20.
Januarii
.
1641.
His
Majesties
Letter
to
both
Houses
of
Parliament
.
HIS
Majesty
perceiving
the
manifold
distractions
which
now
are
in
this
Kingdome
,
which
cannot
but
bring
great
inconvenience
,
and
mischief
to
this
whole
Government
;
In
which
,
as
his
Majesty
is
most
chiefly
interessed
,
so
he
holds
himselfe
by
many
reasons
,
most
obliged
to
doe
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
evills
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
owne
dignity
,
then
that
any
time
should
be
lost
for
prevention
of
these
threatning
evills
,
which
cannot
admit
the
delayes
of
the
ordinary
proceedings
in
Parliament
,
doth
think
fit
to
make
these
ensuing
propositions
to
both
Houses
of
Parliament
.
That
they
will
with
all
speed
fall
into
serious
consideration
of
all
those
particulars
,
which
they
shall
hold
necessary
,
as
well
for
the
upholding
and
maintaining
of
his
Majesties
just
and
Regall
Authority
,
and
for
the
settling
of
his
Revenue
:
As
for
the
present
and
future
establishing
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
Majesty
and
themselves
may
be
able
to
make
the
more
cleare
judgement
of
them
:
It
shall
then
appeare
by
what
his
Majesty
shall
doe
,
how
farre
he
hath
beene
from
intending
or
designing
any
of
those
things
,
which
the
too
great
feares
and
jealousies
of
some
persons
seeme
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
these
present
distractions
(
which
so
apparantly
threaten
the
ruine
of
this
Kingdome
)
doe
not
(
by
the
blessing
of
Almighty
God
)
end
in
an
happy
and
blessed
Accommodation
;
His
Majesty
will
then
be
ready
to
call
Heaven
and
Earth
,
God
and
Man
to
witnesse
,
that
it
hath
not
failed
on
his
part
.