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<P>THE KINGS MAIESTIES DEMANDS AND PROPOSITIONS Propounded to the <HI>Lords, Knights</HI> and <HI>Gen|tlemen</HI> of <HI>Stafford&s;hire,</HI> and neer adioyning Counties of <HI>South-Wales,</HI> at <HI>Vxeter</HI> in <HI>Stafford&s;hire,</HI> on <HI>Monday</HI> the 19. of <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P>With their Iudicious An&s;wer to the &s;aid <HI>Propo&s;itions.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o a true Information of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> proceedings &s;ince His arrivall in tho&s;e parts.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Hen. Rydiar,</HI> Septemb. 23. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PROPOSITIONS Of His <HI>Maje&s;tie,</HI> propounded to the <HI>Lords, Knights,</HI> and <HI>Gentlemen</HI> of <HI>Staf|ford &s;hire,</HI> and neere adjoyning Counties of South <HI>Wales, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HIs Maje&s;tie having made his Re&s;idence a long time at <HI>Nottingham,</HI> found that His time and expences there, had avai|led Him little: wherefore He re&s;olved to remove from thence to <HI>Darby,</HI> from <HI>Darby,</HI> into <HI>Stafford|&s;heire</HI> to <HI>&V;xeter;</HI> to the end that He might be fur|ther from the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and nearer to <HI>Wales,</HI> from whence He expected mo&s;t of His Forces &s;hould come.</P>
<P>Where being arrived, He found an unexpected welcome, for in &s;tead of multitudes of people a&s;|&s;embled to entertain Him with applau&s;e, Hee found a little Army of <HI>Knights</HI> and <HI>Gentlemen</HI> ral|lied
<PB N="2" REF="3"> in a Warlike Po&s;ture, rather to oppo&s;e then welcome Him. Wherefore He &s;ent a Herrald to demand the cau&s;e of their appearance in &s;uch a forme of oppo&s;ition? Who being arrived, He re|ceiv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d this An&s;wer: That they appeared rather Petitioners, then oppo&s;ers; neither was it their in|tent, any way to oppo&s;e His Maje&s;tie, whom they were bound to protect, but to defend His Maje|&s;tie, and them&s;elves from the oppre&s;&s;ion, Rapin, and murder of tho&s;e Blood-thir&s;tie Papi&s;ts and o|thers, who had a&s;&s;embled them&s;elves together un|der a pretence of &s;tanding for His Maje&s;tie, when indeed their practi&s;es and endeavours, are only to ruine both Him and His Kingdom. This being apparently known, and &s;eriou&s;ly weigh'd, they found them&s;elves bound in Loyaltie to His Ma|je&s;tie, and in care of their own &s;afety, (now while they had power in their own hands) to provide both for the protection of His Maie&s;tie, and the Peace of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e they delivered to the &s;aid Herald, a &s;hort Scedule, wherein was contained a Declara|tion of their affection, both to the King and Parli|ament, with their Re&s;olution concerning certain Propo&s;itions which they had received from His
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Maje&s;tie by the Lord <HI>Strange.</HI> The effect of which Propo&s;itions was as followeth.</P>
<P N="1">1. That whereas a pre&s;ent Rebellion and actu|all warre was leavied in the South under a pre|tence of &s;tanding for his Maje&s;ty, and for the pro|tection of His &s;acred per&s;on, when in deed it was done by &s;ome factious per&s;ons, who onely ayme at the &s;ubver&s;ion of the Law of the Land, and the known Religion of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> ab&s;o|lutely invading the prerogative of the King, and propriety of the Subiect: wherefore his Maie&s;ty finding him&s;elf bound in con&s;cience to defend all his loving Subiects, from being made &s;ubiect to an Arbitrary Power; And whereas it was not in his power to defend them, or Him&s;elf, without their loyall a&s;&s;i&s;tance, He was forced to demand their Aid for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the pre&s;ent rebellion and in&s;urrection.</P>
