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A31965	The letters from His Maiesty, and from the officers of His Majesties army, to the Earle of Essex at Lestithen, inviting him to peace and his refusall thereof	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646.	1644 (1644)	Wing C2420; ESTC R17824	5,412	14

Propositions in order to Peace his Answer was he would not permit Mr Harding to come to him neither would he have any Treaty with the King whereupon Mr Richard replyed that he was commanded from His Majesty to let him know his very earnest desire of Peace to prevent that ruine and desolation which would inevitably ensue this unnaturall Warre that the Peace His Majesty desired should be established by the settlement of the true Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land the Liberties of the Subject and the Priviledges of Parliament and that the Earle might be assured that this was His Majesties Reall Intention His Majesty would give any security He could propose as well by the Trust Power and Confidence he would put in himselfe as by any other the most solemne way of engagement that could be devised The Earle seeming not moved with what was said to him was then desired to returne an Answer to His Majesties Letter he replyed he would make none and so turned away This strange neglect of His Majesty and His Message produced no other effect with His Majesty then an opinion that there could be no reason for a man to refuse all that he pretended to desire but onely a doubt in the security of the promise which no man could so well aske as His Majesty himselfe could offer and therefore His Majesty was pleased that they by whose assistance he was principally to manage the Warre should be his security for a Peace and so the next day after His Majesty understood what reception his Letter had this other under the hands of the chiefe Officers of His Army was sent to the Earle of Essex in these words MY LORD WEE having obtained His Majesties leave to send this to your Lordship shall not repeat the many gratious Messages Endeavours and Declarations which His Majesty hath made and have been so solemnly protested in the Presence of God and men That we wonder how the most scrupulous can make any doubt of the reall and Royall Performance of them But we must before this approaching Occasion tell your Lordship that we bear Armes for this end only to defend His Majesties knowne Rights the Lawes of the Kingdome the Liberty of the Subject the Priviledge of the Parliament and the true Protestant Religion against Popery and Popish Innovations And this being the professed Cause of your Lordships taking Armes We are confident that concurring in the same Opinions and Pretences We shall not by an unnaturall Warre weaken the maine strength of this Kingdome and advance the Designe of Our common Enemies who long since have devoured Vs in their hopes My Lord the Exigent of the time will not suffer Vs to make any laboured Declarations of Our Intentions but onely this That on the Faith of Subjects the Honour and Reputation of Gentlemen and Souldiers We will with Our Lives maintaine that which His Majesty shall publiquely Promise in order to a bloodlesse Peace nor shall it be in the Power of any private Person to divert this Resolution of Ours and the same We expect from you And now We must take leave to protest That if this Our Proffer be neglected which We make neither in feare of your Power nor distrust of Our owne but onely touched with the approaching miseries of Our Nation That what Calamities shall oppresse Posterity will lie heavy on the Soules and Consciences of those that shall decline this Overture which We cannot hope so seasonably to make againe if this Conjuncture be let goe And therefore it is desired that your Lordship and six other Persons may meet Our Generall to morrow at such an indifferent Place as you shall think fit attended with as many or if you shall find That any way inconvenient to come in Person That then your Lordship will appoynt such or so many to meet with the like number from hence that may consider of all means possible to reconcile these unhappy differences and misunderstandings that have so long afflicted the Kingdome And for the Security of your Lordship and those that shall come with and be employed by your Lordship We doe engage our Faith and Honour and doe expect the same from your Lordship desiring