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<P>The Kings Maie&s;ties DECLARATION To both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT.</P>
<P>(Which He likewi&s;e recommends to the con&s;ideration of all His loving Subjects)</P>
<P>In An&s;wer to that Declaration pre&s;ented to him by both Hou&s;es of Parliament at <HI>New-market,</HI> the 9^t^h of <HI>March,</HI> 1641.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties Declaration to both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>_THough the Declaration lately pre&s;ented to us at <HI>New-market,</HI> from both Our Hou&s;es of Parliament, be of &s;o &s;trange a nature, in re&s;pect of what We ex|pected (after &s;o many Acts of Grace and Favour to Our People) and &s;ome expre&s;&s;ions in it &s;o diffe|rent from the u&s;uall Language to Princes, that We might well take a very long time to con&s;ider it; Yet the clearne&s;&s;e and up|r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ghtne&s;&s;e of Our Con&s;cience to God, &amp; love to our Subiects, hath &s;upplyed Us with a &s;peedy An&s;wer, and Our unalterable Affection to Our People prevailed with Us, to &s;uppre&s;&s;e that Pa&s;&s;ion, which might well enough become Us, upon &s;uch an Invitation.</P>
<P>We haue recon&s;idered Our An&s;wer of the fir&s;t of this Moneth at <HI>Theobalds,</HI> which is urged to have given ju&s;t cau&s;e of &s;orrow to Our Subjects. Who&s;oever looks over that Me&s;&s;age (which was in effect to tell Us, That if we would not joyne with th m (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n an Act which we conceived might prove prejudiciall and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ngerous to Us and the whole Kingdome) they would make a Law without Us, and impo&s;e it upon Our People) will not thinke that &s;ud|den An&s;wer can be accepted to.</P>
<P>We have little encouragement to Replyes of this nature, when we are told of how little value Our words are like to be w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th you, though they come accompanied with all the Actions of Love and Ju&s;tice (where there is room for Actions to accomp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ny them) yet we cannot but di&s;avow the having any &s;uch evill Councell or Councellors about Us, to our knowledge, as are mentioned, and if any &s;uch be di&s;covered, we will leave them to the Cen&s;ure and Judgement of Our Parliament&punc; In <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he meane time, We cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d wi&s;h, that Our own immediate Actions which We avow, and Our own Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> roughly cen&s;ured and woun|ded, under that common &s;tile of Evill Councellours.</P>
<P>For Our faithfull and zealous affection to the true Prote&s;tant
<PB REF="2"> Profe&s;&s;ion, and Our re&s;olution to concur with our Parliament in any po&s;&s;ible cour&s;e for the propagation of it, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of Popery. We can &s;ay no more then We have already expre&s;&s;ed in Our Declaration to all Our loving Subjects publi&s;hed in <HI>Jan.</HI> la&s;t by the advice of Our Privy Councell, in which We endea|voured to make as lively a Confe&s;&s;ion of our Selfe, in this point, as We were able, being mo&s;t a&s;&s;ured that the con&s;tant Practice of our Life hath been an&s;werable thereunto: And therefore We did rather expect a Te&s;timony, and Acknowledgement of &s;uch Our Zeal and P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ety, then tho&s;e Expre&s;&s;ions We meet with in this Declaration, of any de&s;igne of altering Religion in this Kingdome. And we do (out of the Innocency of Our Soule) wi&s;h, That the Judgements of Heaven may be manife&s;ted upon tho&s;e, who have, or had any &s;uch De&s;igne.</P>
<P>As for the <HI>Scots</HI> troubles, We had well thought that tho&s;e un|happy differences had bin wrapt up in perpetuall &s;ilence, by the Act of Oblivion, which being &s;olemnly pa&s;t in the Parliament<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of both Kingdomes, &s;tops Our mouth from any other Reply then to &s;hew Our great di&s;like for reviving the memory thereof.</P>
