A Letter sent to His MAJESTY: by an Honourable Member of the House of COMMONS.  
SIR,  
BY necessary Persuasion and inducement on the behalf of myself & the other your faithful subjects members of your house of Commons accused of high Treason: I am forced to inform your Majesty of the integrity of our affections and innocency of our proceeding, in the great affairs of this Common wealth wherein we have been employed by your Majesty.  
Besides our sorrows (which pressed us very sore and still remaineth upon us) the troubles and grief that fell upon us, for the lamentable breaches in Church and State, and so your sacreed Majesty and hopeful offspring filled up our sorrows and in our thoughts were grieved that such fears and desolations fell out in your days, we confess that charity suspects not, and the best minds think the least hurt, and the freer a man is from vice in himself, the more charitable he is of others, and this is that which hath proved prejudical to your Majesty, but had your MAJESTY been the first that had been misinformed, or ill rewarded it would be an hard thing to command patience, but grief is asweged by precedents or examples. It is true your Majesty being misinformed against us your faithful servants and subjects, your Majesty thought to have dealt with us, as Joseph thought to have dealt with Mary, and so put them a way far from you, but with Mary they travilled as it were with child, and that which they traviled withal might not appear an illegtinate the only wise God sent as it were an Angel unto you, to let you see that like Mary they being contracted unto you in love they have not as yet defiled their marriage bed, but remain like Mary faithful to their head and Sovereign; And your Majesty seduced by false opinions from others against them, we hope you will be now reduced to them by true persuasions; and that you may be so the only wise God, that gave your Majesty your being, and so knew you better than yourself, hath dealt with your Majesty as he did with Adam in Paradise, provided you a meet helper, when with Adam you thought we need of it; And if your Majesty yield as Adam did in sparing a superfluous rib, will become a great gainer, for your Majesty shall not only lose those who may very well be spared, but you will gain to yourself and posterity a meet helper, that will endeavour by all means that may be lawful to ease you of the many burdens that lie heavy upon you, and considering the pains of that body whereof you are the head, great injustice is done them by accusing them; for by this means your good subjects are bereft of those benefits that ought to be common to all: As for your Commons, they go not about to steal your favour, but purchase them legally, and are become unto you as Abraham's servant was unto his Mr. who would not either eat or drink, until he had done his Master's business; And I dare say if your Commons (as the late menopolits and others did seek themselves or their own advantages more than the good of King & Kingdom, they would have been received after so much labour before now, but we say as Adam and let us be but one and that it might have been so we have been willing to be separated from our demesticke employments, yea, to forsake all and run through many hazards and perilous dangers to cleave only to your Majesty in a solemn contract, therefore to make up the contract you must part with your evil Councillors that are near unto you and spare a part to save the rest, being done it will prove to your Majesty as comfortable and welcome as Rebeckca was in Isaakes tent. This happy match being made, it would not only refresh your people but make glad your hearts in these tims of fears & dangers, it is the nighest way to a blessing, and the hopes of this is that which hath brought us to renew and confirm the Covenant that your Majesty made with us; from your first entrance to the Crown, and because you could not swear by no greater, swore by the Eternal God that you would defend us, and at the first of our contract we made but one, your power and all that you had was ours to defend us; and do us good; But those now near you and about you have set your Majesty against us, and persuade you to beat us, and force us to obedience; though of ourselves willing to obey: being fore troubled within ourselves, when we see your your Majesty (who is become our head and husband) strange unto us, but we hope these unnatural breaches being composed and reconciled love will be united stronger than before, wherefore be reconciled to your Commons and to us your faithful and Loyal servants shall live love and die together and be more firm in your new unian then ever divided in your heart unkindnesses so shall you meet in the end and new Por● but be like Rachel and Leah which two built up th● house of Israel, we have endeavoured to put you in away to unity now you are in the way keep it, it is said that whilst Abraham servant was in in the way God blessed him, the same God bless your Majesty and for your comfort and encouragement know by somuch that you grow to perfection by how much you draw ne'er to unity we confess had the baules and baulums of our times been so evil as they would have been the world had been overcome with evil but such is the wisdom of God that offtimes he hides from evil men those times and seasons that might prove prejudicicall to his People, but we have seen and felt, both great inward sorrow and outward perplexity that by the means of our baalems your Majesty is become to your People and commons as the Angel are unto Gideon and so made them afraid, but we humbly and earnestly desire your Majesty to recomfort your People by returning to the wholesome council of your Parliament, and enjoy them again by a willing contract and not by ravishment, we shall you appease unto your your People like moses who had more glory by his veil then by his face and we doubt not but when all things thus be made manifest, and the integrity and innocency of our proceed rightly understood by your Majesty, but that one faithful david will be in more account with your Majesty then all the Pharasites and Atchittophells of your camp, for our plain conditions we doubt 〈◊〉 but the effect of our endeavoures will make it appear to all the world (to the Conunceing or confusion o● our malitions enemies, who are no otherwise to you● Majesty if they might be onceased) and satisfaction o● your M. that we have aimed at nothing but the word of God in defending his true Religion your Majesty person and posterity from force and violence, and the fundamental Laws of this Kingdom, and just prerogatives of the Crown from distraction.  
FJNJS.