withall your very speedy Answer which must be a guide to our Proceedings Concluding that if this shall be refused we shall hold our selves justified before God and Men whatsoever shall be the successe so we rest From the Army the 8. of August 1644. Your Lordships humble servants MAURICE Tho. Wentworth Lindsey Lo. Hopton Northampton Cleveland Tho. Blagge Joseph Bamfeild Anth. Thelwell Joh. Owen Tho. Stradling Robert Howard John Stocker Edw. Porter Gil. Armestrong Rich. Nevell Tho. Pigat Jo. Browne Ad. Scroope Amy Pollard Ia. Hamilton Rich. Thornhill Io. Topping Ja. Dundasse Giles Strangewayes R. Smith Iames Cary Brainford Percey Jacob Asteley Rich. Cave Bar. Stewart Barnard Asteley Theo. Gilby Will. Leighton Will. Murrey Tho. Blackwell Tho. Bellingham Richard Page Bar. Jenckes Hen. Miller Rich. Fielding Tho. Weston Paul Smith G. Mouldsworth Phil. Honywood Tho. Culpeper William Leake Jo. Luntler Io. Monck Cha. Fawlke Rich. Samuell Arth. Slingsby Geo. Goring Joseph Wagstaffe Tho. Basset Char. Lloyd Geo. Lisley Will. Saint Leger Hen. Lunde●ford Barth. Fell Hen. Shelley Tho. Paulet Thom. Kyrton Anth. Brochet Devery Leigh David Stringer Ja. Mowbray Cha. Compton Ed. Nott. Alex. Standish Io. Ridech Io. Steward Io. Gambling Io. Grienvile Arth. Heningh●● Iames Haswell Will. Maxwell This indeed procured an answer which His Majesties could not but such a one as would not suffer the bleeding wounds of this poore Kingdome to be closed up the Earle hath onely power to kill murder and destroy none to save cherish and protect or to joyne with those that can The Answer was this MY LORDS IN the beginning of your Letter you expresse by what Authority you send it I having no Power from the Parliament who have employed me to Treat cannot give way to it without breach of Trust My Lords I am Lestithen Aug. 10. 1644. Your humble servant ESSEX For his Highnesse Prince MAURICE and the Earle of FORTH Let the World now Judge without looking back upon that blessed flourishing condition this Kingdome enjoyed before these men frighted our Peace from us at a time when we wanted nothing but gratitude to God and the King to acknowledge the fullest measure of happinesse that ever Nation was possessed of onely reviewing those very gratious Messages and Sollicitations on His Majesties part for an Accommodation from that at Nottingham to this present I say let the World Iudge who they were that procured this Warre and who they are that will not suffer the Warre to have an end who it is that endeavours and desires to preserve the true Reformed Protestant Religion and who to confound and destroy it with all Licence Impiety and Prophanation who it is that would maintaine and defend the Lawes of the Land by which the Liberty and Property of the Subject is established and who it is that cancells all those Lawes and subject's the freeborne Subjects to the most unlimited lawlesse arbitrary power and servitude that ever Christian State groaned under lastly who it is that labours to uphold and vindicate the Priviledges of Parliament and who to dissolve and pull up Parliaments by the rootes by usurping an unnaturall power not belonging to Houses of Parliament and confounding that power which in truth doth belong to them with admission of Forreigners and Strangers and abridging themselves of their owne Rights by which onely Parliaments can consist If there be Courage and Conscience enough to take these things to heart and the preservation of these be indeed the end and resolution of all good men and without the preservation of them no happinesse is to be hoped for they will in a peremptory and constant love of Peace joyne with those who endeavour Peace and not suffer men who grow fat ●nd rich with the blood and spoiles of their Brethren and whose greatnesse and authority cannot be preserved but by these distractions to sacrifice their poor Country to their owne Pride Covetousnesse and Ambition However let the Contrivers of this most unnaturall and unparalelld Rebellion assure themselves however God may permit them to be instruments of his Vengeance upon this unhappy Kingdome that as he hath already shewed his Iudgements in a very exemplary manner upon many of the principall of them so he will not suffer one of them to live to receive the fruit and benefit of his prosperous wickednesse FINIS Lord Brook Sir Iohn Hotham M. Hambden M. Pym M. Fiennes M. Arthur Goodwin M. Iohn Hotham c.

