A ROYAL LETTER SENT FROM THE KING OF FRANCE TO THE KING of ENGLAND.  
Wherein is expressed, 

1. His Royal solicitation for the King's Majesty's security in his kingdoms.  
2. His Affection to his Sister the Queen.  
3. Concerning the proceed of the Parliament of England.  
4. A brief relation of the Queen Mother.  
5. Touching the Fugitive delinquents (as the Lord Finch and others) who Fled into France.  
6. Concerning his resolution about the Irish Affairs.    
L R   royal French blazon or coat of arms 
First printed at Paris by Peter de Boys, and now reprinted in London for Roger Garthwaite. 1641.   

The Copy of a Royal Letter, sent from the King of France to the King of England.  
ROYAL BROTHER,  
ALthough the Imperial Diadem hath crowned each of us by the omnipotent providence of the Almighty, and those once disunited, might exasperate Our princely mind against the British Nation, yet the Noble lenity of your Clement Nature, and the propitious consideration of those impendent and intricate perils, wherein your Kingdoms are dangerously involved, have respectively induced me to declare our good exortations and wel-wishes to you. And whereas we maid rely understood and with credible information received intelligence of the rebellious insurrection of Ireland, We did respectively sympathise with your solicitous deploration of their disastrous proceed, and will (as shall be perspicuously declared hereafter) vindicate their furious rebellion; But your Majesty (as hath been prou●d 〈◊〉 by report) hath been misinformed of divers particulars, which not only casts an indigne aspersion on our royal Name, and Monarchical Throne, but highly derogates from Our Imperial Prerogative and innocuous intention. It hath been publicly divulged, That we always made a ludibrious derision at the perilous distractions of your Kingdoms, and did not only rejoice at the disloyalty of Ireland, but also instigated those rebels with a calumnious suggestion to proceed in their bloody Tyranny, as if they should depend in expectation of our anxiliary assistance. But we do utterly defy and detest this sc●●●●lous and treacherous imputation reflected on Us. and do withal desire that the Authors of this ●●●entitious Fable fathered on us, may suffer exemplary punishment: For We royally protest and infirm with our cordall all 〈◊〉 on that whereas the doleful intelligence of the British distractions came to Our first audience; We were so fare from entertaining any de●isive al●●●ly, that We seriously rather deplored the preposterous condition of the same; And as for the rebellion in Ireland, it did so stimulate Our Just indignation, that We always dis-affected the same, and did not only 〈◊〉 Our Subjects from presuming to conjoin with them, but also did publish a Proclamation to the Epidemical Aspect of all in dissuasion, from that 〈…〉 Wherefore in this 〈◊〉 We are infinitely ●●●sed, and our royal Clemency blasted with the infamous tongue of audacity, for rather a reciprocal sympathy of those grievances, did concur in our Princely lenity, than a contradictory antipathy of vindicative resolution found any entertainment of Tyrannical habitation in Our commoted Ire. Although many fugitive Delinquents (as Finch and others) escaping from Impartial Justice supposed to find their Asylum in our realm, yet impute not so vicious a connivance in our unspotted Innocence, for we will never protect them from impunity. First then the fraternal concatenation of Brotherhood (which by the legitimate bond of Nature We are enjoined unto) doth foment a solicitous Indulgency in Our Princely, mind to concord and co-union, and not to inmate the precipitious demolition or at the least extenuation of each others Crown. Secondly, the singular love of our Sister (which likewise by the respective injunction of Nature we are induced unto it doth by a sweet and delicious compulsion enjoin I'll to corroborate, and not to precipitate each others Throne. Lastly, the Firm League made between us (which by the national Law of Kingdoms we are bound to observe) doth propitiously instigate us to preserve each others Imperial Diadems. All these unitely concurring together to the plausible composition of mutual tranquillity did respectively enjoin us in a reciprocal coaction to declare Our Royal Intents, and indulgent desires for the flourishing prosperity of England. We applaud you for the royal entertainment of our Mother (although We have little cause, in regard of her intestine Stratagem against Us) yet We conceive had she continued longer in England, she would have suddenly brought the State to a destructive ruin: notwithstanding all the sinister deprecations which we wish her, are, that in what Climate soever she resides in, at length she may peaceably consummate her days in an happy period. We now involve our intentions to the dangerous affairs of Icland, whose barbarous insolency We will sedulously endeavour to cohibit in the limited termination of Loyalty and Obedience to you their dread Sovereign. What I now implore, and desire more is contained in these concise subsequent Declarations: First, that your Majesty would be graciously pleased to expedite and animate your Parliament to deliberate things in a conclusive confirmation, that as they have begun Nobly, they may conclude with more fortunate success to the future security of the Realm: for procrastination in State matters doth either discourage some in the same Nation, whose imminent grievances, are not easied, or at least doth animate foreign Enemies to perfect any conspiracy against a Kingdom; but a sudden conclusion doth both created alacrity in the Joyful minds of Subjects, and also prevent what stratagem may be in agitation. Secondly, We desire that your Parliament would correspondently accord with your Majesty without any opposition on either sides, that thus unitely concurring together the weighty affairs of the Kingdom may be determinated with more facility. Lastly, what we desire more, is, that you would expedite your consultations for the more propirious relief of Ireland: And for ourself we royally protest, that we will confirm our former resolution to curb the Tyrannical insolency of those Rebels, which shall be a sufficient testimony of our indulgent affection to your Majesty's prosperous 〈◊〉, and the undoubted security of your 〈…〉.  
1641.