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<P>THE REASONS OF THE LORDS and COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT, Why they cannot agree to the Alte|ration and Addition in the Articles of CESSATION <HI>offered by</HI> HIS MAJESTY.</P>
<P>WITH HIS MAIESTIES Gratious An&s;wer thereunto. <HI>April</HI> 4. 1643.</P>
<P>Printed by His MAjESTIES Command <HI>AT OXFORD,</HI> By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer <HI>to the Vniver&s;ity.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE KING'S <HI>MOST EXCELLENT</HI> MAJESTY.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>LORDS</HI> and <HI>COM|MONS</HI> in Parliament a&s;|&s;embled, doe with all hum|ble thankfulne&s;&s;e acknow|ledge Your <HI>MAJESTIES</HI> favour in the &s;peedy admi&s;|&s;ion of their Committee to Your Royall Pre&s;ence, and the expedition of Your Exceptions to their Articles; that &s;o they might more &s;peedily endeavour to give Your <HI>MAJESTY</HI> &s;atisfaction: And although they were ready to agree to the Articles of Ce&s;&s;ation, in &s;uch manner, as they expre&s;t in their Preface, they cannot agree to the alteration and Addition offered
<PB N="2" REF="6"> by Your <HI>MAJESTY,</HI> without great prejudice to the Cau&s;e, and danger to the Kingdom, who&s;e Cau&s;e it is; The rea&s;ons whereof will cleerly appeare in the An&s;wers to the particulars pre&s;t by Your <HI>MAJESTY.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. _THEY doe deny that they have re&s;trained any Trade, but to &s;ome few of tho&s;e places where Your Maje&s;ties Forces are Inquartered, and e|ven now in the heat of Warre, doe permit the Carriars to goe into all the parts of the Kingdome, with all &s;orts of Commodities for the u&s;e of Subjects, except Armes, Ammunition, Money, and Bullion; But if they &s;hould grant &s;uch a free Trade, as Your Maje&s;ty de&s;ireth, to <HI>Oxford,</HI> and other Places, where Your Forces remaine, it would be very difficult, if not impo&s;&s;ible, to keep Armes, Ammunition, Mony, and Bullion from pa&s;&s;ing into Your Maje&s;ties Army, without very &s;trict and frequent Sear|ches, which would make it &s;o trouble&s;ome, chargeable, and dangerous to the Subjects, that the Que&s;tion being but for Twenty daies, for &s;o few places, the mi&s;chiefes and in|conveniences to the whole Kingdom, would be farre grea|ter then any advantage which that &s;mall number of Your Subjects (whom it concernes) can have by it.</P>
<P>The Ca&s;e then is much otherwi&s;e then is expre&s;t by Your Maje&s;ties An&s;wer, for whereas they are charged, not to give the lea&s;t admi&s;&s;ion of this Liberty and freedom of Trade, during the Ce&s;&s;ation; The truth is, That they doe grant it as fully to the benefit of the Subject, even in time of Warre; And that Your Maje&s;ty in pre&s;&s;ing this for the peoples good, doth therein de&s;ire that which will be very
<PB N="3" REF="6"> little beneficiall to the Subjects, but exceeding advantagi|ous to Your Maje&s;ty in &s;upplying Your Army with many nece&s;&s;aries, and making Your Quarters a Staple for &s;uch Commodities as may be vented in the adjacent Coun|ties, and &s;o draw many thither, whereby the Inhabi|tants will be better inabled by Loanes, and Contribu|tions, to &s;upport Your Maje&s;ties Army; And as Your Maje&s;ties Army may receive much advantage, and the other Army much danger, if &s;uch freedom &s;hould be granted to the&s;e places; So there is no probability that the Army rai&s;ed by the <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons</HI> &s;hall have any returne of Commodities, and other &s;upplyes from thence, which may be u&s;efull for them; and they conceive, that in a Treaty for a Ce&s;&s;ation, tho&s;e demands cannot be thought rea&s;onable, which are not indifferent, That is, equally ad|vantagious to both parties.</P>
<P>As they have given no interruption to the Trade of the Kingdome, but in Relation to the &s;upply of the contrary Army, which the rea&s;on of Warre requires; &s;o they be&s;eech Your Maje&s;ty to con&s;ider, whether Your Souldiers have not robbed the Carriars in &s;everall parts, where there hath been no &s;uch rea&s;on; And Your Ships taken many Ships to the great dammage, not only of particular Marchants, but of the whole Kingdom; And whether Your Maje&s;ty have not declared Your own purpo&s;e, and endeavoured by Your Mini&s;ters of State, to imbargue the Merchants goods in Forraign parts, which hath been in &s;ome mea&s;ure execu|ted upon the Ea&s;t-land Merchants in <HI>Denmarke,</HI> and is a Cour&s;e which will much dimini&s;h the wealth of the King|dom, violate the Law of Nations, make other Princes Ar|biters of the differences betwixt Your Maje&s;ty and Your People, break off the intercour&s;e between this, and other
