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.

April. 15. 1643.

HIs Majestie gave so cleare a reason to justifie what he insisted upon in the point of the Ships, that he cannot but wonder to see the same againe prest to him, and yet both the reason he gave, left unanswered, and no other Reason opposed to weigh against it. His Majesties end in this, was not to lay any censure upon their proceedings, but it being necessary to the matter in Question, for his Majestie to say what had been done, and the matter of fact be∣ing such, as it seems could not be repeated, but it must appeare to bee censured; his Majestie did not thinke himselfe bound to bee so tender of seeming to censure their proceedings, as by waving his own true reasonable Justifications, to leave his owne naked and expo∣sed to a generall censure. And his Majestie hopes, that since they esteem his saying, that they have taken his Ships from him contrary to Law to be a Censure, they will either produce that Law by which they tooke them, or free themselves from so just and unconfutable a censure, by a speedie and unlimited restoration. Upon which demand, his Maje∣sties care of his ancient and undoubted Rights, doth oblige him to in∣sist. And when his Maiestie shall thinke fit to make an Admirall, as neere as he can, he shall be such an one, against whom no iust exception can be made, and if any shall be offered, he will readily leave him to the triall of the Law.

Falkland.