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<P>THE CHARGE Again&s;t The King di&s;charged: OR, The King cleared by the people of England, from the &s;everall Accu&s;ations in the Charge, delivered in again&s;t him at We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall Saturday la&s;t, Jan. 20. by that high Court of Ju&s;tice erected by the Army-Parliament; which is here fully an&s;wered in every particular thereof. VIZ.
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<ITEM>The Parliaments Propo&s;itions to the King.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings to the Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings Conde&s;centions to the Parliaments Propo&s;itions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Overture of a Treaty at Wind&s;or.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Ma&s;&s;acre in London by vertue of the Kings Commi&s;&s;ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Coronation Oath.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The private Articles, Match with Spaine, and the Match of France., King <HI>James</HI> death, Ro|chel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The German Hor&s;e, Loanes, and Conduct Mo|ney, Privy Seales, Monopolies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Torturing our bodies, and &s;litting no&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The long Intermi&s;&s;ion of Parliaments.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The new Liturgie &s;ent to Scotland, calling and di&s;&s;olving the &s;hort Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;ummoning this pre&s;ent Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Queens pious De&s;ign, Commi&s;&s;ions to Popi&s;h Agents.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The bringing up the Northern Army.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings offer to the Scots of the Plunder of the City.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings journey into Scotland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Ireland &s;olely cleered.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The cloathes &s;eized by his Maje&s;ties Souldiers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings Letter to the Pope.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings charging the Members with his com|ing to the Hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Li&s;t of Armes and Ammunition taken in his Papers.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cockerains</HI> Negotiation to the King of Denmark.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Queenes going to Holland with the Jewells of the Crowne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings &s;olemne Prote&s;tation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The King proclaiming the Parliament Traytors.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The King &s;etting up his Standard.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The calling the Parliament at Oxford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Ce&s;&s;ation in Ireland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Peace made there.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings Prote&s;tation against Popery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Letters to Marque&s;&s;e Ormond.</ITEM>
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<P>Printed in the fir&s;t Yeere of Englands Thraledome.</P>
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<HEAD>THE CHARGE AGAINST The King di&s;charged.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="introduction">
<P>WE, unto whom, for our <HI>Number, Capacities</HI> and <HI>Interests,</HI> the received and knowne <HI>Lawes,</HI> and Con&s;titutions of this <HI>Kingdome,</HI> more ju&s;tly convey the Rights of a Repre&s;entative body of the Kingdome and people of England, then unto any <HI>power</HI> what&s;oever now (through the wrath of God) reigning; do hereby freely and from our con&s;ciences declare before God, and his holy <HI>Angells,</HI> unto the whole <HI>world,</HI> That we are &s;o far from bringing his &s;acred <HI>Majesty</HI> unto a <HI>Tryall</HI> for any other, or the Accu&s;ations in the <HI>Charge</HI> given in upon Saturday la&s;t again&s;t him, that we &s;tand fully a&s;&s;ured (admitting all and every of them true) that by the cleare and revealed <HI>Will</HI> of God in his <HI>Word,</HI> and the Lawes of this <HI>Realme,</HI> he remaines lyable unto that &s;upreme <HI>Judicature of Almighty God onely,</HI> who hath pa&s;&s;ed an <HI>irre|ver&s;ible Act of Humane Indempnity unto him, and his lawfull Suc|ce&s;&s;ors:</HI> And further, (whereby the whole <HI>world</HI> may take notice of the &s;ence that we have of the impious <HI>in&s;olence,</HI> and unparaleld <HI>injustice</HI> of the pre&s;ent proceedings of the elected <HI>high Court of Ju&s;tice</HI> again&s;t his <HI>Maje&s;ty;</HI>) We do from the whole <HI>evidence</HI> of our <HI>Con&s;ciences,</HI> &s;o berly informed hereby, fully and ab&s;olutely <HI>ac|quit</HI> his &s;acred <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> from all and every of the Crimes charged again&s;t him; which, as upon diligent enquiry it hath furni&s;hed us with matter abundantly to ju&s;tifie his Maje&s;ties <HI>Innocence,</HI> and &s;a|tisfie our &s;elves, &s;o we offer it (on his behalfe) for full &s;atisfacti|on unto the <HI>world;</HI> not knowing otherwi&s;e how to acquit our
<PB N="2" REF="3"> &s;elves from the great <HI>guilt</HI> of the <HI>Approbation</HI> of the growing im|pieties of the&s;e times.</P>
<P>The <HI>certainty</HI> and <HI>&s;ufficiency</HI> of which <HI>&s;atisfaction,</HI> as what onely is here propo&s;ed, (we will without recriminating unto the <HI>party</HI> now in <HI>power,</HI> acting again&s;t his <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI>) per&s;picuou&s;ly, and clear|ly demon&s;trate from the whole <HI>proce&s;&s;e</HI> of matters betwixt his Ma|je&s;ty and the Parliament, and the &s;everall <HI>Overtures</HI> betwixt them, &s;ince the commencement of the&s;e unhappy differences.</P>
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<HEAD>The Parliaments Propo&s;itions to the King.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>1 THat the two Hou&s;es &s;hall nominate the <HI>Lords of the Privy Coun&s;ell,</HI> and all <HI>the great Officers and Mini&s;ters of State</HI> and the <HI>Judges of the Land.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That the <HI>Government of the Church by Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops,</HI> &amp;c. be aboli&s;hed; and the Government to be &s;et up, &s;hall be &s;uch as the two Hou&s;es of Parliament &s;hall agree upon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That the <HI>Militia both by Sea and Land,</HI> &s;hall be di&s;po&s;ed, and executed by the two Hou&s;es of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That the cu&s;tody and Command <HI>of the Forts and Ca&s;tles</HI> &s;hall be committed to &s;uch as &s;hall be approved by the two Hou&s;es of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. That <HI>all Peeres lately made</HI> or <HI>to be made hereafter,</HI> &s;hall not &s;it or Vote in Parliament, but by the con&s;ent of the two Hou&s;es of Parliament.</ITEM>
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<P>The&s;e Propo&s;itions we find among&s;t the 19. which you tendred to his Maje&s;ty, June 2. 1642. and we have premi&s;ed them and pla|ced them all by them&s;elves, that the world may &s;ee the true ground of the Quarrell, wherein &s;o <HI>much Blood</HI> hath been &s;hed, the <HI>Blood of Fathers, Brothers, and Children,</HI> &amp;c. and that the world may judge, <HI>who is guilty of all the Blood&s;hed.</HI></P>
<P>Your Propo&s;itions <HI>concerning Papi&s;ts</HI> we have omitted, becau&s;e his Maje&s;ty con&s;ented to them.</P>
<P>The Propo&s;itions <HI>which follow, were added, upon the Conjunction with the Scots, and upon occa&s;ion of the Warres in England and Ireland;</HI> and were treated upon at Uxbridge, and tendred to his Maje&s;ty, at Newca&s;tle, Hampton Court, and the I&s;le of Wight.</P>
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<ITEM>6. That all <HI>the Kings Declarations, Proclamations,</HI> &amp;c. again&s;t the
<PB N="3" REF="3"> proceedings of the two Hou&s;es be made null.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. That the King, and all the Subjects of the three Kingdomes, do <HI>take the Covenant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8. That there be a <HI>Reformation</HI> of, and a unity, and <HI>uniformity in Religion,</HI> according to the Covenant, in the Kingdomes of Eng|land, and Scotland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. That the <HI>Court of Wards,</HI> and all Ward&s;hips, be taken away.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. That the <HI>Treaties between the two Kingdomes</HI> be confirmed by act of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. That the <HI>joynt Declaration of both Kingdomes,</HI> of Jan 30. 1643. concerning tho&s;e that adhere to the King in this War, be confirmed by Act of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. That an Act bee pa&s;&s;ed <HI>for paying the publique debts</HI> of the Kingdome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13. That the <HI>Ce&s;&s;ation in Ireland</HI> be made void; and that the Pro&s;ecution of the war be &s;etled in the two Hou&s;es of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14. That <HI>Religion be reformed in Ireland, according to the Cove|nant,</HI> and as the two Hou&s;es of Parliament &s;hall think fit:</ITEM>
<ITEM>15. That the <HI>Deputy,</HI> or chief <HI>Governour,</HI> or other <HI>Governours of Ireland,</HI> and the <HI>Pre&s;idents</HI> of the &s;everall Provinces there, and the <HI>Secretaries</HI> of State, Mr. of the <HI>Rolles, Judges of both Benches, Bar|rons of the Exchequer, the Vice-Trea&s;urer,</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;urers of Warres</HI> of that <HI>Kingdome,</HI> be nominated by both Hou&s;es of Parliament of England.</ITEM>
<ITEM><P>16. That the <HI>Militia of London</HI> &s;hall be governed by the two Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>That the <HI>Tower of London</HI> be in the Government of the City; and the chiefe <HI>Governour</HI> to be nominated, and removeable by <HI>the Common Coun&s;ell.</HI></P></ITEM>
<ITEM>17. That all that hath pa&s;&s;ed <HI>under the great Seale of England in the cu&s;tody of the Parliament-Commi&s;&s;ioners,</HI> be valid; And that what&s;oever hath pa&s;&s;ed <HI>the Kings great Seale,</HI> &s;ince the 22. of May 1642. be made void; As likewi&s;e, what&s;oever grants of Offices, Lands, tenements, and heriditaments have <HI>pa&s;&s;ed the great Seale of Ireland,</HI> &s;ince the ce&s;&s;ation 15. Sept. 1643. And what&s;oever Ho|nors have been conferd by that Seal, &s;ince that time.</ITEM>
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<P>And now let the world judge al&s;o, whether <HI>it be fit for Subjects</HI> to offer &s;uch Propo&s;itions to <HI>their Soveraign,</HI> whereby you take a|way <HI>from the King,</HI> and <HI>from the Crowne</HI> t,he chiefe Power and Go|vernment
<PB N="4" REF="4"> of the two Kingdomes of England, and Ireland, and would &s;ettle it in the two Hou&s;es of Parliament. And we appeale to your own Con&s;ciences, whether ever any <HI>Prote&s;tant Parliament</HI> made the like a&s;&s;aults upon the <HI>King?</HI> And whether ever any <HI>Po|pi&s;h Parliament</HI> attempted the like again&s;t the <HI>Crown?</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o let the world judge, whether the King did not offer <HI>Pro|po&s;itions fit for you to receive</HI> at the Treaties, both of Oxford and Uxbridge.</P>
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<HEAD>The Kings Propo&s;itions.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact. Col. p. 912.</NOTE> 1. THat his Maje&s;ties own <HI>Revenue, Magazine, Townes, Forts</HI> and <HI>Ships,</HI> which have bin taken or kept from him, by force, be forthwith re&s;tored unto him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That what&s;oever hath bin done, or publi&s;hed contrary to <HI>the Lawes of the Land,</HI> or <HI>derogatory to his Maje&s;ties Legall and known Power and Rights,</HI> be renounced, and recalled; that no &s;eed may remain for the like to &s;pring out for the future.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That what&s;oever <HI>illegall Power hath been claimed, or exerci&s;ed, by or over his Subjects,</HI> as <HI>impri&s;oning their per&s;ons without Law, &s;top|ping their Habeas Corpu&s;&s;es, and impo&s;ing upon their E&s;tates without Act of Parliament,</HI> &amp;c. either by both, or either Hou&s;e, or any Committee of both, or either; or by any per&s;ons appointed by a|ny of them, be di&s;claimed, and all &s;uch per&s;ons &s;o committed forthwith de&s;charged.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That as his Maje&s;ty will readily con&s;ent (having done &s;o heretofore) <HI>to the execution of all Lawes already made, and to any good Acts to be made for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Popery,</HI> and for the firme &s;etling the Prote&s;tant Religion now e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law; &s;o he de&s;ires, that a good <HI>Bill may be framed</HI> for the better pre&s;erving the Book of Common Prayer from the &s;corn and <HI>violence of Brow|ni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, and other Sectaries,</HI> with &s;uch clau&s;es <HI>for the ea&s;e of tender Con&s;ciences</HI> as his Maje&s;ty hath formerly offered.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. That all <HI>&s;uch Per&s;ons</HI> as upon the <HI>Treaty, &s;hall be excepted</HI> out of the <HI>generall Pardon,</HI> &s;hall be tryed <HI>per Pares,</HI> according to the u|&s;uall cour&s;e, and known Lawes of the Land; and that it be left to that, either to acquit or condemn them.</ITEM>