<PB N="4" REF="7"> States, and like to bring us into Quarrells and di&s;&s;entions with all the neighbour Nations.</P>
<P N="2">2. To demand the approving of the Commanders of the Ships, is to de&s;ire the &s;trength of one party to the other, before the difference be ended, and again&s;t all Rules of Treaty; To make a Ce&s;&s;ation at Sea, would leave the King|dom naked to tho&s;e Forraigne Forces, which they have great cau&s;e to believe, have been &s;ollicited again&s;t them, and the Ports open for &s;uch &s;upplyes of Armes, and Am|munition, as &s;hall be brought from beyond the Seas: but for Conveying any number of Forces by tho&s;e means from one part to another, They &s;hall ob&s;erve the Articles of the Ce&s;&s;ation, by which that is re&s;trained.</P>
<P N="3">3. As for the expre&s;&s;ion of the Army rai&s;ed by the Parliament: They are contented it &s;hould be altered thus, (rai&s;ed by both Hou&s;es of Parliament) as not de&s;iring to differ upon words, but to give any Conclu&s;ive power in this ca&s;e to the Committee, upon &s;uch differences as may ari&s;e, wherein the hou&s;es have given no expre&s;&s;e direction, is neither &s;afe for the Committee to undertake, nor fit for the two Hou&s;es to grant; yet to debate and to pre&s;&s;e the Rea&s;on of their de&s;ires, whereby an Agreement from Your Maje&s;ty may be procured, is granted to them: And al|though the two Hou&s;es did think it mo&s;t proper the Ce&s;|&s;ation &s;hould be fir&s;t agreed on, and that it was unfit to Treat in blood; Yet to &s;atisfy the World of their earne&s;t longing after Peace, They have given power to the Committees, to enter into the Treaty upon the two fir&s;t Propo&s;itions, notwith&s;tanding the Ce&s;&s;ation be not yet a&s;&s;ented to; And tho&s;e being agreed, they hope the Foundation will be lay|ed, not only of a &s;u&s;pen&s;ion, but of a totall abolition of all Ho&s;tility in the Kingdom.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="5" REF="7"> 4. If the nature of Warre be duly con&s;idered, it mu&s;t needs be acknowledged, that it is incompatible with the or|dinary Rules of a peaceable Government; Your Maje&s;ty would have them commit none, but according to the knowne Lawes of the Land, whereby they conceive Your Maje&s;ty under&s;tands, that it mu&s;t be by the ordinary Pro|ce&s;&s;e of Law, which being granted, it will follow, that no man mu&s;t be committed by them for &s;upplying Your Ma|je&s;ty with Armes, Powder and Ammunition; For by the Law of the Land, the Subjects may carry &s;uch goods from <HI>London,</HI> or any other place, to <HI>Oxford,</HI> The Souldiers mu&s;t not be committed, if they runne from their Colours, and refu&s;e any duty in the Army, no man &s;hall be committed for not &s;ubmitting to nece&s;&s;ary &s;upplyes of Mony; &s;o that if this be yeelded, in Your Maje&s;ties &s;en&s;e, they &s;hall be di&s;abled to re&s;traine &s;upplyes from their Enemies, and to governe or maintaine their owne Souldiers; It cannot be thought rea|&s;onable, that under the di&s;gui&s;e of a Ce&s;&s;ation, they &s;hould admit that which will nece&s;&s;arily produce the di&s;&s;olving of the Army, and de&s;truction of the Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>It &s;eemes not probable that Your <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> doth intend, that if any be taken with &s;upplyes for this Army, or muti|ning in Your owne, That &s;uch Per&s;ons &s;hall not be com|mitted, but according to the knowne Lawes of the Land, that is, by proce&s;&s;e of Law, but rather, that Your <HI>Maiesty</HI> will &s;o interpret this limitation of knowne Lawes, that al|though it lay &s;trait Bonds upon the two Hou&s;es, yet it leaves Your Generalls as much liberty as before, for it hath been denyed by Your <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> that the&s;e knowne Lawes give any power to the two Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament</HI> to rai&s;e Armes; and &s;o con&s;equently their Generall cannot exerci&s;e any Martiall Law in tho&s;e ca&s;es; and it is not unlike, but
<PB N="6" REF="8"> that it will be affirm'd, that the Generalls con&s;tituted by Your <HI>Maie&s;ties</HI> Commi&s;&s;ion, have that power by the &s;ame knowne Lawes; &s;o that this Article, under the &s;pecious &s;hew of Liberty and Law, would altogether di&s;able them to defend their Liberties and Lawes, and would produce to Your <HI>Maie&s;tie</HI> an ab&s;olute Victory and &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, under pretence of a Ce&s;&s;ation and Treaty.</P>
