A personal TREATY WITH HIS majesty, and the two Honourable Houses, to be speedily holden, Who knows where?  
At no place.  
OR, When? Can ye tell? 31. July.  
Printed in the year 1648.   

A personal Treaty with his Majesty, &c.  
THese are to certify all and every man or Woman, City or country, whom it doth or may concern) that there is speedily to be( or never like to be) a personal Treaty with his Majesty, upon these conditions following.  
First, if his Majesty will be most ungraciously pleased to be perjured, in breaking all the Oaths, and Protestations which he took at his Coronation, and that as he hath sworn to defend and maintain the true Protestant Religion which he found was( and is) established here in his kingdom of England, and hath flourished gloriously these 90. yeares since the happy restauration of it, and it is well known that it hath been graciously crowned with blessings from Heaven, and honoured with venerable regard and reverence through all Nations: now if the King will but grant to sign, or set his hand( against his own soul) to extirpate and utterly destroy this ancient Protestant Church, and established Doctrine and Discipline, and withall to allow all other Sects and Heresies to be in free use and practise in all his plaintiffs Dominions; then perhaps( with a grant or two more) we may be promised once again to have a personal Treaty.  
Secondly if the King will be madly pleased to swear never to be trusted with the Militia, Forts, Navy, Ports, or with his own Wife, or education or marriage of his own Children, or that he never shall presume to entertain any Servant, or bestow place or honour upon any man without leave of his Masters, or privy Counsellors, or Officers, as Sheriffs and lieutenants of Shires, or shipping businesses, or any other businesses or matters of validity; if his Majesty will do so much as to sign, consent, and set his hand to these small trifling toys, he shall be Reinthroned in pomp, and esteemed as the most glorious shadow of Majesty that ever was gullified, and the onely obedient Journeyman King, that was ever crwoned since the worlds Creation.  
Thirdly, if his Majesty will be pleased to remember to forget himself, so much as to swear, sign, and seal to an act of everlasting oblivion, that all the unspeakable injuries which this blessed Parliament hath done to his Majesties Person, the queen, the Prince, Duke of york, &c and all the intolerable wrongs and oppressions, which the peers, Gentry, and people have grievously suffered under may never be thought upon, that the expense of 100 millions of Treasure may never be accounted for; that bishoprics and Church Lands, with all other sequestrations, imbezellings, offices, and place of profits, now being in the possession of any Parliament man, or Soldier, who hath courageously withstood, opposed, and fought against the King; that all such profits and privileges may still be assured to remain to the now possessors hands, and their Heirs for ever; and that it shall be no less then Parliament high Treason, for the King or any of his true Subjects ever to seek, request or desire satisfaction, or look to have their own again; and further that his Majesty is required to declare the Parliament and Army to be guiltless and innocent of all the blood which hath been  shed in these unnatural wars, and likewise that his Majesty shall be pleased to justify all their actions and outrageous mischiefs, which hath been done and committed against himself, his crown, kingdoms and people and withall it is to be desired that the King would be so kind as to lay all the guilt of his own, and his Subjects miseries and oppressions upon himself, and his loyal servants: If these things may be granted, wee may look for a personal Treaty, and then his Majesty may be Reinstated to command no body, and possess as much as comes to nothing.  
These are the brief sums, piths, marrowbones and marrowes of the three Propositions, which his Majesty is desired to assent unto before a personal Treaty can be granted.  
Upon these or the like trivial and petty Propositions, wee are as far from having a Treaty as ever wee were. The Parliament lays the fault in the army, the army taxes the Parliament, and both parties throw the blame upon the King: and verily, in truth and indeed in his Majesty is so stiff and obstinate, that neither the afflictions that he hath suffered unjustly by Traitors, or the hazard of any practices and damnable attempts against his sacred person or precious life, no nor the regaining of his royal estate and monarchical Crownes and dignities, the enjoiments of his deere and most virtuous consort,( the queen) his hopeful progeny, or any, or all things under heaven, be they either Earths glories, or calamities, can neither lift his unmovable mind higher, or deject him lower, or move him from his true Christian principles and resolutions. Therefore the Parliament do know that their Propositions to his Majesty are but vain and frivolous, to no other purpose but to delay time, to uphold their tottering tyrannicall power and greatness, and to delude the people, with a hope of a personal Treaty, when( God knows that they know) they never meant or intend any such matter.  
And now the holy Army( being big with the last Bastard, and monster of Rebellion) with a greedy desire of longing for Colchester Oysters, their inexcusable saint-ships have lain before it near 2 months, yet cannot agree about the price: the very cheapning and offerings, with biddings and refusings, hath cost so much on both sides, that they will never be drawn to a bargain with a good will: for what the Army have a greedy mind to have, the men of Colchester have an extreme desire to hold; and because both parties cannot agree, like as the Dog that was hanged in the Crab-tree could never abide verjuice after, so the blessed Martiallists, or( as they are styled) the Princes of our Nation, have no stomach or appetite to the Oysters, but with raging madness and wo●vish voracity they are determined to devour and swallow the whole town itself, with all thatis in it.  
And to let the Reader understand, by what title or interest of inheritance these Fairfaxian soldiers are to be esteemed and honoured as Princes, and the least or meanest of them hath as great a share in the Principality as the Lo. general, Col. Whaley, or any of the greatest Commanders amongst them. Their pedigrees and rights were declared on Sunday last, the 23. of this instant July; in the Savoy Church and Pulpit, one M. Lee did proclaim them all( or preach them every mothers child) to be Princes in this maner.  
