TO
THE
KING'S
MOST
EXCELLENT
MAJESTY
.
THe
LORDS
and
COMMONS
in
Parliament
assembled
,
doe
with
all
humble
thankfulnesse
acknowledge
Your
MAJESTIES
favour
in
the
speedy
admission
of
their
Committee
to
Your
Royall
Presence
,
and
the
expedition
of
Your
Exceptions
to
their
Articles
;
that
so
they
might
more
speedily
endeavour
to
give
Your
MAJESTY
satisfaction
:
And
although
they
were
ready
to
agree
to
the
Articles
of
Cessation
,
in
such
manner
,
as
they
exprest
in
their
Preface
,
they
cannot
agree
to
the
alteration
and
Addition
offered
by
Your
MAJESTY
,
without
great
prejudice
to
the
Cause
,
and
danger
to
the
Kingdom
,
whose
Cause
it
is
;
The
reasons
whereof
will
cleerly
appeare
in
the
Answers
to
the
particulars
prest
by
Your
MAJESTY
.
1.
THEY
doe
deny
that
they
have
restrained
any
Trade
,
but
to
some
few
of
those
places
where
Your
Majesties
Forces
are
Inquartered
,
and
even
now
in
the
heat
of
Warre
,
doe
permit
the
Carriars
to
goe
into
all
the
parts
of
the
Kingdome
,
with
all
sorts
of
Commodities
for
the
use
of
Subjects
,
except
Armes
,
Ammunition
,
Money
,
and
Bullion
;
But
if
they
should
grant
such
a
free
Trade
,
as
Your
Majesty
desireth
,
to
Oxford
,
and
other
Places
,
where
Your
Forces
remaine
,
it
would
be
very
difficult
,
if
not
impossible
,
to
keep
Armes
,
Ammunition
,
Mony
,
and
Bullion
from
passing
into
Your
Majesties
Army
,
without
very
strict
and
frequent
Searches
,
which
would
make
it
so
troublesome
,
chargeable
,
and
dangerous
to
the
Subjects
,
that
the
Question
being
but
for
Twenty
daies
,
for
so
few
places
,
the
mischiefes
and
inconveniences
to
the
whole
Kingdom
,
would
be
farre
greater
then
any
advantage
which
that
small
number
of
Your
Subjects
(
whom
it
concernes
)
can
have
by
it
.
The
Case
then
is
much
otherwise
then
is
exprest
by
Your
Majesties
Answer
,
for
whereas
they
are
charged
,
not
to
give
the
least
admission
of
this
Liberty
and
freedom
of
Trade
,
during
the
Cessation
;
The
truth
is
,
That
they
doe
grant
it
as
fully
to
the
benefit
of
the
Subject
,
even
in
time
of
Warre
;
And
that
Your
Majesty
in
pressing
this
for
the
peoples
good
,
doth
therein
desire
that
which
will
be
very
little
beneficiall
to
the
Subjects
,
but
exceeding
advantagious
to
Your
Majesty
in
supplying
Your
Army
with
many
necessaries
,
and
making
Your
Quarters
a
Staple
for
such
Commodities
as
may
be
vented
in
the
adjacent
Counties
,
and
so
draw
many
thither
,
whereby
the
Inhabitants
will
be
better
inabled
by
Loanes
,
and
Contributions
,
to
support
Your
Majesties
Army
;
And
as
Your
Majesties
Army
may
receive
much
advantage
,
and
the
other
Army
much
danger
,
if
such
freedom
should
be
granted
to
these
places
;
So
there
is
no
probability
that
the
Army
raised
by
the
Lords
and
Commons
shall
have
any
returne
of
Commodities
,
and
other
supplyes
from
thence
,
which
may
be
usefull
for
them
;
and
they
conceive
,
that
in
a
Treaty
for
a
Cessation
,
those
demands
cannot
be
thought
reasonable
,
which
are
not
indifferent
,
That
is
,
equally
advantagious
to
both
parties
.
As
they
have
given
no
interruption
to
the
Trade
of
the
Kingdome
,
but
in
Relation
to
the
supply
of
the
contrary
Army
,
which
the
reason
of
Warre
requires
;
so
they
beseech
Your
Majesty
to
consider
,
whether
Your
Souldiers
have
not
robbed
the
Carriars
in
severall
parts
,
where
there
hath
been
no
such
reason
;
And
Your
Ships
taken
many
Ships
to
the
great
dammage
,
not
only
of
particular
Marchants
,
but
of
the
whole
Kingdom
;
And
whether
Your
Majesty
have
not
declared
Your
own
purpose
,
and
endeavoured
by
Your
Ministers
of
State
,
to
imbargue
the
Merchants
goods
in
Forraign
parts
,
which
hath
been
in
some
measure
executed
upon
the
East-land
Merchants
in
Denmarke
,
and
is
a
Course
which
will
much
diminish
the
wealth
of
the
Kingdom
,
violate
the
Law
of
Nations
,
make
other
Princes
Arbiters
of
the
differences
betwixt
Your
Majesty
and
Your
People
,
break
off
the
intercourse
between
this
,
and
other
States
,
and
like
to
bring
us
into
Quarrells
and
dissentions
with
all
the
neighbour
Nations
.
