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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>Heads of HIS MAJESTIES <HI>LETTER</HI> and <HI>PROPOSITIONS</HI> SENT From the I&s;le of <HI>Wyght,</HI> for &s;etling of the <HI>Church and Kingdome, and paying of the Army.</HI></P>
<P>AND His Maje&s;ties de&s;ire to come to <HI>London</HI> to the <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></P>
<P>ALSO The Copy of a &s;econd Letter from Col. <HI>Hammond</HI> Governour of the I&s;le of <HI>Wyght,</HI> and his de&s;ires to the Parliament concerning <HI>the Kings Maje&s;ty.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Novemb. 19. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Imprimatur</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilb. Mabbott.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><FIGURE>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on</HI> in <HI>Smithfield,</HI> 1647.</P>
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<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>portrait of Charles I</FIGDESC>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>Heads of HIS MAIESTIES <HI>Letter,</HI> and <HI>Propo&s;itions</HI> to both hou|&s;es of PARLIAMENT. Dated at the I&s;le of <HI>Wyght.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HIs Maje&s;tie conceives him&s;elf bound not to aboli&s;h <HI>Epi&s;copacy,</HI> both as he is a Chri&s;tian, and as hee is a King; As hee is a Chri&s;tian, it being in&s;tituted by Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles: And as he is a King, being bound to maintain them by the Oath which he &s;wore at his Coronation; And by them the Doctrine of Religion, the Government and Di&s;cipline of the Church, which hath (under his Predece&s;&s;ors) been maintained.</P>
<P>And for &s;ale of the Bi&s;hops Lands, His Maje&s;ty holds it high &s;acriledge, they having been given to them by divers benefactors.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty offers to call in all his Procla|mations and Declarations again&s;t the Parlia|ment, <PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 20 -->
and tho&s;e who have adhered to them, and will give order for withdrawing all In|ditements again&s;t tho&s;e who have adhered to the Parliament; And his Maje&s;ty offers to pa&s;&s;e an Act of indempnity. and generall par|don.</P>
<P>For the Army, his Maje&s;ty undertakes with the moneys received, and due, and to be re|ceived out of Seque&s;trations, to pay 400000 pound for payment of the Army their Ar|rears, and if it will not do it, his Maje&s;ty will make it up out of Forre&s;t Lands.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty is content to part with the <HI>Mi|litia</HI> of the Kingdome, during his own life, but that after his Reigne it may return again to its proper place.</P>
<P>For the publique debts of the kingdome, his Maje&s;ty will conferre with his two Hou|&s;es of Parliament, for the payment of them.</P>
<P>And his Maje&s;ty is content to confirme &s;uch Officers of State as the two Hou&s;es of Parliament &s;hall nominate, &amp;c.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty propounds the Propo&s;alls of the Army to be taken into con&s;ideration by the Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 20 -->And for other things, his Maje&s;ty pro|pounds to come to <HI>London,</HI> to con&s;ult with his Parliament, for the &s;etling of a firme and la&s;ting peace.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>The&s;e be the heads of his Maje&s;ties Letter from the I&s;le of</HI> Wyght. Sub&s;cribed <HI>CHARLES REX.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A LETTER FROM Colonell <HI>Hammon,</HI> Governour of the I&s;le of <HI>Wyght,</HI> (and Colonell of a Re|giament of Foot, of the Army under the immediate command of his Excellency). Read in both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Since my la&s;t which gave your Lord&s;hip
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an account of his Maje&s;ty being in this I&s;land I have had a meeting with the Gentery there|of, who expre&s;&s;e a great deale of cherefull|ne&s;&s;e in their de&s;ires, and endeavours of pre|&s;erving His Maje&s;ties per&s;on, and obedience unto the authority of Parliament.</P>
<P>I have al&s;o given orders, (which are dili|gently ob&s;erved) that no per&s;ons goe out of the I&s;land without pa&s;&s;es: And that no botes bring over any per&s;on what|&s;oever, (not belonging to this I&s;land) but whom they cau&s;e to be brought to mee, to be examined, that I may thereby be the better able to pre&s;erve the Kings Per&s;on in &s;ecurity, as al&s;o to prevent the confluence of people that otherwi&s;e, upon the occa&s;ion of His Maje&s;ties pre&s;ence would flocke hi|ther to the di&s;turbance of the peace of this I&s;land, which at pre&s;ent (through the ble&s;sing of God) is in a quiet and <PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 21 -->
peaceable po&s;ture, having earne&s;t ex|pectations upon the continuance of their peace, by a generall &s;ettlement of the peace of the Kingdome, for conveyance of which unto them, they looke at your Lord&s;hips as the ble&s;&s;ed In&s;truments.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Give me leave to acquaint you that the accommodations of the King at this time are no wayes &s;uitable to His quallity, which makes mee bold to offer to your Lord&s;hips (if it bee thought fit) that His u&s;uall allowance may bee continued to Him, for His better provi&s;ion while&s;t he &s;hall abide in this place.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not further trouble your Lord&s;hip then to a&s;&s;ure you, that in <PB N="8" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 22 -->
all things, in my power, which may expre&s;&s;e my duty to you and the Kingdome, I &s;hall &s;tudy to declare my &s;elfe.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips and the kingdomes mo&s;t humble and faithfull &s;ervant. <HI>RO. HAMMOND.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Carisbrooke</HI> <DATE>Novem. <HI>16.</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To the Right Honourable the Earle of <HI>Manche|&s;ter,</HI> Speaker of the hou&s;e of Peers <HI>pro tempore.</HI></TRAILER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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