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A32038 [A proclamation declaring our purpose] England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1642 (1642) Wing C2579; ESTC R39048 1,706 1

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〈…〉 Whereupon We being very sensible of this extream dishonour to Vs That a Town of such importance and so neer to the place of Our present Residence should be thus fortified kept and maintained against Vs That the Port and Passage by Sea should be defended against Vs by Our own Ships under the conduct of the Earl of Warwick who being legally discharged by Vs of his employment at Sea by Our Revocation of the Commission formerly granted by Vs to the Earl of Northumberland and by Our Command signified unto him under Our own hand to deliver the commmand of Our Ships into the hands of another person named by Vs hath notwithstanding Our said Commands to which the Earl of Northumberland paid a dutifull obedience presumed not only to dispossesse Vs of Our said Navie but to employ it against Vs and to take Prisoners such of Our Captains as expressed a loyalty to Vs according to their Oaths and the duty of Subjects And that a Ship of Ours lately imployed for Our particular service into Holland and returning from thence with some of Our proper Goods hath been chased by them as an Enemie and inforced for her safetie to put into a small Creek within six Miles of that Town and there to run on ground to the great hazard of Our said Vessell and that both Our Ship and Goods there were yet remaining in danger to be surprized by Our own Subjects We took a Journey on Wednesday the sixth of this Moneth from York towards the said Creek to take a view of Our said Ship and Goods thus exposed to danger We having just cause to fear that Sir John Hotham and others of his Confederacie would for Our good and the good of the Kingdom make prize of these also and by the oportunitie of that journey We Our Selves are now fully informed of the certaintie of those things which We had before received but from the relation of others and there received a lamentable Petition of Our Subjects of those parts complaining of the unheard of Insolence and Barbarisme of Sir John Hotham and desiring Our just and necessary protection of them from those cruell Oppressions Vpon all which considerations that We may at length after this long patience do that right to Our Honour Our Crown and Royall Dignitie and to Our good Subjects in generall and those of and near to Our Town of Hull in particular which We had reason to have expected from Our two Houses of Parliament but have failed of the fruit of Our long expectation by the malice of some ill-affected spirits amongst them who studie nothing more then by false pretences to amuse and abuse Our good people We have taken this Resolution by Gods blessing and the Assistance of Our good Subjects to force Sir John Hotham and all that shall take part with him in the unjust and treasonable defence of the Town of Hull against Vs to that obedience which is due by Subjects to their Liege Lord and Soveraign and to resist the Assistance intended to Sir John Hotham from Our said County of Lincoln and other places adjoyning if they shall attempt it And to this purpose We will and require all Our loving Subjects to yeeld their best assistance of what kinde soever to so necessary a defence of Our Person and just vindication of so great an injury offered unto Vs to the dishonour of this Nation And We do declare That whosoever shall give Vs their cheerfull help at this time and to this purpose either with Men Horse Arms or Money to be brought sent or conveyed unto Vs We shall look upon it as a Service never to be forgotten And this We publish to all Our Subjects and to all the World that they may truly understand the cleering of Our Intentions herein as We shall do in all other things concerning our Government And that We do and ever shall maintain those Resolutions We have professed so often and so seriously by Our former Declarations That We will continue and defend the true Protestant Religion as it is by Law established in the Church of England the Laws of the Land the Rights and just Liberties of Our Subjects equally to and with Our own just Prerogative and the true Priviledges of Parliament and never infringe any Act consented to by Vs this Parliament And that We have not nor ever had the least thought of making war upon Our two Houses of Parliament as hath been slanderously and maliciously published And these things not Our Words onely but all Our Actions shall make good And in this Resolution and the just Observation thereof We shall both live and dye Given at Our Court at Beverley the eighth day of July in the eighteenth yeer of Our Reign 1642. Imprinted at York by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642.