2.
To
demand
the
approving
of
the
Commanders
of
the
Ships
,
is
to
desire
the
strength
of
one
party
to
the
other
,
before
the
difference
be
ended
,
and
against
all
Rules
of
Treaty
;
To
make
a
Cessation
at
Sea
,
would
leave
the
Kingdom
naked
to
those
Forraigne
Forces
,
which
they
have
great
cause
to
believe
,
have
been
sollicited
against
them
,
and
the
Ports
open
for
such
supplyes
of
Armes
,
and
Ammunition
,
as
shall
be
brought
from
beyond
the
Seas
:
but
for
Conveying
any
number
of
Forces
by
those
means
from
one
part
to
another
,
They
shall
observe
the
Articles
of
the
Cessation
,
by
which
that
is
restrained
.
3.
As
for
the
expression
of
the
Army
raised
by
the
Parliament
:
They
are
contented
it
should
be
altered
thus
,
(
raised
by
both
Houses
of
Parliament
)
as
not
desiring
to
differ
upon
words
,
but
to
give
any
Conclusive
power
in
this
case
to
the
Committee
,
upon
such
differences
as
may
arise
,
wherein
the
houses
have
given
no
expresse
direction
,
is
neither
safe
for
the
Committee
to
undertake
,
nor
fit
for
the
two
Houses
to
grant
;
yet
to
debate
and
to
presse
the
Reason
of
their
desires
,
whereby
an
Agreement
from
Your
Majesty
may
be
procured
,
is
granted
to
them
:
And
although
the
two
Houses
did
think
it
most
proper
the
Cessation
should
be
first
agreed
on
,
and
that
it
was
unfit
to
Treat
in
blood
;
Yet
to
satisfy
the
World
of
their
earnest
longing
after
Peace
,
They
have
given
power
to
the
Committees
,
to
enter
into
the
Treaty
upon
the
two
first
Propositions
,
notwithstanding
the
Cessation
be
not
yet
assented
to
;
And
those
being
agreed
,
they
hope
the
Foundation
will
be
layed
,
not
only
of
a
suspension
,
but
of
a
totall
abolition
of
all
Hostility
in
the
Kingdom
.
4.
If
the
nature
of
Warre
be
duly
considered
,
it
must
needs
be
acknowledged
,
that
it
is
incompatible
with
the
ordinary
Rules
of
a
peaceable
Government
;
Your
Majesty
would
have
them
commit
none
,
but
according
to
the
knowne
Lawes
of
the
Land
,
whereby
they
conceive
Your
Majesty
understands
,
that
it
must
be
by
the
ordinary
Processe
of
Law
,
which
being
granted
,
it
will
follow
,
that
no
man
must
be
committed
by
them
for
supplying
Your
Majesty
with
Armes
,
Powder
and
Ammunition
;
For
by
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
the
Subjects
may
carry
such
goods
from
London
,
or
any
other
place
,
to
Oxford
,
The
Souldiers
must
not
be
committed
,
if
they
runne
from
their
Colours
,
and
refuse
any
duty
in
the
Army
,
no
man
shall
be
committed
for
not
submitting
to
necessary
supplyes
of
Mony
;
so
that
if
this
be
yeelded
,
in
Your
Majesties
sense
,
they
shall
be
disabled
to
restraine
supplyes
from
their
Enemies
,
and
to
governe
or
maintaine
their
owne
Souldiers
;
It
cannot
be
thought
reasonable
,
that
under
the
disguise
of
a
Cessation
,
they
should
admit
that
which
will
necessarily
produce
the
dissolving
of
the
Army
,
and
destruction
of
the
Cause
.
It
seemes
not
probable
that
Your
Maiesty
doth
intend
,
that
if
any
be
taken
with
supplyes
for
this
Army
,
or
mutining
in
Your
owne
,
That
such
Persons
shall
not
be
committed
,
but
according
to
the
knowne
Lawes
of
the
Land
,
that
is
,
by
processe
of
Law
,
but
rather
,
that
Your
Maiesty
will
so
interpret
this
limitation
of
knowne
Lawes
,
that
although
it
lay
strait
Bonds
upon
the
two
Houses
,
yet
it
leaves
Your
Generalls
as
much
liberty
as
before
,
for
it
hath
been
denyed
by
Your
Maiesty
that
these
knowne
Lawes
give
any
power
to
the
two
Houses
of
Parliament
to
raise
Armes
;
and
so
consequently
their
Generall
cannot
exercise
any
Martiall
Law
in
those
cases
;
and
it
is
not
unlike
,
but
that
it
will
be
affirm'd
,
that
the
Generalls
constituted
by
Your
Maiesties
Commission
,
have
that
power
by
the
same
knowne
Lawes
;
so
that
this
Article
,
under
the
specious
shew
of
Liberty
and
Law
,
would
altogether
disable
them
to
defend
their
Liberties
and
Lawes
,
and
would
produce
to
Your
Maiestie
an
absolute
Victory
and
submission
,
under
pretence
of
a
Cessation
and
Treaty
.
