The royall apologie: or, An ansvver to the declaration of the House of Commons, the 11. of February, 1647. In which they expresse the reasons for their resolutions for making no more addresses, nor receiving any from His Majesty.
Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
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The royall apologie: or, An ansvver to the declaration of the House of Commons, the 11. of February, 1647. In which they expresse the reasons for their resolutions for making no more addresses, nor receiving any from His Majesty.
Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674, attributed name.
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The
Royall
Apologie
:
OR
,
AN
ANSWER
TO
THE
DECLARATION
OF
THE
HOUSE
OF
COMMONS
,
the
11.
of
February
,
1647.
In
which
they
expresse
the
Reasons
for
their
Resolutions
for
making
no
more
Addresses
,
nor
receiving
any
from
HIS
MAJESTY
.
AT
PARIS
,
Imprinted
in
the
Yeere
,
1648.
TO
MY
GOOD
COUNTRY-MEN
of
ENGLAND
,
and
fellow-Subjects
of
SCOTLAND
,
&
IRELAND
.
I
Shall
not
in
this
Epistle
tell
you
,
that
by
the
Word
of
God
,
he
that
resisteth
the
Powers
ordained
over
us
,
shall
receive
to
himselfe
Damnation
;
nor
that
by
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
it
is
High
Treason
to
levy
War
against
the
King
,
to
depose
Him
from
the
Government
,
to
imprison
Him
,
to
adhere
to
His
Enemies
,
to
reforme
Him
by
force
,
or
to
doe
any
thing
with
intention
to
alienate
the
Hearts
and
affections
of
the
People
from
Him
;
neither
shall
I
tell
you
that
it
is
Perjury
,
and
against
our
solemne
Oathes
and
Protestations
,
not
to
beare
unto
the
King
true
Faith
and
Allegeance
,
and
not
to
defend
His
Person
and
Honour
,
and
not
to
maintaine
all
His
just
Rights
.
I
shall
onely
put
you
in
mind
of
that
,
which
,
if
we
were
no
Christians
but
Heathens
,
if
we
had
no
regard
of
Lawes
or
Oathes
,
yet
as
Men
,
would
bind
us
,
which
is
the
Law
of
Nature
,
by
which
we
are
taught
,
to
doe
as
we
would
be
done
unto
.
Let
every
man
in
his
owne
particular
consider
,
that
if
he
were
accused
of
Tyranny
and
Oppression
,
of
all
sorts
of
cruelties
,
of
intending
bloody
Massacres
,
of
mercylesse
Torturings
,
of
Perjury
,
of
a
continued
Track
of
Falshood
,
and
breach
of
Vowes
and
Promises
through
his
whole
life
,
of
conniving
at
his
Fathers
death
,
and
dishonouring
of
his
Mother
,
and
in
them
all
,
not
one
word
of
truth
;
would
he
not
think
it
a
most
barbarous
,
irrationall
,
and
inhumane
proceeding
,
that
he
should
not
onely
be
used
as
if
he
were
guilty
of
them
all
,
but
that
he
should
be
rendred
odious
to
the
world
,
and
infamous
to
posterity
,
without
ever
being
heard
or
admitted
to
the
means
of
making
any
Answer
,
whereby
to
cleare
his
Innocency
and
Honour
?
This
is
your
Kings
case
,
who
notwithstanding
this
libellous
Declaration
,
and
His
great
misfortunes
,
is
one
of
the
most
pious
,
temperate
,
couragious
,
and
just
Princes
that
our
Nation
ever
had
.
If
He
may
be
afforded
no
other
right
,
let
Him
not
be
denyed
that
naturall
Justice
which
every
man
would
think
due
unto
himselfe
,
of
not
being
condemned
unheard
and
undefended
;
for
whatsoever
is
set
downe
in
this
Answer
,
is
but
one
private
mans
knowledg
and
information
;
But
when
you
shall
see
the
Kings
owne
perfect
Answer
,
I
am
most
confident
your
hearts
will
be
on
fire
to
see
so
good
a
King
so
ill
used
.
IN
regard
that
some
particulars
relating
to
the
same
matter
,
are
spoken
of
in
severall
places
of
this
Declaration
,
for
the
avoyding
of
confusion
in
the
Answer
,
they
are
answered
together
;
so
that
in
some
things
the
place
of
them
is
not
exactly
kept
,
but
sometimes
that
which
is
before
in
the
Declaration
,
is
after
in
the
Answer
,
therefore
in
this
Index
each
particular
is
set
down
,
and
in
what
page
the
answer
to
it
shall
be
found
.
THe
Introduction
.
Page
1
,
2
That
their
former
Addresses
to
the
King
have
been
fruitlesse
.
3
They
could
have
no
confidence
that
words
should
be
more
perswasive
with
the
King
,
then
sighs
and
groanes
,
&c.
4
That
they
have
made
seven
Addresses
to
the
King
.
ibid.
In
what
sort
the
Scotch
Commissioners
joyned
with
them
;
and
the
Reasons
why
they
conceal
the
Scots
present
dissent
from
them
.
5
,
6
That
the
King
never
made
any
offer
fit
for
them
to
accept
.
7
They
say
,
they
cannot
expect
that
new
ingagements
should
prevaile
more
with
the
King
then
His
Oath
of
Coronation
,
and
severall
other
Vowes
which
He
hath
frequently
broken
.
8
That
the
King
in
His
Speeches
and
Declarations
hath
laid
a
fit
maxime
for
all
Tiranny
,
by
avowing
that
He
oweth
account
of
His
Actions
to
none
but
God
.
9
The
match
with
Spain
.
10
The
Kings
having
an
Agent
at
Rome
.
ibid.
The
passages
concerning
the
death
of
King
James
.
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
Touching
the
betraying
of
Rochell
.
13
,
14
The
bringing
in
of
German
Horse
.
15
Torturing
of
our
bodies
with
rackes
and
pillories
,
&c.
15
,
16
The
Lording
over
mens
souls
.
17
Searching
of
Cabinets
.
ibid.
Monopolies
and
Ship-money
.
18
The
Kings
summoning
this
present
Parliament
to
have
assistance
against
the
Scots
.
19
The
King
so
passionately
affected
to
His
malignant
Counsellors
,
that
He
would
rather
desert
His
Parliament
and
Kingdome
,
then
deliver
them
to
Law
and
Justice
.
19
,
20
,
21
The
bringing
up
of
the
Northern
Army
.
21
,
22
The
Rebellion
of
Ireland
answered
together
.
23
,
24
,
25
,
26
The
Kings
denying
of
Commissions
to
the
Lord
Wharton
,
&
Lord
Brook
.
26
They
say
they
need
not
tell
the
world
how
the
Scots
entred
the
Kingdom
.
ib.
The
Lord
Digby's
attempting
the
Country
with
armed
Troops
.
26
The
Lord
Digby's
man
hiring
a
Skipper
to
be
Pilot
to
a
Fleet
preparing
in
Denmarke
.
27
The
Kings
Letters
to
the
K.
of
Denmark
touching
the
Queen
his
Mother
.
ib.
That
the
King
sent
away
with
the
Qu.
the
ancient
Jewels
of
the
Crown
.
ib.
The
King
sent
a
specious
Message
of
renewing
a
Treaty
,
but
His
Messenger
was
to
have
managed
a
bloody
Massacre
.
pag.
27
,
28
Touching
the
Kings
march
to
Brainford
.
pag.
28
The
Kings
denying
to
receive
their
Petitions
.
ibid.
All
things
concerning
the
Queen
answered
together
.
pag.
28
,
29
Touching
the
Letters
written
to
the
Pope
.
pag.
30
The
Kings
offer
of
the
plunder
of
London
,
and
foure
Northerne
Counties
to
the
Scots
.
pag.
30
,
31
Fire
works
found
in
Papists
houses
.
pag.
31
Of
putting
the
Tower
into
such
hands
at
the
City
could
not
confide
in
.
ib.
The
Track
of
open
force
begun
in
the
Kings
coming
to
the
House
,
and
charging
some
Members
of
Treason
.
32
That
the
King
entred
into
the
Councel-booke
,
that
the
calling
of
them
a
Parliament
did
not
make
them
so
.
33
Their
standing
amazed
at
the
Kings
solemne
Protestation
of
having
no
thought
to
make
War
against
his
Parliament
,
&c.
ibid.
That
the
King
endeavoured
to
get
Powder
and
Cannon
out
of
Hull
.
ib.
That
the
King
proclaimed
them
Traitors
and
Rebels
,
and
set
up
his
Standard
against
his
Parliament
.
34
That
the
King
called
a
Mock-Parliament
at
Oxford
.
ib.
The
Kings
breach
of
Trust
with
the
Protestants
of
France
,
Scotland
,
Ireland
,
&c.
and
His
endeavours
to
enslave
them
by
German
,
Spanish
,
French
,
Danish
,
&c.
35
That
the
King
having
protested
that
He
would
never
consent
to
a
Toleration
of
the
Popish
Religion
,
nor
taking
away
the
Lawes
against
Recusants
,
did
yet
by
His
Letters
signifie
His
consent
to
the
taking
of
them
away
.
ib.
That
notwithstanding
that
the
Houses
and
Scotch
Commissioners
did
declare
that
they
held
a
Personall
Treaty
not
safe
,
yet
the
Houses
yeelded
to
it
.
36
That
they
intimate
that
the
signing
of
the
foure
Bils
was
onely
for
their
security
during
the
Treaty
.
ib.
Of
the
justnesse
,
honourablenesse
,
and
necessity
of
the
foure
Bils
.
37
,
38
That
in
refusing
this
their
last
Application
,
the
King
hath
forgot
His
duty
to
the
Kingdome
.
39
That
for
these
reasons
they
have
taken
these
resolutions
and
votes
,
to
have
no
more
to
doe
with
His
Majesty
,
and
to
settle
the
Kingdom
without
Him
.
40
The
Conclusion
,
setting
down
the
falshood
,
fraud
,
and
malice
of
all
that
is
said
in
this
Declaration
.
40
,
41
,
42
The
Royall
Apology
.
OR
,
An
ANSWER
to
the
DECLARATION
of
the
House
of
Commons
of
the
11.
of
Feb.
1647.
in
which
they
expresse
the
Reasons
of
their
Resolutions
for
making
no
more
Addresses
,
nor
receiving
any
,
From
His
Majesty
.
WHen
the
Son
of
Croesus
who
had
never
spoken
(
being
borne
dumbe
)
saw
his
father
ready
to
be
destroyed
,
nature
brake
open
all
those
ligaments
that
had
formerly
tyed
up
his
tongue
,
&
he
cryed
out
,
That
his
Father
might
be
saved
:
The
King
that
ought
to
be
the
common
Father
of
us
all
,
&
is
stil
of
his
Loyall
Subjects
,
is
upon
the
point
of
being
destroyed
;
He
is
deposed
from
his
right
of
Governing
,
close
imprisoned
,
and
no
Addresses
either
to
Him
,
or
from
Him
is
admitted
;
and
which
is
more
,
His
honour
and
Innocency
which
are
dearer
to
him
then
his
Life
,
are
indeavour'd
by
this
wicked
and
false
Declaration
(
made
by
the
House
of
Commons
)
to
be
blasted
,
and
Himself
rendred
to
His
people
and
to
Posterity
,
the
most
odious
and
detestable
of
Men
,
and
the
most
tyrannicall
of
Kings
,
whilst
He
himself
is
detained
in
close
prison
,
and
in
likelyhood
kept
ignorant
of
what
is
said
,
or
working
against
Him
;
Or
if
He
(
for
His
further
vexation
)
have
notice
of
what
He
is
accused
,
all
meanes
of
clearing
Himself
,
and
vindicating
.
His
honour
are
debarred
Him
;
His
Papers
of
the
Transaction
of
Affaires
kept
from
Him
;
the
accesse
of
any
of
His
Secretaries
,
or
His
Privy
Counsell
,
or
Counsell
of
Law
not
admitted
.
The
Houses
when
they
impeach
the
most
capitall
Offenders
even
of
high
Treason
,
in
such
Cases
the
supposed
Delinquents
are
allowed
Transcripts
of
their
Accusations
,
Counsell
in
the
point
of
Law
,
and
a
convenient
time
for
the
publishing
of
their
Answer
;
and
this
was
afforded
unto
the
Earle
of
Strafford
,
the
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterbury
,
and
is
now
to
the
six
Lords
impeached
of
high
Treason
;
&
is
a
Justice
not
denyed
to
Traitors
&
Murderers
?
But
how
it
can
be
afforded
to
the
King
,
I
cannot
see
,
since
He
himself
can
make
no
addresse
whereby
to
obtain
it
,
and
no
man
else
may
upon
Paine
of
death
make
any
Addresse
unto
him
to
receive
his
directions
.
This
certainly
may
be
a
sufficient
motive
to
any
man
,
nay
to
all
men
,
as
it
hath
been
to
me
,
in
this
distresse
and
oppression
of
the
King
,
to
set
down
what
is
in
their
knowledge
and
reason
toward
the
confuting
of
those
malicious
Aspersions
cast
upon
him
by
this
Declaration
,
untill
God
shall
give
the
King
means
by
his
own
full
and
perfect
Answer
to
blow
back
the
poysonous
and
infectious
vapours
into
the
faces
of
that
prevalent
Party
(
that
with
Art
and
Terrour
carried
this
Declaration
)
to
their
perpetuall
infamy
and
shame
:
And
in
the
interim
,
I
shall
desire
that
this
may
be
received
but
onely
as
a
preparative
to
keep
the
mindes
of
men
from
being
too
much
carried
away
with
one
story
untill
the
other
Tale
be
told
.
THe
Scope
of
this
Declaration
is
expressed
to
be
,
to
set
down
the
Reasons
for
these
ensuing
Resolutions
.
1.
That
they
will
make
no
farther
Addresses
nor
Applications
to
the
King
.
2.
That
no
Application
nor
Addresses
be
made
to
the
King
by
any
Person
whatsoever
,
without
the
leave
of
both
Houses
.
3.
That
they
will
receive
no
more
any
Message
from
the
King
,
&
do
enjoyn
that
to
Person
whatsoever
do
presume
to
receive
,
or
bring
any
Message
from
the
King
to
both
or
either
House
of
Parliament
,
or
to
any
other
Person
.
4.
That
the
Person
or
Persons
that
shall
make
breach
of
this
Order
,
shall
incur
the
Penalties
of
high
Treason
.
So
that
it
may
be
justly
expected
that
this
Declaration
shall
lay
down
unto
the
people
whom
they
intend
to
satisfie
,
such
Reasons
as
may
justifie
the
said
Votes
,
with
the
Consequences
and
proceedings
thereupon
.
And
the
way
to
make
plaine
the
strength
of
their
Argument
,
is
,
to
set
it
down
plainly
,
which
must
run
thus
;
A
King
having
committed
those
crimes
which
are
set
down
in
this
Declaration
,
the
Houses
may
remove
from
the
Government
,
imprison
Him
,
and
debar
all
Addresses
to
him
and
from
him
,
as
they
have
done
.
But
King
CHARLS
hath
committed
these
crimes
;
and
so
the
Houses
may
proceed
against
Him
,
as
they
have
done
.
When
a
clear
Answer
shall
be
made
unto
this
Argument
,
the
debate
will
be
brought
unto
a
shorter
issue
,
and
the
people
before
whom
the
seene
now
lieth
,
will
have
an
easie
way
to
frame
a
Judgement
,
whether
they
ought
to
be
satisfied
with
the
proceeding
of
the
Houses
,
[
as
is
pretended
by
this
Declaration
,
]
or
whether
they
shall
not
have
just
cause
to
detest
and
abominate
both
their
Declaration
and
their
Proceedings
.
The
Answer
briefly
is
,
That
both
Propositions
are
false
;
The
first
,
that
a
King
doing
those
things
laid
down
in
this
Declaration
may
be
removed
from
the
Government
,
imprison'd
,
&c.
by
the
Houses
.
The
second
is
,
That
King
Charls
hath
done
the
things
alleadged
in
this
Declaration
;
But
because
the
second
Proposition
is
that
which
this
Declaration
endeavours
cheifly
to
infer
and
make
good
,
This
Answer
shall
first
insist
upon
the
truth
or
falsehood
of
the
matters
of
fact
;
viz.
Whether
the
King
have
done
the
things
suggested
?
And
afterward
shew
briefly
,
the
Impiety
,
danger
,
and
Treasonablenesse
of
the
first
;
viz.
That
subjects
may
upon
Suggestions
,
if
true
as
they
are
false
,
depose
their
King
.
THE
entrance
into
this
Declaration
is
in
these
Words
;
How
fruitlesse
our
former
Addresses
have
been
to
the
King
,
is
well
known
unto
the
World
.
It
is
willingly
left
unto
the
Judgement
of
the
World
to
whom
they
appeal
,
whether
the
Addresses
of
the
Houses
[
whilst
their
Addresses
were
made
unto
the
King
in
such
dutifull
and
sober
manner
as
Subjects
,
yea
even
the
Houses
themselves
ought
to
addresse
themselves
unto
their
King
]
were
fruitlesse
,
when
so
many
things
have
by
the
King
been
this
Parliament
condescended
unto
,
as
have
enforced
them
to
acknowledge
in
some
of
their
Publike
Declarations
,
That
the
King
hath
granted
more
for
the
liberty
and
ease
of
his
people
,
then
had
been
granted
by
any
of
his
Predecessors
;
I
think
with
truth
it
might
have
been
said
,
then
all
of
them
;
and
it
will
not
be
amiss
to
set
down
some
of
them
;
The
high
Court
of
Star-Chamber
;
The
high
Commission
,
and
five
Courts
more
of
Justice
,
all
established
by
Law
(
pretended
to
be
for
the
ease
of
the
people
,
but
apparently
much
to
the
lessening
of
the
Authority
of
the
Crown
)
have
been
wholly
abolished
;
an
Act
for
a
trienniall
Parliament
;
another
for
the
taking
away
of
the
Kings
undoubted
Power
of
dissolving
this
,
without
the
Consent
of
the
Houses
;
an
Act
for
regulating
the
power
of
the
Councel
Table
,
according
to
their
own
desires
;
an
Act
for
the
taking
away
the
Bishops
Votes
in
Parliament
;
an
Act
for
the
bounding
and
limiting
of
Forrests
;
others
for
the
restraining
of
the
King
to
lay
Impositions
,
to
levy
Tonnage
and
Poundage
,
or
to
Presse
Souldiers
without
consent
of
Parliament
.
All
these
with
many
more
have
been
the
fruits
of
their
former
addresses
unto
the
King
;
And
now
if
they
finde
any
stop
or
refusall
in
what
they
propound
,
it
is
not
for
that
the
Kings
inclination
and
readiness
to
gratifie
his
people
is
lessened
or
alter'd
;
but
it
is
that
they
have
altered
their
mannerly
and
dutifull
wayes
of
their
Addresses
,
and
now
will
force
by
Armes
and
Victories
what
they
had
wont
to
petition
for
.
And
for
the
matters
desired
,
whereas
before
there
was
in
them
a
pretence
of
the
Kings
honour
and
safety
,
and
of
the
Subjects
ease
and
liberty
,
in
the
Propositions
now
insisted
upon
,
it
is
cleerly
apparent
,
That
the
King
is
by
them
unthroned
;
The
Soveraignty
taken
from
Him
,
and
placed
in
themselves
;
And
the
Subject
(
which
if
they
would
have
contented
themselves
with
the
above
specified
Concessions
,
should
have
been
the
happiest
and
freest
people
of
all
the
Subjects
in
Christendom
)
shall
(
if
the
King
should
condescend
to
their
late
demands
)
become
Slaves
in
their
Liberties
,
Lives
,
and
Properties
,
by
being
left
to
the
arbitrary
and
lawless
Power
of
them
,
their
fellow
Subjects
;
and
this
is
so
beleived
by
all
men
but
themselves
and
their
Adherents
,
even
by
their
brethren
of
Scotland
,
which
hath
administred
unto
them
just
grounds
of
their
dissenting
from
them
;
as
shall
be
made
apparent
before
this
discourse
be
ended
.
Whereas
they
say
next
,
That
they
could
not
have
confidence
that
words
should
prevaile
more
with
Him
then
Sighs
and
Groanes
,
&c.
