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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<P>HIS MAJESTIES Gracious Letter And DECLARATION, Sent to the Hou&s;e of PEERS, By Sir <HI>John Greenvill,</HI> Knight.</P>
<P>From BREDA: And read in the Hou&s;e the fir&s;t of <HI>May,</HI> 1660.</P>
<P>Die Martis, 1^o Maii, 1660.</P>
<P>ORdered by the Lords in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, <HI>That His Maje&s;ties Gracious Letter and Decla|ration be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed, for the Ser|vice of the Hou&s;e and Satisfaction of the Kingdom: And that no Per&s;on do pre&s;ume to Re-Print either of them.</HI></P>
<P>JO. BROWNE <HI>Cleric. Parliamentorum.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Macock,</HI> and <HI>Francis Tyton,</HI> Printers to the Hou&s;e of Lords, 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE SPEAKER OF THE Hou&s;e of Peers, And to the LORDS There A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>CHARLES</HI> R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>RIght Tru&s;ty and Right Well-Beloved Co&s;ins, and Right Tru|&s;ty and Well-Beloved Co&s;ins, and Tru&s;ty and Right Well-Be|loved,
<PB N="6" REF="4">We Greet you Well: We can|not have a better rea&s;on to promi&s;e Our Self an end of Our Common Suffer|ings and Calamities, and that Our Own Ju&s;t Power and Authority will with Gods Ble&s;|&s;ing be Re&s;tored to Us, then that We hear You are again acknowledged to have that Authority and Juri&s;diction, which hath al|waies belonged to You, by Your Birth, and the Fundamental Laws of the Land: And VVe have thought it very fit and &s;afe for Us, to call to you for your help in the compo&s;ing the confounding Di&s;tempers and Di&s;tracti|ons of the Kingdom, in which your Sufferings are next to tho&s;e VVe have undergone Our Self; And therefore you cannot but be the mo&s;t proper Coun&s;ellors for removing tho&s;e Mi&s;chiefs, and for preventing the like for the future: How great a Tru&s;t We repo&s;e in you for the Procuring and E&s;tabli&s;hing a Ble&s;&s;ed Peace and Security for the Kingdome; will appear to You by Our Enclo&s;ed Declara|tion; which Tru&s;t, VVe are mo&s;t confi|dent You will di&s;charge with that Ju&s;tice
<PB N="7" REF="4">and VVi&s;dome, that becomes You, and mu&s;t alwayes be expected from You; and that upon your Experience, how one Violation Succeeds another, when the known Rela|tions, and Rules of Ju&s;tice, are once tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ed, you will be as jealous for the Rights of the Crown, and for the Honour of your King, as for your Selves: And then you cannot but di&s;charge your Tru&s;t with good Succe&s;s, and provide for, and E&s;tabli&s;h the Peace, Happine&s;s, and Ho|nour of King, Lords, and Commons, up|on that Foundation which can only &s;up|port it, and VVe &s;hall be all happy in each other: And as the whole Kingdome will ble&s;s God for you all, &s;o VVe &s;hall hold Our Self obliged in an e&s;pecial man|ner to thank you in particular, according to the Affection you &s;hall expre&s;s towards Us: VVe need the le&s;s enlarge to you up|on this Subject, becau&s;e VVe have likewi&s;e writ to the Hou&s;e of Commons, which VVe &s;uppo&s;e they will Communicate to you: And VVe pray God to ble&s;s your joynt En|deavours
<PB N="8" REF="5">for the good of Us all; and &s;o VVe bid you very heartily farewel. Given at our Court at <HI>Breda,</HI> this <GAP DESC="blank"> Day of <HI>April,</HI> 1660. In the Twelfth Year of our Reign.</P>
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<HEAD>Charles R.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_CHARLES By the Grace of God King of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all Our Lo|ving Subjects of what de|gree or quality &s;oever, <HI>Gree|ting.</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>If the generall Di&s;traction and Confu&s;ion which is &s;pread over the whole Kingdome, doth not awaken all men to a de&s;ire and longing, that tho&s;e wounds which have &s;o many yeers toge|ther been kept bleeding, may be bound up, all We can &s;ay will be to no purpo&s;e. However af|ter