<P N="5">5. Beeing by nece&s;&s;ity inevitable on their part inforced to a defen&s;ive Warre, in this unhappy breach between Your <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> &amp; them, and that they are therein warranted both by the Lawes of God and man, it mu&s;t needs follow, That by the &s;ame Lawes they are inabled to rai&s;e meanes to &s;upport that Warre; and therefore till it &s;hall plea&s;e God to incline Your <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> to afford them &s;uch a Peace as may &s;ecure them, they cannot relinqui&s;h the power of laying Taxes up|on tho&s;e who ought to joyne with them in that defence, and the nece&s;&s;ary wayes of leavying tho&s;e Taxes upon them in ca&s;e of refu&s;all; for otherwi&s;e their Army mu&s;t needs be di&s;|&s;olved: But if Your <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> &s;hall con&s;ent to disband the Armies, the cau&s;e of the Warre being taken away, the con|&s;equences will likewi&s;e be removed; and the Subject re&s;to|red to the benefit of tho&s;e Lawes, which the nece&s;&s;ity of Armes hath in &s;uch ca&s;es &s;u&s;pended.</P>
<P N="6">6. They deny any pretence of con&s;enting to tho&s;e alte|rations and additions offer'd by Your <HI>Maie&s;ty,</HI> only in the preamble, They &s;ay, they have con&s;idered of tho&s;e Arti|cles, with &s;uch alterations, and additions; Unto which Ar|ticles they profe&s;t they were ready to agree, nor as they were accompanied with tho&s;e alterations and additions, but in &s;uch manner as they expre&s;&s;ed. As for the clau&s;e left out in the third Article, it imployed a freedome of pa&s;&s;age, and communication of Quarters, which is contrary to the nature
<PB N="7" REF="8"> of a Ce&s;&s;ation, whereby matters &s;hould be pre&s;erved in the State they are, and neither party have liberty &s;o much to advantage him&s;elfe, as it is evident Your <HI>Maie&s;ty</HI> might doe, if Your Forces in the <HI>North</HI> &amp; <HI>We&s;t</HI> might joyne with tho&s;e at <HI>Oxford,</HI> and bring tho&s;e &s;upplyes of Trea&s;ure or Armes thither, which were brought out of <HI>Holland;</HI> or at lea&s;t it &s;hould be &s;o indifferent, as to give a proportionable advan|tage to the other &s;ide, which this doth not; for the Forces under the power of both Hou&s;es are &s;o di&s;po&s;ed, that they have an ea&s;ie pa&s;&s;age from one to the other; But Your <HI>Ma|je&s;ties</HI> Forces are &s;evered the one from the other by many large Counties, &s;trong Pa&s;&s;es, and competent Armies; and if they had admitted this Clau&s;e, they had bereaved them|&s;elves of one of the greate&s;t advantages, &amp; freed Your <HI>Ma|iesties</HI> party of one of the greate&s;t inconveniencies, which Your <HI>Maiesty</HI> or they have in this Warre.</P>
<P>For the Rea&s;ons alleadged, They cannot agree to the al|terations and enlargements of the Ce&s;&s;ation propounded; or to transferre any &s;uch power to the Committee of Trea|ting, debating &amp; agreeing upon tho&s;e Articles in any other manner, then the Hou&s;es have directed; but that a faire and &s;peedy pa&s;&s;age may be opened to a &s;ecure and a happy Peace, they have enabled their Committees to Treat and debate upon the two Propo&s;itions concerning His <HI>Maie|&s;ties</HI> owne Revenue, the delivery of His Townes, Ca&s;tles, Magazines, and Ships, and the disbanding the Armies; which beeing agreed upon, a pre&s;ent Peace and &s;ecurity will follow; And the Treaty upon the other Propo&s;itions be facilitated without feare of interruption, by the confu&s;ion of Warre, or exa&s;peration of either party, by the bloody effects thereof.</P>
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<P> <HI>In which Treaty the two Hou&s;es will de&s;ire and expect nothing but what doth stand with Your</HI> Maje&s;ties <HI>Honour, and the Trust repo&s;ed in You, and is nece&s;&s;ary for Your</HI> Maje&s;ties <HI>good Subiects, that they may enioy the true Re|ligion and their Liberties, and Priviledges; And that they may freely, and in a Parliamentary way, concurre with Your</HI> Maje&s;ty, <HI>in tho&s;e things which may conduce to the glory of God, the &s;afety and happine&s;&s;e of Your</HI> Maje&s;ty, <HI>and Your Posterity and People; And preventing the like mi&s;erable effu&s;ion of Engli&s;h blood for the time to come; For the effe|cting whereof, their mo&s;t earne&s;t prayers, and uttermo&s;t endeavours, &s;hall ever be faithfully and con&s;tantly imployed, in hope, that God will give a ble&s;sing thereunto.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES ANSWER <HI>TO THE AFORESAID</HI> REASONS.</HEAD>
