His Majesty's MESSAGE To the Lords and Commons in Parliament, Sept. 5.  
Together with A DECLARATION of the Lords and Commons in PARLIAMENT, IN ANSWER to the said MESSAGE.  

Lunae 5. September, 1642.  
Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That this be forthwith printed and published;  
H. Elsinge, Cler. Parl. Dom: Com.   
Printed, for Edw. Husbands and John Frank, and are to be sold at their shops, in the middle Temple, and next door to the sign of the Kings-head in Fleetstreet, Septem. 7. 1642.   

His Majesty's Message to the Lords and Commons in Parliament, Sept. 5.  
WE will not repeat what means We have used to prevent the dangerous and distracted estate of the Kingdom, nor how those means have been interpreted, because being desirous to avoid effusion of blood, We are willing to decline all memory of former bitterness that might make Our offer of a Treaty less readily accepted.  
We never did Declare, nor ever intended to Declare both Our Houses of Parliament Traitors, or set up our Standard against them, and much less to put them and this Kingdom out of our Protection: We utterly Profess against it before God and the World. And further, to remove all possible Scruples which may hinder the Treaty so much desired by Us; We hereby Promise, so that a day be appointed by you for the revoking of your Declarations against all Persons as Traitors or otherways, for assisting of Us, We shall with all cheerfulness upon the same day recall Our Proclamations and Declarations, and take down our Standard: In which Treaty, We shall be ready to grant any thing that shall be really for the good of our Subjects; Conjuring you to consider the bleeding condition of Ireland, and the dangerous condition of England, in as high a degree as by these Our offers We have declared Ourself to do: And assuring you that Our chief desire in this world is to beget a good understanding and mutual confidence betwixt Us and Our two Houses of Parliament.   

A Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, In Answer to His Majesty's Message.  
WHereas His Majesty in a Message, received the fifth of September, requires that the Parliament would revoke their Declarations against such persons as have assisted His Majesty in this unnatural War against His Kingdom: It is this day Ordered and Declared by the Lords and Commons, That the Arms which they have been forced to take up and shall be forced to take up for the preservation of the Parliament, Religion, the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, shall not be laid down, until His Majesty shall withdraw His Protection from such persons as have been Voted by both Houses to be Delinquents, or that shall by both Houses be voted to be Delinquents, and shall leave them to the Justice of the Parliament, to be proceeded with, according to their demerits; to the end that both this, and succeeding Generations may take warning with what danger they incur the like heinous crimes, and also to the end that those great charges and damages wherewithal the Common wealth hath been burdened in the Premises, since His Majesty's departure from the Parliament, may be born by the Delinquents, and other malignant and disaffected persons: And that all His Majesty's good and well-affected Subjects, who by Loan of Monies, or otherwise at their charge have assisted the Commonwealth, or shall in like manner hereafter assist the Common wealth, in time of extreme danger, may be repaid all Sums of Money by them lent for those purposes, and be satisfied their charges so sustained, out of the Estates of the said Delinquents, and of the malignant and dis-affected party in this Kingdom.   

Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published.  
H. Elsinge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.