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<P>ARTICLES OF PEACE BETWEEN CHARLES KING OF <HI>GREAT BRITAIN, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> to the PARLIAMENT</P>
<P>With <HI>JOHN</HI> the 4. King of <HI>Portugal, Algerres, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o, His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> &s;everall Me&s;&s;ages to both Hou&s;es.</P>
<P>With the Parliaments re&s;pective An&s;wers thereunto.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> printed for <HI>J. Harri&s;on.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles of Peace betweene <HI>Charles</HI> King of of <HI>Great Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> with <HI>John</HI> the <HI>4.</HI> King of <HI>Por|tugall,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THis Kingdome being dangerou&s;ly involved in di&s;tempers, di&s;tracti|ons, feares, and approaching cala|mities, his Maje&s;ty hath taken into his Princely care, the manifold di&s;turbances thereof; and for the better &s;ecurity of the Kingdome from the &s;uppo&s;itory in|va&s;ion of any forreigne power, his Ma|je&s;ty hath concluded 21. Articles of peace and commerce betweene <HI>John</HI> the 4. King of <HI>Portugal;</HI> The full &s;cope and &s;ence of tho&s;e Articles run thus (as hath bin col|lected from a Copie &s;ent from his Ma|je&s;tie.</P>
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<P><HI>That the King of Great Britain, and the King of</HI> Portugall <HI>&s;hall be united in a bro|therly peace.</HI></P>
<P><HI>That any War, or the intention thereof be|twixt either Kingdomes, &s;hall be prevented during this Treati&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>That any Subject in either Kingdomes, (excluding onely tho&s;e of the Romi&s;h Reli|gion) &s;hall have liberty of Commerce &amp; free trafficke in the &s;aid Kings Dominions.</HI></P>
<P><HI>That free Commerce &s;hall be made a&s;well by Sea as Land, and in every Territory by the &s;ubjects of each Kingdome.</HI></P>
<P><HI>That no violation or extremity of impri|&s;onment &s;hall be offered unto any per&s;on, but if any Merchants of either part be engaged to any other man for Merchandi&s;e, that con|tentive &s;atisfaction &s;halbe fully made with|in a yeare and a day.</HI></P>
<P><HI>That this unite confederation and accord betwixt both Kingdomes &s;hall continue invi|olable.</HI></P>
<P>There are (I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e impartially) more words expre&s;&s;ed at length in the Articles, but the full &s;ence and intent of them includes no more then I have here declared. Notwith&s;tanding his Maje&s;ty hath ab&s;olutely concluded the&s;e Arti|cles of peace and Commerce betwixt the King of <HI>Portugal,</HI> yet the Parliament have not &s;ub&s;cribed, conde&s;cended, or given their a&s;&s;ent thereunto: Wherefore it is now my intended re&s;olution to revolve certaine pa&s;&s;ages and Me&s;&s;ages betweene the King and the Parliament, &s;ent to each other.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty profe&s;&s;eth in one Me&s;&s;age, that he will &s;hut his eares again&s;t any that would incline him to a Civill Warre, and doth abhorre the ap|prehen&s;ion of it, whereof the Parliament and o|thers have had cau&s;e to be &s;u&s;pitious, who reply|ed to his Maje&s;ty in this manner, That they did confe&s;&s;e it was a re&s;olution mo&s;t worthy of a Prince; but they could not beleeve that mind to have beene in tho&s;e that came with his Maje&s;ty in a warlike manner to the Hou&s;e of Commons, or in tho&s;e that accompanied his Maje&s;ty to <HI>Hamp|ton Court,</HI> and appeared in a Ho&s;tile manner at <HI>King&s;tone upon Thames,</HI> or in divers others that followed his Maje&s;ty lately to <HI>Hull,</HI> or in tho&s;e that after drew their Swords at <HI>Yorke,</HI> demanding who would be for the King; or in tho&s;e that ad|vi&s;ed his Maje&s;ty to declare Sir <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> a Traytor, before the Me&s;&s;age was &s;ent concerning that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to the Parliament, or to make pro|po&s;itions to the Gentlemen of the County of
<PB REF="5"><HI>Yorke</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t his Maje&s;tie to proceed again&s;t him in a way of force before he had, or po&s;&s;ibly could receive an An&s;wer from the Parliament, to whom he had &s;ent to demand Ju&s;tice of them again&s;t Sir <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> for that fact.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty tells them, that in&s;tead of giving his Maje&s;tie &s;atisfaction concerning that bu&s;ines, they publi&s;hed a Declaration, as an appeale to the people, and as if their intercour&s;e with his Ma|je&s;tie, and for his &s;atisfaction were now to no pur|po&s;e, which cour&s;e of the Parliament is alledged to bee very unagreeable to the mode&s;ty and dutie of former times, and not warrantable by any Pre|&s;idents, but what their &s;elves have made.</P>