Let
the
world
judge
whether
these
men
at
ease
and
invested
with
all
Power
and
Authority
,
are
more
likely
to
be
moved
with
sighs
and
groans
,
cries
of
Fathers
,
&
Mothers
,
&
Children
,
&c.
or
the
King
who
is
debarr'd
the
society
of
the
Queen
his
most
dear
Wife
;
his
Children
banish'd
or
under
restraint
;
His
Friends
ruin'd
,
destroyed
,
and
persecuted
;
and
some
for
their
love
and
Loyalty
to
His
Person
,
hang'd
,
drawn
,
and
quarter'd
;
and
all
in
danger
of
it
,
that
shall
in
any
sort
indeavour
to
serve
him
;
Himselfe
divested
of
all
manner
of
comfort
either
for
His
body
or
Soul
;
besides
the
tender
sense
that
he
must
needs
have
of
the
miseries
of
his
people
:
must
not
the
World
conclude
the
King
not
only
to
be
void
of
all
naturall
affections
,
and
all
bowels
of
compassion
,
both
towards
Himself
,
and
all
that
are
nearest
and
dearest
unto
Him
,
but
to
want
also
common
sense
and
understanding
,
if
He
should
not
imbrace
all
meanes
that
with
honour
and
conscience
He
might
,
for
the
speediest
settlement
of
the
distracted
and
miserable
condition
of
himself
,
and
His
Kingdomes
?
It
is
then
said
,
that
they
were
never
forced
to
any
Treaty
,
and
yet
they
have
made
seven
times
application
to
the
King
,
notwithstanding
their
great
success
in
overthrowing
all
His
forces
,
so
that
he
fled
in
disguise
to
the
Scots
.
It
is
true
,
that
they
so
well
laid
their
businesse
,
that
at
the
first
they
possessed
themselves
of
the
power
of
all
the
Kingdom
both
by
sea
and
land
;
of
the
City
of
London
;
and
of
the
Kings
Customs
;
of
his
Revenue
;
of
His
Magazins
;
and
of
the
abused
hearts
of
his
people
;
whereas
the
King
wanting
every
thing
but
a
good
cause
,
hath
from
the
beginning
only
struggled
to
subsist
:
But
let
not
Successe
against
the
King
be
vanted
of
;
Successe
is
not
alwaies
a
Proof
of
a
good
Cause
,
God
hath
often
punish'd
his
Church
by
the
power
of
Infidels
,
and
made
wicked
men
the
Scourge
wherewith
he
hath
chastised
his
Children
,
and
then
cast
the
rod
into
the
fire
,
and
lifted
up
the
heads
of
his
afflicted
Servants
.
Whereas
they
say
,
That
they
have
made
7.
times
applications
unto
the
King
for
Peace
,
Their
own
consciences
(
I
mean
so
many
of
them
as
have
been
behind
the
Curtain
)
do
tell
them
,
That
so
many
times
they
have
offended
God
,
and
abused
the
World
with
detestable
Hypocrisie
,
by
making
shew
of
that
which
was
never
in
their
thoughts
:
And
all
the
said
Treaties
which
they
speak
of
,
were
ever
with
those
unreasonable
,
unconscionable
,
&
dishonourable
Propositions
,
that
they
well
knew
that
their
Intentions
of
continuing
of
a
War
could
run
no
hazard
by
such
Proposals
for
Peace
;
yet
whosoever
shall
peruse
all
those
severall
Treaties
which
are
with
great
exactnesse
set
down
in
their
own
Books
(
and
printed
by
their
own
Order
)
of
Exact
Collections
,
will
to
be
able
judge
of
the
difference
of
Spirits
then
walking
;
In
them
instead
of
Reasons
,
it
will
be
found
that
improbable
future
fears
and
jealousies
,
and
the
advantage
of
their
present
Condition
,
have
been
the
ground
of
their
Proposals
;
And
on
His
Majesties
part
there
will
be
clearly
seen
,
a
bowing
and
stretching
to
a
Compliance
with
them
,
to
the
utmost
that
could
stand
with
his
Conscience
,
Safety
,
and
Honour
:
To
these
Volumes
of
theirs
,
I
refer
the
Reader
,
that
seeing
both
sides
,
he
may
frame
unto
himselfe
a
Judgement
where
the
fault
lies
,
if
their
Addresses
have
been
fruitlesse
.
To
countenance
no
more
their
former
Treaties
,
and
the
Conditions
proposed
in
them
,
they
further
say
,
That
in
all
their
former
Addresses
the
Commissioners
of
Scotland
agreed
with
them
,
and
joyned
with
their
Commissioners
in
attending
the
King
.
In
which
Affirmation
they
do
not
use
the
ingenuity
and
clearness
which
the
House
hath
in
former
Parliaments
used
to
do
,
in
that
which
they
published
unto
the
Kingdom
;
for
although
it
be
true
,
that
the
Commissioners
of
Scotland
agreed
to
the
sending
of
the
Propositions
unto
the
King
at
Newcastle
,
yet
in
their
publike
printed
Declaration
of
their
said
consent
,
bearing
date
the
25.
of
June
1646.
they
declare
their
want
of
satisfaction
in
many
particulars
;
in
so
much
as
they
say
,
That
some
of
the
particulars
are
inconsistent
with
the
word
of
God
,
and
others
wherein
they
remain
unsatisfied
:
yet
notwithstanding
so
great
was
their
desire
to
see
an
end
of
this
bloody
war
,
&
the
easing
of
those
heavy
pressures
under
which
both
the
Kingdoms
groaned
,
that
upon
those
Considerations
they
consented
to
many
materiall
parts
of
those
Propositions
;
&
to
make
no
let
,
but
to
give
way
to
the
sending
of
such
other
particulars
,
as
they
were
still
unsatisfied
in
the
matter
,
for
the
reasons
formerly
presented
in
their
Papers
unto
the
Houses
.
And
this
their
Assent
they
declare
to
be
with
several
proviso's
,
as
will
appear
by
their
said
Answer
;
The
last
of
which
,
is
,
that
it
is
not
their
Judgement
that
every
particular
of
these
Propositions
is
of
so
great
importance
to
the
Kingdoms
,
that
Peace
and
War
should
depend
thereupon
.
Now
let
it
be
impartially
judged
,
whether
it
be
an
ingenious
manner
of
proceeding
,
to
set
down
a
perfect
consent
,
&
to
conceal
the
conditions
,
and
proviso's
,
upon
the
which
the
Scots
declare
their
consent
,
is
grounded
.
But
that
which
is
most
remarkable
concerning
the
Scots
,
is
,
that
having
thus
artificially
insinuated
to
the
people
their
former
concurrence
with
them
,
now
when
they
make
their
Declaration
to
the
Kingdome
,
for
the
stating
truly
of
the
whole
businesse
,
and
the
reason
for
having
no
more
to
do
with
the
King
,
grounded
upon
the
Kings
last
Answer
concerning
the
four
Bils
,
they
remember
not
in
this
their
finall
Declaration
,
the
dissent
of
the
Scots
;
nor
their
unanswerable
Reasons
for
their
said
dissent
;
nor
the
Protestations
of
the
said
Commissioners
delivered
unto
the
King
in
the
name
of
the
Kingdom
of
Scotland
,
declaring
their
dissent
to
those
Propositions
;
for
the
not
yeilding
whereunto
,
the
King
is
not
only
by
these
Votes
deposed
in
effect
,
and
another
government
without
Him
set
up
by
themselves
,
but
His
Royall
Person
used
with
greater
severity
,
&
inhumanity
,
then
theeves
,
and
murderers
are
in
the
common
gaols
;
for
to
them
it
is
permitted
to
have
the
comfort
of
Physitians
for
the
body
,
and
of
Divines
for
their
souls
,
whereas
to
the
King
there
is
no
meanes
left
to
aske
them
.
The
reason
why
they
conceal
this
dissent
of
the
Scots
,
is
,
for
that
they
would
have
the
Kings
refusall
of
the
Bils
,
to
be
ascribed
only
to
his
wilfulnesse
,
and
to
his
persisting
in
his
wonted
wayes
(
as
they
call
it
;
)
but
would
not
have
the
people
thinke
that
the
King
had
many
of
his
mind
;
whereas
if
the
truth
might
appear
,
it
would
be
found
,
that
few
besides
that
prevalent
party
in
the
lower
House
,
and
Army
,
with
the
Sectaries
depending
on
them
,
that
hold
not
their
Propositions
most
unreasonable
,
and
their
usage
of
the
King
most
detestable
.
Further
,
if
the
former
assent
,
and
concurrence
of
the
Scots
with
them
,
be
used
as
an
argument
for
the
countenancing
,
and
better
justifying
of
their
former
Treatise
and
Propositions
;
their
present
dissent
,
and
their
unanswerable
reasons
set
down
in
their
Declaration
against
the
four
Bils
,
against
their
deniall
of
the
King
a
Personall
Treaty
,
and
against
his
want
of
freedom
,
together
with
their
solemn
Protestation
grounded
upon
them
,
in
the
name
of
the
whole
Kingdome
,
ought
in
reason
at
least
to
put
a
stand
upon
mens
judgements
untill
all
tales
be
told
;
and
not
be
carried
away
by
a
Declaration
of
the
single
House
of
Commons
,
without
the
concurrance
of
the
Peers
;
and
not
passed
unanimously
in
that
House
,
but
by
the
power
of
a
prevalent
party
.
For
whosoever
shall
consider
the
former
brotherhood
,
and
strict
union
betwixt
the
Houses
and
the
Scots
;
and
how
subservient
they
have
been
unto
them
,
and
their
affaires
;
how
they
have
twice
entred
this
Kingdom
,
The
first
time
by
their
invitement
,
The
second
time
by
their
most
earnest
solicitation
and
hire
;
and
how
the
Scots
choose
rather
the
adherence
to
them
,
then
unto
their
owne
native
King
;
how
far
they
gratifie
them
by
delivery
of
him
into
their
hands
;
and
how
they
were
become
brothers
in
Interests
,
in
Armes
,
in
Covenant
;
whosoever
shall
consider
this
strict
conjunction
,
cannot
but
thinke
that
the
Scots
have
some
great
reason
of
Conscience
,
Interest
,
and
Honour
,
for
their
present
deserting
of
them
in
these
their
new
demands
,
and
rigorous
way
of
proceeding
with
the
King
.
The
nation
hath
seldom
been
charged
with
want
of
prudence
or
dexterity
in
their
actions
;
&
the
Houses
have
found
(
as
to
them
)
great
justness
,
and
punctuality
in
their
proceedings
;
by
comming
in
according
to
agreement
,
and
by
going
out
according
to
promise
;
but
now
finding
not
onely
their
Covenants
and
Agreements
cluded
,
but
the
very
grounds
and
true
ends
for
which
they
say
they
entred
into
Covenant
,
and
joyntly
took
up
Armes
,
viz.
The
reformation
and
conformity
in
Religion
,
the
defence
of
the
Kings
Person
,
honour
,
and
just
greatnesse
,
with
the
Laws
,
and
Liberties
of
the
Kingdom
,
&c.
If
they
now
find
that
the
ways
which
the
now
prevalent
party
do
pursue
,
are
destructive
to
them
all
,
and
diametricall
opposite
to
these
settlements
which
they
have
alwayes
declared
to
intend
;
as
if
instead
of
conformity
in
Religion
there
shal
be
brought
in
,
&
tolerated
a
multitude
of
Heresies
and
Sects
;
If
instead
of
the
Kings
honour
,
safety
,
and
greatnesse
,
they
that
have
had
more
then
a
hundred
Kings
,
shall
see
Monarchy
intended
to
be
levelled
,
and
the
person
of
their
native
King
,
worse
used
then
a
thief
,
or
murtherer
in
a
Gaole
;
If
they
shall
see
all
Law
,
Liberty
,
&
property
of
the
Subject
,
endeavoured
to
be
settled
under
the
arbitrary
tyrannicall
Power
of
a
prevalent
party
,
and
an
over-awing
Army
;
If
all
these
things
be
,
who
can
wonder
if
the
Scots
have
changed
their
way
,
and
concurrence
,
when
they
find
all
those
Principles
upon
which
they
were
engaged
,
to
be
totally
changed
.
It
hath
therefore
been
wisdom
in
this
Declaration
,
to
mention
the
Scots
former
concurrence
,
and
to
passe
by
their
present
dissent
,
the
cause
whereof
they
knew
will
not
indure
the
searching
.
They
then
say
,
the
King
never
made
any
offer
fit
for
them
to
accept
:
It
seems
the
Scots
are
of
another
mind
,
who
declare
their
judgements
to
be
,
that
his
offers
from
Carisbrooke-Castle
might
have
given
satisfaction
.
But
since
they
will
never
remember
any
thing
,
but
that
which
is
for
their
advantage
,
it
will
be
fit
to
put
them
in
mind
of
some
petty
slight
offers
,
that
by
the
King
have
been
made
unto
them
,
leaving
aside
his
generall
Request
unto
them
.
That
they
would
set
down
together
all
such
means
as
would
give
them
satisfaction
,
whereunto
they
should
recive
a
gracious
and
satisfactory
answer
,
to
all
that
they
could
justly
or
reasonably
desire
;
but
this
being
in
January
,
1642.
time
may
have
worne
it
out
of
memory
:
But
they
may
remember
his
offers
from
Holdenby
,
from
Hampton-Court
,
and
from
Carisbrooke-Castle
,
In
them
He
offered
the
settling
of
Religion
in
the
Presbyterian
way
(
which
was
that
which
themselves
had
Voted
)
for
three
years
,
and
then
to
be
fully
settled
as
should
be
agreed
on
by
their
owne
assembly
of
Divines
,
only
with
the
addition
of
twenty
to
be
nominated
by
Himself
,
to
the
end
that
before
a
full
and
finall
settlement
all
reasons
might
be
heard
,
yet
no
doubt
might
be
raised
of
carrying
any
thing
by
plurality
of
Votes
,
since
those
nominated
by
themselves
,
were
four
times
the
number
.
He
hath
offered
,
to
put
the
whole
power
of
the
Kingdom
both
by
sea
and
land
into
their
hands
,
during
the
whole
terme
of
His
Reigne
.
And
for
the
civill
Government
,
he
hath
offred
them
,
the
nomination
of
all
those
Ministers
by
whom
the
Kingdome
is
to
be
governed
.
He
hath
offred
,
a
generall
pardon
&
an
Act
of
oblivion
;
which
is
an
important
point
,
if
that
be
true
which
Sir
Edw.
Cooke
,
Judge
Jenkins
,
and
all
the
books
of
Law
do
tell
us
;
or
that
the
Army
have
not
changed
their
minds
,
who
a
few
moneths
since
did
declare
,
that
no
Indempnity
could
be
safe
without
the
Royall
assent
,
and
that
they
would
not
be
satisfied
with
any
other
.
He
hath
offred
400000.
Pounds
,
to
be
pay'd
in
the
space
of
one
year
and
an
halfe
,
for
the
payment
of
the
arrears
of
the
Army
:
But
all
these
trifles
are
not
worthy
to
be
remembred
,
although
their
memory
doth
serve
them
better
,
when
they
come
to
make
up
the
Catalogue
of
these
false
and
scandalous
reproaches
,
wherewith
they
revile
their
King
,
the
Lords
Anointed
.
But
whereas
they
say
,
That
the
Kings
offers
are
not
fit
for
them
to
accept
;
in
that
certainly
they
declare
the
truth
,
if
they
make
their
own
unlimited
aimes
,
and
ambitions
,
the
measure
of
what
is
fit
for
them
;
for
they
will
no
wayes
content
themselves
,
with
such
a
narrow
and
unlimited
Soveraignty
as
our
former
Kings
have
had
,
restrained
in
our
Laws
,
in
our
liberties
,
&
in
our
proprieties
;
but
they
pro
arbitrio
wil
levy
what
forces
they
please
,
without
limitation
of
number
,
or
distinction
of
persons
,
or
quality
;
raise
what
moneys
they
please
,
for
the
support
of
this
their
military
dominion
;
and
make
what
lawes
they
list
,
without
any
other
assent
but
their
own
,
and
remain
everlastingly
a
representative
of
the
people
,
whether
they
will
or
not
;
so
that
really
making
their
aimes
and
intentions
the
measure
of
what
is
fit
for
them
to
accept
,
no
offers
or
conditions
can
be
fit
for
them
,
that
shall
not
establish
them
in
a
more
absolute
power
and
dominion
then
ever
any
King
of
England
had
;
or
any
King
of
Christendome
hath
;
or
the
Grand
Seignior
himselfe
doth
practice
.
They
then
say
,
They
cannot
see
how
it
should
be
expected
,
that
a
new
engagement
could
prevaile
on
Him
,
or
engage
Him
more
,
then
the
solemn
Oath
at
His
Coronation
,
with
severall
other
vowes
,
protestations
,
and
imprecations
,
so
frequently
broken
by
Him
,
during
His
whole
Reign
.
Let
it
be
calmly
considered
of
,
whether
this
be
a
modest
,
and
decent
way
of
a
House
of
Commons
,
thus
upon
generals
to
charge
their
King
as
a
perjured
man
,
whom
they
have
ever
professed
they
would
make
a
glorious
King
;
especially
when
their
said
charge
is
as
false
in
the
matter
,
as
shamefull
in
the
manner
;
for
they
are
not
able
to
fix
upon
the
King
any
one
particular
,
wherein
He
hath
broken
His
Oath
or
Protestation
,
when
the
truth
of
the
fact
,
and
circumstances
,
shall
be
truly
set
down
on
the
behalfe
of
the
King
,
as
well
as
their
false
relations
of
the
said
fact
,
with
their
inferences
,
strains
,
and
malitious
glosses
thereupon
,
and
doubtlesse
if
the
King
were
not
highly
punctuall
,
&
religious
in
the
observance
of
the
said
Oath
,
He
would
not
suffer
those
miseries
&
hazards
which
He
doth
,
rather
then
infringe
it
.
But
let
the
breaking
of
Oaths
&
Protestations
,
be
with
equality
looked
upon
;
let
the
obligation
of
their
naturall
Allegiance
,
the
Oathes
of
Supremacy
and
Allegeance
,
without
taking
whereof
they
cannot
be
Members
of
their
House
;
Let
the
solemn
Protestation
taken
by
them
at
the
beginning
of
this
Parliament
,
in
which
they
did
promise
,
vow
,
and
protest
in
the
presence
of
God
,
with
their
life
,
power
,
&
estate
,
according
to
the
duty
of
their
Allegeance
,
to
maintain
,
and
defend
His
Majesties
Royall
Person
,
Honour
&
Estate
;
which
,
how
well
it
hath
been
performed
,
let
their
own
consciences
tell
them
.
Let
their
Solemne
League
and
Covenant
taken
with
their
hands
lifted
up
to
God
never
to
depart
from
that
blessed
union
&
conjunction
,
as
they
shall
answer
it
in
the
presence
of
God
,
the
Searcher
of
all
hearts
,
at
the
dreadfull
day
of
judgement
,
how
they
have
kept
it
,
let
their
brethren
of
Scotland
tell
them
;
&
M.
Martin
who
stiles
it
,
an
Almanack
of
the
last
year
,
&
out
of
date
;
and
the
Answer
of
the
Scots
Declaration
,
that
termeth
it
absurd
,
&
hypocriticall
;
humane
,
&
so
alterable
.
Let
them
remember
all
these
,
and
their
often
repeated
Protestations
of
making
the
King
a
glorious
King
,
and
consider
their
present
usage
of
His
Person
,
&
their
endeavours
by
this
Declaration
,
of
rendring
Him
infamous
to
the
world
,
and
to
all
posterity
.
Let
them
likewise
consider
that
their
present
animosity
against
the
King
,
is
cheifly
because
they
cannot
make
Him
consent
to
be
perjured
.
He
hath
sworn
to
maintain
the
Laws
;
to
protect
His
Subjects
;
to
defend
the
Church
;
to
maintain
the
Religion
established
by
the
Laws
;
to
uphold
the
just
rights
inherent
in
the
Crown
,
or
legally
thereunto
annexed
;
and
because
He
will
not
consent
to
be
perjured
in
them
all
,
(
which
He
must
be
,
if
He
should
consent
to
their
demands
)
He
must
be
declared
unworthy
to
governe
;
and
(
as
hath
been
said
by
some
among
them
)
not
worthy
to
live
;
be
close
imprisoned
,
and
debarred
of
all
comforts
of
life
.
God
in
his
due
time
will
be
Judge
between
them
and
the
King
,
and
so
will
be
all
sober
and
disinterested
men
.
Then
they
say
,
That
the
King
in
His
publick
Speeches
and
Declarations
,
hath
laid
a
fit
foundation
for
all
tiranny
,
by
this
most
destructive
maxime
or
principle
,
which
He
saith
He
must
avow
,
That
HE
OWETH
AN
ACCOUNT
OF
HIS
ACTIONS
TO
NONE
BUT
GOD
ALONE
;
AND
THAT
THE
HOUSES
OF
PARLIAMENT
JOYNT
OR
SEPARATR
HAVE
NO
POWER
TO
MAKE
OR
DECLARE
ANY
LAW
.