<P>If the Rebellion in <HI>Jreland,</HI> (&s;o odious to all Chri&s;tians) &s;eems to have been framed and maintained in <HI>England,</HI> or to have any countenance from hence. We conjure both Our Hou&s;es of Par|liament, and all Our loving Subiects what&s;oever, to u&s;e all po&s;|&s;ible means to di&s;cover and find &s;uch out, that We may joyne in the mo&s;t exemplary vengeance upon them that can be imagined: But We mu&s;t thin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Our &s;elfe highly and cau&s;le&s;ly injured in Our Reputation, if any Declaration, Action, or Expre&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels, any Letter from Count <HI>Ro&s;etti</HI> to the Papi&s;ts, for fa&s;ting and praying, or from <HI>Tre&s;tram Whitcombe,</HI> of &s;trange Speeches u tered in <HI>Jreland,</HI> &s;hall beget any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ealou&s;ie, or mi&s;ap|prehen&s;ion in Out Subjects, of Our Iu&s;tice, Piety and affection it being evident to all vnder&s;tandings, That th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e mi&s;chievous and wicked Rebels are not &s;o capable of great advantage as by having their fal&s;e di&s;cour&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;o far beleeved, as to rai&s;e Fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">res and Jea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;ies to the di&s;traction of thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Kingdome, the onely way to their &s;ecurity: And we cannot expre&s;&s;e a deeper &s;ence of the &s;uf|fering of Our poor prote&s;tant Subjects in that Kingdom, then we have done in Our often Me&s;&s;ages to both Hou&s;es, by which
<PB REF="3"> we have offered, and are &s;till ready to venture Our Royall Per|&s;on for their Redemption, well knowing, that a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> We are (in Our own <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntere&s;t) more concerned in them, &s;o We are to make a &s;trict Accompt to Almighty God for any neglect of Our duty, or their pre&s;ervation.</P>
<P>For the manifold attempts to provoke our late Army, and the Army of the <HI>Scots,</HI> and to ray&s;e a faction in the City of <HI>London,</HI> and other parts of the Kingdome; If it be &s;aid, as relating to us, we cannot without great indignation, &s;uffer Out &s;elfe to be re|proached, to have intended the lea&s;t force or threatning to our Parliament; as the being privie to the bringing up of the Army would imply: wheteas we call God to witne&s;&s;e, we never had any &s;uch thought, or knew of any &s;uch re&s;olution concerning our late Army.</P>
<P>For the Petition &s;hewed to us by Captaine <HI>Legg,</HI> we well remember the &s;ame, and the occa&s;ion of that Conference: Cap|taine <HI>Legg</HI> being lately come out of the North, and repairing to us at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> we asked him of the &s;tate of our Army, and (af|ter &s;ome relation made of it) he told us, that the Commanders and Officers of the Armie had a mind to petition the Parlia|ment, as others of our people had done, and &s;hewed us the co|py of a Petition, which we read, and finding it to be very hum|ble, de&s;iring the Parliament might receive no interruption in the Reformation of the Church and State, to the modell of Queen <HI>Elizabeths</HI> dayes; We told him, We &s;aw no harme in it, VVhereupon he replyed, that he beleeved all the Officers of the Army would like it, onely he thought Sir <HI>Jaccob A&s;hley</HI> would be unwilling to &s;igne it, out of feare it might di&s;plea&s;e Us. We then read the Petition over againe, and then ob&s;erving nothing in matter or forme We conceived could po&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly give iu&s;t cau&s;e of offence, We delivered it to him againe, bidding him give it to Sir <HI>Iacob A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hley,</HI> for who&s;e &s;atisfact on We had written <HI>C. R.</HI> upon it, to te&s;tifie Our approbation; and VVi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h that the Petiti|on might be &s;een and publi&s;hed, and then VVe beleeve it will ap|peare no dangerous one. not a iu&s;t ground for the lea&s;t jealou&s;ie, or mi&s;apprehen&s;ion.</P>
<P>For Ma&s;ter <HI>Iermin,</HI> it is well knowne that he was gone from <HI>Whitehall</HI> before VVe received the de&s;ire of both Hou&s;es for the
<PB REF="3"> re&s;traint of Our &s;ervants: neither returned he thither, or pa&s;&s;ed over by any VVarrant granted by Us after that time.</P>
