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<P> The humble An&s;wer OF THE LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in <HI>Parliament,</HI> To the Me&s;&s;age of the 25 of Augu&s;t, received from his MAIESTY, by the Earles of <HI>South-Hampton</HI> and <HI>Dor&s;et,</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Cul|pepper, Knight,</HI> Chancellor of the Exchequer.</P>
<P>Returned by the afore&s;aid <HI>Sir Iohn Culpepper,</HI> by Order of both Hou&s;es, to be pre&s;ented to his MAJESTY.</P>
<P>With a perfect Copy of his Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Declaration of the Lords and Commons, concerning the beheaviour of the Souldiers in this pre&s;ent expedition.</P>
<P>VVith an Order of both Hou&s;es concerning Irregular Printing, and for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all fal&s;e and Scandalous Pamphlets.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Sabbathi, Augu&s;t. 27. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that this Declaration and Order be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</HI></P>
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<P>Iohn Browne Cler. Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 30. London Printed for <HI>Iohn Wright.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords and Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;om|bled, having received your Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age of the 25 of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> doe with much griefe recent the dangerous and di&s;tracted &s;tate of this Kingdome, which we have by all meanes endeavoured to prevent both by our &s;everall advices and Petitions to Your Ma|je&s;ty, which have beene not onely without &s;ucce&s;&s;e, but there hath followed that, which no ill councell in for|mer times hath produced; or any age hath &s;eene, namely tho&s;e &s;everall Proclamations and Declarations again&s;t both the Hou&s;es of Parliament, whereby their actions are declared Trea&s;onable, and their per&s;ons Traytors; and thereupon Your Maje&s;ty hath &s;et up Your Standard again&s;t them, whereby You have put the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, and in them this whole Kingdome out of Your protection; &s;o that untill Your Maje&s;ty &s;hall re|call the &s;aid Proclamations and Declarations, whereby the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and their adherents and a&s;&s;i&s;tants, and &s;uch as have obeyed and executed their commands and directions according to their duties, are declared Traytors, or otherwi&s;e de|linquents; and untill the Standard &s;et up in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Proclamations be taken downe, Your Maje|&s;ty hath put us into &s;uch a condition, that whil&s;t we &s;o remaine we cannot by the fundamentall priviledge of Parliament, the publike tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us, or with the generall good and &s;afety of this Kingdome, give Your Maje&s;ty any other an&s;wer to this Me&s;&s;age.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties gracious Me&s;&s;age to both Hou&s;es of Parliament, &s;ent from <HI>Not|tingham,</HI> 25. Augu&s;t, 1642.</HEAD>
<P>WE have with un&s;peakable griefe of heart long beheld the Di&s;tractions of this our Kingdom; Our very &s;oule is ful of angui&s;h untill We may find &s;ome remedy to prevent the Mi&s;eries which are ready to overwhelme this whole Nation by a civill War: And though all Our endeavours tending to the compo&s;ing of tho&s;e unhappy differences betwixt Us and Our two Hou&s;es of Parliament (though pur&s;ued by Us with all Zeale and Sincerity) have beene hitherto without that Succe&s;&s;e We hoped for; Yet &s;uch is Our con&s;tant and ear|ne&s;t care to pre&s;erve the publike peace, that We &s;hall not be di&s;couraged from u&s;ing any expedient, which by the ble&s;&s;ing of the God of Mercy may lay a firme foundation of peace and happine&s;&s;e to all Our good Subjects: To this end ob&s;erving that many Mi&s;takes have ari&s;en by the Me&s;&s;ages, Petitions and An&s;wers betwixt Us and Our two Hou&s;es of Parliament, which happily may be pre|vented by &s;ome other way of Treaty, wherein the Matters in difference may be more cleerly under&s;tood, and more freely tran&s;acted; Wee have thought fit to propound to you, that &s;ome fit per&s;ons may be by you inabled to treat with the like number to be authorized by Us, in &s;uch a manner, and with &s;uch freedome of debate, as may be&s;t tend to that happy Conclu&s;ion which all good Men de&s;ire, <HI>The peace of the Kingdome:</HI> Wherein as We promi&s;e in the Word of a King, all &s;afety and encour<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">+ment
<PB REF="3"> to &s;uch as &s;hall bee &s;ent to Us, if you &s;hall chu&s;e the place where we are for the Treatie; which we wholy leave to you, pre&s;uming of your like care of the &s;afety of tho&s;e We &s;hall imploy, if you &s;hall name ano|ther place&punc; So We a&s;&s;ure you and all Our good Subiects, that (to the be&s;t of Our under&s;tanding) nothing &s;hall be therein wanting on Our parts, which may advance the true Prote&s;tant Religion, Oppo&s;e Popery and Super&s;ti|tion, Secure the Law of the Land (upon which is built as well Our iu&s;t Prerogative, as the Propriety and Liber|ty of the Subiect) Confirm all iu&s;t power and Priviled|ges of Parliament, And render Vs and Our People truly happy by a good Vnder&s;tanding betwixt Vs and Our two Hou&s;es of Parliament. Bring with you as firm Re&s;oluti|ons to doe your duty, and let all Our good People ioyne with Vs in Our Prayers to Almighty God for his ble&s;|&s;ing upon this work.</P>