For
the
first
part
of
this
Maxime
,
the
King
avoweth
but
that
which
the
Law
of
God
and
the
Law
of
England
avoweth
;
and
what
all
the
Monarchs
and
States
of
Christendom
,
that
have
Soveraign
&
Supream
power
will
avow
;
and
would
punish
as
high
and
capitall
offenders
,
any
that
should
avow
the
contrary
.
As
for
the
second
clause
,
the
King
hath
often
declared
,
That
He
doth
not
pretend
to
the
making
of
Laws
singly
of
Himselfe
,
but
by
the
advice
and
consent
of
the
two
Houses
:
neither
can
the
Houses
joynt
or
separate
,
nor
He
with
the
consent
of
either
House
alone
,
make
a
Law
,
but
there
must
be
a
concurrence
of
all
three
:
The
two
Houses
first
to
consent
and
pray
,
and
then
the
King
maketh
it
a
Law
,
by
his
declaring
the
Royall
assent
by
Le
Roy
le
veut
.
As
for
the
declaring
of
the
Law
,
that
it
is
the
interpreting
of
the
Law
in
dubiis
&
obscuris
,
vel
si
aliqua
dictio
duos
contineat
intellectus
:
If
the
words
of
the
Law
be
doubtfull
and
obscure
,
or
may
bear
two
senses
;
the
Iudges
in
their
Courts
may
interpret
and
declare
the
meaning
of
the
Law
,
and
the
same
is
done
in
Parliament
upon
Writs
of
Error
;
but
that
is
in
the
high
Court
of
Parliament
before
the
King
and
the
Lords
,
and
not
before
the
Commons
,
who
are
no
Court
:
But
this
Declaration
must
not
be
understood
of
plain
and
cleer
cases
,
nor
to
the
overthrowing
of
the
literall
sense
,
nor
of
the
equity
of
the
Law
;
otherwise
to
declare
and
to
make
a
Law
,
were
all
one
in
effect
.
But
not
to
enter
upon
any
moot
Case
,
or
contestation
of
a
Law
point
,
Let
it
be
judged
,
whether
upon
this
Maxime
,
it
be
a
sober
or
dutifull
expression
,
that
the
King
hath
laid
a
foundation
for
all
tiranny
;
but
especially
whether
from
this
charge
any
just
or
colourable
ground
may
be
laid
,
for
the
justifying
of
their
Votes
,
or
their
present
proceeding
with
the
King
.
They
then
speak
of
the
Articles
for
the
intended
match
with
Spain
,
which
were
treated
of
25
yeers
since
by
King
James
;
And
likewise
of
the
Articles
of
the
match
with
France
,
which
certainly
should
be
without
their
cognizance
,
for
the
Houses
of
Parliament
have
declared
often
,
the
the
making
of
peace
and
war
,
and
the
marriage
of
the
Kings
Children
,
belong
wholy
to
the
King
;
And
it
is
well
known
that
Queen
Elizabeth
inprisoned
a
Member
of
the
House
of
commons
,
for
presuming
to
speak
in
that
House
concerning
Her
marriage
.
And
the
Articles
of
the
marriage
with
France
,
were
likewise
agreed
by
King
James
before
His
death
;
but
howsoever
,
it
is
a
great
audacity
in
the
House
of
Commons
,
singly
,
(
after
more
then
20.
yeers
,
and
many
intervenient
Parliaments
that
would
never
presume
to
meddle
with
the
Kings
marriage
,
nor
the
treaty
thereupon
)
now
to
draw
arguments
from
thence
,
whereby
to
dis-affect
the
people
to
the
King
;
but
that
they
wil
leave
no
corner
unswept
,
nor
action
unstrained
,
whereby
they
may
render
the
King
lesse
beloved
.
And
as
for
keeping
a
continued
correspondency
with
Rome
,
or
having
an
Agent
of
His
there
(
as
is
alleaged
in
this
Declaration
;
)
it
is
most
false
.
The
Queen
perhaps
may
have
had
and
maintained
some
person
there
,
for
such
things
as
she
held
necessary
for
Her
,
in
point
of
Her
devotion
;
&
it
is
well-known
,
that
concerning
the
affairs
of
the
Princes
of
Christendome
,
from
no
place
so
perfect
knowledge
and
intelligence
could
be
got
as
from
Rome
;
&
Q.
Elizabeth
,
and
King
James
(
that
were
wise
Princes
,
&
no
Papists
)
were
of
that
minde
,
and
were
at
no
small
charge
to
hold
correspondency
from
time
to
time
with
every
eminent
person
of
that
Court
,
without
the
leave
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
being
a
body
not
well
modell'd
for
secrecy
,
consisting
of
near
five
hundred
persons
;
But
the
hatred
to
the
Pope
&
Rome
is
such
,
that
it
was
thought
the
very
naming
of
them
,
would
reflect
with
some
hatred
upon
the
King
,
which
was
that
which
was
only
aimed
at
.
Then
they
come
to
plant
their
maine
piece
of
battery
,
or
indeed
rather
to
worke
in
their
Mine
,
whereby
they
would
blow
up
the
Honour
of
His
Majesty
,
in
order
to
the
making
of
Him
a
glorious
King
;
by
calling
to
minde
,
and
reviving
the
pastages
in
the
Parliament
,
the
second
year
of
His
Reign
,
concerning
the
death
of
his
Royall
Father
as
they
terme
it
;
whereas
in
all
their
impeachment
against
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
,
they
did
never
so
,
much
as
accuse
him
,
or
lay
to
his
charge
the
death
of
King
James
;
but
only
called
that
which
he
had
done
,
an
audacious
Action
;
&
voted
that
he
should
be
accused
only
of
a
misdemeanor
of
so
high
a
nature
,
as
might
justly
be
called
,
&
so
was
deemed
by
the
said
Commons
to
be
,
an
Act
of
a
transcendent
presumption
,
&
dangerous
consequence
;
&
for
such
,
transmitted
it
to
the
Lords
.
But
now
conceiving
it
would
be
much
for
their
turn
,
to
have
it
insinuated
&
let
into
the
people
,
that
amongst
the
Articles
of
their
Declaration
against
the
King
,
one
was
touching
the
death
of
His
Father
,
for
so
they
stile
it
,
viz.
The
proceeding
and
passages
of
Parliament
concerning
the
death
of
His
Royall
Father
,
the
passages
whereof
shall
be
truly
related
in
the
subsequent
Narration
.
King
James
fell
sick
in
the
spring
1625.
and
His
sicknesse
began
with
an
ordinary
tertian
intermittant
Ague
,
which
is
not
held
mortall
,
especially
in
the
Spring
;
but
the
King
having
a
full
body
,
&
hard
to
be
ruled
or
governed
by
his
Physitians
in
His
sicknesse
,
His
tertian
turned
into
a
continuall
feaver
,
whereof
he
dyed
.
In
the
time
of
His
sicknesse
,
certain
plaisters
and
posset-drinks
were
applyed
&
given
to
Him
,
such
as
are
ordinarily
used
to
be
given
by
women
in
the
country
;
for
that
men
seldome
apply
themselves
to
Physitians
in
ordinary
Agues
,
but
to
such
received
and
known
medicins
as
are
commonly
used
;
and
these
were
said
to
be
given
by
the
Duke
of
Buckinghams
procurement
,
and
prepared
in
his
lodgings
,
without
the
direction
or
knowledge
of
the
Physitians
,
untill
after
they
had
been
administred
unto
the
King
:
After
almost
two
years
(
there
having
been
in
the
interim
a
Parliament
,
and
nothing
stirred
in
the
businesse
)
the
Duke
of
Bukingham
having
much
distasted
the
Houses
,
and
they
being
highly
incensed
against
him
,
a
ready
ear
was
given
to
all
complaints
,
that
might
afford
any
probability
of
questioning
of
him
and
his
actions
;
And
there
were
severall
Articles
by
way
of
impeachment
exhibited
against
him
to
the
House
of
Peers
;
and
among
them
,
one
was
touching
the
Dukes
administring
of
drinks
and
plaisters
,
without
the
consent
or
knowledge
of
the
Physitians
;
&
many
Physitians
and
others
were
examined
,
and
it
was
with
great
vehemency
pressed
,
that
there
might
have
been
an
accusation
of
Treason
drawn
up
against
him
thereupon
.
But
when
the
said
Article
came
to
be
Voted
in
the
House
of
Commons
,
and
the
case
and
evidence
had
been
truly
stated
before
them
by
Sir
Dudley
Diggs
,
who
,
with
Master
Wansford
and
others
,
had
the
managing
of
that
Article
of
their
charge
,
the
House
did
hold
it
fit
that
he
should
not
be
impeached
of
Treason
(
the
evidence
indeed
not
bearing
it
)
but
only
of
a
transcendent
presumption
,
as
is
truly
set
down
in
their
Declaration
;
but
if
there
had
been
any
the
least
ground
,
or
evidence
of
any
wicked
intention
in
the
Duke
to
destroy
the
King
,
or
any
Symptoms
that
the
Kings
death
had
been
caused
or
hastned
by
those
things
that
were
given
;
or
that
the
said
drinkes
and
plaisters
had
beene
of
any
noxious
or
hurtfull
quality
;
it
is
well
known
,
that
the
detestation
against
the
Duke
at
that
time
was
such
,
that
He
would
not
have
been
forborn
,
if
the
evidence
would
have
born
an
impeachment
of
Treason
;
&
many
pressed
it
far
,
alledging
that
without
an
accusation
of
Treason
,
they
could
neither
remove
the
Duke
from
about
the
Kings
Person
,
nor
from
sitting
in
the
Houses
of
Peers
,
without
which
it
was
thought
they
would
hardly
prevail
against
the
Duke
;
but
the
evidence
falling
short
,
it
was
carryed
in
the
House
for
an
impeachment
only
of
Misdemeanor
,
&
a
transcendent
Presumption
,
&
not
of
Treason
;
And
of
these
particulars
some
now
sitting
among
them
,
(
if
they
had
had
so
much
ingenuity
,
or
had
not
been
restrained
with
fear
)
might
have
informed
them
;
And
they
might
have
been
likewise
pleased
to
remember
,
that
it
was
proved
before
them
,
that
the
King
was
embowel'd
and
embaumed
publiquely
,
&
no
Symptomes
appeared
,
but
that
He
dyed
naturally
of
His
Sicknesse
.
And
this
their
Declaration
(
although
it
be
set
out
with
some
strains
and
aggravations
)
conteineth
little
more
then
is
here
declared
;
concluding
in
these
words
:
That
it
is
an
offence
and
misdemeanor
of
so
high
a
nature
,
as
may
be
justly
called
,
and
is
by
the
said
Commons
deemed
to
be
,
an
Act
of
transcendent
presumption
&
of
dangerous
consequence
.
So
that
by
their
own
charge
nothing
is
laid
down
against
the
Duke
,
but
a
misdemeanor
&
an
adventurous
Act
,
unto
which
they
confesse
in
this
Declaration
,
that
he
put
in
His
Answer
the
8.
of
Iune
;
and
the
said
Answer
doth
yet
remain
upon
record
in
the
Journall
book
of
the
House
of
Peers
:
And
certainly
it
had
been
much
more
fair
and
ingenious
,
to
have
likewise
set
down
the
Answer
,
and
not
to
have
published
only
the
Accusation
,
and
concealed
from
the
world
the
Dukes
Answer
,
since
they
doe
acknowledge
that
they
knew
of
the
Answer
;
but
it
should
seeme
that
made
not
for
their
purpose
;
If
the
Answer
had
been
weak
and
impertinent
,
doubtlesse
they
would
not
have
passed
by
that
which
would
have
added
strength
to
their
own
suggestion
;
but
finding
the
Answer
such
as
formerly
had
discouraged
them
any
further
to
stir
in
the
businesse
,
they
have
judged
it
fitter
to
passe
it
by
;
for
it
must
be
known
,
that
after
the
Parliament
which
they
speak
of
to
be
dissolved
,
&
in
which
this
impeachment
was
exhibited
against
the
Duke
,
there
was
(
before
the
Duke
was
slain
)
another
Parliament
,
in
the
which
the
Duke
fat
in
the
House
of
Peers
;
but
the
House
having
seen
the
Dukes
Answer
,
thought
it
not
fit
to
revive
their
former
accusation
,
but
have
let
it
lie
asleep
almost
this
20.
yeers
,
untill
their
malice
,
and
desire
to
blast
their
King
,
hath
awakened
it
.
In
all
their
Declaration
there
is
not
one
word
reflecting
upon
the
King
,
but
that
He
caused
not
(
as
they
say
)
the
Dukes
presupposed
misdemeanor
(
which
they
,
to
make
the
story
seeme
more
odious
,
call
the
Kings
death
)
to
be
legally
persecuted
;
in
which
many
amongst
them
must
needs
conceal
their
knowledge
,
that
upon
the
breaking
up
of
the
Parliament
,
there
was
by
the
Kings
then
Atturney
Generall
,
a
Bill
exhibited
in
the
Star-chamber
(
which
is
the
supream
Court
where
all
high
crimes
and
misdemeanors
are
judged
)
and
that
at
the
instance
of
the
said
Duke
,
who
said
he
would
not
have
that
cause
which
so
highly
concerned
him
,
to
lie
buried
,
but
that
he
would
acquit
himself
of
that
foul
Aspersion
,
though
it
should
be
with
hazard
of
his
life
;
But
his
imployments
to
the
Isle
of
Re
,
and
death
following
not
long
after
,
gave
an
end
to
any
further
prosecution
.
So
that
having
in
their
own
Declaration
not
charged
any
thing
against
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
,
more
then
misdemeanor
and
high
presumption
;
nor
the
least
reflection
upon
the
King
,
but
only
of
not
causing
the
said
misdemeanor
of
the
Duke
to
have
been
legally
prosecuted
,
which
was
hindred
by
the
Dukes
death
,
and
the
impediments
formerly
set
down
;
the
sole
end
and
scope
of
inserting
this
particular
in
their
Declaration
is
evident
to
be
,
to
make
the
King
odious
,
as
judging
that
nothing
could
more
incense
the
world
against
Him
,
or
make
His
sufferings
lesse
commiserable
,
then
to
have
it
insinuated
unto
the
people
,
that
among
many
Articles
against
Him
,
one
is
concerning
the
death
of
His
Father
;
which
how
groundlesse
soever
,
yet
they
think
that
it
may
in
the
interim
amuse
the
people
,
and
possesse
them
with
prejudice
against
the
King
,
and
not
make
them
have
that
sense
and
compassion
of
Him
,
&
detestation
of
His
wicked
usage
,
as
otherwise
they
would
have
.
And
certainly
amongst
all
those
artifices
which
have
been
used
against
Him
,
to
alienate
the
hearts
of
His
people
from
Him
,
&
to
render
Him
odious
to
the
world
,
this
is
one
of
the
most
false
,
malitious
,
and
subtle
;
&
which
can
have
no
other
drift
,
but
by
the
detestableness
of
this
aspersion
,
to
allay
the
detestablenesse
of
their
proceeding
towards
Him
,
which
certainly
no
age
can
parrallel
of
Subjects
towards
their
King
.
Touching
the
businesse
of
Rochell
,
it
is
true
that
the
King
was
perswaded
to
lend
some
of
His
Ships
to
the
French
King
;
He
was
newly
Married
unto
that
Kings
Sister
,
and
entred
into
a
new
strict
League
and
Allyance
with
that
Crown
,
being
then
at
difference
with
Spain
;
and
certainly
there
might
be
many
secret
reasons
of
State
,
for
the
Kings
obliging
the
French
King
at
that
time
,
which
may
be
altogether
unknown
unto
the
Houses
of
Parliament
,
for
that
it
was
the
doctrine
of
those
times
,
that
all
things
belonging
to
peace
or
warre
,
or
the
marriage
of
his
Childdren
,
did
solely
and
singly
belong
unto
the
King
;
neither
neede
He
consult
with
His
people
therein
,
unlesse
He
craved
their
assistance
in
Parliament
by
way
of
Subsidy
,
or
supply
;
and
it
is
strange
they
should
now
interpose
by
way
of
charge
,
in
businesse
passed
more
then
20.
years
since
;
but
that
they
leave
no
corner
unsought
,
from
whence
it
may
be
conceived
any
think
may
be
raked
to
make
the
King
odious
,
as
the
aime
in
this
particular
is
to
do
in
two
kinds
;
first
,
by
adding
strength
unto
that
false
&
wicked
aspersion
of
the
Kings
unfirmnesse
in
the
Protestant
Religion
:
secondly
,
by
nourishing
that
distast
which
they
have
with
great
industry
&
artifice
raised
in
those
of
the
Reformed
Religion
in
France
,
&
other
places
against
Him
.
It
is
true
,
that
Counsell
pleased
not
many
;
&
the
use
that
was
made
of
those
ships
was
distastfull
;
which
the
King
,
and
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
(
on
whom
the
councell
of
that
action
,
and
the
blame
was
chiefly
cast
)
to
shew
that
there
was
no
intention
by
the
loan
of
those
ships
,
to
lend
a
hand
to
the
destruction
of
the
Protestants
;
endeavoured
to
redeem
that
mishap
,
by
actually
entering
into
a
war
with
the
Crown
of
France
,
for
which
one
of
the
cheif
reasons
was
(
although
there
were
likewise
other
distasts
)
the
wrong
imploying
of
those
Ships
(
which
the
King
had
lent
)
contrary
to
the
Kings
intention
,
and
the
intimation
of
the
French
,
how
they
intended
to
make
use
of
the
said
Ships
;
&
it
is
fit
likewise
to
be
known
,
that
this
businesse
was
first
treated
in
King
James
his
time
.
And
that
it
was
contrary
to
the
Kings
intention
,
may
appear
by
his
subsequent
actions
:
for
He
avowedly
sent
a
fleet
,
and
an
Army
to
the
Isle
of
Re
,
under
the
command
of
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
,
and
to
be
advised
by
Mr.
de
Soubize
,
how
those
forces
might
be
best
imployed
for
the
releif
of
Rochell
,
&
those
of
the
Reformed
Religion
:
And
although
the
expedition
to
the
Isle
of
Re
proved
not
successefull
;
yet
the
intention
and
not
the
successe
,
is
to
be
looked
upon
;
&
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
pursued
this
intention
of
relieving
Rochell
,
and
the
Protestants
;
&
to
that
end
a
new
Army
,
and
a
new
Fleet
was
prepared
,
&
he
in
person
was
gone
to
Portsmouth
,
ready
to
set
sail
for
the
said
enterprise
,
when
by
the
hands
of
Felton
he
was
suddainly
slain
;
&
thereby
those
succours
were
retarded
;
whereby
leasure
was
given
to
the
French
so
to
fortifie
&
block
up
all
the
accesses
to
Rochell
,
that
the
relief
thereof
was
rendred
impossible
;
which
yet
notwithstanding
was
attempted
by
the
Kings
said
Fleet
and
Army
,
under
the
Conduct
of
the
Earl
of
Lindsey
,
though
without
successe
.
So
that
certainly
no
good
argument
can
be
drawn
from
hence
,
either
of
the
Kings
disaffection
to
those
of
the
Reformed
Religion
,
or
to
have
willingly
intended
their
hurt
;
much
less
can
there
well
be
drawn
from
hence
any
thing
to
justifie
them
in
their
present
proceedings
against
the
King
,
which
they
themselves
set
down
to
be
the
scope
and
intent
of
this
their
Declaration
.
Let
it
be
judged
of
by
any
sober
man
,
if
it
be
not
an
audacious
expression
of
Subjects
towards
their
King
,
to
say
,
we
can
fully
shew
how
by
Him
Rochell
was
betrayed
;
besides
that
it
is
most
false
,
for
how
could
the
King
betray
Rochell
,
which
was
not
in
His
Power
?
Or
can
it
be
beleived
,
that
they
that
have
forborn
nothing
that
they
could
imagine
might
turne
to
His
dishonour
,
would
conceal
any
thing
that
might
cast
any
Aspersion
upon
Him
in
this
of
Rochell
?
As
for
that
plot
presupposed
to
be
many
years
since
designed
,
of
bringing
in
an
Army
of
German
Horse
,
to
have
compelled
the
Subjects
to
have
submitted
to
an
arbitrary
Government
;
they
might
have
remembred
,
that
thinking
thereby
to
have
raised
a
hatred
against
the
King
,
they
have
published
this
Aspersion
in
severall
of
their
Papers
,
and
Declarations
;
and
particularly
upon
the
breach
of
the
Treaty
at
Oxford
May
18.
164●
.
whereunto
His
Majesty
made
answer
,
as
appears
by
His
Declaration
printed
and
published
by
their
own
Order
,
in
the
second
volume
of
their
Orders
and
Ordinances
,
Pag.
