HIS
MAJESTIES
MOST
GRACIOUS
MESSAGE
:
Sent
to
both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
by
Captain
Henry
Heron
,
the
Thirteenth
of
this
Month
of
April
,
MDCXLIII
.
TO
shew
to
the
world
how
earnestly
His
Majesty
longs
for
Peace
,
and
that
no
successe
shall
make
him
desire
the
continuance
of
His
Army
to
any
other
end
,
or
for
any
longer
time
then
that
and
untill
things
may
be
so
setled
,
as
the
Law
may
have
a
full
,
free
,
and
uninterrupted
course
for
the
defence
and
preservation
of
the
rights
of
His
Majesty
,
both
Houses
,
and
his
good
subjects
.
1.
As
soone
as
His
Majesty
is
satisfied
in
His
first
Proposition
concerning
His
own
Revenue
,
Magazines
,
Ships
,
Forts
,
in
which
he
desires
nothing
but
that
the
just
knowne
Legall
Rights
of
His
Majestie
(
devolved
unto
Him
from
His
Progenitors
)
and
of
the
persons
trusted
by
Him
,
which
have
violently
beene
taken
from
both
,
be
restored
unto
Him
,
and
them
,
unlesse
any
just
and
legall
exceptions
against
any
of
the
persons
trusted
by
Him
(
which
are
yet
unknown
to
His
Majesty
)
can
be
made
appeare
to
Him
.
2.
As
soone
as
all
the
Members
of
both
Houses
shall
be
restored
to
the
same
capacity
of
sitting
and
voting
in
Parliament
,
as
they
had
upon
the
first
of
January
1642.
the
same
belonging
unto
them
by
their
birthrights
,
and
the
free
election
of
those
that
sent
them
,
and
having
been
voted
from
them
for
adhering
to
His
Majesty
in
these
times
of
distractions
,
His
Majesty
not
intending
that
this
should
extend
either
to
the
Bishops
,
whose
votes
have
been
taken
away
by
Bill
,
or
to
such
in
whose
places
upon
new
Writs
,
new
election
have
been
made
.
3.
As
soone
as
His
Majesty
and
both
Houses
may
be
secured
from
such
tumultuous
assemblies
,
as
to
the
great
breach
of
the
Priviledges
,
and
the
high
dishonour
of
Parliaments
,
have
formerly
assembled
about
both
Houses
,
and
awed
the
Members
of
the
same
,
and
occasioned
two
severall
complaints
from
the
Lords
House
,
and
two
severall
desires
of
that
House
to
the
House
of
Commons
to
give
in
a
Declaration
against
them
,
the
complying
with
which
desire
might
have
prevented
all
these
miserable
distractions
which
have
ensued
,
which
security
His
Majesty
conceives
,
can
be
onely
setled
by
adjourning
the
Parliament
to
some
other
place
,
at
least
twenty
miles
from
London
,
the
choice
of
which
,
His
Majesty
leaves
to
both
Houses
:
His
Majesty
will
most
cheerfully
and
readily
consent
that
Armies
be
immediately
disbanded
,
and
give
a
present
meeting
to
both
His
Houses
of
Parliament
at
the
same
time
and
place
at
,
and
to
which
the
Parliament
shall
be
agreed
to
be
adjourned
.
His
Majesty
being
most
confident
that
the
Law
will
then
recover
the
due
credit
and
estimation
,
and
that
upon
a
free
debate
in
a
full
and
peaceable
convention
of
Parliament
,
such
provisions
will
be
made
against
seditious
preaching
and
printing
against
His
Majesty
,
and
the
established
Lawes
,
which
have
been
one
of
the
chiefe
causes
of
the
present
distractions
,
and
such
care
will
be
taken
concerning
the
legall
and
knowne
Rights
of
His
Majestie
,
and
the
Property
and
Liberty
of
His
Subjects
,
that
whatsoever
hath
been
published
or
done
in
or
by
colour
of
any
illegall
Declaration
,
Ordinance
or
Order
,
of
one
or
both
Houses
,
or
any
Committee
of
either
of
them
,
and
particularly
to
raise
Armes
without
His
Majesties
consent
,
will
be
in
such
manner
recalled
,
disclaimed
,
and
provided
against
,
that
no
Seed
will
remaine
for
the
like
to
spring
out
of
for
the
future
,
to
disturb
the
Peace
of
the
Kingdome
,
and
to
endanger
the
very
being
of
it
.
And
in
such
convention
His
Majesty
is
resolved
by
His
readinesse
to
consent
to
whatsoever
shall
bee
proposed
to
Him
by
Bill
for
the
reall
good
of
His
Subjects
(
and
particularly
for
the
better
discovery
and
speedy
conviction
of
Recusants
,
for
the
edification
of
the
children
of
Papists
by
Protestants
in
the
Protestant
Religion
,
for
the
prevention
of
practices
of
Papists
against
the
State
,
and
the
due
execution
of
the
Lawes
,
and
true
levying
of
the
penalties
against
them
)
to
make
knowne
to
all
the
world
how
causlesse
those
feares
and
jealousies
have
been
raised
against
Him
,
and
by
that
so
distracted
this
miserable
Kingdome
.
And
if
this
offer
of
His
Majestie
be
not
consented
to
(
in
which
He
askes
nothing
for
which
there
is
not
apparent
Justice
on
His
side
)
and
in
which
He
defers
many
things
highly
concerning
both
Himselfe
and
People
,
till
a
full
and
peaceable
convention
of
Parliament
(
which
in
Justice
He
might
now
require
)
His
Majesty
is
confident
that
it
will
then
appeare
to
all
the
world
,
not
only
who
is
most
desirous
of
Peace
,
and
whose
fault
it
is
that
both
Armies
are
not
disbanded
,
but
who
have
been
the
true
and
first
cause
that
this
Peace
was
ever
interrupted
,
or
those
Armies
raised
,
and
the
beginning
or
continuance
of
the
Warre
,
and
the
destruction
and
desolation
of
this
poore
Kingdome
(
which
is
too
likely
to
ensue
)
will
not
by
the
most
interessed
passionate
or
prejudicate
person
be
imputed
to
His
Majesty
.