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A78645	His Majesties answer to the XIX. propositions of both Houses of Parliament.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Colepeper, John Colepeper, Baron, d. 1660.; Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, 1610?-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2122; Thomason E151_25; ESTC R10823	17,528	34

suits and differences But we call God to witnesse that as for Our Subjects sake these Rights are vested in Vs so for their sakes as well as for Our own We are resolved not to quit them nor to subvert though in a Parliamentary way the ancient equall happy well-poised and never-enough commended Constitution of the Government of this Kingdom nor to make Our Self of a King of England a Duke of Venice and this of a Kingdom a Republique There being three kindes of Government amongst men Absolute Monarchy Aristocracy and Democracy and all these having their particular conveniences and inconveniencies The experience and wisdom of your Ancestors hath so moulded this out of a mixture of these as to give to this Kingdom as far as humane Prudence can provide the conveniencies of all three without the inconveniencies of any one as long as the Balance hangs even between the three Estates and they run joyntly on in their proper Chanell begetting Verdure and Fertility in the Meadows on both sides and the overflowing of either on either side raise no deluge or Inundation The ill of absolute Monarchy is Tyranny the ill of Aristocracy is Faction and Division the ills of Democracy are Tumults Violence and Licentiousnesse The good of Monarchy is the uniting a Nation under one Head to resist Invasion from abroad and Insurrection at home The good of Aristocracy is the Conjunction of Counsell in the ablest Persons of a State for the publike benefit The good of Democracy is Liberty and the Courage and Industry which Liberty begetts In this Kingdom the Laws are joyntly made by a King by a House of Peers and by a House of Commons chosen by the People all having free Votes and particular Priviledges The Government according to these Laws is trusted to the King Power of Treaties of War and Peace of making Peers of chusing Officers and Councellours for State Iudges for Law Commanders for Forts and Castles giving Commissions for raising men to make War abroad or to prevent or provide against Invasions or Insurrections at home benefit of Confiscations power of pardoning and some more of the like kinde are placed in the King And this kinde of regulated Monarchy having this power to preserve that Authority without which it would be disabled to preserve the Laws in their Force and the Subjects in their liberties and proprieties is intended to draw to him such a Respect and Relation from the great Ones as may hinder the ills of Division and Faction and such a Fear and Reverence from the people as may hinder Tumults Violence and licentiousnesse Again that the Prince may not make use of this high and perpetuall power to the hurt of those for whose good he hath it and make use of the name of Publique Necessitie for the gain of his private Favourites and Followers to the detriment of his People the House of Commons an excellent Conserver of Liberty but never intended for any share in Government or the chusing of them that should govern is solely intrusted with the first Propositions concerning the Leavies of Moneys which is the sinews as well of Peace as War and the impeaching of those who for their own ends though countenanced by any surreptiously gotten Command of the King have violated that Law which he is bound when he knows it to protect and to the protection of which they were bound to advise him at least not to serve him in the Contrary And the Lords being trusted with a Iudicatorie power are an excellent Screen and Bank between the Prince and People to assist each against any Incroachments of the other and by just Iudgements to preserve that Law which ought to be the Rule of every one of the three For the better enabling them in this beyond the Examples of any of Our Ancestors We were willingly contented to Oblige Our Self both to call a Parliament every three yeers and not to dissolve it in fiftie dayes and for the present exigent the better to raise Money and avoide the pressure no lesse grievous to Vs then them Our People must have suffered by a longer continuance of so vast a Charge as two great Armies and for their greater certainty of having sufficient time to remedy the inconveniencies arisen during so long an absence of Parliaments and for the punishment of the Causers and Ministers of them We yeelded up Our Right of dissolving this Parliament expecting an extraordinary moderation from it in gratitude for so unexampled a Grace and little looking that any Malignant Partie should have been encouraged or enabled to have perswaded them first to countenance the Injustices and Indignities We have endured and then by a new way of Satisfaction for what was taken from Vs to demand of Vs at once to Confirm what was so taken and to give up almost all the rest Since therefore the Power Legally placed in both Houses is more then sufficient to prevent and restrain the power of Tyranny and without the power which is now asked from Vs We shall not be able to discharge that Trust which is the end of Monarchy since this would be a totall Subversion of the Fundamentall Laws and that excellent Constitution of this Kingdom which hath made this Nation so many yeers both Famous and happy to a great degree of Envie since to the power of punishing which is already in your hands according to Law if the power of Preferring be added We shall have nothing left for Vs but to look on since the incroaching of one of these Estates upon the power of the other is unhappy in the effects both to them and all the rest since this power of at most a joynt Government in Vs with Our Councellors or rather Our Guardians will return Vs to the worst kinde of Minority and make Vs despicable both at home and abroad and beget eternall Factions and Dissentions as destructive to publike Happinesse as War both in the chosen and the Houses that chuse them and the people who chuse the Chusers since so new a power will undoubtedly intoxicate persons who were not born to it and beget not onely Divisions among them as equals but in them contempt of Vs as become an equall to them and Insolence and Injustice towards Our people as now so much their inferiors which will be the more grievous unto them as suffering from those who were so lately of a neerer degree to themselves and being to have redresse onely from those that placed them and fearing they may be inclined to preserve what they have made both out of kindenesse and policie since all great changes are extreamly inconvenient and almost infallibly beget yet greater Changes which beget yet greater Inconveniencies Since as great an one in the Church must follow this of the Kingdom Since the second Estate would in all probability follow the Fate of the first and by some of the same turbulent spirits Iealousies would be soon raised against them and the like Propositions for

His Majesties ANSWER TO THE XIX PROPOSITIONS OF BOTH HOVSES OF Parliament LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. His Majesties Answer To the nineteen PROPOSITIONS of both Houses of Parliament BEfore We shall give you Our Answer to your Petition and Propositions We shall tell you that We are now cleary satisfied why the Method which We traced out to you by Our Message of the 20th of Ianuary and have since so often pressed upon you as the proper way to compose the distractions of this Kingdom and render it truly happy hath been hitherto declined and is at length thought fit to be looked upon We now see plainly and desire that you and all other Our good Subjects should do so too that the Cabalists of this businesse have with great Prudence reserved themselves untill due preparations should be made for their Designe If they had unseasonably vented such Propositions as the Wisdom and Modestie of your Predecessours never thought fit to offer to any of Our Progenitours nor We in honour or regard to Our Regall authority which God hath entrusted Vs with for the good of Our People could receive without just indignation and such many of your present Propositions are their hopes would soon have been blasted and those Persons to whom Offices Honours Power and Commands were designed by such ill timing of their businesse would have failed of their expectation not without a Brand upon the attempt Therefore before any of this nature should appear they have certainly with great wisdom in the Conduct of it thought fit to remove a troublesome Rub in their way The Law To this end that they might undermine the very foundations of it a new Power hath been assumed to interpret and declare Laws without Vs by extemporary Votes without any Case judicially before either House which is in effect the same thing as to make Laws without Vs Orders and Ordinances made onely by both Houses tending to a pure arbitrary power were pressed upon the people as Laws and their obedience required to them Their next step was To erect an upstart Authoritie without Vs in whom and onely in whom the Laws of this Realm have placed that Power To command the Militia very considerable to this their Designe In further order to it they have wrested from Vs Our Magazin and town of Hull and destridde Sir John Hotham in his bold-faced Treason They have prepared and directed to the People unpresidented Invectives against Our Government thereby as much as lay in their power to weaken Our just Authority and due esteem among them They have as injuriously as presumptuously though We conceive by this time Impudence it self is ashamed of it attempted to cast upon Vs aspersions of an unheard of nature as if We had favoured a Rebellion in Our own Bowels They have likewise broached new Doctrine That We are obliged to passe all Laws that shall be offered to Us by both Houses howsoever Our own Iudgement and Conscience shall be unsatisfied with them a point of Policie as proper for their present businesse as destructive to all Our Rights of Parliament And so with strange shamelesnesse will forget a Clause in a Law still in force made in the second yeer of King H. 5. wherein both Houses of Parliament do acknowledge That it is of the Kings Regality to grant or deny such of their Petitions as pleaseth Himself They have interpreted Our necessary Guard legally assembled for the Defence of Vs and Our Childrens Persons against a Traitour in open Rebellion against Vs to be with intent to leavie War against Our Parliament the thought whereof Our very soul abhorreth thereby to render Vs odious to Our People They have so awed Our good Subjects with Pursivants long chargeable Attendance Heavie Censures and illegall Imprisonments that few of them durst offer to present their tendernesse of Our Sufferings their own just Grievances and their sense of those violations of the Law the Birthright of every Subject of this Kingdom though in an humble Petition directed to both Houses and if any did it was stifled in the Birth called Sedition and burnt by the common Hangman They have refrained the Attendance of Our ordinary and necessary Houshold-servants and seized upon those small sums of Money which Our Credit had provided to buy Vs Bread With Injunctions That none shall be suffered to be conveyed or returned to Vs to York or any of Our Peers or Servants with Vs so that in effect they have blocked Vs up in that County They have filled the ears of the People with the noise of Feares and Iealousies though taken up upon trust tales of Skippers Salt-Fleets and such like by which Alarms they might prepare them to receive such impressions as might best advance this Designe when it should be ripe And now it seemes they think We are sufficiently prepared for these bitter Pills We are in a handsome Posture to receive these humble Desires which probably are intended to make way for a Superfetation of a yet higher nature if We had not made this discovery to you for they do not tell Vs this is all In them We must observe that these Contrivers the better to advance their true ends disguised as much as they could their intents with a mixture of some things really to be approved by every honest man Others specious and popular And some which are already granted by Vs All which are cunningly twisted and mixed with those other things of their main Designe of Ambition and private interest in hope that at the first view every eye may not so cleerly discerne them in their proper colours We would not be understood That We intend to fix this Designe upon both or either House of Parliament We utterly professe against it being most confident of the Loyalty good affections and integrity of the intentions of that great Bodie and knowing well that very many of both Houses were absent and many dissented from all those particulars We complain of But We do beleeve and accordingly professe to all the world that the Malignity of this Designe as dangerous to the Lawes of this Kingdom the Peace of the same and the Liberties of all Our good Subjects as to Our Selfe and Our just Prerogative hath proceeded from the subtill Informations mischievous Practices and evill Counsels of ambitious turbulent Spirits disaffected to Gods true Religion and the Vnity of the Professors thereof Our Honour and Safety and the publike Peace and prosperity of Our people not without a strong influence upon the very actions of both Houses But how faulty soever others are We shall with Gods assistance endeavour to discharge Our duty with uprightnesse of heart And therefore since these Propositions come to Vs in the name of both Houses of Parliament We shall take a more particular notice of every of them If the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 9. 10. 15. 16. 19. Demands had been