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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22757	His Majesties declaration: to all his loving subjects, of the causes which moved him to dissolve the last Parliament. Published by His Majesties speciall command	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Finch of Fordwich, John Finch, Baron, 1584-1660.	1640 (1640)	STC 9262; ESTC R212833	13,649	60

unto them which was before they entred into any debate delivered unto them in these words Whereas upon Saterday last his Majestie was pleased to send a Message to this House desiring you to give a present answer concerning his Supply to which as yet his Majestie hath had no other but that upon this day you will take it into further consideration Therefore his Majestie the better to facilitate your resolutions this day hath thought fit to let you know That of his grace and favour he is pleased upon your granting of twelve Subsidies to be presently passed and to be paid in three yeers with a Proviso that it shall not determine the Session his Majestie will not onely for the present forbear the levying of any Shipping money but will give way to the utter abolishing of it by any course that your selves shall like best And for your Grievances his Majestie will according to his Royall promise give you as much time as may be now and the rest at Michaelmas next And his Majestie expects a present and positive answer upon which he may rely his affairs being in such condition as can endure no longer delay Notwithstanding this gracious message and all other his Majesties former Desires and Promises and the Lords earnest perswasions the House of Commons spent eight or nine houres more in debating the matter of Supply without coming to any resolution at all and so mixed the consideration of that with other matters impertinent and trenching highly to the diminution of his Majesties Royal Prerogative That his Majestie plainly discerned they went about to weary tire him with delayes And though in words some did not deny to supply him yet in that also most moved to clog the Bill of Subsidies in such sort that his Majestie could not have accepted it without great prejudice to his Prerogative And they were so far from declaring what they would do That they entertained themselves with discourses tending to render odious to his people that gracious government of his under which all his people have during his happy reign lived in such peace and felicitie when all the neighbouring Kingdoms and States were in troubles and combustions His Majestie was hereupon enforced by the advice of His Privie Councell to resolve to break up and dissolve the Parliament from which he could hope for no other fruit then the hindring of His great affairs and disordering His happy Government And therefore on Tuesday the fifth of May His Majestie came again in person to the Lords House and sending for the Speaker and the House of Commons when they were come up said thus MY LORDS THere can no occasion of my comming to this House be so unpleasing to me as this is at this time The fear of doing that which I am to do this day made me not long ago come to this House where I expressed as well my Feares as the Remedies I thought necessary for the eschewing of it Unto which I must confesse and acknowledge that you My Lords of the Higher House did give me so vvilling an Eare and vvith such affection did shevv your selves thereafter that certainly I may say If there had bin any means to have given an happy end to this Parliament you took it So that it vvas neither your Lordships fault nor mine that it is not so Therefore in the first place I must give your Lordships thanks for your good Endeavours I hope you remember vvhat my Lord Keeper said to you the first day of the Parliament in my Name VVhat likevvise he said in the Banquetting-House in VVhite-hall and vvhat I lately said to you in this place my self I name all this unto you not in doubt that you do not vvell remember it but to shevv you that I never said any thing in vvay of favour to my people but that by the grace of God I vvill punctually and really perform it I know that they have insisted very much on Grievances and I vvill not say but that there may be some though I vvill confidently affirm that there are not by many degrees so many as the publique voice doth make them VVherefore I desire you to take notice now especially at this time that out of Parliament I shall be as readie if not more vvilling to hear and redresse any just Grievances as in Parliament There is one thing that is much spoken of though not so much insisted on as others and that is Religion Concerning which albeit I expressed my self fully the last day in this place to your Lordships yet I think it fit again on this occasion to tell you that as I am most concerned so I shall be most carefull to preserve that purity of Religion which I thank God is so well established in the Church of England and that as well out as in Parliament My Lords I shall not trouble you long vvith vvords it being not my fashion vvherefore to conclude vvhat I offered the last day to the House of Commons I think is well knovvn to you all as likevvise hovv they accepted it vvhich I desire not to remember but vvish that they had remembred hovv at first they vvere told in my Name by my Lord Keeper That delay vvas the vvorst kinde of deniall yet I vvill not lay this fault on the vvhole House for I vvill not judge so uncharitably of those vvho for the most part I take to be Loyall and vvell-affected Subjects but that it hath been the malicious cunning of some fevv sediciously-affected men that hath been the cause of this misunderstanding I shall novv end as I began in giving your Lordships thanks for your affection shevvn to me at this time desiring you to go on to assist me in the maintaining of that Regall povver that is truly mine and as for the Libertie of the people that they novv so much seem to startle at Knovv my Lords that no King in the vvorld shall be more carefull to maintain them in The propertie of their Goods Libertie of their Persons and true Religion then I shall be And novv my Lord Keeper do vvhat I have commanded you Then the Lord Keeper added MY Lords and you Gentlemen of the House of Commons The Kings Majestie doth dissolve this Parliament BY all the proceedings herein declared it is evident to all men how willing and desirous his Majestie hath been to make use of the ancient and Noble way of Parliament used and instituted by his Royall Predecessours for the preservation and honour of this famous Monarchie and that on his Majesties part nothing was wanting that could be expected from a King whereby this Parliament might have had an happy conclusion for the comfort and content of all his Majesties Subjects and for the good and safetie of this Kingdom On the contrary it is apparant how those of the House of Commons whose sinister and malicious courses inforced his Majestie to dissolve this Parliament have vitiated and abused that ancient and Noble way of