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<P>A DECLARATION FROM His Maje&s;tie the KING OF SCOTS, VVherein is declared how the <HI>Army</HI> &s;hall be fully &s;atisfied all their Arrears, with a large Overplus.</P>
<P>TOGETHER VVith an A&s;&s;urance of Indempnity to all that have been enga|ged, and active in any the late Wars. That all Armies &s;hall be disbanded, and His Government always regulated by a Free and Full Parliament, triennially called: And the People &s;ecu|red of their Liberties, and ea&s;ed of their Illegal Burthens and Taxes.</P>
<P>ALSO A <HI>Letter</HI> to the Right Honourable The Lord LAMBERT <HI>From a Lover of Peace and Truth.</HI></P>
<P>Being a mo&s;t faithful Advice how to chu&s;e the &s;afe&s;t way to the happy ending of all our Di&s;tractions.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year 1659.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>CHARLS</HI> R.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE having lately received an Overture from &s;ome per|&s;ons In <HI>England,</HI> with a &s;eeming pretence of a Peace and Reconcilement betwizt Us and out Subjects of <HI>England,</HI> and although they acknowledge them&s;elves few in number, and not &s;o well re&s;olved as to tru&s;t us with their Names, yet undertake on the behalf of many thou&s;ands, to make good their propo&s;itions to us, conditionally, that we grant and a&s;&s;ure unto them, their (as they call them, rea&s;onable and mode&s;t) reque&s;ts; whether the&s;e mens Intentions are ju&s;t and upright, as they pretend, or whether with <HI>Joab</HI>'s &s;alutation to <HI>Abner,</HI> they would entrap us to our de&s;truction; or with <HI>Shimei,</HI> come the fir&s;t of all the Hou&s;e of <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> to meet us, not being able to &s;upport them&s;elves in their decaying condition, we &s;hall not be much de&s;irous to enquire after: Only from hence we take oc|ca&s;ion to let tho&s;e per&s;ons, and all the world know, that we are ready to grant to all our Subjects (&s;ome very few excepted) more than they can have the confidence to expect from us: Yet let not any ra&s;h judgement condemn us for our large Offers, as being in &s;o low, and forlorn a Condition, as never any Chri&s;tian Prince for many Ages hath been; That we are forward in promi&s;es, though intend little or no performance: We &s;ay, were our calamity more heavy upon us (which can hardly be) we &s;hall not be drawn by the greate&s;t allurements and advantages to pa&s;s our engagement for any thing we are nor fully re&s;olved co perform, which being chiefly for the general good &amp; peace of all our Subsects, we can|not but hope for a happy &s;ucce&s;s to en&s;ue, and therefore to de|clare that (if peaceably receiv'd) we &s;hall forthwith grant,</P>
<P N="1">1. A general and free pardon to all (&s;even of tho&s;e onely ex|cepted, which were the bloody Judges and Murderers of the King our Father.)</P>
<P N="2">2. That all the Armies &s;hall be within &s;ix months disbanded, if moneys for their &s;atisfaction can in a Parliamentary way be &s;o &s;oon rai&s;ed, and that they &s;hall have all Arrears fully payed them, and three months pay over and above to every common Souldier, for their better removal and &s;ettlement, in their former or bet|ter way and place of living.</P>
<P N="3">3. That the Armies being &s;o &s;atisfied and disbanded, no Soul|dier &s;hall be continued, but in the antient Garri&s;onr, accu&s;tomed on the Sea Coa&s;ta, and that no new Army &s;hall be rai&s;ed, or any
<PB N="2" REF="3">Fleet by us &s;et forth to Sea, upon any occa&s;ion what&s;oever, but by con&s;ent of Parliament.</P>
<P N="4">4. That not any of Our Subjects &s;hall be burdened with Taxes, Exci&s;e, Free-quartering, or other illegal payments or pre&s;&s;ures, or any Oaths impo&s;ed, nor any debarred of their Liberties, que|&s;tioned for their Lives or E&s;tates, for any cau&s;e or pretence what&s;oever, but by the antient and known Laws of the Land, ac|cording to <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> and the <HI>Petition of Right.