The humble Desires and PROPOSITIONS OF THE Lords and Commons in Parliament, tendered to His Majesty, Febr. 1.  
AND HIS MAJESTY'S GRACIOUS ANSWER And PROPOSITIONS, Febr. 3. 1642.  
Die Lunae, 6. Febr. 1642.  
IT is this Day Ordered by the Commons in Parliament Assembled, That the Propositions from both Houses to His Majesty, and His Majesty's Answer unto them, this day received, be forthwith Printed and Published.  
H. Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.  
Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley, 1642.  
By special Command.   

WE Your Majesty's most humble and faithful Subjects, the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, having in our thoughts the glory of God, Your Majesty's Honour, and the prosperity of Your People; and being most grievously afflicted with the pressing miseries and calamities which have overwhelmed Your two Kingdoms of England and Ireland, since Your Majesty hath by the persuasion of evil Councillors withdrawn Yourself from Your Parliament, raised an Army against it, and by force thereof protected Delinquents from the Justice of it, and constraining us to take Arms for the defence of our Religion, Laws, Liberties and Privileges of Parliament, and for the sitting of the Parliament in safety; Which Fears and Dangers are continued and increased by the raising, drawing together, and arming of great numbers of Papists under the Command of the Earl of Newcastle, likewise by making the Lord Herbert of Ragland, and other known Papists, Commanders of great Forces, whereby many grievous Oppressions, Rapines, and Cruelties have been and are daily exercised upon the Persons and Estates of Your People, Much innocent blood hath been spilt, and the Papists have attained means of attempting, with hopes of effecting their mischievous design of rooting out the Reformed Religion, and destroying the Professors thereof.  
In the tender sense and compassion of these Evils under which the People and Kingdom lie, according to the Duty which we own to God, Your Majesty, and the Kingdom, for which we are trusted, Do most earnestly desire that an end may be put to these great Distempers and Distractions, for the preventing that Desolation which doth threaten all Your Majesty's Dominions, and as we have rendered, and still are ready to render to Your Majesty, that Subjection, Obedience, and Service, which we own unto You; So we most humbly beseech Your Majesty to remove the Causes of this War, and to vouchsafe us that Peace and Protection which we and our Ancestors have formerly enjoyed under Your Majesty and Your Royal Predecessors, and graciously to accept and grant these our most humble Desires and Propositions.  

I.  
THat Your Majesty will be pleased to disband Your Armies, as we likewise shall be ready to disband all those Forces which we have raised; and that you will be pleased to return to Your Parliament.   

II.  
That You will leave Delinquents to a Legal Trial, and Judgement of Parliament.   

III.  
That the Papists may not only be disbanded, but disarmed according to Law.   

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That Your Majesty will be pleased to give Your Royal assent unto the Bill for taking away Superstitious Innovations; To the Bill against scandalous Ministers; To the Bill against Pluralities; To the Bill for the utter abolishing and taking away of all Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Sub-Deans, Deans and Chapters, Arch-Deacons, Canons and Prebendaries, and all Chantors, Chancellors, Treasurers, Sub-Treasurers, Succentors and Sacrists, And all Vicars, Choral and Choristers, Old Vicars and New Vicars of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, and all other their under-Officers out of the Church of England. And to the Bill for Consultation to be had with godly, religious, and learned Divines; That Your Majesty will be pleased to promise to pass such other good Bills for settling of Church-Government, as upon Consultation with the Assembly of the said Divines shall be resolved on by both Houses of Parliament, and by them be presented to Your Majesty.   

V  
That Your Majesty having expressed in Your Answer to the Nineteen Propositions of both Houses of Parliament, a hearty Affection and Intention for the rooting out of Popery out of this Kingdom. And that if both the Houses of Parliament can yet find a more effectual course to disable Jesuits, Priests, and Popish Recusants from disturbing the State or eluding the Laws, that you would willingly give your consent unto it.  
That You would be graciously pleased, for the better discovery and speedier conviction of Recusants, that an oath may be established by Act of Parliament, to be administered in such manner as by both Houses shall be agreed on, wherein they shall abjure and renounce the Pope's Supremacy, the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, Purgatory, Worshipping of the consecrated Host; crucifixes and images; and the refusing of the said oath being tendered in such manner as shall be appointed by Act of Parliament, shall be a sufficient conviction in law of recusancy.  
And that Your Majesty will be Graciously pleased to give Your Royal Assent unto a Bill, for the education of the Children of Papists, by Protestants, in the Protestant Religion.  
That for the more effectual execution of the Laws against Popish Recusants, Your Majesty would be pleased to consent to a Bill for the true levying of the Penalties against them, and that the same Penalties may be levied and disposed of in such manner as both Houses of Parliament shall agree on, so as Your Majesty be at no loss: And likewise to a Bill whereby the practices of Papists against the State may be prevented, and the Laws against them duly executed.   