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<P>And now we appeale to your own Con&s;ciences, whether it were not <HI>fit for you</HI> to have <HI>received and acquie&s;ced</HI> in the&s;e his Ma|je&s;ties Propo&s;itions (for con&s;erving the rights of the Crown, the
<PB N="5" REF="4"> Law of the Land, the Liberty of the Subject, the e&s;tabli&s;ht Religi|on, and the Fundamentall Ju&s;tice of the Kingdome) who, when you publi&s;hed your Propo&s;itions for bringing in Money and Plate, June 10. 1642. declared, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exac. Col. 342.</NOTE> <HI>that what&s;oever is brought in &s;hall not at all be employed upon any other occa&s;ion, then to maintain the Prote&s;tant Religion, the Kings Authority, and his Per&s;on in his Royall dignity, the free cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice, the Lawes of the Land, the Peace of the King|dome,</HI> and Priviledges of Parliament.</P>
<P>But if his Maje&s;ties <HI>Propo&s;itions</HI> were not, yet his <HI>Conde&s;centions to your Propo&s;itions,</HI> tendred, and publi&s;hed before this your De|claration, were doubtle&s;&s;e <HI>not unfit for you to accept.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Kings Conde&s;centions to the Parliaments Propo&s;itions.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>Concerning the great Officers of State,</HI> &amp;c. <NOTE PLACE="marg">See the Book cal|led the Kings mo&s;t gra|cious Me&s;|&s;ages for peace. p. 86.</NOTE> That their Patents and Commi&s;&s;ions being taken from his Maje&s;ty, they &s;hould be nominated by the two Hon&s;es of Parliament <HI>during his Maje&s;ties Reigne,</HI> and afterwards to return to the Crown.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Touching the Church Government,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">See the Book cal|led the Kings mo&s;t gra|cious Me&s;|&s;ages for peace. p. 85.</NOTE> That the Presbyteriall Go|vernment be legally permitted to &s;tand for 3. yeares; provided his Maje&s;ty or any others who cannot in Con&s;cience &s;ubmit thereunto may have free practi&s;e of their own Profe&s;&s;ion; And a free debate be had with the Divines at We&s;tmin&s;ter (20. of his Maje&s;ties No|mination being added unto them) whereby it may be determined by his Maje&s;ty, and the two Hou&s;es, how Church-Government af|ter the &s;ame time &s;hall be &s;etled, as is mo&s;t agreeable to the Word of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Touching the Militia;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 86.</NOTE> That the whole power of the <HI>Militia</HI> both by Sea, and Land, &s;hall be ordered by the two Hou&s;es of Parliament <HI>during his Maje&s;ties Reigne:</HI> yet &s;o, as all Commi&s;&s;ions and other Acts concerning the <HI>Militia,</HI> be made and acted, as for|merly; and after his Maje&s;ties Reign, all the Power of the <HI>Militia</HI> &s;hall return entirely to the Crown, as it was in the times of Q. <HI>E|lizabeth,</HI> and King <HI>James</HI> of happy memory.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Touching <HI>his Maje&s;ties Proclamations and Declarations</HI> a|gain&s;t the two Hou&s;es and their Proceedings: <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 88.</NOTE>
<P>That he will con&s;ent to an Act of Parliament for making them null; And he further propo&s;eth (as the be&s;t expedient to take a|way all &s;eeds of future differences) that there be <HI>an Act of Oblivi|on</HI> to extend to all his Subjects.</P></ITEM>
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<ITEM>5. Touching <HI>the taking of the Covenant,</HI> &amp;c; <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 66.</NOTE> That though his Maje&s;ty be not therein &s;atisfied, yet he will make clearly appeare, both his Zeale to the Prote&s;tant Profe&s;&s;ion, and the union of the&s;e two Kingdomes, which he conceives to be the main drift of the Covenant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Touching <HI>the Treaties between the two Kingdomes;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 68.</NOTE> That he would agree to all things that are propounded touching the con|firming of the Peace of the two Kingdomes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. Touching <HI>the Payments of the Publique debts;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 87.</NOTE> That he would con&s;ent to &s;uch Acts as the two Hou&s;es &s;hall agree upon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. <HI>Touching the Court of Wards:</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 87.</NOTE> That his Maje&s;ty would con&s;ent to an Act for taking it away, &s;o as a full recompence be &s;etled up|on his Maje&s;ty, and his Succe&s;&s;ors for ever hereafter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. <HI>Touching Ireland,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 88.</NOTE> that the Ce&s;&s;ation there is long &s;ince deter|mined; And for the future, that his Maje&s;ty would give you full &s;atisfaction concerning that Kingdome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Touching <HI>the City of London;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 69.</NOTE> That his Maje&s;ty con&s;ented to all the Propo&s;it&s;ons concerning it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. Touching <HI>the Acts pa&s;&s;ed under the great Seales;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 88.</NOTE> his Maje&s;ty promi&s;ed, after peru&s;all of particulars, to give you &s;atisfaction to what may <HI>rea&s;onably</HI> be de&s;ired by you.</ITEM>
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<P>And now indeed hath his Maje&s;ty offred <HI>&s;uch Tenders to you as were not fit for him to make, nor for you to receive,</HI> but in order to an Accommodation, and peace: And we cannot but be &s;en&s;ible of his Maje&s;ties grace and goodne&s;&s;e to us, who was plea&s;ed to conde|&s;cend <HI>even to the dethroning of him&s;elfe,</HI> for our Peace and quiet; and we cannot enough blame you, who would not accommodate upon the&s;e Conde&s;centions, but rather renew the War again. And being, as you were pre-ingaged again&s;t Monarchy, you could not deem any thing <HI>fit for you to offer, or accept,</HI> that came &s;hort of your de&s;ign; And to it have you &s;acrificed our Peace al&s;o.</P>
<P>You go on, <HI>with the &s;ame confidence,</HI> and declare; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact. Col. p. 630.</NOTE> <HI>That his Ma|je&s;ty &s;ometimes denyed to receive your humble Petitions for Peace:</HI> We conceive you meant the Petition which you &s;ent to the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> at Worce&s;ter, about the end of Sept. 1642. to be pre&s;ented to his Maje&s;ty, then at Shrewsbury; upon notice whereof, his Maje&s;ty declared, <HI>that he was ready to receive any Petition from you; only he required that none of tho&s;e per&s;ons whom he had particularly
<PB N="7" REF="5"> accu&s;ed of High</HI> Trea&s;on, <HI>&s;hould by Colour of that Petition be employ|ed to his Maje&s;ty:</HI> And &s;o we accompt this charge among&s;t the <HI>in|&s;ufficiencies</HI> of your Declaration.</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Overture of a Treaty at Wind&s;or, and his Majesties advance to Brainford,</HEAD>
<P>We finde, that when you &s;ent your Me&s;&s;enger about this over|ture to the King at Colebrook, the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> being re|turned to London: drew a great part of his forces, and the Lon|don Trained Bands, towards his Maje&s;ty; &s;ending others by the way of Acton on the one &s;ide, and of King&s;ton on the other; Wind for al&s;o being then Garri&s;oned by you; &s;o that if his Maje|&s;ty had remained at Colebrook, he would have been invironed by your forces; Whereupon he re&s;olved &s;uddainly to fall upon the body at Brainford; and having defeated them he made his way over King&s;ton, and &s;o retreated to Reading; Nor was there any <HI>Ce&s;&s;ation</HI> mentioned by your Me&s;&s;enger who brought that Over|ture to his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>And 'twas not your feare for London, or the &s;laughter at Brainford, but the Kings e&s;cape, that &s;o much troubled you.</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the bloudy Ma&s;&s;acre in London by vertue of the Kings Commi&s;&s;ion,</HEAD>
<P>Wee finde, that to bee no other then <HI>a Commi&s;&s;ion of Array</HI> in Engli&s;h, which was to have been made u&s;e of upon the Kings Motion with his Army toward the City; As you had your <HI>Ordinances for the Militia</HI> ready upon all occa&s;ions to be executed in the Kings Quarters.</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Kings Coronation Oath,</HEAD>
<P>We find it to be this, and to be admini&s;tred, and taken thus: <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. 290.</NOTE></P>
<P>At the Coronation, the Sermon being done, the Arch-Bi&s;hop goeth to the King, and askes his willingne&s;&s;e to take the Oath u&s;ually taken by his Predece&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P>The King &s;heweth him&s;elfe willing, ari&s;eth, and goeth to the Altar; The Arch-Bi&s;hop admini&s;treth the&s;e Que&s;tions, and the King an&s;wereth them &s;everally.</P>
<P><LABEL>The Bi&s;hop.</LABEL> <HI>Sir, will you grant, and keep, and by your Oath confirm, to the People of England the Lawes, and Customs to them granted by the Kings of England, your lawfull, and religious Predece&s;&s;ors; and namely the Laws, Cu&s;toms and Franchi&s;es granted to the Clergy by the glorious King S. Edward your Predece&s;&s;or, according to the Lawes of
<PB N="8" REF="6"> God, the true Profe&s;&s;ion of the Go&s;pell e&s;tabli&s;hed in this Kingdome, and agreeable to the Prerogative of the Kings thereof, and the ancient Cu&s;toms of this Realme?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>The King.</LABEL> <HI>I grant and promi&s;e to keep them.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Bi&s;hop.</LABEL> Sir, <HI>Will you keep Peace, and godly Agreement entirely (according to your Power) both to God, the holy Church, the Clergy and the People?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>King.</LABEL> <HI>I will keep it.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Bi&s;hop.</LABEL> Sir, <HI>Will you (to your Power) cau&s;e Law, Ju&s;tice, and di&s;cretion in Mercy, and Truth, to be executed in all your Judgements?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>King.</LABEL> <HI>I will.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Bi&s;hop.</LABEL> Sir, <HI>Will you grant to hold, and keep the Lawes and right|full Cu&s;toms which the Commonalty of this your Kingdome have; and will you defend and uphold them to the Honour of God, &s;o much as in you lyeth?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>King.</LABEL> <HI>I grant and promi&s;e &s;o to do.</HI></P>
<P>Then one of the Bi&s;hops reades this admonition to the King before the People with a loud voice.</P>
<P><HI>Our Lord, and King, we, be&s;eech you to pardon and to grant, and to pre&s;erve unto us, and to the Churches committed to our Charge, all Canonicall Priviledges, and due Law, and Ju&s;tice, and that you would protect and defend us, as every good King in his Kingdomes ought to be Protector, and Defender of the Bi&s;hops, and the Churches under their Government.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>The King an&s;wereth.</LABEL></P>
<P><HI>With a willing and devout Heart I promi&s;e, and grant my Pardon; And that I will pre&s;erve, and maintain to you and the Churches committed to your charge all Canonicall Priviledges, and due Law, and Justice; and that I will be your Protector and Defender to my Power, by the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of God, as every good King in his Kingdome in right ought to protect and defend the Bi&s;hops, and Churches under their Government.</HI></P>
<P>Then the King ari&s;eth, and is led to the Communion Table: where he makes a &s;olemn Oath in the &s;ight of all the People, to ob&s;erve the Premi&s;es: And laying his hand upon the Book, &s;aith:</P>
<P><LABEL>The Oath</LABEL></P>
<P><HI>The things which I have before Promi&s;ed I &s;hall perform, and keep: So help me God, and the Contents of this Book.</HI></P>
