A soveraign antidote to prevent, appease, and determine our unnaturall and destructive civill warres and dissentions. Wherein divers serious considerations tending to this purpose are propounded both to the King and subjects, the Parliaments and Sir Iohn Hothams proceedings at Hull and in the militia justified, Sr Iohn Hothams actions proved to be neither treason, felony, nor trespas, by the laws of the land, nor any just ground or cause at all for his Majestie to rayse an army, or a most unnaturall civill warre in his kingdome. With a most serious exhortation both to the King and subjects to embrace and preserve peace and abandon civill warres, with other matters worthy of consideration.

The second PROPOSITION.

THE second Proposition is this: That the King ought not to deny or deferr justice or right to any of his subjects, much lesse to the whole Kingdom. This is manifested both by the expresse words of Magna Cha••ta c. 29. Nul•••• vendemus, nulli negabimus vel differemus justisiam v••l rec•••••• and by many excellent Statutes since, as 2 E. 3. c. 8. 14 E. 3. c. 14. 20 E. 3. c. 1, 2. 1 Rev. 2. cap. 11.

It will then be worthy His Majsties serious second thoughts to consider.

First whether his voluntary withdrawing himselfe from his Parliament to York, (which hath much retarded, if not wholly frustrated all Parliamentary Proceedings, since for the safety and wel-fare both of this Kingdome and 〈◊〉〈◊〉) be not an apparant violation of this part of his Royall Duty.

Secondly, whither his peremptory refusall to passe some necessary usefull Acts for the good of the whole Realme ••pon a pretended discontent against the Parlia∣ment and Sir Iohn Hot••am, and a private vow (as some re∣port) not to passe any Act whatsoever, till he received

justice in Parliament against Sir Iohn Hotham, for the bu∣sinesse of Hull, and his refusall to settle the Militia, for the safety of the Kingdome by Act of Parliament, or other∣wise, be not an apparant breach of this trust and parcell of his Kingly office.

Thirdly, whether his detaining of the Lord Keeper and great Seale at Yorke, whereby many subjects processes, and causes have been delayed, their suites retarded, and some of them quite lost, be not an apparant deviation from this Proposition.

Fourthly, whether his absolute denyall to disclose the Accusers & Informers against the Lord of Kimbolton, and other 5 Parliament men, that so they might acquit themselves, and have right and justice against them for their malicious false suggestions, runs not point blank a∣gainst this irrefragable Proposition, and be not a flat de∣nyall of common Right and Justice to those eminent Persons.

Fifthly, whether it be not an apparant Uiolation and denying of Justice, for his Majestie to proclaime Sir Iohn Hotham a Traytor, and demand Judgement against him as such a one before his cause was rightly stated, or re∣solved to be Treason by any Court of Justice, or the Parliament.

Sixthly, whether his Majesties raysing of a Civil-warre at this very season in England, his beseiging of Hull, with his slighting and opposing the Parliament in open De∣clarations, even now during the heat of the bloody warrs in Ireland (by meanes whereof those Irish Rebells are ex∣ceedingly encouraged, the Protestant Party and our Sol∣diers there much discouraged, and the Parliament now quite disabled to supply them with Provisions of Ammu∣nition and money which they want, by means whereof the Rebells (now halfe subdued are like to regaine the Forts they formerly lost, and in time wholly to conquer that Kingdome: and so utterly to extirpate the English Nation and Protestant Religion thence) be not a reall tacit denying and delaying of ayd right and justice to that di∣stressed bleeding Kingdome, which now lyes and calls to

his Majestie and the Parliament for present succours and supplies, which this now Civill-warre will in all proba∣bility totally frustrate to the great advancement of Pa∣pists and Roman Religion.

If all these particulars upon serious deliberation prove crosse to this Proposition & his Majesties Regall Office, I presume his graciousnesse, his Royall Love to right and Justice, and his compassion to almost expiring Ireland and England, is such that he will speedily redresse all former errors of this kind, put a speedy period to our domesticke Civill-warres, and move him never to run into the like exorbitances againe.