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A82611	A declaration from both houses of Parliament with the additionall reasons last presented to His Maiesty ... : whereunto is annexed, His Maiesties speech to the committe [sic], the 9 of March, 1641, when they presented the declaration of both houses of Parliament at New-maket [sic].	England and Wales. Parliament.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1641 (1641)	Wing E1336A; ESTC R40232	6,589	14

might not be trampled in the durt and endeavouring to ingage the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the same course the plotting and designing of a perpetuall Guard about your Majesty the labouring to infuse into your Majesties Subjects an evill opinion of the Parliament throughout the whole Kingdome and other symptomes of a disposition of raysing Armes and dividing your People by a Civill Warre in which Combustion Ireland must needs be lost and this Realme miserably wasted and consumed if not wholly ruined and destroyed That the Lord Digby should presame to Councell your Majesty to declare your selfe and to retire to a place of strength in this Kingdome and to perswade you that you could not be safe among your People and yet should have such Credit with you as to be sent may by your Warrant to Sir John Pennington to land him beyond the Sea where he took that transcendent boldnesse to vent his owne Trayterous conceptions in the Letter to the Queene offering to entertaine a correspondencie with her Majesty by Cyphers intimating some service which he might doe in those parts for which he desired your Majesties Inteations whereby in all probability he intended the procureing of some Forreigne Forces to strengthen your Majestie in that condition to which hee would have brought which false and malicious Councell and advice we have great cause to doubt made too deep an impression in your Majesty considering the course you are now pleased to take of absenting your selfe from your Parliament ang carrying the Prince with you which seems to expresse a purpose in your Majesty to keep your self in a Readinesse for the acting of it The manifold Advertisements we have had from Rome Venice Paris and other parts that they still expect that you have some great designe in hand for the Altering of Religion the breaking neck of your Parliament that you will yet find meanes to compose that designer that the Popes Nuncio hath sollicited the Kings of France and Spaine to lend your Majesty 4000. men a piece to helpe to maintain your Royalty against the Parliament and this of foreigne force seemeth to be the most pernicious and malignant designe of all the rest because no man can beleeve you will give up your people and your Kingdome to be spoiled by Strangers if you did not likewise intend both to change your own profession in Religion and the publicke profession of the Kingdome that so you might still be more assured of those forreigne states of the Popish Religion for your future supoort and defence but we hope God will direct your Majestie to better Councells These are some of the grounds of our feares and jealousies which made us so earnestly to implore your royall Authoritie and Protection for our defence and securitie in all the wayes of humilitie and submission which being denyed by your Majestie seduced by evill Councells We doe with sorrow for the great and inavoydable misrule which is like to fall upon your own person and your Kingdomes apply our selves to the use of that Power for the securitie and defence of both which by the fundamentall Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdome reside in Us Yet still resolving to keep our selves within the bounds of Faithfullnesse and Allegeance to your sacred person and your Crownes so as to the Second sort of jealousies and feares of Us exprest by your Maiestie We shall give a shorter but as true and as faithfull an Answere Whereas your Majesty is pleased to say that for your residing neere your Parliament you wish it might be so safe and honourable that you had noe cause to absent your selfe from White-hall this we take as the greatest breach of the priviledges of Parliament that can be offered the heaviest miseri●e to your selfe and jniurie to us and Impuuation upon us that can be imagined the most mischeivous effect of evill Counsells it rootes up the foundation of that safety and honour which the Crowne affords it seems as much as may be to cast upon the Parliament such a charge as is inconsistent with the nature of your great Counsel being body whereof your Majesty it the head it striks at the very being both of King and Parliament depriving our Majesty in your owne apprehension of their fidelity and them of your protection which are the mutual bonds of Government and subiection We have according to your Maiesties desire laid our hands upon our hearts we have asked our selves in the strictest examination of our Consbiencys we have searcht our affections our thoughts considered our a ions and we find none that dan give your Maiesty just occasion to absent your self from White-hall and the Parliament but that you may with more honour and safety continue there then in any other place your Maiesty laies a generall Taxe uprn us if you will be graciously pleased to let us konw the particulars wee shall give a cleere and satisfactory answer but what hope can we have of ever giving your Maiesty satisfaction when theie particulars which you beene made beleeve were true yet being produced and made known to us appeared to be false and your Maiesty notwithstanding will neither punish nor produce the authors but goe on to contract Jealousies and feares upon generall and uncertaine grounds affording us no meanes or possibility of particular Answer to the cleering of ourselves For proofe whereof we beseech your Maiesty to consider these Instances The speeches alledged to be spoken in a meeting by divers Members of both Houses at Kensington concerning a purpose of restraining the Queene and Prince which after it was denied and disavowed yet your Maiesty refused to Name the Authors though humbly desired of both Houses The report of Articles framed against the Queene given out by some of neere relation unto the Court but when it was publiquely and constantly disclaimed the Credit