<P>_HOw His Maje&s;ty hath &s;pent His time &s;ince the Committee from His two Hou&s;es of Parliament came hither; How willing He hath been (during the foure daies allowed to them) to expedite the Treaty it &s;elfe, by the free and diligent Di&s;qui&s;iti|on of the particulars, compri&s;ed in tho&s;e two fir&s;t Articles; And how intent He hath been upon the Ce&s;&s;ation (which He thinks &s;o nece&s;&s;ary, and &s;o much de&s;ires) &s;ince the la&s;t Me&s;&s;age concerning the &s;ame came to Him, the Committee them&s;elves cannot but ob&s;erve. And though no Conclu&s;ion
<PB N="10" REF="10"> could be made within the two dayes (a time li|mited with much &s;trictne&s;&s;e in a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of &s;o great moment, where all words and expre&s;sions mu&s;t be carefully and exactly weighed) His Maje|&s;ty cannot doubt but both Hou&s;es will be willing to give and receive &s;atisfaction in any particulars which are nece&s;&s;arily to be con&s;idered in conclu|ding the &s;ame, though the two dayes are expired. And if His Maje&s;ty enlarges Him&s;elfe in His Replies more then may &s;eem nece&s;&s;ary to the Propo&s;itions and differences in debate, it mu&s;t be remembred by what unnece&s;&s;ary and unwar|rantable expre&s;sions in this la&s;t Me&s;&s;age from His two Hou&s;es, He is not only invited, but compelled thereunto; which <HI>He</HI> could heartily have wi&s;hed might upon this Occa&s;ion have been forborne.</P>
<P N="1">1. For the Freedom of Trade, His Maje&s;ty hath great rea&s;on to require, and the two Hou&s;es to admit that freedom to His good Subjects He de&s;i|red. For what concernes the &s;upply of the Army with Armes, Ammunition, Mony, Bullion, and Victualls, He con&s;ented to the very termes propo|&s;ed by the two Hou&s;es, and that they may be ob|&s;erved, is contented that Searches may be made, which being but the Trouble of particular Per|&s;ons, is not con&s;iderable, in re&s;pect of the publique
<PB N="11" REF="10"> benefit and Advantage. But why all other Liberty of Traffique and Commerce &s;hould not be gran|ted to His good Subjects, He cannot under&s;tand, for that His Maje&s;ties Army &s;hould receive much advantage thereby, and the contrary Army none, is in no degree confe&s;&s;ed, for (be&s;ides that the re|&s;traint is to places, where no part of His Maje&s;ties Army is, and indeed the whole Trade of the Kingdom interrupted) 'tis as great a Support, if not a greater to the contrary Army to maintain and keep up the Trade of <HI>London,</HI> from whence that receives its &s;upply and reliefe, as to His Maje|&s;ties Army to continue the Trade of <HI>Oxford,</HI> or a|ny other place, where His forces re&s;ide, and to &s;top and &s;eize the Cloath, Ker&s;ies and other We|&s;terne Commodities (which His Maje&s;ty can dai|ly doe from <HI>Reading)</HI> would be as great di&s;tur|bance to the Trade of <HI>London,</HI> as the &s;ea&s;ing of any Commodities (which may be done by the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> from <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> or <HI>Wickam)</HI> can be to the Trade of <HI>Oxford.</HI> And therefore His Maje&s;ty hath great Rea&s;on to pre&s;&s;e that mutuall and univer&s;all freedom to all His good Subjects may be granted; otherwi&s;e He mu&s;t either permit that licence to His Army, to &s;eize the goods of His People in their Pa&s;&s;age to <HI>London,</HI> and to interrupt and break the
<PB N="12" REF="11"> Trade and Corre&s;pondence of the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> (which, both out of publique Con&s;ideration, and private Compa&s;sion His Maje&s;ty is mo&s;t aver&s;e from) or el&s;e mu&s;t grant that evident benefit and Advantage to tho&s;e who deny the &s;ame to Him, and to His People for His &s;ake. And it cannot be denied, but this freedom is &s;o very beneficiall to His Subjects, and &s;o wholy con&s;iderable to His Maje&s;ty under that Notion, that their very &s;ub&s;i|&s;tence depends upon it, and by this meanes Trade may be continued, which if a little more &s;uppre&s;|&s;ed by the&s;e Di&s;tractions, will not be ea&s;ily reco|vered, even by a &s;etled Peace.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty believes that &s;ome Cariers have been robbed by His Maje&s;ties Souldiers, but 'tis as true that no Complaint hath been made to Him of that kind, which He hath not received to the Reliefe and Reparation of the Petitioners, and 'tis therfore His de&s;ire that both Hou&s;es would joyne with Him, (at lea&s;t during the Ce&s;&s;ation) that there might be no more &s;uch violences and Inter|ruptions offered to His good Subjects by either &s;ide.</P>
