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A84625	A letter from the right honourable Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, Sir Hugh Cholmley, Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir Henry Cholmley, committees of the Commons house of Parliament residing at Yorke. Together vvith a relation of all the passages at the great meeting at Yorke, on Thursday the 12. of this instant May, with the freeholders protestation inclosed in the letter from the said committee to master speaker, and ordered by the said house to be forthwith published in print. H. Elsing. Clre. Perl. [sic] de Com.	Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, Baron, 1584-1648.; Cholmley, Henry, Sir, 1609-1666.; Cholmley, Hugh, Sir, 1600-1657.; Stapleton, Philip, Sir, 1603-1647.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing F116; Thomason E148_4; ESTC R3177	7,328	16

the three Rydings upon three severall dayes but for what service we doe not know Sir you have here a large Narrative of the passages at this meeting what dangers this poore Countrey lyes under wee humbly referre it to you to judge not taking upon us to deliver any opinion The businesse lasted so long that it hindered us from giving a more speedy accompt Sir This is what at this time is sent from Your assured friends and servants Fer. Fairfax Hu. Cholmley Philip Stapleton He. Cholmley Yorke 13. May 1642. His Majesties Speech I Have cause of adding not altering what I meant to say When I gave out the Summons for this dayes Appearance I little thought of these Messengers or of such a Message as they brought the which because it confirmes Me in what I intend to speake and that I desire you should be truly informed of all passages between Me and the Parliament you shall here read First My Answer to the Declaration of both Houses concerning Hull The Answer of the Parliament to My two Messages concerning Hull together with My Reply to the same And My Message to both Houses declaring the Reasons why I refused to passe the Bill concerning the Militia All which being read his Majesty proceeded I Will make no paraphrases upon what ye have heard it more befitting a Lawyer then a King only this Observation Since Treason is countenanced so neer Me it is time to looke to My safety I avow it was part of My wonder That men whom I thought hertofore Discreet and Moderate should have undertaken this Imployment and that since they came I having delivered them the Answer you have heard and commanded them to returne Personally with it to the Parliament should have flatly disobeyed Me upon pretence of the Parliaments Command My end in telling you this is to warn you of them For since these men have brought Me such a Message and disobeyed so lawfull a Command I will not say what their intent of staying hereis only I bid you take heed not knowing what Doctrine of Disobedience they may preach to you under colour of obeying the Parliament Hitherto I have found and kept you quiet the enioying of which was a cheife cause of My coming hither Tumults and Disorders having made Me leave the South and not to make this the Seate of a War as Malice would but I hope in vaine make you beleeve Now if Disturbances doe come I know whom I have reason to suspect To be short you see that My Magazine is going to be taken away from Me being My owne proper goods directly against my will The Militia against Law and my consent is going be to put in execution And lastly Sir Iohn Hothams Treason is countenanced All this considered none can blame me to apprehend Dangers Therefore I have thought fit upon these reall grounds to tell you That I am resolved to have a Guard the Parliament having had one all this while upon imaginary Iealousies only to secure my Person In which I desire your concurrence and assistance and that I may be able to protect you the Lawes and the true Protestant Profession from any Affront or iniury that may be offered which I mean to Maintaine My Selfe without charge to the Countrey intending no longer to keep them on foot then I shall be secured of My iust Apprehensions by having satisfaction in the particulars before mentioned THE ANSWER TO HIS Maiesties Propositions of the Gentlemen and Freeholders which subscribed the same at the Deanes House where the Sheriffe was May it please your most Sacred Majestie THe Propositions delivered to us yesterday from your Majestie are of so high concernement to the weale and peace of the whole Kingdome and doth so nearely touch upon the affection and fidelitie of all your subjects in generall as we being but a part of one Countie onelie doe not conceive it safe for us to advise therein but rather humblie to beseech your Maiestie to impart the grounds of your Maiesties feares and jelocies to your High Court of Parliament of whole most loyall care and affection to your Mtiesties honour and safety and the prosperity of your Subiects and dominions we are most confident and whatsoever shall be advised by your great Counsell therein we shall most willingly embrace and give our concurrence and assistance to it as shall become us In whose fidelity and affection your Maiestie hath often declared especiall trust And albeit wee doe not presume to advise your Majestie in that particular being of transcendent consequence neverthelesse in the behalfe of those members of Parliament lately imployed to attend your Maiestie from both Houses being all of them Gentlemen of qualitie and estate in this Countie trusted to serve in that most Honorable assemblie Wee humblie crave your Maiesties leave to expresse our Confidence in their unstained Loyaltie and affection to your Maiestie to be such as your Maiestie may secu●●●● admitt their attendance to negotiate their imployments untill they be recalled by the Parliament And for there fidelity wee doe all