<PB N="9" REF="6">
<P>So, the defence, and maintenance of the <HI>Lawes, Cu&s;tomes,</HI> and <HI>Franchi&s;es</HI> of the <HI>People,</HI> and <HI>Clergy;</HI> and <HI>of peace, and godly agree|ment</HI> among&s;t them; And of <HI>Law, Ju&s;tice, and Mercy;</HI> and of the <HI>Lawes and Rightfull Cu&s;tomes of the Commonalty;</HI> and the <HI>Pre&s;er|vation, and Protection of the Bi&s;hops, their Churches, and Priviledges,</HI> is the &s;um of the Kings Coronation Oath; And is not this al&s;o the ground of his late Quarrell?</P>
<P>For why did he at fir&s;t refu&s;e to grant you the <HI>Militia,</HI> but <HI>in or|der to his Oath;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact. Col. 290.</NOTE> becau&s;e without that Power he could not, as he was bound, defend the Lawes, the People, and the Church. And why doth he refu&s;e to pa&s;&s;e your <HI>Bill for aboli&s;hing Bi&s;hops, Deans and Chapters,</HI> &amp;c. but becau&s;e he is bound by his Coronation Oath to protect them: And were not the&s;e the particulars fir&s;t controver|ted between you? And were there not fir&s;t Bills brought into your Hou&s;e about them, and the Bils being rejected, were they not afterward revived by Tumults? And the&s;e two things, are they not principally in&s;i&s;ted on in all your Propo&s;itions and Treaties?</P>
<P>And <HI>(in truth)</HI> you are offended with his Maje&s;ty, not becau&s;e he hath broke his Oath, but becau&s;e he will not break it.</P>
<P>And would God you were as religious ob&s;ervers of <HI>your Oathes, &s;o often renewed before God, and the whole World;</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">8. Eccle&s;i|as. 2.17. Ezek. 16.18.19.</NOTE> and e&s;pecially of the <HI>Oath of Supremacie, wherein you protest and declare, that King</HI> Charles <HI>is the onely Supreme Governour in this Realm. And you pro|mi&s;e, (from henceforth) to beare faith, and true allegiance to the Kings Highne&s;&s;e, his Heires, and lawfull Succe&s;&s;ors, and to your power, to a&s;&s;ist, and defend all Juri&s;diction, Priviledges, Preheminence, and Authority, granted or belonging to the Kings Highne&s;&s;e, his Heires, and Succe&s;&s;ors, and united, and annexed to the Imperiall Crown.</HI></P>
<P>And for our parts we are re&s;olved, to adhere to <HI>our Oath of Al|legiance;</HI> wherein we <HI>promi&s;e, that from henceforth we will bear faith, and true allegiance, to the Kings Highne&s;&s;e, his Heires and lawfull Succe&s;&s;ors; and him, and them will defend, to the utmo&s;t of our Pow|er, again&s;t all con&s;piracies, and attempts what&s;oever, which &s;hall be made again&s;t his or their Per&s;ons, their Crown, and Dignity.</HI></P>
<P>Of other his <HI>Maje&s;ties Vowes and Prote&s;tations,</HI> and of the <HI>paci|fication with the Scots,</HI> &amp;c. we &s;hall &s;peak more conveniently here|after.</P>
<P>In the next place you charge his Maje&s;ty <HI>with a continued track of breach of tru&s;t ever &s;ince he wore the Crowne.</HI> To this we <HI>demur,</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="7"> doubting, whether you are competent Judges of the Kings tru&s;t, of his breach of tru&s;t, <HI>and of the King him&s;elfe for breaking his trust; for that is the drift and &s;cope of your Declaration.</HI></P>
<P>We believe, that the Kings power is Fiduciary, and that the Kingly Office is a great tru&s;t: but that he is intru&s;ted as he is im|powered by <HI>God, and only by God:</HI> And this Doctrine we learned long &s;ince from the two Prayers for the King immediately fol|lowing the Commandements in the Book of Common-Prayer; but (it &s;hould &s;eem) you have damned them both together.</P>
<P>And whether there <HI>hath been a continued breach of tru&s;t by the King,</HI> we &s;hall &s;ee upon the examination of the particulars in your Declaration; in the meane time we account this as one <HI>of your uncertainties.</HI></P>
<P>Of his Maje&s;ties two Maximes or Principles, wherein he hath laid a fit foundation for all Tyranny, we &s;hall &s;peak more here|after.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the private Articles agreed in order to the Match with Spaine; and tho&s;e other private Articles upon the French Mar|riage,</HEAD>
<P>We find, that they were tran&s;acted by K. <HI>James,</HI> and therefore are not to be imputed to K. <HI>Charles;</HI> &s;o we accompt them a|mong&s;t the <HI>in&s;ufficiencies</HI> of your Declaration: and becau&s;e they are private, we cannot judge of the nature of them; and &s;o re|fer them among&s;t your <HI>uncertainties.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the death of King<HI> James.</HI></HEAD>
<P>We find, that the Kings &s;ickne&s;&s;e was an <HI>Ague,</HI> that the pla|&s;ters applied to his brea&s;t and wri&s;ts, were only of London <HI>Trea|cle</HI> and <HI>Mithridate:</HI> and that the <HI>drink</HI> or <HI>potion</HI> you &s;peake of, was only <HI>Po&s;&s;et-drinke,</HI> wherein <HI>Harts-horne</HI> was boiled, and which was &s;weetned with the <HI>&s;yrop of Gilleflowers.</HI></P>
<P>That M. <HI>Rinnington</HI> Phy&s;itian of Donmow in E&s;&s;ex yet living, pre&s;cribed the&s;e Medicines, fir&s;t to the E. of <HI>Warwicke,</HI> being &s;icke of an Ague; and that the Duke of <HI>Buckingham</HI> afterward falling ill of an Ague at the E. of <HI>Warwicks</HI> in E&s;&s;ex, his Lord&s;hip advi&s;ed the Duke to make u&s;e of them: La&s;tly, that both the&s;e Lords found a good effect wrought in them by that Phy&s;ick, and there|upon the Duke propo&s;ed it to His Maje&s;tie; nor do we perceive, that you except again&s;t the Phy&s;ick, but only <HI>again&s;t the Dukes ap|plication of it, without the direction or privity of His Maje&s;ties Phy|&s;itians:</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="7"> But the Duke <HI>in his An&s;wer</HI> (which you have by you) de|clares that there was nothing admini&s;tred to the King, without the privity of the Phi&s;itians, and his own importunate de&s;ire and command: And we have rea&s;on to beleeve, that you did acqui|e&s;ce in the Dukes an&s;wer, <HI>as true, and &s;atisfactory,</HI> becau&s;e there was no farther Pro&s;ecution of him, in the next Parliament holden the yeare following. viz. 3. <HI>Caroli.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">See the Petition of Right, ter|tio Caroli.</NOTE> And we appeale to your Journall Books, whether there be any mention of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in <HI>either of your Remon&s;trances</HI> of that Parliament (for then you be|gan fir&s;t to <HI>remon&s;trate.</HI>) And &s;o (if there be <HI>any guilt</HI>) <HI>we leave the world to judge where the guilt remaines,</HI> that this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was not farther pro&s;ecuted.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning Rochell,</HEAD>
<P>We find that his Maje&s;ty lent not <HI>divers of the Navy Royall,</HI> but the <HI>Vantguard only.</HI></P>
<P>And that he did not lend other Merchants Ships, but <HI>permitted them only to be hired of the</HI> Merchants: And that they were not <HI>lent to be employed again&s;t the Prote&s;tants in France,</HI> but upon a <HI>pre|ci&s;e promi&s;e, that they &s;hould not be employed again&s;t tho&s;e of the Reli|gion.</HI></P>
<P>And becau&s;e the King of France had employed them contrary to his promi&s;e, therefore did his Maje&s;ty enter into ho&s;tility with France, as appeares by the Duke of <HI>Buckinghams</HI> Commi&s;&s;ion, un|der whom he &s;ent an Army into the I&s;le of Rhea.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, his Maje&s;ty recalled tho&s;e Ships, and they were all re|turned, 2. <HI>yeares</HI> before <HI>Rochell</HI> was lo&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the German Hor&s;e, Loanes, Privy Seales, Coat and Conduct-Money, Monopolies, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>Becau&s;e you have thru&s;t all the&s;e into one charge, we will &s;peak of them, fir&s;t together, and then of each particular.</P>
<P>Concerning them together, we find that in your Remon&s;trance of the 15. of Dec. 1641. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p 3.</NOTE> <HI>you declared them to be the effects of evill Coun&s;ellors onely.</HI></P>
<P>And in <HI>your Petition</HI> accompanying it, that you prote&s;ted, the Remon&s;trance was made <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 1.</NOTE> <HI>without the lea&s;t intention to lay a blemi&s;h upon his Maje&s;ties Royall Per&s;on, but only to repre&s;ent how his Royall Authority and tru&s;t had been abu&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>And in your Declaration of 19. May 1642. That you tell us, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 198.</NOTE> <HI>If you &s;hould &s;ay that all the ill things done of late in his Maje&s;ties Name,
<PB N="12" REF="8"> have been done by him&s;elfe, you &s;hould neither follow the direction of the Laws, nor the affection of your own hearts.</HI></P>
<P>And in the &s;ame Declaration, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exac. Col. pag. 199.</NOTE> <HI>that it is a maxime in the Law, the King can do no wrong; but if any ill be committed in matter of State, the Coun&s;ell; If in matters of Justice, the Judges must an&s;wer for it.</HI></P>
<P>And how then, contrary to your <HI>Petition, Prote&s;tation, affection,</HI> and to the <HI>direction of the Law,</HI> are the&s;e, and the like things now imputed to his Maje&s;ty?</P>
<P>Much more may be &s;aid, on behalfe of his Maje&s;ty in each <HI>parti|cular.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Concerning the German Hor&s;e:</HI> That if there were any de&s;ign in bringing over tho&s;e Hor&s;e, it was by others; and among&s;t them your <HI>Balfore,</HI> and <HI>Dalbier were principall:</HI> But &s;o &s;oon as the Pro|po&s;ition was made to the King, <HI>he rejected it, and never con&s;ented to the practi&s;e of it.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Concerning Loanes, and Privy Seales:</HI> That they have been in all times practi&s;ed, <HI>upon rea&s;on, and nece&s;&s;ity of State:</HI> And that they have not been &s;o frequent in K. <HI>Charles's</HI> time, as in Q. <HI>Eli|zabeths,</HI> whereof no &s;ober man hath ever complained.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Concerning Coat, and Conduct money:</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">See the Pell Of|fice.</NOTE> That it was repaid to the Collectors of Sub&s;idies, and by them, to the Deputy-Lievte|nants of the &s;everall Counties, to be de&s;tributed among&s;t the Inha|bitants; And for want of &s;uch de&s;tribution in Dor&s;et&s;hire, was there a pre&s;entment thereof made to the Judge of A&s;&s;izes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Concerning the Inclo&s;ing of Commons:</HI> That his Maje&s;ty paid a dear rate for tho&s;e that him&s;elfe inclo&s;ed; as for making the new Parks at Richmond, and Wimbleton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Concerning Monopolies:</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">21. Jac. 3.</NOTE> That the Law alloweth them, <HI>for the incouragement of new Inventions,</HI> &s;o that they be not contrary to the Law, nor inconvenient to the State, &amp;c. And when any <HI>Petiti|ons in this kind</HI> were brought to his Maje&s;ty, he ever referd them to <HI>his Atturney,</HI> or <HI>Sollicitor,</HI> and he pa&s;&s;ed them, upon their Certifi|cate, that <HI>the Monopolies petitioned for were not contrary to Law, nor</HI> inconvenient to the <HI>People, and not otherwi&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6. <HI>Concerning Ship-money:</HI> That his Maje&s;ty had a Judgment in a Court of Law for it before all the Judges of England.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Be&s;ides, all the&s;e pre&s;&s;ures were remedied by &s;everall Acts in the beginning of the Parliament: and we remember, that (by
<PB N="13" REF="8"> your Order) the Judges of A&s;&s;ize gave us notice thereof, <NOTE PLACE="marg">At Sum|mer A&s;&s;i|zes, 1641.</NOTE> and highly extolled his Maje&s;ties goodne&s;&s;e in pa&s;&s;ing &s;o many gra|cious Acts for us: And mu&s;t the&s;e grievances now after &s;even years redre&s;&s;e, be objected to us again&s;t him? And mu&s;t the King, who by your owne Law can do no wrong in the&s;e ca&s;es, be pro&s;ecuted, and tho&s;e vile Monopoli&s;ts, Sir <HI>Hen. Mildmay,</HI> Sir <HI>John Wolla&s;ton,</HI> and M. <HI>Lawrence Whitaker,</HI> and al&s;o <HI>White</HI> the Sope-boiler at Lam|beth, be protected and cheri&s;hed by you?</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>7. <HI>Concerning the Spani&s;h Fleet,</HI> That it was bound to Flanders, with new levied Souldiers to recruit their Army there; which &s;ouldiers were without <HI>Arms, and without Officers,</HI> as we remem|ber the Fleet was <HI>without Powder;</HI> and therefore they intended no inva&s;ion, being not provided for it.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the torturing of our bodies by whippings, &s;litting of no|&s;es, cutting off eares, &amp;c. and the Lording over our &s;oules, by Oaths, Excommunications, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>We find, that the&s;e judgements and proceedings <HI>(upon our bo|dies)</HI> pa&s;&s;ed in due forme of Law, in Courts of Ju&s;tice: and that the <HI>Oaths, Excommunications, Ceremonies, and Canons</HI> were no other, and no otherwi&s;e exerci&s;ed, then was agreeable to the Lawes and Government e&s;tabli&s;hed.</P>
