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A83380	The petition of the Lords and Commons, presented to His Majestie by the Earle of Stamford, Master Chancellour of the Exchequer, and Master Hungerford, April 18. 1642 Together with His Majesties answer thereunto.; Humble petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament presented to His Majestie at York, 18 April, concerning his message lately sent unto them touching his resolution of going into Ireland	England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).	1642 (1642)	Wing E2179aA; ESTC R224956	6,818	17

THE PETITION OF The LORDS and COMMONS PRESENTED To His Majestie By the Earle of Stamford Master Chancellour of the Exchequer and Master Hungerford April 18. 1642. Together with His MAjESTIES Answer thereunto LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL MDCXLII To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament May it please your Majestie YOur Majesties most loyall and faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament have duly considered the Message received from Your Majestie concerning Your purpose of going into Ireland in Your own Person to prosecute the warre there with the bodies of your English Subjects leavied transported and maintained at their charge which You are pleased to propound to us not as a matter wherein Your Majestie desires the advice of Your Parliament but as already firmly resolved on and forthwith to be put in execution by granting out Commissions for the leavying of two thousand foot two hundred horse for a guard for Your Person when You shall come into that Kingdom wherein we cannot chuse but with all reverence and humility to Your Majestie observe that You have declined Your great Councell the Parliament and varied from the usuall course of Your Royall Predecessours That a businesse of so great importance concerning the peace and safety of all Your Subjects and wherin they have a speciall interest by Your Majesties promise and by those great sums which they have disbursed and for which they stand ingaged should be concluded and undertaken without their advice Whereupon we hold it our duty to declare That if at this time Your Majestie shal go into Ireland You will very much endanger the safety of Your Royall Person and Kingdoms and of all other States professing the Protestant Religion in Christendom and make way to the execution of that cruell and bloudy Designe of the Papists every where to root out and destroy the reformed Religigion as the Irish Papists have in a great part already effected in that Kingdom and in all likelyhood would quickly be atempted in other places if the consideration of the strength and union of the two Nations of England and Scotland did not much hinder and discourage the execution of any such Designe And that we may manifest to Your Majestie the danger and misery which such a journey and enterprize would produce we present to Your Majestie the reasons of this our humble opinion and advice 1 YOur Royall Person will be subject not onely to the casualty of Warre but to secret practices and conspiracies especially Your Majestie continuing Your profession to maintain the Protestant Religion in that Kingdom which the Papists are generally bound by their vow to extirpate 2 It will exceedingly encourage the Rebels who doe generally professe and declare that Your Majestie doth favour allow their proceedings that this insurrection was undertaken by the Warrant of Your Commission and it will make good their expectation of great advantage by Your Majesties presence at this time of so much distraction in this Kingdom whereby they may hope we shall be disabled to supply the Warre there especially there appearing lesse necessity of Your Majesties Journey at this time by reason of the manifold successes which God hath given against them 3. It will much hinder and impair the meanes whereby this war is to be supported and increase the charge of it and in both these respects make it more in supportable to your Subject and this we can confidently affirme because many of the Adventurers who have already subscribed do upon the knowledge of your Majesties Intention declare their resolution not to pay in their money and others very willing to have subscribed do now professe the contrary 4. Your Majesties absence must necessarily very much interrupt the proceedings of Parliament and deprive your Subjects of the benefit of those further Acts of Grace and Justice which we shall humbly expect from your Majesty for the establishing of a perfect union and mutuall confidence betwixt Your Majesty and Your People and procuring and confirming the prosperity and happinesse of both 5. It will exceedingly increase the jealousies and fears of your people and render their doubts more probable of some force intended by some evil counsells neer Your Majesty in opposition of the Parliament and favour of the malignant party of this Kingdom 6. It will bereave your Parliament of that advantage whereby they were induced to undertake this war upon Your Majesties promise that it should be managed by their advice which cannot be done if Your Majestie contrary to their counsells shall undertake to order and govern it in Your own Person Upon which and divers other reasons we have resolved by the full and concurring agreement of both Houses that we cannot with discharge of our dutie consent to any Leavyes or raising of Souldiers to be made by Your Majesty for this your intended expedition into Ireland or to the payment of any Army or Souldiers there but such as shall be imployed and governed according to our advice and direction and that if such Leavyes shal be made by any Commission of Your Majesty not agreed to by both Houses of Parliament we shall be forced to interpret the same to be raised to the terrour of Your people and disturbance of the publike peace and hold our selves bound by the Laws of the Kingdom to apply the Authority of Parliament to suppresse the same And we do further most humbly declare That if Your Majesty shall by ill counsell be perswaded to go contrary to this advice of Your Parliament which we hope Your Majesty will not We do not in that case hold our selves bound to submit to any Commissioners which Your Majesty shall choose but do resolve to preserve and governe the Kingdom by the counsell and advice of Parliament for Your Majestie and Your Posteritie according to our Allegiance and the Law of the Land Wherefore we do most humbly pray and advise Your Majestie to desist from this your intended passage into Ireland and from all preparation of men and Armes tending thereunto and to leave the managing of that war to Your Parliament according to Your Majesties promise made unto us and Your Royall Commission granted under Your great Seal of England by advice of both Houses in prosecution whereof by Gods blessing we have already made a prosperous entrance by many defeats of the Rebels whereby they are much weakened and disheartened and have no probable meanes of subsistance if our proceedings shall not be interrupted by this interposition of Your Majesties Journey but that we may hope upon good grounds that within a short time without Hazard of Your Majesties person and so much dangerous confusion to Your Kingdoms which must needs ensue if you should proceed in this resolution we shall be enabled fully to vindicate Your Majesties right and authority in that Kingdom and punish those

