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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79038	By the King. A Proclamation warning all His Majesties good subjects no longer to be misled by the votes, orders, and pretended ordinances, of one, or both Houses by reason the Members doe not enjoy the freedome and liberty of Parliament. With His Majesties gracious offer of pardon to the Members of both Houses, and of protection to such of them as shall repair to him.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1643 (1643)	Wing C2716; Thomason 669.f.7[23]; ESTC R225499	5,861	1

of Commons hath imprisoned Our Messenger sent by us to them to invite both Houses to an Accommodation and especially to move them to take such a course for the freedome of Parliament which we might safely advise with that Our great Councell for the setling those miserable Distractions and Distempers And hath maliciously and in contempt of Us and after an attempt to murder Her at Burlington Rode the place of Her landing impeached Our Royall Consort of High Treason for assisting Us with Armes and Ammunition to defend Us from this Rebellion T is time now to let Our good Subjects know that they may no longer looke upon the Votes and Actions of the persons now remaining as upon Our two Houses of Parliament Freedome and Liberty to be present and of opinion and debate there being essentiall to a Parliament which Freedome and Liberty all men must confesse to be taken away from this Assembly when they remember the great Tumults brought downe to awe and terrifie both Houses and that they were then brought downe when any great Debate was in either House and not like to be so carried as some seditious persons who governed those Tumults did desire that in the greatest heat and fury of those Tumults the principall governours amongst them directed the unruly people to goe to White-Hall where Our owne Person then was and designed by force to have surprised the Person of Our Son the Prince that when it was desired that a Declaration might be made against such Tumults in stead of consenting thereunto the Tumults themselves were justified and when a legall course was prescribed by the Lords and taken by the proper Ministers of Justice to suppresse and prevent such Tumults and Riots that legall course was superseaded by those who were then present of the House of Commons and the Ministers of Justice punished and imprisoned for executing the Law when they remember that severall Members of either House have been threatned and assaulted in those Tumults and their owne names prescribed as persons disaffected because they freely used to speake their consciences in both Houses That the House of Peers have been so far threatned and menaced that the names of those have been with threats demanded by the House of Commons at the Bar of the Lords House who refused to consent to this or that Proposition which had been in debate before them And tumultuous petitions countenanced which have been presented to that same purpose That the Members of both Houses have been imprisoned and forbid to be present at those Councels for no reasons but because their opinion have not been liked That Our Negative Voice Our greatest and most Soveraigne Priviledge is boldly denyed That a presumptuous attempt hath been made by the major part of the remaining part of the House of Commons to make Our Great Seale of England the making of which by the expresse letter of the Law is high Treason and would subvert the ancient and fundamentall administration of Justice That at this time We and the Major part of both Houses are kept by a strong and Rebellious Army from being present at that Councell and that those who are present are by the same Army awed and forced to take unlawfull and Treasonable Protestations to engage their Votes And that such Resolutions and Directions which concerne the Property and Liberty of the Subjects are transacted and concluded by a few persons under the name of a close Committee consisting of the Earle of Manchester the Lord Say Mr. Pym Mr. Hampden Mr. Strood Mr. Martyn and others the whole number not exceeding the number of 17 persons without reporting the same to the Houses or having the same confirmed by the Houses contrary to the expresse Law and Customes of Parliament All which for the matter of fact We are ready to make proofe of and desire nothing but to bring the Contrivers of all the aforesaid mischiefes o their triall by Law and till that be submitted to We must pursue them by Armes or any other way in which Our good Subjects ought to give Us assistance to that purpose The imagining the death of Us Our Royall Confort or Our eldest Son the leavying War against Us in Our Realme giving to them aid of comfort the counterfeiting Our great Seal or Money being by the expresse words of the Stat. of the 25 yeare of King Edw. 3. Cap. 2. high Treason and how applicable this is to those who have borne Armes against Us and to those who have consented that such Arms be borne to those who have promised to live and dye with the Earle of Essex and to those who every day consent to some Act for the support and increase of