<P>For the imbarguing the Merchants goods in forraigne Parts, His Maje&s;ty denies, that any en|deavour hath yet been made by His Mini&s;ters of
<PB N="13" REF="11"> State to that Purpo&s;e; But 'tis true His Maje&s;ty hath declared His Re&s;olutions, which He &s;hall pur&s;ue, that &s;uch Per&s;ons who ab&s;olve them&s;elves from their obedience to Him, and a&s;&s;i&s;t or con|&s;ent to Actions of Di&s;loyalty to Him here, &s;hall be deprived of tho&s;e Advantages, and mu&s;t not ex|pect that Protection from Him abroad, which is due, and which He alwaies hath and will allow to His good Subjects: and this is not to make other Princes Arbiters of the Differences betwixt His Maje&s;ty and His People, but to u&s;e the mutuall A|mity and Corre&s;pondence with other Princes for the maintenance and &s;upport of that Dignity for which it is made and entred into.</P>
<P N="2">2. His Maje&s;ty did not demand the approving of the Commanders of Ships only with reference to His pre&s;ent Right, for then <HI>He</HI> would have de|manded not the Approbation of the Comman|ders, but the Ships them&s;elves; But this demand was and is a thing mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary for His Maje&s;ty; for the &s;etting out the pre&s;ent Fleet is pretended to be for the Defence of His Maje&s;ties Domini|ons; and which cannot conveniently &s;uffer any Alteration in Commanders, if the Ce&s;&s;ation and Peace &s;hould be fully and &s;peedily agreed upon, and therefore 'tis mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary for His Maje&s;ty to
<PB N="14" REF="12"> know both the De&s;ignes, and to approve of the Commanders, who will not be &s;o fit to be altered when once they are &s;ent out. His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> cannot &s;ee how a Ce&s;&s;ation at Sea between His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> and his Subjects &s;hould leave the Kingdom naked to forraign Forces, (a continuance of Warre may well doe it) and His <HI>Majesty</HI> is willing to concurre in the re&s;i&s;tance of all &s;uch of what kind &s;oever; And expects that, during the Ce&s;&s;ation, the convey|ing all Forces from one part to another by Sea, for the a&s;si&s;tance of the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> be re&s;trained, which both Hou&s;es &s;eem now to con&s;ent to, which was not at all expre&s;&s;ed in their former Articles.</P>
<P N="3">3. His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> opinion how unfit it was to Treat in blood, &s;ufficiently appeares, this debate concerning a Ce&s;&s;ation ari&s;ing fir&s;t from His <HI>Ma|je&s;ties</HI> motion, (it being left out in the An&s;wer to His Me&s;&s;age for a Treaty) in order to which He had and hath great rea&s;on to de&s;ire, that the Com|mittee may have Liberty to debate and conclude any differences and expre&s;sions in the Articles of the Ce&s;&s;ation, that the &s;ame may be reconciled and removed without remitting all Que&s;tions to <HI>Lon|don.</HI> For as tho&s;e now con&s;ented to, might in much le&s;&s;e time have been agreed here, if there had been
<PB N="15" REF="12"> that Liberty, &s;o there can hardly be a right &amp; cleer under&s;tanding of Intentions without expounding of words, and knowing the meaning from each other, as in the con&s;ent which His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> now under&s;tands to be given by both Hou&s;es, that no Forces &s;hall, during the Ce&s;&s;ation, be &s;ent by Sea, for the releife of any place now held by them, the Ex|pre&s;sion is not &s;o cleere, but referreth to Articles, in which if it was not compri&s;ed before, as His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> doth not conceive it was, no Alteration is made by what now &s;eemes to be con&s;ented to; And the Liberty which to all under&s;tandings may &s;eem to be given by removing out of one Quarter to another, within the Precincts propo&s;ed is not yet &s;o demon&s;trable; The Committee having no Power to an&s;wer what they under&s;tand in that point, which is mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to be known, that the Peace be not broken during that Ce&s;&s;ation. And His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> wonders that it &s;hould be thought un&s;afe or unfit to give &s;uch a conclu&s;ive power of &s;uch differences &amp; doubts to the Committee here, when 'tis notoriou&s;ly knowne, that the very Li|berty and Property of the Subject is committed, not only to other Committees of the Hou&s;es with|out reporting to the Hou&s;es, but to per&s;ons who are imployed by them unintere&s;&s;ed in, and unac|quainted
