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<P>A JOYFULL
MESSAGE
For all Loyall
SUBJECTS:
SENT
From the Kings Maje&s;ties Royall Court at
<HI>Cau&s;am,</HI> touching divers great and Remarkable
Pa&s;&s;ages herein contained.</P>
<P>TOGETHER,
With the Armies Propo&s;itions, concerning the
rai&s;ing of Forces, and continuing of Bodies, to the
apparant hazard of a new Warre.</P>
<P>AS ALSO,
His Excellencie Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax's</HI> Procla|mation
concerning the rai&s;ing of new Forces.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Iohn Terrie,</HI> Anno Dom. 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>The la&s;t
NEWES
From the
Kings Maje&s;ties Royall Court at Caw&s;am;
Sent in a Letter from a Gentleman re&s;i|ding
at the Court, to his friend
in London.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOur la&s;t I have received, dated <HI>July</HI> 10
wherein I find many earne&s;t expre&s;&s;i|ons,
touching the proceedings of this pre|&s;ent
Treaty. And whereas you de&s;ire to be a
partaker of our intelligence in the&s;e parts, I
&s;hall here faithfully impart unto you, that
<PB REF="3">
which is of greate&s;t concernmene, and mo&s;t
de&s;ired by the whole Kingdome, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>The Kings Maje&s;ty doth not &s;eeme (as yet) to alter
His Re&s;olution, or to remove His Court from <HI>Cau|&s;am,</HI>
but is re&s;olved to &s;tay there &s;ome certaine dayes
longer, in expectation and hopes of having the Duke of
<HI>Yorke,</HI> and the re&s;t of His Children &s;ent down to Him,
for the obtaining of which, the Generall hath &s;ent a
Letter to the Honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament a&s;|&s;embled
at We&s;tmin&s;ter, intimating the earne&s;t de&s;ires
of his Maje&s;ty therein; but (as yet) I do not heare
what an&s;wer hath been returned, concerning the &s;aid
De&s;ires, expre&s;&s;ed in his Excellencies Letter.</P>
<P>But this much I can a&s;&s;ure you, that the whole Court
in generall are prompt up with much confidence, and
do ab&s;olute believe, that his Maje&s;ties De&s;ires will bee
&s;atisfied, and that his Children (whom he &s;o earne&s;tly
de&s;ire to &s;ee) will be &s;peedily &s;ent to him. Yet it is ru|moured
here, that the Parliament de&s;ires a convenient
place may be appointed neerer <HI>London,</HI> to the intent,
His Maje&s;ty may advance thither, for the vi&s;iting of
his Children.</P>
<P>But his Maje&s;ty re&s;ides here as yet, being gallantly
accomadated, in all re&s;pects what&s;oever, which gives
great &s;atisfaction and contentment to his Maje&s;ty, oc|ca&s;ioned
by the civill behaviour, and gallant expre&s;&s;i|ons
of divers loyall and faithfull Subjects now atten|ding
his Royall Per&s;on; for &s;eldome hath it <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">in &s;een,
(of late dayes) that his Maje&s;ty was ever more mery
or light&s;ome then now, being joyfull to &s;ee his Sub|jects
flock about Him, and doth not deny any one to
&s;alute his Hand.</P>
<P><PB REF="3">
Here is much re&s;orting to the Court, both from Ci|ty,
Towne, and Country, and many de&s;ires to ki&s;&s;e His
Maje&s;ties Hand: Divers are admitted into His Maje|&s;ties
Chamber, and pre&s;enting them&s;elves before him,
he puts forth his hand for them to ki&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty is very courteous and re&s;pective to all
that comes neer him, which cau&s;eth great tryumph and
joy throughout the whole Counties adjacent. He hath
within few dayes, touched abundance for the Kings E|vill,
and cured many.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty betakes him&s;elf much to Reading and
Study, and oftentimes confers with his two Chaplains
Doctor <HI>Hammond,</HI> and Doctor <HI>Shelden,</HI> who gives him
great &s;atisfaction in many quaeries and Propo&s;als, pro|pounded
by his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, concerning divers &s;cruples and objections,
touching the pre&s;ent Government of the Church of
England.</P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Richmond</HI> behaves him&s;elf very gallant|ly
here, and the King takes great delight in his compa|ny.