VI  
That the Earl of Bristol be removed from Your Majesty's Counsels, and that both he and the Lord Harbert, eldest Son to the Earl of Worcester, may likewise be restrained from coming within the Verge of the Court, and that they may not bear any Office, or have any employments concerning the State or Commonwealth.   

VII.  
That Your Majesty would be graciously pleased by Act of Parliament to settle the Militia both by Sea and Land, and for the Forts and Ports of the Kingdom, in such manner as shall be agreed on by both Houses.   

VIII.  
That Your Majesty will be pleased by Your Letters Patents, to make Sir John Bramston Chief Justice of Your Court of King's Bench, William Lenthall Esquire, the now Speaker of the Commons House Master of the Rolls, and to continue the Lord Chief Justice Banks, Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and likewise tomake Master Sergeant wild, Chief Baron of Your Court of the Exchequer, and that Master Justice Bacon may be continued, and Master Serjeant Rolls, and Master Serjeant Atkins made Justices of the King Bench; that Master Justice Reeve, and Master Justice Forster may be continued, Sergeant Pheasant made one of Your Judges of Your Court of Common-Pleas; That Mr. Sergeant Creswell, Mr. Samuel Brown, and Mr. John Puleston may be Barons of the Exchequer, and that all these and all the Judges of the same Courts for the times to come, may hold their places by Letters Patents under the great Seal, Quamdiu se bene Gesserint, and that the several persons not before named, that do now hold any of these places before mentioned, may be removed.   

IX.  
That all such persons as have been put out of the Commissions of peace, or of Oyer and Terminer, or from being Custodes Rotulorum since the first day of April, 1642. (other than such as were put out by the desire of both or either Houses of Parliament) may again be put into those Commissions and Offices, and that such persons may be put out of those Commissions and Offices as shall be excepted against by both Houses of Parliament.   

X.  
That your Majesty will be pleased to pass the Bill now presented to your Majesty, to vindicate and secure the Privilege of Parliament, from the ill consequence of the late precedent in the charge and proceed against the Lord Kimbolton now Earl of Manchester, and the five Members of the House of Commons.   

XI.  
That your Majesty's Royal assent may be given unto such Acts as shall be advised by both Houses of Parliament, for the satisfying and paying of the debts and damages wherein the two Houses of Parliament have engaged the Public Faith of the Kingdom.   

XII.  
That your Majesty will be pleased according to a gracious Answer heretofore received from you, to enter into a more strict Alliance with the States of the United Provinces and other neighbour Princes, and States of the Protestant Religion, for the defence and maintenance thereof, against all Designs and Attempts of the Popish and Jesuitical Faction to subvert and suppress it, whereby Your Subjects may hope to be free from the mischiefs which this Kingdom hath endured through the power which some of that party have had in your Counsels, and will be much encouraged in a Parliamentary way, for Your aid and assistence in restoring Your Royal Sister and Prince Elector to those Dignities and Dominions which belong unto them, and relieving the other Protestant Princes, who have suffered in the same Cause.   

XIII.  
That in the general Pardon which Your Majesty hath been pleased to offer to Your Subjects, all Offences and Misdemeanours committed before the 10. of Jan. 1641. which have been or shall be questioned, or proceeded against in Parliament upon complaint in the House of Commons, before the 10. of Jan. 1643. shall be excepted, which Offences and Misdemeanours shall nevertheless be taken and adjudged to be fully discharged, against all other inferior Courts.  
That likewise there shall be an exception of all offences committed by any person or persons, which hath or have had any hand or practise in the Rebellion of Ireland, which hath or have given any council, assistence, or encouragement, to the Rebels there for the maintenance of that Rebellion, as likewise an exception of William Earl of Newcastle, and George Lord Digby▪   

XIIII.  
That Your Majesty will be pleased to restore such Members of either House of Parliament to their several places of service and employment, out of which they have been put since the beginning of this Parliament, that they may receive satisfaction and reparation for those places, and for the profits which they have lost by such removal, upon the Petition of both Houses of Parliament: And that all others may be restored to their Offices and Employments, who have been put out of the same upon any displeasure conceived against them, for any assistence given to both Houses of Parliament, or obeying their Commands, or forbearing to leave their Attendance upon the Parliament without Licence, or for any other occasion arising from these unhappy differences betwixt Your Majesty and both Houses of Parliament, upon the like Petition of both Houses.   

These things being granted and performed, as it hath always been our hearty prayers, so shall we be enabled to make it our hopeful endeavour, That Your Majesty and Your people may enjoy the blessngs of Peace, Truth, and Justice, The Royalty and Greatness of Your Throne may be supported by Your loyal and bountiful Affections of Your People, Their Liberties and Privileges maintained by Your Majesty's Protection and Justice, And this public Honour and Happiness of Your Majesty and all Your Dominions, communicated to other Churches and States of Your Alliance, and derived to Your Royal Posterity, and the future Generations of this Kingdom for ever.    