5.
Beeing
by
necessity
inevitable
on
their
part
inforced
to
a
defensive
Warre
,
in
this
unhappy
breach
between
Your
Maiesty
&
them
,
and
that
they
are
therein
warranted
both
by
the
Lawes
of
God
and
man
,
it
must
needs
follow
,
That
by
the
same
Lawes
they
are
inabled
to
raise
meanes
to
support
that
Warre
;
and
therefore
till
it
shall
please
God
to
incline
Your
Maiesty
to
afford
them
such
a
Peace
as
may
secure
them
,
they
cannot
relinquish
the
power
of
laying
Taxes
upon
those
who
ought
to
joyne
with
them
in
that
defence
,
and
the
necessary
wayes
of
leavying
those
Taxes
upon
them
in
case
of
refusall
;
for
otherwise
their
Army
must
needs
be
dissolved
:
But
if
Your
Maiesty
shall
consent
to
disband
the
Armies
,
the
cause
of
the
Warre
being
taken
away
,
the
consequences
will
likewise
be
removed
;
and
the
Subject
restored
to
the
benefit
of
those
Lawes
,
which
the
necessity
of
Armes
hath
in
such
cases
suspended
.
6.
They
deny
any
pretence
of
consenting
to
those
alterations
and
additions
offer'd
by
Your
Maiesty
,
only
in
the
preamble
,
They
say
,
they
have
considered
of
those
Articles
,
with
such
alterations
,
and
additions
;
Unto
which
Articles
they
profest
they
were
ready
to
agree
,
nor
as
they
were
accompanied
with
those
alterations
and
additions
,
but
in
such
manner
as
they
expressed
.
As
for
the
clause
left
out
in
the
third
Article
,
it
imployed
a
freedome
of
passage
,
and
communication
of
Quarters
,
which
is
contrary
to
the
nature
of
a
Cessation
,
whereby
matters
should
be
preserved
in
the
State
they
are
,
and
neither
party
have
liberty
so
much
to
advantage
himselfe
,
as
it
is
evident
Your
Maiesty
might
doe
,
if
Your
Forces
in
the
North
&
West
might
joyne
with
those
at
Oxford
,
and
bring
those
supplyes
of
Treasure
or
Armes
thither
,
which
were
brought
out
of
Holland
;
or
at
least
it
should
be
so
indifferent
,
as
to
give
a
proportionable
advantage
to
the
other
side
,
which
this
doth
not
;
for
the
Forces
under
the
power
of
both
Houses
are
so
disposed
,
that
they
have
an
easie
passage
from
one
to
the
other
;
But
Your
Majesties
Forces
are
severed
the
one
from
the
other
by
many
large
Counties
,
strong
Passes
,
and
competent
Armies
;
and
if
they
had
admitted
this
Clause
,
they
had
bereaved
themselves
of
one
of
the
greatest
advantages
,
&
freed
Your
Maiesties
party
of
one
of
the
greatest
inconveniencies
,
which
Your
Maiesty
or
they
have
in
this
Warre
.
For
the
Reasons
alleadged
,
They
cannot
agree
to
the
alterations
and
enlargements
of
the
Cessation
propounded
;
or
to
transferre
any
such
power
to
the
Committee
of
Treating
,
debating
&
agreeing
upon
those
Articles
in
any
other
manner
,
then
the
Houses
have
directed
;
but
that
a
faire
and
speedy
passage
may
be
opened
to
a
secure
and
a
happy
Peace
,
they
have
enabled
their
Committees
to
Treat
and
debate
upon
the
two
Propositions
concerning
His
Maiesties
owne
Revenue
,
the
delivery
of
His
Townes
,
Castles
,
Magazines
,
and
Ships
,
and
the
disbanding
the
Armies
;
which
beeing
agreed
upon
,
a
present
Peace
and
security
will
follow
;
And
the
Treaty
upon
the
other
Propositions
be
facilitated
without
feare
of
interruption
,
by
the
confusion
of
Warre
,
or
exasperation
of
either
party
,
by
the
bloody
effects
thereof
.
In
which
Treaty
the
two
Houses
will
desire
and
expect
nothing
but
what
doth
stand
with
Your
Majesties
Honour
,
and
the
Trust
reposed
in
You
,
and
is
necessary
for
Your
Majesties
good
Subiects
,
that
they
may
enioy
the
true
Religion
and
their
Liberties
,
and
Priviledges
;
And
that
they
may
freely
,
and
in
a
Parliamentary
way
,
concurre
with
Your
Majesty
,
in
those
things
which
may
conduce
to
the
glory
of
God
,
the
safety
and
happinesse
of
Your
Majesty
,
and
Your
Posterity
and
People
;
And
preventing
the
like
miserable
effusion
of
English
blood
for
the
time
to
come
;
For
the
effecting
whereof
,
their
most
earnest
prayers
,
and
uttermost
endeavours
,
shall
ever
be
faithfully
and
constantly
imployed
,
in
hope
,
that
God
will
give
a
blessing
thereunto
.
