His Maiesties gracious message to both His Houses of Parljament, February the 20th
         England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
      
       
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             His Maiesties gracious message to both His Houses of Parljament, February the 20th
             England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
             Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
          
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             January 9. by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Vniversity,
             Printed by His Majesties command at Oxford :
             1643.
          
           
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             Annotation on Thomason copy: "164-".
          
        
      
    
     
       
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           Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800.
        
      
    
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           HIS
           MAIESTIES
           GRACIOUS
           MESSAGE
           To
           both
           His
           Houses
           of
           
             PARLFAMENT
             ,
          
           FEBRUARY
           the
           20th
           .
        
         
           WHereas
           His
           Majesty
           hath
           (
           together
           with
           a
           Treaty
           )
           proposed
           a
           Cessation
           of
           Arms
           to
           both
           His
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           now
           16.
           dayes
           since
           ,
           to
           which
           as
           yet
           He
           hath
           received
           no
           Answer
           :
           To
           the
           end
           that
           His
           Majesty
           may
           so
           cleerly
           understand
           the
           Houses
           ,
           that
           no
           such
           Imputations
           (
           as
           have
           been
           formerly
           )
           may
           after
           be
           laid
           upon
           Him
           upon
           occasion
           of
           any
           thing
           that
           may
           intervene
           :
           His
           Majesty
           desires
           ,
           if
           a
           Cessation
           shall
           be
           approved
           of
           by
           them
           ,
           That
           the
           day
           upon
           which
           the
           Cessation
           is
           thought
           fit
           to
           begin
           ,
           and
           such
           particular
           Limits
           and
           Conditions
           of
           that
           Cessation
           as
           are
           necessary
           to
           be
           understood
           and
           agreed
           on
           before
           the
           Cessation
           it selfe
           can
           actually
           begin
           ,
           be
           proposed
           by
           them
           at
           the
           same
           time
           with
           their
           Approbation
           of
           it
           ,
           Since
           as
           His
           Majesty
           supposeth
           by
           the
           present
           great
           Preparation
           of
           severall
           Forces
           of
           the
           Earle
           of
           Essex
           to
           march
           severall
           wayes
           ,
           that
           till
           such
           time
           as
           this
           be
           done
           ,
           they
           doe
           not
           conceive
           themselves
           obliged
           to
           an
           actuall
           Cessation
           ;
           So
           neither
           till
           then
           doth
           His
           Majesty
           conceive
           Himselfe
           obliged
           to
           it
           .