His Majesties gracious message to both Houses of Parliament: Feb. 20. Forasmuch, as His Majesty hath (together with a treaty) proposed a cessation of arms to both His Houses of Parliament now 16. dayes since, ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78804 of text R211761 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[141]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A78804 Wing C2331B Thomason 669.f.5[141] ESTC R211761 99870462 99870462 160852 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A78804) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160852) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[141]) His Majesties gracious message to both Houses of Parliament: Feb. 20. Forasmuch, as His Majesty hath (together with a treaty) proposed a cessation of arms to both His Houses of Parliament now 16. dayes since, ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Oxford : 1642] Imprint from Wing. The King has proposed a treaty without result. Parliament, to avoid error is to name the day for the cessation to begin and the limits of it, .. -- Steele. With engraving of royal seal, between ornamental borders and "C.R.", at head of document. Also includes: A letter sent from the Earl of Manchester to the Lord of Faulkland, about the Assizes: with the Lord of Faulklands answer, &c. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March. 4.". Title from caption and opening lines of text. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A78804 R211761 (Thomason 669.f.5[141]). civilwar no His Majesties gracious message to both Houses of Parliament: Feb. 20. Forasmuch, as His Majesty hath (together with a treaty) proposed a ces England and Wales. Sovereign 1642 514 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-08 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS MESSAGE To both Houses of PARLIAMENT : Feb. 20. FOrasmuch , as 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 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 Maiesty 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 agreed on before the Cessation it self can actually begin , be proposed by them at the same time with their Approbation of it , Since as His Maiesty 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 Maiesty conceive Himselfe obliged to it . A Letter sent from the Earl of Manchester to the Lord of Faulkland , about the Assizes : With the Lord of Faulklands Answer , &c. HIs Majesty hath weighed the advice and desire of the Lords and Commons sent in a Letter to the Lord of Faulkland , from the Earl of Manchester , concerning the putting off the General Assizes and Goal-delivery throughout the Kingdom : To which His Majestie returnes this Answer . That the present bloody distractions of the Kingdom ( which His Majestie hath used all possible meanes to prevent , and will still to remove ) do afflict His Majestie under no consideration more , then of the great interruption and stop it makes in the course and Proceedings of Iustice , and the execution of the Lawes : Whereby His good Subjects are robbed of the Peace and security they were born to ; and therefore as much as in him lyes , He will advance that onely means of their hapinesse ; at least , they shall see that their Sufferings that way , proceed not from His Majestie : And since they may expect now by the Lawes , Statutes , and Customes of the Kingdom , the Assizes and generall Goale delivery in every County , His Majestie thinks not fit to command the contrary , but will take severe and precise Order , that none of his good Subjects shall receive the least prejudice as they repair thither , by any of His Majesties Forces ; which rule He shall be glad to be observed by others : And then he hopes by the due execution of the Lawes , even these publike Calamities may have some abatement , and the Kingdom recover its former Peace and prosperitie . God save the King .