The reasons of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, why they cannot agree to the alteration and addition in the articles of cessation offered by His Majesty: with His Majestie's gracious answer thereunto, April 4, 1643. Printed by His Majestie's command at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University. 1643.
On April 12th, 1643, the House of Commons ordered that Sir Frederick Cornewallis be forthwith sent for in safe custody for dispersing this book (which he brought with him from Oxford) printed without the order of the House; and the printers were enjoined not to proceed in the printing, publishing, or dispersing the said book. On the 19th April however, Sir Frederick Cornwallis was ordered to be discharged from custody.[96]
This is a pamphlet of 25 pages, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, bound with others in a volume, on one of the fly leaves of which there is this interesting note:—
"Memorandum yt Col. Will. Legg and Mr. Arther Treavor wer imployed by his Matie K. Charles to gett for his present use, a Pamphlet, wch his Matie had then occasion to make use of, and not meetinge wth it, they both came to me, havinge heard yt I did imploy my selfe to take up all such thinges from ye begininge of that Parlement. And findinge it wth me, tould me it was for ye kinges owne use, I tould them all I had were at his Maties command and service, and wthall tould them if I should part wth it, and loose it presuminge yt when his Matie had done wth it, yt litle accompt would be made of it, and soe I should loose it by yt losse a Limbe of my Collection, wch I should be very loth to doe, well knowinge it would be impossible to supplie it if it should happen to be lost, wth wch answer they returned to his Majestie at Hampton Court, (as I take it) and tould him they had found yt peece he soe much desired, and wth all how loath he yt had it was to part wth it, he much fearinge its losse; whereuppon they were both sent to me againe by his Matie to tell me yt upon ye word of A Kinge, (to use their owne expressions) he would safely returne it, thereuppon immediatly by them, I sent it to his Matie.
"Who havinge dun wth it, and havinge it wth him when he was goinge towardes ye Isle of Wight let it fall in ye durt; And then callinge for ye two persons before mentioned (who attended him) delivered it to them, wth a charge, as they would answer it another day, yt they should both speedyly and safly returne it to him, from whom they had received it. And wthall to desier yt partie to goe on and continewe what had begun, wch Booke togeather wth his Maties signification to me, by those worthy and faithfull gent, I received both speedyly and safely.
"Wch volume hath yt marke of Honor upon it, wch noe other volume in my Collection hath. And very dilligently and carefully I continewed ye same, until ye most happie restoration and Coronation of his most gratious Matie Kinge Charles ye Second, whom God Longe Preserve."
"Geo. Thomason."
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A discourse, or Parley, continued between Partricius and Peregrine (upon their landing in France) touching the Civill Wars of England and Ireland. 1643.
On August 11th, 1643, this pamphlet was referred by the House of Commons to the Committee for examinations.[97] It seems never to have been finished, for in the British Museum Library there is a portion of it extending to 24 pages, but with no title page; and a manuscript note on one of the fly leaves says that it was written by James Howell, and that it was taken while printing, when Howell was in prison in the Fleet, and that no more of it was printed.