HIS majesty's MESSAGE Sent the twentieth of May, MDCXL III.  
CHARLES R.  
SInce His majesty's Message of the twelfth of April, (in which He conceived He had made such an overture for the immediate disbanding of all Armies, and composure of these miserable and present Distractions by a full and free convention of Parliament, that a perfect and settled Peace would have ensued:) Hath in all this time, above a full Month, procured no answer from both Houses; His Majesty might well believe himself absolved both before God and man, from the least possible charge of not having used His uttermost endeavours for Peace. Yet when He considers that the sense of all this Calamity is in the bowels of His own kingdom, that all the blood which is spilled of his own subjects, and that what victory soever (it shall please God to give him) must be over those, who ought not to have lifted up their hands against him, when he considers that these desperate civil dissensions may encourage and invite a foreign Enemy, to make a prey of the whole Nation: That Ireland is in present danger to be totally lost: That the heavy judgements of God, plague, pestilence, and famine, will be the inevi●able attendants of this unnatural contention: And that in a short time, there will be so general a habit of uncharitableness and cruelty contracted through the whole kingdom, That even Peace itself will not restore his people to their old temper and security; His Majesty cannot but again call for an Answer to that His Gracious Message, which gives so fair a rise to end these unnatural distractions: And His Majesty doth this with the more earnestness, because he doubts not the condition of His Armies in several parts, the strength of Horse, Foot, Artillery, His plenty of Ammunition, (when some men lately might conceive He wanted) is so well known and understood, that it must be confessed, nothing but the tenderness and love to His People, and those Christian impressions, which always live, and He hopes always shall dwell in His heart, could move Him once more to haza●d a refusal: And He requires them as they will answer to God, to himself, and all the World, that they will no longer suffer their fellow Subjects to welter in each others blood, that they would remember by whose authority and to what end they met in the council; and send such an Answer to His Majesty, as may open a door to let in a firm peace and security to the whole kingdom. If His Majesty shall again be disappointed of His intentions therein, the blood, rapine, and destruction, which may follow in England and Ireland, will be cast upon the account of those, who are deaf to the motive of Peace and Accommodation.   

OXFORD, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the Vniversty, 1643.