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A78847 His Majesties letter and declaration to the sheriffes and Citty of London. Ianuary 17. 1642. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1643 (1643) Wing C2385; Thomason E85_20 3,443 12

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HIS MAJESTIES LETTER AND DECLARATION TO THE SHERIFFES and CITY of LONDON Ianuary 17. 1642. Printed by His MAJESTIES Command AT OXFORD Ianuary 18. By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1642. HIS MAJESTIES LETTER AND DECLARATION to the SHERIFFES and CITTY of LONDON Ianuary 17.1642 TRusty and Wellbeloved We greet you well We received lately a Petition from the Aldermen and Common-Councell of Our Citty of London by the hands of Persons entrusted by them for the delivery who found such a reception from Vs as well manifested Our regard to that body which sent them Though We well knew by whom that Petition was framed and where perused and examined before it was approved by those from whom it seemed to be sent yet We were so willing to enter into a correspondence with that Our Citty and to receive any addresse and application from them according to that Invitation We had given by Our late Proclamation And were so glad to find that there was yet some hopes they would look to the Peace and happinesse of that Citty and at last sever themselves from any Faction or dependence which might insensibly involve them in those Calamities they did not Foresee that We returned such a gratious Answer thereunto so full of Candor and Affection that the meanest Inhabitant of that Our Citty if he carefully consider the same will find himselfe concerned in it and that We have had an especiall care of his particular With this Answer of Ours We sent a servant of Our own in the company of those who had been so well used here to require and see that it might be communicated to the whole body of that Our Citty not doubting but that both it the Bringei should receive such Entertainment there as might manitest their due regard of Vs of Our Affection to them But to Our great wonder We finde that after ten daies Attendance and suffering ridiculous Pamphlets to be published in Our name as if We retracted Our former Resolutions which Pamphlet We have caused to be burned by the hand of the Hangman as We also require you to see don instead of that admission We expected to Our Messenger and Message guards of Armed Men have been brought to keep Our good Subjects to whom that Our Answer was directed from being present at the reading thereof and Speeches have been made by Strangers who have been admitted to the Citty Councells contrary to the Freedome and Custome of those meetings to Blast Our said Answer and to Dishonour and Slander Vs which if Our good Subjects there shall suffer We shall be much discouraged in Our desired correspondence with that Our Citty and so by the cunning and power of those Incendiaries mentioned in Our Answer Alderman Pennington who to show his great Loyalty to Vs and his fitnesse to be the chief Magistrate of such a Citty being informed that a desperate person there said that he hoped shortly to wash his hands in Our Blood refused to send any Warrant or to give any direction to any Officer for his Apprehension Ven Fulke and Manwaring who have plunged that Our Citty into such unspeakable Calamities in which they would still keep it to cure their own desperate condition Our good Subjects there are not suffered to receive Our gratious Answer to that Petition We have therefore thought fit to write these Our Letters to you requiring you the Sheriffes of Our said Citty to take care for the publishing that Our Answer which We herewith send you to Our good Subjects of that Our Citty And Our pleasure is That you the Masters and Ward●ns of the severall Companies of Our said Citty forthwith summon all the Members of your severall Companies with all the Freemen and Apprentises whose hopes and interests are so much blasted in these generall Distractions belonging thereunto to appeare at your severall Halls where you shall cause Our said Answer together with these Our Letters to be publiquely read that all Our good Subjects may cleerely understand how farre we have been from begetting how farre We are from continuing or nourishing these unnaturall civill dissentions and how much it is in their own power to remove the present pressures and to establish the future happinesse and glory of that famous Citty and may seriously weigh every part of that Our Answer as well that which carries caution in it for the future as pardon for what is past for assure your selves for the time to come We shall proceed with all severity against such who shall incurre the penalty of the Law in those poynts of which we have given them so faire a warning in Our said Answer and whosoever shall not behave himselfe like a good Subject in this Our Kingdome shall not if We can helpe it