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A34353 Considerations touching the late treaty for a peace held at Uxbridge with some reflections upon the principall occasions and causes of the frustration thereof : extracted out of the late printed full relation of the passages concerning it. Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. 1645 (1645) Wing C5920; ESTC R200044 28,388 39

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Occasion of the Warre They took up Armes for the Liberty of the Subject to vindicate and to recover that and yet in all this Treaty they never let fall so much as any one word or sillable tending or bending thereunto They did well to set those words The Liberty of the Subject in their Banners so as they did For all the World cannot but see that they meant it for a Flourish For when the Kings Commissioners urged and pressed this point of the Liberty of the Subject in many severall particulars and desired that all illegall Power used over the Subject as imprisoning or putting him to death without Lawe stopping of his Habeas Corpus and imposing upon his Estate without Act of Parliament the very grievance which these men heretofore possest the World they labour'd under and therefore urg'd them to take up Armes that so they might redresse them should from henceforth be utterly disclaimed They would never so much as admit of any Treaty thereof or returne any colourable Answer concerning it They took up Armes for Defence of their Religion And yet in all the Twenty daies of this whole Treaty were never able to produce any one Article of Doctrine avowed and establisht in the Church of England wherein that Church had receded either from the Truth or from Her selfe And for points of Discipline when the King offer'd in His Propositions all ease to tender Consciences in such particulars as should be agreed on by a Nationall Synod legall called They would never heare thereof but put off the Treating of that Proposition as they did the rest with this uncivill Answer That when the Houses of Parliament shall be satisfied in the good progresse of the Treaty upon their Propositions concerning Religion the Militia and Ireland they will give time for the Treaty upon these Propositions sent by His Majesty In the point of which Satisfaction they were resolved before hand both to be Parties and Iudges as already hath appeared They have raised severall Armies upon this very reason and ground To bring the King whom they pretended to be seduced by Evill Councell up unto the Parliament His great and His good Councell as the World must needs imagine By meanes whereof too much of Christian Bloud hath been already shed and as yet shed in vaine for by Force They never yet were able to obtaine it And They doe now Refuse His Majesties willing Offer of Returne or to Treat of any Faire meanes of Accommodation in pursuit thereof the onely visible way left under Heaven by which They may effect it And if They shall goe about after all this to Farce and fill the World with Noyse and Clamour that They would have had a Peace but the King would not as it is like they will For my part I sh●ll leave off further Perswasion and fall to Prayer humbly beseeching God who is the Searcher of Hearts and knowes the Spirits of all Men To prosper on both Sides those Issues and Successes which They hope now to have by Warre according unto those upright Intentions and unfeigned Purposes which They then had of Peace FINIS Full Narration Pag. 50. No. LX Full Narration No. CXLIV CXLV Full Narration p. 56. no LXIX Their Reply 21. Feb. p. 57. no LXX Full Narration Pag. 92. No. CXXXVI Full Narration p. 62. no LXXV Full Narration p. 88. no CXXXI 21. Feb. Full Narration p. 95. no CXXXVI 7. Feb. Full Narration p. 99. no CXLV Full Narration p. 120. no CLXXIV Full Narration p. 92 no CXXXVI 22 Feb. Full Narration p. 148. no CXCV. Full Narration p. 154. no CXCVII 22. Feb. Full Narration p. 18. no VIII Full Narration p. 155. no CXCVII Full Narration p. 18. no VIII Prop. 3. Full Narration p. 141. no CLXXXIV