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HIS Majeſty perceiving the manifold diſtractions which now are in this Kingdome. which cannot but bring great inconvenience, and miſchief to this whole Government; In which, as His Majeſty is moſt chiefly intereſted, ſo he holds himſelfe by many Reaſons, moſt obliged to do what in him lyes, for the preventing thereof; Though he might juſtly expect (as moſt proper for the duty of Subjects) that Propoſitions for the remedies of theſe Evils, ought rather to come to him, then from him; yet his Fatherly care of all his people being ſuch, That he will rather lay by any particular reſpect of his owne dignity, then that any time ſhould be loſt, for prevention of theſe threatning Evils, which cannot admit the delayes of the ordinary proceedings in Parliament; Doth think fit to make this enſuing propoſitions to both Houſes of Parliament
That they will with all ſpeed fall into a ſerious conſideration of all choſe particulars, which they ſhall hold neceſſary, as well for the upholding and maintaining of his Majeſties juſt and Regall Authoritie, and for the ſetling of his Revenue; As for the preſent and future eſtabliſhing of their priviledges, the free and quiet enjoying of their Eſtates and Fortunes, the liberties of their perſons, the Securitie of the true Religion now profeſſed in the Church of England, and the ſetling of Ceremonies in ſuch a manner, as may take away all juſt offence: Which when they ſhall have digeſted, and compoſed into one entire boPrinces in their Acts of Grace and Favour to their people.
So that if all theſe preſent diſtractions (which ſo apparantly threaten the ruine of this Kingdome) do not (by the bleſſing of Almighty God) end in an happy and bleſſed Accommodation, his Majeſty will then be ready to call Heaven and Earth, God and Man to Witneſſe, that it hath not failed on his part.
London, Printed for F. C. and T. B. 1641.