receive the benefit and advantage of being Our Subject in any other but all Forraigne Princes shall know that as such Person hath parted with his Loyalty to Us so he must not hope for any Security by Vs and to that purpose We shall henceforward have a very inquisitive Eye upon the Actions of all Our Subjects that some example may be made how easie it is for Us to punish their disloyalties abroad who for a time may avoyd Our Iustice at home And to the end that none of Our good Subjects of that Our Citty may thinke themselves bound to obey any of the Orders or Commands of the pretended Lord Major whom We have doe still accuse of high Treason conspiring to take Our Life frō Vs It is well knowne to those Cittizens who understand the Charter of that Citty so amply granted by Our Royall Progenitors and so gratiously confirmed by Vs of which We presume Our good Subjects there doe still desire to receive the benefit that the said Isaack Pennington was never regularly elected or lawfully admitted to be Lord Major of that Our Citty that in truth Alderman Cordwell was by the plurality of voyces chosen and that this Man was never presented to or admitted by Vs in such manner as is prescribed by their said Charter neither had that Iudge who presumed to sweare him any more colour of Law or Authority to administer such an Oath to him then he hath to doe the same to morrow to any other Alderman of the Citty And We doe therefore hereby Declare the said Isaack Pennington not to be Major of that Our Citty of London and to have no lawfull Authority to exercise the same and that Our good Subjects of that Our Citty ought not to submit to any Orders directions or commands which shall issue from him as Lord Major of that Our Citty but that the same are void and of none effect And We doe once more require you the Sheriffes of Our said Citty and all other the Magistrates of the same in which all Our good Subjects of that Citty will assist you that you cause the said Isaack Pennington Ven Fulke and Manwaring to be apprehended and committed to safe Custody that We may proceed against them as guilty of high Treason and principall Authors of those Calamities which are now so heavy upon Our poore Subjects of that Citty and if not suddenly remedied will in a short time utterly confound a Place and a People lately of so flourishing an estimation in all the parts of Christendome And whereas We are informed that one Browne a Wood-monger Titchborne a Linnen-Draper and one Harvy a Silke-man have exercised great Insolencies and outrages in that Our Citty and when many of Our good Subjects there have assembled together in a peaceable and modest manner to consult about the Peace and welfare of that Citty the said mutinous and seditious Persons have presumed to lead Multitudes of armed Men against them and by such force have beaten wounded and killed Our good Subjects Our Will and Pleasure is that if the said Browne Titchborne and Harvy or either of them shall so farre neglect Our gratious offer of Pardon as still to engage themselves in those unwarrantable and seditious coursed That you Our Sheriffes of London raise power to suppresse the said force and that you and all Our Ministers of Iustice use your utmost meanes to apprehend the said Persons and to bring them to condigne punishment And We doe hereby Declare That it shall be lawfull for any of Our loving Subjects to resist and oppose the said Persons if they shall hereafter in such a Warlike manner endeavour to molest them as they would doe Rebells Traitours And We hope that all Our good Subjects of that Our much injured Citty of London doe take notice of Our Grace and Favour towards them in Our so freely passing by and pardoning the Offences there committed against Us as We have offered by Our Proclamation and Our late Answer and of Our very earnest desire to be with them and to reside amongst them for their Comfort Support and Protection if they shall by first providing for their owne security in such manner as We have directed them in Our late Answer give Vs an instance that We may be safe there too And that they doe likewise observe that being by such violence kept from them We have done Our utmost endeavour to continue and advance the decayed trading of that Our Citty by permitting and encouraging all resort and traffique thither and therefore if by the stopping of Carriages and seizing Commodities by other men the commerce and correspondence be broken betweene that place and Our good Subjects of other Counties they will impute that mischiefe to the true Authors of it and looke upon Us only as not able to helpe them Doe but your Duties and this Cloud which threatens a present confusion will quickly vanish away and you will enjoy all the Blessings of a happy Nation to the which no endeavour of Ours shall be wanting Given at Our Court at OXFORD this 17 th day of IANUARY 1642. 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