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<P>HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS MESSAGE Of the fifth of this in&s;tant May, to both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT;</P>
<P>Occa&s;ioned by a Bill delivered to His MAJESTY from both Hou&s;es by Sir <HI>Robert King,</HI> Knight, and <HI>William Jeph&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Arthur Hill,</HI> E&s;quires,</P>
<P>Intituled, An Act for the &s;peedy payment of Moneys &s;ub&s;cribed to|wards the reducing of the Rebels in <HI>Ireland,</HI> which yet remains unpaid.</P>
<P>Printed by His Maje&s;ties Command at <HI>OXFORD,</HI> By <HI>Leonard Lichfield,</HI> Printer to the Univer&s;itie. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties gracious Me&s;&s;age to both Hou&s;es of Parliament, the fift of May, <HI>1643.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HIs Maje&s;tie hath with great de|liberation con&s;idered &amp; weigh|ed a Bill lately pre&s;ented to Him by Sir <HI>Robert King</HI> Knight, and <HI>William Jeph&s;on</HI> and <HI>Arthur Hill,</HI> E&s;quires, from both Hou&s;es of Parliament, Entituled, <HI>An Act for the &s;peedy payment of Moneys &s;ub&s;cribed towards the reducing of the Rebels in Jreland, which yet remains un|paid.</HI> And though in the&s;e mi&s;erable times of Di&s;traction, when there are Armies (pretended to be leavied by Order of Both Hou&s;es) almo&s;t in eve|ry County of the Kingdom, and all the good old Laws, the ob&s;ervation wher|of would pre&s;erve the publike Peace, violated and &s;uppre&s;&s;ed; when the
<PB N="2" REF="3">Treaty hopefully begun towards an happy Peace, is broken, and the Com|mittee recalled by both Hou&s;es, as if they intended no further overture for laying down Arms, but to decide all differences by the &s;word, The world will ea&s;ily judge whether His Maje&s;ty might not well deny to con&s;ent to any new Act of Parliament, the much ma|jor part of both Hou&s;es being by force and violence driven &amp; kept from tho&s;e Councels, and His Maje&s;ty Him&s;elf not &s;uffered to be pre&s;ent; Yet &s;uch is his compa&s;sion of Soul towards his poor Prote&s;tant Subjects of that His Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> That He would gladly entertain any Expedient, where|by it might be evident the condition of that Kingdom might be releeved, and the Di&s;tractions of this in no danger of being increa&s;ed. And therfore His Ma|je&s;ty
<PB N="3" REF="3">de&s;ires to be &s;atisfied in the&s;e par|ticulars:</P>
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<P><HI>HOw the great and va&s;t &s;ums of Mo|neys already rai&s;ed by the &s;everal Acts of Parl. for the relief of</HI> Ireland, <HI>&amp; which by the Acts ought not to he imployed to any other purpo&s;e then reducing the Rebels, untill they &s;hall be declared to be &s;ubdued, have been expended, His Maje&s;ty having been informed that no le&s;&s;e then one hun|dred thou&s;and pounds of that money was by one Order of one or both Hou&s;es i&s;&s;ued for a maintenance of the Army which hath given him Battell under the Command of the Earl of</HI> E&s;&s;ex.</P>
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<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P><HI>How His Maje&s;ty &s;hall be &s;ecured that the money which by His Maje&s;ties con&s;ent &s;hall be rai&s;ed for the &s;upport of His Army in</HI> Ireland, <HI>&s;hall not for the future be di|verted
<PB N="4" REF="4">from that u&s;e, and imployed again&s;t Him in this Kingdom.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Whether it be ju&s;t to compell his good Subjects, who have &s;ub&s;cribed to pay tho&s;e &s;ub&s;criptions, when as at the time they did &s;ub&s;cribe, they conceived them&s;elves ab|&s;olved from their undertaking, if at any time they were content to forfeit the &s;um mentioned in that Act: For his Maje&s;ty doth not conceive, that by that Act they are liable to pay the whole Sub&s;criptions, but to &s;ubmit to the penalty enjoyned: And then his Maje&s;ty is not &s;atisfied, that by a new law it can be ju&s;t to compell them to what at the fir&s;t they undertook voluntari|ly; and it may be would not have underta|ken but upon the liberty they conceived to be then left them.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Whether the Power given by this new bill
<PB N="5" REF="4">to</HI> VVarner Tow&s;e, and Andrews <HI>(per|&s;ons of who&s;e integrity and affections to the publike Peace, his Maje&s;ty is in no degree &s;atisfied) be not too great; any Certificate of theirs being ground enough to extend the E&s;tate of any Subject in England, whe|ther he ever under-writ or no.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Whether all Lands extended by vertue of this Act, being to continue in extent till all forfeitures be &s;atisfied, it may not be very prejudiciall to Creditors to whom tho&s;e lands are lyable, and &s;o the common ju&s;tice may be di&s;turbed.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Whether by this Act the Extents being not to be avoided, or delayed for omi&s;sion of any Lands, the &s;ame may not be prejudici|all to all Purcha&s;ers, and whether it be not again&s;t the known cour&s;e of the Law.</HI></P>
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<P>His Maje&s;ty de&s;ires to receive &s;atis|faction from both hou&s;es of Parliament in the&s;e particulars with all po&s;sible ex|pedition, and then he &s;hall give all the world an account how &s;en&s;ible he is of the mi&s;ery of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and how de&s;irous he is to finde or embrace any way for their Relief; The be&s;t, if not the onely way to which, His Maje&s;ty conceives would be by a good &amp; ble&s;&s;ed Accom|modation of the lamentable Di&s;tracti|ons of this Kingdom; which if the mat|ter of His Maje&s;ties la&s;t Me&s;&s;age were &s;o entertained, as His Maje&s;ty hoped and expected, might by the ble&s;sing of God in a &s;hort time be effected.</P>
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