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To the kings most excellent Maiesty. The humble petition of the citizens of Yorke, delivered to His Majesty by the high sheriffe of Yorke.
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1642
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TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTY The Humble Petition of the Citizens of Yorke delivered to his Majesty by the High Sheriffe of YORKE Most Gracious Soveraigne WEE Your Majesties loyall and obedient Subjects doe most humbly supplicate your Highnesse to looke with compassioÌ upon your Protestant subjects of Ireland that lye weltring in their owne blood most inhumanely shed by the bloody cruelty of the Popish Rebels who have already in a manner eradicated ââe Protestant Religion your Majesties Soveraignty and the English ãâ¦ã ation out of that Kingdome And with like compassion to looke upon your Majesties Subjects âf England whose just feares of the like calamity daily expected doe âake them in a measure partakers of them before they fall Which miseries present and dangers eminent can neither be preââted nor redressed if these distances of place and differences of âouncels doe continue betweene your Majesty and your Majesties ââeat Councell the Parliament And therefore your Majesties Petitioners doe humbly supplicate that your Majesty will be pleased to reconcile the displeasures conceived against your loyall Subjects of this Realme represented by the Parliament unto whose religious and faithfull Councels as we have referred our selves so we doe most humbly desire your Majesty to vouchsafe your Princely eare and personall presence That by their advice your Majesties piety and wisdome may prevent the dangers that in these distracted times doe threaten the destruction of Religion Lawes Liberties and Lives of your perplexed Subjects And in particular they humbly pray your Majesties consent to passe an Act prepared by the Parliament for supply of money for payment of the forces entertained to subdue the Rebels of Ireland and for payment of the Billet money due unto this Country And your Petitioners shall humbly pray c. Printed at London for Joh Bellamie Ralph Smith 1642.