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. That the Purcha&s;ers of Crown-Lands and Rents being &s;atis|fied their purcha&s;e-mony and intere&s;ts by the profits thereof, &amp; further payment to their full Reimbur&s;ement, The &s;aid Lands &amp; Rents may return to the Crown again, we being re&s;olved in the mean time to ca&s;t our Self on the love of our Subjects for our fu|ture &s;upport: And if the Parliament (that &s;hall next be call'd) &s;hall not think fit to give us a reparation, &amp; &s;uch a competent revenue as we might expect, we have learned, and &s;hall &s;ubmit (if there be occa&s;ion) to the condition of the meane&s;t of our Predece&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the Purcha&s;ers of Bi&s;hops and Deans and Chapters Lands and Rents, being in like &s;ort &s;atisfied, their purcha&s;e-mo|ny and intere&s;t by the profits &amp; further payment, till they be re|imbur&s;ed, that then the &s;aid Lands and Rents &s;hall be conferred on the Clergy and Mini&s;try, as the next Parliament &s;hall ordain.</P>
<P N="7">7. That as &s;oon as Writs can be i&s;&s;ued, a free and legal Parli|ament &s;hall be &s;ummoned, and the privileges thereof maintain|ed, without any exemption to any per&s;on what&s;oever, being le|gally cho&s;en and returned, according to the antient Laws and Cu&s;toms of <HI>Englund</HI> in that ca&s;e provided.</P>
<P N="8">8. That the Parliament &s;hall be de&s;ired by us (and with whom we &s;hall concur) to take care for the &s;etling of the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, and the publick wor&s;hip of God (with liberty for tender Con&s;ciences) and for the providing for the Mini&s;try in the fir&s;t place, as being the mo&s;t weighty affair, and ought to be preferred before any other Concernment what&s;oever, without which no ble&s;&s;ing from above can be expected upon our Government.</P>
<P N="9">9. That if the Parliement &s;hall pa&s;s an Act of general Pardon, (and if they &s;hall de&s;ire tho&s;e &s;even per&s;ons by us intended to be executed, &s;hall be included, and giving us &s;atisfactory rea&s;ons for the &s;ame) we &s;hall concur with them therein.</P>
<P N="10">10. That the affairs of the Land and our Government &s;hall be Con&s;tantly regulated and managed by Parliaments, and that the Act for Triennial Parliaments &s;hall be by us duly ob&s;erved.</P>
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<P>We acknowledge it is very difficult, if not impo&s;&s;ible, to plea&s;e all, e&s;pecialy where there are &s;o many divi&s;ions, and every man almo&s;t of a &s;everal mind and opinion: But as we have propo&s;ed too ur Self, &s;o &s;hall we endeavour to give all rea&s;ona|ble Satisfaction to all our Subjects. And if the Actings of the Repre&s;entatives in a Free Parliament of their own choice can &s;a|tisfie them, we &s;hall not be wanting in &s;ummoning and concur|ring with them: But if that will not plea&s;e them, nothing will.</P>
<P>Now, if the&s;e conde&s;centions of ours &s;hall have &s;o much free|dome of pa&s;&s;age in <HI>England,</HI> as many a &s;currilous and lying Pamphlet fly abroad without our control, we are confident that all of under&s;tanding, that are not wilfully blinded, or not over-&s;wayed with pre&s;ent &s;elf-intere&s;t, thereby knowing our large Offers, mu&s;t needs be fully convinced of the amplitude thereof, extending to all their grievances.</P>
<P>However, if it &s;hall be in&s;tanced wherein we are too &s;hort, (for we are ready, for the Good, and Peace of the Nation, to give large &s;atisfaction, and ample a&s;&s;urance to our mo&s;t invete|rate Enemies;) We having yeelded to all matters of mo&s;t im|portance, &s;hall not &s;tick at le&s;&s;er things.</P>
<P>And if any that have been adherers and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to our late royal Father and us, &s;hall think we are herein too free and indulgent to &s;uch, and &s;o many open and profe&s;&s;ed Enemies; and that we have made no provi&s;ion for our Servants, and Friends; we de&s;ire them all to con&s;ider our own, and al&s;o their Conditions, and how things now &s;tand in <HI>England;</HI> that neither we, nor them|&s;elvs, can otherwi&s;e (in any probability) better our &s;elvs, unle&s;s by a bloody and hazzardous War; which though we cannot doubt of the lawfullne&s;&s;e on our part, and con&s;equently a pro&s;|&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e, if we &s;hall be nece&s;&s;itated thereto for the recovery of our ju&s;t right, yet we are a&s;&s;ured, that the God of peace will rather pro&s;per a peaceable than violent and forceable entrance: And therefore we hope all tho&s;e our friends, and lo|ving Subjects, will re&s;t fully &s;atisfied with that we &s;hall do pur|&s;uant to the&s;e propo&s;itions, we being de&s;irous hereafter to con&s;i|der their &s;ufferings (though not comparable to ours) as God &s;hall enable, and in all ju&s;t and lawfull ways.</P>
