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<HEAD>A SHORT DISCOVRSE, tending to the Pacification of all unhappy differences, between His Maje&s;ty and His PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Shewing the meanes whereby the &s;ame may &s;peedily be done, and that it re&s;ts in His MAIESTIES &s;ole power to effect it.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>Pre&s;ented to the Con&s;ideration of all tho&s;e that love the Truth and Peace: By a friend and Servant to both.</BYLINE>
<P>_THe Commons of <HI>England</HI> (That great Body) con|&s;i&s;ting of more then ten Millions of living &s;oules, having with great ioy and hope waited now full twenty Moneths, for the happie effects of this long de&s;ired Parliament; do now perceive by His Maie&s;ties Declarations to His Parliament, and His pre&s;ent proceedings in oppo&s;ition to their Councells, they are like, not only to be fru&s;trated of tho&s;e ioyes and hopes but to have Confu&s;ion and Ruine immediately fall upon His Maie&s;ty, them&s;elves, and this whole Kingdome by Civill Di&s;cord: Whereof (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s living men) they cannot but be &s;en&s;ible; and having no better meanes of acce&s;&s;e to His Maie&s;ty, are con&s;trained in this common way to breath out their Griefes and Feares, hoping in its Pa&s;&s;age abroad, it may meet with &s;ome great Man, who (in imita|tion of him that had Compa&s;&s;ion upon the Multitude) will convey it into His Maie&s;ties Royall hand, of who&s;e goodne&s;&s;e His People have had more then 16. yeares experience.</P>
<P>That by the wi&s;dome and iu&s;tice of His Maie&s;ty, the Fidelity, Loyalty, and Duty of His Parliament, and the ble&s;&s;ing of God upon both, tho&s;e vi&s;ible mi&s;eries (hanging over this whole Kingdome)
<PB N="2" REF="2">may &s;peedily be removed and a happie and ble&s;&s;ed concord renewed and continued betwixt His Maie&s;tie and His great Councell, the repre&s;entative body of this Kingdome.</P>
<P>The Commons doe ob&s;erve, that His Maie&s;ty in His Declarati|ons doth declare, His intentions are not only to pre&s;erve His iu&s;t Prerogative, Rights and Priviledges, due to His Crown but al&s;o to pre&s;erve His People and Kingdome in peace and &s;afety; and that His Subiects may al&s;o enioy their Religion Laws, Liberties Rights, and Priviledges due and belonging to them and their po&s;terities.</P>
<P>They ob&s;erve likewi&s;e, That the Parliament in their Remon|&s;trances and Declarations publi&s;hed to the whole world, do profe&s;&s;e the very &s;ame thing to be their ends and intentions concerning His Maie&s;ty his People and Kingdome: For which His Maie&s;ties gra|tious expre&s;&s;ions as they are bound to give His Maie&s;ty mo&s;t hum|ble thanks, &s;o are they obliged in all duty and &s;ervice to tho&s;e Noble Gentlemen, and others of their own chu&s;ing, not only for their long continued and unwearied paines for the good of His Maie&s;ty, and this whole Kingdome: but al&s;o for their fidelity, wi&s;dome and care, &s;o really expre&s;&s;ed and performed in di&s;charge of that great tru&s;t they have committed to them being no le&s;&s;e then al that they and their po&s;terities have or are, and to be faithfull to them in obe|dience to all their lawfull commands tending to the good and &s;afety of His Maie&s;ties Royall per&s;on, and His Kingdome.</P>