<P>But we cannot but be &s;en&s;ible, that our &s;ufferings in every kind have been much more <HI>during your reigne,</HI> then they were in his Maje&s;ties <HI>reigne;</HI> for how have you <HI>devoured our e&s;tates,</HI> by Taxes, Free-quarter, and that <HI>Compendium of all &s;lavery,</HI> the Excize? how have you <HI>de&s;troyed our bodies</HI> by &s;trict impri&s;onment, and cruell &s;tarving? and how have you indeavoured to <HI>damne our &s;oules,</HI> and <HI>to &s;end us to hell by whole-&s;ale,</HI> by your illegall, anti-legall, di&s;loyall Vowes, Covenants, and Ingagements?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the long intermi&s;&s;ion of Parliaments, and the two Principles of Tyranny,</HEAD>
<P>We find, that the Parliament begun 3. <HI>Caroli,</HI> was di&s;&s;olved upon your <HI>Remon&s;trances,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">See the Petition of Right, 3. Carol.</NOTE> and we believe, that <HI>thereupon followed the long intermi&s;&s;ion of Parliaments</HI> for twelve years after.</P>
<P>And that it was in the Parliament afore&s;aid, the King avowed tho&s;e <HI>Maximes or Principles, that he oweth an accompt of his actions to none but God alone:</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">See the Petition of Right, 3. Carol.</NOTE> And <HI>that the Hou&s;es of Parliament, joynt or &s;eperate, have no power either to make, or declare any Law;</HI> which induceth us to believe, that even then there was &s;ome a&s;&s;ault made
<PB N="14" REF="9"> by the two Hou&s;es upon the Royall Authority; which made the King to avow tho&s;e principles:</P>
<P>The anti-monarchicall &s;pirit beginning to work in that Parlia|ment, and &s;o making the King aver&s;e from Parliaments. Nor do we &s;ee how the&s;e <HI>principles</HI> are <HI>introductive of Tyranny,</HI> but &s;ure we are the <HI>contrary are de&s;tructive of Monarchy.</HI></P>
<P>And <HI>touching the fir&s;t,</HI> we learn from <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.4. That the King is <HI>the Minister of God, and who art thou that judge&s;t another mans &s;er|vant? to his own Master he &s;tandeth or falleth,</HI> Ro. 14.4. <HI>The Law al&s;o averreth, that the Crown of England is in no earthly &s;ubjection, but immediately Subject to God, in all things touching the regality of the &s;ame Crown, and to no other,</HI> 16. R. 2. c. 5. And, <HI>touching the &s;e|cond Principle, the Law al&s;o tells us, That it is of the Kings Regality, to grant or deny &s;uch of their Petitions (for that was then the u&s;uall forme of pre&s;enting their de&s;ires) as plea&s;eth him&s;elfe.</HI> 2. H. 5. And that 1. <HI>Jacob.</HI> 1. the two Hou&s;es, craving the Royall a&s;&s;ent to that Act, confe&s;&s;e, <HI>without it the Act cannot be compleat or perfect,</HI> &amp;c. Sir <HI>Edward Cooke</HI> al&s;o in the fourth Part of his In&s;titutes <HI>(a Book printed this Parliament by your Order)</HI> pa. 25. &s;aies, That there is no Act of Parliament but mu&s;t have <HI>the con&s;ent of the Lords and Commons, and the Royall a&s;&s;ent of the King.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ame al&s;o is true <HI>concerning the declaring of Law;</HI> as ap|peares by the 25. <HI>Edward</HI> 3. The words whereof are: <HI>And, be|cau&s;e many other like ca&s;es of Trea&s;on (which are not expre&s;&s;ed in that Statute) may happen in time to come, it is accorded, That if any other ca&s;e &s;uppo&s;ed Trea&s;on, which is not above &s;pecified, doth happen before any Ju&s;tices, the Ju&s;tices &s;hall tarry without any going to Judgement of the Trea&s;on till the cau&s;e be &s;hewed and declared before the King and his Parliament, whether it be judged Trea&s;on or other</HI> Felonie: <HI>Which Declaration ought to be by the whole Parliament, and not by the King and Lords, or King and Commons, or Lords and Commons.</HI> Cook In&s;tit. 3. part fol. 22.</P>
<P>Now <HI>Innovations, and Novelties in Parliamentary proceedings are most dangerous, and to be refu&s;ed.</HI> Cook 4. part In&s;tit. p. 11.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning Scotland, the new Liturgy, and Canons, and the can|celling and burning the articles of Pacification,</HEAD>
<P>We find, that the <HI>Liturgie and Canons</HI> were framed and &s;ent thither with the advice or approbation of the Lords of the <HI>Councell of that Kingdome;</HI> and if they were pur&s;ued with more
<PB N="15" REF="9"> vehemency then ought, it mu&s;t be imputed to the <HI>Mini&s;ters of that Kingdome</HI> that were tru&s;ted with it.</P>
<P>And that the <HI>Articles of Pacification</HI> were cancelled and burnt by the unanimous advice of the Privy Councell here, after they had been fir&s;t broken by the Scots.</P>
<P>And we cannot but wonder, how you &s;hould take cognizance of tran&s;actions between his Maje&s;ty and his Subjects of Scotland, <HI>e&s;pecially after an Act of Oblivion.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the calling, and di&s;&s;olving the &s;hort Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>We find, that this was part of the Charge again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Strafford,</HI> and the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> though declined in the pro&s;ecution of them both; and the rea&s;on hereof we conceive to be, that Sir <HI>Hen. Vane</HI> Senior might not be que&s;tioned, by <HI>who&s;e fal&s;e information</HI> and <HI>in&s;tigation,</HI> that Parliament was unhap|pily di&s;&s;olved: that the Parliament being di&s;&s;olved, his Maje&s;ty tooke from his Subjects <HI>by power,</HI> what he could not otherwi&s;e ob|taine, is one of the <HI>uncertainties</HI> in your Declaration that we ex|cept again&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the &s;ummoning this pre&s;ent Parliament, and his Ma|jesties expectation of &s;upply again&s;t the Scots, and his protect|ing of wicked Councellors.</HEAD>
<P>We find, that the King had little rea&s;on <HI>to hope for any a&s;&s;i&s;tance again&s;t the Scots,</HI> knowing, as he did, who called them in; and that from the <HI>Scots them&s;elves whil&s;t he was at Yorke:</HI> a Secretary of the Scots Lords at Newca&s;tle, telling &s;ome Engli&s;h taken pri&s;oners at Newburne, <HI>That their coming in had not been, but by the invitation of the Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>And that the King excepted no man of what <HI>quality or neerne&s;&s;e &s;oever unto him, from a legall triall;</HI> leaving unto you the Earl of <HI>Strafford,</HI> the <HI>Archbi&s;hop of Canterbury, all the Judges,</HI> and whom|&s;oever you would accu&s;e; in &s;o much that you examined and committed the <HI>Queenes Confe&s;&s;or,</HI> and examined the <HI>Ladies of her Bedchamber;</HI> and your Serjeant at Armes pre&s;umed &s;o far, as to come into the Kings withdrawing Roome next unto his Bed|chamber, to cite and &s;ummon per&s;ons of greate&s;t quality, and neerne&s;&s;e unto him&s;elfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Queens pious De&s;igne, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>We find that the <HI>Queenes De&s;igne</HI> (if any were) was mo&s;t in|du&s;triou&s;ly examined by you; and that you had Sir <HI>Kenelme Dig|by,</HI> Mr. <HI>Mountague,</HI> and divers others before you in the Hou&s;e of Commons; and that when you had mo&s;t narrowly &s;ifted the bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e,
<PB N="16" REF="10"> you <HI>proceeded no farther in it, nor again&s;t them for it.</HI></P>
<P>And for <HI>Secretary Windebank;</HI> That he was in the Hou&s;e of Commons after the report made; and &s;o you might have procee|ded again&s;t him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning Commi&s;&s;ions given to Popi&s;h Agents for private Le|vies, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>We find, that not the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> only, but the <HI>Lords of the Privy Coun&s;ell,</HI> and divers <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> of the be&s;t quality in the King|dome, contributed toward his <HI>Maje&s;ties Expedition into the North:</HI> and if by <HI>private Levies</HI> you under&s;tand other <HI>Sums</HI> collected for his Maje&s;ties u&s;e, we de&s;ire to know what they are; and untill then we mu&s;t account this, and the other particulars annext unto it, among&s;t the <HI>uncertainties</HI> of your Declaration.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the bringing up of the Northern Army;</HI> We find, that whereas 50000. l. were ordered for the payment of that <HI>Army,</HI> and 10000. l. were taken by an <HI>after Order</HI> out of that &s;umme, to &s;atisfie a new motion and importunity of the Scot, &s;ome of <HI>the Officers</HI> of the Kings Army took offence and di&s;like thereat, and in di&s;cour&s;e &s;aid, that they were di&s;obliged by the Parliament, and not by the King; and thereupon concluded to &s;erve his Maje&s;ty in all things that were <HI>honourable, and agreeable</HI> to the <HI>Fundamentall Constitution of the Kingdome.</HI></P>
<P>And that afterwards <HI>their di&s;content being heightned,</HI> mention was made <HI>by &s;ome</HI> of the <HI>bringing up the Army to London,</HI> and <HI>ma|king &s;ure the Tower; but that was</HI> earne&s;tly oppo&s;ed and &s;uddain|ly de&s;erted by the Army it &s;elfe; as would have appeared by the &s;econd <HI>examination</HI> of Mr. <HI>Goring,</HI> purpo&s;ely &s;uppre&s;&s;ed by you; Wherein al&s;o are many contradictions to what you have publi&s;h|ed concerning this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e (as we find) in <HI>his Majesties Decla|nation of the</HI> 12. <HI>Aug.</HI> 1642. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. pag. 514.</NOTE> <HI>which you have not an&s;wered to this day.</HI> And as <HI>concerning his Maje&s;ty him&s;elfe,</HI> we find in one of the <HI>depo|&s;itions</HI> taken and publi&s;hed by you, <HI>that when he was made acquain|ted with it, he &s;aid tho&s;e waies are vain and fooli&s;h, and that they &s;hould think of them no more.</HI></P>
<P>Nor can we find <HI>in any thing by you publi&s;ht,</HI> though we have a|gain and again read over the depo&s;itions printed together with your Declaration of May 19. 1642. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact. Col p 215</NOTE> and more particularly tho&s;e of Sir <HI>Jac. A&s;hley,</HI> Sir <HI>John Conyers,</HI> and Col. <HI>Leg,</HI> in your pre&s;ent Declaration mentioned, we &s;ay we cannot find, that <HI>there was any reall tran&s;action between his Maje&s;ty and that Army, other then the &s;igning of Capt.</HI> Legs <HI>Petition:</HI> Wherein the Army offred their
<PB N="17" REF="10"> &s;ervice to the King and Parliament, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 563</NOTE> <HI>for &s;ecuring them again&s;t the violence of Tumults then frequent in London.</HI> For which rea&s;on did not you al&s;o call up the Army in Aug. 1647.</P>
<P>And we mu&s;t needs &s;ay, <HI>con&s;idering tho&s;e depo&s;itions, all other the particulars recited by you, as incident to this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e,</HI> are to be reck|oned among&s;t the <HI>uncertainties and in&s;ufficiencies</HI> of your Declara|tion.</P>
<P>But we have been informed that others have endeavoured to &s;e|duce that Army from the Kings &s;ervice, and from the Earle of <HI>Strafford</HI> their Generall, and that the &s;aid <HI>E.</HI> would have impea|ched them of high Trea&s;on for &s;o doing, had they not prevented it by impeaching him a day or two before his impeachment again&s;t them was ready.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Kings offer to the Scots of the Plunder of London, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>We find indeed in one of Sir <HI>Jacob A&s;hleys</HI> examinations, that <HI>Oneal</HI> put the que&s;tion to him, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 229.</NOTE> <HI>What if the Scots would be made newtrall? And that Sir</HI> Jac. <HI>an&s;wered him, that the Scots would lay him by the heeles, if he &s;hould come to move &s;uch a thing, for that they would never break with the Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>But we find not, in ought you have publi&s;hed, any po&s;itive proofe of this charge again&s;t his Maje&s;ty; And therefore we mu&s;t refer this, with what followes, <HI>concerning Propo&s;itions made by O|neal, Sir John Hender&s;on</HI> and others with Letters of credence <HI>from the King,</HI> to the <HI>uncertainties &amp; in&s;ufficiencies</HI> in your Declaration.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Kings Journey into Scotland, &amp;c.</HI> We find that after his Maje&s;ty had promi&s;ed his Scotti&s;h Subjects to go into Scotland, for &s;etling the unhappy differences there, at your intrea|ty he was per&s;waded to defer his Journey, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 525</NOTE> <HI>to a day agreed on by your &s;elves,</HI> and that he took his Journey accordingly. And that he left &s;uch a <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> behind him as was agreeable to Law, and which might be &s;ufficient to prevent any inconveniencies that might ari&s;e in his ab&s;ence; though he refu&s;ed to pa&s;&s;e it, with that extent, which was de&s;ired, viz. <HI>for the Commi&s;&s;ioners to con&s;ent to all Acts you &s;hould pa&s;&s;e before he returned from Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>Nor doth it appeare that the Commi&s;&s;ions i&s;&s;ued out by Secre|tary <HI>Windebank,</HI> were other then according to the Law of the Land.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Ireland.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Concerning the Kings Letters &s;ent into Ireland by the Lord Dillon,</HI> &s;eeing you have not publi&s;hed them, we mu&s;t reckon them among&s;t
