❧
His
Majesties
Message
sent
to
both
Houses
of
Parliament
.
January
20.
1641.
HIs
Majestie
perceiving
the
manifold
distractions
which
are
now
in
this
Kingdom
,
which
cannot
but
bring
great
inconvenience
and
mischiefs
to
this
whole
Government
;
In
which
as
His
Majestie
is
most
chiefly
interessed
,
so
He
holds
Himself
by
many
Reasons
,
most
obliged
to
do
what
in
Him
lies
,
for
the
preventing
thereof
;
Though
He
might
justly
expect
(
as
most
proper
for
the
duty
of
Subjects
)
that
Propositions
for
the
Remedies
of
these
Evils
,
ought
rather
to
come
to
Him
then
from
Him
;
Yet
His
fatherly
care
of
all
His
people
being
such
,
that
He
will
rather
lay
by
any
particular
respect
of
His
own
Dignity
,
then
that
any
time
should
be
lost
for
prevention
on
of
these
threatning
Evils
,
which
cannot
admit
the
delayes
of
the
ordinary
proceedings
in
Parliament
;
doth
think
fit
to
make
this
ensuing
Proposition
to
both
Houses
of
Parliament
:
That
they
will
with
all
speed
fall
into
a
serious
consideration
of
all
those
particulars
,
which
they
shall
hold
necessary
,
as
well
for
the
upholding
and
maintaining
of
His
Majesties
●ust
and
Regall
Authority
,
and
for
the
setling
of
His
Revenue
;
As
for
the
present
and
fu●e
establishment
of
their
Priviledges
;
The
free
and
quiet
enjoying
of
their
Estates
and
fortunes
;
The
Liberties
of
their
Persons
;
The
security
of
the
true
Religion
now
professed
in
the
Church
of
England
;
And
the
setling
of
Ceremonies
,
in
such
a
manner
as
may
take
away
all
just
offence
.
Which
when
they
shall
have
digested
,
and
composed
into
one
entire
body
,
that
so
His
Majestie
and
themselves
may
be
able
to
make
the
more
clear
Iudgement
of
them
;
it
shall
then
appear
by
what
His
Majestie
shall
do
,
how
far
He
hath
been
from
intending
or
designing
any
of
those
things
,
which
the
too
great
Fears
and
Iealousies
of
some
Persons
seem
to
apprehend
;
And
how
ready
He
will
be
to
equall
and
exceed
the
greatest
Examples
of
the
most
indulgent
Princes
in
their
Acts
of
Grace
and
Favour
to
their
People
.
So
that
if
all
the
present
Distractions
(
which
so
apparantly
threaten
the
ruine
of
this
Kingdom
)
do
not
(
by
the
blessing
of
Almighty
God
)
end
in
an
happy
and
blessed
Accommodation
;
His
Majestie
will
then
be
ready
to
call
Heaven
and
Earth
,
God
and
Man
to
witnesse
,
that
if
hath
not
failed
on
His
part
.