His Majesties declaration and propositions propounded to his Excellence the Earle of Essex

concerning a treaty of peace and a cessation of ames, by both armies : given at our court at Oxford, Decemb. 19, 1642 : also the Earles answer to the said propositions : likewise a true descovery of the practizes of the Lord Shandoice to betray the city of Gloucester to the cavaliers