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<P>The Kings Maje&s;ties MESSAGE AND DEMANDS TO Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> concerning the performance of the Armies promi&s;e, touching the re-inve&s;ting of his Royall Per&s;on, and making him the mo&s;t glorious Prince in Chri&s;tendom; As al&s;o, concerning a Treaty with the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and Lieutenant Gen. <HI>Cromwell,</HI> in order to a &s;etled Peace throughout his Realms and Dominions.</P>
<P>With the &s;everall An&s;wers and Replies, by Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and Commi&s;&s;ary Gen. <HI>Ireton,</HI> to the &s;aid De|mands and Propo&s;alls.</P>
<P>Being a full and perfect Narrative of the proceedings betwixt the Kings Maje&s;ty, and Lieutenant Gen. <HI>Cromwell,</HI> &s;ince the re|moving of his Royall Per&s;on from <HI>Holmby,</HI> (by Cornet <HI>Ioyce</HI>) and the Armies marching through the City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Pre&s;ented to the Right Honorable the Hou&s;e of Peers, by Major <HI>Hun|tington,</HI> containing the whole Charge again&s;t L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eutenant Gen. <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and Commi&s;&s;ary Gen. <HI>Ireten.</HI> Signed, <HI>Ro: Huntington.</HI></P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, new Propo&s;itions from Prince <HI>Charles,</HI> concerning his Engagement for King and people, and the Honour of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation.</P>
<P>Sub&s;cribed <HI>Charles P.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. W.</HI> In the Year 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>The Kings Maje&s;ties Propo&s;alls to Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and his An&s;wers and Replyes thereunto, concerning the re-inve&s;ting of his Royall Per&s;on.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THat Lieut. Gen. <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and Com: Gen: <HI>Ireton,</HI> &s;ent Commi&s;&s;ioners to <HI>Walden,</HI> to reduce the Army to their obedience, but more e&s;pecially in order to the &s;ervice of <HI>Ireland,</HI> but contrary to their tru&s;t hin|dred that &s;ervice, in countenancing the di&s;obedient, de|claring there had been lately much cruelty and inju&s;tice in the Parliaments proceedings again&s;t the Army, adding that it was fit to deny disbanding till equally paid and &s;a|tisfyed for pa&s;t &s;ervice: That having their pay as Souldi|ers, they had yet &s;omthing el&s;e to &s;tand upon as Commo|ners, and at the Randevouz at Tripple-Heath, when the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Parl. acquainted each Regiment what
<PB N="2" REF="3"> the Parl. had done; and what they would do in order to the de&s;ires of the Armie, the Souldiers being before pre|pared, cryed out &s;till to the Parl. Commi&s;&s;ioners for Ju|&s;tice, Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="2">2. In order whereunto they advi&s;e, that the Kings Per&s;on may be removed from <HI>Holdenby,</HI> or &s;ecure him there by other Guards, and this thought &s;it to be carried on by the private &s;ouldiers of the Army, who fir&s;t &s;ecure <HI>Oxford,</HI> &amp; afterward his Maj. per&s;on, which done, Cornet <HI>Ioyce</HI> ac|quaints his Excellencie by letters from <HI>Keinton,</HI> that the King was upon his march towards <HI>Newmarket,</HI> his Excel|lencie troubled thereat, asked the Com: Gen: who gave tho&s;e orders, he replyed, that he gave orders to &s;ecure the King there and not for taking him away; the Li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut. Gen. com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng from <HI>London</HI> &s;aid, That had not this b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en done, the King would be fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cht away by order of Parl. el&s;e Col. <HI>Graves,</HI> by advice of the Commi&s;&s;ioners would have car|ried him to <HI>London,</HI> throwing them&s;elves upon the favour of Parl. for that &s;ervice, and Cornet <HI>Ioyce</HI> being <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ain|ted with his Excellencies di&s;plea&s;ure, an&s;wered, he had orders for what he had done.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gs per&s;on in the power of the Army, L. Gen. <HI>Cromwel</HI> C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urts his Maj. by Officers of his Maj. and Ex|cellencies Army, into a belief of the proceedings of the Army, and into a di&s;like of tho&s;e of the Parl. and that his Maj. intere&s;t would better &s;uit wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h the principles of In|dependencie, then Presbiterie; H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Maj. alleaging, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat the power of Parl. was that by which the Armie fought. L.G. <HI>Cromwel</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eplyed, That we were no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> only Souldiers, but Commoners promi&s;ing, that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mie would be for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he King in the &s;ett<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ement of his whole bu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e, if his Maj. would &s;it &s;till, and not declare, nor act <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> the A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> but give them leave only to mannag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> in hand.