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A78656 His Majesties answer to the petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled: presented to His Majestie at York, June 17. 1642. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); England and Wales. Parliament. 1642 (1642) Wing C2137; Thomason E152_2; ESTC R16799 8,062 16

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HIS MAJESTIES ANSWER TO THE PETITION OF The LORDS and COMMONS in Parliament assembled Presented to His Majestie at YORK June 17. 1642. LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled YOur Majesties most humble and faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament have lately received a Petition from a great number of the Gentry Freeholders and other inhabitants of the County of York assembled there by Your Majesties Command the third of June wherein they declare unto us That having taken a resolution to addresse themselves unto Your Majestie 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 Lyndsey 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 Majestie 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 Kingdom 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 Countie which hath well-nigh for three veers last past been the Tragicall Stage of 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 Countie The drawing to those Parts great numbers of discontented Persons that may too justly be feared do affect the publike Ruine for their private advantage The drawing together of many Companies of the Trained Bands and others both Horse and Foot of that Countie 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 Counsells whatsoever unite your Confidence to Your Parliament and that Your Majestie would not divide Your Subjects joynt dutie to Your Majestie the Parliament and Kingdom nor destroy the Essence of Your great Councell and highest Court by subjecting the Determinations and Counsells thereof to the Counsells 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 thereunto That Your Majestie having expressed Your confidence in the affections of that Countie You would please to dismisse Your extraordinary Guards and the Cavaliers and others of that qualitie 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 Countie 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 Posterity and the Peace and Prosperity of this Kingdom we humbly beseech 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 dutie as we are now called upon by that Countie to discharge so do we stand engaged to God and man for the performance 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 an 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 these 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 prosperity of Your Majestie and of all Your Dominions His MAJESTIES Answer to the Petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled presented to His MAJESTIE at Yorke the 17 of June 1642. HIs Majestie having carefully weighed the matter of this Petition presented to Him at York on Friday the seventeenth of June by the Lord Howard Sir Hugh Cholmely 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 rill He had received satisfaction in those high Indignities He hath so often complained of and demanded Iustice for Yet that all the World may see how desirous His Majestie is to leave no Act which seemes to carry the Reputation of both his houses of Parliament and in the least degree to reflect upon His Majesties Iustice and Honour unanswered Is graciously pleased to returne this Answer That if the Petition mentioned to be Presented to both Houses of Parliament had been annexed to this now delivered to Him His Majestie might have discerned the number and the quality of the Petitioners which His Majestie hath great reason to beleeve was not in trueth so considerable as is pretended For His Majestie assures you That He hath never refused any Petition so attested as that would be thought to be But His Majestie well remembers that on the third of Iune when
seduce the mindes of the People from their affection to or into Jealousie of His Majestie 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 Majestie more to expresse His affection to and His Resolution for the Freedom Libertie and Frequencie of Parliaments then He hath done And who ever considers how visible it must be to His Majestie 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 Majestie would chuse any other way to the happinesse He desires for Himself and His Posteritie but by Parliaments But for His calling the Lords hither or any others absenting themselves who have not been called who ever considers the Cumults which no Votes or Declaration can make to be no Tilmults by which His Majestie 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 Barr by Master Hollis with that most tumultuous Petition in the Name of many thousands among many other of the same kinde directed to the House of Commions 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 noble Morthies of the House of Peers who concurred with them in their happy Votes might be earnestly desired to joyn with that honourable House and to sit and Vote as one entire Body professing that unlesse some speedy remedy were taken for the removeall of all such obstructions as hindred the happy progresse of their great endeavours their Petitioners should not rest in quietnesse but should be inforced 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 means unassayed for their relief adding that the cry of the Poor and needy was that such Persons who were the Obstacles of their Peace and hinderers of the happy proceedings of this Parliament might be forthwith publikely declared whose removeall they conceived would put a Period to these distractions upon which a great number of Lords departing the Vote in order to the Ordinance concerning the Militia was immediatly past though it had been twice before put to the Question and rejected by the Votes of much the major part of that House And whoever considers the strange Orders Votes and Declarations which have since passed to which whosoever wo●ld 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 coming or absenting themselves from being involved in such Conclusions Neither will it be any objection that they stayed there long after any Tumults were and therefore that the Tumults drave them not away If every day produced Orders and Resolutions as illegall as and indeed 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 Majestie hath more reason to wonder at those who stay behinde after all His Legall Power is Voted from Him and all the People told That he might be with modesty and duty enough deposed then any man hath at those who have been willing to withdraw themselves from the place where such desperate and dangerous Positions are avowed which His Majestie doth not mention with the least thought of lessening the Power or Validity of any 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 been made And to shew how earnestly His Majestie desires to be present at and to receive Advice from both Houses of Parliament against whom it shall never be in the power of a Malignant Party to incense his Majestie His Majestie again offers His consent that both Houses may be Adjourned to another Place which may be thought convenient where His Majestie will be present and doubts not but the Members of either House will make a full Appearance And even the Intermission which must attend such an Adjournment may not be the least means of recovering that temper which is necessary for such Debates And this His Majestie conceives to be so very necessary that if the mindes 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 sure how much soever the safety and security of this Kingdom 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 twenty miles of a rebellion and of an Army in pay against Him should be objected by those who for so many moneths 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 reliefe 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 thereof is notoriously known that when He was informed two or three 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 oathes of Allegiance and Supremary 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 Majestie assures you he knowes not nor hath heard but by this Petition He doth hereby Command them to depart and declares to all Officers and Ministers of Iustice that they shall proceed fleictly against them according to the Law and as they will answer the contrary at their perils For the language and behaviour of the Cavaliers a word by what mistake soever it seemes much in disfavour there hath not been the least complaint here and therefore it is probable the fault was not found in this County Neither can His Majestie imag●●e what is meant by the mention of any men thrust upon them in such Con●ultations and Propositions as His Majestie makes to this County who are neither by there Fortune or Residence any part of it and therefore can make us Answer to it To conclude His Majestle assures you He hath never refused to receive any Petition whether you have or no your selves best know and will consider what Reputation it will be to you of Iustice or Ingenuity to receive all Petitions how senslesse and scandalous soever of one kinde under pretence of understanding the good peoples mindes and affections and not onely refuse the Petition but punish the Petitioners of another kinde under colour that it is a crime that they are not satisfied with your sense as if you were onely trusted by the people of one opinion to take all pains to publish and print Petitions which agree with your wishes though they were never presented and to use the same Industry and Authority to keep those that indeed 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 Proceeding and no lesse errour and mis-understanding in your Iudgements 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 Vow and Protestation and then you wil not only think it convenient but necessary to give His Majestie a ful Reparation for all the scandalls laid upon Him and all the scandalous Positions made against Him and that it is lesse dishonor to retract errors then by avowing to confesse the malice of them will see 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 Freedom of Parliament FINIS