The commencement of the treaty between the king's Majesty, and the Commissioners of Parliament at Newport. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80237 of text R210940 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[19]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A80237 Wing C5546 Thomason 669.f.13[19] ESTC R210940 99869688 99869688 162914 2240931354

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A80237) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162914) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f13[19]) The commencement of the treaty between the king's Majesty, and the Commissioners of Parliament at Newport. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1648] Imprint from Wing. Dated at end: Newport in Insula vectis. Septemb. 16. 1648. Includes: A prayer, drawne by his Majesties speciall direction and dictates, for a blessing on the treaty at Newport. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Sept 19". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Treaties -- Early works to 1800. A80237 R210940 (Thomason 669.f.13[19]). civilwar no The commencement of the treaty between the King's Majesty, and the Commissioners of Parliament at Newport. England and Wales. Sovereign 1648 1 355 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TREATY Between the KING'S Majesty , and the Commissioners of PARLIAMENT At NEWPORT .

THe Commissioners came to Newport late last night : This morning ( Saturday ) at 10. they waited on the KING . The Earle of Northumberland made a short Speech to His Majesty , who returned answer ,

That none could have more hearty desires of Peace then He. How He had nothing of ill will to any , but indeed was , and would to the utmost , endeavour to appeare a Friend to all , especially to the languishing Kingdome .

The KING desired the Treaty might not begin on a broken part of the last day of the weeke , so that to morrow , Gods day , prepares ( we hope happily ) and Munday the 18 day at 9 a clock in the morning begins the Treaty .

NEWPORT in Jnsula vectis . Septemb. 16. 1648.
A PRAYER , Drawne by HIS MAJESTIES speciall direction and Dictates , for a blessing on the TREATY at NEWPORT .

O Most mercifull Father , Lord God of Peace and Truth , we a People sorely afflicted by the scourge of an unnaturall Warre , doe earnestly beseech Thee , to command a blessing from Heaven upon this present Treaty , begun for the establishment of an happy Peace . Soften the most obdurate Hearts with a true Christian desire of saving those mens bloud , for whom Christ himself hath shed his . Or if the guilt of our great sins , cause this Treaty to breake off in vaine , Lord let the Truth clearly appeare , who those men are , which under pretence of the Publicke good doe pursue their own private ends ; that this People may be no longer so blindly miserable , as not to see , at least in this their Day , the things that belong unto their Peace . Grant this gratious God , for his sake who is our Peace it selfe , even Jesus Christ our Lord .

Amen . FINIS .