<PB N="16" REF="13"> with the directions of either or both Hou&s;es.</P>
<P N="4">4. It was no part of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Intention, that His Article again&s;t Impri&s;onment of His Sub|jects, otherwi&s;e then according to the knowne Lawes of the Land, &s;hould extend to the de&s;tru|ction of the military Di&s;cipline of either Army; but this is a very &s;ufficient in&s;tance of the nece&s;sity of enabling &s;ome Per&s;ons to conclude upon the&s;e Articles, without which (through Inanimadver|tence or doubtfulne&s;&s;e in the Expre&s;sions) they who are neere&s;t of a mind, will hardly ever come to conclude, if every <HI>Punctilio</HI> mu&s;t be forced to be &s;ent forwards and backwards a hundred miles; and (if this Authority had been given to the Com|mittee here, as for &s;uch cau&s;es was de&s;ired) a limi|tation of halfe a dozen words (which would have been as &s;oon agreed to as propo&s;ed) would have &s;aved mo&s;t of this fourth Rea&s;on; and he that de|&s;ires any thing nece&s;&s;ary to the &s;peed of this Ce&s;&s;a|tion gives a good argument of de&s;iring the Ce&s;&s;a|tion it &s;elfe, and who ever is aver&s;e to the one, can hardly be thought inclinable to the other.</P>
<P>But &s;uch of His Subjects as are not concerned in the Di&s;cipline of the Army, are not concerned in this objection, and His <HI>Majesty</HI> hath rea&s;on to in|&s;i&s;t
<PB N="17" REF="13"> that the &s;ame Liberty may be re&s;tored to them in which they were borne, and the Care and De|fence of which is &s;o much, and &s;o meerly preten|ded by tho&s;e who deny it to them.</P>
<P N="5">5. Though it grieves His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> to the Soul to &s;ee the pre&s;ent mi&s;erable condition of His Subjects groaning under &s;o many vi&s;ible Pre&s;&s;ures, becau&s;e of an invi&s;ible nece&s;sity, and plundred and impri|&s;oned to maintain &s;uch a defen&s;ive Warre as was begun to be rai&s;ed again&s;t Him, before His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> had granted one Commi&s;sion to rai&s;e a man, yet He cannot but be plea&s;ed with the Ingenuity of this Confe&s;&s;ion, that the implicite Faith of His &s;e|duced Subjects begins to weare out &s;o fa&s;t, that the Authority of declaring new unknown fundamen|tall Lawes, doth not now &s;o worke with them, to beleive that the&s;e Taxes are laid according to the Lawes of God and man, nor the many preten|ces of imminent dangers, and inevitable ruine of their Religion, Lawes and Liberties &s;o per&s;wade them to beleive this Cau&s;e to be the Cau&s;e of the Kingdom, but that if their cau&s;e, authority and eloquence were not a&s;&s;i&s;ted by Force and Rapine, their Army mu&s;t needs be di&s;&s;olved for want of being thought fit, much le&s;&s;e nece&s;&s;ary to be paid by tho&s;e, who have equall Right to judge of the
<PB N="18" REF="14"> nece&s;&s;ity &amp; danger, and for who&s;e &s;akes, Intere&s;ts, and concernments only it was pretended to be rai|&s;ed, and who are defended by it again&s;t their wills. Nor is it &s;trange, that His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> cannot receive the&s;e Charges upon Him as a rea&s;on to make Him contented and acquie&s;ce with the&s;e Injuries to His Subjects, or that they who &s;aw His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Con|dition the la&s;t Yeare (till co~tinued violence again&s;t Him opened the Eyes and hearts of His Subjects to His A&s;si&s;tance) &s;hould not beleive that He be|ganne that Warre, which they &s;aw him &s;o unlike|ly to re&s;i&s;t, or that they, who could never find nor heare from them (who u&s;e not too mode&s;tly to conceale what is for their advantage) that from the beginning of the world to this pre&s;ent Parlia|ment ever one man was rai&s;ed before by Com|mi&s;&s;ion from both Hou&s;es, &s;hould not beleive the rai&s;ing of that their Army to be &s;o warranted as is pretended, &amp; any more approve of their Law then of their nece&s;sity, or that they who know that His Maje&s;ty (in whom the power of making Warre and Peace was never denyed to be, till the&s;e new Doctrines, which make it unlawfull for Him to doe any thing, &amp; lawfull to doe any thing again&s;t Him, were of late di&s;covered) though He can le|gally rai&s;e an Army, is not allowed to be legally
