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A82803 The humble desires and propositions of the Lords and Commons in Parliament tendred to His Majestie, February 1. and His Majesties gracious answer and propositions the third of February 1642.; Proceedings. 1643-02-01 England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). 1643 (1643) Wing E1563A; Thomason E88_5; ESTC R210028 5,896 18

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before named that do hold any of these places before mentioned may be removed IX That all such persons as have been put out of the Commissions of Peace or Oyer and Terminer or from being Custodes Rotulorum since the first day of April 1642. other then such as were put out by desire of both or either of the Houses of Parliament may again be put into those Commissions and Offices and that such persons may be put out of those Commissions and Offices as shall be excepted against by both Houses of Parliament X. That Your Majestie will be pleased to passe the Bill now presented to Your Majestie to vindicate and secure the Priviledges of Parliament from the ill consequence of the late President in the charge and proceeding against the Lord Kimbolton now Earl of Manchester and the five Members of the House of Commons XI That Your Majesties Royall assent may be given unto such Acts as shall be advised by both Houses of Parliament for the satisfying and paying the Debts and Dammages wherein the two Houses of Parliament have engaged the Publike Faith of the Kingdom XII That Your Majestie will be pleased according to a gracious Answer heretofore received from You to enter into a more strict Alliance with the States of the united Provinces and other Neighbour Princes and States of the Protestant Religion for the defence and maintenance thereof against all Designes and Attempts of the Popish and Jesuiticall Faction to subvert and suppresse it whereby Your Subjects may hope to be free stom the mischiefs which this Kingdom hath endured through the power which some of that Party have had in your Councels and will be much encouraged in a Parliamentary way for Your aid and assistance in restoring Your Royall Sister and the Prince Elector to those Dignities and Dominions which belong unto them and the relieving the other Protestant Princes who have suffered in the same cause XIII That in the generall Pardon which Your Majestie hath been pleased to offer to Your Subjects all offences misdemeanours committed before the tenth of January 1641. which have bin or shal be questioned or proceeded against in Parliament upon complaint in the House of Commons before the tenth of January 1643. shall be excepted which offences and misdemeanours shall neverthelesse be taken and adjudged to be fully discharged against all other inferiour Courts That likewise there shall be an Exception of all offences committed by any person or persons which hath or have had any hand or practice in the Rebellion of Ireland which hath or have given any counsell assistanee or incouragement to the Rebells there for the maintenance of that Rebellion as likewise Exception of VVilliam Earl of Newcastle and George Lord Digby XIIII That Your Majestie will be pleased to restore such Members of either House of Parliament to their severall places of services and imployment out of which they have been put since the beginning of this Parliament That they may receive satisfaction and reparation for those places and for the Profits which they have lost by such removalls upon the Petition of both Houses of Parliament And that all others may be restored to their Offices and imployments who have been put out of the same upon any displeasure conceived against them for any assistance given to both Houses of Parliament or obeying their Commands or forbearing to leave their Attendance upon the Parliament without licence or for any other occasion arising from these unhappy differences betwixt Your Majestie and both Houses of Parliament upon the like Petition of both Houses THese things being granted and performed as it hath alwayes been our hearty prayer so shall we be enabled to make it our hopefull endeavour that Your Majestie and Your People may enjoy the blessings of Peace Truth and Justice The Royalty and Greatnesse of Your Throne may be supported by the Loyall and Bountifull affections of Your People Their Liberties and Priviledges maintained by Your Majesties Protection and Justice and this Publike Honour and Happinesse of Your Majestie and all Your Dominions communicated to other Churches and States of Your Alliance and derived to Your Royall Posterity and the future generations in this Kingdom for ever C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT His Majesties Answer To the DESIRES and PROPOSITIONS of both Houses February 3. 