<P>And now we wi&s;h, that all the people of <HI>England</HI> would re|member how they have performed their Prote&s;tations, Oaths, Vows, Solemn League and Covenant: But to in&s;tance in no
<PB N="4" REF="4" MS="y">more than the Honour and Priviledges of Parliament, the foun|dation of all their laws, which they have &s;o often &s;worn and vowed to maintain with their liues and fortunes: what face of a Parliament they have now left, which &s;hould con&s;i&s;t of three E&s;tates, King, Hou&s;e of Peers, and Hou&s;e of Commons: The two fir&s;t wholly de&s;troyed: And what of the la&s;t is in being (not to mention at lea&s;t 150 that at the beginning of the Wars left them and went to <HI>Oxford</HI>) when a con&s;iderable number of their own party prote&s;ted again&s;t their proceedings, and de&s;erted the Hou&s;e; How many impri&s;oned, and what great numbers by force expul&s;ed by that late bloody &amp; hypocritical U&s;urper, which actions of his (though they were a main &s;tep to his intended Throne and Tyrannical Goverment) yet are to well reli&s;hed, By that Tail of a Parliament remaining, that they are re&s;olved neither to readmit the per&s;ons &s;o illegally and injurious&s;ly expell|ed, nor to fill up the void places of any removed or dead: &s;o that in a few year<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, what by death and new expul&s;ion., they may reduce them&s;elvs to the number of tho&s;e infamous Tyrants of <HI>Athens,</HI> and if they can e&s;tabli&s;h them&s;elvs by their de&s;igned <HI>Militia,</HI> and that they may thereby be able to command their now ma&s;ters, the Sword-men, and Ca&s;hire them, they will mod|d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;uch a nevv Army as &s;hall be in &s;ubjection to them, and then Vote them&s;elvs, their Sons, and Nephews, a Parliament for ever,</P>
<P>Let tho&s;e that have generous <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Spirits &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider into what a Labyrinth of woe and: mi&s;ery they have run them|&s;elvs and now lyc under; what a confu&s;ion there is in Church and State; that what hath been gotten by blood and rapine, mu&s;t be &s;o upheld; The Government the&s;e U&s;urpers would &s;ettle, not being to be maintained, but by continual Armies &amp; Navies, and he &s;upport of the&s;e mu&s;t be Taxes, Exci&s;e, Free-quarterings, and chargeable <HI>Militia</HI>'s and other un&s;upportable burdens to perpetuity&punc;</P>
<P>Now let the whole Nation beg and implore a ble&s;&s;ing from the Father of Mercies, and let them all be of one heart and one mind, to free them&s;elvs of the&s;e Iron yokes and heavy pre&s;&s;ures, and joyn and concur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> with us, in e&s;abli&s;hing a peaceable Go|vernment, to the great joy and happine&s;s of the hone&s;t and true-hearted, and to the sdvancement of the true Prote&s;tant Religion and God glory. And let them all unanimou&s;ly with one Voyce &s;ay, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>A true Copy taken from the Original.</P>
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<HEAD>A <HI>Letter</HI> to the Right Honorable The Lord <HI>LAMBERT.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>LEt it not be a Trouble to you to read a few Lines from one unknown, but a much ho|nourer of your Noble Spirit, and therefore de&s;irous to ca&s;t in this dram of Advice among tho&s;e many &amp; weighty Debates now before you.</P>
