HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION CONCERNING The TREATY and THE Dislike of the extreme proceedings, "When large pretenses prove but the shadows of weak performances, then the greatest satisfaction is given when a period is put to a work of great concernment, all men's hearts do (as it were) hunger until they are satisfied in their expectations. Hath not this distressed Nation groaned a long time under the burden of tyranny and oppression? And hath not all the blood that hath been spilt these seven years been cast upon My head, who am the greatest Sufferer, though the least guilty? And was it not requisite to endeavour the stopping of that flux, which, if not stopped, will bring an absolute ruin to this Nation? And what more speedy labours produce the final effects?"
