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<P>The Kings Maje&s;ties MESSAGE To His Highne&s;&s;e the Prince of VVALES, <HI>CONCERNING</HI> The Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and the <HI>Army;</HI> and His Pro|po&s;itions and De&s;ires therein, to be communicated to the Right Honorable the Earl of <HI>VVarwick,</HI> Lord high Admirall of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Dated from Hur&s;t Ca&s;tle, the</HI> 6. <HI>of December,</HI> 1648.</P>
<P>Al&s;o, His Maje&s;ties letter to the Parliament, touching the <HI>Aru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y,</HI> and the confinement of his Royal per&s;on to the &s;aid Ca&s;tle; with his de&s;ires to the Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> touching the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>And Lieutenant Gen.</HI> Crumwels <HI>Declaration in reference to the King, City, and Kingdom.</HI> Signed O. Crumwel.</P>
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<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<P>Printed for <HI>G. VVharton,</HI> 1648.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>A LETTER From Lieut. Generall CRUMWEL To the Citizens of <HI>London.</HI> Concerning the Kings Maje&s;ty, the Parliament, the City, Army, and Kingdome.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HEre hath lately been called a Generall Coun|cell of Officers, con&s;i&s;ting of the Northerne Brigade, who&s;e re&s;ults acquie&s;&s;e and tend <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hiefly to the &s;afety and pre&s;ervation of your Honou|rable City, and to the welfare and tranquility of our
<PB N="2" REF="3">Engli&s;h Nation; as appeares by the mo&s;t excellent demon&s;tration of Lieu. Gen. <HI>Cromwell,</HI> at the Councell table, in pre&s;ence of divers Colonels, Lieut. Colonels, Majors, and Captains, who declared, <HI>That he was wil|ling to wade through all troubles and difficulties, for pre|&s;ervation of the peace and tranquility of this bleeding Kingdom, and would &s;acrifice his life for the peace and liberty of the &s;ubject, and for di&s;&s;ipating the di&s;mall cloud of Malignancy, which threatens ruine to all the well-affe|cted within the Nation.</HI></P>
<P>And for the better propagating of the &s;aid work, the &s;aid Lieutenant Generall (our worthy and ever hono|red Patriot) hath declared his ardent and zeafous affe|ction to his Excellency the Lord Generall; prote&s;ting, That he will live and dye with him, for the obtaining and faciliating the ju&s;t Demands and De&s;ires of the Army, &s;pecified in their late Remon&s;trance, and that he doth mo&s;t really and freely coucur with them, for the &s;peedy executing of impartiall Ju&s;tice upon all Offenders what&s;oever; intimating, that he doth verily believe they are things which God puts into the harts both of Officers and Souldiers, and that the great Je|hovah of Heaven is plea&s;ed to manife&s;t his pre&s;ence unto them, in pur&s;uing and pro&s;ecuting &s;o pious<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e worke, &s;o much tending to the honour of his holy Name and the peace and tranquility of all his people on Earth; which declaratory expre&s;&s;ions, have pre|fented to his Excellency the Lord Gen. <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Signed</HI> O. CRUMWEL.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Knotting&s;ley neer Pontefract</HI> <DATE>2. <HI>Decemb.</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Me&s;&s;age from the King concerning the Army.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HIs Maje&s;ty having &s;eriou&s;ly peru&s;ed the Re|mon&s;trance of the Army, findes it to be of &s;o high a nature, that Hee cannot but &s;tand amaz'd at the &s;ence, &s;cope, and method thereof, and doth de|clare, <HI>That He &s;hould rather &s;acrifice His life, for His People, and a good Cou&s;cience, than be guilty of the En|gagement of modelling and establi&s;hing a new Govern|men;</HI> but withall remon&s;trates, <HI>That He approves of their Propo&s;als for rectifying the Law, and purging the a|bu&s;es and errous thereof, for the ea&s;e and liberty of His peo|ple, de&s;iring that all their Re&s;ults and Con&s;ultations may redound to the honour of the&s;e bleeding Nations, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>And his Maje&s;ty hath further declared, that (not|with&s;tanding the pre&s;ent di&s;tractions, and di&s;&s;olving of the Treaty, yet) <HI>He de&s;ires from His very heart and &s;oule that the peace of His Kingdomes may bee &s;peedily e&s;tabli|&s;hed, and the liberty of the Subject pre&s;erved und unvio|lated, what&s;oever becomes of Him, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Col. <HI>Ewers</HI> u&s;eth his Maje&s;ty with much civility and re&s;pect, and the deportment of the Soldiery taketh deep impre&s;&s;ion in his Maje&s;ties heart, which cau&s;eth a great change and alteration in his Maje&s;ties Royall Brea&s;t, and it is hoped few dayes will produce a convince|ment from his Maje&s;ty of all his former errours.</P>
<P>Divers &s;hipping lye hovering upon this Coa&s;t, and it is &s;uppo&s;ed they would fain attempt a de&s;igne for re&s;cuing the <HI>King</HI> from the power and protection of the <HI>Army,</HI> but &s;trong Guards are placed, and much vi|gilancy u&s;ed for the defence and &s;afety of this I&s;land.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Newport</HI>
<DATE><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Decemb.</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the proceedings in Parliament, concerning the KING.</HEAD>
