HIS majesty's 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. days since, to which as yet He hath received no Answer: To the end that His Majesty may so clearly 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 itself 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 several Forces of the Earl of Essex to march several ways, that till such time as this be done, they do not conceive themselves obliged to an actual Cessation; So neither till then doth His Majesty conceive himself obliged to it.