<P>The&s;e being the mutuall, and (they hope) reall intentions of His Maie&s;ty and His Parliament concerning them, thus concurring in one, and publi&s;hed to the whole world &s;o to be: never (&s;ay they) was any Kingdome neerer to confu&s;ion (if not de&s;truction) under a con|iuncture of &s;o good intentions: And what Vipers, or rather what Devils are there upon the earth, that by wicked Councell would divide tho&s;e intentions, and bring de&s;olation upon this whole Kingdome; and what torments (le&s;&s;e then hell) doe &s;uch men merit. But their hope and confidence is His Maie&s;ties own goodne&s;&s;e and care of His people, &s;o often expre&s;&s;ed and publi&s;hed to the world, will be motive &s;ufficient to turne His eare from the Councells of &s;uch wicked per&s;ons, and to ioyne with His Parliament in pur&s;uit of tho&s;e good intentions, and not for &s;uch mens &s;akes to expo&s;e His own Royall per&s;on to danger, and His people and Kingdome to ruine.</P>
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<P>They further ob&s;erve, That it plea&s;eth His Maie&s;ty in His De|clarations, to charge the cau&s;e of all unhappy differences betwixt His Maie&s;ty and His Parliament, upon &s;ome few turbulent ambi|tious Factious &s;pirits in both Hou&s;es of Parliament (Members thereof) who&s;e cunning conveyance and carriage of bu&s;ines in both Hou&s;es, for their own ambitious ends and advantage, have procured &s;o great a party in both Hou&s;es, that their Votes are become the Parliament; and the&s;e men it is (&s;aith His Maie&s;ty) that make Or|ders and Ordinances, di&s;plea&s;ing to his Maie&s;tie being (as his Maie|&s;ty affirmeth) again&s;t the e&s;tabli&s;hed known Laws of the Land, and His Maie&s;ties iu&s;t and Royall Prerogative, warranted by tho&s;e Lawes.</P>
<P>They ob&s;erve al&s;o, That the Parliament declare the cau&s;e of tho&s;e differences to be a wicked and pernitious Councell about his Maie&s;ty (who are &s;eldome wanting about the Throne of the be&s;t and mo&s;t pious Princes) being either Athei&s;ts, Papi&s;ts, and Je&s;uites, Delinquents, or men of de&s;perate Fortunes, engaged only to their own ends, though it prove the ruine both of King and Kingdome. And of nece&s;&s;ity one of the&s;e two parties it mu&s;t fall upon: for his Maie&s;ties people doe well know the goodne&s;&s;e of his own di&s;|po&s;ition and inclination to his Subiects, manife&s;ted out of his Roy|all bre&s;t in the beginning of His reigne, before this viperous brood had time to take hold of Him; and call to mind His gracious ex|pre&s;&s;ions and actions towards His Subiects in tho&s;e times: And al&s;o His Maie&s;ties frequent prote&s;tations and imprecations made this pre&s;ent Parliament, of his Maie&s;ties great care and good inten|tions to pre&s;erve His people in peace, the true Prote&s;tant Religion, the Laws, Liberties and Priviledge of Parliament, from the lea&s;t change or violation; and therfore what&s;oever the French Hi&s;tories have recorded and publi&s;hed, concerning congratulatory Letters, pa&s;&s;ed betwixt his Maie&s;ty and the Pope of <HI>Rome,</HI> at His Maie&s;ties being in <HI>Spaine,</HI> they dare not admit the lea&s;t thought of change or alteration to be in his Maie&s;ties own bre&s;t, but mu&s;t ca&s;t it upon one of the parties afore named.</P>
<P>And therfore, for appea&s;ing all differences, and prevention of all dangers, ready to fall upon his Maie&s;tie, and this whole Kingdome, His People doe mo&s;t humbly de&s;ire his Maie&s;ty, to doe Him&s;elfe, and His Kingdome that right and iu&s;tice (which lies in His owne power to doe) by naming &s;uch per&s;ons (if any &s;uch be) Members of
<PB N="4" REF="3">both or either Hou&s;es of Parliament, as his Maie&s;ty is informed are the Men, who draw all this feare of mi&s;erie on his Maie&s;ty and His Kingdome, that they may come to Tryall before the Parlia|ment in a Parliamentary way, and there receive iudgement and pu|ni&s;hment (if they &s;halbe found guilty) or otherwi&s;e, their Accu&s;ers, (who have &s;o highly wronged his Maie&s;ty, His Parliament, and People) may come to like tryall and receive &s;uch puni&s;hment, as the iu&s;tice of that Court &s;hall inflict upon them.</P>