THE LETTERS FROM HIS MAIESTY and from the OFFICERS of HIS MAJESTIES ARMY TO THE EARLE OF ESSEX at LESTITHEN Inviting him to Peace and his refusall thereof OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1644. THere cannot be a better expedient for removing the calamities and miseries of this languishing Kingdom then cleerly and plainly to informe the World and the Consciences and understandings of all men who they are that will not suffer the blessing of Peace to returne to us For however the inclinations of many are so seduced and their understandings so corrupted that they are not or seem not to be convinced of the horror and odiousnesse of this Rebellion yet none have owned so much blood-thirstinesse so much folly inhumanity as to declare to the People That Peace is not good for them though they have used all possible designes and Engines of Wit Malice and Perjury to involve them in a desperate and eternall Warre presuming that whatsoever absence there is of courage and conscience of Religion and Loyalty that they are yet too wise and decerning in their own interest bare-faced to affect Famine Ruine and Desolation and therefore in the middest of their blood and Rapine in the very act of invading and infesting the Kingdom with forraigne Forces and basely betraying the Wealth Blood and honour of their Country to strangers they would faine be thought solicitous and importunate for Peace Vpon this ground and for this reason how perverse soever the hearts of many are to the cleerest evidence and how insolently soever even this overture was entertained and since scornfully commented on 't is necessary to publish to the World the last attempt made by His Majesty to prevent the further effusion of Christian English Blood with all the circumstances both of the sending and reception that all men may see the difference between the spirit and temper of a just and gratious King and of men whose Pride and Ambition have broken the bounds prescribed to them by Law and Religion and how hard it is for Persons who have once assumed and usurped a power too great for them to quit and depart from that power though they see it inconsistent with the preservation of themselves and their Country and that all men may confesse what Iudgement soever it shall please God to lay upon this miserable Kingdome that he to whom he intrusted it left no means unattempted that either publique consultations or private conjectures could think expedient to redeeme it from those Iudgements and that himselfe descended notwithstanding the greatest discouragement and provocation that ever Prince endured in his Princely and Fatherly care of his People to all imaginable Arts and Offices which might remove the present or prevent the growing mischiefes His Majesty having alwaies principally chosen though he hath consented to and embraced all Councells and occasions that looked that way those seasons to desire and solicite for Peace in which he might be understood to have some advantages in Warre witnesse his Messages and Declarations after the Battell at Edge-Hill after his taking of Bristoll after the reliefe of Newarke no sooner freed himselfe from the attendance of Sir William Wallers Army having routed a considerable part of it taken tenne Peece of Cannon and some principall Officers prisoners and put himselfe into the head of an Army much superior in common understanding to the force he was to contend with then he considered how to prevent that effusion of blood which a Battell would produce and to procure such a Peace as seemed to be wished by those with whom he was to fight and was the same he had alwayes desired It was too evident upon so many and a very late refusall that such an overture would meet with nothing but scorne and insolence at Westminster where without forme or Liberty of debate Councells and Resolutions are imposed by the fury and violence of those who are too much concerned in the guilt and benefit of the Rebellion to submit themselves to the old Lawes and Government And many were of opinion that the Earle of Essex himselfe was so conscious of being made an instrument of so much misery and devastation to his Country so sensible of the condition of the Nobility Gentry and Commons of England of the Religion Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome by this Invasion of the Scots that he would willingly embrace any opportunity to relieve and redeeme himselfe and his fellow Subjects from that thraldome and captivity he could not but see designed for them and to preserve the Religion Lawes and Priviledges of Parliament which he was bound and trusted even by his Commission of Generall to defend and which he saw without a speedy Peace could not be preserved Hereupon His Majesty having drawne His Army to Liskard within very few miles of the Earles Forces on the sixth of August vouchsafed to send a Letter all written with His owne Royall Hand to the Earle of Essex then at Listithen in these words ESSEX I have been very willing to believe that when ever there should be such a conjuncture as to put it in your power to effect that happy settlement of this miserable Kingdome which all good men desire you would lay hold of it That season is now before you you have it at this time in your power to redeeme your Country and the Crowne and to oblige your King in the highest degree an Action certainly of the greatest Piety Prudence and Honour such an Opportunity as perhaps no Subject before you hath ever had or after you shall have To which there is no more required but that you joyne with Mee heartily and really in the setling of those things which we have both professed constantly to be our only aimes Let us doe this and if any shall be so foolishly unnaturall as to oppose their Kings their Countries and their own good we will make 'em happy by Gods blessing even against their wills The only impediment can be want of mutuall Confidence I promise it you on my part as I have endeavour'd to prepare it on yours by my Letter to Hertford from Evesham I hope this will perfect it when as I here doe I shall have engag'd unto you the word of a King that you joyning with me in that blessed worke I shall give both to you and your Army such eminent markes of My Confidence and Valour as shall not leave a roome for the least distrust amongst you either in relation to the publique or to your selfe unto whom I shall then be Liskard AUG. 6· Your faithfull Friend Jf you like of this hearken to this bearer whom J have fully instructed in particulars but this will admit of no delay This Letter was delivered by the Lord Beauchamp the Earle having read it Master Richard who attended on the Lord Beauchamp told him that he was to desire a safe passe for Mr Harding to come to him who had authority from His Majesty to make particular