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parliament_n	house_n	king_n	peer_n	4,968	5	10.0923	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31861	The Kings Majesties declaration sent to the speaker of the House of Peeres, pro tempore, to be communicated to both houses of Parliament, and His Majesties subjects shewing the causes of His Majesties retirement from Hampton Court : dated 11 November, 1647.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1647 (1647)	Wing C2219; ESTC R21016	1,440	6

The Kings Majesties DECLARATION sent to the Speaker of the House of Peeres Protempore To be communicated to both Houses of Parliament and His Majesties Subjects Shewing the causes of His Majesties Retirement from Hampton Court Dated 11. November 1647. By His Majesties especiall Command London Printed for Iohn Giles to prevent false Copies 1647. Hampton Court the 11. of November 1647. LIberty being that which in all times hath beene but especially now is the common theame and desire of all men Common reason shewes that Kings lesse then any should endure Captivity and yet I call God and the world to witnesse with what patience I have endured a tedious restraint which so long as I had any hopes that this part of my sufferings might conduce to the Peace of my Kingdomes or the hindring of more effusion of blood I did willingly undergoe But now finding by too certaine proofes that this my continued Patience would not onely turne to my Personall ruine but likewise be of much more prejudice then furtherance to the Publique good I thought I was bound as well by naturall as politicall obligations to seeke safety by retiring my selfe for some time from the publique view both of my friends and enemies and I appeale to all indifferent men to judge if I have not just cause to free my selfe from the hands of those who change their Principles with their Condition and who are not ashamed openly to intend the destruction of the Nobility by taking away their Negative Voice and with whom the Levellers Doctrine is rather countenanced then punished And as for their intentions to my Person their changing and putting more strict Guards upon me with the discharging most of those Servants of mine whom formerly they willingly admitted to waite upon me doth sufficiently declare Nor would I have this my retirement misinterpreted for I shall earnestly and uncessantly endeavour the settling of a safe and well grounded Peace where ever I am or shall be and that as much as may be without the effusion of more Christian blood for which how many times have I desired and pressed to be heard and yet no eare given to u●e And can any reasonable man thinke that according to the ordinary course of affaires there can be a settled Peace without it Or that God will blesse those who refuse to heare their owne King Surely no Nay I must further adde that besides what concernes my selfe unlesse all other chiefe interests have not only a hearing but likewise just satisfaction given unto them to wit the Presbyterians Independents Army those who have adhered to me and even the Scots I say there cannot I speake not of Miracles it being in my opinion a sinfull presumption in such cases to expect or trust to them be a safe or lasting Peace Now as I cannot deny but my Personall security is the urgent cause of this my retirement so I take God to witnesse that the Publique Peace is no lesse before my eyes and I can finde no better way to expresse this my profession I know not what a wiser man may doe then by desiring and urging that all chiefe interests may be heard to the end each may have a just satisfaction as for example the Army for the rest though necessary yet I suppose are not difficult to co●tent ought in my judgement to enjoy the liberty of their Consciences have an Act of Oblivion or Indempnity which should extend to all the rest of my Subjects And that all their Arrears should be speedily and duely payd which I will undertake to doe so I may be heard and that I be not hindered from using such lawfull and honest meanes as I shall chuse To conclude let me be heard with freedome honour and safety and I shall instantly breake through this cloud of retirement and shew my selfe really to be Pater Patriae CHARLES REX For the Speaker of the Lords pro Tempore to be Communicated unto the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland and to all my other Subjects of what degree condition or calling whatsoever FINIS