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<P>A PAPER RECEIVED BY HIS MAIESTY from the Committee of both HOUSES, upon the eight of <HI>April.</HI></P>
<P>WITH HIS MAIESTIES Gratious Me&s;&s;age to both Hou&s;es in An&s;wer to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Printed by His MAjESTIES Command at <HI>OXFORD,</HI> By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the <HI>Vniver&s;ity.</HI> 1643. <ADD>Aprill 21</ADD></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>April 8. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_BY In&s;tructions this day received from both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> We hum|bly conceive, that we are to acquaint Your <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> That they have taken into con&s;ideration Your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> An|&s;wer to their Rea&s;ons concerning the Ce&s;&s;ation, wherein there are divers expre&s;&s;ions which will occa&s;ion particular Replies, which at this time they de&s;ire to decline, Their wi&s;hes and endeavours being earne&s;tly bent upon the obtaining a &s;peedy Peace, for wbich cau&s;e they doe not thinke good to con&s;ume any more of the time allowed for the Treaty in any farther debates upon the Ce&s;&s;ation, concerning which they finde Your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Expre&s;&s;ions &s;o doubtfull, that it cannot be &s;uddenly or ea&s;ily re&s;olved, and the remainder of the time for the whole Treaty, being but &s;even daies, if the Ce&s;&s;ation were pre&s;ently agreed, it would not yeeld any con&s;iderable advantage to the Kingdom.</P>
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<P> Wherefore we are required to de&s;ire Your Maje&s;ty to give a &s;peedy and po&s;itive An&s;wer to the fir&s;t Propo&s;i|tion concerning the di&s;banding, That &s;o Your Subjects may not onely have a &s;hadow of Peace, in a &s;hort time of Ce&s;&s;ation, but the &s;ub&s;tance of it in &s;uch manner as may be a perpetuall ble&s;&s;ing to them, by freeing the Kingdom from tho&s;e mi&s;erable effects of War, the effu&s;ion of Eng|li&s;h blood, and de&s;olation of many parts of the Land:</P>
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<ITEM>Northumberland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Holland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wil. Peirrepoint.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wil. Armyn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>B. Whitelocke.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>His MAJESTIES Gracious Me&s;&s;age to both Hou&s;es, in An&s;wer to the <HI>Foregoing Paper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IF the Committee, according to His Maje&s;ties De&s;ire, had had but Power to agree in the wording of Expre&s;&s;ions in the Articles of Ce&s;&s;ation, His Maje&s;ties (which are as cleare as the matter would beare, and as He could make them) had not appeared &s;o doubtfull to any, but that the Ce&s;&s;ation might have been &s;uddenly and &s;peedily re&s;olved, and that long before this time. And if the Expre&s;&s;ions of both Hou&s;es in their Rea&s;ons had not nece&s;&s;itated His Maje&s;ty in His owne Defence to give &s;uch an&s;wer<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> as could not upon tho&s;e points deliver Truth with|out &s;ome &s;hew of &s;harpne&s;&s;e, no expre&s;&s;ion of that kind in His Maje&s;ties An&s;wer had given any Pre|tence for the rejection of, or refu&s;ing &s;o much a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to Treat upon the Ce&s;&s;ation; Which (though it were at pre&s;ent for no long time;) yet was from the day named by them&s;elves the 25 of <HI>March,</HI> Whereas His Maje&s;ty fir&s;t moved for a Ce&s;&s;ation and Treaty, without any Limitation at all in the time of either; and his Maje&s;ty was mo&s;t ready to have enlarged
