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A31819	His Majesties answer to the petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled presented to His Majestie at York, June 17, 1642 : together with a catalogue of the names of the Lords that subscribed to levie horse to assist His Majestie in defence of his royall person, the two Houses of Parliament, and the Protestant religion.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament. Humble petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, presented to His Majestie at York, the 17 of June, 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2137A; ESTC R26423	8,418	9

His Majesties ANSWER TO THE PETITION OF The LORDS and COMMONS in PARLIAMENT Assembled Presented to His Majestie at YORK June 17. 1642. TOGETHER With a Catalogue of the Names of the Lords that subscribed to Levie Horse to assist His Majestie in defence of his Royall person the two Houses of Parliament and the Protestant Religion LONDON Printed by B. A. for Robert Wood 1642. To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons in PARLIAMENT Assembled YO 〈…〉 most 〈…〉 faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons assem 〈…〉 great number of the Gentry Free-holders 〈…〉 sembled there by Your Majesties Command the 〈…〉 are unto Us That having taken a resolution to addresse themselves 〈…〉 tie in the humble way of a Petition for the redresse of those Grievances which they now lie under they were violently interrupted and affronted therein by the Earle of Linsey the Lord Savill and others and notwithstanding all the means they could use to present their just desires to Your Majestie yet they could not prevail with Your Majeste to accept of their Petition The Copie whereof they have sent to us with an humble Desire That we would take such course therein as may tend to the Preservation of their Liberties and the Peace of the Kingdome And that we would addresse our selves to Your Majestie in their behalf that by our means their desires may finde better acceptation with Your Majestie Whereupon having seriously weighed and considered the particulars of those their Complaints and Desires as they are laid down in their Petition and finding that the Grievances they complain of are the increase of the miseries formerly sustained by that County which hath well-nigh for three yeers last past been the Tragicall stage for Armies and War by reason of Your Majesties distance in Residence and difference in Counsels from Your great Councell the Parliament begetting great distempers and distractions thorowout the Kingdom and especially in that County The drawing to those Parts great numbers of discontented Persons that may too justly be feared do affect the publike ruine for their own private advantage The drawing together of many Companies of the Trained Bands and others both of Horse and Foot of that County and retaining multitudes of Commanders and Cavaliers from other parts The daily resort of Recusants to Your Majesties Court at York The great preparations of Arms and other warlike provisions to the great terrour and amazement of Your Majesties peaceable Subjects and causing a great decay of Trade and Commerce amongst them All and every of which Particulars are against the Law which Your Majestie hath made so many and so frequent professions to uphold and maintain And the Lords and Commons finding on the other side their humble desires to be That your Majestie would hearken to Your Parliament and declining all other Counsels wharsoever unite Your confidence to Your Parliament and that your Majestie would not divide Your Subjects joint dutie to Your Majestie the Parliament and Kingdom not destroy the Essence of Your great Councell and highest Court by subjecting the Determinations and Counsels thereof to the Counsels and Opinions of any private persons whatsoever That Your Majestie having passed an Act That this Parliament shall not be dissolved but by Act of Parliament Your Majesty would not do any thing tending thereunto by commanding away the Lords and great Officers whose attendance is necessary therunto That Your Majestie having expressed Your confidence in the affections of that County You would please to dismisse Your extraordinary Guards and the Cavaliers and others of that quality who seem to have little interest or affection to the publike good their language and behaviour speaking nothing but Division and War and their advantage consisting in that which is most destructive to others And lastly that in such Consultations and Propositions as Your Majestie maketh to that Countie such may not be thrust upon them as men of that Countie that neither by their fortune or residence are any part of it All which their humble and most just desires being according to Law which your Majestie hath so often declared should be the measure and Rule of your Government and Actions And we your Majesties most faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons fully concurring with the Gentlemen and others of the County of York in their Assurance that those desires of theirs will abundantly redound to the glory of God the honour and safety of your Majestie the good of your Posteritie and the peace and prosperitie of this Kingdom we humbly bescech your Majestie graciously to hearken unto them and to grant them and that you would joyn with your Parliament in a speedy and effectuall course for the preservation of their liberties and the peace of the Kingdom which duty as we are now called upon by that Countie to discharge so do we stand engaged to God and man for the petformance thereof by the trust reposed in us and by our solemn Vow and Protestation And your Majestie together with us stands engaged by the like Obligation of trust and of Oath besides the many and earnest professions and protestations which your Majestie hath made to this purpose to your