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<P>HIS MAIESTIES LAST REMONSTRANCE to the whole KINGDOME OF <HI>ENGLAND,</HI> In vindication of His royall integrity from the calumnious a&s;per&s;ions of &s;ome, who report that He doth only pretend Peace, but not intend it, with His high Court of Parliament.</P>
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<P>By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the Univer&s;itie.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties la&s;t Remon&s;trance to the whole Kingdome of ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<P>_WEe cannot but with great griefe of heart Remon&s;trate and re&s;ent the mi&s;under|&s;tandings of Our good Subjects, who al|though We have with divers &s;erious and con&s;iderate Declarations of Our royall intentions, intimated to them Our de&s;ires and purpo&s;es for a &s;peedy reconciliation between Our Selfe and Our high Court of Parliament, yet they cannot be per&s;waded to give Us credit, divers (as We are credibly informed) &s;u&s;pecting the integritie of Our in|tentions. But it is no great wonder if they will not beleeve Our Prote&s;tations and Declarations in that kinde, when by their incredulity of them they que&s;tion and repugne the De|claration of God him&s;elfe, who tells them that <HI>the hearts of Princes are in his hand;</HI> and neverthele&s;&s;e they will needs be &s;o familiar with Ours, as to know Our very thoughts: nay will be better acquainted with them (by revelation it &s;eems) then We Our &s;elfe, and force Us to intend that which Wee
<PB N="4" REF="3"> never did, nay, to declare that which We never meant; as if We &s;hould go about to per&s;wade Our Subjects, that Wee onely pretended Treaties for an Accommodation with Our Parliament, but never meant them; nay rather the cleane contrary.</P>
<P>But to the &s;atisfaction of all Our loving Subjects, who will be di&s;deceived and di&s;abu&s;ed from all &s;uch &s;u&s;picions and jealou&s;ies of Our integritie; We thought Our Selfe ingaged in Our Princely care to all Our People, and for the expre&s;&s;i|on of Our love and re&s;pect to Our high Court of Parliament, (with whom We de&s;ire more then any earthly thing to be at unity) to remon&s;trate by this Our Declaration Our true and righteous intentions.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, We would de&s;ire all Our good Subjects to take into their &s;erious con&s;ideration the mi&s;eries and calamities which wait upon all wars, e&s;pecially &s;uch as Ours are, nationally civill; and but to ponder, whether they can beleeve a father can delight in the de&s;truction of his children; a King in the ruine of his Subjects, or de&s;olation of his kingdome. Whe|ther they can conjecture, in the ju&s;tice of their con&s;ciences, that We who have been the&s;e eighteen yeares of Our pa&s;&s;ed reigne enriched with all the ble&s;&s;ings that could attend a Soveraigne from the obedience and loialtie of His Subjects, can joy and take felicitie, to behold him&s;elfe (even in an un|lookt for moment) deve&s;ted of the chiefe&s;t attribute of His royaltie. His peoples hearts and affections; nay, and that He &s;hould &s;till de&s;ire to keep them off from Him with &s;pecious and unreall preten&s;ions of a reconcilement, and by that means to aggravate them by tho&s;e delu&s;ions into a more ir|reconcileable di&s;affection; We would have them know, that We are &s;en&s;ible of the many decre&s;cions and diminuti|ons which have been inflicted on Our Royaltie, by rea&s;on of this fatall difference between Our Selfe and Our high Court of Parliament: Wee are not (as they may, at le&s;t &s;hould imagine) &s;o &s;tupid, as not to know that Our Parliament is
<PB N="5" REF="3"> the ma&s;ter-nerve, that knits the body of the Kingdome to the King him&s;elfe; that all Our royall Ance&s;tors, from the beginning of Parliaments to Our owne very Reigne, have had in all their nece&s;&s;ities their be&s;t reliefe from their Parlia|ments; that by the indu&s;try and care of Parliaments all tho&s;e excellent and whole&s;ome lawes (which have &s;o long &s;u|&s;tained the &s;tate of this kingdome in good temper and con|dition at home, and reputation with forraine Nations) have been con&s;tituted and enacted; that the Engli&s;h Parliaments have ever been the ready cure for all di&s;ea&s;es in the Subject, the upholder and maintainer of their Liberties, which cer|tainly Our Selfe have as much endevoured to maintaine and encrea&s;e as any of Our Predece&s;&s;ors: Finally, We are allu|red that Parliament is and mu&s;t be the rectifier of all infirmi|ties, which can be contingent to Our Per&s;on or Po&s;teritie: And therefore very &s;imple mu&s;t tho&s;e per&s;ons be, who can conjecture We &s;hould have no reluctancie at the&s;e di&s;&s;enti|ons, but rather &s;eeke their continuation: and mo&s;t malici|ou&s;ly bent they mu&s;t needs be again&s;t Our integrity and truth, that after &s;o many Declarations and Prote&s;tations of Ours to that purpo&s;e, will not beleeve that We mean tru|ly that pacification between Our Selfe and Parliament, which hath been &s;o often in agitation between Us. For who can be &s;o un&s;en&s;ible as to imagine, much le&s;&s;e report, that We labour the &s;ubver&s;ion of the e&s;&s;ence of Parliaments, in which We are confident the greate&s;t &s;trength of Our Re|gall authority con&s;i&s;ts: as well they may beleeve that Wee &s;hould, to leave a Succe&s;&s;our to Our Crowne of Our owne blood, de&s;troy all Our Princely i&s;&s;ue; or turne Apo&s;tate to the Chri&s;tian Faith, &s;o to be accounted the better Chri&s;tian; as much incongruity there is in the one as in the other. For &s;ure We can never take plea&s;ure to &s;ee Our Self and all that have dependence on Us wretched and undone, as they mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be, if a &s;udden period be not affixed to the diffe|rence betwixt. Our Selfe and Our high Court of Parliament.