<PB N="10" REF="6">this long &s;ilence, We have thought it Our du|ty to Declare, How much We de&s;ire to Contri|bute thereunto; and that as We can never give over the hope in good time to obtain the po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion of that Right which God and Nature hath made Our Due; So We doe make it Our daily Suit to the Divine Providence, That He will in compa&s;sion to Us and Our Subjects, after &s;o long Mi&s;ery and Sufferings, remit, and put Us into a quiet and peaceable po&s;&s;e&s;sion of that Our Right, with as little blood and dammage to Our people as is po&s;sible. Nor doe We de&s;ire more to enjoy what is Ours, then that all Our Subjects may en|joy what by Law is theirs, by a full and entire Admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice throughout the Land, and by extending Our Mercy where it is wanted and de&s;erved.</P>
<P>And to the End that the feare of Puni&s;hment may not engage any con&s;cious to them&s;elves of what is pa&s;&s;ed, to a per&s;everance in guilt for the future, by oppo&s;ing the Quiet and Happine&s;&s;e of their Country in the Re&s;toration both of King, Peers and People to their ju&s;t, ancient, and Fun|damentall
<PB N="11" REF="6">Rights, We doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents De|clare, That We doe grant a Free and General Par|don, which We are ready upon demand to pa&s;&s;e under Our Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> to all Our Sub|jects of what degree or quality &s;oever, who with|in forty dayes after the publi&s;hing hereof &s;hall lay hold upon this Our Grace and Favour; and &s;hall by any publick Act declare their doing &s;o, and that they return to the Loyalty and obedi|ence of good Subjects: Excepting only &s;uch per|&s;ons as &s;hall hereafter be excepted by Parliament: Tho&s;e onely excepted, let all Our Subjects how faulty &s;oever relie upon the Word of a King, &s;o|lemnly given by this pre&s;ent Declaration, That no crime what&s;oever committed again&s;t Us, or Our Royall Father before the publication of this, &s;hall ever ri&s;e in judgement, or be brought in que&s;tion again&s;t any of them, to the lea&s;t endammagement of them, either in their Lives, Liberties or E&s;tates, or (as far forth as lyes in Our power) &s;o much as to the prejudice of their Reputations, by any Reproach or term of di&s;tinction from the re&s;t of Our be&s;t Subjects. We de&s;iring and Ordaining that hence forward
<PB N="12" REF="7">all Notes of di&s;cord, &s;eparation and difference of parties be utterly aboli&s;hed among all Our Sub|jects, whom We invite and conjure to a perfect Union among them&s;elves, under Our Protection, for the Re-&s;ettlement of Our ju&s;t Rights and theirs in a Free Parliament, by which upon the Word of a King, We will be advi&s;ed.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e the Pa&s;sion and uncharitable|ne&s;&s;e of the times have produced &s;everall Opi|nions in Religion, by which men are engaged in parties and animo&s;ities again&s;t each other, which when they &s;hall hereafter unite in a free|dom of conver&s;ation will be compo&s;ed, or better under&s;tood: We do declare a Liberty to tender Con&s;ciences; and that no man &s;hall be di&s;quieted or call'd in que&s;tion for differences of opinion in matter of Religion, which doe not di&s;turbe the Peace of the Kingdom; And that We &s;hall be ready to Con&s;ent to &s;uch an Act of Parliament, as upon mature delibera|tion &s;hall be offered to Us for the full granting that Indulgence.</P>
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<P>And becau&s;e in the continued di&s;tractions of &s;o many yeares, and &s;o many and great Re|volutions, many Grants and Purcha&s;es of E|&s;tates have been made to, and by, many Of|ficers, Souldiers, and others, who are now po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the &s;ame, and who may be lya|ble to Actions at Law upon &s;everall Titles, We are likewi&s;e willing, That all &s;uch Dif|ferences, and all things relating to &s;uch Grants, Seals, and Purcha&s;es &s;hall be de|termined in Parliament, which can be&s;t pro|vide for the ju&s;t &s;atisfaction of all men who are concerned.</P>
<P>And We doe further declare, That We will be ready to con&s;ent to any Act or Acts of Parliament to the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and for the full &s;atisfaction of all Arreares due to the Officers and Souldiers of the Army under the Command of Generall <HI>Monck:</HI> And that they &s;hall be received into Our Ser|vice upon as good pay and Conditions as they now enjoy.</P>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signe Manuall and Pri|vy Signet at Our Court at</HI> Breda <DATE><HI>this</HI> 4/14 <HI>day of</HI> April 1660. <HI>in the twelfth year of Our Raign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Macock</HI> and <HI>Francis Tyton,</HI> Printers to the Hou&s;e of LORDS. 1660.</P>
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