HIS
MAJESTIES
GRACIOUS
MESSAGE
To
both
Houses
of
PARLIAMENT
:
Feb.
20.
FOrasmuch
,
as
His
Majesty
hath
(
together
with
a
Treaty
)
proposed
a
Cessation
of
Arms
to
both
His
Houses
of
Parliament
now
16.
dayes
since
,
to
which
as
yet
He
hath
received
no
Answer
:
To
the
end
that
His
Majesty
may
cleerly
understand
the
Houses
,
that
no
such
Imputations
(
as
have
been
formerly
)
may
after
be
laid
upon
Him
upon
occasion
of
any
thing
that
may
intervene
:
His
Maiesty
desires
if
a
Cessation
shall
be
approved
of
by
them
,
That
the
day
upon
which
the
Cessation
is
thought
fit
to
begin
,
and
such
particular
Limits
and
Conditions
of
that
Cessation
as
are
necessary
to
be
agreed
on
before
the
Cessation
it self
can
actually
begin
,
be
proposed
by
them
at
the
same
time
with
their
Approbation
of
it
,
Since
as
His
Maiesty
supposeth
by
the
present
great
Preparation
of
severall
Forces
of
the
Earle
of
Essex
to
march
severall
wayes
,
that
till
such
time
as
this
be
done
,
they
doe
not
conceive
themselves
obliged
to
an
actuall
Cessation
;
So
neither
till
then
doth
His
Maiesty
conceive
Himselfe
obliged
to
it
.
A
Letter
sent
from
the
Earl
of
Manchester
to
the
Lord
of
Faulkland
,
about
the
Assizes
:
With
the
Lord
of
Faulklands
Answer
,
&c.
HIs
Majesty
hath
weighed
the
advice
and
desire
of
the
Lords
and
Commons
sent
in
a
Letter
to
the
Lord
of
Faulkland
,
from
the
Earl
of
Manchester
,
concerning
the
putting
off
the
General
Assizes
and
Goal-delivery
throughout
the
Kingdom
:
To
which
His
Majestie
returnes
this
Answer
.
That
the
present
bloody
distractions
of
the
Kingdom
(
which
His
Majestie
hath
used
all
possible
meanes
to
prevent
,
and
will
still
to
remove
)
do
afflict
His
Majestie
under
no
consideration
more
,
then
of
the
great
interruption
and
stop
it
makes
in
the
course
and
Proceedings
of
Iustice
,
and
the
execution
of
the
Lawes
:
Whereby
His
good
Subjects
are
robbed
of
the
Peace
and
security
they
were
born
to
;
and
therefore
as
much
as
in
him
lyes
,
He
will
advance
that
onely
means
of
their
hapinesse
;
at
least
,
they
shall
see
that
their
Sufferings
that
way
,
proceed
not
from
His
Majestie
:
And
since
they
may
expect
now
by
the
Lawes
,
Statutes
,
and
Customes
of
the
Kingdom
,
the
Assizes
and
generall
Goale
delivery
in
every
County
,
His
Majestie
thinks
not
fit
to
command
the
contrary
,
but
will
take
severe
and
precise
Order
,
that
none
of
his
good
Subjects
shall
receive
the
least
prejudice
as
they
repair
thither
,
by
any
of
His
Majesties
Forces
;
which
rule
He
shall
be
glad
to
be
observed
by
others
:
And
then
he
hopes
by
the
due
execution
of
the
Lawes
,
even
these
publike
Calamities
may
have
some
abatement
,
and
the
Kingdom
recover
its
former
Peace
and
prosperitie
.
God
save
the
King
.