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="3" REF="3">4. That when the Hou&s;es voted the King to come to <HI>Richmond,</HI> the&s;e Officers and Orders were given to &s;top him, and out guards were placed round to &s;ecure him.</P>
<P>. That at <HI>Cave&s;ham</HI> they &s;olicited his Maj. with letters, to fit &s;till, and they would grant him what he &s;hould de|&s;ire, as Revenues, Chaplains, Wife, Children, vi&s;itation of friends, acce&s;s of letters, Negative voice, &amp; make him the mo&s;t glorious Prince in Chri&s;tendom.</P>
<P N="6">6. To this purpo&s;e Propo&s;alls were offered to the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Parl. then &s;ent to the Army, which were as bounds for the Armies partie for the Kings bu&s;ines, pro|mi&s;ing a Copie thereof to his Maj. and a fight of them to the Parliaments Commi&s;&s;ioners; promi&s;ing likewi&s;e to carry an equall hand between King and Parliament, for &s;etling the Kingdom.</P>
<P N="7">7. The head quarters removed to <HI>Bedford,</HI> his Maje&s;tie to <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">born&punc;</HI> the Narrator him&s;elf was imployed to pre&s;ent the Propo&s;alls to his Maje&s;tie, who &s;aid (after <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eading them) he would never Treat with Parliament or Army upon them. But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he next day his Maje&s;tie under&s;tanding that a force was put upon his Hou&s;es by a Tumult&punc; &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt for the Narrator, and &s;aid to him, go along with Sir <HI>Iohn Barkley</HI> to your Gen. and Lieut. Gen. and tell them I will now Treat with them in order to a peace, Sir <HI>John Barkly</HI> falling &s;ick by the way, he delivered his Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age to the Lieut. Gen. and Com. Gen. His Maje&s;tie afterwards rem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ving to <HI>St<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">k</HI> called the Narrator to him, telling him he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ared an engagement between the Citie and Armie, commanding hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to tell the Com. Gen. that he would throw him<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lf wholli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> the Armie, and tru&s;t them fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">gdom, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich Me&s;&s;age he accordingly delive<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to the C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">. Gen. at <HI>Col<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">brook.</HI></P>
<P N="8"><PB N="4" REF="4">8. Aft<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r the Armies march through <HI>London,</HI> the Lieut. Gen. and Com. Gen. &s;ent his Maje&s;ty word &s;everall times, that the rea&s;on why they made no more ha&s;t in his bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, was, that party then predominant in the Hou&s;e would ob&s;truct it, and that the Lieut. Gen. &s;hould &s;ay, he would pull them out by the ears, for which purpo&s;e he quartered a Regiment at Hide Park Corner. That the day before the Hou&s;e voted the &s;ending the Propo&s;itions once more to his Maj. the Com. Gen. &s;ent the Narrator to his Maj. to acquaint him therewith, but needed not be trou|bled at it, for they intend it only for making good &s;ome promi&s;es of the Parliament, which <HI>Scotland</HI> expected per|formance of.</P>
<P N="9">9. Next day the L. G. asked the Narrator whether the King did not di&s;like ye&s;terdayes Vote, he an&s;wered no, for that the Com: Gen: had &s;ent him a Me&s;&s;age of the grounds thereof: The Lieut. Gen. replyed, it was very true, for no|thing was intended by it, but to give the Scots &s;atisfacti|on. That the King afterwards &s;ent him to the Lieut. Gen. to tell him, that he doubted the Army would not perform what they prom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed him, for that him&s;elf and the Com: Gen: voted ye&s;terday in the Hou&s;e with tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat oppo|&s;ed the Propo&s;alls of the Armie, They replyed they would not have his Maje&s;tie mi&s;tru&s;t them, for they onlie concurred with them, that their unrea&s;onablene&s;&s;e might better appear to the Kingdom, and that his Execllencie bad him a&s;&s;ure his Maj. that the Propo&s;alls &s;hould be the wor&s;t of his Conditions.</P>