<P>For the breach of Priviledge in the Accu&s;ation of the Lord <HI>Kymbolton,</HI> and the five Members of the hou&s;e of Commons, VVe tho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ght VVe had given &s;o am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le &s;atisfaction in Our &s;eve|rall Me&s;&s;ages to that purpo&s;e, that it &s;hould be no more pre&s;&s;ed again&s;t us, being confident if the breach of Priviledge had beene greater then hath bin ever before offered, Out acknowledgement and retractation hath beene greater then ever King hath given, be&s;ides the not examining how many of Our Priviledges have beene invaded in defence and vindication of the other; And therefore VVe hoped Our true and earne&s;t Prote&s;tation in Our an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wer to your Order concerning the <HI>Militia,</HI> would &s;o farre have &s;atisfied you of your intentions then, that you would no more have entertained any imagination of any other de&s;igne then VVe there expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>But why the li&s;ting of &s;o many Officers, and entertaining them at <HI>VVhitehall</HI> &s;hould be mi&s;con&s;trued, VVe much marvell, when it is notoriou&s;ly knowne; the tumults at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> were &s;o great, and their demeanours &s;o &s;candalous and &s;editious, that VVe had good cau&s;e to &s;uppo&s;e Our owne Per&s;on, and tho&s;e of Our VVife and Children to be in apparent danger, and therefore VVe had great rea&s;on to appoint a Guard about us, and to ac|cept the dutifull tender of the &s;ervices of any of Our loving Sub|jects, which was all we did to the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court.</P>
<P>For the Lord <HI>Digby,</HI> VVe a&s;&s;ure you in the word of a King, that he had Our VVarrant to pa&s;&s;e the Seas, and had left Our Court before We ever heard of the Vote of the hou&s;e of Com|mons, or had any cau&s;e to imagine that his ab&s;ence would have beene excepted again&s;t.</P>
<P>What your adverti&s;ements are from <HI>Rome, Venice, Paris,</HI> and other parts, or what the <HI>Popes Nun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">io</HI> Sollicites the Kings of <HI>France</HI> or <HI>Spaine</HI> to doe, or from what per&s;ons &s;uch informations come to you, or how the credit and reputation of &s;uch per&s;ons have beene &s;ifted and examined, we know not, but are confident, no &s;ober hone&s;t man in Our Kingdomes can beleeve, that wee are &s;o de&s;perate or &s;o &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e, to entertaine &s;uch De&s;ignes, as
<PB REF="4"> would not onely bury this Our Kingdome in &s;udden di&s;traction and ruine, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur owne Name and Po&s;terity in perpetuall &s;corn and infamy. And therefore we could have wi&s;hed, that in mat|ters of &s;o high and tender a nature (wherewith the minds of Our good Subjects mu&s;t needs be &s;tartled) all the expre&s;&s;ions were &s;o plain and ea&s;ie, that nothing might &s;tick with them with re|flection upon Us, &s;ince you thought fit to publi&s;h it at all.</P>
<P>And having now dealt thus plainly &amp; freely with you by way of An&s;wer to the particular grounds of your Fears, We hope (upon a due con&s;ideration and weighing both together) you will not find the Grounds to be of that moment to beget, or longer to continue a mi&s;under&s;tand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng betwixt Us, or force you to apply your &s;elves to the u&s;e of any other power then what the Law hath given you, the which we alwayes intend &s;hall be the mea&s;ure of Our owne power, and expect it &s;hall be the rule of our Subiects Obedience.</P>
<P>Concerning Our Feares and Iealou&s;ies, as Wee had no inten|tion of accu&s;ing you, &s;o are We &s;ure no words &s;poken by Us (on the &s;udden) at <HI>Theobalds</HI> will bear that Interpretation We &s;aid for Our Re&s;idence neer you VVe wi&s;ht it might be &s;o &s;afe and Honourable, that VVe had no cau&s;e to ab&s;ent Our &s;elf from <HI>White-Hall,</HI> And how this can be a breach of Priviledge of Par|liament VVe cannot vnder&s;tand, VVe explained Our meaning in Our An&s;wer at <HI>New-Market,</HI> at the Pre&s;entation of this De|claration concerning the printed &s;editious pamphlets and Ser|mons, and the great tumults at <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter:</HI> And VVe mu&s;t appeal to you and all the world whether we might not ju&s;tly &s;uppo&s;e Our &s;elf in danger of either, And if we were now at <HI>VVhite-Hall,</HI> what &s;ecurity have we, that the like &s;hall not be againe, e&s;pecially if any Delinquents of that Natu e have been apprehended by the Mini&s;ters