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.

His MAJESTIES Message from Tavestock of the 8^th of September, 1644.

To the Lords and Commons of Parliament assembled at Westminster.

CHARLES R.

[ II] IT having pleased God in so eminent a manner lately to bless Our Armies in these parts with success, We do not so much joy in that Blessing for any other consideration, as for the hopes we have that it may be a means to make others lay to heart, as we do, the Miseries brought and continued upon our Kingdom by this unnatural War, and that it may open your Ears, and dispose your Minds to embrace those Offers of Peace and Reconciliation which have been so often and so earnestly made unto you by Us, and from the constant and fervent Endeavours of which We are resolved never to desist. In pursuance whereof We do, upon this Occasion, conjure you to take into consideration Our (too-long-neglect∣ed) Message of the Fourth of July from Evesham, which We again renew unto you; and that you will speedily send Us such an Answer thereunto, as may shew unto Our poor

Subjects some light of a Deliverance from their present Calamities by a happy Accommoda∣tion; toward which We do here engage the Word of a King, to make good all those things which We have therein promised, and really to endeavour a happy conclusion of this Trea∣ty. And so God direct you in the ways of Peace.

Given at Our Court at Tavestock the 8th of September, 1644.