[The king's answer to the first paper sent by the commissioners]

His majesty's answer

I desire and expect that you deliver all the propositions or desires you are instructed to present to me before I make an answer to any particular one, being resolved to consider the whole before I declare my resolution upon any part.

Signed, Charles Rex, 8 April 1649, new style

  1. NLS. L.C.958 (40). Contained in The Proceedings of the commissioners of the church and kingdome of Scotland with his majestie at the Hague, and the papers interchanged betwixt his Majestie and them, as they were reported in Parliament and the General Assembly, 5. Back