<PB N="18" REF="11"> the <HI>in&s;ufficiencies and uncertainties</HI> in your Declaration; As we mu&s;t that <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion &s;ealed at Edenburgh to the Iri&s;h Rebells, and the Oaths and depo&s;itions of tho&s;e who have &s;een it, and the promi&s;e of it to the Committee of London,</HI> for the rea&s;on afore&s;aid; Though it were an ea&s;ie matter for the Rebells to take off a great Seale, affixed to their Patents, and fa&s;ten it to Commi&s;&s;ions of this kind; as we are credibly informed they did, to gain credit to their action a|mong&s;t the People.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Iri&s;h Committee,</HI> we find that they were cho&s;en according to the con&s;titution of that Parliament, <HI>more Papi&s;ts then Prote&s;tants;</HI> 7. <HI>of the one, and</HI> 6. <HI>of the other Religion,</HI> &s;ent under the notion of a <HI>Committee from the Parliament for redre&s;&s;e of grie|vances</HI> (Sir <HI>John Temple</HI> pa. 13.) and under that notion they complaine, that the Earl of <HI>Strafford</HI> had taken a fourth part of the 5. Counties from the owners thereof, and intiled the King to it; and this is a particular Article of the impeachment again&s;t the Earle of <HI>Stafford.</HI></P>
<P>Now the <HI>King only relea&s;ed that fourth part to the owners, which was equally beneficiall to the Engli&s;h, and Iri&s;h, Prote&s;tants, and Pa|pi&s;ts;</HI> and how can you <HI>ju&s;tly charge, both the King for relea&s;ing it, and Strafford for &s;eizing it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Concerning the not di&s;banding the Iri&s;h Army,</HI> we find that that Army was rai&s;ed <HI>to oppo&s;e the Scots invading England;</HI> and that his Maje&s;ty re&s;olved to disband the one, &s;o &s;oon as he was affured of the return of the other; but wi&s;ely con&s;idering, that it might not be &s;afe for the peace of Ireland, if &s;uch a Bodie <HI>were di&s;banded,</HI> as if it <HI>were tran&s;ported,</HI> his Maje&s;ty gave leave to the Spani&s;h Emba&s;&s;a|dour to tran&s;port 3. or 4000. of them for his Ma&s;ters &s;ervice, which you oppo&s;ed, giving rea&s;ons to the contrary, <HI>at the instance of the afore&s;aid Iri&s;h Committee,</HI> then at London; <HI>having otherwi&s;e de|&s;igned the &s;ervice of tho&s;e men (And this we conceive to have been the &s;ence of</HI> Mac Cart <HI>and</HI> Macquires <HI>confe&s;&s;ion by you cited.)</HI> And &s;o his Maje&s;ty con&s;ented to the disbanding and &s;ending back of that Army into Ireland; which doubtle&s;&s;e gave a great ri&s;e, and con|tributed much to the Iri&s;h Rebellion.</P>
<P>But that his Maje&s;ty knew nothing of any &s;uch de&s;igne, doth ap|peare <HI>by the confe&s;&s;ion of</HI> Macquire <HI>at his Execution;</HI> who (to u&s;e his own words) <HI>did acquit the King upon his death, and any other man in England</HI> except one <HI>(and he but a private Gentleman, who came by chance to the knowledge thereof) from being guilty &s;o much as of knowing it.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="19" REF="11">
<HEAD>Concerning the fir&s;t Clau&s;e of their Oath to beare true faith and Allegiance to King <HI>Charles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>We know that in all <HI>Rebellions</HI> the chiefe Authors, and contri|vers of them, make faire pretences and &s;pecious Oaths, <HI>to &s;educe the People to joyn with them in their undertakings.</HI></P>
<P>And whereas they &s;tile them&s;elves <HI>the Kings or Queenes Army,</HI> that was meerly to countenance the Rebellion; if not al&s;o to rai&s;e farther jealou&s;ies between the King and you, and to &s;et you at farther odds, that &s;o upon your divi&s;ions in England, they might with more ea&s;e carry on the Rebellion in Ireland.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the</HI> 40. <HI>Proclamations &s;ent into Ireland.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 247</NOTE> We find not that you ever &s;o much as moved for any Proclamation again&s;t the Rebells; but the fir&s;t motion came from the Lords Ju&s;tices of that Kingdome; who al&s;o &s;ent a draught of &s;uch a Proclamation as they conceived be&s;t for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the Rebellion: And whereas <HI>ordinarily,</HI> the King never &s;ignes more then the fir&s;t draught of a Proclamation, fairly ingro&s;&s;ed in Parchment, and by it Copies are printed, and di&s;per&s;ed in Ireland, as in England, the <HI>Lords Ju&s;tices and Coun&s;ell, taking notice of the rumour &s;pread a|mong&s;t the Rebells, that they had the Kings Authority for what they did, de&s;ired that they might have</HI> 20. <HI>Proclamations &s;ent over &s;igned by the Kings Sign Manuall; to the end, that be&s;ides the Printed Copies which they would di&s;per&s;e according to cu&s;tome, they might be able to &s;end an Origin all, with the Kings hand to it, to tho&s;e con&s;iderable per|&s;ons, whom they might &s;u&s;poct to be mi&s;led by that fal&s;e rumour; and who when they &s;aw the Kings very hand, would be without excu&s;e, if they per&s;isted;</HI> Whereupon the King &s;igned double the number; and for expedition of the &s;ervice, commanded them to be printed, <HI>as is well known to &s;ome Lords now &s;itting in Parliament, and then &s;it|ting with his Maje&s;ty in Coun&s;ell.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Letters written to the Lord</HI> Muskery <HI>from Court.</HI> We find not <HI>how it reflects upon his Maje&s;ty;</HI> but that rather it is to be referred to the <HI>in&s;ufficiencies and uncertainties</HI> in your Decla|ration.</P>
<P>And concerning <HI>the Kings Letter to the Marq. of Ormond, for giving perticular thanks to</HI> Muskery <HI>and</HI> Plunket, <HI>we find it to be,</HI> for the Profe&s;&s;ions of their endeavours to bring their Countrymen to moderation and obedience, at that time when they were at Ox|ford, employed by the Iri&s;h to his Maje&s;ty, during the Ce&s;&s;ation.</P>
<P><HI>Of the delaying and detaining of the Earl of Leice&s;ter.</HI> We find that the King often pre&s;&s;ed you that he might be di&s;patched, and
<PB N="20" REF="12"> &s;ent away to Ireland; and that in his An&s;wer to your Petition of the 28. Ap. 1642. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 144</NOTE> it is one of the rea&s;ons of his re&s;olution to go in per&s;on into Ireland, <HI>becau&s;e the Lord Lieftenant did not repaire to his command there;</HI> Nor came he to his Maje&s;ty at York, till three moneths after; and when he had received his Maje&s;ties in&s;tructions there, and took his leave, with profe&s;&s;ion to go to Che&s;ter; he went not according to promi&s;e, but returned to the two Hou&s;es at London. Two months after you commanded him to Che&s;ter; where he &s;tayed 3. weekes in Expectation of Ships to tran&s;port him; and his Maje&s;ty hearing that he had <HI>neither Provi&s;ion of Mo|ney, nor any force to be &s;ent with him,</HI> but his own retinue, (the Re|giments of Foot and Troopes of hor&s;e which had been rai&s;ed for that &s;ervice, having been imployed again&s;t his Maje&s;ty at Edg-Hill; and being &s;till kept as a part of the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his Army&punc;) con|&s;idering that the Prote&s;tants there would have been much di&s;heart|ned, and the Rebells equally incouraged, <HI>if the Lord Lievtenant had arrived in &s;o private a manner,</HI> therefore his Maje&s;ty &s;ent for him to Oxford, till he could receive better &s;atisfaction from the two Hou&s;es concerning the preparations for that Kingdom.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Commi&s;&s;ion for the Lord <HI>Brooke</HI> and the Lord <HI>Wharton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>We find that the Commi&s;&s;ion de&s;ired was to have <HI>been Indepen|dent upon his Maje&s;ties Lieftenant of that Kingdome;</HI> and therefore his Maje&s;ty refu&s;ed it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning Papi&s;ts and others pa&s;&s;ed by the Kings &s;peciall Warrant into Ireland named by you,</HEAD>
<P>We find, that Mr. <HI>Pym,</HI> at a Conference with the Lords, about the beginning of Feb. 1641. declared, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 69, 71. 117, 118.</NOTE> <HI>that after the Ports were &s;hut by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, divers Papists pa&s;&s;ed from hence by his Majesties e&s;peciall Warrant, and headed the Rebells in Ireland:</HI> where|of his Maje&s;ty having notice, required him, and you again and a|gain, to <HI>name</HI> any one per&s;on &s;o pa&s;&s;ed by his Maje&s;ty, and now in the head of the Rebells; and you have not <HI>named</HI> any one to this day: and &s;o we mu&s;t refer this to the <HI>uncertainties and un&s;ufficien|cies</HI> in your Declaration, as al&s;o what followes <HI>concerning the Com|manders and Officers called off from their trust again&s;t the Rebells; and the &s;upplies which the Rebells had by the E. of</HI> Antrim, L. Aboine, <HI>and others from the Queen. And la&s;tly concerning the peices of battery from hence de&s;ired by the Coun&s;ell of Ireland;</HI> of all which no evidence or in&s;tance hath been offred unto us; &s;ave only that the King com|manded the two Ships under Capt. <HI>Kettleby,</HI> &amp; Capt. <HI>Stradling,</HI> to
<PB N="21" REF="12"> attend him at Newca&s;tle, having before given you notice thereof, to take care for the guarding of that Coa&s;t; all other his Maje&s;ties Ships, be&s;ides tho&s;e two, being at that time at your di&s;po&s;all.</P>
<P>But we cannot but remember, how the Earle of <HI>Leven</HI> &s;ent Ge|nerall of the Scots into Ireland again&s;t the Rebells, was called from thence to lead an Army into England again&s;t his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>And how many Officers, both Scots, and Engli&s;h, left the &s;er|vice in Ireland, and were employed by you here in England, be|ing nece&s;&s;itated thereto, <HI>for the recovery of their Arreares,</HI> which they could not obtain otherwi&s;e; as Sir. <HI>Richard Greenvile,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Cloathes &s;eized by his Maje&s;ties Souldiers.</HI> We find that it was done about Coventry, <HI>when that City &s;tood out again&s;t his Majesty;</HI> and we conceive you &s;hould have &s;ent for a <HI>&s;afe conduct</HI> for pa&s;&s;ing them through his Maje&s;ties Quarters. Al&s;o we find that when his Maje&s;ty had taken Che&s;ter, he &s;ent over into Ireland, 3000. <HI>&s;uites of cloathes,</HI> provided by you for that &s;ervice; although his own &s;ouldiers were in great want of them.</P>
<P>And now <HI>let all the world judge, how much rea&s;on you had to be|leeve the Rebells when they did &s;o often &s;weare they did nothing without good Authority and Commi&s;&s;ion from the King, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The information given to the Arch-Bi&s;hop of a de&s;igne among&s;t the Papi&s;ts, for a generall Ma&s;&s;acre of all the Prote&s;tants,</HI> we conceive to be no objection again&s;t the King, nor can we account other|wi&s;e of it, then as one of the <HI>uncertainties and un&s;ufficiencies</HI> of your Declaration.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Kings Letter to the Pope when he was in Spain.</HEAD>
<P>An we know that his Maje&s;ty was &s;ent into Spain by the Com|mand of his Father, to conclude a Marriage with a daughter of that Crown, &s;o we find in the tran&s;action of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, that the King of Spain &s;ent a Letter to the <HI>Pope</HI> for a di&s;pen&s;ation; <HI>and thereupon the Pope writ a Letter to the Prince, which his High|ne&s;&s;e an&s;wered.</HI> And we de&s;ire to know, <HI>whether you have a Copy of the very Letter &s;ent to the Pope;</HI> for we are informed, &s;ome having prepared and brought a draught of a Letter to his Highne&s;&s;e, he peru&s;ed it, and &s;truck out &s;uch pa&s;&s;ages <HI>as reflected upon our Religi|on;</HI> and with that alteration cau&s;ed it to be &s;ent to the <HI>Pope:</HI> But that you follow <HI>a Copy of the fir&s;t draught, as we find it in the Franch Mercury.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Kings Letter to the Pope, in behalfe of the Duke of Loraigne and his Agent at Rome,</HI> are of your <HI>uncertainties</HI> &amp;c. And &s;o is the <HI>Confe&s;&s;ion of the Queen Mothers &s;ervant, and what&s;oever el&s;e follow|eth
