TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
—Has been mantained the ancient style, therefore just the more evidentprinting errors have been corrected. Punctuation has not been correctedalso if inconsistent with modern English.
—Italics and smallcaps have been manteined as far as possible, since asin old books (this one was printed in 1621) sometimes text stylechanges when a word is hyphenated.
—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using thetitle page of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain.
HIS
MAIESTIES
DECLARATION,
Touching his proceedings in the
late Assemblie and Conuention
of Parliament.
Imprinted at London by Bonham
Norton and Iohn Bill,
Printers to the Kings most Excellent
Maiestie. 1621.
HIS
MAIESTIES
Declaration, touching his proceedings
in the late Assembly and
Conuention of Parliament.
HAuing of late, vponmature deliberation,with the aduice and vniformeconsent of Ourwhole Priuie Councell,determined to dissoluethe Assembly and Conuentionof Parliament, lately called togetherby Our Regall power and Authoritie,Wee were pleased by Our Proclamation,giuen at Our Palace of Westminster thesixt day of this instant Ianuary, to declare,not onely Our pleasure and resolution[2]therein, but also to expresse some especiallpassages and proceedings, moouing vs tothat resolution: Wherein, albeit hauing somany yeeres swayed the swords and sceptersof three renowned kingdomes, Weecannot but discerne (as much as any Princeliuing) what apperteineth to the height ofa powerfull Monarch: yet, that all menmight discerne, that Wee, like Gods trueViceregent, delight not so much in thegreatnesse of Our place, as in the goodnesse& benignitie of our gouernment, We werecontent in that one Act to descend manydegrees beneath Our Selfe: First, by communicatingto all Our people the reasons ofa resolution of State, which Princes vse toreserue, inter arcana Imperij, to themseluesand their Priuie Councell: Secondly, bymollifying and mixing the peremptorieand binding qualitie of a Proclamation,with the indulgence of a milde and fatherlyinstruction: And lastly, leading them,and opening to them that forbidden Arkeof Our absolute and indisputable Prerogatiue,concerning the calling, continuing,[3]and dissoluing of Parliaments: which,though it were more then superabundantto make Our Subiects know the realitie ofOur sincere intentions; yet Wee not sat