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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37821	The humble petition of the Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament unto His Majesty (with reasons moving them to advise His Majesty) to decline his intended journey into Ireland sent to Yorke by the Earle of Stamford, Sir Iohn Culpepper, knight, Chancellour of the Exchequer, and Anthony Hungerford, esquire, who presented the same to His Majesty at York on Monday last, being the 18 day of April, 1642.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1586; ESTC R30035	2,722	10

THE HUMBLE PETITION Of the Lords Commons assembled in Parliament unto his Majesty with the Reasons moving them to advise his Majesty to decline his intended Journey into Ireland Sent to Yorke by the Earle of Stamford Sir Iohn Culpepper Knight Chancellour of the Exchequer and Anthony Hungerford Esquire Who presented the same to his Majesty at Yorke on Monday last being the 18 day of April 1642. And ordered to be printed and published by the Commons House of Parliament Die Veneris 22 of April H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. LONDON Printed by A.N. for John Franck 1642. May it please your Majestie YOur Majesties most loyall and faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament have duly considered the Message received from your Majesty concerning your purpose of going into Ireland in your own person to prosecute the warre there with the bodies of your English Subjects levied transported and mayntained at their charge which you are pleased to propound to us not as a matter wherein your Majesty desires the advice of your Parliament but as already firmely resolved on and forthwith to be put in execution by granting out Commissions for the levying of two thousand foot and two hundred Horse for a Guard for your person when you shall come into that Kingdome wherein we cannot chuse but withall reverence and humility to your Majesty observe that you have declined your great Councell the Parliament and varied from the usuall course of your Royall Predecessors that a businesse of so great importance concerning the peace and safety of all your Subjects and wherein they have a speciall interest by your Majesties promise and by those great sums which they have disbursed and for which they stand ingaged should be concluded and undertaken without their advice whereupon we hold it our duty to declare that if at this time your Majesty shall goe into Ireland you will very much endanger the safety of your Royall Person and Kingdoms and of all other States professing the Protestant Religion in Christendome and make way to that cruell and bloudy Designe of the Papists every where to root out and destroy the Reformed Religion as the Irish Papists have in a great part already effected in that Kingdome and in all likelyhood would quickly be attempted in other places if the consideration of the strength and union of the two Nations of England and Scotland did not much hinder and discourage the execution of any such designe and that we may manifest to your Majestie the danger and misery which such a journey and enterprize would procure we present to your Majesty the Reasons of this our humble opinion and advice 1 YOur Royall person will be subject not onely to the casualty of warre but to secret practises and conspiracies especially your Majesty continuing your profession to mayntaine the Protestant Religion in that Kingdome which the Papists are generally bound by their vow to extirpate 2 It will exceedingly encourage the Rebels who doe generally professe and declare that your Majesty doth favour and allow their proceedings and this insurrection was undertaken by the warrant of your Commission and it will make good their expectation of great advantage by your Majesties presence at this time of so much distraction in this Kingdome whereby they may hope we shall be disabled to supply the warre there especially there appearing lesse necessitie of your Majesties Journey at this time by reason of the manifold successes which God hath given against them 3. It will much hinder and impaire the meanes whereby this warre is to bee supported and will encrease the charge of it and in both these respects make it more insupportable to your Subjects and this we can confidently affirme because many of the Adventurers who have already subscribed doe upon the knowledge of your Majesties Intentions declare their resolutions not to pay in their money and others very willing to have subscribed doe now professe the contrary 4. Your Majesties absence must necessarily very much interrupt the proceedings of Parliament and deprive your Subjects of the benefit of those further Acts of Grace and Justice which we shall humbly expect from your Majesty for the establishing of perfect union and mutuall confidence betwixt your Majesty and your People and procuring and confirming the prosperity and happinesse of both 5. It will exceedingly encrease the jealousies and feares of your people and render the doubts of your Subjects more probable of some force intended by some evill counsells neere your Majesty in opposition to the Parliament and favour of the malignant party of the Kingdome 6. It will bereave your Parliament of that advantage whereby they were induced to undertake this warre upon your Majesties promise that it should be managed by their advice which cannot be done if your Majestie contrary to their Counsell shall undertake to order and governe it in your owne Person Upon which and divers other reasons wee have resolved by the full and concurring agreement of both Houses that we cannot with the dutie which belongs to us consent to any Levyes or raising of Souldiours to be made by your Majesty for this your intended expedition into Ireland or to the payment of any Army or Souldiers there but such as shall bee imployed and governed according to our advice and direction and that if such Levyes shall be made by any Commission of your Majesty not agreed to by both Houses of Parliament wee shall be forced to interpret the same to be raysed to the terrour of your people and disturbance of the publicke peace and hold our selves bound by the Lawes of the Kingdome to apply the authority of Parliament to suppresse the same And we doe further most humbly declare that if your Majesty shall by ill counsell be perswaded to goe contrary to this advice of your Parliament which we hope your Majesty will not We doe not in that case hold our selves bound to submit to any Commissioners which your Majesty shall choose but doe resolve to preserve and governe the Kingdome by the counsell and advice of Parliament for your Majestie and your Posteritie according to Allegiance and the Law of the Land Wherefore we most humbly pray and advise your Majesty to desist from this your intended passage into Ireland and from all preparation of men and Armes tending thereunto and to leave the managing of that warre to your Parliament according to your Majesties promise made unto us and your Royall Commission granted under your great Seale of England by advise of both Houses in prosecution whereof by Gods blessing we have made a prosperous entrance by many defeats of the Rebels whereby they are much weakned and dis-heartened and have no probable meanes of subsistence if our proceedings shall not be interrupted by this interposition of your Majesties J urney but that we may hope upon good grounds that within a short time without hazard of your Majesties person and so much dangerous confusion to your Kingdomes which must needs ensue if you should proceed in this resolution We shall be enabled fully to vindicate your Majesties right and authority in that Kingdome and punish those horrible and outragious cruelties which have bin committed in the murthering and spoyling so many of your Subjects and bring that Realme to such a Condition as may be much for the advantage of your Majesty and this Crown the honour of your government and contentment of your people for the better and more speedy effecting whereof we doe againe renew our humble desires of your returne to your Parliament And that you will please to reject all Counsels and apprehensions which may any way derogate from that faithfulnesse and Allegiance which in truth and sinceritie we have alwayes borne and professed to your Majesty and shall ever make good to the uttermost with our lives and fortunes Die veneris 22. of April 1642. It is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament that this Petition shall bee forth-with published in Print H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com.