Basiliká the works of King Charles the martyr : with a collection of declarations, treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt His said Majesty and his two houses of Parliament : with the history of his life : as also of his tryal and martyrdome.

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Title: Basiliká the works of King Charles the martyr : with a collection of declarations, treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt His said Majesty and his two houses of Parliament : with the history of his life : as also of his tryal and martyrdome.
Author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
Publication: London :: Printed for Ric. Chiswell ...,; 1687.
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Subject terms: Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649.; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
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The Papers concerning an Oath for Officers.

March 29. 1643.

WE are humbly to desire Your Majesty, that all Generals and Commanders in any of the Armies on either side, as likewise the Lord Admiral of England, the Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports, all Commanders of any Ships, and Commanders of any Town, Castle or Fort, may take an Oath to observe the Articles formerly men∣tioned, and to use their utmost power to preserve the true Reformed Protestant Reli∣gion, and the Peace of the Kingdom, against all Foreign Forces, and all other Forces raised without Your Majesty's Authority and Consent of the two Houses of Parlia∣ment.

Northumberland.
W. Pierrepont.
W. Armyne.
J. Holland.
B. Whitelocke.

April 5. 1643.

HIS Majesty conceives the Oaths which all those Officers are already by Law obli∣ged to take, to be very fully sufficient: But if any thing shall be made appear unto Him necessary to be added thereunto, when there shall be a full and peaceable Convocation in Parliament, His Majesty will readily consent to an Act for such an addition.

Falkland.

April 10. 1643.

BY Instructions yesterday received from both Houses of Parliament, we are com∣manded humbly to inform Your Majesty, that both Houses of Parliament con∣ceive the ordinary Oaths of the Officers, mentioned in Your Answer concerning the same, are not sufficient to secure them against the extraordinary causes of Jealousie which have been given them in these troublesome times; and that Your Majesty's Answer lays some tax upon the Parliament, as if defective, and thereby uncapable of making such a provisional Law for an Oath: Therefore we are humbly to insist upon our former de∣sires for such an Oath as is mentioned in those Papers which we have formerly presented to Your Majesty concerning this matter.

Northumberland.
John Holland.
W. Armyne.
W. Pierrepont.
B. Whitelocke.

April 14. 1643.

HIS Majesty did not refuse by His former Answer to consent to any such Oath as shall be thought necessary, though He did, and doth still, conceive the Oaths already settled by Law to be sufficient; neither did He ever suppose the Parliament in∣capable of making a provisional Law for such an Oath: but as He would be willing to apply any proper remedy to the extraordinary causes of Jealousies, if He could see that there were such causes: so He will be always most exact in observing the Arti∣cles agreed on in preserving the true Reformed Protestant Religion, and the Peace of the Kingdom against Foreign Forces, and other Forces raised or imployed against Law. And when both Houses shall prepare and present such an Oath as they shall make appear to His Majesty to be necessary to those ends, His Majesty will readily consent to it.