whole Kingdom in generall and to that Countie in particular the peace and quiet of the Kingdom as is well observed by the Gentlemen and Free-holders of Yorkshire in their Petition being the onely visible means under God wherein consists the preservation of the Protestant Religion the Redemption of our Brethren in Ireland and the happinesse and prosperitie of your Majestie and all your Dominions His MAJESTIES Answer to the Petition of the Lords and and Commons in Parliament assembled presented to His MAJESTIE at York the 17. of Iune 1642. HIs Majesty having carefully weighed the matter of this Petition presented to him at York on Friday the 17. of June by the Lord Howard Sir Hugh Cholmley Sir Philip Stapleton Though He might refer the Petitioners to His two last Declarations wherein most of the particulars in this Petition are fully answered or might refuse to give any Answer at all till He had received satisfaction in those high Indignities He hath so often complained of and demanded Justice for Yet that all the world may see how desirous His Majestie is to leave no Act which seems to carry the Reputation of both His Houses of Parliament and in the least degree to reflect upon His Majesties Justice and Honour unanswered Is graciously pleased to return this Answer 〈…〉 mentioned to be presented to both Houses of Parliament had bill annexed is this now delivered to him His Majesty might have discerned the 〈◊〉 and quality of the Petitioners which His Majesty hath great reason to beléeve was not in truth so considerable as is pretended For his Majesty assures you That He hath never refused any Petition so attested as that would be thought to be But His Majesty well remembers that on the third of June wh●n there was upon his

to or into jealousie of his Majesty as if he meant this way to bring this Parliament which may be the case of all Parliaments to nothing it is not possible for His Majesty more to exeresse his affection to and his Resolution for the Fréedom liberty and frequency of Parliaments then he hath done And whosoover considers how visible it must be to his Majesty that it is impossible for him to subsist without the affections of his people and that those affections cannot possibly be preserved or made use of but by Parliaments cannot give the least credit or have the least suspition that his Majesty would chuse any other way to the happinesse he desires for himself and his posterity but by Parliaments But for his calling the Lords hither or any others absenting themselves who have not bin called who ever considers the tumults which no votes or Declaration can make to be no tumults by which His Majesty was driven away and many Members of either House in danger of their lives the demanding the names of those Lords who would not consent to their Propositions by Message from the house of Commons delivered at the bar by M. Hollis with that most tumultuous petition in the name of many thousands among many other of the same kind directed to the House of Commons and sent up by them to the House of Lords taking notice of the prevalence of a malignant faction which made abortive all their good motions which tended to the peace and tranquility of the Kingdom desiring that those nobleworthies of the house of Peers who concurred with them in their happy Uotes might be earnestly desired to ioyn with that honourable house and to sit and vote as one entire body professing that some spéedy remedy were taken for the removal of all such obstructions as hindred the happy progresse of their great endeavours their Petitioners should not rest in quietnesse but should bee enforced to lay hold on the next remedy which was at hand to remove the disturbers of their Peace and want and necessity breaking the bounds of modesty not to leave any meanes unassayed for their relief adding that the 〈◊〉 of the poor and needy was That such persons who were the Obstacles of their peace and hinderers of the happy Procéedings of Parliament might be forthwith publikely declared whose removall they conceived would put a period to these distractions upon which a great number of Lords departing the Uote in order to the Ordinance concerning the Militia was immediatly past though it had bin twice before put to the question and rejected by the Uotes of much the major part of that house And whosoever considers the strange Orders Uotes and Declarations which have since passed to which whosoever would not consent that is with Freedom and liberty of language and reason professe against was in danger of Censure and Imprisonment will not blame our care in sending for them or theirs in comming or absenting themselves from being involved in such conclusions Neither will it be any objection that they stayed there long after any fumults were and therfore that the tumults drave them not away If every day produced Orders and Resolutions as illegall as and indéed but the effects of the tumults there was no cause to doubt the same power would be ready to prevent any Opposition to those Orders after they were made which had made way and preparation for the Propositions of them and so whosoever conceived himself in danger of future Tumults against which there is not the least provision was driven away by those which were past And his Majesty hath more reason to wonder at those who stay behind after all big Legall Power is ●oted from him and all the people told That he might bée with modesty and duty enough deposed then any man hath at those who have bin willing to withdraw themselves from the place where such desperate and dangerous positions are avowed which his Majesty doth not mention with the least thought of lessening the power or validity of an Act to which he hath given his Assent this Parliament All and every of which he shall as inviolably observe as he looks to have his own Rights preserved but to shew by what means so many