NOTHING is more heartily wished of us, and of those that sent us, then that the Treaty may begin tymously, and end happily. This mo­ved us in our last Proposition to desire to know what your Lordships did conceive to be a com­petencie for the maintenance of our Army; and now after his Majesty is acquainted therewith, we desire to know his Majesties mind, that the Army being provided for in a competent manner; and so much being made known to such as sent us, according to the instructions which we have received from them, which make the maintenance of the Army grievous to the Treaty; we may with all diligence shew them his Majesties pleasure concerning the change of the place, and new power to be granted for concluding: And as we are wa ranted to give this answer, so will we not conceale our own thoughts about all this matter of the maintenance of the Army, transferring of the Treaty to Yorke, and enlarging of our power. First, it is universally known that our Army was stayed in the March by his Majesties speciall command, without which they might before this time, either have been better provided, or further advanced in their Petitions and In­tentions; and that in hope of provision to be made this way, they have kept up from taking such wayes, and using such meanes, as may serve for their necessary maintenance, which yet are not to lay any burden upon the Nation or good People of Eng­land, whose weale and happinesse we seek as our own; and with whom we have determined as we have declared, to stand or to fall. But our meaning is, that our necessary maintenance being denyed to the Army, we take our selves to those Papists and Prelats, with their adherents, our profest enemies, and the un­happy instruments of all our troubles, and charges and hazards these yeares by past, who therefore ought in all equity to suffer in the same kind.

Next we cannot conceive what danger may be apprehended in our going to Yorke, and casting our selves and others who may be joyned with us into the hands of an Army, comman­ded by the Lievtenant of Ireland, against whom as a chiefe In­cendiary (according to our Demands, which are the subject of the Treaty it selfe) we intend to insist; as is exprest, in our Re­monstrance and Declaration, who hath in the Parliament of Ire­land proceeded against us as Traytors, and Rebbels, the best Title it pleased his Lordship in his common Table to honour us with, whose Commission is to subdue and destroy us; and who by all meanes professeth the breaking up of all Treaties of peace, as fearing to be excluded in the end; command also by diverse Papists, who conceive our Pacification to be their ruine and desolation; and where there are divers others our god­lesse and disnaturall Countrey-men, doing the most offices about his Majesty, and waiting the occasion of expressing their malice and revenge against us and their own Nation.

Thirdly, the whole Committie cannot be transmitted to us and them, nor the want of neither hath been, nor needeth it to be any hinderance of the speedy progresse and peaceable conclusion of the Treaty, since we have already in the begin­ing of our Conference shewed to your Lordships what is the subject and substance of our demands.