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A82730	A declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament: with the additionall reasons, last presented to His Maiestie. Sabbathi 12 Martij. 1641. Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that the declaration, with the additional reasons last presented to his Majesty, shall be forthwith printed and published. Io. Browne, Cleric. Parl. H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Whereunto is annexed, His Majesties speech to the committe, the 9 of March, 1641. when they presented the declaration of both Houses of Parliament at New-market.	England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). aut	1642 (1642)	Wing E1483; Thomason E138_20; ESTC R13092	6,734	18

long in pay 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 thorow the whole Kingdom and other Symptomes of a disposition of raysing Arms and dividing your people by a Civill Warre in which combustion Ireland must needs be lost and this Kingdom miserably wasted and consumed if not wholly ruined and destroyed That after a Vote had passed in the House of Commons declaring That the Lord Digby had appeared in a warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames to the terror and fright of your Majesties good Subjects and disturbance of the publike peace of the Kingdom and that therefore the Lords should be moved to require his attendance he should neverthelesse be of that credit with your Majesty as to be sent away by your own Warrant to Sir Iohn Fennington to Land him beyond rhe Sea from whence he vented his own Trayterous conceptions That your Majesty should declare your self and retire to a place of strength in this Kingdom as if your Majesty could not be fafe among your people And withall took that transcendent boldnesse to write to the Queen offering to entertain correspondency with her Majesty by Cyphers intimating some service which he might do in those Parts for which he desired your Majesties instructions whereby in probability he intended the procuring of some forraign force to strengthen your Majesty in that condition into which he would have brought you Which false and malicious counsell and advice we have great cause to doubt made too deep an Impression in your Majesty considering the course you are pleased to take of absenting your self from your Parliament and 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 Aduertisements which we have had from Rome Venice Paris and other parts that they still expect that your Majestie has some great designe in hand for the altering of Religion the breaking the neck of your Parliament That you will yet finde meanes to compasse that designe that the Popes Nuncio hath sollicited the Kings of France and Spaine to lend your Majestie foure thousand men apiece to helpe to maintain your Royaltie against the Parliament And this forraign force as it is the most pernicious and malignant designe of all the rest so we hope it is and shall alwayes bee farthest from your Majesties thoughts because no man can beleeve you will give up your people and Kingdome to bee spoyled by strangers if you did not likewise intend to change both your owne profession in Religion and the publique profession of the Kingdome that so you might still be more assured of those forraign States of the Popish Religion for your future suport and defence These are some of the grounds of our feares and Iealousies which made us so ernestly to implore your royall Authoritie and protection for our defence and securitie in all the wayes of Humilitie and submision which being denied by your Majestie sedused by evill Counsell wee doe with sorrow for the great and inavoydable miserie and danger which thereby is like to fall upon your owne person and your Kingdomes apply our selves to the use of that power for the securitie and defence of both which by the fundamentall Lawes and Constitutions of this Kingdome resides in us yet still resoluing to keepe our selves within the bounds of faithfulnesse and allegeance to your sacred Person and your Crown so as to the second sort of jealousies and fears of us exprest by your Majestie we shall give a shorter but as true and as faithfull an Answer Whereas Your Majesty is pleased to say that for your residence neer the Parliament you wish it might be so safe and honourable that you had no cause to absent your self from Whitehall This we take as the greatest breach of Priviledge of Parliament that can be offered As the heaviest misery to your self and imputation upon us that can be imagined And the most mischievous effect of evill Councells it roots up the strongest foundation of the safety and honour which your Crown affords It seems as much as may be to cast upon the Parliament such a charge as is inconsistent with the nature of that great Councell being the body whereof your Majesty is the head it strikes at the very being both of King and Parliament depriving your Majesty in your own apprehension of their fidelity and them of your protection which are the mutuall bands and supports of Government and Subjection We have according to your Majesties desire laid our hands upon our hearts we have askt our selves in the strictest examination of our Consciences we have searcht our affections our thoughts considered our Actions and we finde none that can give your Majestie any just occasion to absent your self from Whitehall and the Parliament but that you may with more honour and safety continue there then in any other place Your Majesty layes a generall taxe upon us If you will be gratiously pleased to let us know the particulars we shall give a cleer and satisfactory Answer But what hope can we have of ever giving your