<PB N="22" REF="13"> in that Paragrave;</HI> be&s;ides that it <HI>no waies reflecteth upon his Majesty.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the unu&s;uall preparation of Ammunition and Armes, with new Guards within and about Whitehall, when the King came from Scotland, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>We find that upon his Maje&s;ties return from Scotland you gave him an Alarme, pre&s;enting to him <HI>a Remon&s;trance of the State of the Kingdome, laying before him</HI> (to u&s;e his Maje&s;ties own words in his Declaration of the 12. Aug.) <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 528</NOTE> <HI>and publi&s;hing to the world, all the mi&s;takes and all the misfortunes, which hapned &s;ince his fir&s;t coming to the Crown, and before, to that hour; forgetting the ble&s;&s;ed condition all his Subjects had injoyed in the benefit of plenty and peace under his Maje&s;ty, to the envy of Chri&s;tendome.</HI> We find al&s;o in the &s;ame De|claration, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 533.</NOTE> that <HI>after the King came to Whitehall, great multitudes of mutinous People re&s;orted daily to Westmin&s;ter, threatning and a&s;|&s;aulting the Bi&s;hops, and mi&s;u&s;ing &s;ever all Members of either Hou&s;e, which did not favour their de&s;ignes; and proclaiming the Names of many of the Peeres, as evill and rotten hearted Lords. Be&s;ides they made a &s;tand at Whitehall Gate, and &s;aid they would have no more Porters lodge, but would &s;peak with the King when they plea&s;ed;</HI> Whereupon his Maje&s;ty provided a <HI>Guard</HI> to defend him&s;elfe a|gain&s;t the violence and in&s;olence of tho&s;e <HI>Tumults,</HI> and <HI>Ammuni|tion</HI> and <HI>Armes</HI> were brought thither for the &s;ame purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Fireworks in Papi&s;ts hou&s;es</HI> we refer to the <HI>uncertainties</HI> of your Declaration; as we do al&s;o what followes concerning the <HI>Guards, Canoneeres, Granadoes &amp;c. in the Tower. Sir W. Balfore,</HI> we find, was removed, not without his own con&s;ent, and upon an ample Compen&s;ation in Money.</P>
<P>And <HI>concerning the City Petitions,</HI> we conceive you framed and infu&s;ed them, as you had done the like, to your knowledge, in the Countries.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the charge of Trea&s;on again&s;t &s;ome of both Hou&s;es, and the Kings coming &s;o attended to the Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<P>We find it a Maxime in Law, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 535</NOTE> <HI>that in ca&s;e of Trea&s;on, Felony, and breach of the Peace, there is no priviledge of Parliament;</HI> &s;o the Mem|bers may be pro&s;ecuted in the&s;e ca&s;es, as if they were not Mem|bers. We find al&s;o, that the King had rea&s;on to accu&s;e tho&s;e Mem|bers of high Trea&s;on, &s;ince (as he alleadgeth in his unan&s;wered Declaration of the 12. of Aug.) <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 534</NOTE> <HI>he could make perticular Proofe again&s;t them of a &s;olemne Combination entred into by them, for alte|ring the Government of the Church and State, and of their treating
<PB N="23" REF="13"> with forraign Power to a&s;&s;ist them, in ca&s;e they &s;hould fail in their enterpri&s;e; of the &s;olliciting and drawing down the Tumults to We&s;tmin&s;ter, and of their bidding the People in the height of their fury to go to Whitehall.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Kings coming to the Hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>We find, that fir&s;t the King &s;ent his Atturney to the Hou&s;e of Lords with a charge again&s;t the Lord <HI>Kimbolton,</HI> now Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> as the Atturney Generall did accu&s;e the Earle of <HI>Bristoll</HI> in the fir&s;t yeare of his Maje&s;ties Reigne; and that he &s;ent the Sergeant at Armes to the Hou&s;e of Commons, to acquaint them that he did accu&s;e and intended to pro&s;ecute their 5. Members for high Trea&s;on; and did require that their per&s;ons might be in &s;afe cu&s;tody; Whereupon you made an order and the &s;ame night publi&s;hed it in Print, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 35.</NOTE> <HI>that if any per&s;on what&s;oever &s;hould offer to arre&s;t the per&s;on of any Member of that Hou&s;e, without fir&s;t acquainting that Hou&s;e therewith, and receiving farther order of that Hou&s;e, that it &s;hall be lawfull for &s;uch Members or any per&s;on to a&s;&s;ist them, and to &s;tand upon his or their Guard of defence; and to make Re&s;i&s;tance according to the Prote&s;tation taken to defend the priviledges of Parliament.</HI> And hence we conceive the King was nece&s;&s;itated to go in per&s;on unto you for the farther pro&s;ecution of that charge; and for <HI>his attendance,</HI> we find that he took with him only his &s;ervants, and &s;uch Gentlemen as were then in the Court; And that being come to the upper end of We&s;tmin&s;ter Hall, before he went up the &s;taires to the Hou&s;e of Commons he char|ged all tho&s;e that accompanied him <HI>(except &s;ome few ordinary &s;ervants) not &s;o much as to come up the &s;taires, nor to offer violence or injury to any per|&s;on, upon pain of their lives;</HI> as Captain <HI>Bernard A&s;hly</HI> te&s;tified before your Committee at Grocers Hall; which te&s;timony you have &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, as you did the &s;econd Examination of Col. <HI>Goring</HI> concerning the Nor|thern Army: Nor do we &s;ee, why <HI>(in Ju&s;tice)</HI> his Maje&s;ty might not have come in a forcible manner <HI>indeed to your Hou&s;e, and again&s;t it, after you had protected tho&s;e Traiterous Members,</HI> as the Army threatned to do when you would not give up your Members whom they had accu&s;ed of high Trea&s;on. And this is &s;trange to us, that you &s;hould be &s;o &s;ollici|tous for the 5. <HI>Members,</HI> and &s;o carele&s;&s;e of, and injurious to the <HI>King, the head</HI> of the Parliament, and grant the Army what you denied the King. And your undue protection of the&s;e Members again&s;t the King, what was it but (to u&s;e your own words) <HI>the prologue to the bloody Tragedy that hath bin acted among&s;t us.</HI> Be&s;ides in your Petition pre&s;ented to his Maje&s;ty at <HI>Tibballs primo Mar.</HI> 1641. you be&s;ought kis Maje&s;ty to be|leeve, <HI>that the dangerous and de&s;perate de&s;ign upon the Hou&s;e was not in&s;er|ted into the preface of your Ordinance for the Militia to ca&s;t the least asper|tion upon him; but therein they reflected upon the Malignant Party, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<PB N="24" REF="14">
<P>VVhat you meane <HI>by the good affections of the City,</HI> we know not; but we find, (in his Maje&s;ties Declaration of the 12. of Augu&s;t) <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. pag. 538.</NOTE> that <HI>on Ja|nuary</HI> 11. 1641. <HI>the Trained-Bands of London guarded the accu&s;ed Mem|bers from the City to the Parliament-Hou&s;e by Land, and that there were</HI> 100. <HI>long Boats, and Lighters laden with Sacres, Murdering Pieces, and Ammunition, which pa&s;sed by White-hall, and attended by water;</HI> and <HI>that there was a de&s;igne to have &s;eized his Maje&s;ties Per&s;on</HI> (as is confe&s;&s;ed un|der the hand of one who hath been very active in your &s;ervice, and &s;hould have been a principall actor in it) had not His Maje&s;tie removed from VVhite-hall the day before; but what you could not then effect by tumults, you have &s;ince done by force of Armes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Li&s;t of Arms and Ammunition, taken among&s;t His Ma|je&s;ties Papers.</HEAD>
<P>We find, that you had fir&s;t &s;eized the Kings Magazines in the Tow|er, and at Hull, by Major <HI>Skippon,</HI> and by Sir <HI>John Hotham,</HI> the former be&s;ieging the Tower by Land, and by Water, the 12. of Jan. 1641. the latter po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing him&s;elfe of Hull not many daies after; no marvell then that the King tooke order for Armes, and Ammunition beyond the Sea.</P>
<P>What el&s;e you &s;ay <HI>concerning the Lord Digby,</HI> cannot reflect upon the King, and mu&s;t be referred to your In&s;ufficiencies.</P>
<P>The <HI>Commi&s;&s;ions to the E. of Newcastle and Col Legg,</HI> we find to be none other then according to Law, and that they were not granted, untill his Maje&s;tie was a&s;&s;ured, that &s;ome of your leading Members had a de&s;igne to procure an Order for &s;eizing tho&s;e Towns.</P>
<P><HI>The Ve&s;&s;ell that arrived with Arms and Ammunition neer Hull,</HI> was not till about &s;ix moneths after that you had put a Garri&s;on into that town, and about three moneths after Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> had &s;hut the gates of it again&s;t the King.</P>
<P><HI>The Inva&s;ion of the King of Denmarks Dominion by the Swedes,</HI> we find, was two yeares after your &s;eizing of Hull, and after the removing of the Magazine from Hull to London: and therefore is it one of your in&s;ufficiencies; as al&s;o what precedes, <HI>Concerning your Intelligence from the Low-Countreyes of fornaign Forces from Denmarke,</HI> and what followes, <HI>concerning your notice of a Fleet preparing in Denmarke,</HI> and <HI>that one of the Lord Digbyes &s;ervants had &s;ollicited a Marriner (or Pilot) to conduct it into Hull,</HI> and <HI>concerning the Letter to Secretary</HI> Nicholas <HI>from the Hague,</HI> that <HI>there were coming from Denmarke Ships with</HI> 10000. <HI>Arms for Foot, &amp;c.</HI> are all to be reckoned among&s;t <HI>your uncertainties and in|&s;u&s;&s;iciencies,</HI> &s;ince experience hath made it evident, that there was not the lea&s;t colour for it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="25" REF="14">
<HEAD>Concerning <HI>Cockrans</HI> Negotiation in Denmarke.</HEAD>
<P>VVe find from your own Declaration, that <HI>it was after you were be|ginning to make head against the King, and were levying Forces,</HI> or rather, when the E. of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> was marching with his Army again&s;t His Maje&s;ty, and the principall In&s;truction given to him was to pre&s;&s;e that King, to a&s;&s;i&s;t His Maje&s;ty with <HI>Money, Armes, and Ammunition,</HI> (you having &s;eized all which belonged to his Maje&s;ty) and that the &s;ame might be &s;ent in &s;ome &s;hips of that Crowne, becau&s;e all the Kings owne were ta|ken from him, and lay in wait to intercept any provi&s;ion that &s;hould be &s;ent to him. And whereas in your Declaration of 22. Octob. 1642. you &s;aid, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 670.</NOTE> that <HI>Cockran was &s;ent into Denmarke to bring Forces thence into England,</HI> His Maje&s;tie in his An&s;wer di&s;avowes that, &s;aying, <HI>that he had never greater cau&s;e to be confident of &s;ecurity in his own Subjects; and therefore he could not believe &s;o vile a &s;candall could make any impre&s;&s;ion in &s;ober men.</HI> And if he had not been confident of &s;ecurity in his owne Subjects, why might he not move for forraigne aids again&s;t the <HI>great de&s;igne of extirpating the Royall Blood and Monarchy of England,</HI> de|clared long &s;ince by M. <HI>Martin</HI> openly in your Hou&s;e, without any re|proofe at all. What is written concerning <HI>your endeavour to lay a ble|mi&s;h upon his Maje&s;ties mother,</HI> may happily not be knowne to your whole Hou&s;e, bu&s;ine&s;&s;es of that nature being &s;ecretly laid and carried on by a few: but we are informed, that there are &s;ome at VVe&s;tmin&s;ter, that know what pa&s;&s;ed in that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and by who&s;e loyalty the mo|tion of it was qua&s;hed in the bud.</P>
<P>VVhat el&s;e you cite <HI>out of Cockrans In&s;tructions,</HI> we find to be mi&s;re|pre&s;ented by you, for that his Maje&s;tie mentioned <HI>the Holland Fleet only as allowed by the States to give her Majesty a Convoy into England,</HI> and <HI>concerning other his neighbour Princes and Allies,</HI> he &s;aith, <HI>We expect and hope that they will not looke upon &s;o dangerous a precedent to their owne Crowns and Monarchies, without contributing to &s;uppre&s;se &s;o pernicious a de&s;ign, begun in this Kingdome.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Queens going into Holland, and carrying over, and paw|ning the Jewells of the Crowne, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>VVe de&s;ire, fir&s;t to know, whether <HI>tho&s;e Jewells</HI> were not his Maje|&s;ties owne, bought with his owne money, or with the moneyes of his Ance&s;tors, and not with the moneys of the Crown? and whether you can produce any intail of them upon the Crown? and if &s;o (we conceive) they <HI>were not unduly imployed by the King for the defence of the Crown.</HI> Concerning what followes, we find that <HI>her Maje&s;ty tooke her journey into Holland, Feb.</HI> 23. and that her journey was not re&s;olved on till the beginning of that moneth, but you <HI>petitioned for the</HI> Militia, <HI>Jan.</HI> 26.