HIS
MAJESTIES
ANSWER
TO
THE
AFORESAID
REASONS
.
HOw
His
Majesty
hath
spent
His
time
since
the
Committee
from
His
two
Houses
of
Parliament
came
hither
;
How
willing
He
hath
been
(
during
the
foure
daies
allowed
to
them
)
to
expedite
the
Treaty
it selfe
,
by
the
free
and
diligent
Disquisition
of
the
particulars
,
comprised
in
those
two
first
Articles
;
And
how
intent
He
hath
been
upon
the
Cessation
(
which
He
thinks
so
necessary
,
and
so
much
desires
)
since
the
last
Message
concerning
the
same
came
to
Him
,
the
Committee
themselves
cannot
but
observe
.
And
though
no
Conclusion
could
be
made
within
the
two
dayes
(
a
time
limited
with
much
strictnesse
in
a
businesse
of
so
great
moment
,
where
all
words
and
expressions
must
be
carefully
and
exactly
weighed
)
His
Majesty
cannot
doubt
but
both
Houses
will
be
willing
to
give
and
receive
satisfaction
in
any
particulars
which
are
necessarily
to
be
considered
in
concluding
the
same
,
though
the
two
dayes
are
expired
.
And
if
His
Majesty
enlarges
Himselfe
in
His
Replies
more
then
may
seem
necessary
to
the
Propositions
and
differences
in
debate
,
it
must
be
remembred
by
what
unnecessary
and
unwarrantable
expressions
in
this
last
Message
from
His
two
Houses
,
He
is
not
only
invited
,
but
compelled
thereunto
;
which
He
could
heartily
have
wished
might
upon
this
Occasion
have
been
forborne
.
1.
For
the
Freedom
of
Trade
,
His
Majesty
hath
great
reason
to
require
,
and
the
two
Houses
to
admit
that
freedom
to
His
good
Subjects
He
desired
.
For
what
concernes
the
supply
of
the
Army
with
Armes
,
Ammunition
,
Mony
,
Bullion
,
and
Victualls
,
He
consented
to
the
very
termes
proposed
by
the
two
Houses
,
and
that
they
may
be
observed
,
is
contented
that
Searches
may
be
made
,
which
being
but
the
Trouble
of
particular
Persons
,
is
not
considerable
,
in
respect
of
the
publique
benefit
and
Advantage
.
But
why
all
other
Liberty
of
Traffique
and
Commerce
should
not
be
granted
to
His
good
Subjects
,
He
cannot
understand
,
for
that
His
Majesties
Army
should
receive
much
advantage
thereby
,
and
the
contrary
Army
none
,
is
in
no
degree
confessed
,
for
(
besides
that
the
restraint
is
to
places
,
where
no
part
of
His
Majesties
Army
is
,
and
indeed
the
whole
Trade
of
the
Kingdom
interrupted
)
't
is
as
great
a
Support
,
if
not
a
greater
to
the
contrary
Army
to
maintain
and
keep
up
the
Trade
of
London
,
from
whence
that
receives
its
supply
and
reliefe
,
as
to
His
Majesties
Army
to
continue
the
Trade
of
Oxford
,
or
any
other
place
,
where
His
forces
reside
,
and
to
stop
and
seize
the
Cloath
,
Kersies
and
other
Westerne
Commodities
(
which
His
Majesty
can
daily
doe
from
Reading
)
would
be
as
great
disturbance
to
the
Trade
of
London
,
as
the
seasing
of
any
Commodities
(
which
may
be
done
by
the
Earle
of
Essex
from
Windsor
or
Wickam
)
can
be
to
the
Trade
of
Oxford
.
And
therefore
His
Majesty
hath
great
Reason
to
presse
that
mutuall
and
universall
freedom
to
all
His
good
Subjects
may
be
granted
;
otherwise
He
must
either
permit
that
licence
to
His
Army
,
to
seize
the
goods
of
His
People
in
their
Passage
to
London
,
and
to
interrupt
and
break
the
Trade
and
Correspondence
of
the
Kingdom
,
(
which
,
both
out
of
publique
Consideration
,
and
private
Compassion
His
Majesty
is
most
averse
from
)
or
else
must
grant
that
evident
benefit
and
Advantage
to
those
who
deny
the
same
to
Him
,
and
to
His
People
for
His
sake
.
And
it
cannot
be
denied
,
but
this
freedom
is
so
very
beneficiall
to
His
Subjects
,
and
so
wholy
considerable
to
His
Majesty
under
that
Notion
,
that
their
very
subsistence
depends
upon
it
,
and
by
this
meanes
Trade
may
be
continued
,
which
if
a
little
more
suppressed
by
these
Distractions
,
will
not
be
easily
recovered
,
even
by
a
setled
Peace
.
His
Majesty
believes
that
some
Cariers
have
been
robbed
by
His
Majesties
Souldiers
,
but
't
is
as
true
that
no
Complaint
hath
been
made
to
Him
of
that
kind
,
which
He
hath
not
received
to
the
Reliefe
and
Reparation
of
the
Petitioners
,
and
't
is
therfore
His
desire
that
both
Houses
would
joyne
with
Him
,
(
at
least
during
the
Cessation
)
that
there
might
be
no
more
such
violences
and
Interruptions
offered
to
His
good
Subjects
by
either
side
.