<P>And for the &s;ame rea&s;ons, they would al&s;o mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech his Maie&s;ty to name unto his Parliament, tho&s;e per&s;ons neer about his Maie&s;ty, who have been or are his Maie&s;ties Councellors, in ex|pounding of Laws, framing, making and penning of Declarations, Proclamations, Me&s;&s;ages and Pa&s;&s;ages, betwixt his Maie&s;ty and his Parliament (for his Maie&s;ty be&s;t knows who tho&s;e men are) and deliver them to the Parliament to iu&s;tifie their doings, which as it will mo&s;t magnifie the honour of his Maie&s;ty to the love of truth and iu&s;tice, &s;o will it be the cleare&s;t manife&s;tation His Maie&s;ty can give of the reallity of his Royall intention to His people, and lay the greate&s;t obligation of duty love and obedience, upon them, and all good Subiects that his Mare&s;tie can expect from a loyall and true hearted people, which untill his Maie&s;ty grant, their feares will keep them re&s;tle&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The&s;e mo&s;t humble de&s;ires, the Commons conceive to be &s;o iu&s;t, equall, &s;ea&s;onable and fuitable to his Maie&s;ties gracious di&s;po&s;ition that in honour, and iu&s;tice, he will not deny them to His People, being (as they think) the mo&s;t hopefull meanes under heaven to &s;ecure his Maie&s;ty &amp; his people, from the approaching dangers and mi&s;eries of a bloody Warre, and to &s;ettle a firme and la&s;ting peace between his Maie&s;ty, his Parliament and People, which is that his Maie&s;ty hath &s;o often taken the Almighty God to witne&s;&s;e, is the thing he &s;o much de&s;ires; wherein the Commons are confident and will expect, that the Lords and others of his Maie&s;ties mo&s;t honou|rable Privie Councell and all the Peers of this Realme, and others, attending his Maie&s;ty, who de&s;ire the &s;afety, peace and pro&s;perity of his Maie&s;ty, his People and Kingdoms wil ioyn with them; and according to their relations offices, places, neerne&s;&s;e and credit with His Maie&s;ty, will put forth their uttermo&s;t &s;trength, Coun&s;ells and indeavours to preferre and accompli&s;h the&s;e their humble d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ires to His Maie&s;ty, otherwi&s;e they mu&s;t think (as they may have iu&s;t
<PB N="5" REF="3">cau&s;e) they are of the Malignant party, more willing to behold all of them, and this whole Kingdome &s;treaming in blood, then relin|qui&s;h their owne pernitious Councels and ends, and be ready to execute the Commands of the Parliament again&s;t them.</P>
<P>The differences them&s;elves between His Maie&s;ty, and His Parli|ament, in His Maie&s;ties Declarations appeare to be Foure. Fir&s;t, Detaining His Towne and Magazine of <HI>Hull.</HI> Secondly, removing the Magazine and Armes thence to other places, and the like in other parts of the Kingdome. Thirdly, Putting the Militia in exe|cution contrary to His Maie&s;ties Proclamation. Fourthly, Making of Leavies, and rai&s;ing of Men, Hor&s;e and Money; And the&s;e all done by Orders and Ordinances of Par-liament, and (as His Ma|ie&s;ties Declaration &s;aith) again&s;t His Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure, becau&s;e it is again&s;t the law, and His Maie&s;ties Prerogative, warranted by the law.</P>
<P>The only que&s;tion then is, Whether the&s;e proceedings by both Hou&s;es of Parliament in this time of danger (His Maie&s;tie having refu&s;ed to ioyne with them) be again&s;t the fundamentall lawes of the Land, and His Maie&s;ties Prerogative warranted by tho&s;e lawes, and above the power, and priviledge of Parliament to meddle in for the &s;afety of his Maie&s;ties Royall Per&s;on His Kingdome and people?</P>
