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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
Publication: London :: Printed for Ric. Chiswell ...,; 1687.
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His MAJESTIES Message to both Houses in pursuance of the former. From Oxford, Dec. 15. 1645.

For the Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore.

CHARLES R.

HIS Majesty cannot but extreamly wonder, that after so many expressions on your part of a deep and seeming sense of the Miseries of this afflicted Kingdom, and of the Dangers incident to His Person during the continuance of this unnatural War, your many great and so often repeated Protestations, that the raising these Arms hath been only for the necessary defence of God's true Religion, His Majesties Honour, Safety and Prosperity, the Peace, Comfort and Security of His People, you should delay a safe Conduct to the Per∣sons mentioned in His Majesties Message of the fifth of this instant December, which are to be sent unto you with Propositions for a well-grounded Peace: a thing so far from having been at any time denied by His Majesty, whensoever you have desired the same, that He believes it hath been seldom (if ever) practised among the most avowed and professed Enemies, much less from Subjects to their King. But His Majesty is resolved that no Discouragements what∣soever shall make Him fail of His part in doing his uttermost endeavours to put an end to these Calamities, which, if not in time prevented, must prove the ruin of this unhappy Nation; and therefore doth once again desire, that a safe Conduct may be forthwith sent for those Persons expressed in His former Message: and doth therefore conjure you, as you will answer to Al∣mighty God in that Day when He shall make inquisition for all the Blood that hath and may yet be spilt in this unnatural War, as you tender the preservation and establishment of the true Religion, by all the Bonds of Duty and Allegiance to your King, or Compassion to your bleeding and unhappy Country, and of Charity to your selves, that you dispose your hearts to a true sense, and imploy all your faculties in a more serious Endeavour together with His Majesty, to set a speedy end to these wasting Divisions; and then He shall not doubt but that God will yet again give the Blessing of Peace to this distracted Kingdom.

Given at the Court at Oxford, the fifteenth of December, 1645.