For
the
imbarguing
the
Merchants
goods
in
forraigne
Parts
,
His
Majesty
denies
,
that
any
endeavour
hath
yet
been
made
by
His
Ministers
of
State
to
that
Purpose
;
But
't
is
true
His
Majesty
hath
declared
His
Resolutions
,
which
He
shall
pursue
,
that
such
Persons
who
absolve
themselves
from
their
obedience
to
Him
,
and
assist
or
consent
to
Actions
of
Disloyalty
to
Him
here
,
shall
be
deprived
of
those
Advantages
,
and
must
not
expect
that
Protection
from
Him
abroad
,
which
is
due
,
and
which
He
alwaies
hath
and
will
allow
to
His
good
Subjects
:
and
this
is
not
to
make
other
Princes
Arbiters
of
the
Differences
betwixt
His
Majesty
and
His
People
,
but
to
use
the
mutuall
Amity
and
Correspondence
with
other
Princes
for
the
maintenance
and
support
of
that
Dignity
for
which
it
is
made
and
entred
into
.
2.
His
Majesty
did
not
demand
the
approving
of
the
Commanders
of
Ships
only
with
reference
to
His
present
Right
,
for
then
He
would
have
demanded
not
the
Approbation
of
the
Commanders
,
but
the
Ships
themselves
;
But
this
demand
was
and
is
a
thing
most
necessary
for
His
Majesty
;
for
the
setting
out
the
present
Fleet
is
pretended
to
be
for
the
Defence
of
His
Majesties
Dominions
;
and
which
cannot
conveniently
suffer
any
Alteration
in
Commanders
,
if
the
Cessation
and
Peace
should
be
fully
and
speedily
agreed
upon
,
and
therefore
't
is
most
necessary
for
His
Majesty
to
know
both
the
Designes
,
and
to
approve
of
the
Commanders
,
who
will
not
be
so
fit
to
be
altered
when
once
they
are
sent
out
.
His
Majesty
cannot
see
how
a
Cessation
at
Sea
between
His
Majesty
and
his
Subjects
should
leave
the
Kingdom
naked
to
forraign
Forces
,
(
a
continuance
of
Warre
may
well
doe
it
)
and
His
Majesty
is
willing
to
concurre
in
the
resistance
of
all
such
of
what
kind
soever
;
And
expects
that
,
during
the
Cessation
,
the
conveying
all
Forces
from
one
part
to
another
by
Sea
,
for
the
assistance
of
the
Earle
of
Essex
,
be
restrained
,
which
both
Houses
seem
now
to
consent
to
,
which
was
not
at
all
expressed
in
their
former
Articles
.
3.
His
Majesties
opinion
how
unfit
it
was
to
Treat
in
blood
,
sufficiently
appeares
,
this
debate
concerning
a
Cessation
arising
first
from
His
Majesties
motion
,
(
it
being
left
out
in
the
Answer
to
His
Message
for
a
Treaty
)
in
order
to
which
He
had
and
hath
great
reason
to
desire
,
that
the
Committee
may
have
Liberty
to
debate
and
conclude
any
differences
and
expressions
in
the
Articles
of
the
Cessation
,
that
the
same
may
be
reconciled
and
removed
without
remitting
all
Questions
to
London
.
For
as
those
now
consented
to
,
might
in
much
lesse
time
have
been
agreed
here
,
if
there
had
been
that
Liberty
,
so
there
can
hardly
be
a
right
&
cleer
understanding
of
Intentions
without
expounding
of
words
,
and
knowing
the
meaning
from
each
other
,
as
in
the
consent
which
His
Majesty
now
understands
to
be
given
by
both
Houses
,
that
no
Forces
shall
,
during
the
Cessation
,
be
sent
by
Sea
,
for
the
releife
of
any
place
now
held
by
them
,
the
Expression
is
not
so
cleere
,
but
referreth
to
Articles
,
in
which
if
it
was
not
comprised
before
,
as
His
Majesty
doth
not
conceive
it
was
,
no
Alteration
is
made
by
what
now
seemes
to
be
consented
to
;
And
the
Liberty
which
to
all
understandings
may
seem
to
be
given
by
removing
out
of
one
Quarter
to
another
,
within
the
Precincts
proposed
is
not
yet
so
demonstrable
;
The
Committee
having
no
Power
to
answer
what
they
understand
in
that
point
,
which
is
most
necessary
to
be
known
,
that
the
Peace
be
not
broken
during
that
Cessation
.
And
His
Majesty
wonders
that
it
should
be
thought
unsafe
or
unfit
to
give
such
a
conclusive
power
of
such
differences
&
doubts
to
the
Committee
here
,
when
't
is
notoriously
knowne
,
that
the
very
Liberty
and
Property
of
the
Subject
is
committed
,
not
only
to
other
Committees
of
the
Houses
without
reporting
to
the
Houses
,
but
to
persons
who
are
imployed
by
them
uninteressed
in
,
and
unacquainted
with
the
directions
of
either
or
both
Houses
.