that Army We shall leave to all the world to judge and hope that this Gracious Warning and Information now given by Us will make that Impression in the hearts of Our People that they will no longer suffer themselves to be misled from their Duty and Allegiance upon any pretences whatsoever And We doe declare That We shall proceed with all severity against all persons whatsoever who shall hence forward insist vote or incur in any kinde toward the maintenance and countenancing such Actions and Resolutions which by the knowne and expresse Lawes of the Land are high Treason and against all those who shall adhere to them who are in Rebellion against Us against Rebells and Traitors in such manner as by the Laws and Statutes of the Realme is directed and appointed And since by the power of seditious persons We and both Houses are kept from being secured against tumultuous Assemblies and both Houses from adjournment to some place of safety which being done might quickly make an end of these miserable Destractions whereby We are debarred from the benefit and advice We expected from that Our great Councell the Members thereof being scattered into severall places Therefore that the whole Kingdome may see that We are willing to receive Advice from those who are trusted by them though We cannot receive the same in the place to which they were called for the Reasons aforesaid nor intend to receive advice from them elsewhere in the capacity of Houses of Parliament We do hereby declare That such of the Members of both Houses as well those who have been by the faction of the Malignant party expelled for performing their duties to Us and into whose rooms no persons have been since chosen by their Countries as the rest who shall desire Our protection shall be welcome to Us at Our City of Oxford untill by the adjournment of the Houses to some fit and free place or otherwise due course be taken for the full and free convention in Parliament of Us and all the Members of both Houses And for their better encouragement to resort to Us We do hereby will and command all the Officers and Souldiers of Our Army to suffer all such persons who are Members of either House with their attendants and servants to come to Us to this Our City of Oxford And that none of Our good Subjects may believe that by this Our necessary Declaration against the freedom liberty of that present Assembly We may have the least intention to violate or to avoid any Act or Acts passed by Us for the good and benefit of Our people this Parliament We doe hereby declare to all the world That We shall as We have often promised as inviolably observe all those Acts as if no such unhappy interruption had happened of the freedom and liberty in that Councell And desire nothing more then to have such a free convention in Parliament that We may add such further Acts of Grace as shall be thought necessary for the advancement of the true Protestant Religion for the maintenance of the Liberty Property of the Subjects and the preservation of the Liberty Freedome and Priviledges of Parliament And that all the world may see how willing and desirous We are to forget all the Injuries and Indignities offered to Us by such who have been misled through weaknesse or fear or who have not been the principall Contrivers of the present miseries We do offer a free and generall pardon to all the Members of either House except Robert Earle of Essex Ro●ert Earle of Warwick Edward Earle of Manchester Hen. Earle of Stamford William Vis Say and Seal Sir John Hotham Knight and Baronet Sir Arthur Haslerig Barronet Sir Henry Ludlow Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Francis Popham Knights Nathaniel Fines John Hampden John Pym William Strood Henry Martyn Alexande Popham Esquires Isaac Pennington Alderman of London and Captain Ven who being the principall Authors of these present Calamities have sacrificed the Peace and Prosperity of their Country to their own pride malice and ambition And against whom We shall proceed as against persons guilty of high Treason by the known Laws of the Land shall in the proceeding be most carefull to preserve to them all priviledges in the fullest manner that by the Law or the usage of former times is due to them If they shall within tenne dayes after the publishing of this Our Proclamation returne to their Duty and Allegiance to Us And lastly We further injoyne and Command all Our Subjects upon their Allegiance to Us as they will answer the contrary to Almighty God and as they desire that they and their Posterity should be freed from the foule taint of high Treason and as they tender the peace of this Kingdome that they presume not to give any assistance to the before mentioned Rebellious Armies in their persons or estates in any sort whatsoever but joyn with Vs according to their Duty and the Laws of the Land to suppresse this horrid Rebellion And Our Pleasure and Command is That Our Proclamation be read in all Churches and Chappels within this Our Kingdome Given at Our Court at Oxford the 20 day of June in the 19 Year of Our Reigne God save the KING Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the University 1643.