109.
wherein
He
saith
,
That
he
esteemes
his
condition
more
miserable
then
any
of
his
Subjects
,
when
he
sees
a
few
factious
persons
have
obtained
that
power
,
as
to
publish
to
all
his
people
in
the
name
of
both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
a
charge
,
which
comming
forth
with
a
semblance
of
such
Authority
,
may
much
worke
with
them
against
Him
;
and
yet
do
not
(
which
is
certainly
because
they
cannot
)
tell
any
one
proof
or
particular
,
either
whence
,
whether
,
or
when
,
or
by
whom
,
or
by
whose
designe
those
horse
should
have
been
brought
;
they
confesse
it
is
many
years
since
,
and
it
seemes
it
is
so
many
,
that
these
particulars
are
worn
out
of
the
memory
of
man
.
Now
what
a
strange
Impudency
and
malice
must
it
appear
to
all
equall
men
,
that
being
challenged
,
and
provoked
by
the
King
,
even
with
scorn
and
derision
,
to
instance
in
any
one
of
the
above
specified
particulars
if
they
could
,
they
doe
now
again
revive
the
same
aspertions
,
without
giving
satisfaction
,
by
the
producing
of
any
one
proof
,
or
giving
instance
in
any
one
particular
;
especially
when
it
is
well
known
unto
the
world
,
that
such
persons
as
they
themselves
had
whispered
to
be
the
men
that
were
imployed
in
the
said
designe
,
have
been
highly
imployed
in
their
service
,
and
nothing
would
have
been
kept
from
them
,
if
any
thing
might
have
been
found
to
the
Kings
prejudice
;
but
it
was
thought
fit
by
them
,
that
this
should
be
now
concealed
,
since
it
is
apparent
,
that
the
chief
end
of
this
Declaration
,
is
,
to
accumulate
all
things
that
they
conceive
may
asperse
the
King
,
or
make
Him
odious
;
for
those
men
might
have
told
them
the
mistery
of
that
businesse
;
for
that
the
Parliament
having
Declared
a
war
for
the
recovery
of
the
Palatinate
,
and
given
way
for
the
raising
of
10000.
foot
in
England
to
serve
Count
Mansfeild
in
that
imployment
,
it
was
in
discourse
how
to
furnish
them
likewise
with
horse
;
which
was
thought
could
no where
fittingly
be
done
but
in
Germany
;
but
the
King
of
France
denying
passage
to
Count
Mansfeid
,
all
that
businesse
came
to
nothing
.
Then
they
speake
of
the
torturing
of
our
bodies
by
cruell
whippings
,
cutting
off
eares
,
racks
and
pillories
,
&c.
They
might
have
added
hanging
,
drawing
,
and
quartering
,
and
hanging
in
chaines
;
for
all
these
have
been
done
in
the
Kings
Reigne
,
but
executed
upon
Traytors
,
theeves
,
seditious
and
impious
libellers
,
by
established
Courts
of
Justice
,
and
according
to
the
knowne
course
of
the
Laws
which
were
made
by
former
Kings
(
his
Predecessors
)
with
the
consent
of
Parliament
;
for
they
are
not
able
to
produce
any
one
Law
made
in
the
Kings
reign
,
tending
to
blood
or
cruelty
:
how
many
have
been
made
for
the
ease
and
enlargement
of
the
Liberty
of
the
people
,
they
have
often
themselves
confessed
them
to
be
more
then
by
any
of
his
Predecessors
:
And
shall
the
doing
of
Justice
according
to
the
Laws
,
by
his
Judges
and
Ministers
of
Justice
,
be
charged
upon
him
as
acts
of
cruelty
?
shal
the
burning
of
theeves
in
the
hand
,
or
rogues
in
the
forehead
or
shoulder
,
or
what
Mr.
Gregory
doth
at
Tyburn
,
in
the
due
execution
of
legall
sentences
,
be
stiled
cruelty
?
for
such
have
been
all
these
whippings
,
rackes
,
&
pillories
,
which
they
speake
of
;
And
they
are
challenged
to
instance
in
one
drop
of
blood
drawn
by
his
Majesty
,
or
any
one
Act
of
cruelty
committed
by
Him
in
his
whole
raign
,
or
by
his
Judges
or
Ministers
whom
He
hath
not
left
to
the
Justice
of
the
Law
.
For
it
will
not
be
denied
,
that
from
the
3.
of
November
1640.
untill
the
12.
of
Jan.
1641.
when
he
was
driven
from
London
,
all
His
Judges
were
wholly
left
unto
them
;
many
of
them
being
impeached
of
Treason
;
and
Judge
Berkley
,
whom
they
thought
the
most
criminall
,
arraigned
for
Treason
,
who
made
a
defence
so
honest
,
and
so
able
,
that
they
were
forced
to
wave
their
legall
Triall
of
him
,
and
to
pick
his
purse
by
their
arbitrary
power
.
Was
there
ever
so
strained
a
malice
,
especially
if
they
looke
how
themselves
have
proceeded
?
not
to
speake
of
those
multitudes
that
have
been
slaine
in
the
War
,
how
many
of
the
Kings
honest
loyall
Subjects
have
they
murthered
in
cold
blood
,
by
no
Law
but
their
owne
arbitrary
power
?
with
how
many
new
Treasons
have
they
ensnared
the
subject
,
by
the
single
authority
of
some
hasty
and
angry
Ordinances
,
notwithstanding
that
the
Law
telleth
us
,
what
shall
be
Treason
and
nothing
else
,
but
by
Act
of
Parliament
?
what
cruelty
hath
been
used
in
point
of
imprisonments
,
where
many
have
dyed
for
want
,
or
ill
usage
?
and
how
many
persons
of
quality
,
both
Divines
and
others
,
hath
been
by
them
sent
a
ship-board
,
and
kept
under
deck
?
and
seeing
a
person
of
quality
,
and
a
Judge
of
great
years
and
reverence
,
out
of
heat
and
indignation
,
sent
to
Newgate
,
a
prison
for
Rogues
,
Theeves
,
and
Cutpurses
?
how
many
Gentlemen
and
Peers
did
they
Vote
to
death
,
and
losse
of
their
whole
estates
,
and
to
be
excepted
from
pardon
and
mercy
,
without
summons
,
hearing
,
tryall
,
or
conviction
?
how
many
Noblemen
,
Gentlemen
,
Judges
,
and
divers
of
great
age
,
have
they
forced
out
of
England
to
begge
their
bread
in
strange
Countries
,
not
allowing
them
one
penny
out
of
great
estates
(
which
they
have
seized
)
to
keep
them
from
contemptible
poverty
,
notwithstanding
that
the
Law
alloweth
to
the
highest
Traytors
,
a
conveniency
for
food
and
raiment
for
themselves
and
family
?
And
yet
these
men
have
had
the
face
to
fix
upon
their
King
these
odious
markes
of
cruelty
,
when
they
cannot
deny
,
but
in
his
reigne
there
hath
been
lesse
blood
by
attainder
,
and
fewer
confiscations
,
then
in
any
such
space
of
time
since
the
Conquest
.
As
for
the
lording
over
mens
souls
.
The
Laws
for
the
government
of
the
Church
(
not
established
by
this
King
,
but
by
his
Father
and
Queen
Elizabeth
)
were
put
in
execution
with
so
much
mildnesse
and
moderation
,
that
they
can
scarcely
instance
in
the
punishment
of
any
Separatists
or
Sectary
,
if
his
Recusancy
(
for
the
Law
maketh
them
Recusants
as
well
as
Papists
)
hath
not
been
accompanied
with
some
crime
,
or
some
scandalous
or
seditious
preaching
,
or
writing
against
the
present
government
;
whereas
they
may
remember
,
and
see
in
the
new
book
of
entries
,
5.
Paschae
,
35.
Eliz.
fol.
252.
that
Pendry
for
publishing
two
scandalous
books
against
the
Church
Government
,
was
indicted
,
arraigned
,
attainted
,
and
executed
at
Tyburn
:
And
let
their
present
lording
over
mens
souls
be
considered
;
their
sending
so
many
learned
and
pious
men
a
begging
,
by
depriving
them
of
their
livings
;
imprisoning
their
persons
;
their
lording
over
their
consciences
,
by
new
,
illegall
,
and
trayterous
Oaths
;
by
forcing
of
the
Covenant
,
to
the
ruine
of
many
hundreds
,
who
otherwise
were
without
exception
,
both
Ministers
and
Lay-men
;
being
consciencious
men
;
men
of
parts
,
and
great
learning
,
as
is
set
downe
in
the
preceding
words
of
the
Answer
to
the
Scotch
Declaration
of
the
4.
of
Jan.
1648.
But
nothing
can
by
them
be
done
amisse
:
that
Axiome
of
the
Law
le
Roy
ne
fait
tort
,
is
now
with
the
Crown
and
Soveraignty
,
(
which
they
have
usurped
)
applicable
onely
to
them
.
But
all
the
Kings
actions
,
though
never
so
legall
,
just
,
and
gratious
,
must
by
them
have
the
appellations
of
tyranny
,
cruelty
,
and
oppression
.
They
then
say
that
they
were
worse
then
slaves
,
for
they
were
prohibited
by
Proclamation
to
speake
or
hope
for
another
Parliament
.
They
should
have
done
well
to
have
specified
the
year
and
date
of
the
said
Proclamation
,
and
to
have
set
down
the
very
words
contained
therin
;
for
it
is
so
unlikely
a
thing
,
that
the
people
should
be
forbidden
by
Proclamation
,
to
hops
,
that
no
rationall
man
can
choose
but
suspect
it
to
be
that
which
civility
is
loath
to
tearme
it
,
how
foule
soever
their
pen
be
against
their
King
.
As
for
the
searching
of
cabinents
,
closets
,
&c.
It
is
set
down
to
be
after
the
dissolution
of
the
Parliament
;
so
that
that
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
(
never
to
be
forgiven
)
of
breaking
the
Priviledges
of
Parliament
,
is
not
charged
,
and
any
other
sinne
will
not
be
found
;
for
it
is
lawfull
and
usuall
for
the
Justice
or
Councell
of
the
King
,
to
search
the
closets
,
and
cabinets
of
such
as
they
have
good
cause
to
suspect
of
practises
,
and
correspondency
,
to
the
prejudice
of
the
King
or
Kingdome
;
neither
have
the
Kings
or
Queens
letters
or
cabinets
,
nor
the
dispatches
of
Ambassadours
,
and
forraign
States
,
been
free
from
their
inquisition
and
search
;
nay
some
such
searches
have
been
made
by
them
for
Letters
and
Jewels
upon
women
not
of
the
meanest
ranke
,
as
is
indecent
to
put
them
in
mind
of
.
They
then
reckon
up
a
long
list
of
Monopolies
,
and
Patents
of
Soap
,
Pins
,
Leather
,
Sugar
,
&c.
Whether
the
said
Patents
were
legall
,
or
illegall
,
there
can
from
thence
no
just
fault
be
laid
upon
the
King
;
He
is
in
point
of
Law
to
be
advised
by
His
Atturney
,
and
His
learned
Councell
;
And
there
cannot
in
all
the
particulars
specified
,
any
one
be
instanced
in
,
which
He
did
of
Himselfe
,
without
the
Certificate
of
the
Referrees
,
of
the
legallity
of
such
Grants
,
wherein
never
Prince
was
so
punctuall
as
He
hath
been
,
and
it
is
conceived
that
it
may
be
with
truth
averred
,
that
in
His
whole
Reign
He
hath
not
passed
by
Patent
any
one
Monopoly
,
without
reference
,
and
certificate
in
writing
,
that
it
might
be
granted
by
Law
.
But
besides
,
upon
complaint
this
Parliament
,
all
grievances
have
been
redressed
;
all
doubtfull
Patents
cancell'd
;
care
had
for
the
preventing
of
the
like
for
the
future
;
all
referrees
and
patentees
left
to
justice
;
and
all
punished
,
but
such
as
the
injustice
of
the
Houses
have
protected
.
Then
they
come
to
that
which
they
call
the
compendium
of
all
oppression
and
cruelty
,
viz.
The
Ship-money
:
When
Princes
are
involved
in
great
wants
and
necessities
,
they
are
forced
to
those
things
which
at
other
times
they
willingly
forbear
to
presse
;
So
it
was
here
;
The
King
by
His
Wars
with
Spain
and
France
,
was
brought
into
great
necessitys
;
and
consulting
how
He
might
by
lawfull
wayes
releive
Himselfe
.
He
was
advised
to
this
course
of
Ship-money
by
His
Atturney
Generall
Noy
,
(
as
is
said
)
who
was
by
all
men
esteemed
a
great
Lawyer
,
and
had
been
a
great
propugner
of
the
Subjects
liberty
:
The
King
herein
asked
the
opinion
of
His
Judges
,
and
learned
Councell
;
And
both
the
Judges
(
the
major
part
of
them
)
&
His
Councell
,
did
set
it
under
their
hands
to
be
lawfull
;
these
are
the
Kings
proper
councel
with
whom
he
is
to
consult
in
point
of
Law
,
&
are
sworn
to
advise
Him
faithfully
;
But
some
,
and
particularly
Mr.
John
Hamden
,
not
satisfied
with
the
extrajudiciall
opinion
of
the
Judges
,
came
to
a
legall
tryall
upon
the
Case
in
the
Exchequer
Chamber
;
&
after
a
fair
hearing
and
learned
arguments
on
both
sides
,
Judgement
passed
for
the
King
.
If
the
said
Judges
and
learned
Councel
(
who
are
sworn
to
do
equall
justice
betwixt
the
King
and
the
Subjects
,
&
to
Councell
the
King
faithfully
)
have
erred
and
done
amisse
in
both
,
the
greater
hath
been
their
fault
and
offence
;
But
herein
where
lieth
the
Kings
transgression
?
For
did
he
not
leave
the
Judges
upon
complaint
of
the
Houses
,
to
their
Justice
?
and
were
not
the
said
Judges
many
of
them
impeached
of
high
Treason
?
&
Judge
Berkley
arraigned
thereupon
for
high
Treason
?
and
made
so
learned
and
able
a
defence
,
that
they
were
forced
to
withdraw
any
further
prosecution
of
their
impeachment
against
him
.
It
seems
they
forget
that
which
they
declared
for
Law
at
the
beginning
of
this
Parliament
,
(
viz.
that
the
King
can
do
no
wrong
,
Le
Roy
ne
fait
tort
)
upon
the
very
ground
of
this
Case
;
And
that
the
reason
why
the
Law
supposed
that
the
King
could
doe
no
wrong
,
was
,
for
that
the
Judges
and
Ministers
that
did
the
wrong
,
were
responsable
for
the
wrong
doing
;
and
the
persons
wronged
,
were
from
them
to
be
repaired
in
point
of
their
dammages
:
But
it
seemeth
they
are
of
old
Ployden's
minde
,
that
when
the
businesse
concerneth
themselves
,
the
Case
is
altered
.
They
then
say
,
The
King
summoned
this
present
Parliament
,
in
hope
to
have
Assistance
against
the
Scots
.
He
had
little
reason
to
hope
for
any
assistance
against
the
Scots
,
knowing
as
he
did
,
who
had
called
them
in
;
and
that
from
some
Scots
themselves
from
Newcastle
,
whilst
he
was
at
Yorke
,
He
had
gotten
notice
of
the
particulars
,
wherewith
divers
Lords
of
the
English
with
the
King
being
startled
,
they
sent
to
the
Scotish
Lords
at
Newcastle
;
to
have
right
done
them
upon
a
Secretary
of
theirs
,
who
had
said
to
some
English
prisoners
whom
the
Scots
had
taken
at
Newborn
,
That
their
comming
in
had
not
beene
,
but
by
the
invitation
of
the
English
;
and
had
spoken
a
little
too
boldly
of
some
truths
that
should
have
beene
concealed
,
and
this
divers
at
Westminster
cannot
but
remember
.
They
then
say
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
quash
those
pernitious
Councels
without
questioning
the
Authors
;
Whereupon
the
King
shewed
Himselfe
so
passionately
affected
to
such
malignant
Councellers
&
their
Councel
,
that
he
would
sooner
desert
or
forcc
his
Parliament
,
and
Kingdom
,
then
alter
His
course
,
or
deliver
up
his
wicked
Councellors
to
Law
and
Justice
.
Our
passions
(
especially
that
of
revenge
and
malice
)
do
not
only
deprive
us
of
our
senses
and
reason
,
but
often
bereave
us
of
shame
and
honesty
:
For
besides
that
they
know
that
the
King
hath
more
then
thrice
in
his
publique
printed
Answers
declared
,
That
He
would
except
no
man
of
what
quality
or
nearnesse
soever
unto
Him
,
from
any
legall
Tryall
according
to
the
Law
;
He
did
leave
unto
their
Justice
the
Arch-Bishop
of
Canterbury
,
the
Earl
of
Strafford
,
all
the
Judges
,
and
whomsoever
they
would
accuse
;
insomuch
that
they
examined
and
committed
the
Queenes
Confessor
;
and
examined
the
Ladies
of
Her
bed-chamber
.
And
their
Sergeant
at
Armes
presumed
so
far
,
as
to
come
into
the
Kings
withdrawing-roome
next
unto
His
Bed-chamber
,
to
cite
and
summon
Persous
of
greatest
quality
and
nearnesse
unto
Himselfe
;
insomuch
that
out
of
shame
the
King
hath
bin
forced
to
withdraw
Himselfe
into
his
bed-chamber
,
notwithstanding
that
the
Law
saith
,
that
a
Lord
cannot
in
the
Kings
,
presence
seize
his
slave
or
villian
that
hath
rnn
from
him
.
And
from
the
third
of
November
1640
untill
the
10.
of
January
1641.
when
the
King
was
driven
out
of
London
,
then
was
no
man
,
Counseller
,
Judge
,
or
Person
of
what
quality
soever
,
exempt
from
their
Justice
.
And
to
shew
how
willing
He
was
to
satisfy
them
;
that
Hee
would
not
interrupt
or
hinder
the
course
of
Justice
,
He
gave
way
to
that
which
some
Princes
would
rather
have
adventured
a
War
then
have
condescended
unto
;
which
was
his
giving
leave
to
His
privy
Counsell
(
that
had
bin
sworn
to
keep
secret
whatsoever
passed
in
Councell
)
to
be
examined
upon
Oath
of
what
had
passed
in
his
own
Presence
&
most
secret
cabinet
Counsell
,
against
one
of
their
own
fellows
in
a
capitall
Cause
;
which
is
likely
hereafter
to
cause
him
to
be
served
with
caution
;
when
men
shall
not
know
how
soon
they
may
be
questioned
for
that
which
they
do
advise
,
which
is
in
effect
against
themselves
;
for
if
one
shall
be
accused
of
Treason
,
the
rest
likewise
may
be
questioned
for
Concealment
.
They
speak
of
some
that
fled
fearing
to
be
questioned
;
certainly
they
had
great
reason
so
to
do
,
when
their
proceeding
was
such
,
as
not
to
be
guilty
but
only
to
be
accused
,
was
certain
ruine
,
or
imprisonment
for
many
yeers
,
divers
having
languished
two
or
three
years
in
Prison
;
&
the
Arch
bishop
of
Canterbury
was
almost
four
yeers
in
prison
before
he
was
put
to
death
And
such
as
observed
the
proceedings
with
the
earl
of
Strafford
would
not
willingly
(
how
innocent
soever
)
fall
into
their
hands
,
if
it
were
to
be
avoyded
;
for
they
may
remember
how
by
the
procurement
of
some
amongst
them
,
tumults
&
multitudes
surrounded
the
House
of
Peers
,
crying
Justice
,
justice
,
and
they
would
have
the
Traytors
head
.
They
may
remember
their
posting
up
of
59.
Members
of
the
house
of
Commons
,
that
would
not
give
their
Votes
to
the
Bill
of
Attainder
of
the
Earl
:
If
they
have
forgotten
it
,
their
own
Historiographer
Mr.
May
may
put
them
in
minde
of
it
;
They
may
likewise
remember
that
at
the
same
time
upon
an
empty
Tun
rolled
from
a
Tavern
doore
,
a
list
of
the
Lords
names
whom
they
called
Malignants
,
was
read
in
the
midst
of
that
rabble
in
the
Palace
yard
;
and
although
the
House
of
Peeres
then
represented
these
violences
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
they
could
never
obtein
their
assistance
to
suppresse
them
,
or
to
declare
against
them
;
and
they
may
remember
whether
it
was
not
said
amongst
them
,
that
they
should
doe
ill
to
discountenance
their
freinds
.