<P>The Parliament an&s;wer, That both Hou&s;es (e|&s;pecially being burthened as they were at that time with &s;o many pre&s;sing and urgent Affaires) could not move as fa&s;t as him&s;elfe, otherwi&s;e they would have &s;ent it to his Maje&s;tie by a Com|mittee of both Hou&s;es, whereby it plainely doth appeare, that they did it not upon that ground, that they thought it was no more to any purpo&s;e to endeavour to give his Maje&s;ty &s;atisfaction; and as for the duty and mode&s;ty of former times, from which they are &s;aid to have varied, and to want the warrant of any pre&s;idents therein, but what their &s;elves have made; but if they have made any Pre&s;idents this Parliament, they have made them for po&s;terity, and upon the &s;ame and better grounds of rea&s;on and Law, then tho&s;e were, which their Predece&s;&s;ours fir&s;t made any for them; and
<PB REF="5">as &s;ome Pre&s;idents ought not to be Rules for them to follow: &s;o none can be limits to bound their proceedings, which may, and mu&s;t vary, according to the different condition of times: And for this particular of &s;etting forth Declarations for the &s;atisfaction of the people, who have cho&s;en and intru&s;ted them with all that is deare&s;t to them, (they &s;ay) if there be no example for it, it is be|cau&s;e there were never any &s;uch Mon&s;ters before, that ever attempted to di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ffect the people from a Parliament, or could ever harbour a thought, that it might be effected: and (they &s;ay al&s;o) that if they have do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e more then ever their Ance&s;tours have done before, they have &s;uffered more then ever they have &s;uffered.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty declareth, That there is no legall power in either or both Hou&s;es of Parliament upon any pretence what&s;oever, without his Maje|&s;ties cen&s;ent to command a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">y part of the Militia of the Kingdome.</P>
<P>The Parliament affirmeth contrarily, and that they may di&s;po&s;e of any thing, wherein his Maje|&s;tie, or any Subjects hath a right in &s;uch a way, as that the Kingdome may not bee expo&s;ed to any hazzard or danger, but may be &s;ecured thereby.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie proclaimeth Sir <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> a Traitor, and declareth that <HI>Hull</HI> is his owne pro|perly, and that his intention to goe thither was onely to vi&s;it the Magazine.</P>
<P>The Parliament an&s;wer and proclaime Sir <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> a faithfull Servant of theirs, and that <HI>Hull</HI>
<PB REF="6">is no more his Maje&s;ties owne, then the Kingdom is his owne.</P>
<P>The Parliament cannot beleeve, that any man, that &s;hall &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider the circum&s;tances of that journey to <HI>Hull,</HI> can thinke that his Maje&s;ty would have gone thither at that time, and in that po&s;ture, that he plea&s;ed to put him&s;elfe in towards the Parliament, if he had intended onely a vi&s;it of the Towne, and his owne Magazine.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie de&s;ireth to know, what the malig|nant partie is, which the Parliament &s;o often pre&s;|&s;eth on him.</P>
<P>The Parliament telleth him, that for the ma|lignant partie his Maje&s;tie needeth not a definiti|on of the Law, nor yet a more full Character of them from both Hou&s;es of Parliament for to find them out: if hee will plea&s;e onely to apply the Character, that him&s;elfe hath made of them, to tho&s;e to whom it doth duly and properly belong, who are &s;o much di&s;affected to the peace of the Kingdome, as they that indeavour to di&s;affect his Maje&s;tie from the Hou&s;es of Parliament, and per|&s;wade him to at &s;uch a di&s;tance from them both in place and affection: This is that malignant party and if his Maie&s;tie would be plea&s;ed to remove them from about him, it would be the more effe|ctuall meanes to compo&s;e all the di&s;tractions, and to cure the di&s;tempers of this Kingdome.</P>
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