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His Majesties answer to the petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled: presented to His Majestie at York, June 17. 1642.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); England and Wales. Parliament.
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Wing C2137; Thomason E152_2; ESTC R16799
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there was upon His Majesties Summons the greatest and the most cheerfull concourse of people that ever was beheld of one County appearing before Him at York a Gentleman one Sir Thomas Fayrfax offered in that great Confluence a Petition to His Majestie which His Majestie seeing to be avowed by no man but himself and the generall and universall Acclamations of the people seeming to disclaim it did not receive conceiving it not to be of so publike a nature as to be fit to be presented or received in that place And His Majestie is most confident and in that must appeal to those were then present that what ever the substance of that Petition was it was not consented to by any considerable number of Gentry or Freeholders of this County but solicited by a few mean inconsiderable persons and disliked and visibly discountenanced by the great Body of the known Gentry Clergie and Inhabitants of this whole Countie And if the matter of that Petition was such as is suggested in this His Majestie hath great reason to beleeve it was framed and contrived as many others of such nature have been in London not in Yorkshire For sure no Gentleman of quality and understanding of this County would talk of His great Preparations of Arms and other warlike Provisions to the great Terrour and Amazement of His peaceable Subjects when they are witnesses of the violent taking His Arms from Him and stopping all waies for bringing more to Him And if there were no greater Terrour and Amazement of His Majesties peaceable Subjects in other places by such Preparations and Provisions there would be no more cause to complaine of a great decay of Trade and Commerce there then is in this place But His M 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath so great an assurance of the Fidelity and generall Affections of His good Subjects of this County which He hopes will prove exemplar over His whole Kingdom that He hath great cause to beleeve That they do rather complain of His Majesties Confidence and of His Slownesse That whilest there is such endeavour abroad to raise Horse and to provide Arms against His Majestie and that endeavour put in execution His Majestie trusts so much to the Iustice of His Cause and the Affections of His people and neglects to provide strength to assist that Iustice and to protect those Affections For any Affronts offered by the Earl of Lindsey or the Lord Savill to those who intended to petition His Majestie His Majestie wishes that both His Houses of Parliament would have examined that Information and the credit of the Informers with that gravity and deliberation as in Cases which concern the Innoceuce and Honour of Persons of such quality hath been accustomed before they had Proscribed two Peers of the Realm and exposed them as much as in them lay to the rage and fury of the people under the Character of being Enemies to the Common-wealth A brand newly found out and of no Legall signification to incense the people by and with which the simplicity of former times was not acquainted And then His Majestie hath some reason to beleeve they would have found themselves as much abused in the report concerning those Lords as He is sure they are in those which tell them of the Resort of great numbers and discontented Persons to Him and of the other particulars mentioned to be in that Petition Whereas they who observe what resort is here to His Majestie well know it to be of the prime Gentlemen of all the Counties in England whom nothing but the love of Religion the care of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom besides their Affection to His Person could engage into great Iourneys Trouble and expence Men of as precious Reputation and as exemplary Lives as this Nation hath any whose assistance His Majestie knows He must not expect if He should have the least Designe against Honour and Iustice And such witnesses His Majestie desires to have of all His Actions For the declining all other Counsells and the Vniting His Confidence to His Parliament His Majestie desires both His Houses of Parliament seriously and sadly to consider that it is not the name of a great or little Councell that makes the Results of that Councell just or unjust neither can the imputation upon His Majestie of not being advised by His Parliament especially since all their Actions and all their Orders are exposed to the Publique view long mislead His good Subjects except in truth they see some particular sound advice necessarie to the Peace and happinesse of the Common-wealth disesteemed by His Majestie and such an instance He is most assured neither can nor shall be given and that they will think it merit in His Majestie from the Common-wealth to reject such Counsell as would perswade Him to make Himself none of the three Estates by giving up His negative voice to allow them a Power superior to that which the Law hath given Him whensoever it pleaseth the major part present of both Houses to say that He doth not discharge His trust as He ought and to subject His and His Subjects unquestionable Right and Propriety to their Votes without and against Law upon the meer pretence of necessitie And His Majestie must appeal to all the World who it is that endeavours to divide the joynt dutie of His Subiects His Majestie who requires nothing but what their own dutie guided by the infallible Rule of the Law leads them to do or they who by Orders and Votes opposite and contradictory to Law Cuffome president and reason so confound the affections and understandings of His good Subjects that they know not how to behave themselves with honestie and safetie whilest their Conscience will not suffer them to submit to the one nor their securitie to apply themselves to the other It is not the bare saying that His Maiesties Actions are against the Law with which He is reproached in this Petition as if He departed from His often Protestations to that purpose must conclude Him there being no one such particular in that Petition alledged of which His Majestie is in the least degree guiltie whether the same reverence and esteem be paid by you to the Law except your own Votes be judge needs no other Evidence then those many very many Orders published in Print both concerning the Church and State those long Imprisonments of severall persons without hearing them upon generall information and the great and unlimited Fees to your Officers worse then the Imprisonment and the Arbitrary censure upon them when they are admitted to be heard Let the Law be judge by whom it is violated For that part of the Petition which seems to accuse His Majestie of a purpose to dissolve this Parliament contrary to the Act for the Continuance by Commanding away the Lords and great Officers whose attendance is necessary which His Majestie well knows to be a new Calumny by which the Grand Contrivers of ruine for the State hope to