<PB N="19" REF="14"> able to rai&s;e Money to maintain it, will not allow of the argument from the Power of Rai&s;ing to the Power of Taxing, &amp; are as little &s;atisfied with their Logick as with their Law, and extreamly troubled to pay an Army they doe not de&s;ire, for a nece&s;sity they cannot &s;ee, by a Law they never heard of, and that other men without their con&s;ent mu&s;t be jea|lous, fearefull and quick&s;ighted at their charges; and they have great Rea&s;on to be apt to &s;u&s;pect that tho&s;e made mo&s;t ha&s;t to make a Warre, and have lea&s;t de&s;ire of making Peace, who in time of Warre pretend their legall Power to be &s;o va&s;tly enlarged. His Maje&s;ty therefore hath great rea&s;on to in&s;i&s;t that no violence or Plundring be offered to His Subjects for not &s;ubmitting to the illegall Taxes of one or both Hou&s;es, which in it &s;elfe is equall, His Maje&s;ty being willing to be oblig'd from the like Cour&s;e, and relying wholy upon the known Ju|&s;tice of His Cau&s;e, and the Affection of His People, and in which (if the Kingdom be of their mind, &amp; beleive the Cau&s;e of the contrary Army to be really their own) the advantage will be wholy theirs. And this Judgement will be be&s;t given, when the People is left to their Liberty in this deci&s;ion.</P>
<P>His <HI>Majesties</HI> reall de&s;ire of disbanding the Ar|mies may fully appeare by His often &s;eeking and
<PB N="20" REF="15"> earne&s;t Endeavours to continue and conclude this Treaty in order to that disbanding.</P>
<P N="6">6. His Maje&s;ty leaves their Preamble to all the World to con&s;ider, and to judge whether any man by their &s;aying, <HI>they were ready to agree to His Maje&s;ties Articles in the manner as was expre&s;t,</HI> would not have expected to have found, after that expre&s;sion, that they had agreed at lea&s;t to &s;ome one thing materiall in them, and had not only meant by agreeing as was expre&s;t, to expre&s;&s;e they would not agree at all.</P>
<P>For the clau&s;e of Communication of Quarters &s;o quietly left out, His Maje&s;ty looks upon it as of mo&s;t infinite importance, the leaving out of that having di&s;compos'd the whole, many things ha|ving in the re&s;t been a&s;&s;ented to, which were therefore only yeelded, becau&s;e the Inconveni|ences growing by tho&s;e clau&s;es, if they were alone, were &s;alved by that Addition, and &s;ome things in the other very darke and doubt|full, were by that interpreted and cleered. And His Maje&s;ty is &s;ufficiently informed how highly it concernes Him, that every thing be &s;o cleer, that after no Differences may ari&s;e upon any di&s;puta|ble Poynt, &s;ince they who&s;e Union, Indu&s;try, Sub|tilty and Malice could per&s;wade any of His Peo|ple,
<PB N="21" REF="15"> that in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Brainceford</HI> He had broken a Ce&s;&s;ation before any was made or offe|red, would have a much ea&s;ier work to lay the breach of a made Ce&s;&s;ation to His Maje&s;ties Charge, if the ground of that Breach would beare the lea&s;t di&s;pute.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty doth agree, that to pre&s;erve things in the &s;ame State on both &s;ides with as little Ad|vantage or di&s;advantage to either as the matter will po&s;sibly beare, is truly the nature of a Ce&s;&s;ati|on, and is willing this Principle &s;hould be made the Rule, and never intended any thing that &s;hould contradict it; But cannot &s;ee the inequality in this which is pretended. For could Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> and the Earle of <HI>Newcastle</HI> come by this means to the King, and not the Earle of <HI>Stanford,</HI> and Lord <HI>Fairfaix</HI> to the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex?</HI> Nor can His Maje&s;ty finde any &s;tronger Pa&s;&s;es or Forces to hinder His Armies from joyning with Him, then hinders theirs from joyning with them. If the forces be unequall, theirs will hardly hinder the pa&s;&s;age of His without a Ce&s;&s;ation; if they be equall their comming in time of a Ce&s;&s;ation will be of equall u&s;e and advantage to their &s;ide, &s;omewhat in point of &s;upplyes to come with them excepted, &amp; &s;ome advantage to one &s;ide will be, poi&s;e it how you
