You have called for a Free General Assembly: His Majesty hath granted you one, most Free on his part, and in his intentions; but as you have handled and marred the matter, let God and the World judge, whether the least shadow or footstep of Freedom can be discerned in this Assembly, by any man who hath not given a Bill of Divorce both to his Understanding and Conscience. With what wresting and wringing your last Protestation charges His Majesties last Gracious Proclamation in the point of Prelimitations, is both known and misliked by many even of your own pretended Covenant; but whether your Courses, especially in the Elections of the Members of this Assembly, be not onely Prelimitations of it, but strong Bars against the Freedom of it, nay utterly destructive both of the Name and Nature of a Free Assembly, and unavoidably inducing upon it many and main Nullities, will be made manifest to the whole World. But his Majesties Sincere Intentions being to perform in a lawful Assembly all he hath promised in his Gracious Proclamation, if you find out a way how these things may pass, and be performed even in this Assembly, such as it is, and yet His Majesty not made to approve any way the Illegalities and Nullities of it, for satisfying all His Majesties good Subjects of the Reality of his Meaning; I am by His Majesties special Command ready to doe it, and content to advise with you how it may be done. [And after this he caused read his Majesties Concessions, as they had been before proclaimed: upon which he took instruments, that by producing and signing of them, first his Majesties Intentions were made known: next, that in the producing and delivering of them, the Lawfullness of the Assembly was not acknowledged. After that he went on, and discoursed against the Constitution of the Assembly in the following words,]