Their Answer. 1. February.
[ CLXXXI] WE have not yet received Instructions concerning His Majesties Propositions, and shall therefore acquaint the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England with the desires expressed in that Paper, who having taken those Instructions into their consideration before our coming from them, will send them to us in time convenient.
After, upon the third of February, His Majesties Commissioners delivered this Paper con∣cerning His Majesties sixth Proposition, for a Cessation of Arms. 3. February.
[ CLXXXII] WE desire to know whether your Lordships have received any Instructions con∣cerning that Proposition of His Majesties for a Cessation; and if your Lordships have not received any, that you will endeavour to procure Authority to Treat thereup∣on, which we have power to do, and conceive it very necessary, that during the time we are endeavouring to establish a blessed and happy Peace, the issues of. Blood may be stopped in this miserable Kingdom, and His Majesties oppressed and languishing Subjects have some earnest and prospect of the Peace we are endeavouring, by God's blessing, to procure for them.
To this no particular Answer was given.