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A77403 A briefe answer to a book intituled, His Majesties letter and declaration to the sheriffes and city of London.ยท 1643 (1643) Wing B4540; Thomason E86_34; ESTC R20118 2,584 9

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A Briefe ANSWER TO A BOOK INTITULED HIS MAJESTIES LETTER AND DECLARATION TO THE SHERIFFES and CITY OF LONDON Jan. 30th LONDON Printed in the yeer 1642. An Answer to His Majesties Letter and Declaration to the Sheriffes and City of London First We were glad to finde that there was yet some hopes they would looke to the peace and happinesse of that City and at last sever themselves from any faction or dependence which might insensibly involve them in those Calamities they did not foresee 'T is the nature of Mortalls but the cause I know not to rest secure in his own thoughts when in the opinion of others he is subject to the greatest casualties nay so averse are they that when reason cannot promise a happy successe to their bad attempts they make it a matter of faith and believe that for an absolute certainty which in it self i● lesse than probable I wish this disease may never steale into the Royall but if His words bee scann'd 't will breed a jealousie of His inclination to that distemper for if He were not how could He imagine that the City of London should now after so many desperate designes be insensible of the miseries that will ensue the Conquest if obtained by their Adversaries surely they about His Majesty have not that power over His Rationall faculties as to possesse Him with a thought of Divinity inhaerent in them as if their wayes were like Gods past finding out Or if His Majestie do but weigh the severall accidents and passages that have happened since these differences He will finde no promise from God of the Victory nay I am confident His tender Heart cannot bee free from some fears seconded with pregnant reasons wh●r●on He may ground a beliefe of His losse and for any thing that He hath yet gotten the City may continue as zealous for the Parliament as ever they were and with no lesse safety than their diligence hath hitherto with Gods assistance purchased for them Secondly With that Answer of ours we sent a Servant of Our own to require and see that it might bee communicated to the whole body of that Our City but instead of that admission we expected to Our Messenger Guards of armed men have beene brought to keepe Our good Subjects from being present at the reading therof What hopes is there of doing good when His Majesty doth so confide in those ill instruments about Him who but the Messenger himselfe could make that false Report were there at any time this twenty yeares more present at a Common-Councell than at that or did they keep out any that had right by custome to be then present and for those that had no right His Majesty Himselfe doth implicite acknowledge how justly they were kept out for He saith in this His Letter and Declartion to the Sheriffes That Speeches were made by strangers who were admitted the City Counsells contrary to the freedome and Custome of those meetings now if those that made speeches had no right to be there and those that were kept out by the Guard had as little right as they then His Majesty doth implicitely commend the keeping of those out and yet in another place of that Declaration Hee blames them for keeping them out and for the entertainment of His Servant that brought the Message what greater respect could be shewed him than the admittance of his presence and what fairer play can there be than that above boord the Messenger himself being made a witnesse of that dayes worke Thirdly That all Our good Subjects may clearely understand how farre We have beene from begetting how farre We are from continuing and from nourishing these unnaturall civill dissentions and how much it is in their own power to remove the present pressures and to establ sh the future happinesse and glory of that famous City 'T is most certain and beleeved of all that His Majesty did not beget these distractions but t is knowne by whom they have beene maintained since their birth I meane by whose authority though his Warrants as is probable have bin used about that which was never intended at his granting of them and 't is clearly to be discerned how easily they may remove the present pressures and t is as clearly to be discerned how if they take that way prescribed to them to remove their present miseries they will bring greater miseries in their stead and greatest of all to their posterity for the way prescribed is in effect this that the City should first apprehend an inability to make resistance and then yeeld themselves to the cruell mercy of those who have so farre possest His Majesty and that they should apprehend the Parliament men and other good Common-wealths men as fast as the King accused them till at last there would be none left to defend the Kingdom now if this were done the Warre would doubtlesse cease and these present pressures would be removed not taken away but drawne into greater mischiefes that would follow so that then the cure were worse then the disease for by this kind of physicke you may tamper with the body to cure a Feaver that 's spotted and turne it to the plague Fourthly Wee do hereby Declare the said Isaac Pennington not to be Major of that Our City of London and to have no lawfull Authority to exercise the same and that Our good Subjects of that Our City ought not to submit to any Orders Directions or Commands which shall issue from him as Lord Major Here his Majesty hath excused the Lord Major for not sending a Warrant to apprehend him that said he hoped to wash his hands in His Majesties bloud it seemes he hath no Authority to do it But I rather hope His Majesty was mis-informed for those words if they were spoken by any man might well have beene questioned by the same authority that other things were done by but t is likely that those which informed his Majesty of that either knew more then my Lord Major did in that particular or else wilfully injured my Lord by his false Report but hower if some Ceremonies were not performed which used to be sollemnized nay though he had not beene chosen by the City yet he hath authority from the Parliament for what he doth and which is sufficient to force an obedience from those within his Liberties but t is most likely that he was chosen by the major part for if the City did trust him with the government of their estates in the Parliament House surely they would trust him with their Charter and to governe the City and Alderman Cordwell was knowne before as well as now and why had they not chose him to sit in Parliament before Alderman Pennington if he had been better beloved or if the City had beene so opinionated of him but t is probable that many are offended because this Lord Major was chosen before others that were his Senio● Ald but for those that are offended they must needs know t is without cause and so they may guesse how they shall be pleased for the Office of Major goes not in order but by election for otherwise the City might be enforced to have a Major that might undoe the City but it hath beene the care of former ages as I may say to provide better for this City FINIS