of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;tice, And been re&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ued by the people. And &s;o as yet e&s;cape vnpuni&s;hed; Jf you have not been informed of the &s;editious words u&s;ed in, and the circum|&s;tances of tho&s;e Tumults, and will appoint &s;ome way for the Ex|amination of them We will requ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re &s;ome of Ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d Coun|cell to atte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d with &s;uch evidence as may &s;atisfie you, And till that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e done, or &s;ome o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her cout<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e taken for Our &s;ecurity, you cannot (with rea&s;on) wonder that We intend not to be where We mo&s;t de&s;ire to be.</P>
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<P>And can there yet want evidence of Our hearty and importu|nate de&s;ire to joyn with our Parliament, and all Our faithfull Subjects, in defence of the Religion and publique good of the Kingdome; Have we given you no other earne&s;t but words, to &s;ecure you of tho&s;e de&s;ires; The very Remon&s;trance of the Hou&s;e of Commons (publi&s;hed in <HI>November</HI> la&s;t) of the &s;tate of the Kingdome allows vs a more reall Te&s;timonie of our good Affections then words: That Remon&s;trance valued Our Acts of Grace and Ju&s;tice at &s;o high a rate, that it declared the King|dome to be then a gainer, though it had charged it &s;elfe by Bils of Sub&s;idies and Pol-money, with leavy of 600000 pounds, be&s;ides the contracting of a Debt to Our Scots Subjects of 220000 pounds.</P>
<P>Are the Bils for the Trienniall Parliament, For relinqui&s;hing Our Title of Jmpo&s;ing upon Merchand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ze, and Power of Pre&s;|&s;ing of Souldiers, For the taking away the Starchamber, and high Commi&s;&s;ion Courts For the Regulating the Councell Ta|ble, but words? Are the Bills for the Forre&s;ts, the Stannery Courts, The Clerke of the Market, And the taking away the Votes of Bi&s;hops out of the Lords Hou&s;e, but words? La&s;tly, what greater earne&s;t of Our tru&s;t and reliance on Our Parliament could or can we give, then the pa&s;&s;ing of the Bill for the conti|nuance of this pre&s;ent Parliament? The length of which VVe hope will never alter the nature of Parliaments, and the Con|&s;titution of this Kingdome, or invite Our Subjects &s;o much to abu&s;e our Confidence, as to e&s;teem any thing fit for this Par|liament to doe, which were not, if it were in Our power to di&s;|&s;olve it to morrow. And after all the&s;e, and many other Acts of Grace on Our part that VVe m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ght be &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of a perfect Recon|ciliation betwixt Us and all our Subjects) VVe have offered, and are &s;till ready to grant a free and generall Pardon, as amp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e as your &s;elves &s;hall thinke fit. Now if the&s;e be not reall expre&s;&s;i|ons of the Affections of our Soule, for the publike good of Our Kingdome, VVe mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e that We want skill to manife&s;t them.</P>
<P>To conclude (although we thinke our An&s;wer already full to that point) concerning our Returne to <HI>London:</HI> We are willing to Declare, that we looke upon it as a matter of &s;o great weight,
<PB REF="5"> owne inclinations and de&s;ires, that if all we can &s;ay or doe, can rai&s;e a mutuall Confidence (the onely way with Gods ble&s;&s;ing to make us all happy, and by your incouragement the Lawes of the Land, and the government of the City of <HI>London,</HI> may reco|ver &s;ome life for our Security, we will overtake your de&s;ires&punc; and be as &s;oone with you as you can wi&s;h. And in the mean time, we will be &s;ure, that ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ther the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Jreland,</HI> or any o|ther advantage for this Kingdome &s;hall &s;uffer through Our de|fault, or by our ab&s;ence: not being &s;o farre from repenting the Acts of Our Ju&s;tice and Grace, which we have already perfor|med to Our People, that we &s;hall with the &s;ame Alacrity, bee &s;till ready to adde &s;uch new Ones, as may be&s;t advance the peace, Honour, and pro&s;perity of this Nation.</P>
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