4.
It
was
no
part
of
His
Majesties
Intention
,
that
His
Article
against
Imprisonment
of
His
Subjects
,
otherwise
then
according
to
the
knowne
Lawes
of
the
Land
,
should
extend
to
the
destruction
of
the
military
Discipline
of
either
Army
;
but
this
is
a
very
sufficient
instance
of
the
necessity
of
enabling
some
Persons
to
conclude
upon
these
Articles
,
without
which
(
through
Inanimadvertence
or
doubtfulnesse
in
the
Expressions
)
they
who
are
neerest
of
a
mind
,
will
hardly
ever
come
to
conclude
,
if
every
Punctilio
must
be
forced
to
be
sent
forwards
and
backwards
a
hundred
miles
;
and
(
if
this
Authority
had
been
given
to
the
Committee
here
,
as
for
such
causes
was
desired
)
a
limitation
of
halfe
a
dozen
words
(
which
would
have
been
as
soon
agreed
to
as
proposed
)
would
have
saved
most
of
this
fourth
Reason
;
and
he
that
desires
any
thing
necessary
to
the
speed
of
this
Cessation
gives
a
good
argument
of
desiring
the
Cessation
it selfe
,
and
who
ever
is
averse
to
the
one
,
can
hardly
be
thought
inclinable
to
the
other
.
But
such
of
His
Subjects
as
are
not
concerned
in
the
Discipline
of
the
Army
,
are
not
concerned
in
this
objection
,
and
His
Majesty
hath
reason
to
insist
that
the
same
Liberty
may
be
restored
to
them
in
which
they
were
borne
,
and
the
Care
and
Defence
of
which
is
so
much
,
and
so
meerly
pretended
by
those
who
deny
it
to
them
.
5.
Though
it
grieves
His
Majesty
to
the
Soul
to
see
the
present
miserable
condition
of
His
Subjects
groaning
under
so
many
visible
Pressures
,
because
of
an
invisible
necessity
,
and
plundred
and
imprisoned
to
maintain
such
a
defensive
Warre
as
was
begun
to
be
raised
against
Him
,
before
His
Majesty
had
granted
one
Commission
to
raise
a
man
,
yet
He
cannot
but
be
pleased
with
the
Ingenuity
of
this
Confession
,
that
the
implicite
Faith
of
His
seduced
Subjects
begins
to
weare
out
so
fast
,
that
the
Authority
of
declaring
new
unknown
fundamentall
Lawes
,
doth
not
now
so
worke
with
them
,
to
beleive
that
these
Taxes
are
laid
according
to
the
Lawes
of
God
and
man
,
nor
the
many
pretences
of
imminent
dangers
,
and
inevitable
ruine
of
their
Religion
,
Lawes
and
Liberties
so
perswade
them
to
beleive
this
Cause
to
be
the
Cause
of
the
Kingdom
,
but
that
if
their
cause
,
authority
and
eloquence
were
not
assisted
by
Force
and
Rapine
,
their
Army
must
needs
be
dissolved
for
want
of
being
thought
fit
,
much
lesse
necessary
to
be
paid
by
those
,
who
have
equall
Right
to
judge
of
the
necessity
&
danger
,
and
for
whose
sakes
,
Interests
,
and
concernments
only
it
was
pretended
to
be
raised
,
and
who
are
defended
by
it
against
their
wills
.
Nor
is
it
strange
,
that
His
Majesty
cannot
receive
these
Charges
upon
Him
as
a
reason
to
make
Him
contented
and
acquiesce
with
these
Injuries
to
His
Subjects
,
or
that
they
who
saw
His
Majesties
Condition
the
last
Yeare
(
till
continued
violence
against
Him
opened
the
Eyes
and
hearts
of
His
Subjects
to
His
Assistance
)
should
not
beleive
that
He
beganne
that
Warre
,
which
they
saw
him
so
unlikely
to
resist
,
or
that
they
,
who
could
never
find
nor
heare
from
them
(
who
use
not
too
modestly
to
conceale
what
is
for
their
advantage
)
that
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
to
this
present
Parliament
ever
one
man
was
raised
before
by
Commission
from
both
Houses
,
should
not
beleive
the
raising
of
that
their
Army
to
be
so
warranted
as
is
pretended
,
&
any
more
approve
of
their
Law
then
of
their
necessity
,
or
that
they
who
know
that
His
Majesty
(
in
whom
the
power
of
making
Warre
and
Peace
was
never
denyed
to
be
,
till
these
new
Doctrines
,
which
make
it
unlawfull
for
Him
to
doe
any
thing
,
&
lawfull
to
doe
any
thing
against
Him
,
were
of
late
discovered
)
though
He
can
legally
raise
an
Army
,
is
not
allowed
to
be
legally
able
to
raise
Money
to
maintain
it
,
will
not
allow
of
the
argument
from
the
Power
of
Raising
to
the
Power
of
Taxing
,
&
are
as
little
satisfied
with
their
Logick
as
with
their
Law
,
and
extreamly
troubled
to
pay
an
Army
they
doe
not
desire
,
for
a
necessity
they
cannot
see
,
by
a
Law
they
never
heard
of
,
and
that
other
men
without
their
consent
must
be
jealous
,
fearefull
and
quicksighted
at
their
charges
;
and
they
have
great
Reason
to
be
apt
to
suspect
that
those
made
most
hast
to
make
a
Warre
,
and
have
least
desire
of
making
Peace
,
who
in
time
of
Warre
pretend
their
legall
Power
to
be
so
vastly
enlarged
.
