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The Humble petition of the county of Cornwall to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie subscribed by above seven thousand hands : with His Majesties answer thereunto : whereunto is added the oaths of allegiance and supremacie.
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Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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1642
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The Humble PETITION Of the County of CORNWALL TO THE KINGS Most Excellent Majestie Subscribed by above seven thousand hands WITH His Majesties Answer thereunto Whereunto is added The Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacie LONDON Printed for T. Warren 1642. To the KINGS most Excellent Majestie The humble PETITION of the County of CORNWALL WE Your Majesties most Loyall Subjects in all duty render unto Your Majestie all thankfulnesse for Your Majesties Unexempled favour and Grace in granting unto Your Subjects by the Concurrence with Your Parliament such Laws and freedoms which have most fully expressed Your Majesties gracious goodnesse unto Your People And we most thankfully receive Your Majesties free offer of a Generall Pardon whereof wee most humbly desire to be made partakers And we most humbly beseech Your Majestie Never to suffer Your Subjects to be Governed by an Arbitrary Government nor admit an alteration in Religion And Your Petitioners being most feelingly grieved for Your Majesties discontents partly occasioned by divers scandalous Pamphlets and seditious Sermons and no way lessened by unlawfull Tumults do wish a confluence of all Comforts Honour and Happinesse unto Your Majestie and do most heartily pray for the Reconcilement between Your Majestie and Your Parliament And in all humble thankfulnesse for Your Majesties said Grace and Goodnesse Your Petitioners do offer themselves most ready to maintain and defend with their lives and fortunes Your Majesties Sacred Person Honour Estate and lawfull Prerogative against all persons whatsoever according to the Oaths of Supremacie and Allegiance CORNUB Iohn Grills high Sheriff Warwick Lord Mohun Sir Iohn Trelawney Knight and Baronet Sir William Wrey Knight and Baronet Iohn Arundell of Trerise Esq. Charles Trevanion Esq. Walter Langdon Esq. Peter Courtney Esq. Samuel Cosowarth Esq. Richard Prideaux Esq. Iohn Arundell Esq. Renatus Billot Esq. Francis Iones Esq. Robert Rous Esq. Edward Trelawney Esq. Nevil Blighe Esq. William Bastard Esq. Charles Grills Esq. Nathanel Dillon Esq. William Arundell Gent. William Courtney Gent. Ed. Courtney Gent. Walter Glin Gent. Edward Cook Gent. Hugh Pomeroy Esq. Ambrose Billot Gent. Iohn Samuel Gent. Nichol Kendall Major of Lostwithyell Obadiah Ghoship Cler. Iohn Kette Cler. Thomas Harrison Cler. Thomas Porter Cler. Simon Lann Cler. Iohn Peter Cler. George Brush Cler. Barnard Achim Gent. Theophilus Laugherne Gent. William Guavas Gent. Nicholas Sawell Gent. William Robinson Gent. Thomas Robinson Gent. Ioseph Iolly Gent. Thomas Trear Gent. THe aforesaid Gentlemen Subscribed at Lostwithyell unto the Petition direction to His Majestie together with Seven thousand more Esquires Gentlemen Freeholders and other Inhabitants which subscribed and signed the said Petition in their severall Parishes HIS MAJESTIES ANSWER to the Petition of Cornwall At the Court at York 26. June 1642. HIs Majestie is so very well pleased with the duty and affection of this Petition That He hath commanded me to signifie His good acceptance of it and thanks for it to the County of Cornwall and to assure them That as He will be alwayes ready to increase the happinesse of His people by consenting to such good new Laws as shall be proposed to Him for their advantage so He will be forward to venture His life in maintenance of the Religion and Laws established which He doubts not with the assistance of the Petitioners and other His good Subjects He shall be able to defend His Majestie will be ready to grant such a generall Pardon to the Petitioners as they desire And will no longer expect the continuance of their duty and affection then Himself continues true to those Professions He hath so often made of maintaining and defending the Religion and Laws of this Kingdom Falkland The Oath of Allegiance Tertio Iac. cap. 4. I A. B. do truely and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Soueraigne Lord King Charls is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority by the Church or See of Rome or by any other meanes with any other hath any power of authority to depose the King or to dispose any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any forraign Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and obedience to his Majestie or to give license or leave to any of them to beare armes raise tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royall Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do sweare from my heart that notwithstanding any declaration or sentence of excōmuuication or deprivation made or granted to be made or granted by the Pope or his successors or by any authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the sayd King his Heirs or Successors or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience I will beare faith and true Allegiance to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and Dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or declaration or otherwise and will do my best endevour to disclose and make knowne unto his Majestie his Heirs and Successors all treasons or trayterous conspiracies which I shall know or heare of to be against him or any of them And I do further sweare that I do from my heart abhorre detest and abjure as impious and hereticall this damnable doctrine and position That Princes which be excōmunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do beleeve and in my Conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full authority to be lawfully ministred unto me and do renounce all pardons or dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words by me spoken and according to the plaine and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian So helpe me God The Oath of Supremacy Primo Eliz. Cap. 1. I A. B. do utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience that the Kings Highnesse is the onely Supreame Governour of this Realme and all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or causes as Temporall And that no forraine Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superioritie Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all forrain Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall beare faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heirs and lawfull Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highnesse his Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperiall Crown of the Realme So help me God and by the Contents of this book FINIS