<PB N="26" REF="15"> and Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;terigg</HI> brought in a Bill to that purpo&s;e in <HI>Octob.</HI> be|fore. We find al&s;o that Major <HI>Skippon</HI> be&s;ieged the Tower Jan. 12. (which is to levv War again&s;t the King by the 25. Ed. 3.) &s;o you had both petitioned for the <HI>Militia,</HI> and took up Armes, before her Maje|&s;ties journey into Holland. We have al&s;o &s;een <HI>your Rea&s;ons, of the</HI> 15. <HI>of July,</HI> pre&s;ented to his Maje&s;ty, for the &s;tay of her Maje&s;ties former jour|ney intended beyond the Seas; and we find no mention of the <HI>Jewells and Plate of the Crown</HI> in them, and we appeale to your Journall Books in this point.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Kings &s;olemne Prote&s;tations, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVe find that you willfully mi&s;under&s;tand and mi&s;repre&s;ent them unto us.</P>
<P>You are jealous, that the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 125.</NOTE> <HI>King intended to bring in forraign Forces, to invade the Kingdome:</HI> his Maje&s;ty prote&s;ts the contrary, but intimates that he would make u&s;e of forraign force (if he &s;hall need them) to keep him&s;elfe from oppre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>You charge the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 563.</NOTE> <HI>King that he had a de&s;ign of bringing up the Northern Army again&s;t the City, and the Parliament,</HI> his Maje&s;ty prote&s;ts the con|trary; but denies not, he con&s;ented the Army &s;hould come up to &s;ecure his Royall per&s;on and his Parliament again&s;t Tumults.</P>
<P>May 20. 1642. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 357.</NOTE> <HI>you voted that the King intended to levy war again&s;t the Parliament.</HI> He prote&s;teth the contrary to the Lords at York June 15. as he has declared June. 13. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 349.</NOTE> <HI>that he would not engage in a War again&s;t the Parliament, except it be for his own nece&s;&s;ary defence and &s;afety again&s;t &s;uch as do in&s;olently invade and attempt again&s;t him, or &s;uch as &s;hall adhere un|to him:</HI> After that you had declared all tho&s;e Delinquents, who had withdrawn them&s;elves to York, and &s;hould per&s;i&s;t to &s;erve the King. And &s;o his Maje&s;ty did nothing contrary to his Prote&s;tations, in protec|ting <HI>Berkwich,</HI> whom you had &s;ent for as a <HI>Delinquent, for his endeavour to regain Hull to his Maje&s;ties obedience:</HI> June 10. 1642. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 339.</NOTE> you publi&s;hed <HI>Propo&s;itions and orders for bringing money or plate, to rai&s;e an Army for the defence of the Parliament;</HI> Whereupon his Maje&s;ty &s;et forth a Declarati|on June 16. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 351.</NOTE> <HI>di&s;avowing any intention to levy War again&s;t his Parliament, unle&s;&s;e he &s;hould be driven to it, for the &s;ecurity of his Per&s;on, for the defence of Religion, Lawes, and Liberties of the Kingdome, and the just Rights and Priviledges of Parliament.</HI> And for tho&s;e ends he excites his Subjects to bring in <HI>Money, Plate, Armes, Hor&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Hor&s;emen</HI> in the clo&s;e of that Declaration. And he &s;ends to Sir <HI>John Heydon</HI> Lievtenant of the Ord|nance, for Ordnance, Powder, Shot, and Ammunition, June 20. The <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion of array we find to be legall,</HI> by Sir <HI>Edward Cook In&s;tit. par.</HI> 4. 124. a book printed by your own Order; and by Ju&s;t. <HI>Huttons</HI> argu|ment
<PB N="27" REF="15"> in the ca&s;e of Mr. <HI>Hampden, fol.</HI> 39. 40. The <HI>Guard rai&s;ed by his Maje&s;ty at York,</HI> we find to have been one Regiment of Trained Bands, commanded by their proper Col. and one Troop of Hor&s;e con&s;i&s;ting of neere one hundred, for the mo&s;t part (if not all of them) of the Gentlemen of that Shire; And the <HI>occa&s;ion of tho&s;e Guards we find to be this;</HI> you &s;ent &s;everall Committees to Hull, Lincoln&s;hire, and York, to per&s;wade the People to approve of what Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> had done at Hull, and to a&s;&s;i&s;t him if there were occa&s;ion, whereupon his Maje&s;ty rai&s;ed this Guard for his own defence; lea&s;t Sir <HI>John Hotham &s;hould &s;hut him up at York, as he had before &s;hut him out of Hull.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Kings abu&s;ing your Committee by the Guard about him,</HI> we have peru&s;ed their Letters printed with your Remon&s;trances, and find no &s;uch complaint in them. The <HI>Po&s;&s;e Comitatus</HI> we find was ne|ver rai&s;ed; the high Sheriff waiting daily on his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Kings proclaiming the Parliament Traitors.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p. 185.</NOTE> We find that the King proclaimed none, but &s;uch as the Law declareth guilty in the Statute of 25. <HI>E.</HI> 3. as Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> for &s;hutting the Gates of Hul again&s;t him; and the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> for leading an Army again&s;t him; and he never declared the Parliament Traitors, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exact Col. p 376.</NOTE> <HI>unle&s;&s;e in your &s;en&s;e; that what&s;oever violence &s;hould be u&s;ed either again&s;t tho&s;e who exerci&s;e the Mi|litia, or again&s;t Hull, you could not but beleeve it as done again&s;t the Parlia|ment.</HI></P>
<P>And concerning <HI>the Kings &s;etting up his Standard, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>We find it was not done till the 22. of Aug. at which time the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> was marching in Battel arrray again&s;t him; and if this be, &s;o is your proceeding without pre&s;ident; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eaact Col. p. 298.</NOTE> <HI>your de&s;ign being again&s;t Monar|chy it &s;elfe, which is more then ever was attempted before; for though the Per&s;on of the King hath &s;ometimes been unju&s;tly depo&s;ed, yet the Regall Pow|er was never before this time &s;trucken at, as his Maje&s;ty hath declared upon your nineteen Propo&s;itions pre&s;ented to him</HI> June 2.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Parliament at Oxford.</HI> We find that there was neither reall nor mock-Parliament &s;et up there, but that the <HI>King by his Procla|mation invited the Members of both Hou&s;es, driven away from We&s;tmin&s;ter, to attend him at Oxford, that all his good Subjects &s;hould &s;ee how willing he was to receive advice, for the Religion, Lawes, and &s;afety of the Kingdome, from tho&s;e whom they had trusted, though he could not receive it in the peace where he had appointed.</HI> We remember al&s;o that that body of Lords and Commons publi&s;hed a <HI>Declaration to the Kingdome, at large &s;etting forth the particular acts of Violence, by which they had been driven from West|min&s;ter, and by which the Freedome of Parliament had been taken away;</HI> which you have not an&s;wered to this day. And if <HI>want of Liberty, or Fe|lony
<PB N="28" REF="16"> and Trea&s;on &s;uper&s;ede all priviledges of Parliament</HI> (as we have been informed) we doubt, <HI>for all the Act of Continuation,</HI> whether you be not a <HI>mock Parliament</HI> or no: and whether you al&s;o may not be called a <HI>mungrell Parliament</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of &s;o many kinds of factions, as you do.</P>
<P>And here we cannot but freely declare, what we have ob&s;erved from the beginning of the Parliament. That there was in both Hou&s;es a party that intended the overthrow of the Government of Church, and States which when they could not effect in a Parliamentary way, and by free Voting, they rais'd and call'd down Tumults from London, to drive a|way tho&s;e Members of both Hou&s;es that oppo&s;ed them; that done, the afore&s;aid party remaining at VVe&s;tmin&s;ter, <HI>call them&s;elves the Parlia|ment of England,</HI> and under pretence of &s;erving and &s;ecuring the King|dome, they enter upon the <HI>Militia</HI> and take up Armes, and will never lay them down, till they have wholly altered the ancient, and Funda|mentall Government of the Kingdome. And this is our opinion of your con&s;titution and proceedings.</P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Ce&s;&s;ation in Ireland;</HI> VVe find by the Letters of the Lords Ju&s;tices, and the Coun&s;ell of Ireland, to you as well as to his Ma|je&s;ty; That the Army was in &s;uch extream want there, that it could no longer &s;ub&s;i&s;t, but mu&s;t either disband or depart the Kingdome; and his Maje&s;ty being not able to a&s;&s;i&s;t them, and you who undertook to car|ry on that war, wholly neglecting them (the Enemy &s;till increa&s;ing in &s;trength and power,) <HI>with the full advice and approbation of the Lords Justices and Goun&s;ell there, and concurrence of all the chiefe Officers of that Army, that Ce&s;&s;ation was made;</HI> by which only the Prote&s;tants of that Kingdome and his Maje&s;ties intere&s;t there could be pre&s;erved</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Peace made in Ireland.</HEAD>
<P>We find that the <HI>Marq. of</HI> Ormond <HI>only, had power to make Peace there,</HI> and that he refu&s;ed to make it, upon tho&s;e unworthy conditions, propo&s;ed by the Rebells; and concerning the Earle of <HI>Glamorgan,</HI> we find that his Commi&s;&s;ion was not to make peace, <HI>but to give him credit in his Negotiations there for Souldiers.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Concerning the Kings Prote&s;tations again&s;t Poperie, and his Letters to the Queen, and the Lord of <HI>Ormond,</HI> for taking away all penall Lawes again&s;t the Papi&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P>We find by the Treaties of the Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> with the Iri&s;h Rebells, <HI>that if his Maje&s;ty would have granted their demands in point of Religion, that whole Kingdome would unanimou&s;ly have declared for him, and &s;erved him,</HI> but &s;uch was his con&s;tancie to his Religion, that he would rather hazard him&s;elfe and his affaires in England, then accept of a&s;&s;i&s;tance upon tho&s;e termes from Ireland. We find al&s;o that this would have
<PB N="29" REF="16"> been evidenced by &s;ome <HI>other of the Kings Letters to the Queen, taken by you at Na&s;by; which you have purpo&s;ely concealed,</HI> lea&s;t they &s;hould too plainly di&s;cover the Kings dete&s;tation of that Rebellion, and his rigid firmne&s;&s;e to the Prote&s;tant Religion.</P>
<P>And from his Maje&s;ties avowed firmne&s;&s;e to the Prote&s;tant Religion, it was, that the Sectaries at fir&s;t joyned in arms again&s;t him, and that the Popi&s;h Princes have not &s;uccoured him: yea, we are informed, that great &s;tore of Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uites are in your Army, intruding and concealing them&s;elves under the generall Liberty now practi&s;ed in matters of Religion, and combin'd with the Sectaries again&s;t the King, as equall enemie to them both; and if God doth not prevent it, they are likely to de&s;troy both the King, and our Religion together.</P>
<P>We have heard, that M. <HI>Hender&s;on</HI> lying on his death-bed, told his friends about him, if they would pre&s;erve Religion, they mu&s;t pre|&s;erve the King: the admonition will &s;erve as well for England, as for Scotland.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="summary">
<HEAD>The &s;um of your Declaration.</HEAD>
<P>ANd now have we run through the &s;everall particulars of your De|claration, and we find that
