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The petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. Presented to His Majestie at Beverly the 16. of July 1642. With His Majesties answer thereunto.
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England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
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keep it And so refusing to deliver it with threats if he or any other of his fellow-servants should again repair to Hull about it and in taking and detaining Prisoners divers Gentlemen and others in their passage over the Humber into Lincolnshire about their necessary occasions and such other indignities as all Gentlemen must resent in his Majesties behalf his Majestie to shew his earnest desire of Peace for which he will dispence with his Own honour and how far he is from desire of Revenge will grant a free and generall Pardon all persons within that Town That his Majesties Magazine taken from Hull bee forthwith put into such hands as he shall appoint That his Navie be forthwith delivered into such hands as he hath directed for the government thereof the detaining thereof after his Majesties directions published and received to the contrary and imploying his Ships against him in such manner as they are now used being notorious high-treason in the Commanders of those Ships That all Arms Levies and Provisions for a War made by the Consent of both houses by whose example his Majesty hath been forced to make some preparations be immediatly laid down and the pretended Ordinance for the Militia and all power of imposing Lawes upon the Subject without his Majesties consent be disavowed without which the same pretence will remain to produce the same mischiefs all which his Majesty may as lawfully demand as to live and can with no more Justice be denyed him then his Life may be taken from him These being done and the Parliament adjourned to a safe and secure place his Majesty promises in the presence of God and bindes himself by all his confidence and assurance in the affection of his people that he will instantly and most cheerfully lay down all the force hee shall have raised and discharge all his future and intended Levies that there may be a generall face of Peace over the whole Kingdome and will repair to them And desires that all differences may bee freely debated in a Parliamentary way whereby the Law may recover its due reverence the Subject his just Liberty and Parliaments themselves their full vigour and estimation and so the whole Kingdome a blessed Peace Quiet and Prosperity If these Propositions shall be rejected his Majesty doubts not of the protection and assistance of Almighty God and the ready concurrence of his good Subjects who can have no hope left them of enjoying their own long if their King may be oppressed and spoyled and must be remedilesse And though his Towns his Ships his Arms and his Money be gotten and taken from him He hath a good Cause left and the hearts of his people which with Gods blessing he doubts not will recover all the rest Lastly if the preservation of the Protestant Religion the defence of the Liberty and Law of the Kingdome the Dignity and Freedome of Parliament and the Recoverie and the Relief of bleeding and miserable Ireland be equally precious to the Petitioners as they are to his Majesty who will have no quarrell but in defence of these there will be a cheerfull and speedy consent to what his Majesty hath now proposed and desired And of this his Majestie expects a full and positive Answer by Wednesday the 27. of his instant July till when he will not make any attempt of force upon Hull hoping in the Affection Duty and Loyalty of the Petitioners and in the mean time expects That no supply of Men be put into Hull or any of his Majesties goods taken from thence FINIS
THE PETITION OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Presented to His MAJESTIE at Beverley the 16 of July 1642. With His MAJESTIES Answer thereunto By the King OUR expresse pleasure is That this Our Answer be read and published throughout all Churches and Chappels of the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales by the severall Parsons Vicars or Curates of the same EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie Anno 1642. THE HVMBLE PETITION Of the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in Parliament Presented to His Majestie at Beverley the 16. of July 1642. May it please your Majestie ALthough we Your Majesties most humble and faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled have been very unhappy in many former Petitions and Supplications to Your Majesty wherein we have represented our most dutifull Affections in advising and desiring those things which wee held most necessary for the preservation of Gods true Religion Your Majesties safety and Honour and the peace of the Kingdome And with much sorrow do perceive That Your Majesty incensed by many false calumnies and slanders doth continue to raise Forces against us and Your other peaceable and loyall Subjects and to make great preparations for War both in the Kingdome and from beyond the Seas And by Arms and Violence to over-rule the judgment and advice of Your great Councell and by force to determine the Questions there depending concerning the Government and Liberty of the Kingdome Yet such is our earnest