<P>The Commons doe all know His Maie&s;tie to be no expounder of lawes (for &s;o his Maie&s;tie is plea&s;ed to profe&s;&s;e) as belonging nei|ther to his Per&s;on, nor office, but therein to be guided by the iudge|ment and councells of others, to whom His Maie&s;tie doth com|mit that tru&s;t, To give right iudgement betwixt His Maie&s;tie and people; and what Councellors his Maie&s;ty hath had, and what ex|po&s;itions of Laws and Statutes have been made, during this pre|&s;ent Parliament; and how iniuriou&s;ly His Maie&s;ty, His Parliament and People, have been dealt with therein, is like to appeare in the Kingdomes confu&s;ion, if His Maie&s;ties goodne&s;&s;e and wi&s;dome, in ca&s;ting off &s;uch Councells, and &s;peedy ioyning with his Parliament prevent it not.</P>
<P>And what &s;ervice &s;uch evill Councellors have done to this King|dome in former <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ime, and what expo&s;ition of Laws they have made, let the Petition of Right, granted by his Maie&s;tie to all his Subiects in ea&s;e of their Grievances witne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>And what Councells they have given, and expo&s;&s;tion of Laws
<PB N="6" REF="4">they have made &s;&s;nce that Petition granted, let <HI>Ship money</HI> coat, and <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">auct money,</HI> and many other uniu&s;t and illegall impo&s;itions layed upon His Maie&s;ties Subiects, and Declared in the Parliaments Re|mon&s;trances witne&s;&s;e al&s;o: And into what condition &s;uch perni|tious Councells and Councellors, have brought this Kingdome and His Maie&s;ties Kingdome of <HI>Ireland,</HI> at this pre&s;ent, let the con|&s;uming flames in the one, and the kindled fire in the other te&s;tifie.</P>
<P>The Parliament, the Commons doe know, and their Councells, Votes, Ordinances, Expo&s;itions and Declarations to His Maie&s;tie, and his People, they heare and &s;ee atte&s;ted under the authority of one or both Hou&s;es, and therefore are bound in rea&s;on and duty to beleeve their Proceedings are warranted by the Fundamentall laws of the Land, and are according to the Power and Priviledge of Par|liament, untill the like or better authority appeare to the contrary. For tho&s;e who expound the Laws to his Maie&s;ty and are his Coun|&s;ellors, they know not their Per&s;ons or names, neither &s;ee their hands atte&s;ting the Coun&s;els they give, nor Expo&s;itions they make, which makes them &s;u&s;pect they are Men of darkne&s;&s;e, and &s;uch as flee from the light of Parliament. Wherefore it is the mo&s;t hum|ble de&s;ire of all His Maie&s;ties good Subiects, that His Maie&s;tie will put no longer confidence in their Councels or expo&s;itions of Laws; but hearken to the advi&s;e of his great Councell the Parliament.</P>
<P>And whether it bee more meet, &s;afe, iu&s;t and honourable, for his Maie&s;tie and his Subiects to put confidence in the Councells and iudgements of &s;uch Councellors, and the expo&s;ition they make of Lawes, and the Power and Priviledges of <HI>Parliament,</HI> or in the <HI>Par|liament,</HI> them&s;elves being the great Coun&s;ell of the Kingdome, and the makers of all Laws, the Commons be&s;eech His Maie&s;tie and all the World to iudge.</P>
<P>As it is farre from the heart of every good Subiect to dimini&s;h the lea&s;t part of His Maie&s;ties Royall Prerogative, due by the Laws and Statutes of the Realme, being part of the inheritance of His Crowne and de&s;cended to His Maie&s;tie from His Royall Pro|genitors, Kings of this Realme, &s;o are all Subiects bound to main|tain the Liberties, Rights and Priviledges, due and belonging to the Parliament and People of <HI>England,</HI> and the Lawes that defend and pre&s;erve the &s;ame, the one as being the iu&s;t and undoubted inheri|tance of His Maie&s;tie, the other as their inheritance as iu&s;t and un|doubtedly due to them&s;elves &amp; their Po&s;terities, granted to their Pre|dece&s;&s;ors
