April
8.
1643.
BY
Instructions
this
day
received
from
both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
We
humbly
conceive
,
that
we
are
to
acquaint
Your
Majesty
,
That
they
have
taken
into
consideration
Your
Majesties
Answer
to
their
Reasons
concerning
the
Cessation
,
wherein
there
are
divers
expressions
which
will
occasion
particular
Replies
,
which
at
this
time
they
desire
to
decline
,
Their
wishes
and
endeavours
being
earnestly
bent
upon
the
obtaining
a
speedy
Peace
,
for
wbich
cause
they
doe
not
thinke
good
to
consume
any
more
of
the
time
allowed
for
the
Treaty
in
any
farther
debates
upon
the
Cessation
,
concerning
which
they
finde
Your
Majesties
Expressions
so
doubtfull
,
that
it
cannot
be
suddenly
or
easily
resolved
,
and
the
remainder
of
the
time
for
the
whole
Treaty
,
being
but
seven
daies
,
if
the
Cessation
were
presently
agreed
,
it
would
not
yeeld
any
considerable
advantage
to
the
Kingdom
.
Wherefore
we
are
required
to
desire
Your
Majesty
to
give
a
speedy
and
positive
Answer
to
the
first
Proposition
concerning
the
disbanding
,
That
so
Your
Subjects
may
not
onely
have
a
shadow
of
Peace
,
in
a
short
time
of
Cessation
,
but
the
substance
of
it
in
such
manner
as
may
be
a
perpetuall
blessing
to
them
,
by
freeing
the
Kingdom
from
those
miserable
effects
of
War
,
the
effusion
of
English
blood
,
and
desolation
of
many
parts
of
the
Land
:
-
Northumberland
.
-
Jo
.
Holland
.
-
Wil.
Peirrepoint
.
-
Wil.
Armyn
.
-
B.
Whitelocke
.
His
MAJESTIES
Gracious
Message
to
both
Houses
,
in
Answer
to
the
Foregoing
Paper
.
IF
the
Committee
,
according
to
His
Majesties
Desire
,
had
had
but
Power
to
agree
in
the
wording
of
Expressions
in
the
Articles
of
Cessation
,
His
Majesties
(
which
are
as
cleare
as
the
matter
would
beare
,
and
as
He
could
make
them
)
had
not
appeared
so
doubtfull
to
any
,
but
that
the
Cessation
might
have
been
suddenly
and
speedily
resolved
,
and
that
long
before
this
time
.
And
if
the
Expressions
of
both
Houses
in
their
Reasons
had
not
necessitated
His
Majesty
in
His
owne
Defence
to
give
such
answer●
as
could
not
upon
those
points
deliver
Truth
without
some
shew
of
sharpnesse
,
no
expression
of
that
kind
in
His
Majesties
Answer
had
given
any
Pretence
for
the
rejection
of
,
or
refusing
so
much
a●
to
Treat
upon
the
Cessation
;
Which
(
though
it
were
at
present
for
no
long
time
;
)
yet
was
from
the
day
named
by
themselves
the
25
of
March
,
Whereas
His
Majesty
first
moved
for
a
Cessation
and
Treaty
,
without
any
Limitation
at
all
in
the
time
of
either
;
and
his
Majesty
was
most
ready
to
have
enlarged
the
time
(
so
that
in
the
meane
while
the
point
of
Quarters
might
be
so
setled
,
as
that
his
Armys
might
subsist
)
and
which
might
have
beene
(
if
they
had
pleased
)
a
very
good
and
promising
earnest
and
forerunner
of
that
great
blessing
of
Peace
,
for
the
obtaining
of
which
the
wishes
and
endeavours
of
all
good
men
being
earnestly
bent
,
a
farther
debate
in
order
to
so
great
a
benefit
did
not
deserve
to
be
stiled
a
consumption
of
time
.
