and have thought good hereby to certifie that we did the third of January last , deliver to Our Attourney certaine Articles of Accusation ingrosed in paper , a Coppie whereof We have sent here inclosed , and did then command him in Our Name , to acquainte Our House of Peeres , that divers great & Treasonable designes and practises against us and the State had come to Our knowledge ; for which We commanded him , in Our Name , to accuse the sixe persons in the said paper mentioned of High Treason , and other high misdemeanors by delivering the paper to Our said House , and to desire to have it read , and further to desire in Our name , that a Select Committee of Lords , might be appointed to take the examinations of such witnesses as We would produce , and as formerly had beene done in cases of like Nature , according to the Iustice of the house , & the Committe to be und racommand of secrecy as formerly , and further in Our Name to aske liberty to adde & alter if there should be cause , according to Iustice : and likewise to desire that Our said House of Peeres would take care of the securing of the said persons , as in Iustice there should be cause : Wee doe further declare that Our said Attourney , did not advise or contrive the said Articles , nor had any thing to doe with , or in advising any breach of Priviledge that followed after , And for what he did in obedience to Our commands , Wee conceive he was bound by oath , and the duty of his place , and by the trust , by Vs reposed in him so to doe : And had he refused to obey Vs therein , We would have questioned him for breach of oath , duty , and Trust .

But now having declared , that wee find cause wholly to desist from proceeding against the persons accused , Wee have commanded him to proceed no further therein , nor to produce nor discover any proofe concerning the same .