desire of discharging our dutie to Your Majesty and the Kingdome to preserve the peace thereof and to prevent the miseries of Civill War amongst Your Subjects That notwithstanding we hold our selves bound to use all the means and power which by the Lawes and Constitutions of this Kingdome wee are trusted with for defence and protection thereof and of the Subjects from force and violence We do in this our humble and loyall Petition prostrate our selves at Your Majesties feet beseeching Your Royall Majesty That You will be pleased to forbear and remove all preparations and actions of War particularly the Fores from about Hull from Newcastle Tinmouth Lincoln and Lincolnshire and all other places And that your Majestie will recal the Commissions of Array which are illegall dismisse Troops and extraordinary Guards by You raised That Your Majestie will come neerer to Your Parliament and hearken to their faithfull advice and humble Petitions which shall onely tend to the defence and advancement of Religion Your Own Royall Honour and Safety the preservation of our Lawes and Liberties And we have been and shall ever be carefull to prevent and punish all Tumults and seditious Actions Speeches and Writings which may give Your Majestie just cause of distaste or apprehension of danger from which publike aims and resolutions no sinister or private respect shall ever make us to decline That Your Majestie will leave delinquents to the due course of Justice And that nothing done or spoken in Parliament or by any Person in pursuance of the command and direction of both Houses of Parliament bee questioned any where but in Parliament And we for our parts shall be ready to lay down all those preparations which wee have beene forced to make for our defence And for the Town of Hull and the Ordinance concerning the Militia as we have in both these particulars onely sought the preservation and peace of the Kingdome and the defence of the Parliament from force and violence so we shall most willingly leave the town of Hull in the state it was before Sir John Hotham drew any Forces into it delivering Your Majesties Magazine into the Tower of London and supplying whatsoever hath been disposed by us for the service of the Kingdome We shall be ready to settle the Militia by a Bill in such a way as shall be honorable and safe for Your Majesty most agreeable to the dutie of Parliament and effectual for the good of the Kingdom that the strength thereof be not imployed against it self and that which ought to be for our security applyed to our destruction and that the Parliament and those who professe and desire still to preserve the Protestant Religion both in this Realm and in Ireland may not be left naked and indefensible to the mischievous designes and cruell attempts of those who are the profest and confederated enemies thereof in Your Majesties dominions and other neighbour-nations To which if Your Majesties courses and counsels shall from henceforth concur we doubt not but we shall quickly make it appear to the world by the most eminent effects of love and dutie That Your Majesties personall safety Your Royall Honour and Greatnesse are much dearer to us then our own lives and fortunes which we do most heartily dedicate and shall most willingly imploy for the support and maintenance thereof HIS MAJESTIES ANSWER To the aforesaid PETITION THough His Majestie had no great reason to beleeve That the directions sent to the Earle of Warwick to go to the river of Humber with as many Ships as He should think fit for all possible Assistance to Sir John Hotham whilest His Majestie expected the giving up of the Town unto Him and to carry away such Arms from thence as his discretion thought fit to spare out of His Majesties Own Magazin The chusing a Generall by both Houses of Parliament for the Defence of those who have obeyed their Orders and Commands be they never so extravagant and illegall Their Declaration That in that Case they would Live and Die with the Earle of Essex their Generall all which were Voted the same day with this Petition and the Committing the Lord Major of London to Prison for executing His Majesties Writs and Lawfull Commands were but ill Prologues to a Petition which might compose the miserable distractions of the Kingdome Yet His Majesties passionate desire of the Peace of the Kingdome together with the Preface of the Presenters That they had brought a Petition full of Duty and Submission to His Majestie and which desired nothing of Him but His consent to Peace which His Majestie conceived to bee the Languge of both Houses too begot a greedy hope and expectation in Him That this Petition would have been such an Introduction to Peace that it would at least have satisfied His Message of the eleventh of this Moneth by delivering up Hull unto His Majestie But to His unspeakable grief His Majestie hath too much cause to beleeve That the end of some persons by this Petition is not in truth to give any reall satisfaction to His Majestie but by the specious pretences of making offers to Him to Mis-lead and Seduce His People and lay some imputation upon Him of denying what is fit to be granted otherwise it would not have thrown those unjust Reproaches and Scandalls upon His Majestie for making necessary and just Defence for His Own Safetie and so peremptorily justified such Actions against Him as by no rule of Law