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<P> ANOTHER DECLARATION <HI>FROM BOTH</HI> HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT: Sent to His Maje&s;ty, <HI>March</HI> 23. 1641.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>R. Oulton</HI> &amp; <HI>G. Dexter.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>ANOTHER DECLARATION FROM BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT to His Maje&s;tie.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;tie,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_YOUR Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Loy|all Subjects, the Lords and Commons, cannot conceive that the <HI>Declaration</HI> which your Maje&s;ty received from Us at <HI>Newmarket,</HI> was &s;uch as did de&s;erve that Cen&s;ure your Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to lay upon Us, in that Speech which your Maje&s;ty made to Our Committees there, and &s;ent in writing to both Hou&s;es: Our Adre&s;&s;es therein being accompanied
<PB N="2" REF="3"> with Plainne&s;&s;e, Humility and Faithfullnes, We thought more proper for the removing the Di&s;traction of the Kingdome, then if We had then proceeded according to your Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age of the 20. of <HI>January,</HI> by which your Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to de&s;ire that we would de|clare what we intended to doe for your Maje&s;ty, and what We expected to be done for Our Selves; in both which, We have bin very much hindred by your Maje|&s;ties Deniall to &s;ecure Us and the whole Kingdome, by di&s;po&s;ing the <HI>Militia,</HI> as We had divers times mo&s;t hum|bly Petitioned; and We have not bin altogether neg|ligent of either, having lately made good proceedings, in preparing a Book of Rates to be pa&s;&s;ed in a Bill of Tunnage and Poundage, and likewi&s;e the mo&s;t Materiall Heads of tho&s;e Humble de&s;ires which We intended to Make to your Maje&s;ty, for the good and contentment of your Maje&s;tie, and your People: But now, if the&s;e could not bee perfected till the Kingdome bee put into Safety, by &s;ettling the <HI>Militia;</HI> and untill your Ma|je&s;ty &s;hal be plea&s;ed to Concurre with your Parliament in tho&s;e nece&s;&s;ary things, We hold it impo&s;&s;ible for you to give the world, or your People &s;uch &s;atisfaction, con|cerning the Feares and Jealou&s;ies which We have ex|pre&s;&s;ed, as We hope your Maje&s;ty hath already received, touching that Exception which you were plea&s;ed to take to Mr. PYMS Speech.</P>
<P>As for your own Feares and Doubts, the ground wher|of being from Seditious Pamphlets and Sermons, We &s;hall as carefully indeavour to remove it, a&s;&s;oone as We under&s;tand what Pamphlets are by your Maje&s;ty inten|ded, as we have bin to prevent all dangerous Tumults. And if any Extraordinary Concour&s;e of People out of
<PB N="3" REF="3"> the City to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> had the face and &s;hew of Tumult and Danger, in your Maje&s;ties apprehen&s;ions, it will appeare to be cau&s;ed by your Maje&s;ties Deniall of &s;uch a Guard to your Parliament, as they might have cau&s;e to Confide in; And by taking in <HI>White-Hall</HI> &s;uch a Guard for your &s;elfe, as gave ju&s;t Cau&s;e of Jealou&s;ie to the Parliament, and of Terrour and offence to your People. We &s;eeke nothing but your Maje&s;ties peace, and the pro&s;perity of your Kingdomes; and Wee are heartily &s;orrie We have &s;uch plentifull Matter of an An&s;were to that Que&s;tion, <HI>Whether you have violated Our Laws?