<P>If this Propo&s;ition &s;hall be reiected by you, We have done Our duty &s;o amply, that God will ab&s;olve Vs from the Guilt of any of that blood which mu&s;t be &s;pilt, and what opinion &s;oever other Men may have of Our pow|er, We a&s;&s;ure you nothing but Our Chri&s;tian and Pious care to prevent the Effu&s;ion of blood hath begot this Motion, Our Provi&s;ion of Men, Armes and Money be|ing &s;uch as may &s;ecure Vs from further violence, till it &s;hall plea&s;e God to open the eyes of Our People.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas diver&s;e Souldiers have in a tumultuous and violent manner broken into diver&s;e of the Kings Subjects hou&s;es, pillaged and ran&s;acked them, un|der colour that they are Papi&s;ts Hou&s;es, or the hou&s;es of per&s;ons di&s;affected; The Lords and Commons taking the premi&s;es into con&s;ideration, doe declare and Order, that what&s;oever Souldier or Souldiers, &s;hall without the command of the Cap|taines of their re&s;pective Companies, or the Officers of the field, attempt upon, or breake open any hou&s;es what&s;oever, or pillage or ran&s;acke any hou&s;e, &s;hall be pur|&s;ued and puni&s;ht, according to the Law as a Felon, And the &s;aid Lords and Com|mons
<PB REF="4"> doe require all Officers of the Army to imploy their be&s;t endeavours, for the bringing of any &s;uch Souldiers that &s;hall commit any of the in&s;olencies afore&s;aid, to condigne puni&s;hment, that they may be &s;everely and effectually proceeded a|gain&s;t, according to Law. And the Lord Generall is de&s;ired, that this Order may be duely publi&s;hed in the Army, in the head of each particular Company.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Augu&s;t 30, 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Lords a&s;&s;embled in Par|liament, that this Order be forth|with Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne Cleric. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>An ORDER of the Lords and Com|mons, concerning Printing.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Veneris 26. Augu&s;ti, 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas there hath beene of late great di&s;|orders and abu&s;es by irregular Printing, to the great &s;candall of Religion and go|vernment, and a Bill is in preparation for the redre&s;&s;e of tho&s;e mi&s;chiefes, which by rea&s;on of the pre&s;ent di&s;tractions cannot be &s;o &s;peedily perfected and pa&s;&s;ed as is de&s;ired; It is therefore Orde|red by the Lords and Commons in Parliament; that no per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall Print, publi&s;h, or utter, any Booke or Pamphlet, fal&s;e or &s;candalous, to the procee|dings of the Hou&s;es of Parliament, or either of them, nor &s;hall Print, utter, or publi&s;h, any Books or Pamphlet with the name of the Clerke of either Hou&s;e o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Parli|ament &s;et thereunto, or with any expre&s;&s;ion, pretence, of Order from born or either of the &s;aid Hou&s;es, with|out &s;peciall Order from the &s;aid Hou&s;es, or either of them&punc; or of the Committees of them, or either of them concerning Printing; And the &s;ame to be entred
<PB REF="5" MS="y"> in the Regi&s;ter Booke of the &s;aid Company, according to ancient cu&s;tome; And the Ma&s;ter and Wardens of the Company of Stationers <HI>London,</HI> and the U&s;her of the Black-rod, and Serjeant of the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament and their Deputies, are hereby authorized and required, to make diligent &s;earch from time to time, for all &s;uch Bookes and Pamphlets, to bee hereafter printed, and the &s;ame to &s;ieze and take, together with the Pre&s;&s;es, and other Printing Materials, wherewith the &s;ame &s;hall be Printed; and carry them to the Common-hall of the &s;aid Company, there to remaine till either Hou&s;e of Parliament &s;hall otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;e thereof; And all his Maje&s;ties Officers &s;hall upon reque&s;t, ayde and a&s;&s;i&s;t to apprehend offenders in the premi&s;es, and to bring them before the Lords or Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament, or the Committees appoynted for Printing, upon who&s;e report of the Fact, &s;uch cour&s;e &s;hall be ta|ken with the &s;aid Offenders, as &s;hall be ju&s;t. And for that purpo&s;e the &s;aid Committees are to &s;it at &s;uch times and places as they &s;hall thinke fit.</P>
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<P>ORdered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that this Order concerning Printing be forthwith Printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne Cleric. Parliam.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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