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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86826	The humble petition of the major, aldermen, and commons of the citie of London and His Majesties gracious answer the fourth of January, 1642.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).	1642 (1642)	Wing H3554; Thomason E84_14	4,296	15

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF The MAJOR ALDERMEN and COMMONS of the Citie of LONDON AND His MAjESTIES Gracious ANSWER The fourth of January 1642. Charles R. OUr expresse pleasure is That this Petition of the Major Aldermen and Commons of Our Citie of London with Our gracious Answer thereunto be read in all Churches and Chappels by all Parsons Vicars or Curates within Our Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. To The KINGS most Excellent MAjESTIE The humble PETITION of the MAjOR ALDERMEN and COMMONS of the City of LONDON Sheweth THat the Petitioners Your Majesties most humble and Loyall Subjects being much pierced with the long and great divisions between Your Majestie and both Your Houses of Parliament and with the sad and bloody effects thereof both here and in Ireland are yet more deeply wounded by the misapprehension which Your Majestie seemeth to entertain of the Love and Loyaltie of this Your City as if there were some cause of Fear or suspicion of Danger to Your Royall Person if Your Majestie should return hither And that this is made the unhappy Bar to that blessed Reconciliation with Your great and most faithfull Councell for preventing that desolation and destruction which is now most apparently imminent to Your Majestie and all Your Kingdoms For satisfaction therefore of Your Majestie and clearing of the Petitioners Innocencie they most humbly declare as formerly they have done that they are no way conscious of any disloyaltie but abhor all thoughts thereof And that they are resolved to make good their late solemn Protestation and Sacred Vow made to Almighty God and with the last drop of their dearest bloods to defend and maintain The true Reformed Protestant Religion and according to the dutie of their Allegiance Your Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate what ever is maliciously and most falsely suggested to Your Majestie to the contrary as well as The Power and Priviledges of Parliament and The lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject And do hereby engage themselves their Estates and all they have to their uttermost power to defend and preserve Your Majestie and both Houses of Parliament from all Tumults Affronts and Violence with as much Loyaltie Love and Dutie as ever Citizens expressed towards Your Majestie or any of Your Royall Progenitours in their greatest Glory THe Petitioners therefore upon their bended knees do most humbly beseech Your Majestie to return to Your Parliament accompanied with Your Royall not Your Martiall Attendance to the end that Religion Laws and Liberties may be setled and secured and whatsoever is amisse in Church and Common-wealth reformed by their Advice according to the fundamentall Constitutions of this Kingdom And that such a Peace may thereby be obtained as shall be for the Glory of God the Honour and Happinesse of Your Majestie and Posterity and the Safety and Welfare of all Your Loyall Subjects who the Petitioners are fully assured whatsoever is given out to the contrary do Unanimously desire the Peace herein expressed And the Petitioners shall ever Pray c. MICHELL DIEV ET MON DROIT C. R. HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE His MAJESTIE hath graciously considered this Petition and returns this Answer THat His Majestie doth not entertain any misapprehension of the Love and Loyalty of His City of London As he hath alwaies expressed a singular Regard and Esteem of the Affections of that City and is still desirous to make it his chief place of Residence and to continue and renew many Marks of His Favour to it So He beleeves much the better and greater part of that His City is full of Love Duty and Loyalty to His Majestie And that the Tumults which heretofore forced His Majestie for His safety to leave that place though they were contrived and encouraged by some principall Members thereof who are since well known though they are above the reach of Iustice consisted more of desperate Persons of the Suburbs and the neighbouring towns who were misled too by the cunning and malice of their seducers then of the Inhabitants of that City He looks on His good Subjects there as Persons groaning under the same Burden which doth oppresse His Majestie and awed by the same persons who begat those Tumults and the same Army which gave Battell to his Majestie And therefore as no good Subject can more desire from his soul a Composure of the generall Distractions so no good Citizen can more desire the Establishment of the particular peace and Prosperity of that Place by His Majesties Accesse thither then His Majestie Himself doth But His Majestie desires His good Subjects of London seriously to consider what Confidence His Majestie can have of security there whilest the Laws of the Land are so notoriously despised and trampled under foot and the wholesome Government of that City heretofore so famous over all the world is now submitted to the Arbitrary Power of a few desperate Persons of no Reputation but for malice and disloyalty to Him Whilest Arms are taken up not onely without but against His Consent and Expresse Command and Collections publiquely made and Contributions avowed for the maintenance of the Army which hath given Him Battell and therein used all possible means Treason and Malice could suggest to them to have taken His life from Him and to have destroyed His Royall Issue whilest such of His Majesties Subjects who out of Duety and Affection to His Majestie and compassion of their bleeding Countrey have laboured for Peace are reviled injured and murdered even by the Magistrates of that City or by their directions Lastly what hope His Majestie can have of Safety there whilest Alderman Pennington their pretended Lord Major the principall authour of those Calamities which so neerly threaten the ruine of that famous City Ven Foulke and Mainwaring all persons notoriously guilty of Schisme and High Treason commit such Outrages in oppressing robbing and imprisoning according to their discretion all such His Majesties loving Subjects whom they are pleased to suspect but for wishing well to His Majestie And His Majestie would know whether the Petitioners beleeve that the reviling and suppressing the Book of Common Prayer establisht in this Church ever since the Reformation the discountenancing and imprisoning Godly learned and painfull Preachers and the cherishing and countenancing of Brownists Anabaptists and all manner of Sectaries be the way to defend and maintain the true Reformed Protestant Religion That to comply with and assist Persons who have Actually attempted to kill His Majestie And to allow and favour Libels Pasquills and Seditious Sermons against his Majestie be to defend his Royall Person and Honour according to the duety of their Allegiance Whether to imprison mens Persons and to Plunder their houses because they will not Rebell against His Majestie nor assist those that do Whether to destroy their Property by taking away the