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A45018	The Humble petition of the commons of Kent, agreed upon at their generall assizes, presented to His Majestie the first of August, 1642 with certaine instructions from the county of Kent, to Mr. Augustine Skinner, whereby the desires of the said county may be presented by him to the honourable House of Commons : with His Majesties answer ... this fourth of August, 1642.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing H3495; ESTC R18106	4,350	18

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE COMMONS OF KENT Agreed upon at their Generall ASSIZES Presented to His MAJESTIE the first of August 1642. With certain Instructions from the County of Kent to Mr. Augustine Skinner whereby the Desires of the said County may be presented by him to the Honourable House of Commons With His MAJESTIES Answer to the aforesaid Petition At the Court at York this fourth of August 1642. YORK Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The Humble Petition of the Commons of Kent Agreed upon at their Generall ASSIZES Most gracious Soveraign WE do with all thankfulnesse acknowledge Your great Grace and favour towards us and the whole Kingdom In passing many good Laws for the benefit of Your Subjects In promising to ease us of all our grievances And graciously inviting Us by Your Letter directed to the Judge of Our Assize full of Love and Care for Your Peoples good to Petition for redresse of them promising a gracious Answer And we should with all humility have presented them to Your Majesty at this time did not the present great distractions and apprehension of a Civill War which we earnestly pray to God to divert put us beyond all thought of other grievances For prevention whereof we have with all Loyalty of Heart to Your Sacred Majesty with all Love and Faithfulnesse to our Country presented our humble Advice in certain Instructions to one of our Knights of the Shire now here present with a Committee from the House of Commons to be presented by him to that Honourable House The Copy whereof we make bold to annex unto this Petition Most humbly desiring Your Most Excellent Majestie That if it shall please the Houses of Parliament to satisfie Your Majesties just desires in these particular That then Your Majesty would be graciously pleased to lay down Your extraordinary Guards and cheerfully meet Your Parliament in such a place where Your Sacred Majesty and each Member of both Houses may be free from tumultuary Assemblies And as in all Duty bound we shall dayly Pray for Your Majesties long Life and prosperous Reign over us Instructions from the County of Kent to Master Augustine Skinner whereby the desires of the said County may be presented by him to the Honorable House of COMMONS WHereas a Committee from the House of Commons is now sent down to the Assizes upon a credible Information as they say that something should be done to the Disturbance of the Peace of this County We the Commons of Kent require you Master Augustine Skinner as our Servant to certifie to that Honourable House That you found the County in full Peace and that there is no ground for any such Information and that you desire in our Names to know the particulars of that Information of which it seems you are ignorant and the Informer that this County may have full reparations in Honour against so scandalous an aspersion cast upon them and that the Informer of what quality soever may receive condigne punishment And that the House of Commons may understand our desires not only to preserve the Peace of this County which with Gods blessing and the help of the good known Laws of this Kingdome we are confident we shall maintain but also of the whole Kingdome being now in so great a distraction that every Man stands at a gaze to see what the event is likely to be and well weighing what a great fire a small spark may kindle abhorring and detesting the thought of a Civill War We farther require you to offer our humble advice as Faithfull and Loyall Subjects to His Majesty and good Patriots and Lovers of our Countrey for setling the Distractions of these times One principall meanes to effect it we conceive will be to give His Majesty full satisfaction in His Just Desires in these foure Particulars 1. In presently leaving the Town of Hull in the same State it was before Sir John Hothams entrance into it And delivering His Majesty His own Magazine 2. In laying aside the Militia untill a good Law may be framed wherein care may be taken as well for the Liberty of the Subjects as the Defence of the Kingdom 3. That the Parliament be adjourned to an indifferent place where His Sacred Majesty all the Lords and Members of Your House of Commons may meet and treat with Honour Freedom and Safety 4. That His Majesties Navie may be immediately restored to him Our Reasons are these 1. For withdrawing your Garrison out of the Town of Hull we are perswaded your fears and Jealousies of forraign forces of French or Danes or of the Papists at home an inconsiderable Party especially being disarmed are long since vanished the Magazine or a great part of it being removed to London we conceive Master Major of Hull may safely keep the Town as before 2. For laying aside the Militia we are free from Jealousies of Forraign Forces so that you may have time enough to frame a lasting Law which notwithstanding for feare of Inconvenience to the Subjects Liberty you may if you so think fit make the Law a Probationer Besides His Majesty if occasion should be is vested with sufficient power to raise forces for the Defence of the Kingdom for which onely we are confident His Majesty will employ them And we should hold our selves worse then Infidels if after so many Protestations to maintain the True Religion by Law established the Subjects in the Liberty of their Persons and Propriety of their Goods and the Priviledges of Parliament and that He will Govern us by the known Laws of the Land we should not with full assurance beleeve in Him and confide in Him 3. For adjourning the Parliament to another place His Majesty hath expressed the Reasons That He was driven away by tumultuary Assemblies and that he cannot return thither with Honour and Safety And divers of the Lords are absent who promise to return back to the House when they may sit with the Liberty and that condition that the Peerage of England formerly have done secured from all menaces or demanding any Account of their particular Votes which we conceive to be against the Freedom of Parliament which by our Protestation we must maintain and from tumultuarie Assemblies These having been the Occasions as we beleeve that of neer five hundred in the House of Commons there are but about one hundred and forty left to sit there and the greater part of the Lords gone away 4. For the Restitution of the Navie our Reason is That the Neighbour Nations do take notice that His Majesties Navie is detained from him which if not suddenly restored may turn to His Majesties dishonour whose honour by our Protestation we are bound to maintain Another means we conceive to settle the States and Minds of the Subjects is a free generall and large pardon which since His Majesty hath so graciously offered