On
the
other
side
,
let
it
be
remembred
how
many
Counsellers
who
have
bin
Actors
in
all
the
pretended
Exorbitancies
of
the
Star-chamber
,
Councel-table
,
&
high
Cōmissiion
,
being
once
become
persons
in
whom
they
might
confide
,
were
left
unquestioned
;
Let
them
remember
that
when
they
expelled
all
such
Monopolers
as
they
judged
affectionate
to
the
King
,
whether
they
left
not
some
others
of
their
favorites
sitting
amongst
them
untill
this
day
?
But
for
that
it
would
be
too
long
to
instance
in
many
things
of
this
kinde
,
as
having
imployed
the
most
infamous
Projectors
and
Catchpoles
in
their
service
:
they
shall
only
be
put
in
minde
of
one
particular
of
an
eminent
Member
of
their
House
,
who
would
have
presented
a
Petition
ag●inst
a
great
Counsellour
,
who
was
much
favored
by
Mr.
Pym
and
others
,
who
having
gotten
notice
of
the
Contents
thereof
,
would
never
permit
it
to
be
read
in
the
House
;
but
the
said
party
having
worn
out
three
Copies
in
his
pocket
,
engrossed
it
in
parchment
;
but
ever
when
he
stood
up
to
speake
,
Mr.
Pym
or
some
other
appointed
to
watch
him
,
interrupted
him
with
speaking
to
the
Orders
of
the
House
(
which
are
alwayes
to
have
the
precedency
;
)
&
this
for
many
months
together
,
insomuch
as
the
said
petitiō
could
never
be
read
.
As
for
the
Kings
deserting
of
His
Parliament
,
it
hath
bin
so
often
answered
,
that
it
is
a
shame
to
repeat
it
;
only
this
shall
be
added
,
that
the
King
did
not
desert
his
Parliament
,
but
was
forced
in
great
haste
to
fly
for
the
safety
of
his
Person
,
which
would
the
next
day
have
bin
in
great
hazard
of
being
seized
.
And
although
this
present
house
of
commons
be
not
charg'd
wth
any
such
intention
(
such
resolutions
passing
few
hands
,
and
that
there
are
very
few
left
there
now
that
were
trusted
with
that
secret
)
yet
it
hath
bin
confessed
,
and
is
under
the
hand
of
a
person
that
hath
bin
very
active
in
their
service
,
and
who
should
have
bin
a
principall
Actor
in
it
.
Then
followeth
that
thread-bare
businesse
of
bringing
up
of
the
Northern
Army
,
so
often
objected
,
and
so
often
scorn'd
by
those
that
knew
the
mistery
of
it
;
which
if
the
King
had
endeavour'd
to
have
won
to
His
service
,
and
full
adherence
,
He
had
done
like
a
wise
and
prudent
Prince
;
neither
had
there
bin
any
cause
for
the
concealing
,
or
not
avowing
of
any
such
endeavour
,
if
it
had
bin
so
;
For
it
is
well
known
by
whom
that
army
was
endeavour'd
to
be
seduc'd
from
the
kings
service
&
from
the
Earl
of
Strafford
who
was
their
Generall
;
nor
was
the
Earl
ignorant
therof
,
neither
would
he
have
fai'ld
in
his
proofs
,
having
it
in
his
thoughts
speedily
to
have
impeached
severall
persons
of
high
Treason
,
for
tampering
with
the
said
Army
;
as
is
well
known
not
to
a
few
sitting
still
amongst
them
at
Westminster
;
but
they
by
their
diligence
got
it
by
the
hand
,
by
impeaching
him
a
day
or
two
before
his
impeachment
against
them
was
ready
,
which
cost
him
his
life
.
Besides
,
they
know
the
person
that
started
this
hare
among
them
hath
often
clear'd
the
king
,
that
it
was
impossible
that
the
K.
should
know
of
the
proposition
of
the
bringing
up
the
Army
,
wch
was
his
own
motion
,
&
was
by
some
rejected
as
a
thing
too
high
,
&
not
liked
by
others
,
for
that
he
would
have
the
cheif
command
of
the
Action
,
which
would
not
be
condescended
unto
;
whereupon
out
of
discontent
,
he
went
immediately
and
made
his
discovery
to
the
lower
house
,
without
ever
seeing
the
king
;
but
there
had
been
some
speech
before
of
a
petition
to
be
procur'd
from
the
Army
(
which
was
published
)
&
what
knowledge
the
King
might
have
of
preferring
such
a
petition
,
is
not
known
to
the
writer
of
this
answer
:
but
the
party
that
first
gave
the
houses
notice
of
this
busines
hath
often
sworn
,
that
all
he
said
concerning
the
King
in
this
businesse
,
was
in
relation
to
the
said
petition
;
but
that
the
King
could
never
have
nor
had
notice
of
the
proposition
of
bringing
up
the
Northern
Amy
;
for
that
being
his
own
motion
,
he
presently
(
seeing
it
disapproved
,
especially
his
having
the
cheif
Command
and
Conduct
of
the
Action
)
revealed
it
,
before
the
King
could
possibly
have
knowledge
of
it
,
which
party
is
yet
living
,
and
certainly
will
avow
as
much
.
But
presupposing
the
King
should
have
gotten
knowledge
of
the
motion
(
which
doth
in
nothing
appear
,
(
the
King
seeing
the
great
tumults
,
&
the
great
hazard
that
his
own
person
was
in
,
as
well
as
the
freedom
of
Parliament
;
might
He
not
have
reason
by
His
own
Army
,
raised
by
Himselfe
,
and
payed
by
His
own
moneys
.
(
as
it
had
bin
for
many
moneths
)
endeavored
to
have
secured
His
own
safety
,
and
the
freedom
of
Parliament
,
without
cōmitting
any
such
crime
,
as
meriteth
to
be
deposed
,
or
used
as
now
He
is
?
Let
it
be
compared
with
that
which
the
now
prevalent
Party
in
the
houses
have
don
,
who
seeing
themselves
like
to
be
over-awed
by
the
presbyterian
party
,
&
finding
no
other
means
not
to
be
overborne
,
thought
it
fit
to
have
recourse
unto
the
present
Army
of
Independents
&
although
the
then
house
of
Cōmons
had
voted
a
petition
of
the
said
Army
to
be
burnt
,
&
such
to
be
enemies
of
the
State
,
as
should
adhere
thereunto
;
yet
the
army
was
drawn
up
towards
London
,
&
the
house
forced
to
sequester
eleven
of
their
most
eminent
members
;
&
when
the
City
or
Apprentices
had
restored
the
said
11
Members
,
(
as
they
had
in
former
times
don
the
five
Members
)
the
Speaker
,
&
all
such
as
had
deserted
the
parliament
,
&
had
fled
to
the
army
,
were
by
force
again
reestablished
;
&
the
new
Speaker
M.
Pelham
was
unchaired
,
and
all
that
party
were
driven
away
,
some
forced
to
fly
,
others
were
impeached
;
&
the
now
prevalent
party
possessed
themselves
again
of
the
houses
,
&
the
power
they
now
have
of
deposing
the
King
,
&
keeping
of
Him
Prisoner
.
There
is
a
great
dfference
betwixt
what
they
have
really
don
by
this
army
,
for
the
turning
upside
down
the
Parliament
;
and
what
was
ever
spoken
of
,
of
the
Northern
Army
.
But
Successe
and
Power
will
make
the
same
things
(
though
acted
)
commendable
in
those
that
prevail
,
which
they
will
have
capitall
in
those
who
never
passed
further
then
discourse
.
They
then
begin
to
speak
of
the
tyrany
towards
Scotl.
&
Ireland
&c.
For
that
of
Scotland
(
which
is
formerly
answered
)
I
shall
only
ad
the
ful
satisfaction
which
the
Kingdome
of
Scotland
received
by
their
own
acknowledgment
,
expressed
by
a
petition
made
since
the
Kings
last
coming
from
Scotl.
viz.
:
That
Whereas
The
Kings
most
sacred
Majesty's
royall
zeal
,
&
constant
resolution
of
maintaining
the
true
Religion
&
preserving
the
laws
&
liberties
of
these
kingdoms
is
so
undoubted
,
that
to
call
it
in
que
-
&c.
could
not
be
construed
in
any
,
but
an
unchristian
distrustfulnes
&
in
us
his
Ma.
Subjests
of
this
His
aucient
&
native
kingdom
the
height
of
disloyalty
&
ingratitude
,
if
we
should
harbor
any
scruple
or
thought
to
the
contrary
having
so
many
real
&
recent
evidences
of
his
Royall
goodnes
,
justice
&
Wisdom
,
in
setling
&
establishing
the
trne
Religion
&
the
Laws
&
Liberties
of
this
His
kingdom
,
to
the
full
satisfaction
of
all
his
good
subjects
.
And
nevertheles
prerceiving
by
his
Ma'
.
Declarations
&
other
printed
papers
,
that
foul
&
malicious
aspersions
are
cast
on
his
Ma.
tending
to
be
and
his
sacred
person
,
&
deprave
his
royal
Govern
'
,
&c.
we
conceive
our selves
bound
in
duty
to
almighty
God
(
by
whom
we
have
sworn
to
defeud
&
maintain
the
person
greatnes
,
&
authority
of
our
dread
Soveraign
,
Gods
vicegerent
,
to
the
utmost
with
our
means
&
lives
,
in
every
cause
which
may
concern
his
honor
,
as
may
apear
by
that
which
by
the
warrant
of
the
Act
of
the
generall
Assembly
,
we
have
all
sworn
&
signed
)
&
to
our
king
&
country
,
and
to
that
we
ow
to
our
honor
&
reputation
,
to
represent
to
your
Lps.
the
desires
we
have
to
expresse
,
&
make
known
to
his
Ma.
&
all
the
world
,
that
we
are
fully
satisfied
,
and
perswaded
of
his
Majesties
royal
zeal
&
resolution
,
&
that
malice
&
detraction
cannot
prevail
to
make
the
least
impression
in
our
loyal
hearts
,
of
jealousie
,
or
distrust
:
And
therfore
we
have
taken
the
boldnes
humbly
to
petition
your
Lps.
That
as
his
Majesty
hath
graciously
condescended
(
in
his
letter
to
your
Lps.
printed
by
your
warrant
)
for
satisfaction
of
his
good
subjects
,
to
expresse
his
Royal
goodnes
,
&
desire
,
that
all
grounds
of
jealousy
may
be
kept
and
removed
out
of
the
hearts
of
his
good
Subjects
of
this
Kingdom
:
So
it
may
please
your
Lordships
to
think
vpon
some
course
,
that
his
Majesty
reciprocally
may
be
cleered
,
and
assured
of
our
constant
affection
,
&c.
and
that
we
are
not
so
unthankefull
to
God
,
or
to
his
Vice-gerent
,
nor
so
little
tender
of
our
own
honor
and
credit
,
as
to
forget
so
soone
that
duty
,
incumbent
to
us
by
so
many
obligations
,
and
so
often
promised
by
us
in
our
foresaid
solemn
Oathes
,
which
are
published
to
the
view
of
the
whole
World
,
&c.
As
for
the
Rebellion
in
Ireland
they
make
use
of
this
to
the
same
end
they
do
of
all
things
else
in
their
Declaration
.
That
knowing
that
horrid
rebellion
to
be
so
detestable
to
all
men
(
as
it
justly
deserveth
)
they
would
fain
draw
part
of
the
hatred
of
it
on
the
king
,
although
it
be
with
never
so
improbable
or
false
pretext
▪
And
they
think
in
the
meane
time
that
it
will
serve
the
present
turn
,
of
making
the
king
odious
,
till
He
may
have
means
to
cleer
it
by
His
answer
(
which
they
never
intend
to
afford
Him
,
untill
they
have
established
their
tyranny
)
and
then
they
will
not
care
to
be
fought
against
with
papers
.
But
their
Declaration
in
this
point
of
Ingland
[
besides
that
the
points
conteined
in
it
have
been
so
often
answered
in
print
]
doth
so
confound
all
times
,
all
actions
,
either
in
the
War
,
or
whilest
there
was
a
Cessation
;
and
all
the
circumstances
and
reasons
,
which
may
justify
such
actions
at
one
time
,
as
might
be
blameable
at
another
;
that
the
answere
must
be
applyed
to
the
generall
Scope
of
the
Declaration
,
which
is
,
to
insinuate
unto
the
world
,
that
the
King
did
abet
and
favour
the
Rebellion
;
which
not
only
the
Kings
many
Declarations
,
but
his
reall
and
effectuall
actions
do
evince
of
falsehood
,
and
detestable
malice
;
For
He
did
wholy
put
the
Irish
businesse
,
and
the
prosecution
of
the
businesse
,
into
the
hands
&
management
of
the
two
Houses
;
and
consented
to
an
act
of
parliament
,
giving
them
power
to
raise
men
&
mony
,
and
all
other
necessary
provision
for
that
war
,
notwithstanding
that
they
had
subtilly
inserted
into
the
preamble
of
the
said
Act
,
a
clause
debatring
Him
and
His
successors
from
the
power
of
levying
men
by
way
of
presse
,
without
consent
of
Parliament
;
although
it
had
beene
alwayes
used
by
His
Predecessors
.
But
such
was
their
art
by
the
inserting
of
the
said
Clause
,
that
they
would
either
gain
the
disclaiming
of
that
power
to
presse
men
or
else
would
render
the
King
odious
,
by
publishing
his
refusall
to
doe
that
,
which
by
the
Houses
was
thought
necessary
for
the
suppressing
of
that
horrid
Rebellion
:
This
artifice
hath
been
since
used
by
clogging
most
Bills
(
which
would
be
plausible
to
the
people
)
with
some
clause
or
parenthesis
of
great
prejudice
unto
the
King
which
He
hath
been
often
forced
to
passe
by
,
to
avoid
the
distaste
which
the
denying
of
those
plausible
Bils
would
have
brought
upon
Him
;
&
so
He
did
in
this
.
Besides
this
his
concurrence
in
all
that
was
desired
of
him
;
being
at
Yorke
,
&
having
some
beginning
of
power
he
offered
to
have
passed
in
person
into
Ireland
,
for
the
subduing
of
those
Rebells
;
and
to
let
the
world
see
,
that
He
desired
rather
ro
imploy
those
forces
against
the
Rebels
in
Ireland
,
then
by
them
to
raise
the
least
jealousie
of
raising
a
war
in
England
;
But
this
His
Majestyes
offer
was
by
the
Houses
rejected
;
and
the
King
did
then
see
that
the
forces
and
the
moneys
that
were
levyed
by
his
consent
,
and
Commission
,
were
in
part
imployed
against
Himselfe
,
to
strengthen
&
pay
the
forces
that
were
designed
to
march
against
Him
;
whereby
the
War
of
Ireland
,
(
which
had
beene
most
prosperous
under
the
wise
and
faithfull
Conduct
of
the
Marq.
of
Ormond
,
for
which
the
Houses
sent
him
publique
thanks
,
&
a
present
)
began
to
be
very
dubious
by
their
neglect
,
&
their
applying
of
the
moneys
&
forces
pretended
for
Ireland
,
against
the
King
;
&
so
by
degrees
the
English
Armies
in
Ireland
,
were
reduced
to
those
great
streights
for
want
of
pay
&
provision
,
by
the
ill
Conduct
of
the
Houses
;
that
after
many
sollicitations
both
to
the
King
and
Parliament
,
by
which
little
or
no
releife
was
obteined
;
there
was
a
necessity
of
coming
to
a
cessation
of
Armes
for
one
yeare
;
which
was
done
by
the
advise
of
the
Councell
of
Ireland
;
&
at
the
earnest
petition
of
the
Lords
,
&
of
the
cheif
Officers
of
the
Army
,
(
of
whom
the
Lord
Inchiquin
was
one
)
as
appeares
by
their
own
booke
of
Exact
Collect.
page
.
344.
To
.
2.
where
likewise
the
necessity
of
the
said
cessation
is
at
large
set
downe
:
And
the
King
seeing
Himselfe
much
over-power'd
,
&
like
to
be
overborne
by
the
Rebels
in
England
,
was
inforced
to
make
use
of
the
forces
offered
Him
from
Ireland
,
who
were
there
ready
to
sterve
;
which
certainly
would
have
beene
a
great
imprudence
in
Him
not
to
have
done
;
and
is
as
great
an
impudence
in
them
to
charge
this
as
a
fault
or
crime
upon
the
King
,
to
assist
Himselfe
of
His
own
Subjects
for
His
defence
:
when
they
(
at
so
great
an
expence
to
the
kingdom
)
have
hired
in
a
forraign
Nation
(
the
Scots
)
to
subdue
Him
.
Next
they
alleag
concerning
the
proclamations
,
That
though
they
declared
that
the
Rebels
in
Ireland
stiled
themselves
,
the
King
&
Queens
Army
,
yet
they
could
not
obtain
a
proclamation
against
them
in
divers
moneths
;
&
then
also
but
40
Copies
might
be
printed
&c.
The
first
perfect
advertisement
of
the
Rebellion
of
Ireland
,
came
to
his
Majesty
&
Counsell
in
England
from
the
Lords
Justices
(
Sir
William
Parsons
,
and
Sir
John
Burlace
)
and
Councell
of
Ireland
;
wherewith
they
sent
the
draught
of
such
a
Proclamation
as
they
conceived
best
for
the
suppressing
thereof
;
and
because
those
Rebells
did
pretend
that
what
they
had
done
was
for
the
service
of
the
King
,
and
not
without
some
authority
from
him
,
it
was
by
the
said
Lord
Justices
Letters
desired
,
that
20
copies
of
those
Proclamations
might
be
sent
over
,
signed
by
the
Kings
own
hand
,
(
whereas
the
usuall
course
was
to
send
over
only
one
so
signed
)
that
(
besides
those
which
they
were
there
to
print
,
and
publish
after
the
usuall
manner
)
they
might
send
some
of
the
Originals
so
signed
,
to
some
of
the
chiefe
of
the
Rebells
to
manifest
the
falshood
of
the
said
traiterous
pretence
.
And
though
Proclamations
which
the
King
Signes
either
for
England
or
Ireland
never
use
to
be
printed
,
yet
it
was
now
for
better
expedition
held
fit
by
his
Majesty
,
&
the
Lords
of
his
Councell
,
(
whereof
divers
of
those
now
sitting
in
the
house
of
peers
at
Westminst.
were
then
present
)
that
those
20
proclamations
his
Majesty
was
to
signe
,
should
be
printed
;
and
the
Secretary
being
directed
to
cause
it
to
be
forthwith
dispatched
,
did
accordingly
presently
send
a
warrant
to
the
Kings
Printer
,
to
print
about
40
Copies
,
and
to
send
them
to
him
for
his
Majesties
service
;
and
to
deliver
out
none
to
any
other
,
for
that
those
were
to
be
Originals
for
the
Kings
signature
only
,
&
to
be
by
them
reprinted
in
Ireland
,
according
to
the
usuall
course
.
And
to
have
any
copies
of
them
dispersed
in
England
before
they
were
proclaimed
in
Ireland
,
(
where
they
were
principally
of
use
)
as
it
was
never
practised
,
so
it
was
conceived
it
might
have
bin
of
some
prejudice
;
for
that
the
said
Irish
Rebels
(
who
had
forged
the
former
false
pretence
)
might
(
if
they
had
gotten
any
Copy
thereof
before
they
had
bin
proclaimed
in
Ireland
)
have
divulged
some
other
traiterous
fiction
,
to
have
rendred
the
Proclamation
of
lesse
credit
with
their
party
;
&
so
have
frustrated
the
good
which
His
Majesty
and
his
councell
of
both
Kingdoms
did
hope
that
proclamation
would
have
effected
.
And
whereas
it
is
alleaged
as
a
fault
,
that
there
were
but
40
of
those
Proclamations
sent
into
Ireland
;
it
is
well
known
to
the
Lords
of
the
Councell
now
sitting
at
Westminster
,
that
it
was
twice
as
many
as
was
desired
.
And
whereas
they
say
,
that
the
Irish
Rebels
called
themselves
the
King
and
Queens
Army
;
It
is
the
constant
practice
of
all
Rebels
at
the
begining
,
to
countenance
their
Rebellion
with
the
pretence
of
the
Kings
service
;
and
that
they
take
Armes
against
the
oppressions
of
evill
Councellours
,
and
Ministers
that
seduce
the
King
:
The
like
was
done
by
themselves
at
the
beginning
;
who
only
pretended
to
remove
Malignants
and
evill
Councellors
and
to
bring
Delinquents
to
punishment
;
and
then
their
war
was
in
the
name
of
King
and
Parliament
,
as
some
of
their
own
have
not
of
late
forbore
to
put
them
in
mind
.
But
now
it
is
to
remove
the
King
from
the
government
,
and
to
settle
another
of
their
own
making
,
without
the
King
or
against
Him
.