And therefore for his Excellencies a&s;&s;enting &amp; per|mition
to have the &s;aid Peer and two Chaplains come
to the Court (according to his Maje&s;ties de&s;ire) was a
a very honourable and prudent way: And according
to his Excellencies own words; That a moderate dea|ling
towards His Maje&s;ty, His Royall Family, and His
late Party, &s;o farre as may &s;tand with &s;ecurity of com|mon
Rights, is the mo&s;t hopefull cour&s;e to take away
the Seeds of Warre among&s;t Us for Po&s;terity, and to
procure a firme and la&s;ting Peace; for the effecting
whereof, and for the propagation of the Go&s;pell of
Truth and Peace, it is hoped that neither the hearts of
Soveraign and Subjects will be wanting therein.</P>
<P><PB REF="4">
Thus having given you a ju&s;t Account (as neare as I
can) of the proceedings here at Court, touching the
Kings Maje&s;ty, I &s;hall in the next place pre&s;ent to you
the Copy of a Proclamation, &s;et forth by his Excel|lency
Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> as followeth.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>A Proclamation of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax,
to prevent tumultuous and unlawfull A&s;semblies of
Per&s;ons disaffected to the Publique Peace.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas I am informed, that divers ill-affected to the
Parliament and peace of this Kingdome, have taken
and do take upon them to rai&s;e Forces, and with high threats
and menaces terrifie the peaceable people, and &s;uch as are
well-affected to the Parliament, who have in all the&s;e warres
&s;tood firme to the common intere&s;t of this Kingdome and do
further in a violent manner offer to di&s;place divers hone&s;t and
godly Mini&s;ters &s;etled by the Parliament with very much o|ther
unwarr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ntable practi&s;es and all under the name and pre|tence
of doing &s;ervice to this Army.</P>
<P>Now fora&s;much as it is manife&s;t the&s;e things are done by
&s;uch men who are ready to take all advantages (notwith|&s;tanding
any pretence what&s;oever) of the pre&s;ent un&s;ettle|ment
of affaires to ca&s;t the Kingdome into new troubles. I do
hereby declare my utter di&s;like of all &s;uch attempts and pra|cti&s;es;
and that if hence-forward any &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall pre|&s;ume
to attempt the di&s;turbance of the peace of this King|dome,
I &s;hall endeavour by all good meanes to prevent and
&s;uppre&s;&s;e the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And furthermore, that I will a&s;&s;i&s;t and &s;tand by tho&s;e who
are really affected to the peace and weale of the Kingdome,
to protect and defend them from the violence and wrong that
may be offered to them by any per&s;ons as afore&s;aid. Given
under my Hand at <HI>Reading</HI> the 7. of July, 1647.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>FAIRFAX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>A Declaration or Repre&s;entation &s;ent to His Excellency Sir T.
Fairfax by the Agitators for the Northern Army.</HEAD>
<P>THat whereas your Excellencies Petitioners having
for &s;ome few yeares pa&s;t &s;erved the Parliament and
Kingdome in the late unnaturall warres, and having
undergone the &s;ame with all cheerfulne&s;&s;e and read<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;&s;e: not|with&s;tanding
the &s;ad di&s;contentment &amp; &s;ad &s;ufferings which
we have undergone being not at all &s;o thereby di&s;couraged as
to manife&s;t any vi&s;ible di&s;temper, or unwillingne&s;&s;e unto the
afore&s;aid Service, our conditions being at pre&s;ent &s;o uncer|tain,
that we know not to whom to repair as our chiefe Con|ductor
and by rea&s;on of the &s;ame, we are expo&s;ed to an inca|pacity
of being made partakers of the fruits of our wearied
travels and dangerous &s;ervices, out of the experience that we
had of your Excellencies care for the &s;atisfaction and pre&s;er|vation
both of Souldiers and Subjects, we are emboldned to
pre&s;ent the&s;e as followeth.</P>
<P>That your Excellency would be plea&s;ed to make our &s;ati&s;|faction
and pre&s;ervation, the object of your Excellencies care
together with the Army at pre&s;ent under your Excellencies
command and re&s;ident with you.</P>
<P>That to the end we may be exempted from further obedi|ence
to any other command then what may conduce for the
obtaining of our ju&s;t dues and priviledges the e&s;tabli&s;hing of
the peace of the Kingdome, and with which your Excellencies
advice and approbation &s;hall concur.</P>
<P>That your Excellency would be plea&s;ed to recommend this
annexed Repre&s;entation of our De&s;ires to the Parliament, to
prevent mi&s;under&s;tanding betwixt the Parliament and the
Souldiers of this Kingdome, for the obtaining of their ju&s;t de|&s;ires,
and putting an end to the&s;e pre&s;ent di&s;tractions.</P>
<CLOSER>A&s;&s;ented to by each &s;everall and re&s;pective Regiment through|out
the whole Army.</CLOSER>
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<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>The Armies new Propo&s;itions.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, that there is nothing done with ef|fect,
notwith&s;tanding the Votes of the
Hou&s;e to the di&s;pier&s;ing of the Reformado-Officers, who &s;till continue in and about <HI>Lon|don,</HI>
ready to head Forces to the apparent ha|zard
of a new Warre.</P>
<P>2. That notwith&s;tanding the Votes of the
Hou&s;e for the &s;peedy &s;ending into <HI>Ireland,</HI> or
disbanding tho&s;e Forces which left the Ar|my,
and their &s;peciall order to the Commit|tee
at <HI>Derby</HI> hou&s;e to take &s;peedy care there|in,
yet they are &s;till in continued Bodies in &amp;
about the City of <HI>London,</HI> and as it is &s;aid,
more Forces are dayly li&s;ting, pretending the
&s;ervice of <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>3. That notwith&s;tanding the Votes of the
Hou&s;e of the tenth of June, and tho&s;e &s;ince of
the 5. of July, for the pre&s;ent purging the
Hou&s;e, divers per&s;ons compri&s;ed, in tho&s;e
Votes, continue &s;till to &s;it there. Thus having
given you a &s;atisfactory an&s;wer, according to
your Reque&s;t, I remain.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours to command,
<HI>N. Godfrey</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Cau&s;am <DATE>July 13.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS,</TRAILER>
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