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.

After the Commissions read, their Commissioners delivered to His Majesty's Commis∣sioners this Paper.

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.

Ult. January.

[ XIV] VVE having perused the Power granted to your Lordships,* 1.1 in the Paper de∣livered by the Earl of Northumberland, and finding the same to relate to Instructions, we desire to see those Instructions, that thereby we may know what Po∣wer is granted to you: and we ask this the rather, because by the Powers we have seen, we do not find that your Lordships, in the absence of any one of your number, have power to Treat.

Their Answer 31. January.

[ XV] BY our Instructions we or any Ten of us, whereof some of either House of the Parliament of England, and some of the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scot∣land, to be present, have power to Treat with your Lordships.

Their farther Answer, ult. Jan.

[ XVI] VVHereas your Lordships have expressed unto us a desire of seeing our Instru∣ctions, to know what Power is granted us; and this the rather, because you say you find not by what you have seen, that in the absence of any one of our number we have power to Treat: to this we return in Answer, That since the Paper already delivered in by us, declaring that by our Instructions any Ten of us, whereof some of either House of Parliament of England, and some of the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland, to be present, had power to Treat with your Lordships, hath not given you satisfaction in the particular of the Quorum, we shall send unto the two Houses of Parliament, to have the Quorum inserted in the Commission, and do expect the return of it so amended within two or three days, when we shall present it unto your Lordships. But as for your desire in general to see our Instructions, it is that for which we have no Warrant, nor is it, as we conceive, at all necessary, or proper for us so to do, for that the Propositions upon which we now Treat have been already pre∣sented from the Parliaments of both Kingdoms unto His Majesty, and whatsoever is propounded by us in order unto them, is sufficiently warranted by what both Parlia∣ments have done in the passing and sended of those Propositions, and by the Commis∣sions authorizing us to Treat upon them already shewn unto your Lordships; so as there can be no need to shew any other Power.

Accordingly on Saturday the first of February they did deliver their Commission for the English Commissioners renewed as followeth.

Die Sabbati primo Febr.

[ XVII] BE it Ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that Alger∣non Earl of Northumberland, Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, William Earl of Salisbury, Basil Earl of Denbigh, Thomas Lord Viscount Wenman, Denzil Hollis, William Pierrepont, Sir Henry Vane junior, Oliver St. John, Bulstrode Whitelock, John Crew, and Edmund Prideaux, shall have power and authority, and are hereby autho∣rized, to joyn with the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland, together with Alexander Henderson upon the Propositions concerning Religion only, or any Ten of them, whereof some of either House of the Parliament of England, and some of the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland, are to be present, to Treat with the Lord Duke of Richmond, the Marquess of Hartford, the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Kingston, the Lord Dunsmore, Lord Capel, Lord Seymour, Sir Christopher Hatton, Sir John Culpeper, Sir Edward Nicholas, Sir Edward Hyde. Sir Richard Lane, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Sir Thomas Gardner, Master John Ashburnham, and Master Jeffrey Palmer, or any Ten of them, upon the Propositions formerly sent to His Majesty (for a safe and well-grounded Peace,) from His Majesty's humble and Loyal Subjects assembled in the Parliaments of both Kingdoms, together with Doctor Steward upon the Propositions concerning Religion only, and upon His Majesty's Propositions, according to such In∣structions as have been given to them, or as they from time to time shall receive from both Houses of Parliament.

Jo. Browne Cler. Parliam.

Notes

• * 1.1

  All their Commissi∣oners were not then come to Vxbridge.