For
the
disbanding
the
Irish
Army
,
although
the
King
had
great
reason
to
demur
upon
it
;
yet
such
was
his
desire
to
gratify
them
,
that
He
condescended
unto
it
;
&
themselves
consented
that
they
should
take
any
forreign
imploiment
whatsoever
;
but
afterward
would
not
give
way
to
the
transporting
of
them
;
&
by
that
meanes
much
strength
was
added
to
the
Irish
Rebellion
;
all
which
they
themselves
cannot
deny
.
And
upon
such
malicious
false
inferences
as
these
,
depend
all
or
most
of
their
instanced
Accusations
in
this
their
Declaration
.
They
say
,
the
king
refused
to
give
Commissions
(
though
often
asked
by
the
Houses
)
to
the
Lord
Brooke
,
&
the
Lord
Wharton
.
The
king
knew
well
how
little
reason
he
had
to
trust
either
of
them
.
The
Lord
Brooke
was
often
so
indiscreet
,
as
to
professe
openly
and
often
,
that
he
was
wholy
Antimonarchicall
,
and
once
in
the
hearing
of
seaven
or
eight
,
)
for
which
he
was
reproved
by
some
of
his
discreeter
friends
yet
sitting
among
them
)
&
it
may
be
easily
reduced
to
their
memories
;
besides
his
other
faults
,
which
shall
not
be
remembred
,
because
he
hath
given
an
account
of
them
.
For
the
Lord
Wharton
;
the
King
was
not
then
ignorant
of
his
seditious
and
mutinous
wayes
against
him
,
after
so
many
obligations
of
the
Kings
put
upon
him
&
his
friends
,
which
he
hath
ill
repaid
by
his
actions
;
&
hath
since
had
a
more
profitable
and
gainfull
Trade
at
Westminster
,
then
he
could
have
had
in
any
martiall
imployment
,
to
which
it
should
seem
his
naturall
disposition
doth
not
much
incline
him
.
They
then
say
,
that
they
need
not
tell
the
world
how
the
Scots
entred
this
Kingdom
with
a
powerfull
Army
.
It
were
indeed
much
to
their
honor
&
loyalty
to
have
it
concealed
;
for
it
was
by
their
invitations
and
negotiations
;
and
upon
so
hard
termes
and
conditions
,
that
the
Answer
to
the
Scotish
declarati●
set
out
the
4
of
Ja.
1647
saith
,
that
their
Cōmissioners
would
by
no
means
have
brought
them
,
but
that
they
could
get
no
better
.
They
then
spake
of
the
L.
Digby's
attempting
the
Country
with
unusuall
arguments
of
armed
troops
:
It
was
conceived
that
they
had
long
since
bin
ashamed
of
that
ridiculous
tale
of
the
L.
Digby's
raising
war
against
the
King
(
for
so
their
impeachment
runneth
)
with
a
Coach
and
six
Horses
.
Next
they
say
,
he
advised
the
King
to
retire
Himselfe
to
some
safe
place
.
If
he
had
done
so
,
it
had
been
good
and
honest
Councell
;
but
it
was
not
any
advice
to
the
King
,
but
his
opinion
only
written
in
a
private
lettter
to
his
brother
Sir
Lewis
Dives
what
he
judged
safest
for
the
King
,
being
forced
to
fly
out
of
London
for
feare
of
M.
Skippon's
great
march
,
which
was
to
be
the
next
day
to
convoy
the
accused
Members
to
Westminster
.
Now
followes
the
Negotiations
with
Denmarke
,
and
the
story
of
a
servant
of
the
Lord
Digby's
hiring
of
a
Skipper
to
be
pilot
to
a
fleet
preparing
in
Denmarke
;
which
fleet
proved
to
bee
the
Cow-fleet
that
useth
to
bring
cattell
out
of
those
parts
into
Holland
,
And
for
the
Lord
Digby's
man
,
as
hee
never
had
any
name
,
so
the
truth
is
that
hee
had
no
man
with
him
at
that
time
,
going
out
of
England
only
with
a
Dutch
Gentleman
in
his
company
;
neither
is
their
own
word
of
Truth
in
the
whole
story
.
And
for
the
Kings
solliciting
for
Ammunition
and
Succours
from
his
Vncle
of
Denmarke
,
it
were
to
have
bin
wished
that
His
solicitations
had
bin
as
successefull
as
they
are
justifiable
.
And
touching
the
letter
said
to
be
written
unto
the
King
of
Denmarke
;
it
is
very
likely
indeede
,
that
the
King
would
have
invented
such
a
scandall
to
His
own
shame
,
and
the
reproach
of
His
Mother
if
he
had
not
had
some
grounds
for
it
;
And
yet
it
is
true
that
they
may
say
in
the
name
of
the
House
,
that
it
never
entred
into
their
thoughts
;
Businesses
of
that
nature
are
secretly
laid
,
and
carryed
on
by
a
few
:
But
there
are
some
at
Westminster
that
know
what
passed
in
that
businesse
,
and
by
whose
loyalty
the
motion
of
it
was
quashed
in
the
bud
:
And
when
his
Majesty
may
be
heard
,
or
His
Accusations
may
be
admitted
of
,
Hee
will
be
easily
drawne
to
give
them
and
the
world
satisfaction
in
this
point
;
it
were
to
be
wished
that
they
would
give
as
good
satisfaction
for
their
malice
in
inserting
this
particular
in
their
Declaration
,
in
so
unmannerly
and
undecent
termes
towards
their
King
,
stiling
it
a
false
and
scandalous
charge
,
and
such
an
Act
as
they
beleive
was
never
a
more
unworthy
one
done
by
any
Prince
,
to
the
shame
of
His
own
Mother
.
They
then
adde
another
breach
of
Trust
,
That
the
King
had
sent
away
with
the
Queene
the
anciene
Jewels
of
the
Crowne
,
Our
Saviour
saith
,
may
I
not
dispose
of
my
own
as
I
please
?
The
jewels
were
His
own
,
bought
with
His
own
money
,
or
with
the
moneys
of
His
Ancestors
,
and
not
with
the
moneys
of
the
Crowne
;
neither
doe
they
produce
any
entaile
of
them
upon
the
Crown
;
And
certainly
in
the
present
condition
whereunto
they
had
reduced
Him
,
Hee
could
never
have
juster
cause
to
sell
or
pawn
them
,
then
that
which
they
themselves
set
downe
,
for
Armes
and
Ammunition
for
His
own
defence
and
preservation
.
The
King
,
they
say
,
once
sent
a
specious
Message
of
renewing
a
Treaty
,
but
his
messenger
was
instructed
to
manage
a
bloody
massacre
in
London
,
which
was
designed
by
vertue
of
a
Commission
of
the
Kings
since
published
.
Hereof
they
give
us
no
more
proof
but
that
they
say
it
;
and
for
the
bloody
massacre
intended
,
it
is
a
most
false
and
malicious
slander
;
there
being
no
other
Designe
but
to
protect
His
owne
Loyall
Subjects
in
London
;
and
to
reduce
His
Rebels
;
which
certainly
was
more
justifiable
for
Him
to
doe
,
eyther
as
their
King
,
or
as
an
Enemy
in
open
Warre
,
then
their
barbarous
murthering
of
Tomkins
,
and
the
rest
,
only
for
endeavouring
of
their
duties
.
And
for
the
Commission
they
speake
of
,
it
was
such
a
one
as
not
only
in
time
of
war
Hee
might
thinke
fit
to
doe
,
but
might
legally
have
done
it
in
time
of
Peace
.
Touching
the
Kings
march
to
Brainford
,
the
Reasons
thereof
have
been
often
declared
in
print
,
to
the
satisfaction
of
all
indifferent
Readers
.
But
those
barbarous
cruelties
they
speake
of
to
bee
committed
by
the
King
,
are
most
false
;
for
there
was
not
one
man
slaine
but
in
the
heate
of
War
,
and
the
King
gave
to
all
his
Prisoners
their
lives
and
liberties
,
only
upon
engagement
not
to
take
Armes
against
Him
for
the
future
;
which
engagement
they
traitrously
and
falsly
broke
,
being
thereof
absolved
by
some
of
their
wicked
Ministers
,
as
some
of
the
said
Prisoners
(
being
afterwards
taken
againe
)
confessed
.
The
reason
why
the
King
changed
His
minde
from
staying
at
Windsor
,
and
advanced
to
Brainford
,
was
for
that
whilest
their
Commissioners
were
sent
to
him
to
Colebrooke
,
that
very
night
information
was
brought
,
that
they
were
advanced
with
their
Army
and
Ordinance
towards
Him
,
and
they
take
it
very
ill
that
Hee
would
not
stay
at
Windsor
till
they
came
to
take
Him
.
For
the
denying
to
receive
their
Petitions
,
they
give
no
instance
of
it
in
any
,
neither
will
it
bee
proved
I
beleeve
,
that
ever
it
was
done
,
unlesse
the
Petition
were
to
be
delivered
with
an
Army
at
the
heeles
of
it
,
or
by
such
a
person
as
the
King
,
by
name
,
had
declared
Traitor
,
and
excepted
from
Pardon
.
They
then
begin
to
speake
of
the
Queen
,
upon
whom
(
if
they
could
)
they
would
willingly
cast
some
aspersion
,
as
well
as
upon
the
King
.
But
because
there
are
many
particulars
scatteredly
set
downe
in
this
Declaration
concerning
her
Majesty
,
they
shall
in
this
Answer
be
set
down
here
together
,
that
the
cleerer
Judgement
may
be
made
of
them
.
They
say
first
,
That
by
that
time
the
queenes
pious
Designe
to
advance
Popery
was
ready
for
the
Byrth
.
That
Designe
was
most
industriously
examined
by
them
,
and
they
had
before
them
in
the
House
of
Commons
Sir
Kenelme
Digby
,
Mr.
Montague
,
and
divers
others
;
and
upon
the
narrowest
sifting
of
that
Businesse
,
they
thought
it
then
fit
to
proceede
no
farther
in
it
;
But
now
they
make
use
of
it
to
cast
Aspersions
upon
the
king
and
queene
,
when
they
could
finde
no
cause
to
punish
the
chiefe
Actors
in
the
said
Businesse
.
Secondly
,
they
say
,
That
there
was
a
great
Designe
amongst
the
Papists
for
a
generall
massacre
in
Ireland
and
England
,
and
that
a
great
Royall
Person
had
a
hand
in
it
.
It
is
to
be
wondered
at
,
that
they
should
on
a
suddain
become
so
modest
,
as
not
in
plain
words
to
name
(
the
Queen
,
whom
they
had
formerly
impeached
by
name
(
with
all
Her
titles
)
of
high
Treason
,
and
sought
Her
life
;
And
now
they
would
slily
insinuate
into
the
people
,
that
she
had
a
hand
in
so
execrable
a
Designe
,
as
to
massacre
all
the
Protestants
of
two
Kingdoms
;
And
that
upon
information
given
unto
the
late
Lord
of
Canterbury
,
without
a
telling
by
whom
the
said
information
was
given
,
or
when
;
neither
set
they
down
by
whom
the
said
massacre
should
have
bin
acted
,
or
by
what
Plot
;
It
is
to
be
thought
that
it
should
have
bin
performed
by
the
same
hands
that
so
many
of
the
Peers
,
and
of
the
House
of
Commons
should
have
bin
slain
,
had
it
not
bin
prevented
by
the
Tailors
discovery
in
Moorefeilds
.
Thirdly
,
they
say
That
the
king
confesseth
He
had
sent
the
Queen
to
Holland
.
It
seemeth
that
she
was
an
obedient
Wife
,
and
He
a
carefull
Husband
of
Her
,
when
He
saw
that
most
barbarous
and
inhumane
usage
of
Her
,
that
Her
very
Bed-chamber
could
not
be
priviledged
,
but
her
Nurse
,
and
her
Confessor
must
be
examined
against
Her
.
They
adde
,
That
with
the
Queen
He
sent
the
Jewels
of
the
Crown
.
In
whose
hands
could
He
better
trust
His
own
goods
,
which
He
saw
likely
to
be
taken
from
him
,
as
his
Houses
,
Furniture
,
and
whole
Revenue
,
and
that
of
the
Queen
and
Prince
had
bin
by
them
?
Neither
could
He
expect
that
His
Jewels
should
have
bin
safer
then
his
liveries
for
His
Guards
have
bin
of
late
;
And
certainly
his
Jewels
were
better
disposed
of
,
if
they
were
pawned
for
Powder
and
Ammunition
,
then
His
Guard's
Coats
that
are
ordered
to
be
sold
outright
for
fire
and
candles
for
Souldiers
at
Whitehall
.
Then
they
say
,
the
Queen
many
moneths
before
Her
voyage
to
Holland
,
was
going
beyond
the
Seas
,
had
not
their
Motion
to
the
King
stayed
Her
,
It
seemeth
then
that
the
King
was
willing
to
gratify
them
,
although
it
were
with
the
crossing
of
the
queen's
desires
;
and
that
the
King's
sending
of
Her
afterward
into
Holland
,
was
not
untill
she
could
not
remain
any
longer
amongst
them
with
Safety
or
Honour
;
For
they
themselves
doe
beleive
that
the
King
could
have
bin
very
well
pleased
to
have
enjoyed
Her
Company
.
These
are
the
particulars
that
they
set
downe
concerning
the
queene
,
in
which
there
is
little
remarkable
but
their
detestable
malice
;
for
were
it
to
bee
expected
that
the
queene
;
bred
up
a
Roman
Catholick
,
and
by
Capitulations
and
the
Kings
Oath
,
to
enjoy
the
use
of
her
Religion
in
such
sort
as
was
agreed
,
should
not
looke
to
enjoy
it
?
Especially
her
carriage
ever
since
her
coming
into
England
having
beene
with
that
Prudence
and
Moderation
,
that
the
great
Officers
of
her
Court
,
and
most
of
the
Ladies
of
her
Bed-chamber
,
have
beene
Protestants
,
enjoying
daily
the
use
of
their
Religion
in
Her
Court
,
without
beeing
pressed
by
her
to
the
least
Act
,
in
waiting
upon
Her
or
otherwise
,
that
might
offend
or
strain
their
Consciences
.
But
that
a
Princesse
of
so
high
Extraction
as
the
blood
of
France
,
&
Daughter
of
the
great
Henry
the
fourth
,
and
their
Kings
Wife
,
that
never
had
done
any
person
wrong
,
but
obliged
all
whensoever
it
was
in
Her
way
,
should
finde
such
usage
from
Subjects
;
as
to
have
all
malicious
false
Libels
countenanced
against
Her
;
to
be
questioned
for
Her
life
,
only
for
the
assisting
of
Her
husband
;
to
be
forced
to
fly
the
Kingdom
;
to
have
all
Her
Revenue
taken
from
Her
;
and
now
as
though
she
had
intended
a
generall
massacre
,
to
be
rendred
odious
by
this
malicious
Libell
,
authorized
by
the
name
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
it
cannot
but
be
held
a
most
inhumane
and
barbarous
proceeding
,
as
indeed
it
is
,
by
all
the
World
but
themselves
.
Touching
the
Letters
written
to
the
Pope
,
King
James
sent
His
Sonne
(
then
Prince
)
into
Spain
,
being
about
20.
years
of
age
;
and
instructed
Him
,
and
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
that
waited
upon
Him
,
in
all
things
touching
the
Negotiation
of
the
Prince's
marriage
,
which
was
then
in
Treaty
for
a
Daughter
of
Spain
.
And
of
all
that
passed
,
the
Prince
gave
the
King
His
Father
almost
daily
advertisment
by
expresses
;
and
He
received
from
Him
likewise
directions
upon
all
emergent
occasion
,
neither
sent
He
any
Letter
to
the
Pope
,
without
His
Fathers
privity
and
allowance
.
King
James
likewise
Himselfe
at
the
same
time
did
write
Letters
to
the
Pope
,
which
He
publiquely
avowed
,
saying
,
The
Pope
was
a
Temporall
Prince
,
and
He
would
write
unto
Him
upon
any
occasion
in
secular
Affairs
,
as
freely
as
He
did
to
the
great
Magor
,
or
to
the
great
Turke
,
when
He
wrote
against
him
in
point
of
controversies
in
Religion
,
He
would
then
(
He
said
give
him
those
Appellations
that
the
Cause
required
,
but
in
His
letters
missive
,
He
would
give
Him
those
Respects
and
Civilities
that
befitted
one
temporall
Prince
towards
another
.
And
certainly
King
James
was
no
Papist
,
although
He
were
no
freind
to
Sectaries
and
Separatists
but
had
written
more
in
the
defence
of
the
Reformed
Religion
,
and
to
the
displeasing
of
the
Pope
,
then
all
the
Princes
of
Christendom
had
done
since
the
Reformation
,
and
when
He
dyed
,
scarcely
left
a
wiser
man
behinde
Him
.
But
they
are
brought
to
great
streights
,
when
they
are
driven
to
take
in
the
Fathers
grave
(
dead
25.
years
past
)
to
finde
matters
for
their
malice
against
the
Sonne
.
For
the
Letters
spoken
of
to
be
written
to
the
Pope
,
on
the
behalfe
of
the
Duke
of
Lorraign
,
I
must
confesse
I
want
Information
in
the
point
of
the
fact
,
But
if
it
were
so
,
He
could
not
have
written
for
a
Prince
that
was
nearer
allyed
to
Him
.
And
whereas
it
is
said
,
that
in
requitall
an
Army
to
invade
England
must
be
raised
by
Him
,
It
is
a
very
unlikely
Story
,
that
the
Duke
of
Lorraign
should
be
in
condition
to
raise
an
Army
to
invade
England
,
But
if
He
could
afford
His
Kinsman
Auxiliaries
,
or
any
other
supplyes
,
He
should
he
much
to
blame
if
He
did
it
not
.
For
the
Kings
offer
to
the
Scots
of
the
plunder
of
London
,
if
they
would
advance
,
or
of
300000.
pounds
,
and
foure
Northern
Counties
only
to
stand
neuters
:
Besides
the
ridiculousnesse
to
conceive
any
such
offers
could
be
made
,
they
doe
not
so
much
as
offer
at
any
kinde
of
proof
but
follow
their
rule
held
throughout
in
all
this
their
Declaration
;
audacter
accusare
,
aliquid
haeret
,
accuse
boldly
,
somwhat
will
stick
.
They
have
all
the
Kings
Letters
and
Cabinets
;
and
it
is
not
likely
that
any
so
great
transaction
could
only
have
been
verball
:
But
if
the
King
should
have
made
this
impossible
offer
,
or
any
other
,
should
He
not
have
done
like
a
prudent
and
good
Prince
,
to
have
called
His
own
Subjects
from
the
adherence
to
His
Rebels
,
to
their
own
Loyalty
and
Duties
,
though
it
should
have
bin
by
out-bidding
of
them
?
After
the
Kings
returne
from
Scotland
,
the
great
quantity
of
fire
workes
found
in
Papists
houses
:
No
naming
where
,
nor
when
,
nor
by
whom
the
Papists
should
have
subdued
the
kingdom
,
only
with
granadoes
and
fire-works
without
any
foote
or
horse
,
but
those
that
about
that
time
they
had
discovered
to
be
kept
under
ground
;
O
how
contemptible
is
it
for
a
House
of
Commons
to
abuse
the
kingdom
with
such
squibs
?
Then
they
say
,
Morters
with
great
peeces
of
Battery
were
mounted
against
the
City
;
and
such
Officers
placed
in
the
Tower
,
as
were
not
only
suspected
by
them
,
but
by
the
whole
City
,
who
durst
not
abide
in
their
houses
,
as
by
their
severall
Petitions
is
manifest
.
They
doe
not
say
that
one
gun
was
ever
shot
,
and
they
know
that
no
one
man
did
for
feare
forsake
his
house
:
nor
any
one
Act
of
injury
or
Hostility
committed
towards
them
.
As
for
the
Lieutenant
of
the
Tower
,
they
would
confide
in
none
but
such
as
a
few
factious
men
of
the
House
(
who
had
conspired
with
a
great
party
in
the
Citty
)
did
appoint
;
The
King
to
give
them
satisfaction
removed
Sir
Tho.
Lunsford
;
then
put
in
a
Gentleman
of
remarkable
honesty
and
worth
,
and
of
great
fortune
(
Sir
John
Byron
)
against
whom
no
exception
could
be
taken
,
but
that
he
was
not
of
their
party
;
against
him
(
when
no
other
pretence
could
be
found
)
they
alleaged
,
that
if
a
Person
were
not
put
into
the
Tower
,
in
whom
the
Merchants
might
confide
,
there
would
be
no
more
money
brought
into
the
Mint
:
And
although
a
hundred
thousand
pounds
caution
were
offered
on
the
behalfe
of
Sir
John
Byron
,
yet
nothing
would
satisfie
,
unlesse
the
Tower
were
put
into
such
hands
as
they
pleased
to
nominate
,
and
it
was
publiquely
avowed
that
if
it
were
not
speedily
done
,
they
would
seize
it
by
force
;
and
to
that
purpose
they
caused
multitudes
every
day
to
come
to
the
House
whilest
that
businesse
was
in
agitation
.