Majesty satisfaction when those particulars which you have been made beleeve were true yet being produced and made known to us appeared to be false and your Majesty notwithstanding will neither punish nor produce the Authors but go on to contract new jealousies and fears upon generall and uncertain grounds affording us no means or possibility of particular Answer to the cleering of our selves For proof whereof we beseech your Majesty to consider these Instances The Speeches alleadged to be spoken in a meeting of divers Members of both Houses at Kensington concerning a purpose of restraining the Queen and Prince which after it was denyed and disavowed yet your Majesty refused to name the Authors though humbly desired by both Houses The report of Articles framed against the Queens Majesty given out by some of neer relation to the Court but when it was publikely and constantly disclaimed the credit seemed to be withdrawn from it but the Authors being kept safe will alwayes be ready for exploits of the same kinde wherewith your Majesty and the Queen will be often troubled if this course be taken to cherish and secure them in such wicked and malicious slanders The heavy charge and accusation of the Lord Kimbolton and the five Members of the House of Commons who refused no tryall or examination which might stand with the Priviledge of Parliament yet no Authors no witnesses produced against whom they may have reparation for the great injury and infamy cast upon them notwithstanding three severall Petitions of both Houses and the authority of two Acts of Parliament vouched in the last of those Petitions We beseech your Majesty to consider in what State you are how easie and fair

a way you have to happinesse honour greatnesse plenty and security if you will joyn with the Parliament and your faithfull Subjects in defence of the Religion and publike good of the Kingdom This is all we expect from you and for this we shall return to you our lives fortunes and uttermost endeavours to support your Majesty your just Soveraignty and power over us but it is not words that can secure us in these our humble desires we cannot but too well and sorrowfully remember what gratious Messages we had from you this Summer when with your privitie the bringing up the Army was in agitation we cannot but with the like affections recall to our mindes how not two dayes before you gave directions for the above mentioned accusation and your own coming to the Commons House that House received from your Majestie a gratious Message that you would alwayes have care of their Priviledges as of your own Prerogative of the safety of their persons as of your own children That which we expect which will give us assurance that you have no thought but of peace and justice to your People must be some reall effect of your goodnesse to them in granting those things which the present necessity of the Kingdom do inforce us to desire And in the first place that your Majestie will be gratiously pleased to put from you those wicked and mischievous Counsellors which have caused all these dangers and distractions and to continue your own Residence and the Princes neer London and the Parliament which we hope will 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 Majesty 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 so 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 expression of their desire unlesse they 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 hearten the Rebels there and disaffected persons in this Kingdom as being an evidence and effect 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 Majesty without which a Prince is deprived of his chiefest strength and lustre and left naked to 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 forraign Parts to the attempting and acting of their evill designes and intentions towards us V. That it causeth a great interruption 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 Counsell 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 Majesties 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 sorry in the distraction of this Kingdom you should think this way of addresse to be more convenient that that proposed by My Message of the 20 of Ianuary last to both Houses As concerning the grounds of your Fears and Jealousies I will take time to answer particularly and doubt not but I shall do it to the satisfaction of all the World God in his good time will I hope discover the secrets and bottoms 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 laid on me in Master Pyms Speech than that any more generall Rumours and Discourses should get credit with you For My fears and doubts I did not think they should have been 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 Profession My People and Laws than for My own Rights or Safety though I must tell you I conceive that none of these are free from danger What would you have Have I violated your Laws Have I denyed to passe any one Bill for the ease and security of My Subjects I do not ask you what you have done for Me. Have any of my People been transport with Fears and Apprehensions I have offered as free and generall a Pardon as your selves can de●… All this considered There is a Judgement f●…m Heaven upon this Nation if these distract●…s continue God so deal with Me and Mine as all My Tgoughts and Intentions are upright for the maintenance of the true Protestant Profession and for the Observation and Preservation of the Laws of this Land And I hope God will blesse and assist those Laws for My preservation As for the Additionall Declaration you are to expect an Answer to it when you shall receive the Answer to the Declaration it self FINIS