<PB REF="4"> the time (&s;o that in the meane while the point of Quarters might be &s;o &s;etled, as that his Armys might &s;ub&s;i&s;t) and which might have beene (if they had plea&s;ed) a very good and promi&s;ing earne&s;t and forerunner of that great ble&s;&s;ing of Peace, for the obtaining of which the wi&s;hes and endeavours of all good men being earne&s;tly bent, a farther debate in order to &s;o great a benefit did not de&s;erve to be &s;tiled a con&s;umption of time. And his Maje&s;ty can|not but conceive him&s;elfe to be in a &s;trange condi|tion, if the doubtfulne&s;&s;e of expre&s;&s;ions, (which mu&s;t alwaies be whiles the Treaty is at &s;uch a Di|&s;tance, and power is denied to tho&s;e upon the Place to help to cleare and explaine) or his nece&s;&s;ary re|plying to Charges laid upon him, (that he might not &s;eeme to acknowledge what was &s;o charged) Or the limitation of the time of &s;even Daies for the Treaty (which was not limited by his Maje&s;ty, who ever de&s;ired to have avoided that and other limitations, which have given great interruptions to it) &s;hould be as well beleeved to be the grounds, as they are made the Arguments of the rejection of that, which (next to Peace it &s;elfe) his Maje&s;ty above all things mo&s;t de&s;ires to &s;ee agreed and &s;etled, and which his Maje&s;ty hopes (if it may be yet agreed on) will give his people &s;uch a ta&s;te of &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ing, that after a &s;hort time of con&s;ideration, and compa|ring
<PB REF="4"> of their &s;everall conditions in War and Peace, and what &s;hould move them to &s;uffer &s;o much by a Change, they will not thinke tho&s;e their Friends that &s;hall force them to it, or be them&s;elves ready to contribute to the renewing of their former mi|&s;eries, without &s;ome greater evidence of Nece&s;&s;ity then can appeare to them, when they &s;hall have &s;eene (as they &s;hall &s;ee, if this Treaty be &s;uffered to proceed) that his Maje&s;ty neither askes nor denies any thing, but what not onely according to Law he may, but what in honour and care of his people he is obliged to aske or deny. And this alone (which a very &s;hort Ce&s;&s;ation would produce) his Maje&s;ty e&s;teems a very con&s;iderable Advantage to the Kingdome; and therefore cannot but pre&s;&s;e again and again, that whatever is thought doubtfull in the Expre&s;&s;ions of the Articles may (as in an houre it may well be done) be expounded, and what&s;o|ever is excepted at may be debated and concluded, and that Power and In&s;tructions may be given to the Committee to that end, that the mi&s;erable effects of War, the effu&s;ion of Engli&s;h blood, and de&s;olation of <HI>England</HI> (untill they can be totally taken away) may by this meanes be &s;tayed and in|terrupted.</P>
<P>His <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> &s;uppo&s;es, that when the Committee was la&s;t required to de&s;ire his <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> to give a
<PB REF="5"> &s;peedy and po&s;itive An&s;wer to the fir&s;t Propo&s;iti|on concerning Disbanding, His An&s;wers in that point (to which no Reply hath been made, and which he hopes by this time have given &s;ati&s;facti|on) were not tran&s;mitted and received, but won|ders the Hou&s;es &s;hould pre&s;&s;e his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> for a &s;peedy &amp; po&s;itive An&s;wer to the fir&s;t part of their fir&s;t Propo&s;ition concerning di&s;banding, when to the &s;econd part of the very &s;ame Propo&s;ition, con|cerning his Returne to both hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> they had not given any Power or In&s;tructions to the Committee, &s;o much as to Treat with his <HI>Ma|je&s;ty&punc;</HI> And when his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> (if his de&s;ire of Peace and of &s;peeding the Treaty in order to that had not been prevalent with him) might with all man|ner of ju&s;tice have delayed to begin to Treat upon one part untill they had been enabled to Treat upon the other; In which point, and for want of which power from them, the onely &s;top now re|maines, his <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> An&s;wers to both parts of their fir&s;t Propo&s;ition, being given in, tran&s;mitted, and yet remaining unan&s;wered. To which, untill the Hou&s;es &s;hall be at lei&s;ure to make An&s;wer, that as little delay in this Treaty, as is po&s;&s;ible, may be cau|&s;ed by it, His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> de&s;ires likewi&s;e, that the Com|mittee may be enabled to treat upon the follow|ing Propo&s;itions in their &s;everall orders.</P>
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