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. You charge his Maje&s;ty <HI>with what you cannot take cognizance of,</HI> as his Tran&s;actions with his Scoti&s;h Subjects, and after an act of Oblivion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That touching the Occurrences and Tran&s;actions in England and Ireland, <HI>you charge his Majesty fal&s;ly, maliciou&s;ly, illegally, unrea&s;onably.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Fal&s;lly,</HI> that the King never made any propo&s;all fit for you to re|ceive. That he hath not kept his Coronation Oath. That he betrayed Rochell. That by his two Maximes he hath laid a foundation of Tyran|ny. That he protected evill Coun&s;ellors. That after you had &s;hut the Ports, hee gave Pa&s;&s;es to Papi&s;ts, to go over into Ireland, who were afterward in the head of the Rebells. That by his Guard he abu&s;ed your Committee at York, and protected <HI>Berwicke</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Po&s;&s;e Comi|tatus.</HI> And that he &s;et up a mock-Parliament at Oxford, &amp;c. yea <HI>you charge his Maje&s;ty with things rejected by him when they were propo&s;ed to him;</HI> as the bringing over the German Hor&s;e. The bringing up the Nor|thern Army to the City, and to &s;ecure the Tower; not forgetting that you &s;uppre&s;&s;ed Col. <HI>Gorings</HI> &s;econd examination about that bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e. There are al&s;o other <HI>fal&s;ities in your Declaration:</HI> as that a &s;torme from Denmark had fallen upon Hull and the Magazine there, had not the Sweds about that time invaded the King of Denmarks Dominions, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Maliciou&s;ly, by mi&s;repre&s;enting his Maje&s;ties actions.</HI></P>
<PB N="30" REF="17">
<P>That the King &s;ometimes denied to receive your humble Petitions, for peace. Concerning the Kings advance to Brainford. Concerning his Commi&s;&s;ion and the bloody Ma&s;&s;acre at London. Concerning his giving the 5. Counties to the Iri&s;h Committee. Concerning the 40. Pro|clamations &s;ent into Ireland. Concerning the Kings Letter to the Earle of <HI>Ormond</HI> to thank <HI>Muskerie</HI> and <HI>Plunket.</HI> Concerning his Letter to the Pope. Concerning the Kings going to your Hou&s;e; when by the way we cannot forget your &s;uppre&s;&s;ing Captain <HI>A&s;hleys</HI> examination at Grocers Hall. Concerning <HI>Cockrans</HI> Negotiation in Denmark, concerning the Holland Fleet, concerning his Maje&s;ties Prote&s;tations again&s;t bringing o|ver Forraigne Forces, again&s;t bringing up the Northern Army, and a|gain&s;t making warre again&s;t this Parliament, concerning his Commi&s;&s;i|on to the E. of <HI>Glamorgan, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Illegally, that is, for what the King did according to Law,</HI> as the char|ging the five Members with Trea&s;on, the Commi&s;&s;ion of Array, his proclaiming &s;ome Traytors.</P>
<P>Al&s;o we find, that <HI>he had a Judgement in Law for the Ship-money,</HI> the Canons, Ceremonies, &amp;c. were <HI>al&s;o according to Law.</HI> Nor can you <HI>by your owne Law charge him with what he did upon the Certificate of his Attourney and Solicitor</HI> in ca&s;e of Monopolies, nor <HI>with what he did by the advice of the Privy Councell,</HI> concerning Scotland, di&s;&s;olving the Parliament, and the Ce&s;&s;ation in Ireland.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Vnrea&s;onably.</HI></P>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>With the grievances of the Kingdome after they were remedied by &s;e|verall Acts of Parliament,</HI> as Ship-money, Monopolies, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>With what his Maje&s;ty ju&s;tly had &s;atisfied,</HI> as Coate and conduct money and inclo&s;ing Commons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>With what was done by Courts of Ju&s;tice;</HI> as the Whipping, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>With what was done by King James;</HI> as the Articles with Spain, and France.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>With what the Queen did;</HI> as her de&s;igne, if there were any.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. <HI>With what the Iri&s;h Rebells &s;ay,</HI> calling them&s;elves the Kings, or the Queenes Army, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. <HI>With what your &s;elves are guilty of,</HI> as the not pro&s;ecuting the Duke of <HI>Buckingham.</HI> The long intermi&s;&s;ion of Parliaments cau&s;ed by your Remon&s;trances. The ri&s;e of the Iri&s;h Rebellion by your not &s;uffe|ring the Army to be tran&s;ported, the delaying the Earl of Leice&s;ter, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. <HI>For refu&s;ing your unrea&s;onable de&s;ires;</HI> concerning the Commi&s;&s;ion when he went into Scotland; And the Commi&s;&s;ions to the Lord <HI>Brooke</HI> and the Lord <HI>Wharton.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>9. <HI>For what the King did in Order to his nece&s;&s;ary defence,</HI> as the Guards and preparation of Armes and Ammunition at Whitehall. The Li&s;t of Armes and Ammunition found among&s;t his Maje&s;ties Papers. The Ve&s;&s;ell that arrived neer Hull with Armes, and Ammunition, <HI>Cockrans</HI> Nego|tiation in Denmark. The pawning the Jewells of the Crown; his Let|ter to Sir <HI>John Heydon</HI> for Ordnance, &amp;c. His Declaration to bring in Money, Plate, &amp;c. His Guard at York, and &s;etting up his Standard.</ITEM>
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<P>And from <HI>the&s;e your fal&s;e, malicious, illegall, and unrea&s;onable allega|tions and charge,</HI> how can you <HI>conclude that his Maje&s;ty hath broken his tru&s;t with the Protestants in France, Scotland, Ireland, and this Kingdome? And that he hath endeavoured to in&s;lave us by German, Spani&s;h, French, Lorraign, Iri&s;h, Dani&s;h, and other Forraign Forces? And that he hath wholly forgotten not only his duty to the Kingdome, but al&s;o the care and re|&s;pect he oweth to him&s;elfe, and his own family, and that you will repo&s;e no more tru&s;t in him, but &s;ettle the pre&s;ent Government without him.</HI> Let our &s;trength be the Law of Ju&s;tice.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Wi&s;d. 11</NOTE></P>
<P>And becau&s;e you iterate, and reiterate <HI>his Maje&s;ties Breach of tru&s;t, and your re&s;olutions thereupon,</HI> we al&s;o <HI>reiterate our faith of that point,</HI> We beleeve the <HI>Kings Power to be fiduciary,</HI> and the <HI>Kingly Office a great tru&s;t,</HI> but that he is intru&s;ted as he is impower'd <HI>by God, and only by God.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Wi&s;d. 2, 3.</NOTE></P>
<P>S. <HI>Paul</HI> tells us (<HI>Ro.</HI> 13.) <HI>That there is no power but of God; And that the Powers that are, are ordained of God;</HI> and that the chiefe Magi&s;trate) <HI>is the Mini&s;ter of God; Arm'd by God with the &s;word, to execute wrath up|on him that doth evill.</HI></P>
<P>And when you can out of the holy Scriptures, &s;hew us as cleare a De|rivation of Politicall Power, and tru&s;t from the People, we will a&s;&s;ent to your opinions and &s;ubmit to your re&s;olutions.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides when S. <HI>Paul</HI> writ this Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Romans, Nero</HI> was their Emperor; <HI>And &s;o he that re&s;i&s;teth</HI> (Nero) <HI>re&s;i&s;teth the Ordinance of God; And they that re&s;i&s;t &s;hall receive to them&s;elves damnation.</HI></P>
<P>Now if that bloody Tyrant and Per&s;ecutor <HI>Nero,</HI> might not be <HI>re|&s;i&s;ted,</HI> nor may any Emperour or Soveraign who&s;oever, be invaded, im|pri&s;oned, depo&s;ed, murdered, and the <HI>way for &s;ecurity,</HI> pre&s;cribed to <HI>Subjects</HI> by the Apo&s;tle, is not to wre&s;t the &s;word from the King, but to &s;ubmit and obey him; <HI>Wilt thou not be afraid of the Power? do that which is good, and thou &s;halt have prai&s;e of the &s;ame,</HI> v. 3.</P>
<P>Wherefore (what&s;oever befalls us, though we live under a <HI>Nero</HI>) <HI>we mu&s;t needs be &s;ubject not only for wrath, but al&s;o for con&s;cience &s;ake. v.</HI> 5. <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chro. 9.8</NOTE> And we know no medium between &s;ubjection and Rebellion, &s;o that when we cea&s;e to be Subjects, we nece&s;&s;arily become Rebells.</P>
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<P>And in truth, when of Gods Lieftenant, you would make the King only the Peoples chiefe Officer, your quarrell is not with the King on|ly, and the Crown, but with God him&s;elfe al&s;o, the Author of politicall order, Power and Government. And whil&s;t you intend <HI>to depo&s;e the King,</HI> what do you but <HI>u&s;urp upon God him&s;elfe?</HI> For he removeth Kings, and &s;etteth up Kings, <HI>Dan</HI> 2.21.</P>
<P><HI>And do you provoke God to Jealou&s;ie, are ye &s;tronger then he?</HI> 1 Cor. 10.22. And the manner whereby God promotes Kings with us is by <HI>natu|rall Generation;</HI> and the meanes whereby he removeth them, is <HI>natu|rall Death;</HI> Nor can the Reigne of a King of England <HI>duly</HI> be deter|mined otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>We &s;hall conclude (as you do) with a word or two concerning the <HI>Kings Family:</HI> and &s;hall cite &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages of the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, 1. <HI>Jac.</HI> 1.</P>
<P><HI>We do upon the knees of our hearts agnize our mo&s;t con&s;tant faith, obedience, and loyalty to your Maje&s;tie, and your Royall Progeny, as in this high Court of Parliament, where all the whole body of the Realm, and every particular Member thereof, either in per&s;on, or by repre&s;entation, (upon their own free Election) are by the Lawes of this Realme deemed to be per&s;onally pre&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P>Again, <HI>We (being bounden thereunto both by the Lawes of God and Man) do recognize and acknowledge, and thereby expre&s;&s;e our un&s;peakable joyes, that immediately upon the di&s;&s;olution and decea&s;e of</HI> Elizabeth, <HI>late Queen of England, the imperiall Crowne of the Realm of England, and of all the Kingdomes Dominions and Rights belonging to the &s;ame, did by inherent birthright, and lawfull and undoubted &s;ucce&s;sion, de&s;cend and come to your mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, as being lineally, ju&s;tly, and lawfully next and &s;ole Heire of the Blood Royall of this Kealme, and that by the goodne&s;&s;e of God Al|mighty, and lawfull right of de&s;cent.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, <HI>And we mo&s;t humbly and faithfully &s;ubmit and oblige our &s;elves, our heires, and po&s;terities for ever, untill the la&s;t drop of our bloods be &s;pent, and do be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty to accept the &s;ame, as the fir&s;t fruits in this high Court of Parliament of our loyalty and faith to your Maje&s;ty, and your Royall Progeny and Po&s;terity for ever.</HI></P>
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<P>O the ba&s;ene&s;&s;e and vilene&s;&s;e of the Engli&s;h Nation, thus to prote&s;t to the Father, yet to depo&s;e the Son, and to de&s;troy the Po&s;terity! read the 17. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16,18,19.</P>
<P>But that is come to pa&s;&s;e which was fore-told by S. <HI>Paul, In the la&s;t dayes perillous times &s;hall come; for men &s;hall be lovers of their own &s;elves, covetous, boa&s;ters, proud, bla&s;phemers, di&s;obedient to Parents, unthankefull, unholy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Without naturall affection, truce-breakers, fal&s;e accu&s;ers, incontinent, fierce, de&s;pi&s;ers of tho&s;e that are good, Traytors, heady, high minded, lovers of plea&s;ure more then lovers of God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Having a forme of godline&s;se, but denying the power thereof: from &s;uch turne away,</HI> 2 Tim. 3.1. &amp;c.</P>
<P>Finally, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 8.2. 10.2.</NOTE> whereas you intend <HI>to &s;ettle the pre&s;ent Government without more adoe,</HI> we &s;hall rather hearken to <HI>Solomons</HI> admonition, then com|ply with your re&s;olutions,</P>
<P><HI>My Son fear thou the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change; for their calamities &s;hall ri&s;e &s;uddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?</HI> Prov. 24.21,22.</P>
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