His majesty's Message to both Houses, concerning Disbanding of both Armies, and His majesty's return to both Houses of Parliament.  
OXFORD, 12. April, 1643.  
TO show to the whole world how earnestly his Majesty longs for peace, and that no success shall make him desire the continuance of his Army to any other end, or for any longer time than that, & until things may be so settled, as that the Law may have a full, free, and uninterrupted course, for the defence and preservation of the rights of his Majesty, both Houses, and his good Subjects.  

1. As soon as his Majesty is satisfied in his first Proposition concerning his own revenue, magazines, ships, and Forts, in which he desires nothing but that the just, known, legal rights of his Majesty (devolved to him from his progenitors) and of the persons trusted by him, which have violently been taken from both, be restored unto him; and unto them, unless any just and legal exceptions against any of the persons trusted by him (which are yet unknown to his Majesty) can be made appear to him.  
2. As soon as all the Members of both Houses shall be restored to the same Capacity of Sitting and Voting in Parliament, as they had upon the first of January, 1641. the same of right belonging unto them by their Birth rights, and the free Election of those that sent them, and having been voted from them for adhering to his Majesty in these distractions. His Majesty not intending that this should extend either to the Bishops, whose votes have been taken away by Bill, or to such in whose places upon new Writs new Elections have been made.  
3. As soon as his Majesty and both Houses may be secured from such tumultuous Assemblies as, to the great breach of the privileges, and the high dishonour of Parliaments, have formerly assembled about both Houses, and awed the Members of the same, and occasioned two several Complaints from the Lord's House, and two several desires of that House to the House of Commons, to join in a Declaration against them, the complying with which desire, might have prevented all these miserable distractions, which have ensued Which security his Majesty conceives can be only settled by adjourning the Parliament to some other place, at the least twenty miles from London, the choice of which his Majesty leaves to both Houses.   
His Majesty will most cheerfully and readily consent that both Armies be immediately disbanded, and give a present meeting to both his Houses of Parliament at the time and place at and to which the Parliament shall be agreed to be adjourned.  
His Majesty being most confident, that the Law will then recover the due credit and estimation, and that upon a free debate in a full and peaceable convention of Parliaments, such provisions will be made against seditious preaching and printing against his Majesty, and the established Laws, which hath been one of the chief causes of the present distractions; and such care will be taken concerning the legal and known rights of his Majesty, and the property and liberty of his Subjects, that whatsoever hath been published or done in or by colour of any illegal Declaration, Ordinance or Order of one or both Houses, or any Committee of either of them, and particularly the power to raise arms without his majesty's consent, will be in such manner recalled, disclaimed and provided against, that no seed will remain for the like to spring out off for to future, to disturb the peace of the kingdom, and to endanger the very being of it.  
And in such a Convention his Majesty is resolved by his readiness to consent to whatsoever shall be proposed to him by Bill for the real good of his Subjects, (and particularly for the better discovery and speedier conviction of recusants, for the education of the children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant Religion, for the prevention of practices of Papists against the States, and the due execution of the Laws, and true levying of the penalties against them) to make known to all the world, how causeless those fears and jealousies have been which have been raised against him, and by that so distracted this miserable Kingdom. And if this offer of his Majesty be not consented to, (in which he asks nothing for which there is not apparent justice on his side, and in which he defers many things highly concerning both himself and people, till a full and peaceable convention of Parliament, which in justice he might now require) his Majesty is confident that it will then appear to all the world, not only who is most desirous of peace, and whose fault it is that both Armies are not now disbanded, but who have been the true and first cause that this peace was ever interrupted, or these Armies raised, and the beginning or continuance of the war, and the destruction and desolation of this poor Kingdom (which is too likely to ensue) will not, by the most interressed, passionate, or prejudicate Person, be imputed to his Majesty.   

Printed by his majesty's Command at OXFORD, 1643: