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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS MESSAGE <HI>To both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT:</HI> Feb. 20.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much, as His Maje&s;ty hath (together with a Treaty) propo&s;ed a Ce&s;&s;ation of Arms to both His Hou&s;es of Parliament now 16. dayes &s;ince, to which as yet He hath received no An&s;wer: To the end that His Maje&s;ty may cleerly under&s;tand the Hou&s;es, that no &s;uch Im|putations (as have been formerly) may after be laid upon Him upon occa&s;ion of any thing that may intervene: His Maie&s;ty de&s;ires if a Ce&s;&s;ation &s;hall be approved of by them, That the day upon which the Ce&s;&s;ation is thought fit to begin, and &s;uch particular Limits and Con|ditions of that Ce&s;&s;ation as are nece&s;&s;ary to be agreed on before the Ce&s;&s;ation it &s;elf can actually begin, be propo&s;ed by them at the &s;ame time with their Approbation of it, Since as His Maie&s;ty &s;uppo&s;eth by the pre&s;ent great Preparation of &s;everall Forces of the Earle of E&s;&s;ex to march &s;everall wayes, that till &s;uch time as this be done, they doe not conceive them&s;elves obliged to an actuall Ce&s;&s;ation; So neither till then doth His Maie&s;ty conceive Him&s;elfe obliged to it.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter &s;ent from the Earl of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> to the Lord of <HI>Faulkland,</HI> about the A&s;&s;izes: With the Lord of <HI>Faulklands</HI> An&s;wer, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_HIs Maje&s;ty hath weighed the advice and de&s;ire of the Lords and Commons &s;ent in a Letter to the Lord of <HI>Faulkland,</HI> from the Earl of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> concerning the putting off the General A&s;sizes and Goal-delivery throughout the Kingdom: To which His Maje&s;tie returnes this An&s;wer. That the pre&s;ent bloody di&s;tra|ctions of the Kingdom (which His Maje&s;tie hath u&s;ed all po&s;sible meanes to prevent, and will &s;till to remove) do afflict His Maje&s;tie under no con&s;ideration more, then of the great interruption and &s;top it makes in the cour&s;e and Proceedings of Iu&s;tice, and the execution of the Lawes: Whereby His good Subjects are robbed of the Peace and &s;ecurity they were born to; and therefore as much as in him lyes, He will advance that onely means of their hapine&s;&s;e; at lea&s;t, they &s;hall &s;ee that their Sufferings that way, pro|ceed not from His Maje&s;tie: And &s;ince they may expect now by the Lawes, Statutes, and Cu&s;tomes of the Kingdom, the A&s;sizes and generall Goale delivery in every County, His Maje&s;tie thinks not fit to command the contrary, but will take &s;evere and preci&s;e Order, that none of his good Subjects &s;hall receive the lea&s;t prejudice as they repair thither, by any of His Maje&s;ties Forces; which rule He &s;hall be glad to be ob&s;erved by others: And then he hopes by the due execution of the Lawes, even the&s;e publike Calamities may have &s;ome abatement, and the Kingdom recover its former Peace and pro&s;peritie.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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