And
as
for
the
Petitions
,
they
know
that
they
were
all
of
their
owne
making
;
and
whosoever
Petitioned
without
their
Order
,
or
not
suteable
to
their
sense
,
were
severely
punished
;
as
in
the
Petition
of
Kent
,
and
many
others
,
only
such
as
they
had
ordered
to
be
delivered
to
the
Houses
;
and
when
they
had
no
reason
to
uphold
their
demands
,
they
then
made
use
of
tumults
,
and
seditious
and
threatning
Petitions
in
stead
of
other
Arguments
;
these
they
ever
countenanced
and
supported
;
as
they
did
in
this
case
of
the
Tower
,
when
they
caused
Petitions
to
be
delivered
,
desiring
to
know
the
names
of
the
Malignant
Lords
that
obstructed
the
businesse
of
the
Kingdome
,
and
refused
to
assent
to
the
Votes
of
the
Commons
,
and
they
would
right
themselves
by
the
remedy
next
at
hand
(
by
which
they
meant
their
swords
and
clubs
in
their
hands
)
and
thereby
forced
the
Votes
of
the
Lords
,
as
it
is
pretended
was
done
by
the
Apprentices
at
Pelham's
Parliament
;
insomuch
that
that
which
had
bin
voted
by
42.
Lords
,
for
the
not
removing
of
Sir
Iohn
Byron
from
his
Lievetenancy
of
the
Tower
,
was
now
carryed
by
16.
or
17.
votes
only
;
(
contrary
ro
the
orders
of
the
house
,
that
such
things
as
upon
the
question
had
beene
once
setled
,
might
not
again
that
Sessions
be
put
to
the
question
)
And
by
the
threats
of
their
Petitions
;
the
noise
and
tumults
at
the
doores
by
the
multitudes
;
the
intimation
of
danger
from
the
House
of
Commons
,
and
from
the
enraged
People
,
which
they
feared
would
not
be
in
their
power
to
prevent
:
and
by
the
Lords
of
the
Party
,
who
most
boldly
(
contrary
to
the
essentiall
freedom
of
Parliament
,
relying
upon
their
friends
at
the
doore
)
voted
all
such
as
should
continue
to
dissent
from
the
House
of
Commons
,
to
be
Enemies
of
the
State
;
whereupon
most
of
the
Bishops
and
Lords
(
fearing
to
be
reformed
by
the
remedies
next
at
hand
)
held
it
wisdome
to
withdraw
themselves
:
only
14.
of
above
fourty
(
that
had
formerly
voted
the
contrary
)
withdrew
themselves
;
and
so
the
Lords
of
the
Party
over-ruled
it
;
And
this
narration
will
appeare
to
be
true
by
the
Booke
of
the
House
of
Peers
,
if
they
have
not
since
thought
fit
to
expunge
it
.
So
that
it
is
thought
very
strange
,
that
the
wisdome
of
the
House
of
Commons
(
by
calling
to
minde
the
use
that
they
have
made
of
Petitions
)
should
give
cause
to
have
the
memory
of
such
shamefull
proceedings
to
be
revived
.
They
then
say
that
from
this
time
the
track
of
open
force
began
to
appeare
.
They
first
instance
the
Kings
charging
some
of
both
Houses
of
Treason
;
the
Kings
desiring
to
have
some
tryed
by
due
course
of
Justice
(
never
before
denyed
to
any
King
,
and
in
their
owne
remembrance
practised
,
and
by
the
House
of
Peeres
allowed
)
must
now
be
accounted
a
Crime
,
and
an
Act
of
open
force
in
the
King
:
but
forget
how
many
of
their
Members
the
Army
hath
impeached
and
forced
to
fly
.
They
then
speake
of
the
bloody
Tragedy
intended
by
the
Kings
comming
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
if
the
affections
of
the
City
had
not
prevented
it
.
If
there
had
been
any
bloody
tragedy
intended
by
the
Kings
coming
to
the
House
.
it
would
have
been
the
same
day
put
in
execution
,
before
the
City
could
have
prevented
it
.
But
they
may
remember
if
they
please
,
the
testimony
of
Cap.
Ashley
,
taken
be
fore
a
Committee
of
both
Houses
at
Grocers-Hall
,
if
it
bee
not
suppressed
;
wherein
hee
declared
,
That
the
King
at
the
upper
end
of
Westminster-Hall
,
before
he
went
up
the
stayres
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
charged
all
those
that
accompanied
Him
(
except
some
few
ordinary
Servants
)
not
so
much
as
to
come
to
the
staires
,
nor
to
offer
violence
or
injury
to
any
Person
upon
pain
of
their
lives
.
Further
,
the
King
in
that
point
did
let
himselfe
downe
so
low
to
give
them
satisfaction
,
as
was
never
done
by
any
King
towards
His
Subjects
;
but
nothing
but
the
dis-throning
of
Himselfe
,
and
leaving
the
Soveraignty
,
is
fit
for
them
to
accept
.
They
say
,
that
the
King
entred
a
Protestation
into
the
Councell
booke
,
that
His
calling
of
them
a
Parliament
,
did
not
make
them
so
;
And
therein
He
said
very
true
,
that
His
calling
of
them
a
Parliament
doth
not
make
them
a
Parliament
,
(
that
can
be
only
done
by
His
Writ
)
no
more
then
His
calling
them
no
Parliament
,
doth
make
them
to
be
no
Parliament
.
But
it
is
true
,
before
His
restraining
of
himselfe
,
hee
could
when
hee
pleased
have
dissolved
them
;
But
if
they
have
committed
Treason
or
Felony
;
and
that
that
which
their
Oracle
Sir
Edw.
Cooke
,
Mr.
Solicitor
,
and
that
reverend
old
Eleazar
Judge
Jenkins
doe
say
,
be
true
,
That
Treason
and
Felony
do
supersede
all
priviledges
of
Parliament
;
And
although
a
Corporation
cannot
commit
Treason
,
yet
every
person
of
the
Corporation
may
;
and
if
one
,
then
ten
,
if
ten
,
then
a
hundred
,
and
so
all
:
And
if
that
House
have
had
the
ill
lucke
to
commit
Treason
or
Felony
,
(
although
the
King
by
reason
of
His
restraint
should
not
dissolve
it
)
yet
it
may
become
Felo
de
se
,
and
may
destroy
it selfe
:
And
it
is
much
doubted
whether
the
King
can
raise
them
from
the
dead
.
Then
they
come
to
their
standing
amazed
at
the
Kings
solemn
Protestation
of
having
never
any
thought
of
bringing
up
the
Northern
Army
;
or
levying
of
forces
to
wage
war
against
his
Parliament
;
or
to
invade
the
rights
of
his
Subjects
;
or
bringing
in
of
forreign
forces
.
They
should
have
done
well
to
have
set
downe
the
date
of
the
said
Declaration
;
as
likewise
the
particulars
wherein
He
hath
satisfyed
His
said
Protestations
;
and
not
to
have
kept
themselves
still
upon
the
fraud
of
generalls
;
nor
confounded
the
times
before
they
had
entred
into
Armes
,
with
the
times
after
the
King
had
proclaimed
them
Traitors
and
Rebells
;
times
and
circumstances
,
do
often
justly
alter
Councells
,
and
make
those
Actions
necessary
and
good
,
which
without
them
might
have
appearance
of
blame
:
But
if
the
particulars
shall
be
set
down
with
the
times
and
circumstances
,
the
falshood
,
as
well
as
the
malice
will
appeare
,
of
their
so
often
reiterated
reproaching
their
King
,
with
breach
of
Oaths
and
protestations
.
They
doe
farther
then
charge
the
King
,
that
He
endeavoured
to
get
out
Cannon
,
Powder
,
and
Shot
out
of
his
own
stores
;
and
they
have
a
letter
to
that
effect
to
Sir
Iohn
Heyden
:
They
say
likewise
that
Hee
did
attempt
to
have
forced
Hull
in
an
hustile
manner
.
Two
such
faults
in
the
King
as
doe
marvailously
justify
their
resolutions
and
usages
of
him
,
which
they
set
down
to
be
the
Scope
of
this
Declaration
:
In
the
one
,
the
King
would
have
imbezel'd
His
own
proper
goods
;
and
in
the
other
,
He
would
have
come
into
his
own
Town
,
had
not
the
Traitor
Hotham
kept
him
out
for
which
they
have
given
him
such
a
reward
,
as
others
may
justly
expect
,
if
their
repentance
and
the
Kings
goodnesse
doe
not
prevent
it
.
It
was
not
long
(
they
say
)
before
the
King
proclaimed
them
Traitors
and
Rebels
,
and
set
up
his
Standard
against
the
Parliament
,
which
never
King
of
England
did
before
Himselfe
.
Herein
they
are
mistaken
,
for
the
King
did
not
set
up
his
Standard
against
His
Parliament
;
His
Parliament
was
never
named
at
the
setting
up
of
His
Standard
;
but
it
was
set
up
against
those
whom
Hee
had
first
proclaimed
Traitors
and
Rebels
,
which
hath
bin
often
done
by
the
Kings
of
England
;
And
so
did
His
Majesty
now
against
an
Army
marching
toward
Him
,
to
surprise
His
Person
;
and
that
within
few
dayes
after
gave
Him
a
battell
,
and
did
their
best
to
have
slain
Him
under
the
command
of
the
Earle
of
Essex
,
with
whom
they
had
all
sworne
and
protested
to
live
and
dye
.
But
that
which
they
say
,
that
never
any
King
before
set
up
His
Standard
against
his
Parliament
;
it
is
true
,
for
no
King
ever
needed
a
Standard
against
His
Parliament
;
for
that
at
their
pleasures
they
could
dissolve
it
with
a
breath
;
and
so
might
his
Majesty
have
done
now
,
had
not
His
goodnesse
and
unprovident
desire
of
gratifying
them
restrained
Him
,
by
assenting
unto
that
Act
for
the
continuance
of
this
present
Parliament
:
which
they
themselves
protested
in
one
of
their
Declarations
,
they
would
never
make
use
of
to
the
Kings
disservice
,
but
only
to
the
ends
for
which
it
was
granted
,
viz.
to
be
a
security
for
the
raysing
and
paying
of
moneys
;
which
how
they
have
performed
let
the
world
judge
.
it
is
then
said
,
the
King
called
a
mock-Parliament
at
Oxford
;
It
is
true
that
the
King
having
declared
the
Members
sitting
at
Westminster
to
be
Traitors
and
Rebels
;
and
Treason
,
as
themselves
have
often
acknowledged
,
discharging
all
Priviledges
,
Qualifications
,
Capacitie
,
or
abilities
to
act
as
a
Parliament
;
the
King
was
enforced
to
call
to
His
Councell
and
Assistance
,
His
loyall
Members
of
both
Houses
,
that
had
bin
wrongfully
,
or
by
force
and
tumults
driven
from
the
Houses
at
Westminster
;
and
to
require
of
them
in
His
so
great
distresse
their
helpe
and
advice
:
but
it
is
conceived
that
they
will
not
be
able
to
shew
,
that
the
King
ever
stiled
it
his
Parliament
,
but
an
Assembly
of
the
Members
of
the
Lords
and
Commons
convened
at
Oxford
.
And
for
that
which
they
instance
of
private
letter
,
intended
only
for
the
sight
of
the
Queene
His
Wife
,
they
will
faile
of
the
end
for
which
they
produce
it
,
which
is
,
to
withdraw
the
affections
of
His
faithfull
Servants
(
which
they
call
His
own
Party
)
from
Him
by
telling
them
,
that
they
may
perceive
what
reward
they
may
expect
,
when
they
have
done
their
utmost
,
and
ship
wrack't
their
faith
and
consciences
to
His
will
and
tyranny
:
But
his
party
(
as
they
terme
it
)
which
are
His
faithfull
and
loyall
Subjects
,
as
they
have
already
most
of
them
lost
their
Estates
and
Fortunes
for
their
Conscience
and
Loyalty
to
Him
;
so
they
will
sacrifice
their
lives
willingly
for
His
service
and
restitution
.
And
as
for
that
by-name
of
a
mock-Parliament
,
which
they
give
unto
that
Assembly
;
They
may
remember
that
there
was
double
the
number
of
Peers
more
then
remained
at
Westminster
;
and
for
the
Members
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
they
much
exceeded
in
their
Estates
and
Fortunes
all
those
that
were
left
behind
them
.
They
may
likewise
remember
that
they
have
not
wanted
their
by-names
in
print
;
as
the
Jugles
,
&
Hocas-pocuses
at
Westminster
;
and
by
some
who
have
ever
adhered
to
them
,
have
been
stiled
a
Linsey-wolsoy-Parliament
▪
and
their
own
Army
in
their
Declaration
,
have
called
them
a
Parliament
swayed
by
a
factious
prevolent
party
,
that
governed
by
an
arbitrary
tyrannicall
Power
.
These
things
I
must
confesse
are
set
down
by
me
(
that
have
been
a
Member
of
the
House
of
Commons
)
with
great
grief
,
remembring
the
respect
and
reverence
which
in
former
times
was
born
unto
that
House
,
and
now
changed
into
so
great
Scorn
and
Derision
as
weekly
comes
forth
in
print
.
They
then
adde
,
His
often
breach
of
trust
with
the
Protestants
of
France
,
Scotland
,
Ireland
,
and
England
,
with
all
other
His
unjust
oppressions
;
and
His
often
endevours
to
enslave
them
by
German
,
Spanish
,
Lorraign
,
Irish
,
and
Danish
,
and
other
forrein
forces
.
Those
other
forces
must
certainly
be
of
Turks
,
Swedes
,
or
Polands
;
for
they
have
particularly
recited
almost
all
other
Nations
,
when
now
in
all
this
their
Declaration
,
(
except
such
from
Ireland
who
were
His
own
Subjects
,
and
who
were
bound
in
duty
to
come
to
the
succour
of
their
King
,
being
invaded
by
a
forreign
Nation
,
called
in
by
them
to
conquer
Him
)
they
have
not
been
able
to
instance
in
so
much
as
one
Company
of
Foot
,
or
Troup
of
Horse
of
forreigners
,
that
He
hath
called
in
,
but
they
hope
by
this
great
noise
of
reciting
so
many
Nations
,
to
fill
the
ears
of
the
People
,
and
to
abuse
them
;
as
they
did
by
the
speaking
of
the
death
of
His
Father
;
of
the
reproaching
of
His
Mother
:
of
His
bloudy
Cruelties
,
His
oppressions
,
and
Tyranny
;
His
breach
of
Trust
,
of
Oaths
,
and
Protestations
;
and
with
those
odious
names
,
and
a
bold
Accusation
,
(
to
which
He
should
not
have
means
to
answer
)
to
make
something
stick
with
the
people
,
whereby
to
alienate
their
Hearts
from
Him
;
and
to
allay
the
detestablenesse
of
their
most
inhumane
and
barbarous
proceeding
with
Him
.
They
then
say
,
neither
do
we
wonder
He
should
forget
His
Vows
and
Protestations
,
that
He
would
never
consent
to
a
toleration
of
the
Popish
Religion
,
or
abolition
of
the
Laws
then
in
force
against
Recusants
,
yet
about
the
same
time
He
wrote
Letters
to
the
Queen
,
and
the
E.
of
Ormond
,
that
He
would
consent
to
the
taking
away
of
all
penall
Laws
against
Papists
both
in
England
and
Ireland
.
Touching
the
Letters
to
the
Queen
,
and
the
Marquesse
of
Ormond
,
they
are
all
printed
by
their
Order
;
and
according
to
the
information
I
have
credibly
received
,
by
those
Letters
it
will
appear
,
that
the
penall
Lawes
touching
Recusants
were
not
to
be
taken
away
;
and
the
favours
intended
to
the
Papists
were
with
such
limitation
,
as
they
think
fit
to
conceal
.
Besides
,
there
is
a
wide
difference
betwixt
a
toleration
of
Popery
,
and
the
not
putting
in
execution
the
penall
Lawes
;
and
so
there
is
betwixt
the
abolishing
of
the
penall
Lawes
,
and
a
temporary
forbearance
of
the
rigour
of
them
,
which
hath
been
practised
by
Queen
Eliz.
King
James
,
and
His
Majesty
;
but
never
in
so
high
a
degree
,
as
by
themselves
toward
the
Sectaries
and
Separatists
(
who
by
the
Law
are
Recusants
as
well
as
Papists
;
)
yet
they
have
made
use
of
them
in
their
service
,
without
distinction
of
any
Sect
,
Schisme
,
or
Heresie
;
insomuch
that
at
Plymouth
they
made
use
of
some
Turks
in
their
service
out
of
the
Gaole
,
that
had
been
condemned
as
Pyrats
.
And
let
them
remember
of
what
a
composition
their
new
model'd
Army
is
,
by
whom
they
have
carried
through
their
Rebellion
;
and
how
carefull
they
are
now
to
uphold
the
liberty
and
freedom
of
them
,
under
the
name
of
tender
Consciences
.
Yet
it
must
be
a
Crime
in
the
King
,
for
the
saving
of
His
Crown
,
to
encourage
His
own
Subjects
to
be
loyall
unto
Him
;
and
to
assist
Him
against
his
Rebels
,
by
promising
them
some
favour
against
the
rigour
and
extremity
of
the
Lawes
.
There
is
no
Religion
,
or
Nation
,
English
,
Welch
,
Irish
,
Scottish
,
French
,
Hollanders
,
Dutch
,
Germans
,
Turks
,
whose
service
they
have
not
used
to
depose
their
Soveraign
,
as
it
is
now
apparent
,
although
at
first
they
all
fought
for
the
King
and
Parliament
:
And
if
He
should
have
made
use
of
them
for
His
just
defence
,
or
shall
do
for
His
just
restitution
,
His
doing
so
,
would
be
much
more
justifiable
before
God
and
man
then
what
they
have
done
.
They
then
say
,
that
notwithstanding
that
both
Houses
,
and
the
Scotch
Commissioners
did
declare
,
that
they
did
hold
a
personall
Treaty
was
not
safe
,
yet
the
Houses
now
yeelded
to
that
;
that
is
,
to
a
personall
Treaty
.
They
might
have
remembred
that
the
Scots
in
their
Papers
do
set
down
why
at
that
time
they
held
a
personall
Treaty
at
London
not
safe
;
viz.
because
the
King
had
several
Armies
on
foot
,
&
many
strong
garrisons
then
;
neither
was
it
known
what
party
,
or
correspondency
He
might
have
in
London
;
all
which
considerations
were
now
ceased
;
and
that
therefore
at
present
they
held
a
personal
Treaty
(
and
that
to
be
with
the
Houses
themselves
,
and
at
Westminster
)
most
necessary
.
And
thus
with
their
Art
in
confounding
of
Times
,
they
labour
to
abuse
the
World
;
and
to
make
shew
as
if
they
had
yeilded
to
all
that
which
the
Scots
now
desired
;
whereas
they
would
not
treat
with
the
King
but
in
the
Isle
of
Wight
,
and
not
with
the
Houses
,
as
the
Scots
Commissioners
desired
,
but
with
their
Commissioners
;
And
whereas
the
Scots
desired
that
the
King
might
be
free
and
at
liberty
,
they
would
have
Him
still
their
Prisoner
.
They
further
say
,
that
all
this
was
yeilded
unto
,
upon
condition
that
the
King
would
sign
but
four
Bils
,
which
they
judged
not
only
just
and
honourable
,
but
necessary
even
for
the
present
Peace
and
Safety
during
such
a
Treaty
.
Hereby
they
would
insinuate
that
they
desired
the
four
Bils
but
for
security
during
the
Treaty
;
whereas
they
know
that
those
Bils
were
to
be
made
Acts
of
Parliament
,
and
so
perpetuall
Laws
;
unlesse
they
intended
that
the
Treaty
should
be
everlasting
.
As
for
the
justness
,
honourableness
,
and
necessity
of
the
said
four
Bils
;
If
they
have
vouchsafed
to
read
the
Kings
Answer
(
which
was
not
of
such
importance
whether
they
did
or
no
,
their
resolution
being
taken
before
;
that
if
the
King
would
not
undo
Himselfe
,
they
must
undo
Him
,
which
is
said
to
have
been
the
speech
of
a
Member
of
that
House
)
if
they
had
read
the
Kings
Answers
,
they
would
have
found
that
the
King
had
convincingly
made
it
appear
,
that
this
their
way
of
proceeding
(
besides
the
unreasonablenesse
of
the
Bils
themselves
)
was
irrationall
,
impossible
,
and
must
be
ineffectuall
to
the
making
of
Peace
,
for
which
this
Treaty
was
pretended
to
be
;
To
which
might
be
added
,
that
it
would
have
been
invalid
.
