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.

XXXVI. From CARISBROOK, Aug. 28. MDCXLVIII. For some of His Council and others to attend Him at the Treaty.

For the Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore, and William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons.

MY Lord, and Master Speaker, I have received your Letter of the twenty fifth 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 con∣ceive 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 Kingdoms, as I accept the Treaty; and therefore desire that such five Lords and ten Commons as My two Houses 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 supplied, 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 is inclosed a List of the Names of such Persons as I desire.

GEntlemen of My Bedchamber, Duke Richmond, Marquess Hertford, Earl Lindsey, Earl Southampton.

Grooms of My Bedchamber, George Kirk, James Leviston, Henry Murry, John Ash∣burnham, William Leg.

Thomas Davise, Barber.

Pages of My back stairs, Hugh Henne, Humphrey Rogers, William Lever.

Rives, Yeoman of My Robes.

Querries, with four or five of My Footmen, as they find fittest to wait, Sir Edward Sidenham, Robert Terwit, Jo. Housden.

Mrs. Wheeler Landress, with such Maids as she shall chuse.

Parsons, a Groom of the Presence.

Sir Fulk Grevil, Captain Titus, Captain John Burroughs, Mr. Cresset, . . . Hansted, Abraham Douset, Henry Firebrace, to wait as they did, or as I shall appoint them.

Bishop of London, B. of Sarum, Dr. Shelden, Dr. Hammond, Dr. Holdsworth, Dr. Sanderson, Dr. Turner, Dr. Heywood.

Lawyers, Sir Thomas Gardiner, Sir Orlando Bridgman, Sir Robert Holborn, Mr. Geffery Palmer, Mr. Thomas Cooke, Mr. James Vaughan.

Clarks and Writers, Sir Edward Walker, Mr. Philip Warwick, Nicholas Oudart, Charles Whittaker.

To make ready the House for Treaty, Peter Newton, Clem. Kinersley.

I desire in Order to one of your Votes, that you would send Me a free pass for Par∣sons, one of the Grooms of My Presence-Chamber, to go into Scotland, and that you would immediately send him to Me, to receive the dispatch thither.