THE DESIRE and ADVICE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT TO His MAjESTY, THAT The next Assize and general Goale-delivery may not be Holden, &c.  
WITH HIS majesties gracious Answer thereunto February 21. 1642.  

Printed by His MAjESTIES Command AT OXFORD, February 24.   
By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the university. 1642.   

TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT majesty.  
THE Lords and Commons in Parliament humbly show, That your Iustices and other liege people, who are or shall bee summoned, or have other cause to attend as the next Assize, and general Gaole-delivery appointed to be shortly kept in the several Counties of England and Wales, cannot resort thither without great peril of their lives, and damage to their Estates, by reason of the present miserable Distractions, and being of Armed Forces in all parts of Your realm, In regard whereof, the Lords and Commons do humbly advice and desire Your Majesty to command, That the said assizes and general Goale-delivery be not holden as is appointed, But that the same may be deferred until it shall please God to restore Peace unto Your People.   

HIS majesties gracious ANSWER to the fore-going Desire and Advice.  
HIS Majesty hath weighed the Advice and Desire of the Lords& Commons, sent in a Letter to the Lord of Falkland, from the earl of Manchester, concerning the putting ●ff the general Assizes, and Gaole-delivery throughout the kingdom. To which His majesty returns this Answer; That the present bloody Distraction of the kingdom( which his Majesty hath used all possible means to prevent, and will still to remove) doth afflict his Majesty under no Consideration more, then of the great interruption and stop it makes in the Course and Proceedings of Iustice, and the Execution of the laws whereby his good Subjects are robbed of the Peace and Security they were born to; And therefore as much as in Him lies, he will advance that onely means of their happiness, at least they shall see that their sufferings that way proceed not from His majesty. And since they may now expect, by the laws, Statutes and customs of the kingdom, the Assizes and general Gaole-delivery in every county, His majesty thinks not fit to command the contrary, but will take severe and precise Order, that none of His good Subjects shall receive the least prejudice, as they repair thither, by any of his Majesties Forces; Which Rule he shall be glad to see observed by others; And then He hopes by the due execution of the laws, even these public Calamities may have some abatement, and the kingdom recover its former Peace and prosperity.  
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