Beloved, I will not trouble your ears with ambiguous and intricate terms of Heraldry; I need not search much for Genealogies concerning the dignity of those who are so much honoured, as to be the soldiers and champions of Heaven, and to fight the Lords battels against the wicked. You know( dear Brethren) who it is that only is, and only must and will be the King of Kings: this King of Kings, you know is God Almighty, and we know also, that all the faithful are the Sons of God, and in that point, they( being sons to the King of Kings) are all Princes. This was the effect of M. Lees proofs for Princes.  
Now it is to be considered, that if these Princes were the sons of God they would never put any trust or confidence in the devil, or in any Soothsayers, divinations of Witches, wizards, or Figure-flingers, as they have done lately, when they sent for lily and Booker from London into Essex, to erect a Figure, and by their astrological judgements, to direct and foretell whether it would be fortunate to the Army to attempt to storm the town of Colchester. The wizards bad them, go on and prosper; and they went on, but above 1000 never came off again: so that the cunning men sneakt away for shane and safety; in whose praise these following verses were dutifully penned.  


NOW Booker what's become of all thy fictions?  
And lily where't th'effect of thy predictions?  
Tattling prognostics, configurating sceames  
Which fools believe, and wise men h●ld as dreams:  
You are not so familiar with the stars  
To know from them th' events of Peace or warres:  
Though your brains travail through the zodiac,  
And from the twelve signs steal an almanac,  
Whereas you talked with Saturne at the Ram,  
And he  told you strange news from Amsterdam,  
Great Jupiter in Taurus, and the twins  
 told you which side is loser, which side wins  
Mars at the Crab, and L●on  told you plain  
How long King Charles should suffer, and Knaves reign:  
In Virgo, and in Libra, you met Sol,  
And thence you brought rare news of Tom and Noll:  
Venus, in scorpion, and in Sagitarie  
informed you who the victory should carry:  
And Mer'cry( having been in capricorn)  
With nimble legs was to Aquarius born,  
He  told you more then all you could device,  
From Mercury comes all our weekly lies:  
In Pisces you found Luna, and shee gave ye  
Her Wavering Portents of Englands Navy;  
Thus ●n the circles of the Round-head spheres  
You saw the mayor and the Minor bears:  
The suins Illustrious annual course diurnal,  
And ●intha's eight and twenty dayes nocturnal:  
Caput Draconis, and the Dragons rump,— tail  
Cornuted Vulcan with his limping stump:  
To know Twelve signs, are four Triplicities  
Hath made you famous with felicities:  
You( by the planets motions) found out plain  
That many Knaves should ride in Charles his wain,  
And that the Guerdon of their just deserts  
Will mount them up hill in Gregorian Carts;  
These things you know and many more then these  
By squeezing of your Ephemerides:  
Y'ave red Mirandula, and Guy Bonatus,  
You know when to deject, or elevate us,  
By Regimontanus Rules and learned Pontanus,  
You know when Fate will either cure or bane us,  
And by instructions from brave Claudius Dariot  
Y'ave as much skill as Grays-Inne eating Mariot.  
I dare not call y'Impostures, for you know  
When as mens Beards and Nailes too long do grow,  
You know the times( your judgement never failes)  
When 'tis best cutting Cornes, or Beards, or nails,  
Your judgements are beyond all mens opinions,  
For seasons to set garlic, leeks, or Onions.    
Thus the pious Princely Saints in seeking to you, have approved themselves to be both blind and dumb; for the Prophet ezekiel 12. 2. saith, that Rebells have neither Eyes nor ears; or else they would never have forsaken the clear, resplendent head of light, truth, and knowledge, to grope after the tail of false Prophets, Esai. 9. 14. 15. there the lying Prophet is truly called the tail.  
These famous astronomical Star-gazers might perceive( without the use of a Jacobs staff) that the Star of Jacob,( Numb. 24. 17.) was not their guide, nor yet that Star which guided the wise men from the East, was any director of this brace of sophisticated Sophies,( or Magies) to show them the way from London Eastward towards Colchester; no it may be conjectured that some Ignis fatuis, or a firedrake, some William with a wisp, or some glow-worm illumination did enlighten, and guide them and their fancies towards the East; but they were glad to steal back again into the West, without the help of so much as the snuff of a farthing candle.  
As concerning the great B shows of the perpetual grand counsel; alas their hands are full( and their heads too) charity begins at home, and their own safeties is enough for them to look after: They sit close every day hammering new projects, designs, and plots, for the keeping of the King from his Rights, and the people f●ō their peace and happiness; the truth is, there were never any men more unwilling to see their King, or to feel the pulse and vigour of the Law; but as an eel being cut in pieces alive, and every piece will stir and wriggle on the gridiron a broiling, so( though these men are in sundry parts divided into Factions and fractions) yet they will struggle to the last cast; for common reason tells us, that a rebel hath no more mind to be hanged, then he hath to have a personal Treaty with hi● Majesty; both which good God( in thy mercy and justice) be graciously pleased to grant.  
For news, I know no certainty, but it is reported that the footpost of Putney is dead, and one of the church wardens of Knightsbridge is deceased, and also that Mr. Byfeilds mere at Fulham hath lately changed her lift; those three places are void, either for man or beast, the supply whereof is fit for the consideration of a Close Committee.  
FINIS.