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A31819	His Majesties answer to the petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled presented to His Majestie at York, June 17, 1642 : together with a catalogue of the names of the Lords that subscribed to levie horse to assist His Majestie in defence of his royall person, the two Houses of Parliament, and the Protestant religion.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament. Humble petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, presented to His Majestie at York, the 17 of June, 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2137A; ESTC R26423	8,418	9

His Majesties ANSWER TO THE PETITION OF The LORDS and COMMONS in PARLIAMENT Assembled Presented to His Majestie at YORK June 17. 1642. TOGETHER With a Catalogue of the Names of the Lords that subscribed to Levie Horse to assist His Majestie in defence of his Royall person the two Houses of Parliament and the Protestant Religion LONDON Printed by B. A. for Robert Wood 1642. To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons in PARLIAMENT Assembled YO 〈…〉 most 〈…〉 faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons assem 〈…〉 great number of the Gentry Free-holders 〈…〉 sembled there by Your Majesties Command the 〈…〉 are unto Us That having taken a resolution to addresse themselves 〈…〉 tie in the humble way of a Petition for the redresse of those Grievances which they now lie under they were violently interrupted and affronted therein by the Earle of Linsey the Lord Savill and others and notwithstanding all the means they could use to present their just desires to Your Majestie yet they could not prevail with Your Majeste to accept of their Petition The Copie whereof they have sent to us with an humble Desire That we would take such course therein as may tend to the Preservation of their Liberties and the Peace of the Kingdome And that we would addresse our selves to Your Majestie in their behalf that by our means their desires may finde better acceptation with Your Majestie Whereupon having seriously weighed and considered the particulars of those their Complaints and Desires as they are laid down in their Petition and finding that the Grievances they complain of are the increase of the miseries formerly sustained by that County which hath well-nigh for three yeers last past been the Tragicall stage for Armies and War by reason of Your Majesties distance in Residence and difference in Counsels from Your great Councell the Parliament begetting great distempers and distractions thorowout the Kingdom and especially in that County The drawing to those Parts great numbers of discontented Persons that may too justly be feared do affect the publike ruine for their own private advantage The drawing together of many Companies of the Trained Bands and others both of Horse and Foot of that County and retaining multitudes of Commanders and Cavaliers from other parts The daily resort of Recusants to Your Majesties Court at York The great preparations of Arms and other warlike provisions to the great terrour and amazement of Your Majesties peaceable Subjects and causing a great decay of Trade and Commerce amongst them All and every of which Particulars are against the Law which Your Majestie hath made so many and so frequent professions to uphold and maintain And the Lords and Commons finding on the other side their humble desires to be That your Majestie would hearken to Your Parliament and declining all other Counsels wharsoever unite Your confidence to Your Parliament and that your Majestie would not divide Your Subjects joint dutie to Your Majestie the Parliament and Kingdom not destroy the Essence of Your great Councell and highest Court by subjecting the Determinations and Counsels thereof to the Counsels and Opinions of any private persons whatsoever That Your Majestie having passed an Act That this Parliament shall not be dissolved but by Act of Parliament Your Majesty would not do any thing tending thereunto by commanding away the Lords and great Officers whose attendance is necessary therunto That Your Majestie having expressed Your confidence in the affections of that County You would please to dismisse Your extraordinary Guards and the Cavaliers and others of that quality who seem to have little interest or affection to the publike good their language and behaviour speaking nothing but Division and War and their advantage consisting in that which is most destructive to others And lastly that in such Consultations and Propositions as Your Majestie maketh to that Countie such may not be thrust upon them as men of that Countie that neither by their fortune or residence are any part of it All which their humble and most just desires being according to Law which your Majestie hath so often declared should be the measure and Rule of your Government and Actions And we your Majesties most faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons fully concurring with the Gentlemen and others of the County of York in their Assurance that those desires of theirs will abundantly redound to the glory of God the honour and safety of your Majestie the good of your Posteritie and the peace and prosperitie of this Kingdom we humbly bescech your Majestie graciously to hearken unto them and to grant them and that you would joyn with your Parliament in a speedy and effectuall course for the preservation of their liberties and the peace of the Kingdom which duty as we are now called upon by that Countie to discharge so do we stand engaged to God and man for the petformance thereof by the trust reposed in us and by our solemn Vow and Protestation And your Majestie together with us stands engaged by the like Obligation of trust and of Oath besides the many and earnest professions and protestations which your Majestie hath made to this purpose to your whole Kingdom in generall and to that Countie in particular the peace and quiet of the Kingdom as is well observed by the Gentlemen and Free-holders of Yorkshire in their Petition being the onely visible means under God wherein consists the preservation of the Protestant Religion the Redemption of our Brethren in Ireland and the