<PB N="7" REF="4">more then five hundred Years pa&s;t conrfimed to their An|ce&s;tors in all ages and not que&s;tioned or attempted to be violated, untill of late by the wicked Councell, and fraud of ill Mini&s;ters and Councellors (who for their owne ends, and to obtain the favour of Princes) have taken upon them the boldne&s;&s;e, to advance the Pre|rogative above Law, and endeavoured to bring the Lawes and the Power and Priviledges of Parliament, to &s;uch con&s;truction them|&s;elves would make, thereby at once breaking in upon the Privi|ledges of Parliament, and the inheritance of the Subiect, and &s;o by pretence of Law, to root up the foundation of Law, the Parliament it &s;elfe.</P>
<P>The Commons do therefore mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech His Maie&s;tie that the di&s;tractions, griefes and feares, of &s;o many thou&s;and thou|&s;ands of His Loyall Subiects layed before his Maie&s;ty, in this time of danger may prevaile with His Maie&s;ty &s;peedily to return to His Parliament, and there in the way of iu&s;tice to examine all mi&s;in|formations his Maie&s;ty hath had, both of Per&s;ons and Cau&s;es; and let all Offenders what&s;oever, ta&s;t the &s;everity of his Maie&s;ties iu|&s;tice, who have been Coun&s;ellors, in&s;truments, or actors, to make &s;o great a breach betwixt His Maie&s;tie and His Parliament, and put his Kingdome and People into &s;o much danger, and &s;o many lo&s;&s;es in their e&s;tates, by the long decay of their Trading in all parts, cau|&s;ed by tho&s;e divi&s;ions.</P>
<P>For the tumults which His Maie&s;ty &s;eemeth to flee from, the Commons doubt not, His Maie&s;tie will find his Parliament, and all good Subiects, mo&s;t willing to &s;uppre&s;&s;e and puni&s;h, all unlawfull tumults and di&s;orders cau&s;ed by any Per&s;ons what&s;oever, when it &s;hall plea&s;e His Maie&s;ty to ioyne with his Parliament, in &s;ecuring this and His other Kingdomes from the plots and de&s;ignes of Je|&s;uites, Papi&s;ts and other in&s;truments of theirs, who&s;e worke it is now to di&s;turbe the peace of his Maie&s;ties Dominions, for pre&s;er|vation of their Spani&s;h Monarchy, and Popi&s;h Tyranny, by &s;up|pre&s;&s;ing or de&s;troying of Prince, Parliament and People, that &s;tand in their way: For the Commons would that all the world &s;hould know They are Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants, who&s;e Religion is not founded either upon Super&s;tirious Vanities, or Schi&s;maticall Fancies, but upon the revealed will&punc; and well warranted word of God con&s;onant to the &s;ound and Orthodoxe Doctrine of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> whereunto They will allwayes &s;ubmit, provided it may be purged
<PB N="8" REF="5">from what gives iu&s;t occa&s;ion of &s;candall or offence; and not &s;o mixed or adorned with Rights and Ceremonies, that while&s;t the Body is dre&s;t, the Soule of Religion, which is life and power, &s;hould be lo&s;t: <HI>For God is a Spirit, and will be wor&s;hiped in Spirit and in Truth,</HI> which is the Freedome they aske; without which, the Prote&s;tant Religion is but Prote&s;tant Profe&s;&s;ion, will make men but &s;eeming Saints, while Devils, and &s;et them but half the way to Heaven.</P>
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<P>And if His Maje&s;tie &s;hall not be plea&s;ed to hear|ken to the&s;e mo&s;t humble de&s;ires of His People, and make &s;ome pre&s;ent returne for putting out tho&s;e Fires now kindled in this Kingdome, the wofull &s;pectacle of their poore Brethren in <HI>Ireland,</HI> will cau&s;e Them, (all that are able) to joyne with his Parliament in obedience to their Commands, for the pre&s;ervation of his Maje&s;ty, his Kingdome and them&s;elves from utter Ruine, nature it &s;elfe having taught Bea&s;ts, when &s;tormes are ri&s;ing to provide for their owne &s;afetie. But in hope of His Maie&s;ties gracious An&s;wer, they will waite and pray for the long life, and happie, and peaceable Reigne of his <HI>Maje&s;tie.</HI></P>
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