<P>If I &s;hould tell you of divers that had a power or capacity to contribute to, or re&s;tore Peace to the&s;e Nations, and have neglected the oportuni|ties which they have &s;ince repented of, I am confident you would, even your &s;elf, point put the men; namely, <HI>E&s;&s;ex, Fairfax, Waller, Ma&s;&s;ey, Brown, Rich, Cromwell,</HI> and others.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> We look upon you at this in&s;tant as ha|ving the whole &s;trength of the Nation in your hands; but if you expect to hold it long, you will be mi&s;erably deceived: Therefore I be&s;eech you make good u&s;e of this happy opportunity, and con&s;ider how great you may make your &s;elf, and how glorious you will be to po&s;terity, if you be a means of laying the Government on the &s;houl|ders of Him that ought to bear it, which will in an in&s;tant re&s;tore a happy Peace and Settlement to this di&s;tracted Nation: Certainly the great|e&s;t e&s;t honour, and a better e&s;tate than any <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Subject enjoyes &s;hall be your reward. But if you doubt how the Souldier, and Per&s;ons deeply
<PB N="6" REF="5">concerned, that &s;hall concur with you &s;hall be &s;ecured and &s;atisfied; See this Deelaration, that to my knowledge hath been near three months in this Town, and perhaps not yet come to your view. Con&s;ider of it, and &s;ee, if all your own &s;ee|kings, both from Our Hand, and another in par|ticulars be not here an&s;wered. Lay your Hand on your Heart, for are you not thereby convin|ced? or would you know under what. Govern|ment the people would re&s;t mo&s;t &s;atisfied, either a Single Per&s;on, Council of State, Parliament or Army? Appoint &s;uch a way as every man may without fear or danger give in his vote un|di&s;covered. To begin only with this Town; Let the Clerk of every Company, or Con&s;table of every Ward take a Ticket in Paper from e|very man, and put it into a Box locked and &s;eal|ed, and you will find Nine parts of Ten encline to that Con&s;titution we have lived under above the&s;e five hundred years: But if not, you will however by this cour&s;e give great &s;atisfaction to the People, in letting them have each an oppor|tunity of declaring their minds, and thereby you will be rightly informed of their affections; which being weighed in the ballance of your judgement, you may with confidence and a&s;&s;u|rance &s;teer on a &s;traight cour&s;e to the Haven of Happine&s;s and Safety.</P>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> I conceive I have done my duty in declaring my mind, and have no more to &s;ay, but that you do as God &s;hall put in your Heart, and then go on and pro&s;per.</P>
<CLOSER><DATE>Octob. 14. 1659.</DATE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble and faithful Servant, <HI>S. L.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>A LETTER To the Right Honorable The Lord <HI>LAMBERT,</HI> From a Lover of Peace and Truth. Being a mo&s;t faithful Advice how to chu&s;e the &s;afe&s;t way to the happy Ending of all our Di&s;tractions.</P>
<P><HI>Al&s;o,</HI> A DECLARATION FROM The KING of <HI>SCOTS,</HI> How the <HI>Army</HI> &s;hall be fully &s;atisfied all their Arrears, with a large Overplus.</P>
<P>TOGETHER WITH An A&s;&s;urance and Indempnity to all that have been engaged and active in any the late Wars. That all Armies &s;hall be disbanded, and his Goverment alwayes regulated by a free and full Parliament, triennially to be cal|led: And, The People &s;ecured of their Liberties, and ea&s;ed of all Illegal Burthens and Taxes.</P>
<P>Printed in the Year, 1659.</P>
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<PB REF="6">
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<HEAD>A LETTER to the right honorable The Lord <HI>LAMBERT.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>LEt it not be a trouble to you to read a few Lines from one unknown, but a much honorer of your Noble Spirit, and therefore de&s;irous to ca&s;t in his dram of Advice among tho&s;e many and weighty Debates now before you.</P>
<P>If I &s;hould tell you of divers that had a power or capacity to contribute to, or re&s;tore Peace to the&s;e Nations, and have neglected the Opportunities, which they have &s;ince repented of, I am confident you would, even your &s;elf, point out the men; namely, <HI>E&s;&s;ex, Fairfax, Waller, Ma&s;&s;ey, Browne, Rich, Cromwell,</HI> and others.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> We look upon you at this in&s;tant as having the whole &s;trength of the Nation in your hands, but if you expect to hold it long, you will be mi&s;era|bly deceived: Therefore I be&s;eech you make good u&s;e of this happy opportunity, and con&s;ider how great you may make your &s;elf, and how glorious you will be to po&s;terity, if you be a means of laying the Government on the &s;houlders of Him that ought to bear it, which will in an in&s;tant re&s;tore a happy Peace and Settlement to this di&s;tracted Na|tion: Certainly, the greate&s;t honour, and a better e&s;tate than any <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Subject enjoys &s;hall be your reward. But if you doubt how the Souldier and Per&s;ons deeply concerned, that &s;hall concur with