<P>BOth Hou&s;es having received a Letter from the Lord Generall <HI>Fairfax,</HI> for the gaining to &s;uch ends as have been propo&s;ed in the Armies late Remon&s;trance, and pre&s;&s;ing them to the pre&s;ent appre|hen&s;ion of the dangerous Juncture of affaires; the Commons began to con&s;ult upon the &s;ame, who&s;e de|bates &s;or'd up, and flew exceeding high; &s;ome moving that his Excellencies Commi&s;&s;ion might be made null and taken from him; Others, that the Army might be required to retreat 40 miles from <HI>London,</HI> and others moved, that the City might be put into a po&s;ture of War; but Sheriff <HI>Brown</HI> &s;tood up, and made an excel|lent Speech, declaring, <HI>That there was nothing to be ex|pected from the City, and that for his part he would indea|vour the pre&s;ervation of the peace thereof, and to keepe a right understanding between his Excellency, the City, and Army.</HI> And Mr <HI>Pryn</HI> declared his &s;en&s;e and re&s;olution touching the Army, cyting many pre&s;idents, that many have been voted traytors for di&s;obeying auth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rity of Parliament, but for his part he would not &s;ay that any were &s;uch. After &s;ome di&s;putation and debate thereon, the Hou&s;e voted that a Declaratory Letter &s;hould be pre&s;ented to the Generall, a coyy whereof followeth,</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellency,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Hou&s;e taking notice by your Letter of the 30. of <HI>Novem.</HI> touching the pre&s;ent motion and de&s;igne of the army, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e commanded me to let you know, that upon mature deliberate judging, that it may be dange|rous both to the City and army; it is their plea&s;ure that you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">move not the army near <HI>London;</HI> and to the end
<PB REF="4">the country may not be burthened with free quarter, nor the army want their due &s;upport, they have com|manded me to acquaint you, that they have &s;ignified their plea&s;ure to the Lord Major, Aldermen, and com|mon councell, that they forthwith provide the &s;um of 40000. <HI>l.</HI> or &s;o much thereof as they can po&s;&s;ibly rai&s;e at pre&s;ent, and pay the &s;ame to the Trea&s;urers at wars, to be forthwith &s;ent unto you for our army, which be|ing all have in command, I remain</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your humble &s;ervant, VVil. Lenthal</HI> Speaker.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>His Maie&s;ties Declaration upon his coming into <HI>Wilt&s;hire.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>MY Lords,</HI> You are come to take your leave of me, and I believe we &s;hall &s;carce ever &s;ee each other again: but Gods will be done, I thank God I have made my peace with him, and &s;hall without fear undergoe what he &s;hall be plea&s;ed to &s;uffer men to do unto me. <HI>My Lords,</HI> you cannot but know, that in my fall and ru|ine, you &s;ee your own, and that al&s;o neer to you; I pray God &s;end you better friends then I have found. I am fully infoamed of the whole cariage of the plot again&s;t me and mine; and nothing &s;o much afflicts me, as the &s;ence and feeling I have of the &s;ufferings of my Sub|jects, and the mi&s;erice that hang over my three King|domr, drawn upon them by tho&s;e who (upon pretences of good) violently pur&s;ue their own intere&s;ts and ends. His Maj having thus declared him&s;elf, the Comm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;io|ners ki&s;&s;ed his Maj. hand, and took their leave. And on Friday morning la&s;t, his Mai. was guarded by a troope of hor&s;e from the <HI>I&s;le of VVight,</HI> to <HI>Hur&s;t Ca&s;tle</HI> in <HI>VVilt|&s;hire,</HI> where he is now &s;ecured, Cap. <HI>Mild<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ay,</HI> cap. <HI>Ioy|ner,</HI> cap. <HI>VVeston,</HI> Mr. <HI>Herbert,</HI> Mr. <HI>Cutch&s;ide, Mr. Reding</HI> and <HI>Mr. Lewen,</HI> being appointed Attendants for his <HI>Maiesties</HI> per&s;on.</P>
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<P>SIR, Since his Maje&s;ties comming to this Ca&s;tle, he hath been u&s;ed with much civility and re&s;pect, and (according to our information from one of his Maje|&s;ties attendants) hath &s;ent a letter to his Son the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> to advertize him of the Armies removing his per&s;on from the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> to <HI>Hur&s;t</HI> Ca&s;tle upon the con&s;ines of <HI>Wilt&s;hire,</HI> requiring him to u&s;e his utmo&s;t endeavours for a good accommodation and corre&s;pon|dency between the two Navies, and to mediate with his Lord&s;hip for a mutuall reconciliation between his Ma|ie&s;ty, the Parliament, and the Army. And by the &s;ame intelligencer, it is further intimated, That the King hath likewi&s;e &s;ent a letter to both hou&s;es of Parliament, ad|vertizing them of his pre&s;ent condition &s;ince his pre|&s;ent confinement to the &s;aid Ca&s;tle, de&s;iring them to proceed in a Parliamentary way, in reference to their rights and priviledges, and to indeavour a right under|&s;tanding between his Excellency, the Parliament, City, and Army. Which letters are &s;aid to be tran&s;mitted from his <HI>Maie&s;ty.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Hur&s;t Castle</HI>
<DATE>Decemb. 6. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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