<P N="10">10. That about 6. daies after his Maj. being in the I&s;le of <HI>Wyght,</HI> talking of an agreement in the Com. Gen. Cham|ber, between the King and Parl. now that his Maj. was out of their power, the Com. Gen. &s;aid, he hoped it would be
<PB N="5" REF="4"> &s;uch an agreement, as they might with a good Con&s;cience fight again&s;t them both. He ends with threats, that the Lieut. Gen. &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uld make ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in&s;t &s;ome Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> and &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s down the Judgement of the Lieut. Gen. in the pro&s;ecution of the&s;e ends, which I leave to him&s;elf; &amp; the Moderate Reader to the con&s;ideration of the re&s;ults of &s;ome impartiall Judgments given upon this whole bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>An an&s;wer to the fore&s;aid Narrative and Charge.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 This Major <HI>Huntindon</HI> is a di&s;contented reduced Offi|cer, and may be in want of &s;ome part of his arreares,</P>
<P N="2">2. In the Tran&s;action of this whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, him|&s;elfe was not only an Advi&s;er, and Abettor, but one of the main actors, being willingly imployed by the Coun|&s;ell of War, between his Maje&s;ty, and Army.</P>
<P N="3">3 The&s;e things were acted by the privit and conient of the whole army and owned by t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em all, of which him+&s;elf was one, though the Lieut. Gen. and Commi&s;&s;arie Gen. (as &s;uperiour Officers) were more active therein then &s;ome others, yet him&s;elf as much as any what&s;oever.</P>
<P N="4">4 This Major upon all Debates at councels of War and otherwi&s;e gave his vote freely with the re&s;t, for do|ing that with which he now charges the&s;e Gentlemen.</P>
<P N="5">5 It is about two yeares &s;ince the&s;e things were fir&s;t acted, and to which he hath been privy but &s;ilent untill now, and had been longer if malice, poverty, or hopes of preferment in a new leavying Army had not been p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eva|lent.</P>
<P N="6">6 His own weaken&s;&s; is too apparen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> herein, in envy|ing that d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pth of Judgment, and &s;trength of policy in o|thers; which his own capacity cannot reach unto.</P>
<P N="7"><PB N="6" REF="5">7 That to Charge the Lieu. Gen. at this time, when upon his march to engage a forreign enemie, for pre&s;er|vation of our Lives, Liberties, and Fredomes, and low in the e&s;teeme of the di&s;affected, and vulgar ignorant peo+ple, and again&s;t whome (with the re&s;t of the Army) all forreigne Princes, and Dome&s;tick power, with all the policy of the Divill and his in&s;truments are acting, and engaged, argues too much of ba&s;ene&s;&s;e and Cowardize in him.</P>
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<HEAD>New propo&s;itions from the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1 The honour of Gods holy name, in the defence of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, and his Divine wor&s;hip, again&s;t all oppo&s;ers what&s;oever, and practi&s;es declared again&s;t in his Maje&s;ties Agre|ment with the <HI>Scots</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners, bearing date at <HI>Carisbrook Ca&s;tle</HI> the 26 day of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t: &amp; the e&s;tabli&s;hing of Church Government as is therein mentioned &amp; accorded to by His Maj. as al&s;o the mutuall performance of the &s;aid Agreement. 2. The re&s;toring of His Maj. to his Liberty and ju&s;t Rights, and in order thereunto, and for the &s;etling of a happy Peace, a &s;peedy per&s;o|nall Treaty with His Maj. with Honour, Freedome, and Safety. 3 The &s;upport and defence of the known Laws of the Kingdome. 4. The maintenance of the Freedom and ju&s;t Priviledges of Parl. 5. The defence of the Liberty and Property of the Subiect, again&s;t all violence, rapine, &amp; oppre&s;&s;ion, &s;uch as are Exci&s;e, Contribution Free quarter, and all other illegall Taxes. 6. The obtaining of &s;uch an Act of Oblivion and Indempnity, as may mo&s;t bind up the bond of Peace. 7. The &s;peedy disbanding of all Armies, and particularly that under the command of the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> 8 The defence of the Honour of the Engli&s;h Nation, and His Maje&s;ties Rights in the Narrow Seas, the protection and &s;ecurity of the Trade of all his Maje&s;ties loyall Subjects, the &s;upport of the Navy Royall, and the encouragement of all the Officers and Marinees of the &s;ame: to who&s;e exemplary courage, conduct, and good af|fections, we owe this pre&s;ent opportunity, with them thus to ap|peare for Peace.</P>
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