The King's Commissioners Answer, 20. Febr.
[ CLXVIII] VVE do not hold our selves any ways obliged to answer your Lordships Demand, whether any Commission be on foot, or other Authority from His Majesty, for a Peace or Cessation of Arms in Ireland (that Question not arising upon any Propositi∣ons on His Majesties part:) yet for your Lordships satisfaction, we do again assure you, we do not know there is any Peace or Cessation made there, other than that which determines in March next. But what Commission the Marquess of Ormond, as Lievtenant of Ireland, or General of the Forces there, hath to that purpose, we do not know, and therefore cannot inform your Lordships. And as to the other particulars in that Paper, we do* 1.1 re∣fer our selves to the Answers formerly given in to your Lordships Demands touching that Subject, with this, that we do conceive it to be most clear, that His Majesty is in no wise restrained by express words, or by the meaning of any Act made this Parliament, from making a Peace or Cessation in Ireland without the consent of the two Houses.