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To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, the humble petition of the countie of Cornvvall
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Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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1642
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Wing H3501A; ESTC R36806
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To the Kings Most Excellent MAJESTIE The humble Petition of the Countie of CORNVVALL 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 Lawes 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 we 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 Supremacy and Allegiance CORNUB Iohn Grills high Sheriffe Warwick Lord Mohun Sir Iohn Trelawney Knight and Baronet Sir William Wrey Knight and Baâonet 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 Nathanael Dillon Esq William Arundell Gent. William Courtney Gent. Edward 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 Treâr Gent. THe foresaid Gentlemen Subscribed at Lostwithyell unto the Petition directed to His Majestie together with seven thousand more Esquires Gentlemen Freeholders and other Inhabitants which subscribed and subsigned 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 duety 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 duety 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 Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie and by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642.