<PB N="2" REF="7">you &s;hall be &s;ecured and &s;atisfied; See this Declara|tion, that to my knowledge hath been neer Three Moneths in this Town, and perhaps not yet come to your view. Are you not thereby convinced, or would you know under what Government the People would re&s;t mo&s;t &s;atisfied, either a Single Per&s;on, Council of State, Parliament, or Army? Ap|point &s;uch a way as every man may without fear or danger give in his vote undi&s;covered: To begin only with this Town; Let the Clerk of every Company, or Con&s;table of every Ward, take a Ticket in Pa|per from every man, and put it into a Box locked and &s;ealed, and you will find Nine parts of Ten encline to that Con&s;titution we have lived under above the&s;e five hundred years: But if not, you will however by this cour&s;e give great &s;atisfaction to the People, in letting them have each an opportunity of declaring their minds, and thereby you will be rightly informed of their affections; which being weighed in the ballance of your judgement, you may with confidence and a&s;&s;urance &s;teer on a &s;traight cour&s;e to the Haven of Happine&s;s and Safety.</P>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> I conceive I have done my duty in declaring my mind, and have no more to &s;ay, but that you do as God &s;hall put in your heart, and then go and pro&s;per.</P>
<CLOSER><DATE><HI>Octob.</HI> 14. 1659.</DATE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble and faithful Servant <HI>S. L.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="3" REF="7">
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>CHARLES</HI> R.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE having lately received an Overture from &s;ome per|&s;ons in <HI>England,</HI> with a &s;eeming pretence of a Peace and Reconcilement betwixt Us and our Subjects of <HI>England,</HI> and although they acknowledge them&s;elves few in number, and not &s;o well re&s;olved as to tru&s;t us with their Names, yet undertake on the behalf of many thou&s;ands, to make good their propo&s;itions to us conditionally, that we grant and a&s;&s;ure unto them, their (as they call them, rea&s;onable and mode&s;t) reque&s;ts; whether the&s;e mens Intentions are ju&s;t and upright, as they pretend, or whether with <HI>Jo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">b's</HI> Salutation to <HI>Abner,</HI> they would entrap us to our de&s;truction; or with <HI>Shimei,</HI> come the fir&s;t of all the Hou&s;e of <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> to meet us, not being able to &s;upport them&s;elves in their decaying Condition, we &s;hall not be much de&s;irous to enquire after: Only from hence we take occa&s;ion to let tho&s;e per&s;ons, and all the world know, that we are ready to grant to all our Subjects (&s;ome very few excepted) more then they can have the confidence to expect from us: Yet let not any ra&s;h Judgement condemn us for our large Offers, as being in &s;o low, and forlorn a Condition, as never any Chri&s;tian Prince for many Ages, hath been; That we are forward in promi&s;es, though intend little or no performance: We &s;ay, were our calamity more heavy upon us, (which can hardly be) we &s;hall not be drawn by the greate&s;t allurements and advantages to pa&s;&s;e our engagement for any thing we are not fully re&s;olved to perform, which being chiefly for the general good and peace of all our Subjects, we can|not but hope for a happy Succe&s;&s;e to en&s;ue, and therefore do de|clare that (if peaceably receiv'd) we &s;hall forthwith grant,</P>
<P N="1">1. A general and free pardon to all (&s;even of tho&s;e only ex|cepted, which were the bloody Judges and Murderers of the King our Father.</P>
<P N="2">2. That all the Armies &s;hall be within &s;ix months disbanded, if Moneys for their &s;atisfaction can in a Parliamentary way be &s;o &s;oon rai&s;ed, and that they &s;hall have all Arrears fully payed them, and three months pay over and above to every common Soldier, for their better removal and &s;ettlement, in their former or better way and place of living.</P>