happinesse and prosperitie of your Majestie and all your Dominions His MAJESTIES Answer to the Petition of the Lords and and Commons in Parliament assembled presented to His MAJESTIE at York the 17. of Iune 1642. HIs Majesty having carefully weighed the matter of this Petition presented to him at York on Friday the 17. of June by the Lord Howard Sir Hugh Cholmley Sir Philip Stapleton Though He might refer the Petitioners to His two last Declarations wherein most of the particulars in this Petition are fully answered or might refuse to give any Answer at all till He had received satisfaction in those high Indignities He hath so often complained of and demanded Justice for Yet that all the world may see how desirous His Majestie is to leave no Act which seems to carry the Reputation of both His Houses of Parliament and in the least degree to reflect upon His Majesties Justice and Honour unanswered Is graciously pleased to return this Answer 〈…〉 mentioned to be presented to both Houses of Parliament had bill annexed is this now delivered to him His Majesty might have discerned the 〈◊〉 and quality of the Petitioners which His Majesty hath great reason to beléeve was not in truth so considerable as is pretended For his Majesty assures you That He hath never refused any Petition so attested as that would be thought to be But His Majesty well remembers that on the third of June wh●n there was upon his

Majesties summons the greatest and most chéerefull concourse of people that over 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 Majesty which His Majesty séeing to be avowed by no man but himselfe and the generall and universall Acclamations of the people séeming to disclaime 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 H●s Majesty is most confident and in that must appeale to those were then present that what ever the substance of that Petition was it was not consented to b● any considerable number of Gentry or Fréeholders of this County by a few meane inconsiderable persons and disliked and visibly discountenanced by the great Body of the knowne Gentry Clergy and Inhabitants of this whole County And if the matter of that Petition was such as is suggested in this His Majesty hath great reason to beléeve it was framed and contrived as many others of such nature have béene in London not in Yorkshire For sure no Gentleman of quality and understanding of this County would talke of His great preparations of Armes 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 terror 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 Majesty 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 beleeve That they doe rather complaine of his Majesties Confidence and of his slownesse that whilst there is such endeavour abroad to raise Horse and to provide Armes against his Majesty and that endeavour put in execution His Majesty 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 Earle of Lindsey or the Lord Savill to those who intended to petition his Majesty His Majesty 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 concerne the Innocence and honour of Persons of such quality hath béene accustomed before they had proscribed two Péeres of the Realme 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 formed 〈…〉 mes 〈…〉 And then his Majestie hath some reason to beléeve 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 numhers and discontented persons to him and of the other particulars mentioned to to be in that Petition Whereas they who observe what resort is here to his Majesty well know it to bee of the prime Gentlemen of all the Counties in England whom nothing but the love of Religion the care of the Lawes 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 whose assistance his Majesty knowes he must not expect if he should have the least Designe against honour and Justice and such witnesses his majesty desires to have all his actions For the declining other Counsells 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 Counsell just or unjust neither can the imputation upon his majesty of not being advised by his Parliament especially sines all their actions and all their Orders are exposed to the publike view long mislead his good Subjects except in truth they sée some particular sound advice necessary to the peace and hapinesse of the Common-wealth dis-ostéemed by his Majesty and such an influence he is most assured neither can nor shall be given and that they will thinke it merit in his Majesty from the Common-wealth to rejoin such a Counsell as would perswade him to make himselfe none of the three Estates by giving up his negative voyce 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 Propriety to their Uotes without and against Law upon the méer pretence of necessity And his Majesty must appeale 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 owne duty guided by the infallible Rule of the Law leads them to doe or they who by Orders and Uotes opposite and contradictory to Law Custome president and reason so confound the affections and understandings 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 reproached in this Petition as if hée departed from his often Protestations to that purpose must conclude him there being no one such particular in that petition alleadged of which his majesty is in the least degrée guilty whether the same Reverence and estéeme be paid by you to the Law except your owne Uotes be judge néeds no other Evidence then those many very many Orders published in print both concerning the Church and State those long imprisonment of severall persons without hearing them upon generall information and the great and unlimited Fees to your Office 〈…〉 worse then the Imprisonment and the Arbitrary consure upon them when they are admitted to be heard Let the Law be judge by whom it is violater For that part of the Petition which séems to accuse his Majesty of a purpose to dissolve this Parliament contrary to the Act for the continuance 〈…〉 … ing away the Lords and greāt officers whose attendance is necessary which his Majesty well knowe to be a new Calumny by which the Grand Confrivers of ruine for the State hope to seduce the minds of the people from their affection