<P N="2">2. That whereas a warre of &s;uch con&s;equence and danger cannot be managed and maintained wirhout money, which He was de&s;titute of, by rea&s;on that His Revenue was detained, and all means of &s;ub&s;i&s;ting taken from him, his goods &s;eiz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d on, and his Forts and Ships kept by vio|lence from him: wherefore he was forced (they being obliged thereto, their own &s;ecuritie and
<PB N="4" REF="4"> future freedome lying at &s;take) to demand their utmo&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance both of men, armes and money; which granted, he doubted not but that by Gods protection, he &s;hould reduce tho&s;e in&s;urrections people to their pri&s;tine obedience, and make it a happy return to all tho&s;e that had or &s;hould &s;tand clo&s;e to him in a time of &s;uch danger and di&s;tra|ction.</P>
<P>The&s;e Propo&s;itions they returned this An&s;wer.</P>
<P>That whereas His Maie&s;tie was plea&s;ed to terme that a Rebellion in the South, which was done onely for his own &s;ecuritie, and of who&s;e loyall affections to his Maie&s;tie, they had recei|ved a large te&s;timony: They humbly de&s;ired his Maie&s;tie to recall that &s;candall which he had thrown upon them, it being onely the fruit of the evill Coun&s;ellors about his Maie&s;ty, who for the furtherance of their own de&s;perate &amp; bloody de&s;ignes, &s;trive to make the true Prote&s;tants of this Kingdom (under the notion of Puritans) to appear odious to his Maie&s;tie; &s;o that by that means they might gain &s;trength to them&s;elves, and weaken his Maie&s;tie, by with-drawing the affection of his Subiects from him. As touching his Maie&s;ties de&s;ires, that they &s;hould aid and a&s;|&s;i&s;t him, they promi&s;ed their be&s;t aid again&s;t the
<PB N="5" REF="4"> malignant party of Papi&s;ts, Prelates, Proiectors, under whom they had &s;o long groaned, and by whom his Maie&s;tie had &s;o long been &s;educed to make war again&s;t his loyall Subiects, onely to &s;upport them in their lordly pride, and domi|neering Prelacie. As for his Maie&s;ties &s;ecuritie, they promi&s;ed during his abode there, that what Forces he &s;hould think requi&s;ite for his guard, &s;hould be at his command; and what other &s;up|plies &s;hould be nece&s;&s;ary for Princely &s;upport, and might be agreeable to their dutie. But for any for|ces or a&s;&s;i&s;tance of men or moneys, to be imploy|ed again&s;t the Parliament, both their loyalties to his Maie&s;tie, nor their care of the peace of the Kingdom could no way con&s;ent to.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e they humbly de&s;ired his Maie&s;tie to abandon tho&s;e evill Coun&s;ellors that laboured his de&s;truction, and that he would withdraw his protection from tho&s;e Delinquents, and deliver them up to the iu&s;tice of the Law, that their pu|ni&s;hment might deterre others from offending in the like nature.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e they humbly de&s;ired his Maie&s;tie to throw down his Armes, and embrace his loyall Subiects in the Arms of his love, which was the onely and mo&s;t effectuall means to increa&s;e a
<PB N="6" REF="5"> better obedience, and a firmer obligation of love and peace, then any forces could ever obtain: this if they might obtain, they would be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting, and during life daily pray, &amp;c.</P>
<P>At the receit of this, his Maie&s;ty &s;eemed but little di&s;contented, but with an affable behaviour marcht up to <HI>Vxeter,</HI> where having made his re|&s;idence that night, on the morrow Prince <HI>Robert</HI> with his Troops endeavoured to force men to &s;erve, and to &s;ei&s;e their Armes for the Kings u&s;e: And &s;uch as refu&s;ed he burnt their hou&s;es, in&s;o|much that the County was forced to ri&s;e and fall upon the Troops. So that Prince <HI>Robert</HI> was for|ced to flie to <HI>Vxeter,</HI> for his own &s;ecurity. Very few come in to the King, onely &s;ome raged in|certain Wel&s;h. His Maie&s;tie intends to leave <HI>Vxe|ter</HI> very &s;uddenly, and to go toward <HI>Shrewsbury:</HI> but what his intent is we cannot di&s;cern.</P>
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