It
was
irrationall
;
for
that
it
is
contrary
to
the
nature
of
a
Treaty
,
that
the
chief
Subject
matters
of
the
Treaty
should
be
first
assumed
.
It
was
impossible
;
because
the
King
was
desired
to
passe
these
Acts
by
Commission
under
the
great
Seale
,
and
not
by
His
presence
in
Parliament
,
whereas
there
is
no
such
thing
as
a
great
Seale
,
but
a
mock-Seale
of
their
owne
making
,
of
which
Sir
Edw.
Cooke
,
Mr.
Sollicitor
,
and
the
above-named
reverent
Judge
,
as
well
as
three
Statutes
,
have
likewise
delivered
their
opinion
.
It
must
of
necessity
be
ineffectuall
;
for
no
Peace
could
be
concluded
without
the
Consent
of
the
Scots
;
and
they
in
the
name
of
that
Kingdome
protested
against
their
Bils
,
and
manner
of
proceeding
;
and
like
rationall
men
they
declared
,
that
they
could
not
but
wonder
,
that
it
could
be
supposed
that
the
King
having
so
often
refused
the
said
Bils
,
for
the
procuring
of
a
Peace
,
should
now
condescend
unto
them
,
only
for
the
procuring
of
a
Treaty
.
Invalid
it
must
needs
be
;
for
it
is
well
known
,
that
imprison'd
Princes
(
especially
by
their
own
Subjects
)
can
do
no
valid
Act
to
the
prejudice
of
themselves
,
much
lesse
of
their
Successors
;
besides
it
is
well
known
what
the
doctrine
of
the
above
specified
Authors
and
the
Law
is
,
touching
constraining
of
the
King
by
force
.
There
shall
no
more
be
said
of
the
manner
of
their
condescending
to
such
a
condition'd
Treaty
(
which
they
insinuate
to
have
been
a
gracious
proceeding
)
only
I
will
set
down
what
a
sober
man
said
of
it
,
&
then
speak
to
the
matter
of
the
Bils
by
them
desired
:
That
the
King
was
used
like
a
man
that
had
had
his
horse
,
moneys
,
sword
,
cloak
,
and
cloak-bagge
violently
taken
from
him
;
and
the
men
that
had
rob'd
him
(
so
that
he
would
promise
not
afterward
to
prosecute
them
)
were
content
to
treat
with
him
about
restoring
him
some
part
of
his
goods
;
but
he
should
first
give
his
consent
that
they
might
keep
his
horse
,
his
money
,
his
sword
,
and
his
cloak
;
but
for
his
cloak-bagge
,
his
nightcap
,
his
slippers
,
and
his
shirts
,
they
would
treat
with
him
;
And
because
he
would
not
yeild
to
those
conditions
,
they
stript
him
of
his
cloaths
,
bound
him
,
and
cast
him
into
a
ditch
.
For
the
matter
of
the
Bils
they
say
nothing
,
not
so
much
as
to
insinuate
what
they
were
,
and
of
them
there
will
be
a
Tract
apart
;
only
two
or
three
words
shall
be
said
to
let
the
world
see
,
that
there
were
never
so
shamefull
proposals
made
by
any
Subjects
to
their
King
;
especially
upon
His
refusall
to
yeild
unto
them
,
to
lay
the
ground
for
His
deposing
,
and
imprisoning
.
1.
If
the
King
should
have
condescended
to
the
setling
of
the
Militia
according
to
the
Bill
offered
by
them
,
He
should
have
devested
himself
and
the
Crown
for
ever
,
of
the
means
of
protecting
his
Subjects
,
the
Law
,
or
the
Church
,
and
thereby
have
been
absolutely
perjured
,
by
breaking
His
Oath
of
Coronation
;
he
should
have
left
his
Subjects
meer
Slaves
to
their
absolute
power
,
by
giving
way
that
they
might
levy
what
men
they
pleased
,
without
distinction
of
Persons
,
Quality
,
or
limitation
of
Numbers
;
and
under
the
pretext
of
paying
the
men
so
levyed
,
might
raise
what
moneys
they
pleased
,
without
restraint
either
in
the
manner
or
proportion
.
And
having
already
(
as
they
pretend
)
the
Legistative
power
in
their
hands
without
the
King
;
it
is
much
wonderd
that
they
should
presse
for
any
more
Bils
then
this
;
for
hereby
alone
they
should
be
the
most
absolute
Princes
in
Christendom
,
their
Wils
being
the
only
Laws
,
and
a
setled
Power
to
uphold
their
Will
.
2.
But
it
should
seem
being
hereby
become
Princes
,
they
would
not
want
that
noble
Power
of
Soveraignty
,
of
conferring
of
Honours
;
They
had
once
this
Parliament
nominated
a
list
of
Persons
whom
they
intended
to
have
made
Dukes
,
Earls
,
and
Barons
;
and
now
they
would
hook
in
that
Power
by
a
Bill
.
It
may
be
said
they
intend
it
not
without
the
King
:
That
is
but
an
illusion
,
for
if
they
shal
by
Bil
make
such
Persons
Peers
,
as
they
wil
pretend
have
by
their
fidelity
and
courage
preserved
the
State
;
they
have
already
declared
,
that
the
King
ought
to
give
His
Consent
to
such
Bils
as
the
two
Houses
offer
unto
him
;
and
in
this
rewarding
of
such
Heroes
,
as
have
been
the
preservers
of
their
Country
,
they
will
not
take
a
Denyall
.
And
for
their
supplying
their
new
Lords
with
Estates
and
Revenues
for
their
new
callings
,
that
is
but
giving
the
Estates
of
some
of
the
loyall
Lords
(
whom
they
call
Delinquents
)
to
those
their
new
Lords
;
which
is
done
in
a
morning
by
an
Ordinance
,
as
firmly
as
if
it
were
by
Act
of
Parliament
.
3.
In
their
third
Bil
,
of
having
all
Declarations
&
Proclamations
of
their
Treason
and
Rebellion
to
be
revoked
,
they
do
not
pretend
a
generall
Pardon
or
Act
of
Oblivion
;
but
they
wil
have
a
Justification
of
all
their
Actions
and
proceedings
;
and
all
the
blame
and
bloud
of
the
War
to
rest
upon
the
Kings
head
,
and
his
Adherents
;
and
that
they
as
Traytors
and
Rebels
have
forfeited
their
Lives
and
Estates
,
wherewith
they
will
enrich
themselves
.
So
that
the
King
must
not
only
pardon
,
but
justifie
them
whom
He
hath
so
often
declared
to
have
been
Traytors
,
and
in
his
conscience
believeth
them
to
be
so
(
although
he
be
willing
to
forgive
and
forget
all
that
is
by
past
)
but
must
leave
in
the
hands
of
their
mercilesse
Enemies
,
those
that
His
conscience
telleth
Him
have
been
and
are
innocent
loyall
Subjects
;
and
can
be
charged
with
no
Crime
,
but
that
they
have
served
Him
faithfully
according
to
their
Obligations
by
the
Law
of
God
,
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
their
Oathes
,
and
naturall
Allegeance
.
Insomuch
that
they
are
not
content
that
the
King
should
be
poor
,
and
without
any
Power
or
Authority
;
but
as
they
labour
in
this
Declaration
to
render
Him
odious
to
His
people
,
so
they
would
make
Him
infamous
to
all
Posterity
,
by
delivering
His
faithfull
true
servants
and
Friends
(
that
have
suffered
so
much
for
Him
)
to
totall
ruine
and
destruction
.
4.
Their
fourth
Bill
,
is
,
for
the
further
Declaration
of
the
Act
for
the
continuance
of
this
Parliament
,
as
is
pretended
;
but
in
effect
it
is
a
further
settling
and
confirming
of
it
;
And
certainly
if
there
did
any
shame
remain
,
they
would
blush
to
move
the
King
in
any
thing
concerning
this
Bill
;
considering
upon
what
grounds
the
King
was
induced
,
or
rather
constrained
to
grant
it
;
&
how
they
have
solemnly
protested
by
their
Declaration
of
the
19.
of
May
1642.
That
they
would
do
nothing
by
vertue
of
that
gracious
Act
,
which
otherwise
had
not
been
fit
to
have
been
done
.
But
what
use
have
been
made
,
and
still
is
,
of
the
said
Act
,
(
beyond
the
Intention
in
the
preamble
of
the
said
Bill
expressed
)
to
the
disservice
of
the
King
,
and
destruction
of
the
Kingdome
,
let
the
world
judge
.
Now
since
the
Kings
not
condescending
to
these
four
Bils
,
is
that
which
they
themselves
set
down
in
this
Declaration
to
be
the
formall
and
reall
Cause
of
their
making
these
Votes
,
and
consequently
of
deposing
and
imprisoning
the
King
,
(
For
all
the
other
particulars
are
but
Aggravations
and
Accumulations
of
faults
,
which
they
say
they
have
hitherto
borne
)
but
this
the
Kings
present
denyall
of
their
Bils
,
is
that
which
without
Scorn
and
Contempt
to
themselves
,
and
ruine
to
the
Kingdome
,
they
may
not
suffer
;
and
therefore
have
taken
their
present
resolutions
,
to
have
no
more
to
do
with
the
King
,
but
to
settle
the
Kingdomes
without
Him
.
The
case
lyeth
then
plainly
before
the
indifferent
Reader
,
whether
the
refusing
of
four
such
Bils
,
so
destructive
in
the
matter
to
Monarchy
;
so
enthrawling
of
the
People
to
all
sorts
of
Slavery
;
and
in
the
manner
so
compulsory
,
so
irrationall
,
and
so
impossible
,
be
a
justifiable
Cause
for
Subjects
to
depose
their
King
,
to
imprison
His
Person
,
to
defame
Him
to
the
World
,
and
to
deny
Him
all
means
of
Vindicating
His
Innocency
and
Honour
.
But
now
they
say
,
having
made
this
last
so
just
and
honourable
application
,
they
cannot
but
conclude
,
that
by
not
assenting
unto
it
,
He
hath
forgotten
not
only
His
duty
to
the
Kingdome
,
but
also
the
care
and
respect
which
He
owes
to
,
Himself
and
His
own
Family
.
How
just
and
honourable
the
said
Application
hath
been
,
hath
been
formerly
shewed
,
of
which
it
may
be
with
truth
averred
,
that
leaving
aside
the
wickednesse
in
the
matter
,
no
story
ancient
or
modern
can
parallel
it
(
for
the
undutifulnesse
and
impudence
of
it
)
in
Subjects
towards
their
King
.
To
conclude
,
they
say
,
that
for
these
few
of
many
reasons
,
they
cannot
repose
any
more
trust
in
Him
;
but
have
made
those
former
resolutions
.
Certainly
they
have
done
ill
to
passe
by
their
many
reasons
;
for
these
few
have
been
much
too
weak
to
support
so
great
a
weight
,
as
the
wickedness
of
their
deposing
their
King
,
and
the
using
of
Him
as
they
do
:
and
it
is
to
be
beleived
,
that
they
would
make
use
of
the
best
of
those
reasons
,
having
so
great
store
out
of
which
to
make
their
choice
.
In
the
next
place
they
say
,
They
will
notwithstanding
indeavour
to
settle
the
present
Government
,
as
may
best
stand
with
the
Peace
of
the
Kingdome
.
It
is
likely
indeed
to
be
a
righteous
Government
,
and
to
last
long
,
that
a
prevalent
party
in
the
House
of
Commons
shall
settle
without
the
King
,
and
against
all
Law
.
WHAT
hath
been
hitherto
said
,
hath
been
to
shew
how
free
the
King
is
from
the
Aspersions
endeavoured
to
be
cast
upon
him
by
this
Declaration
;
together
with
the
great
malice
and
falshood
of
it
.
First
,
many
things
in
matter
of
fact
are
most
untrue
;
as
that
the
King
should
have
a
hand
in
the
Irish
Rebellion
;
That
there
was
a
Designe
of
a
generall
Massacre
of
all
the
Protestants
in
England
;
That
the
Spanish
fleet
that
came
into
the
Downes
1629.
was
to
enslave
the
Subjects
,
&c.
with
many
more
such
ridiculous
falshoods
.
Other
things
are
perverted
by
false
application
of
the
facts
,
as
that
the
Horse
that
were
spoken
to
be
raised
in
Germany
,
were
for
the
enslaving
of
England
;
whereas
the
truth
is
,
that
if
that
designe
had
gone
forward
,
(
as
it
did
not
)
it
had
been
to
recover
the
Palatinate
.
In
other
things
were
the
facts
untrue
,
by
concealing
part
of
the
truth
and
the
circumstances
,
which
do
clearly
justifie
the
said
fact
;
The
Malice
and
Fraud
of
the
Declaration
is
made
most
apparent
;
as
when
they
speak
of
slitting
of
noses
,
branding
of
faces
,
cutting
off
eares
,
the
facts
were
true
;
But
they
conceal
that
all
these
things
were
done
by
course
of
Justice
against
notorious
Malefactors
;
And
so
that
which
they
should
have
called
Justice
,
they
now
bring
for
an
instance
of
Cruelty
.
Fourthly
,
it
is
remarkable
that
all
the
greivances
complained
of
throughout
the
Kings
whole
Reigne
,
though
wholy
redressed
according
to
their
own
desires
;
yet
they
are
recharged
,
and
the
redresses
not
spoken
of
.
So
likewise
are
all
the
Objections
which
they
have
formerly
made
,
either
of
the
passages
of
the
War
,
or
concerning
the
Treaties
;
although
they
have
by
the
King
been
formerly
fully
answered
,
yet
they
obtrude
upon
the
people
all
the
said
objections
,
and
conceale
from
them
the
Kings
satisfactory
Answers
;
and
all
this
in
so
venomous
and
spitefull
a
language
,
that
it
is
plainly
to
be
seen
,
that
their
end
is
to
make
differences
irreconcileable
,
and
the
King
odious
,
that
they
may
have
the
more
colour
to
destroy
Him
.
It
will
now
be
necessary
to
speak
a
few
words
of
their
other
Proposition
,
viz.
that
a
King
that
should
be
culpable
of
those
Crimes
suggested
in
this
their
Declaration
,
may
be
proceeded
against
,
as
they
do
now
proceed
with
the
King
;
for
to
that
end
they
have
written
this
Declaration
,
as
conteining
the
reason
of
their
Resolutions
and
Proceedings
.
This
position
is
worse
and
more
dangerous
then
their
present
Rebellion
,
for
that
by
Gods
goodnesse
may
soon
have
an
end
,
but
this
Position
is
a
source
,
a
seed-plot
and
nurcery
of
perpetuall
Rebellions
.
So
much
hath
been
written
by
all
sorts
of
Christians
against
this
damned
Maxime
,
that
here
it
shall
be
very
briefly
spoken
of
,
and
onely
shewed
,
that
it
is
full
of
Impiety
,
Perjury
,
and
Treason
.
Impiety
,
towards
God
,
who
hath
in
his
holy
word
so
often
commanded
obedience
to
the
Powers
by
him
ordained
over
us
,
and
hath
prohibited
Resistance
upon
pain
of
Damnation
;
and
that
to
Heathens
,
Tyrants
,
and
Persecutors
of
his
Church
,
even
to
that
monster
of
mankind
,
Nero
.
Perjury
,
by
breaking
so
many
Oathes
,
Protestations
,
and
Covenants
,
of
bearing
unto
the
King
true
faith
and
allegeance
,
of
defending
His
Person
and
Honour
,
with
all
His
just
Rights
and
Dignities
.
Treason
,
the
levying
War
against
the
King
,
the
adhering
to
His
enemies
,
the
indeavouring
to
alienate
the
hearts
of
the
Subject
from
the
King
,
to
remove
the
King
from
the
Government
,
or
to
imprison
His
Person
,
to
subvert
the
Lawes
,
to
indeavour
to
change
the
government
either
Ecclesiasticall
or
Civill
,
to
reforme
the
King
by
force
,
and
many
other
things
are
by
the
Lawes
,
and
Acts
of
Parliament
(
and
not
by
Ordinances
)
declared
to
be
Treason
,
and
most
of
them
so
confessed
by
themselves
this
Parliament
to
be
so
;
and
for
the
pretence
of
some
of
them
,
the
Arch-bishop
of
Canterbury
,
and
the
Earle
of
Strafford
lost
their
lives
.
And
here
I
shall
leave
that
damned
Position
,
that
Subjects
may
depose
their
lawfull
hereditary
King
,
(
for
so
the
King
is
in
effect
)
upon
suggestions
of
His
failings
,
or
any
other
cause
whatsoever
.
It
remains
yet
to
speak
something
of
the
Scope
of
their
so
bitter
railing
,
and
reviling
of
the
King
with
so
foul
a
pen
,
as
Tyranny
,
Cruelty
,
betraying
,
breach
of
Oaths
,
&c.
which
is
to
make
Him
odious
;
for
answer
whereunto
there
shal
be
only
offered
unto
the
world
and
them
,
such
truths
of
the
King
and
his
Deportments
,
as
the
fiercest
of
His
enemies
shall
not
deny
.
He
is
known
to
be
a
Prince
of
a
most
pious
life
,
which
He
daily
sheweth
by
His
constant
practice
of
all
Acts
of
devotion
,
as
Prayers
,
Sermons
,
and
frequent
receiving
of
the
holy
Sacrament
.
No
blood
hath
been
drawn
by
his
Anger
or
Revenge
;
no
noble
Family
dishonoured
by
His
Lust
;
no
Debauchery
or
Excesse
hath
received
encouragement
by
His
Example
;
no
Oathes
or
Profanesse
have
been
heard
to
come
out
of
His
mouth
;
His
prudence
,
ability
&
invincible
courage
and
industry
,
are
not
unknown
to
themselves
;
nor
His
patience
and
composedness
of
minde
,
in
the
highest
afflictions
and
wrongs
that
have
ever
almost
befallen
any
King
;
and
lastly
,
his
goodnesse
and
clemency
in
desiring
to
put
all
by-past
Injuries
into
perpetuall
oblivion
.
Let
these
His
known
and
undenyable
vertues
,
besides
His
Royal
De●●●●
,
and
undoubted
Title
for
six
hundred
years
in
England
,
and
of
108
Kings
in
Scotland
,
be
put
into
the
ballance
,
against
all
those
malicious
and
〈◊〉
Aspersions
that
have
been
raked
together
against
Him
;
and
then
let
it
be
judged
,
whether
it
will
not
be
an
ill
change
for
the
people
,
to
leave
the
subjection
and
Government
of
such
a
Prince
,
to
put
themselves
under
the
Tyrannie
and
Arbitrary
Power
of
such
a
Parliament
,
and
such
an
Army
.
One
thing
more
shall
onely
be
offered
to
the
consideration
of
the
People
;
whether
if
the
Houses
should
condescend
to
a
Peace
,
upon
no
more
then
what
the
King
offereth
,
besides
all
the
Concessions
He
hath
granted
this
Parliament
,
and
what
He
hath
offered
from
Holdenby
,
from
Hampton
Court
,
and
Carisbrook
Castle
(
before
cited
,
)
the
English
Nation
should
not
be
the
freest
and
happiest
Subjects
in
Europe
.
And
whether
if
they
continue
under
the
present
usurped
Power
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
and
the
Army
,
(
for
the
Lords
serve
now
onely
to
be
subservient
unto
them
)
they
shall
not
be
the
most
miserable
of
all
people
;
by
having
their
Religion
,
Lives
,
Liberties
,
and
Lawes
changed
,
and
to
be
disposed
of
by
the
Wils
and
Arbitrary
Power
of
their
fellow-Subjects
.
It
is
againe
desired
(
as
it
hath
been
in
the
beginning
of
this
Answer
)
that
what
is
herein
set
down
,
may
onely
stay
mens
judgements
,
and
put
them
into
a
deliberation
;
untill
the
King
(
who
hath
perfect
knowledge
and
information
of
all
the
particulars
,
which
in
many
things
are
wanting
to
the
Writer
hereof
)
shall
Himselfe
set
forth
His
full
Answer
;
which
is
not
likely
to
be
long
;
for
that
those
who
have
the
worst
opinion
of
the
Proceedings
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
cannot
suppose
them
to
be
so
irrationall
and
barbarous
,
as
not
to
let
the
King
have
a
sight
of
this
their
Declaration
;
and
to
afford
Him
all
necessary
means
of
making
and
publishing
His
Answer
.
FINIS
.