His MAJESTY'S Answer.  
IF His Majesty had not given up all the Faculties of His Soul to an earnest endeavour of a Peace and Reconciliation with His People, Or if He would suffer Himself by any provocation to be drawn to a sharpness of Language, at a time when there seems somewhat like an Overture of Accommodation, He could not but resent the heavy charges upon Him in the Preamble of these Propositions, and would not suffer Himself to be reproached with protecting of Delinquents by force from Justice (His Majesty's desire having always been, That all Men should be tried by the known Law, and having been refused it) with raising an Army against His Parliament: And to be told, That Arms have been taken up against Him for the defence of Religion, Laws, Liberties, Privileges of Parliament; And for the sitting of the Parliament in safety, with many other particulars in that Preamble, so often and so fully answered by His Majesty without remembering the world of the time, and circumstances of raising those Arms against Him; When His Majesty was so far from being in a condition to invade other men's Rights, that He was not able to maintain and defend His own from violence. And without telling His good Subjects, That their Religion (the true Protestant Religion in which His Majesty was born, hath faithfully lived, and to which He will die a willing Sacrifice) their Laws, Liberties, Privileges, and safety of Parliament, were so amply settled and established, or offered to be so by His Majesty, before any Army was raised against Him, and long before any raised by Him for His defence, That if nothing had been directed, but that Peace and Protection which His Subjects, and their Ancectors had in the best times enjoyed under His Majesty, or His Royal Predecessors, this misunderstanding and distance between His Majesty and His People; and this general misery and distraction upon the Face of the whole Kingdom had not been now the Discourse of Christendom; But His Majesty will forbear any expressions of bitterness, or of a sense of His own sufferings, That if it be possible the memory thereof may be lost to the World; And therefore though many of the Propositions presented to His Majesty by both Houses appear to Him very derogatory from, and destructive to His Just Power and Prerogative, and no way beneficial to His Subjects; few of them being already due unto them by the Laws established (And how unparliamentary it is by Arms to require new Laws, all the world may judge) yet (because these may be waved, or mollified, and many things that are now dark, or doubtful in them, cleared and explained upon debate) His Majesty is pleased (such is His sense of the miseries this Kingdom suffers by this unnatural War. and His earnest desire to remove them by a happy peace) That a speedy time and place be agreed upon for the meeting of such Persons as His Majesty and both Houses shall appoint, to discuss these Propositions, and such others here following, as His Majesty doth propose to them.  
I. THat His Majesties own Revenue, Magazines, Towns, Forts, and Ships, which have been taken or kept from Him by Force, be forthwith restored unto Him.  
II. That whatsoever hath been done or Published contrary to the known Laws of the Land, or derogatory to His Majesty's Legal and known Power, and Rights, be renounced and recalled, that no seed may remain for the like to spring out of, for the future.  
III. That whatsoever Illegal Power hath been claimed and exercised by, or over His Subjects, as Imprisoning their Persons, without Law stopping their Hebeas Corpuses, and imposings upon their Estates without Act of Parliament, etc. Either by both or either Houses, or any Committee of both or either, or by any Persons appointed by any of them, be disclaimed, and all such Persons so committed forthwith discharged.  
iv That as His Majesty will readily consent (having done so heretofore) to the Execution of all Laws already made, and to any good Acts to be made for the suppressing of Popery, and for the firm settling of the Protestant Religion now established by Law; So He desires that a good Bill may be framed for the better preserving of the Book of Common Prayer, from the scorn and violence of Brownists, Anabaptists, and other Sectaries, with such Clauses for the ease of tender Consciences as His Majesty hath formerly offered.  
V That all such Persons as upon the Treaty shall be excepted out of the general pardon, shall be tried per Pares, according to the usual Course and known Laws of the Land; and that it be left to that, either to acquit or condemn them.  
VI And to the intent this Treaty may not suffer Interruption by any intervening accidents, That a Cessation of Arms, and a free trade for all His Majesty's Subjects may be first agreed upon.  
This Offer and desire of His Majesty, He hopes will be so cheerfully entertained, that a speedy and blessed Peace may be accomplished: If it shall be rejected, or by insisting upon unreasonable Circumstances be made impossible (which He hopes God in his mercy to this Nation, will not suffer) the guilt of the Blood which will be shed, and the desolation which must follow, will lie upon the Heads of the refusers; However His Majesty is resolved, through what Accidents soever, He shall be compelled to recover His Rights, and with what prosperous successes soever it shall please God to bless Him, That by his earnest constant Endeavours to Propagate and Promote the true Protestant Religion, and by His governing according to the known Laws of the Land, and upholding the just Privileges of Parliament, according to His frequent Protestations made before Almighty God, which He will always inviolably observe; the world shall see, That He hath undergone all these difficulties, and hazards, for the defence and maintenance of those; The zealous preservation of which, His Majesty well knows, is the only foundation and means for the true happiness of Him and His People.  
FINIS.