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A45054
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The hvmble petition of the major, aldermen, and commons of the citie of London to His Majestie with His Maiesties gracious answer thereunto.
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City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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1643
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Wing H3557A; ESTC R36808
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Or whether they think it possible that Almighty God can blesse that City and preserve it from destruction whilest persons of such known guilt and wickednesse are defended and justified amongst them against the power of that Law by which they can only subsist His Majestie is so farre from suffering himselfe to be incensed against the whole City by the actions of these ill men though they have hitherto been so prevalent as to make the Affections of the rest of little use to Him and is so willing to be with them and to protect them that the Trade Wealth and Glory thereof so decayed and Eclipsed by these publike Distractions may again be the Envie of all forraign Nations That he doth once more gratiously offer His free and generall Pardon to all the Inhabitants of that His City of London the Suburbs and City of Westminster except the Persons formerly excepted by His Majesty if they shall yet returne to their Duty Loyalty and Obedience And if His good Subjects of that His City of London shall first solemnly declare That they will defend the known Lawes of the Land and will submitted and he govern'd by no other Kule if they shall first manifest by defending themselves and maintaining their own Rights Liberties and Interests and suppressing and force any violence unlawfully raised against those and His Majesty their Power to defend and perserve Him from all Tumults Affronts and Violence Lastly if they shall apprehend and commit to safe Custody the Persons of those foure men who enrich themselves by the spoile and oppression of His loving Subjects and the ruine of the City that His Majesty may proceed against them by the course of Law as guilty of high Treason His Majesty will speedily returne to them with His Royall and without His Martiall Attendance and will use His utmost endeavour that they may hearafter enjoy all the Blessings of Peace and Plenty and will no longer expect obedience from them then he shall with all the faculties of His Soule labour in the preserving and advancing the true reformed Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject and the just Priviledges of Parliament If notwithstanding all this the Art and interest of these men can prevaile so farre that they involve more men in their guilt and draw that His City to sacrifice it's present Happinesse and future Hopes to their Pride Fury and Malice His Majesty shall onely give them this Warning That whosoever shall henceforward take up Arms without his consent contribute any Mony or Plate upon what pretence of Authority soever for maintenance of the Army under the Command of the Earle of Essex or any other Army in Rebellion against Him or shall pay Tonnage and Poundage till the same shall be setled by Act of Parliament Every such Person must expect the severest punishment the Law can inflict and in the meane time his Majestâ— shall seize upon any part of his Estate within His Power for the relief and support of him and His Army rais'd and maintain'd for the Defence of His Person the Lawes and this His Kingdome And since he denyes to His Majesty the duty and benefit of his subjection by giving assistance to Rebells which by the knowne Lawes of the Land is high treason His Majesty shall likewise deny him the benefit of his Protection and shall not only signifie to all His Forraigne Ministers that such Person shall receive no advantage by being His Subject but shall by all other wayes and meanes proceed against him as a publike Enemy to his Majesty and this Kingdome But His Majesty hopes and doubts not but his good Subjects of London will call to minde the Acts of their Predecessors their Duty Affection Loyalty and merit towards their Princes the Renown they have had with all posterity for and the Bles ing of Heaven which alwayes accompanied those virtues and wil consider the perpetual scorne and infamy which unavoidably will follow them and their children if infinitely the meaner part in quality and much the lesser part in number shall be able to alter the Government so admirably established destroy the Trade so excellently setled and to waste the wealth so industriously gotten of that flourishing City And then they will easily gather up the Courage and Resolution to joyn with His Majesty in Defence of that Religion Law and Liberty which hitherto hath and only can make themselves His Majesty and his Kingdom happy For concurring with the Advice of His Two Houses of Parliament which with Reference to the Common-wealth may be as well at this distance as by being at White-hall His Majesty doubts not but his good Subjects of London well know how farre beyond the example of his Predecessors His Majesty hath concurred with their advice in passing of such Lawes by which He willingly parted with many of His known Rights for the benefit of His Subjects which the fundamentall Constitutions of this Kingdom did not oblige him to consent unto and hath used all possible meanes to beget a right understanding between them And will therefore apply themselves to those who by making Just Peaceable and Honourable Propositions to His Majesty can only beget that concurrence FINIS