January the 30.
[ XIII] VVE are directed by our Instructions, to Treat with your Lordships upon the Propositions concerning Religion, the Militia, and Ireland, three days a∣piece, (alternis vicibus) during the space of twenty days, from the 30 of January, beginning first with the Propositions of Religion; and accordingly we shall deliver unto your Lordships a Paper to morrow morning upon those Propositions.
Accordingly the Treaty did proceed upon those Subjects three days apiece (alternis vicibus,) beginning with that of Religion upon Friday the last of January, and so con∣tinuing Saturday the first, and Monday the third of February; which was after resu∣med, Tuesday the 11. Wednesday the 12, and Thursday the 13. of February, and again the two last days of the 20. And the like course was held touching the Militia and Ire∣land.
But because the Passages concerning each Subject severally will be more clearly under∣stood, being collected and disposed together under their several heads, therefore all those which concern Religion, the Militia, and Ireland, are put together. And in like man∣ner the Passages preparatory to the Treaty, concerning the Commissions, the Manner of the Treaty, and a Seditious Sermon made the first day appointed for the Treaty, and such as hapned in the Treaty touching His Majesty's Propositions, the demands of farther time to Treat, and other emergent Passages which have no relation to those of Religion, the Militia, and Ireland, are in like manner digested under their several heads, with their particular dates.
And first those which concern the Commissions.
Friday the last of January His Majesty's Commissioners delivered unto their Commis∣sioners this Paper.