The annals of King James and King Charles the First ... containing a faithful history and impartial account of the great affairs of state, and transactions of parliaments in England from the tenth of King James MDCXII to the eighteenth of King Charles MDCXLII : wherein several material passages relating to the late civil wars (omitted in former histories) are made known.

After this, the Lord Keeper spake as followeth.

MY Lords, and ye the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of Commons, his Majesty hath commanded me to say unto you, That he takes it in good part, that in con∣sideration of settling your own Liberties, ye have generally professed in both Houses, that ye have no intention to lessen or diminish his Maje∣sties Prerogative; wherein as ye have cleared your own intentions, so now his Majesty comes to clear his, and to subscribe a firm League with his People, which is ever likely to be most con∣stant and perpetual, when the Conditions are equal, and known to be so: These cannot be in a more happy estate, than when your Liber∣ties shall be an ornament and a strength to his Majesties Prerogative, and his Prerogative a de∣fence of your Liberties; in which his Majesty doubts not, but both he and you shall take a mu∣tual comfort hereafter; and, for his part, he is

resolved to give an example, in the using of his power for the preservation of your Liberties, that hereafter ye shall have no cause to complain. This is the sum of that which I am to say to you from his Majesty: And that which farther re∣mains, is, That you hear read your own Peti∣tion, and his Majesties gracious Answer.

The Petition exhibited to his Majesty by the Lords Spi∣ritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, concerning divers Rights and Liberties of the Subjects, with the King's Majesties Royal Answer thereunto in full Parlia∣ment.