seemed to bt with-drawn from it but the Authors being kept safe will alwaies be in readinesse for exploits of the same kind wherewith your Majestie and the Queene will be troubled if this course betaken to cherish and secure them in such wicked and mallcious slanders The heavy Charge and accusation of the Lord Kimbolton and the five Members of the House of Commons who refuse no Triall and examination which may stand with the Privilcdge of Parliament yet no Author noe witnesses produced against whom they may have reparation for that great jnjury and infamy cast upon them notwithstanding three severall Petitions of both Houses the Authority of two Acts of Parliament vouched in the last of these Petitions We beseech your Majestie to consider in what estate you are how easy and faire a way you have to happinesse honourabe greatnesse plenty and security if you will joyn with the Parliamentand your faithfull Subjects in defence of the Religion and the publique good of the Kingdom This is all we expect from you and for this wee shall returne to you our lives and fortunes utmost endeavours to

support your Maiesty your Soveraignty and power over us but it is not words that can secure us in these our humble desires we cannot but two well and sorowfull remember what gracious Messages we had from you this Summer when with your privity the bringing uthpe Army was in agitation we cannot but with the like affection recal to our minds how not two dayes before hou gave direIion for the above mentioned accusation and your owne comming unto the Commons House that house received a Message that you would alwaies hav care of their Priviledges as of your owne Prerogative of the safety of their Persons as of your owne Children that which wee expect which will give us assurance that you have noe thoughts but of peace and Iustice to your people must be some reall effect of your goodnesse to them in graunting those which the present necessity of the Kingdom doe inforce us to desire and in the first place that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to put from you those wicked and mischeivous Counsellors which have caused all these dangers and distractions and continue your own residence and the Princes neer London and the parliament Which we hope wil be a happy beginning of contentment and confidence betwixt your Majesty and your People and be followed with many succeeding blessings of honour and greatnesse to your Msjesty and of security and prosperity to them The Additionall Reasons THe Lords and Commons have commanded us to present unto your Majesty this further Addition to their former Declaration That your Majesties return and continuance neer the Parliament is a matter in their apprehension of to great necessity and importance towards the preservation of your Royall Person and your Kingdoms that they cannot think they have discharged their duties in the single expres-of their desire unlesse the adde some further Reasons to back it with I. Your Majesties absence will cause men to beleeve that it is out of designe to discourage the undertakers and hinder the other Provisions for raising money for defence of Ireland II. It will very much hearteo the Behells there and disastected persons in this Kingdome as being an evidence and efiect of the jealousie and division betwixt your Majesty and your people III. That it will much weaken and withdraw the affection of the Subject from your Maiesty without which a Prince is deprived of his chiefest strength and lustre and left naked in the greatest dangers and miseries that can be imagined IIII. That it will invite and encourage the Enemies of our Religion and the State in Forreigne Parts to the attempting and acting of their evill dessgnes and intentions towards us V. That it causeth a great interuption in the proceedings of Parliament These considerations threaten so great danger to your Majesties person and to all your Dominions that as your Majesties great Councell they hold it necessary to represent to You this their faithfull Advise that so whatsoever followeth they may be excused before God and Man His Maiesties Speech to the Committee the 9. of March 1641. when they presented the Declaration of both Houses of Parliament at New-market I Am confident that you expect not I should give you a speedy Answer to this strange and unexpected Declaration And I am sorrv in the distraction of this Kingdome you should think this way of addresse to be more convenient than that purposed by my Message of the 20 of Ianuary last to both Houses As concerning the grounds of your feares and Iealousies I will take time to answer particularly and doubt not but I shall doe it to the satiffaction of the whole world God in his good time will I hope discover the secrets of all Plots and Treasons and then I shall stand right in the eyes of all my people In the mean time I must tell you That I rather expected a Vindication for the imputation layd on me in Mr PYMS Speech than that any more generall Rumors and Discourses should get redit with you For my feares and doubts I did not think they should have beene thought so groundlesse or triviall while so many seditious Pamphlets and Sermons are looked upon and so great Tumults are remembred unpunished uninquired into I still confesse my fears and call God to witnesse That they are greater for the true Protestant Prefession My People and Laws than for my own Right or safety though I must tell you I conceive that none of these are free form danger What would you have Have I violated your Lawes Have I denveed to passe any one Bill for the ease and security of my Subjects I do not aske you what you have done for me Have any of my People been transport with Feares and Apprehensions I have offered as free and generall a Pardon as your selves can devise All this considered There is a Iudgement from Heaven upon this Nation if these distractions continue God so deal with Me and Mine as all my Thoughts and Intentions are upright for the maintenance of the true Protestant Profession and for the Observation and Preversation of the Laws of this Land And I hope God will blesse and assist those Laws for My preservation As for the Additionall Declation you are to expect an Answer to it when you shall receive the Answer to the Declaration it selfe FINIS