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.

His MAJESTIES Answer to the Votes.

For the Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore, and William Lenthal, Speaker of the House of Commons. Carisbrook, Monday 28. August, 1648.

MY Lord, and Master Speaker, I have received your Letter of the 25. of this Month, with the Votes that you sent Me, which though they are not so full as I could have wished, for the perfecting of a Treaty, yet because I conceive by what you have done, that I am in some measure fit to begin one, such is My uncessant and earnest desire to give a Peace to these My now distracted Dominions, as I accept the Treaty, and therefore desire that such five Lords and ten Commoners as My two Hou∣ses shall appoint, be speedily sent, fully Authorized and Instructed to Treat with Me▪ not doubting but what is now wanting, will at our meeting upon Debate be fully sup∣plied, not only to the furtherance of this Treaty, but also to the consummating of a safe and well-grounded Peace. So I rest,

Your good Friend, CHARLES R.

Here Inclosed I have sent you a List that ye have desired.

I desire in order to one of your Votes, that ye would send Me a free pass for Parsons, one of the Grooms of My Presence-Chamber, to go into Scotland, and that ye would immediately send him to Me to receive the Dispatch thither.

The List.

• Duke Richmond, Marq. Hartford, Earl Lindsey, Earl Southampton, Gentlemen of My Bed-Chamber.
• George Kirke, James Leviston, Henry Murrey, John Ashburnham, William Leg, Grooms of My Bed-Chamber.
• Thomas Davise, Barber.
• Hugh Henne, Humph. Rogers, William Levett, Pages of My Back-Stairs.
• —Rives, Yeoman of My Robes.
• Sir Ed. Sidenham, Robert Terwitt, John Housden, Querries, with four or six of My Footmen, as they find fittest to wait.
• Mistress Wheeler Landress, with such Maids as she will chuse.
• —Parsons, a Groom of My Presence.
• Sir Fulke Grevill, Captain Titus, Captain Burroughs, Master Cresset,—Hansted, Ab. Dowsett,—Firebrace, to wait as they did, or as I shall appoint them.
• Bishop of London, Bishop of Salisbury, Doctor Shelden, Doctor Hammond, Doctor Holdsworth, Doctor Sanderson, Doctor Turner, Doctor Heywood, Chaplains.
• Sir Thomas Gardiner, Sir Or. Bridgman, Sir Ro. Holbourne, Mr. Geffrey Palmer, Mr. Tho∣mas Cooke, Mr. J. Vaughan, Lawyers.
• Sir Edward Walker, Mr. Phil. Warwick, Nic. Oudart, Charles Whitaker, Clarks and Writers.
• Peter Newton, Clem. Kinersley, to make ready the House for Treating.