<PB N="6" REF="4"> And to de&s;cend to particularize Our di&s;commodities ari|&s;ing to Our Selfe by the&s;e unnaturall di&s;&s;entions: Fir&s;t, Wee behold Our Selfe driven, as it were, from Our Palace at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> and Our other Royall Man&s;ions neere about Our Regall City of <HI>London,</HI> Our Revenues &s;eque&s;tred, Our Fleet with-held, Our Royall Con&s;ort the Queen from Our &s;ociety beyond Sea; and which is mo&s;t to be grieved at, the Lawes of the Land &s;o wi&s;ely and judiciou&s;ly founded for the good of Our people de&s;pi&s;ed and troden on, while&s;t rapine, theft, and inju&s;tice riot over the face of Our Dominions, depre&s;|&s;ing all equity, and violating all the property and right of the Subject, while&s;t the in&s;olence and unbrideled fury of the Souldier runs over all the Realme, in de&s;pite of all the Edicts and Ordinances to the contrary of Our Selfe and Parliament, the unlimited hand of warre inflicting its terrors and puni&s;h|ments upon all, with the &s;ame impartiall licence; many of Our good Subjects having lo&s;t their lives in the&s;e lamen|table quarrels, and many more likely to forfeit theirs, &s;hould the&s;e warres continue: Religion in the mean time wander|ing up and downe our Dominions unreguarded; every man making to him&s;elfe what forme of wor&s;hip he plea&s;eth, and this confu&s;ion by no power of Our authority or Our Parlia|ments endevours being to be remedied. And &s;urely very ignorant mu&s;t hee be of all rea&s;on and di&s;cour&s;e, that will in &s;pight of Our teeths, believe that We affect and pur&s;ue the continuation of the&s;e wofull di&s;tempers, that will not be per|&s;waded but We take delight to &s;ee Our &s;elves robbed of all the benefits and ble&s;&s;ings of peace by the rigour and crueltie of this pre&s;ent civill warre; in which, who ever gaines We are &s;ure to be the greate&s;t lo&s;er, lo&s;ing Our Subjects lives, Our owne tranquillity, nay, the hearts of Our people, the greate&s;t and mo&s;t excellent Royaltie of Kings. If the immen|&s;ity of a mi&s;ery be to be gathered out of the va&s;tne&s;&s;e of a pre|cedent happine&s;&s;e, and he mo&s;t wreched that hath beene formerly mo&s;t fortunate; &s;urely no King can groane under a
<PB N="7" REF="4"> more hideous pre&s;&s;ure of affliction then We doe at this pre|&s;ent, being deprived of the greate&s;t of Our earthly comforts, which Wee have &s;o long and in &s;o large a mea&s;ure injoyed and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, and given over to di&s;contents and di&s;tractions, and therefore they mu&s;t be very repugnant to rea&s;on, and arrant enemies to all po&s;&s;ibility of truth, that will not credit that Wee really intend peace and agreement with Our Court of Parliament: Wee behold tho&s;e of Our No|bility and Gentry, that out of the duty of their fidelity, give their attendance in per&s;on upon Us, walke with di&s;con|tented hearts and down-ca&s;t countenances for the conti|nuation of the&s;e warres, becau&s;e they are for the mo&s;t part ingaged in them again&s;t their kindred, friends and allies; their e&s;tates being as well as their lives in jeopardy, and they rendered odious to the people for their adhering to Our &s;ervice: We behold al&s;o divers of Our good Townes, Cities, and Counties, e&s;pecially Our capitall City of <HI>London,</HI> out of an implicit and de&s;cendent beliefe they have in the integri|ty of the Parliament, de&s;erting Us daily, and with all wil|lingne&s;&s;e offering their lives, e&s;tates and fortunes to the di&s;|po&s;e of the Parliament, who for the defence of their liber|ties, which they &s;u&s;pect We intend, or have intended to vio|late, by rea&s;on of Our &s;o long ab&s;ence from Our high Court of Parliament, mo&s;t of Our followers, being accounted guilty of that advice, being e&s;teemed and declared Malignants to the Common-wealth; and certainly the&s;e are manife&s;t and urgent afflictions to any man, much more to Us, and no means can Wee thinke of to give a timely end to this groaning brood of mi&s;chiefes, but a &s;udden and &s;o long de&s;ired peace. Wee doe hereby remon&s;trate and declare to all Our loving Subjects, That though they, or divers of them may be mi&s;|led by faction or ill advice, to believe that Wee onely pre|tend an Accommodation betweene Our Selfe and Parlia|ment; That Wee doe, as Wee expect God &s;hould ble&s;&s;e and pro&s;per Us, &s;eriou&s;ly, and with integrity intend to &s;etle
<PB N="8" REF="5"> an agreement betweene Our Selfe and Our Parliament, upon &s;uch equall conditions, as &s;hall be both agreeable to Our owne honour, and without the lea&s;t infringement to the li|berty of the Subjects, or the e&s;&s;ence or Priviledges of Par|liament, which &s;ome maliciou&s;ly report Wee goe about to overthrow and dimini&s;h; further, declaring Our Royall plea&s;ure herein, That We &s;hall take it as an act of duty and good con&s;cience toward God and Us, in any of Our Sub|jects, that &s;hall any way endevour to promote and advance peace betweene Our &s;elfe and Parliament, and believe them not to be well affected to the State, that &s;hall hinder or op|po&s;e it, peace being the immediate meanes under the pro|vidence of the Almighty, that mu&s;t &s;etle this Kingdome in its pri&s;tine &s;tate and happine&s;&s;e.</P>
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