<PB N="22" REF="16"> will. But on the other &s;ide, if this Clau&s;e be not in, how much greater is the di&s;advantage the o|ther way by &s;ome Clau&s;es? And how are His For|ces, principally the Earle of <HI>Newca&s;tles</HI> cooped up in old and eaten up Quarters, or nece&s;sitated to re|tire to &s;uch as are more barren and more eaten? So that if this were yeelded to, under the di&s;gui&s;e of a Ce&s;&s;ation, He mu&s;t admit that which will much endanger the di&s;&s;olving of the Army, and de&s;tru|ction of the Cau&s;e, which is &s;uch a di&s;advantage as is again&s;t the nature of a Ce&s;&s;ation formerly a|greed and &s;tated.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding all this, His Maje&s;ty, to &s;hew His extraordinary and abundant de&s;ire of Peace, and to prevent the effu&s;ion of Blood, is contented, if both Hou&s;es &s;hall refu&s;e to con&s;ent to His Pro|po&s;itions, Which are &s;o much for the benefit and Advancement of the publique Trade and Advan|tage of His good Subjects, to admit a Ce&s;&s;ation up|on the matter of their own Articles; expecting that Liberty be given to the Committee to word it according to the reall meaning and intention, and that the Remove of Quarters within their own Bounds, which is intended, may be &s;o expre&s;t and under&s;tood, that no mi&s;takes may ari&s;e, &s;o that His Maje&s;ty may not be under&s;tood to con|&s;ent
<PB N="23" REF="16"> to any impo&s;ing upon, leavying, di&s;training, or impri&s;oning His good Subjects, to force them to contribute or a&s;si&s;t again&s;t Him, (which He &s;hall alwaies continue to inhibite, requiring all men to re&s;i&s;t tho&s;e illegall Acts of inju&s;tice and violence, again&s;t which he doth ab&s;olutely pro|te&s;t;) And &s;o that there may not be a Liberty for a|ny Rapine, Plundring or &s;ea&s;ing upon His Subjects by any of the Souldiers of the Army, for not &s;ub|mitting to &s;uch illegall impo&s;itions as afore&s;aid. For otherwi&s;e they may, during the Ce&s;&s;ation, (be|&s;ides what is already impo&s;ed) impo&s;e new taxes not only to the 19^t^h part, but if they plea&s;e (for their plea&s;ure is all their bound) to the halfe of, or all their e&s;tates, upon His good Subjects in His City of <HI>London,</HI> and all Counties within their reach; And their Army would then be at lea&s;ure to be imployed as Collectors, as well of the old impo&s;itions (which in mo&s;t Places without their Army they cannot leavy) as of any &s;uch new ones; And va&s;t &s;ummes would and might by this meanes be rai&s;ed to the De&s;truction of His Sub|jects, extraordinary advantage to them, and great di&s;advantage to His Maje&s;ty, who can neither ob|tain His own con&s;ent to take the like Cour&s;es, nor in Ca&s;e He could, is He &s;o Quartered, as to have
<PB N="24" REF="17"> within the Power of His Army (without breach of the Ce&s;&s;ation by drawing neerer to their For|ces) any &s;uch City, or &s;o many, &s;o rich and &s;o fre&s;h Counties, as they have to retire into to that purpo&s;e. So that as nothing is more ju&s;t in it &s;elfe, and for His People, then &s;uch a limitation, &s;o no|thing can be more unequall to His Maje&s;ty, or more advantagious to them, then the Admi&s;sion of, or Connivence to any &s;uch practices upon His People. This Ce&s;&s;ation to begin on the ninth of <HI>April,</HI> and to continue to the end of Twenty daies from the 25. of <HI>March.</HI> And His Maje&s;ty de&s;ires that the Treaty may proceed upon the Propo&s;itions in Order, upon which His Maje&s;ty hath an earne&s;t de&s;ire, that a firme and &s;table Peace may be agreed on, and both Armies &s;peedily disbanded, other|wi&s;e, if during this Ce&s;&s;ation (in the Articles of which His Maje&s;ty in order to Peace, hath yeelded to things manife&s;tly unrea&s;onable and prejudiciall to His Army) the Treaty be not di&s;patched, His Maje&s;ty cannot without manife&s;t ruine to His Army (principally that of the <HI>North)</HI> be able to containe Him&s;elf beyond this time, now limited for the Ce&s;&s;ation, in the Quarters in which He hath &s;o long been, and now is, and which will hardly be able to hold out &s;o long, but mu&s;t be for|ced
<PB N="25" REF="17"> to remove, as he &s;hall find agreeable for His occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>And in Ca&s;e any delay be made in con&s;enting to the&s;e His Maje&s;ties Limitations, or that the Hou&s;es &s;hall reject this His offer of Ce&s;&s;ation, His Maje&s;tie as He hath lately de&s;ired (by a Propo&s;ition to both Hou&s;es, delivered to their Committee, to which He hath yet received no An&s;wer) &s;o He doth earne&s;tly continue to de&s;ire, that the Treaty it&s;elf may not be delayed or interrupted by it, but that their Committee may be enabled to proceed upon it in the meane while.</P>
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