we desire and expect to receive and if any Man do dislike it he may be excepted and the generality of the Subjects not hindred of their good and His Majesties Grace and Goodnesse His Majesties Answer to the humble Petition of the Commons of Kent agreed upon at their generall Assizes and presented to His Majesty the first of August At the Court at York this fourth of August 1642. HIS Majestie hath with great satisfaction in the Loyalty and affection of the Petitioners considered this Petition with the Instructions annexed to their Knight of the Shire and hath expresly commanded me to return this His Answer in these Words That the Petitioners are not more eased and satisfied with the good Laws His Majestie hath passed then His Majestie himselfe is pleased with that way of obliging His Subjects neither hath He ever made the least Promise or profession of repairing or redressing the grievances of His People which he hath not been and alwaies wil be ready to perform His Majestie cannot blame the Petitioners to be apprehensive of a civill War since the present distractions grounded upon no visible cause to which His Majestie could or can yet applie a remedy threaten no lesse confusion But His Majestie doubts not that the Petitioners and all His good Subjects do well understand That His Majestie hath left no way unattempted which in Honour or Wisdom could be consented to to prevent that confusion That after so many Injuries and Indignities offered to Him so many combinations and conspiracies against Him He departed so much from His own Majestie and the Justice due to it That He required no other reparation then to have His Town Goods and Navie taken and kept by violence from and against Him to be restored to Him The power of making Laws without Him by the way of Ordinances and that in particular concerning the Militia to be disavowed And that a safe Place might be agreed on where He might be present with His great Councell for the composing all misunderstandings and making the Kingdom happy That before any Answer returned to His Majestie whil'st with all patience and hope His Majestie forbore any action or attempt of force according to His promise Sir John Hotham issued out of Hull in the Night burned the Houses and murthered the Persons of his fellow Subjects though He knew His Majestie quietly expected an Answer to His reasonable and necessary demands and hath since exercised most barbarous cruelty upon a Drummer then taken Prisoner by him That those Propositions made by His Majestie and mentioned by the Petitioners in their Instructions are dissented from and His Majestie not suffered to enjoy what is as unquestionably His own as any thing His Subjects can call most theirs upon pretence there is some trust on foot to dispossesse His Majestie of them Whether any such trust be derived from the Petitioners Themselves best know That a Generall is made to command His Subjects against Him and Forces already marching with Canon towards Him under the conduct of the Lord Brook whil'st all Labour and Endeavour is used to cut off all Succour and Supply from His Majesty as from a Forraign Enemy When the Petitioners and all other His Majesties Subjects have weighed this and considered that these strange unheard of proceedings must be the effects of desperate Resolutions and that all this calamity is brought upon this Nation to wrest from His Majestie His Just Rights when no sober man can see the want of any thing which is in His Majesties power to grant and necessary for the peace and full happinesse of the Kingdom That when all encouragement is given scandals raised and provocations used to incense the People against His Majesty and to publish Petitions and Declarations against the known Laws and established Government The Petitioners and all other His Majesties good Subjects who out of a true sense of the distraction and ruine the Commonwealth must speedily fall into through these distempers have prepared sober and moderate Petitions and Animadversions for the peace of the Kingdom have been discountenanced censured and imprisoned in a Lawlesse Arbitrary way when no offence have been committed by them of which the Law hath taken notice That all their Rights Interests and Priviledges which they were born to by the good known Lawes are taken from them or subjected to an unintelligible Arbitrary power and resolution which destroyes their confidence and assurance even in Innocencie it self They will think it time to provide for their own security by Assisting His Majestie for the defence of His Person preservation of the true Protestant Religion and maintenance of the Law of the Land and Liberty of the Subject of the which as the Petitioners care is very eminent and deserves all protection thanks and estimation from His Majesty So His Majesty will venture His Life and His Crown with them in that Quarrell Lastly least any of the Petitioners may unjustly suffer for making or presenting this humble dutifull and modest Petition to His Majestie His Majestie Declares That He will with His utmost power and assistance protect and defend them against any power whatsoever which shall question them for so doing And to that purpose advertiseth them That they are not obliged to yeeld Obedience to any Pursuivants Sergeants or Messengers who shall endeavour to molest them for doing their Duty and discharging their Consciences therein And that the whole County of Kent may know His Majesties gracious acceptance of this expression of their Duty and affection unto Him 'T is His Majesties pleasure that this His Answer together with the Petition and Instructions be Read in all the Churches and Chappels of that County Falkland FINIS