The proceedings in the late treaty of peace·: Together with severall letters of his Majesty to the Queen, and of Prince Rupert to the Earle of Northampton, which were intercepted and brought to the Parliament. With a declaration of the Lords and Commons upon those proceedings and letters. Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that these proceedings, letters, and declaration be forthwith printed. H. Elsing Cler. Parliament. Dom. Com.

CHARLES REX,

TO shew to the whole World how earnestly His Majesty longs for peace, and that no successe shall make him desire the continuance of his Army to any other end, or for any longer time then that, and untill things may be so setled, as that the Law may have a full, free, and uninterrupted course for the defence and preser∣vation of the Rights of His Majesty, both Houses and his good Subjects.

1. As soon as His Majesty is satisfied in His first Proposition concerning His owne Revenue, Magazines, Ships, and Forts, in which he desires nothing but that the just, knowne legall Rights of his Majesty (devolved to Him from His Progenitors) and of the persons trusted by Him, which have violently been taken from both, be restored unto Him, and unto them, unlesse any just and legall exceptions against any of the persons trusted by Him (which are yet un∣known to His Majesty) can be made appeare to Him.

2. As soon as all the Members of both Houses shall be restored to the same capacity of sitting and voting in Parliament as they had upon the first of Janu∣ary, 1641. the same of right belonging unto them by their birth-rights, and the free election of those that sent them, and having been voted from them for ad∣hering to His Maiesty in these distractions; His Majesty not intending that this should extend either to the Bishops whose Votes have been taken away by Bill; or to such in whose places upon new Writs new elections have been made.

3. As soon as His Majesty and both Houses may be secured from such tu∣multuous assemblies, as to the great breach of the priviledges, and the high dis∣honour of Parliaments have formerly assembled about both Houses, and awed the Members of the same, and occasioned two severall complaints from the Lords house, and two severall desires of that house to the house of Commons to joyn in a Declaration against them, the complying with which desire might have prevented all these miserable distractions, which have ensued. Which se∣curity his Maiesty conceives can be onely setled by adiourning the Parliament to some other place, at the least twenty miles from London, the choice of which his Maiesty leaves to both houses.

His Majesty wil most cheerefully and readily consent that both Armies be immediately disbanded, and give a present meeting to both his Houses

of Parliament at the time and place, at and to which the Parliament shall be agreed to be adjourned.

His Majesty being most confident that the Law will then recover the due credit and estimation, and that upon a free debate in a full and peace∣able convention of Parliament, such Provisions will be made against se∣dicious preaching and printing against his Majesty, and the establisht Lawes, which hath been one of the chiefe causes of the present distracti∣ons, and such care will be taken concerning the legall and known Rights of his Majesty and the property and liberty of his Subjects, that what∣soever hath been publisht or done in or by colour of any illegall Declara∣tion, Ordinance, or Order of one or both Houses, or any Committee of either of them, and particularly the power to raise Armes without His Maiesties consent, will be in such manner recalled, disclaimed, and provi∣ded against that no seed will remain for the like to spring out of, for the future, to disturbe the peace of the Kingdome, and to endanger the very being of it.

And in such a convention his Majesty is resolved by his readinesse to consent to whatsoever shall be proposed to him by Bill, for the reall good of his Subjects, (and particularly for the better discovery and speedier conviction of Recusants, for the education of the children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant religion, for the prevention of practises of Papists against the State, and the due execution of the Lawes, and true leavying of the penalties against them) to make known to all the World how causelesse those feares and jealousies have been, which have been rai∣sed against him, and by that so distracted this miserable Kingdome.

And if this offer of His Majesty be not consented to (in which he askes no∣thing for which there is not apparent Iustice on His side, and in which He defers many things highly concerning both Himselfe and People, till a full and peace∣able convention of Parliament, which in Justice He might now require) His Majesty is confident that it will then appeare to all the World, not onely who is most desirous of peace, and whose default it is that both Armies are not now disbanded, but who hath been the true and first cause that this peace was ever interrupted, or these Armies raised, and the beginning or continuance of the War, and the destruction and desolation of this poore Kingdome (which is too likely to ensue) will not by the most interressed, passionate or prejudicate person be imputed to His Maiesty.