HAving notice of your so sudden Applicaaion to us (by an Overture from several of Our good Subjects) it hath been Our dili­gent Care to provide for your entertainment, in so Honourable a way as might stand with the Credit of Our Royal Person, ac­cording to Our Ability, in this place of Our sad and tedious Exilement. And being deeply sencible of the Calamities and miseries brought upon Our poor Subjects by the late unnatural War; We hold it Our duty to use all possible means & I joyn with you, the Messengers (we hope) of a true Peace between Our self and all Our Loyal Subjects, and that by you (the Instruments imployed in behalf of Our Kingdoms, there may be wronght such a perfect Union and conjunction, between Our Self, and Our People, who professe to be so sincerely affected with the same Pious desire of the Publick good as may (God giving the successe) produce a right understanding between Our Self and you to make up all thpse great and innumerable Breaches between Us, and Our Loyal Subjects, which by a misunderstanding have been planted and long continued betwixt Us and them.

And wherers we do understand that you have undertaken this great Work to Treat with Us, we shall adhere to any Propositions, that may conduce to the Glory of God, and the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion, the Just and inseperable Right of the Crown, and the Priviledges of a Free and full Paaliament, Elected by the Free consent of Our People, and to the Just Rights and Liberties of our Subjects, And that to the end a Treaty tending to Peace may not (as formerly) be founded on the blood of Our good Subjects.

We cannot indeed acquaint you with the inexpressible joy that We are sencible of to finde Our poor distressed and distracted King­doms in some hopes of Settlement, and Restoration of its pristine Glory, by the Establishing of Our Self; which we know and are Confident is the earnest desire of all our Loving Subjects, being now at last unvail'd, whereby they see cleatly the cruelty of those Task-masters who aspers'd Us their lawfull King with the name of Tyrant, and have themselves destroyed Our Estates with the Estates of several of Our good Subjects to maintain their Violences, inrich themselves with the ruins of Our good People, and over­throw Our Royal Prerogatives, and the ancient Fundamentall Lawes of Our Kingdoms.

Whereas it hath been publikely declared to Our good People (which your selves cannot be ignorant of) that Our intent was to come over with Forreign Force (thereby to corrupt the good opinion of Our Loving Subjects) We do professe from the bottom of Our heart it was never Our thought to take any such course to regain Our Right, and settle Our Self in the Royal Throne and Dig­nity of Our Father, but what We might in Justice, both according to the Lawes of God and nature prosecute for the recovery of Our own Birth-right; To which end and purpose we hope you are here (through Gods blessing) safely Arrived, and that not onely to restore Our Self, but to powre Balm into the wound of Our three Kingdoms.

Though indeed the Innocent blood of our Royal Father is a great grief to Our Self, yet the desire of Revenge is so far from Our heart, that We shall leave it to him who is the Just Judge of all both in Heaven and Earth; Our chiefest aim being onely to endeavor what in Us lies to Compose the difference between Our Self and you (who are employed in the behalf of all Our good Subjects) ac­cording to the Instructions you have received, so far as may stand with Gods glory, and the Honour and Safety of Our Self; to which end and purpose we have already provided several Peaceable Propositions which will be presented to your hands an this pre­sent happy and (we hope) successfull meeting.

Who knowes but that the Divine Providence hath sent you to Us, that you (by Our Royal Assent to your happy endeavours) may be made the joyful Instruments of a well-grounded Peace, and of restoring Religion to its purity, the Church to its Rights, Our Self to Our Royal Prerogatives, the Lawes to their Channel, and Our good Subjects to their Liberties: All which if you resolve to joyn with Our Self in performance of, may Crown Our Kindoms with eternal Honour.

And since it is manifest by the Laws of God, of Nature, of Our Kingdoms, and of Humanity, that the Government of the Kingdom is due to One, why not to Our Self, by Birth your Countryman, by Education a Protestant, by profession and actions your Pious Prince, and by his gracious Compliance confident in your Loyalty and Obedience. Let Us truly make a Covenant with Heaven, Religion and Justice, and we may soon make up all the breaches of dissention in Our Kingdoms by an happy union.

Brussels March 18.