</HI> We be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty to remember, that the Government of this Kingdome, as it was in great part managed by your Mini&s;ters, before the beginning of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> con&s;i&s;ted of many continued and multi|plyed Acts of violation of Laws, the wounds whereof were &s;carcely healed, when the Extremity of all their violations was farre exceeded by this late, &s;trange, and unheard of breach of our Laws in the accu&s;ation of the Lord <HI>Kimbolton,</HI> and the five Members of the <HI>Commons Hou&s;e,</HI> and proceedings thereupon, for which we have yet received no full &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>To your Maje&s;ties next Que&s;tion, Whether you had denied any Bill for the ea&s;e and &s;ecurity of your Sub|jects? We wi&s;h we could &s;toppe in the mid&s;t of our An|&s;wer, That with much thankfulne&s;&s;e we acknowledge that your Maje&s;ty hath pa&s;&s;ed many good Bills, ful<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of contentment and advantage to your People, but truth and nece&s;&s;ity inforceth us to adde this, That even in or about the time of pa&s;&s;ing tho&s;e Bills &s;ome de&s;igne or o|ther hath bin a foote, which if it had taken effect would not only have deprived us of the fruit of tho&s;e Bills, but
<PB N="4" REF="4"> have reduced us to a wor&s;e condition of confu&s;ion then that, wherein the <HI>Parliament</HI> found us.</P>
<P>And if your Maje&s;ty had asked us the third Que&s;tion Intimated in that Speech, <HI>What Wee had done for your Selfe?</HI> Our An&s;were would have bin much more ea&s;ie; That Wee have paid two Armies, wherewith the Kingdome was burdened la&s;t yeare. That we have un|dertaken a Warre with <HI>Ireland:</HI> all which great mi&s;|chiefe, and the Charges thereupon have bin occa&s;ioned by the evill Councells, &s;o powerfull with your Ma|je&s;ty, which have and will co&s;t this Kingdome more then two Millions, all which in Ju&s;tice ought to have bin borne by your Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>As for the free and generall pardon, your Maje&s;tie hath bin plea&s;ed to offer, it can be no &s;ecurity to our Feares and Jealou&s;ies, for which your Maje&s;ty &s;eems to propound it, becau&s;e they ari&s;e not from any Guilt of our owne Actions, but from the evill de&s;ignes and at|tempts of others.</P>
<P>To this our humble An&s;wer to that Speech we de|&s;ire to adde an information which we lately received from the Deputy Governour of the <HI>Marchant Adventu|rers,</HI> at <HI>Rotterdam</HI> in <HI>Holland,</HI> That an unknowne Per&s;on appertaining to the Lord <HI>Digby,</HI> did lately &s;ollicite on <HI>Iames Henly</HI> a Marriner, to goe to <HI>Ellinore</HI> and there to take charge of a Ship in the Fleete of the King of <HI>Den|mark,</HI> there prepared, which he &s;hould conduct to <HI>Hull,</HI> in which Ships likewi&s;e he &s;aid a great Army was to be tran&s;ported: And although we are not apt to give cre|dit to Informations of that nature, yet we cannot alto|gether think it fit to be neglected, but that it adds &s;ome|what to our feares and Jealou&s;ies, con&s;idering with what
<PB N="5" REF="4"> Circum&s;tances, it is accompanied of the Lord <HI>Digbyes</HI> preceding expre&s;&s;ions, in a Letter to her Maje&s;ty, and Sir <HI>Lewis Diues;</HI> and your Maje&s;ties &s;ucceeding cour&s;e of withdwrawing your &s;elfe North-ward from your Parli|ament, in a manner very &s;utable and corre&s;pondent with that evill Coun&s;ell, which we doubt will make much deeper impre&s;&s;ion in the generality of your people: and therefore we mo&s;t humbly de&s;ire, for the procuring and &s;etling our and their confidence, and the other Rea&s;ons concerning the recovery of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and &s;ecuring this Kingdome, which have beene formerly pre&s;ented to your Maje&s;tie, you will be graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed, with all convenient &s;peed to returne to the&s;e parts, and to clo&s;e with the advi&s;e and de&s;ire of your <HI>Parliament:</HI> Where you &s;hall find their dutifull affections and endeavours, rea|dy to attend your Maje&s;tie, with &s;uch entertainment as &s;hall not onely give your Maje&s;tie ju&s;t cau&s;e of &s;ecuri|ty in their faithfulne&s;&s;e, but other manife&s;t evidences of their earne&s;t de&s;ires, to advance your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, Honour and contentment, and to e&s;tabli&s;h it upon the &s;ure foundation of the Peace and Pro&s;perity of all your <HI>Kingdomes.</HI></P>
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