This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1753 edition. Excerpt: ... An. is. Car. Land afterwards to communicate it to the Com,642-mons. February. CHARLES R. And the King's' "I T 7"Hereas his Majesty hath, together with a Message on the' V V Treaty proposed a Cessation of Arms to seme Subject. 'both his Houses of Parliament, now sixteen Days 'since, to which, as yet, he haih received no Anc swer: To the end that his Majesty may so clearly 'understand the Houses, that no such Imputations, as have been formerly, may after be laid upon him, 'upon Occasion of any thing that may intervene; 'his Majesty desires, if a Cessatiou snail be approved of by them, . that the Day upon which the Cessa'tion is thought sit to begin, and such particular Limits and Conditions of that Cessation as are ne'cesiary to be understood and agreed on before the Cessation itself can actually begin, be proposed by them at the same Time, with their Approbation of it; since, as his Majesty supposes by the pre sent great Preparation of several Forces of the Earl 'of Essex to march several Ways, that till such Time as this be done, they do not conceive them selves obliged to an actual CeJJation: So neither, till then, doth his Majesty conceive himself obliged to it.' Hereupon the Lords resolved to have a Consserence with the House of Commons, and communicate this Message and the Earl of Essex's Letter to them; and to desire that a Committee of Members of both Houses may be appointed to consider in what Manner, and what Limitations, the Cessation of Arms may proceed in, and how to be carried on. Feb. 23. The Parliament had sent a Petition to the King, which they called their Desire and Advice, That the next Lent Assizes, &e. should be put off, during these turbulent Times; they, this Day, receiv'd an Answer to it from the King, ...
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General Index to the Twenty-Three Volumes of the Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England