II. That whatsoever hath been done or published contrary to the known Laws of
the Land, or derogatory to His Majesty's Legal and known Power and Rights, be
renounced and recalled; that no seed may remain for the like to spring out of for the
future.
III. That whatsoever illegal Power hath been claimed or exercised by or over His
Subjects, as Imprisoning or putting to Death their Persons without Law, stopping their
Habeas Corpus's, and imposing upon their Estates without Act of Parliament, &c. ei∣ther
by both or either House, or any Committee of both or either, or by any Persons
appointed by any of them, be disclaimed, and all such persons so committed forthwith
discharged.
IV. That as His Majesty hath always professed His readiness to that purpose, so He
will most chearfully consent to any good Acts to be made for the suppression of Po∣pery,
and for the firmer settling of the Protestant Religion established by Law; as also
that a good Bill may be framed for the better preserving of the Book of Common-Prayer
from scorn and violence; and that another Bill may be framed for the ease of
tender Consciences, in such particulars as shall be agreed upon. For all which His Ma∣jesty
conceives the best expedient to be, that a National Synod be legally called with all
convenient speed.
V. That all such persons as upon the Treaty shall be excepted, and agreed upon on
either side, out of the General Pardon, shall be tried per Pares, according to the usual
course and known Law of the Land, and that it be left to that either to acquit or con∣demn
them.
VI. And to the intent this Treaty may not suffer interruption by any intervening Ac∣cidents,
that a Cessation of Arms, and free Trade for all His Majesty's Subjects, may be
agreed upon with all possible speed.
Given at the Court at Oxford, the 21th. day of Jan. 1644.