The King's Commissioners Answer. 17. Feb.
[ CIV] VVE conceive it was just and reasonable for us to demand of your Lordships, whether you had power by your Instructions to consent to a limitation of Time concerning the Militia, because the Time is left indefinite, and not expressed in the Propositions And your Lordships Commission, which gives you power to Treat, relating to Instructions, they are thereby part of your Power: and yet your Lordships to that our Demand have given no other Answer than, That by your Instructions you were to insist to have the Time unlimited; but have not answered whether you had power to consent to a limitation of Time. And we desire your Lord∣ships to remember, that formerly upon our desire to see your Instructions, that thereby we might see what Power was granted to you, by your* 1.1 Paper of the last of January, your Lordships did answer, it was that for which you had no warrant; and it appearing to your Lordships that our Commission hath no reference to Instructions, we conceive that your Lordships cannot expect any other Answer than we have already given to your Lordships Demand touching any Instructions or Directions to us, what to deny or consent to grant in the Militia, assuring your Lordships, that we shall not deny, but willingly consent, to grant whatsoever shall be therein requisite for a full security for ob∣serving the Articles of the Treaty, or otherwise agreeable to Justice or Reason.