesties Command at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the Universitie 1642. His Majesties DECLARATION To all his loving Subjects upon occasion of his late Messages to both Houses of Parliament and their refusall to treate with him for the peace of the Kingdome IF it had not evidently appeared to all men who have carefully examined and considered Our Actions Messages and Declarations how far We are and have been from begetting or promoting the present Distractions and that the Arms wee have now taken are for the necessary safety and defence of Our life being not taken up by Us till our Town and Fort of Hull were kept from Us by force of Armes Our Navy imployed against Us to keep all forraigne supply of Arms and Mony when Our owne here was seized and detained from Us and an Army raised in pay and marching against Us yet the late reception of Our Message of the 25. of August sent by Persons of Honour and Trust will sure satisfie the World that we have omitted nothing on Our part that a gracious and Christian Prince could or can do to prevent the effusion of Christian Blood but that the Malignant party which have with great subtilty and industry begot this misunderstanding between Us and Our good Subjects resolve to satisfie and secure their malice and ambition with the ruine of the Kingdome and in the blood of Us and all Our good Subjects When they had forced Us after the neglect of Our Message from Beverley by raising a great Army and incensing Our Subjects against Us to erect our royall Standard that Our Subjects might be informed of Our danger and repaire to Our Succour though Wee had no great reason to believe any Message of Ours would receive a very good entertainment if those men might prevaile who had brought all these miseries upon the Kingdome to satisfie their own private end yet observing the miserable accidents which already befell Our good Subjects by the Souldiers under their command and well knowing that greater would ensue if timely prevention were not applyed and finding that the malice and cunning of these men had infused into Our People a Rumour that Wee had rejected all Propositions and offers of Treaty and desired to engage Our Subjects in a Civill War which Our Soule abhors wee prevaile with Our selfe for a full expression of Our desire to prevent the effusion of Blood to send a gracious message to both Our Houses of Parliament on the 25. of August in these words His Majesties gratious Message to both Houses of Parl. sent from Mottingham 25. Aug. 1642 By the Earls of Southhampton and Do●set Sir I●hn C●lpepe Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir William ●●edall VVE have with unspeakable grief of heart long beheld the distractions of this Our Kingdom Our very soul is full of anguish untill We may find some remedy to prevent the Miseries which are alredy to overwhelme this whole nation by a civil War And though all Our endeavours tending to the Composing of those unhappy differences betwixt Us and Our two houses of Parliament though pursued by Us with all Zeal and Syncerity have been hitherto without that Successe We hoped for yet such is our constant and earnest care to preserve the publike Peace that We shall not be discouraged from using any Expedient which by the blessing of the God of Mercy may lay a firm foundation of Peace and happinesse to all Our good Subjects To this end observing that many mistakes have arisen by the Messages Petitions and Answers betwixt Us and Our two Houses of Parliament which happily may be prevented by some other way of Treaty wherein the Matters in difference may be more cleerly understood and more freely transacted We have thought fit to propound to you That some fit persons may be by you inabled to treat with the like number to be authorized by Us in such a manner and with such freedom of debate as may best tend to that happy Conclusion which all good men desire The peace of the Kingdom Wherein as We promise in the Word of a King all safety and encouragement to such as shall be sent to Us if you shall choose the place where we are for the Treaty which We wholy leave to you presuming of your like care of the safety of those We shall imploy if you shall name another place So We assure you and all Our good Subjects that to the best of Our understanding nothing shall be therein wanting on Our parts which may advance the True Protestant Religion Oppose Popery and Superstition Secure the Law of the Land upon which is built as well our just Prerogative as the Propriety and Liberty of the Subject Confirme all just Power and Priviledges of Parliament and render Us and Our People truely happy by a good understanding betwixt Us and Our two Houses of Parliament Bring with you as firm Resolutions to doe your duty and let all Our good people joyne with Us in Our prayers to Almighty God for his blessing upon this Work If this Proposition shall be rejected by you We have done Our duty so amply that God will absolve Us from the Guilt of any of that blood which must be spilt and what opinion soever other men may have of Our Power We assure you nothing but our Christian and Pious care to prevent the Effusion of blood hath begot this Motion Our Provision of Men Arms and Money being such as may secure Us from farther violence till it shall please God to open the eyes of Our People Our Messengers were not suffered to sit in the Houses and one of them the E. of Southampton against whom there was not the least colour of exception or so much as a vote not suffered to deliver Our Message but compelled to send it by the Gentleman Vsher and then commanded to depart the Town before they would prepare any Answer which they shortly sent Us in these words The Answer of the Lords and Commons to his Majesties Message the 25. of Aug. 1642. May it please Your Majesty THe Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled having received Your Majesties Message of the 25. of August doe with much griefe resent the dangerous and distracted state of this Kingdom which we have by all means endeavoured to prevent both by our severall advices and Petitions to Your Majesty which have been not onely without successe but there hath followed that which no ill counsell in former times hath produced or any age hath seen namely those severall Proclamations and Declarations against both the Houses of Parliament