horrible outragious cruelties which have been committed in the murthering and spoiling so many of your Subjects and bring that Realm to such a condition as may be much for the advantage of your Majestie and this Crown the honour of your government and contentment of your people For the better and more speedy effecting whereof we do again renew our humble desires of your return to your Parliament and that you will please to reject all Counsels and apprehensions which may any way derogate from that faithfulnesse and Allegiance which in truth and sinceritie we have alwayes born and professed to Your Majesty and shall ever make good to the uttermost with our lives and fortunes His Majesties Answer To a Petition presented to Him at York April 18. 1642. by the Earle of Stamford c. in the name of both Houses Concerning His Message lately sent to them declaring His Resolution to go into Ireland WE are so troubled and astonished to finde the unexpected reception and misunderstanding of Our Message of the eighth of April concerning Our Irish journey that being so much disappointed of the approbation and thanks We looked for to that Declaration We have great cause to doubt whether it be in Our power to say or do any thing which shall not fall within the like interpretation But as We have in that Message called God to witnesse the sincerity of the profession of Our onely Ends for the undertaking that Iourney so We must appeal to all Our good Subjects and the whole world whether the Reasons alleadged against that Iourney be of weight to satisfie Our understanding or the counsell presented to disswade Vs from it be full of that duety as is like to prevail over Our affections For Our resolving of so great a Businesse without the Advice of Our Parliament We must remember you howoften by Our Messages We made the same offer if you should advise Vs thereunto To which you never gave Vs the least answer But in your late Declaration told Vs That ye were not to be satisfied with words so that We had reason to conceive you rather avoided out of regard to Our person to give Vs counsell to run that hazard then that you disapproved the inclination And what greater comfort or security can the Protestants of Christendome receive then by seeing a Protestant King venture and engage His Person for the defence of that Profession and the suppression of Popery to which We solemnly protested in that Message never to grant a Toleration upon what pretence soever or an Abolition of any of the Lawes there in force against the Professors of it And when We consider the great calamities and unheard of cruelties Our poor Protestant Subjects in that Kingdom have undergone for the space of neer or full six Moneths the growth and encrease of the strength of those barbarous Rebells and the evident probabilitie of Forreign Supplies if they are not speedily suppressed The very slow succours hitherto sent them from hence That the Officers of severall Regiments who have long since been allowed entertainment from you for that Service have not raised any Supply or Succour for that Kingdom That many troups of Horse have long lien neer Chester untransported That the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on whom We relied principally for the Conduct and managing of Affairs there is still in this Kingdom notwithstanding Our earnestnesse expressed that he should repair to his Command And when We consider the many and great scandals raised upon Our Self by report of the Rebells and not sufficiently discountenanced here notwithstanding so many professions of Ours And had seen a Book lately printed by the Order of the House of Commons Entituled A Remonstrance of divers remarkable Passages concerning the Church and Kingdom of Ireland Wherein some Examinations are set down which how improbable or impossible soever may make an impression in the mindes of many of Our weak Subjects And lastly When We duely weigh the dishonour which will perpetually lie upon this Kingdom if full and speedy relief be not dispatched thither We could nor cannot think of a better way to discharge Our duety to Almighty God for the defence of the true Protestant Profession or to manifest Our affection to Our three Kingdoms for their preservation then by engaging Our Person in this Expedition as many of Our Royall Progenitors have done even in Forreign parts upon causes of lesse Importance and Pietie with great Honour to themselves and advantage to this Kingdom And therefore We expected at least thanks for such Our Inclination For the danger to Our Person We conceive it necessary and worthy of a King to adventure His life to preserve His Kingdom neither can it be imagined that We will sit still and suffer Our Kingdoms to be lost and Our good Protestant Subjects to be Massacred without exposing Our own Person to the utmost hazard for their relief and preservation Our life when it was most pleasant being nothing so precious to Vs as it is and shall be to govern and preserve Our people with Honour and Iustice For any encouragement to the Rebells because of the reports they raised We cannot conceive that the Rebells are capable of a greater Terrour then by the presence of their Lawfull King in the head of an Army to chastise them Besides it will be an unspeakable advantage to them if any reports of theirs could hinder Vs from doing any thing which were fit for Vs to do if such reports were not raised This would quickly teach them in this jealous Age to prevent by such reports any other persons coming against them whom they had no minde should be so imployed We marvell that the Adventurers whose advantage was a principall Motive next the reason before mentioned to Vs should so much mistake Our purpose whose Interest we conceive must be much improved by the Expedition we hope by Gods blessing to use in this Service this being the most probable way for the speedy Conquest of the Rebells Their Lands are sufficiently secured by Act of Parliament We think not Our self kindely used That the addition of so few men to your Leavies for a Guard to Our Person in Ireland should be thought fit for your refusall and much more that having used so many Cautions in this Message both in the smalnesse of the number In Our having raised none untill your Answer In their being to be raised onely neer their place of Shipping In their being there to be Armed and that not till they were ready to be Shipped In the provision by the Oaths that none of them should be Papists all Which appears sufficient to destroy all grounds of jealousie of any force intended by them in opposition to the Parliament or favour to any malignant partie any suspicion should notwithstanding be grounded upon it Neither can it be understood That when We recommended the Managing of that War to you That We intended to exclude Our self or not to be concerned in your