His
Majesty
therefore
hath
great
reason
to
insist
that
no
violence
or
Plundring
be
offered
to
His
Subjects
for
not
submitting
to
the
illegall
Taxes
of
one
or
both
Houses
,
which
in
it selfe
is
equall
,
His
Majesty
being
willing
to
be
oblig'd
from
the
like
Course
,
and
relying
wholy
upon
the
known
Justice
of
His
Cause
,
and
the
Affection
of
His
People
,
and
in
which
(
if
the
Kingdom
be
of
their
mind
,
&
beleive
the
Cause
of
the
contrary
Army
to
be
really
their
own
)
the
advantage
will
be
wholy
theirs
.
And
this
Judgement
will
be
best
given
,
when
the
People
is
left
to
their
Liberty
in
this
decision
.
His
Majesties
reall
desire
of
disbanding
the
Armies
may
fully
appeare
by
His
often
seeking
and
earnest
Endeavours
to
continue
and
conclude
this
Treaty
in
order
to
that
disbanding
.
6.
His
Majesty
leaves
their
Preamble
to
all
the
World
to
consider
,
and
to
judge
whether
any
man
by
their
saying
,
they
were
ready
to
agree
to
His
Majesties
Articles
in
the
manner
as
was
exprest
,
would
not
have
expected
to
have
found
,
after
that
expression
,
that
they
had
agreed
at
least
to
some
one
thing
materiall
in
them
,
and
had
not
only
meant
by
agreeing
as
was
exprest
,
to
expresse
they
would
not
agree
at
all
.
For
the
clause
of
Communication
of
Quarters
so
quietly
left
out
,
His
Majesty
looks
upon
it
as
of
most
infinite
importance
,
the
leaving
out
of
that
having
discompos'd
the
whole
,
many
things
having
in
the
rest
been
assented
to
,
which
were
therefore
only
yeelded
,
because
the
Inconveniences
growing
by
those
clauses
,
if
they
were
alone
,
were
salved
by
that
Addition
,
and
some
things
in
the
other
very
darke
and
doubtfull
,
were
by
that
interpreted
and
cleered
.
And
His
Majesty
is
sufficiently
informed
how
highly
it
concernes
Him
,
that
every
thing
be
so
cleer
,
that
after
no
Differences
may
arise
upon
any
disputable
Poynt
,
since
they
whose
Union
,
Industry
,
Subtilty
and
Malice
could
perswade
any
of
His
People
,
that
in
the
businesse
of
Brainceford
He
had
broken
a
Cessation
before
any
was
made
or
offered
,
would
have
a
much
easier
work
to
lay
the
breach
of
a
made
Cessation
to
His
Majesties
Charge
,
if
the
ground
of
that
Breach
would
beare
the
least
dispute
.
His
Majesty
doth
agree
,
that
to
preserve
things
in
the
same
State
on
both
sides
with
as
little
Advantage
or
disadvantage
to
either
as
the
matter
will
possibly
beare
,
is
truly
the
nature
of
a
Cessation
,
and
is
willing
this
Principle
should
be
made
the
Rule
,
and
never
intended
any
thing
that
should
contradict
it
;
But
cannot
see
the
inequality
in
this
which
is
pretended
.
For
could
Sir
Ralph
Hopton
and
the
Earle
of
Newcastle
come
by
this
means
to
the
King
,
and
not
the
Earle
of
Stanford
,
and
Lord
Fairfaix
to
the
Earle
of
Essex
?
Nor
can
His
Majesty
finde
any
stronger
Passes
or
Forces
to
hinder
His
Armies
from
joyning
with
Him
,
then
hinders
theirs
from
joyning
with
them
.
If
the
forces
be
unequall
,
theirs
will
hardly
hinder
the
passage
of
His
without
a
Cessation
;
if
they
be
equall
their
comming
in
time
of
a
Cessation
will
be
of
equall
use
and
advantage
to
their
side
,
somewhat
in
point
of
supplyes
to
come
with
them
excepted
,
&
some
advantage
to
one
side
will
be
,
poise
it
how
you
will
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
if
this
Clause
be
not
in
,
how
much
greater
is
the
disadvantage
the
other
way
by
some
Clauses
?
And
how
are
His
Forces
,
principally
the
Earle
of
Newcastles
cooped
up
in
old
and
eaten
up
Quarters
,
or
necessitated
to
retire
to
such
as
are
more
barren
and
more
eaten
?
