His MAJESTIES Quaeres to the Scots Commissioners upon Thursday the 14. of January, 1646-7.
IT is a received Opinion by many, That Ingagements, Acts, or Promises of a re∣strained Person, are neither valid nor obligatory. How true or false this is I will not now dispute: But I am sure, if I be not free, I am not fit to an∣swer your or any Propositions. Wherefore you should first resolve Me in what state I stand (as in relation to Freedom) before I can give you any other Answer. (The Reason of this My Question the Governour can best resolve you,) But if you object the loss of time and urgency of it; certainly in one respect it presses none so much as My self: which makes Me also think it necessary (that I be not to seek what to do when this Garrison shall be surrendred up) to demand of you, in case I go into Scotland, if I shall be there with Honour, Freedom and Safety, or how. Being ready to give you a farther and more particular Answer, how soon you shall have resolved these two Quaeres.