strange Orders have of late bin made And to shew how earnestly his Majesty desires to be present at and to receive advice from both houses of parliament against whom it shall be never in the power of a malignant party to incense His Majesty his majesty again offers his consent that both houses may be adjorned to 〈…〉 place which may be thought convenient where his majesty will bée 〈…〉 the members of either House will make a full appea 〈…〉 mission which must attend such an Adjournment may not be the 〈…〉 of recovering that temper which is necessary for such De 〈…〉 And this his Majesty conceives to be so very necessary that if the minds and inclinations of every member of either House were equally composed the Licence is so great that the mean people about London and the Suburbs have taken that both for the Liberty and Dignity of Parliament that Convention for a time should be in another place And 〈…〉 e how much soever the safety and security of this Kingdome depends on Parliaments it will never be thought that those Parliaments must of Necessity be at Westminster His Majesties confidence is no lesse then he hath expressed and hath great cause to expresse in the affections of this County an instance of which affections all men know his guard which is not extraordinary to be and wonders that such a legall Guard at his own charge for his person within 20. miles of a Rebellion and of an Army in pay against him should be objected by those who for so many months and in a place of known and confessed security have without and against Law kept a Guard for themselves at the charge of the Common-wealth and upon that stock of money which was given for the Relief of the miserable and bleeding condition of Ireland or the payment of the great debt due to our Kingdom of Scotland For the resort of Papists to the Court his Majesties great care for the prevention therof is notoriously known that when he was informed 2. or 3. of his intended Guard were of that Religion he gave especiall direction with expressions of His displeasure that they should be immediatly discharged and provided that no person should attend on him under that Relation but such as took the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacie that he commanded the Sheriffe to proceed with all severity according to the Law against all papists that should come within five miles of the Court and if notwithstanding this there be any papists neer the Court which his Majesty assures you he knows not nor hath heard but by this Petition He doth hereby command them to depart and declares to all Officers and Ministers of Justice that they shall proceed strictly against them according to the Law and as they will answer the contrary at their perils For the language and behaviour of the Cavaléers a word by what mistake soever it seems much in disfavour there hath not bin the least complaint here and therfore it is probable the fault was not found in this County Neither can his Majesty imagine what is meant by the mention of any men thrust ●pon them in such Consultations and propositions as his Majesty makes to this County who are neither by their Fortune or Re 〈…〉 dence any part of it and therfore can make no answer to it To conclude his Maiesty assures you he hath never cefused to receive any Petition whether you have or no your selues best know and will consider what Reputation it will be to you of Justice or Ingenuity to receive all Petitions how senslesse and scandalous soever of one kind under pretence of understanding the good peoples minds and affections and not only refuse the Petition but punish the Petitioners of another kind under colour that it is not a crime that they are not satisfied with your sense as if you were only trusted by the people of one opinion To take all pains to publish and print Petitions which agrée with your wishes though they were never presented and to use the same industry and Authorlty to keep those that indéed were presented and avowed from being published though by our own authority because the Argument is not pleasant to you To pretend impartiality and infallibility and to expresse the greatest passion and affection in the Order of your procéeding and no lesse error and mis-understanding in your Judgments and Resolutions He doth remember well the Obligation of his Trust and of his Oath and desires that you will do so too and your own solemn Now and protestation and then you will not only think it convenient but necessary to give his Majesty a full Reparation for all the scandals laid upon him and all the scandalous positions made against him and that it is lesse dishonour to retract errors then by avowing to confesse the malice of them and will sée this to be the surest way for the preservation of the Protestant Religion the Redemption of our Brethren in Ireland the happinesse and prosperity of your selves and of all our Dominions and of the Dignity and Fréedome of Parliament A Catalogue of the Names of the Lords that subscribed to levie Horse to assist His Majesty in the defence of c. THe Prince 200 The Duke of York 120 Lord Keeper 40 Duke of Richmond 100 L Marquesse Hartford 60 L. Great Chamberlaine 30 E. of Cumberland 50 E. of Huntington 20 E. of Bath 50 E. of Southampton 60 E. of Dorset 60 E. of Northampton 40 E. of Devonshire 60 E. of Dover 25 E. of Cambridge 60 E. of Bristol 60 E of Westmerland 20 E. of Barkshire and L. Andover 30 E. of Monmouth 30 E. Rivers 30 E. of Carnarvan 20 E. of Newport 50 L. Mowbray 50 L. Willoughby 30 L. Gray of Ruthin 10 L. Lovelace 40 L. Paget 30 L. Faulconbridge to come L. Rich 30 L. Paulet 40 L. Newarks 30 L. Montague 30 L. Coventry 100 L. Savill 50 L. Mohun 20 L. Dunsmore 40 L. Seymor 20 L. Capell 100 L. Faulkland 20 Mr. Comptroller 20 M. Secret Nicholas 20 L. Ch. Iustice Banks 20 The L. Thanet is not here but one hath undertaken for 100. for him Sum. totall 1659