So
that
if
this
were
yeelded
to
,
under
the
disguise
of
a
Cessation
,
He
must
admit
that
which
will
much
endanger
the
dissolving
of
the
Army
,
and
destruction
of
the
Cause
,
which
is
such
a
disadvantage
as
is
against
the
nature
of
a
Cessation
formerly
agreed
and
stated
.
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
His
Majesty
,
to
shew
His
extraordinary
and
abundant
desire
of
Peace
,
and
to
prevent
the
effusion
of
Blood
,
is
contented
,
if
both
Houses
shall
refuse
to
consent
to
His
Propositions
,
Which
are
so
much
for
the
benefit
and
Advancement
of
the
publique
Trade
and
Advantage
of
His
good
Subjects
,
to
admit
a
Cessation
upon
the
matter
of
their
own
Articles
;
expecting
that
Liberty
be
given
to
the
Committee
to
word
it
according
to
the
reall
meaning
and
intention
,
and
that
the
Remove
of
Quarters
within
their
own
Bounds
,
which
is
intended
,
may
be
so
exprest
and
understood
,
that
no
mistakes
may
arise
,
so
that
His
Majesty
may
not
be
understood
to
consent
to
any
imposing
upon
,
leavying
,
distraining
,
or
imprisoning
His
good
Subjects
,
to
force
them
to
contribute
or
assist
against
Him
,
(
which
He
shall
alwaies
continue
to
inhibite
,
requiring
all
men
to
resist
those
illegall
Acts
of
injustice
and
violence
,
against
which
he
doth
absolutely
protest
;
)
And
so
that
there
may
not
be
a
Liberty
for
any
Rapine
,
Plundring
or
seasing
upon
His
Subjects
by
any
of
the
Souldiers
of
the
Army
,
for
not
submitting
to
such
illegall
impositions
as
aforesaid
.
For
otherwise
they
may
,
during
the
Cessation
,
(
besides
what
is
already
imposed
)
impose
new
taxes
not
only
to
the
19th
part
,
but
if
they
please
(
for
their
pleasure
is
all
their
bound
)
to
the
halfe
of
,
or
all
their
estates
,
upon
His
good
Subjects
in
His
City
of
London
,
and
all
Counties
within
their
reach
;
And
their
Army
would
then
be
at
leasure
to
be
imployed
as
Collectors
,
as
well
of
the
old
impositions
(
which
in
most
Places
without
their
Army
they
cannot
leavy
)
as
of
any
such
new
ones
;
And
vast
summes
would
and
might
by
this
meanes
be
raised
to
the
Destruction
of
His
Subjects
,
extraordinary
advantage
to
them
,
and
great
disadvantage
to
His
Majesty
,
who
can
neither
obtain
His
own
consent
to
take
the
like
Courses
,
nor
in
Case
He
could
,
is
He
so
Quartered
,
as
to
have
within
the
Power
of
His
Army
(
without
breach
of
the
Cessation
by
drawing
neerer
to
their
Forces
)
any
such
City
,
or
so
many
,
so
rich
and
so
fresh
Counties
,
as
they
have
to
retire
into
to
that
purpose
.
So
that
as
nothing
is
more
just
in
it selfe
,
and
for
His
People
,
then
such
a
limitation
,
so
nothing
can
be
more
unequall
to
His
Majesty
,
or
more
advantagious
to
them
,
then
the
Admission
of
,
or
Connivence
to
any
such
practices
upon
His
People
.
This
Cessation
to
begin
on
the
ninth
of
April
,
and
to
continue
to
the
end
of
Twenty
daies
from
the
25.
of
March
.
And
His
Majesty
desires
that
the
Treaty
may
proceed
upon
the
Propositions
in
Order
,
upon
which
His
Majesty
hath
an
earnest
desire
,
that
a
firme
and
stable
Peace
may
be
agreed
on
,
and
both
Armies
speedily
disbanded
,
otherwise
,
if
during
this
Cessation
(
in
the
Articles
of
which
His
Majesty
in
order
to
Peace
,
hath
yeelded
to
things
manifestly
unreasonable
and
prejudiciall
to
His
Army
)
the
Treaty
be
not
dispatched
,
His
Majesty
cannot
without
manifest
ruine
to
His
Army
(
principally
that
of
the
North
)
be
able
to
containe
Himself
beyond
this
time
,
now
limited
for
the
Cessation
,
in
the
Quarters
in
which
He
hath
so
long
been
,
and
now
is
,
and
which
will
hardly
be
able
to
hold
out
so
long
,
but
must
be
forced
to
remove
,
as
he
shall
find
agreeable
for
His
occasions
.
And
in
Case
any
delay
be
made
in
consenting
to
these
His
Majesties
Limitations
,
or
that
the
Houses
shall
reject
this
His
offer
of
Cessation
,
His
Majestie
as
He
hath
lately
desired
(
by
a
Proposition
to
both
Houses
,
delivered
to
their
Committee
,
to
which
He
hath
yet
received
no
Answer
)
so
He
doth
earnestly
continue
to
desire
,
that
the
Treaty
itself
may
not
be
delayed
or
interrupted
by
it
,
but
that
their
Committee
may
be
enabled
to
proceed
upon
it
in
the
meane
while
.
FINIS
.