and have thought good hereby to certifie that we did the third of January last, deliver to Our Attourney certaine Articles of Accusation ingro­sed in paper, a Coppie whereof VVe have sent here inclosed, and did then command him in Our Name, to acquainte Our House of Peeres, that divers great & Treasonable designes and practises against us and the State had come to Our knowledge; for which VVe commanded him, in Our Name, to accuse the sixe persons in the said paper mentioned of High Treason, and other high mis­demeanors by delivering the paper to Our said House, and to desire to have it read, and further to desire in Our name, that a Select Committee of Lords, might be ap­pointed to take the examinations of such witnesses as VVe would produce, and as formerly had beene done in cases of like Nature, according to the Iustice of the house, & the Committe to be und racommand of secrecy as formerly, and further in Our Name to aske liberty to adde & alter if there should be cause, according to Iu­stice: and likewise to desire that Our said House of Peeres would take care of the se­curing of the said persons, as in Iustice there should be cause: Wee doe further de­clare that Our said Attourney, did not advise or contrive the said Articles, nor had any thing to doe with, or in advising any breach of Priviledge that followed after, And for what he did in obedience to Our commands, Wee conceive he was bound by oath, and the duty of his place, and by the trust, by Vs reposed in him so to doe: And had he refused to obey Vs therein, We would have questioned him for breach of oath, duty, and Trust.

But now having declared, that wee find cause wholly to desist from proceeding against the persons accused, Wee have commanded him to proceed no further therein, nor to produce nor discover any proofe concerning the same.

Given at Royston, the Fourth of March. 1641.