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.

Here ended the first three days of the Treaty concerning Ireland; and the night before the re∣turn of the next three days, their Commissioners delivered this Paper, 17. February.

[ CXLVII] WE conceived that the Arguments used by us, that His Majesty neither had, nor hath Power to make the Cessation with the Rebels of Ireland, might have fully satisfied your Lordships; and if any Doubts yet remain, we are ready by Conference to clear them. Your Lordships may well call to mind the several Clauses we insisted upon in the Statute, and the Arguments we have given from the Common-Law, and other Proceedings in Parliament: And we do affirm that several great Sums of Money were paid by particular Persons and by Corporations, who, according to the true intent of the Statute, ought to have the benefit of the same, according to divers other Acts of Parliament in pursuance thereof; and upon failer of Payment by any particular Persons, the Forfeiture was to accrue to the common benefit of the rest, not failing; and we do deny that the Argument of Interest was at all waved by us. And we conceive those Wants alledged by your Lordships (if any such were) in justifying the Ces∣sation

were supplied from time to time by the Houses of Parliament, until His Majesties Forces were so quartered in and about the common Roads to Ireland, that Provisions going thither, were intercepted, and neither Money, Cloaths, Victuals, or other things could pass by Land with safety to be transported. And when that both Houses of Parliament were desirous further to supply those Wants, and for that purpose did tender a Bill to His Majesty, it was refused. And we will still alledge, that we have no reason to be satisfied concerning the Cessation by any Arguments used by your Lordships, or by any thing con∣tained in the Extracts of the Letters and Papers delivered to us by your Lordships, as from the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland, and the Officers of the Army; nor (though desired by us) have your Lordships afforded us liberty to compare those Extracts with the Originals, whereby we might have the Names of the Persons by whom they were written, which we now again desire. We are therefore still clearly of opinion as is expressed in our former Paper of the 10. of February, concerning the Cessation, and do desire your Lordships full Answer to our Demands concerning Ireland.