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The humble petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. Presented to His Majestie at York, the 17 of June, 1642: with His Majesties answer thereunto.
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England and Wales. Parliament.
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1642
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Wing E1577B; ESTC R171985
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greatest and the most chearfull concourse of people that ever was beheld of one County appearing before Him at York a Gentleman one Sir Thomas Fayrefax 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 publick a nature as to be fit to be presented or received in that place And His Majestie is most consident and in that must appeal to those who 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 Countie but solicited by a few mean inconsiderable persons and disliked and visibly discountenanced by the great body of the known Gentrie Clergie and Inhabitants of this whole County And if the matter of that Petition were such as is suggested in this His Majestie hath great reason to believe 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 Countie 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 wayes 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 complain of a great decay of Trade and Commerce there then is in this place But His Majestie 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 Kingdome that He hath great cause to believe That they do rather complain of His Majesties confidence and of His slownesse that whilst 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 Justice of His cause and the affections of his people and neglects to provide strength to assist that Justice and to protect those affections For any affronts offered by the Earl of Lindsey and the Lord Savile 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 Innocence and Honour of persons of such qualitie 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 Commonwealth 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 believe 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 of 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 Kingdome besides their affection to His Person could engage into great journeys trouble and expence men of as precious reputation and as exemplary lives as this Nation hath any whole assistance His Majestie knows He must not exped if He should have the least designe against Honour and Justice and such witnesses His Majestje desires to have of all His actions For the declining all other Councels and the uniting His Confidence to His Parliament His Majesty desires both His Houses of Parliament seriously and sadly to consider That it is not the name of a great or little Councel that makes the Results of that Councel Just or Unjust Neither can the Imputation upon His Majesty of not being advised by His Parliament especially since all their Actions and all their Orders are exposed to the publick view long mis-lead His good Subjects except in truth they see some particular found Advice necessary to the Peace and Happinesse of the Common-wealth dis-esteemed by His Majesty and such an Instance He is most assured neither can nor shall be given And that they will think it merit in His Majesty from the Common-wealth to reject such Counsel as would perswade Him to make Himself none of the Three Estates by giving up His negative voice to allow them a Power superiour 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 Proprietie to their Votes without and against Law upon the meer pretence of necessity And His Majesty must appeal to all the world who it is that endeavours to divide the joynt-duty of His Subjects His Majesty who requires nothing but what their own duty guided by the infallible Rule of the Law leads them to do or they who by Orders and Votes opposite and contradictory to Law Custome President and Reason so confound the Affections and Vnderstandings of His good Subjects that they know not how to behave themselves with Honesty and Safety whilest their Conscience will not suffer them to submit to the one nor their Security to apply themselves to the other It is not the bare saying That His Majesties Actions are against the Law with which he is reproched 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 Majesty is in the least degree guilty 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 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 Majesty of a purpose to dissolve this Parliament contrary to the Act for the Continuance by commanding away the Lords and great Officers whole attendance is necessary which His Majesty well knows to be a new Calumnie by which the grand Contrivers of ruine for the State hope to seduce the minds of the People from their Affection