And
his
Majesty
cannot
but
conceive
himselfe
to
be
in
a
strange
condition
,
if
the
doubtfulnesse
of
expressions
,
(
which
must
alwaies
be
whiles
the
Treaty
is
at
such
a
Distance
,
and
power
is
denied
to
those
upon
the
Place
to
help
to
cleare
and
explaine
)
or
his
necessary
replying
to
Charges
laid
upon
him
,
(
that
he
might
not
seeme
to
acknowledge
what
was
so
charged
)
Or
the
limitation
of
the
time
of
seven
Daies
for
the
Treaty
(
which
was
not
limited
by
his
Majesty
,
who
ever
desired
to
have
avoided
that
and
other
limitations
,
which
have
given
great
interruptions
to
it
)
should
be
as
well
beleeved
to
be
the
grounds
,
as
they
are
made
the
Arguments
of
the
rejection
of
that
,
which
(
next
to
Peace
it selfe
)
his
Majesty
above
all
things
most
desires
to
see
agreed
and
setled
,
and
which
his
Majesty
hopes
(
if
it
may
be
yet
agreed
on
)
will
give
his
people
such
a
taste
of
such
a
blessing
,
that
after
a
short
time
of
consideration
,
and
comparing
of
their
severall
conditions
in
War
and
Peace
,
and
what
should
move
them
to
suffer
so
much
by
a
Change
,
they
will
not
thinke
those
their
Friends
that
shall
force
them
to
it
,
or
be
themselves
ready
to
contribute
to
the
renewing
of
their
former
miseries
,
without
some
greater
evidence
of
Necessity
then
can
appeare
to
them
,
when
they
shall
have
seene
(
as
they
shall
see
,
if
this
Treaty
be
suffered
to
proceed
)
that
his
Majesty
neither
askes
nor
denies
any
thing
,
but
what
not
onely
according
to
Law
he
may
,
but
what
in
honour
and
care
of
his
people
he
is
obliged
to
aske
or
deny
.
And
this
alone
(
which
a
very
short
Cessation
would
produce
)
his
Majesty
esteems
a
very
considerable
Advantage
to
the
Kingdome
;
and
therefore
cannot
but
presse
again
and
again
,
that
whatever
is
thought
doubtfull
in
the
Expressions
of
the
Articles
may
(
as
in
an
houre
it
may
well
be
done
)
be
expounded
,
and
whatsoever
is
excepted
at
may
be
debated
and
concluded
,
and
that
Power
and
Instructions
may
be
given
to
the
Committee
to
that
end
,
that
the
miserable
effects
of
War
,
the
effusion
of
English
blood
,
and
desolation
of
England
(
untill
they
can
be
totally
taken
away
)
may
by
this
meanes
be
stayed
and
interrupted
.
His
Majestie
supposes
,
that
when
the
Committee
was
last
required
to
desire
his
Majestie
to
give
a
speedy
and
positive
Answer
to
the
first
Proposition
concerning
Disbanding
,
His
Answers
in
that
point
(
to
which
no
Reply
hath
been
made
,
and
which
he
hopes
by
this
time
have
given
satisfaction
)
were
not
transmitted
and
received
,
but
wonders
the
Houses
should
presse
his
Majesty
for
a
speedy
&
positive
Answer
to
the
first
part
of
their
first
Proposition
concerning
disbanding
,
when
to
the
second
part
of
the
very
same
Proposition
,
concerning
his
Returne
to
both
houses
of
Parliament
,
they
had
not
given
any
Power
or
Instructions
to
the
Committee
,
so
much
as
to
Treat
with
his
Majesty
▪
And
when
his
Majesty
(
if
his
desire
of
Peace
and
of
speeding
the
Treaty
in
order
to
that
had
not
been
prevalent
with
him
)
might
with
all
manner
of
justice
have
delayed
to
begin
to
Treat
upon
one
part
untill
they
had
been
enabled
to
Treat
upon
the
other
;
In
which
point
,
and
for
want
of
which
power
from
them
,
the
onely
stop
now
remaines
,
his
Majesties
Answers
to
both
parts
of
their
first
Proposition
,
being
given
in
,
transmitted
,
and
yet
remaining
unanswered
.
To
which
,
untill
the
Houses
shall
be
at
leisure
to
make
Answer
,
that
as
little
delay
in
this
Treaty
,
as
is
possible
,
may
be
caused
by
it
,
His
Majesty
desires
likewise
,
that
the
Committee
may
be
enabled
to
treat
upon
the
following
Propositions
in
their
severall
orders
.