<P N="3">3. That the Armies being &s;o &s;atisfied and disbanded, no Sol|dier &s;hall be continued, but in the ancient Garri&s;ons, accu&s;tomed on the Sea Coa&s;ts, and that no new Army &s;hall be rai&s;ed, or any
<PB N="4" REF="8">Fleet by us &s;et forth to Sea, upon any occa&s;ion what&s;oever, but by con&s;ent of Parliament.</P>
<P N="4">4. That not any of our Subjects &s;hall be burdened with Taxes, Exci&s;e, Free-quarterings, or other illegal payments or pre&s;&s;ures, or any Oaths impo&s;ed, nor any debarred of their Liberties, que&s;tioned for their Lives or E&s;tates, for any cau&s;e or pretence what&s;oever, but by the ancient and known Laws of the Land, ac|cording to <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> and the Petition of Right.</P>
<P N="5">5. That the Purcha&s;ers of Crown Lands and Rents being &s;atis|fied their purcha&s;e mony and Intere&s;ts by the Profits thereof, and further payment to their full Reimbur&s;ement: The &s;aid Lands and Rents may return to the Crown again; we being re&s;olved in the mean time to ca&s;t our Self on the Love of our Subjects for our fu|ture &s;upport: And if the Parliament (that &s;hal next be called) &s;hal not think fit to give us a reparation, &amp; &s;uch a competent revenue as we might expect, we have learned, and &s;hal &s;ubmit (if there be occa&s;ion) to the Condition of the meane&s;t of our Predece&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the purcha&s;ers of Bi&s;hops, and Deans and Chapters Lands, and Rents, being in like &s;ort &s;atisfied their purcha&s;e mo|ny and Intere&s;t by the profits and further payment, till they be re|imbur&s;ed, that then the &s;aid Lands and Rents &s;hall be conferred on the Clergy and Mini&s;tery, as the next Parliament &s;hall ordain.</P>
<P N="7">7. That as &s;oon as Writs can be i&s;&s;ued, a free and legal Parlia|ment &s;hall be &s;ummoned, and the Privileges thereof maintained, without any exemption to any per&s;on what&s;oever, being legally cho&s;en and returned, according to the ancient Laws and Cu&s;tomes of <HI>EngLand</HI> in that ca&s;e provided.</P>
<P N="8">8. That the Parliament &s;hall be de&s;ired by us (and with whom we &s;hal concur, to take care for the &s;etling of the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, and the publick wor&s;hip of God (with liberty for tender Con&s;ciences,) and for the providing for the Mini&s;try in the fir&s;t place, as being the mo&s;t weighty affair, and ought to be preferred before any other Concernment what&s;oever, without which no ble&s;&s;ing from above can be expected upon our Government.</P>
<P N="9">9. That if the Parliament &s;hall pa&s;&s;e an Act of general pardon, (and if they &s;hall de&s;ire tho&s;e &s;even per&s;ons by us intended to be executed, &s;hall be included, and giving us &s;atisfactory rea&s;ons for the &s;ame) we &s;hall concur with them therein.</P>
<P N="10">10. That the Affairs of the Land and our Government, &s;hall be con&s;tantly regulated and managed by Parliaments, and that the Act for Triennial Parliaments &s;hall be by us duly ob&s;erved.</P>
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<P>We acknowledge it is very difficult, if not impo&s;&s;ible to plea&s;e all, e&s;pecially where there are &s;o many divi&s;ions, and every man almo&s;t of a &s;everal mind and opinion: But as we have propo&s;ed to our Self, &s;o &s;hall we endevour to give all rea&s;ona|ble Satisfaction to all our Subjects. And if the Actings of the Repre&s;entatives in a Free Parliament of their own choice can &s;a|tisfie them, we &s;hall not be wanting in &s;ummoning and concur|ring with them: But if that will not plea&s;e them, nothing will.</P>
<P>Now, if the&s;e conde&s;centions of ours &s;hall have &s;o much free|dome of pa&s;&s;age in <HI>England,</HI> as many a &s;currilous and lying Pamphlet flye abroad without our control, we are confident that all of under&s;tanding, that are not wilfully blinded, or not over-&s;wayed with pre&s;ent &s;elf-intere&s;t, thereby knowing our large Offers, mu&s;t needs be fully convinced of the amplitude thereof, extending to all their grievances.</P>