1642. IF His Majestie had not given up all the Faculties of His soul to an earnest endeavour of a Peace and Reconciliation with His People or if he would suffer Himself by any provocation to be drawn to a sharpnesse of Language at a time when there seems somewhat like an overture of Accommodation He could not but resent the heavie Charges upon Him in the Preamble of these Propositions and would not suffer Himself to be reproached with protecting of Delinquents by force from Iustice His Majesties desire having alwayes been that all men should be tried by the known Law and having been refused it With raising an Armie against Pis Parliament And to be told that Arms have been taken up against Him for the defence of Religion Laws Liberties Priviledges of Parliament and for the sitting of the Parliament in safetie With many other particulars in that Preamble so often and so fully Answered by His Majestie without remembring the World of the time and circumstances of raising those Arms against Him When His Majestie was so far from being in a Condition to invade other mens Rights that He was not able to maintain and defend His own from Violence And without telling His good Subjects that their Religion the true Protestant Religion in which His Majestie was born hath faithfully lived and to which he will die a willing sacrifice their Lawes Liberties Priviledges and safety of Parliament were so amply setled and established or offered to be so by His Majestie before any Army was raised against Him and long before any raised by Him for His defence that if nothing had been desired but that Peace and Protection which His Subjects and their Ancestors had in the best times enjoyed under His Majestie or His Royall Predecessors this Misunderstanding and Distance between His Majestie and His people and this generall misery and distraction upon the face of the whole Kingdom had not been now the Discourse of Christendom But His Majestie will forbear any expressions of bitternesse or of a sense of His own sufferings that if it be possible the memory thereof may be lost to the World And therefore though many of the Propositions presented to His Majestie by both Houses appear to him very derogatory from and destructive to His just Power and Prerogative and no way beneficiall to His Subjects few of them being already due to them by the Laws established And how unparliamentary it is by Arms to require new Laws all the World may judge yet because these may be waved or mollified and many things that are now dark and doubtfull in them cleered and explained upon debate His Majestie is pleased such is His sense of the miseries this Kingdom suffers by this unnaturall Warre and His earnest desire to remove them by an happy Peace that a speedy time and place be agreed upon for the meeting of such Persons as His Majestie and both Houses shall appoint to discusse these Propositions and such others here following as His Majestie doth propose to them I. THat His Majesties own Revenue Magazine Towns Forts and Ships which have been taken or kept from Him by force be forthwith restored unto Him II. That whatsoever hath been done or published contrary to the known Laws of the Land or derogatory to His Majesties Legall and known Power and Rights be renounced and recalled that no seed may remain for the like to spring out of for the future III. That whatsoever illegall Power hath been claimed and exercised by or over His Subjects as Imprisoning their Persons without Law Stopping their Habeas Corpusses and Imposing upon their estates without Act of Parliament c. Either by both or either House or any Committee of both or either or by any Persons appointed by any of them be disclaimed and all such Persons so committed forthwith discharged IV. That as His Majestie will readily consent having done so heretofore to the execution of all Laws already made and to any good Acts to be made for the suppressing of Popery and for the firm setling of the Protestant Religion now established by Law So He desires that a good Bill may be framed for the better preserving the Book of Common-Prayer from the Scorn and Violence of Brownists Anabaptists and other Sectaries with such Clauses for the ease of tender Consciences as His Majestie hath formerly offered V. That all such persons as upon the Treaty shall be excepted out of the Generall Pardon shall be tried Per Pares according to the usuall course and known Laws of the Land and that it be left to that either to acquit or condemn them VI. And to the Intent this Treaty may not suffer interruption by any intervening accidents that a cessation of arms and free trade for all His Majesties Subjects may be first agreed upon THis offer and desire of His Majestie He hopes will be so cheerfully entertained that a speedy and blessed Peace may be accomplished If it shall be rejected or by insisting upon unreasonable Circumstances be made impossible which he hopes God in His mercy to this Nation will not suffer the guilt of the Blood which will be shed and the desolation which must follow will lie upon the heads of the Refusers However His Majestie is resolved through what Accidents soever He shall be compelled to recover his Rights and with what prosperous successe soever it shall please God to blesse Him that by His earnest constant Endeavours to propagate and promote the true Protestant Religion and by His governing according to the known Lawes of the Land and upholding the just Priviledges of Parliament according to His frequent Protestations made before Almighty God which He will alwayes inviolably observe the world shall see that he hath undergone all these difficulties and hazards for the Defence and maintenance of th●se The zealous Preservation of which His Majestie well knowes is the onely foundation and means for the true Happinesse of Him and His people FINIS