<P>However, if it &s;hall be in&s;tanced wherein we are two &s;hort, (for we are ready for the Good, and Peace of the Nation, to give large &s;atisfaction, and ample a&s;&s;urance to our mo&s;t invete|rate Enemies;) We having yielded to all matters of mo&s;t im|portance, &s;hall not &s;tick at le&s;&s;er things.</P>
<P>And if any that have been adherers and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to our late royal Father and us, &s;hall think we are herein to free and indulgent to &s;uch, and &s;o many open and profe&s;&s;ed Enemies; and that we have made no provi&s;ion for our Servants, and Friends; we de&s;ire them all to con&s;ider our own, and al&s;o their Conditions, and how things now &s;tand in <HI>England;</HI> That neither we, nor them|&s;elves, can otherwi&s;e (in any probability) better our &s;elves, unle&s;s by a bloody and hazzardous War; which though we cannot doubt of the lawfulne&s;s on our part, and con&s;equently a pro|&s;perous &s;ucce&s;s, if we &s;hall be nece&s;&s;itated thereto for the recovery of our ju&s;t right, yet we are a&s;&s;ured that the God of peace will rather pro&s;per a peaceable then violent and forceable entrance: And therefore we hope all tho&s;e our friends, and lo|ving Sujects, will re&s;t fully &s;atisfied with what we &s;hall do pur&s;u|ant to the&s;e propo&s;itions, we being de&s;irous hereafter to con&s;i|der their &s;ufferings (though not comparable to ours) as God &s;hall enable, and in all ju&s;t and lawful ways.</P>
<P>And now we wi&s;h that all the people of <HI>England</HI> would re|member how they have performed their Prote&s;tations, Oaths, Vows, Solemn League and Covenant: But to in&s;tance in no
<PB N="6" REF="9">more then the Honour and Priviledges of Parliament, the foun|dation of all their laws, which they have &s;o often &s;worn and vowed to maintain with their lives and fortunes: What face of a Parliament they have now left, which &s;hould con&s;i&s;t of three E&s;tates, King, Hou&s;e of Peers, and Hou&s;e of Commons: The two fir&s;t wholly de&s;troyed: And what of the la&s;t is in being (not to mention at lea&s;t 150 that at the beginning of the Wars left them and went to <HI>Oxford</HI>) when a con&s;iderable number of their own party prote&s;ted again&s;t their proceedings and de&s;erted the Hou&s;e: How many impri&s;oned, and what great numbers by force expul&s;ed by that late bloody &amp; hypocritical U&s;urper, which actions of his (though they were a main &s;tep to his intended Throne and Tyrannical Government) yet are &s;o well reli&s;hed, by that Tail of a Parliament remaining, that they are re&s;olved nei|ther to readmit the per&s;ons &s;o illegally and injuriou&s;ly expelled, nor to fill the up the void places of any removed or dead; &s;o that in a few years, what by death, and new expul&s;ions, they may reduce them&s;elves to the number of tho&s;e infamous Tyrants of <HI>Athens,</HI> and if they can e&s;tabli&s;h them&s;elves by their de&s;igned <HI>Militia,</HI> and that they may thereby be able to command their now Ma&s;ters the Sword-men, and Ca&s;hire them, they will mod|dle &s;uch a new Army as &s;hall be in &s;ubjection to them, and then Vote Them&s;elves their Sons, and Nephews, a Parliament for ever.</P>
<P>Let tho&s;e that have generous <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Spirits &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider into what a Labyrinth of woe and mi&s;ery they have run them|&s;elves and now lye under; what a confu&s;ion there is in Church and State; that what hath been gotten by blood and rapine, mu&s;t be &s;o upheld. The Government the&s;e U&s;urpers would &s;ettle, not being to be maintained, but by continual Armies and Navies, and the &s;upport of tho&s;e mu&s;t be Taxes, Exci&s;e, Free-quarterings, and chargeable <HI>Militia's,</HI> and other un&s;upportable burdens to per|petuity.</P>
<P>Now let the whole Nation beg and implore a ble&s;&s;ing from the Father of Mercies, and let them all be of one heart and one mind, to free them&s;elves of the&s;e Iron yokes and heavy pre&s;&s;ures, and joyn and concur with us, in e&s;tabli&s;hing a peaceable Govern|ment, to the great joy and happine&s;&s;e of the hone&s;t and true-hearted, and to the advancement of the true Prote&s;tant Religion and Gods glory. And let them all unanimou&s;ly with one Voyce &s;ay, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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