engage our selves to your Majestie and we are most assured that your Royall person shall be secure in the genarall fidelitie of your Subiects of this County without any extraordinarie guard His Maiesties Answer to this returned by the Sheriffer HIs Maiesties expects the like affection from you that hee doth from the other Gentlemen and that he hath the same confidence in you that he hath in the others The names of those Gentlemen which were taken by the Sheriffe Sir Thomas Fairefax Sir William Constable Sir Mathew Boynton Sir Thomas Gower Sir William St. Quintin Sir Edward Rodes Sir William Crayley Sir Thomas Norcliffe Sir Arther Ing●am Sir Richard Darley Sir Iarvis Cutler Sir William Fairefax Sir Hug Bethell L●r Iohn Savell Sir William ●●yster Sir Thomas Renington Master Thomas ●opson Henry St Qintin Arthur Noell Tobias Ierkins Heney Ienkins Iohn Ferrer Iohn West Henry Atkinson Henry Wyth●s VVilliam Bethell George Mountaine Thomas Stockdale VVilliam Gower Richard Trewman Sackvill Pope Thomas Heblethwaite George Eure George Marwood Iohn Savile of M●dlee Iohn Saltmarshe VVilliam Copley Loynell Copley Edward Gower Cuthbert Creake VVilliam Cobb Doyley Gower Thomas Rookebie Iohn Calverley Francis Grimston Iohn A●labie Arthur Beckwith Christopher Waters Mathew Beckwith Christopher Copley Thomas Croft VVilliam Parker Georg Trotter Henry Westbie VVilliam Iemimgs Thomas Bradford Richard VVilbore Iob Hackwod Mathew Allured Robert Sheppard Iohn Ackl●m Iohn Stellington Iervas Hamond Iohn Cholmeley Thomas Newarke Henry Savile Lancelott Allured Iohn Lambert Francis Grimston Mr. Stephen Quintin VVillobie Godfrey Iohn Stillington Iohn Beverley Mr. Bo●nton Georg VVestbie Beniamin Browne Charles Fairfax Henry Arthington Henry Tempest These are the names Subscribed in one sheete there being many other sheets filed together all of them Subscribed and amongst them many Gentlmen of note but I tooke note onely of the first sheete haveing no more time To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie WE Knights and Gentlemen whose

A LETTER FROM THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Ferdinando Lord Fairfax Sir Hugh Cholmley Sir Philip Stapleton Sir Henry Cholmley Committees of the Commons house of Parliament residing at Yorke TOGETHER With a Relation of all the passages at the great meeting at Yorke on Thursday the 12. of this instant May With the Freeholders Protestation inclosed in the Letter from the said Committee to Master Speaker and ordered by the said House to be forthwith published in Print H. Elsing Cler. Perl de Com. LONDON Printed by A. Norton for Iohn Franke and are to be sold next to the Kings head in Fleet-street 1642. SIR IN our last Letter we gave you an Accompt of our first and second waiting on the King we writ to you then that his Majesty commanded us to attend him yesterday being Thursday to heare what hee said to the Gentlemen Which a little before the meeting he seconded by a particular Message Being come thither his Majestie caused the severall Messages betweene him and the Parliament mentioned in this enclosed printed Paper to be read This was done with much humming and applause of the Kings Messages by some persons who had placed themselves neere about where the King stood But when any thing from the Parliament came to be read with so much hissing and reviling the Parliament that though in respect and duty to the Kings Person we could not resent it as otherwise wee should have done yet have since expostulated and complained of it to his Majestie Some were so bold as to say openly That the Parliament men should set their Houses in order for many of them should shortly have their heads of One of which as since wee are credibly informed was one Hurst a servant to one Master William Crofts In this which was said by the King you will see what reason we had to vindicate our selves and therefore we immediatly repayred to the Deanes house with all the other Gentlemen and there wee tooke notice of the rough usage we had received Wee told them that it was neither indiscretion nor disobedience in us as his Majesty was pleased to call it to deliver the Parliaments Message or to stay here though commanded to the contrary since wee conceived no man needed to be satisfied in so cleare a case as this That every Member of each House ought to obey their Commands when they were pleased to employ them But since his Majesty thought fit to bid them take heed of us not knowing what doctrine of disobedience wee might preach to them under colour of obeying the Parliament wee appealed to every man whether we had in word or deed in publick or in private done any thing that became not honest men and persons employed from the Parliament That wee had communicated our Instructions to his Majesty being that wee would avow all our Actions and that we were confident it would not be said wee had transgressed them This was very well taken and justified by the Countrey Yesterday there came divers thousands of Freeholders to this Citie though none but the Gentry were summoned but receiving a Command from the King not to come to Court they forbore and stayed in the Castle yard yet sent this Petition enclosed to his Majesty and received the Answer annexed thereunto There was likewise a Committee of twelve Gentlemen appointed yesternight to consider of drawing up an Answer to the Kings proposition concerning a Guard but nothing could be then done because it was past three a clocke before the Gentlemen were admitted to the King This morning the Freeholders assembled againe in the Castleyard and there they made this Protestation enclosed of their right of voting in what concerneth the peace of the Countrey as having their interest therein When we all met this morning againe at the Deanes house we who are your Committees received this Message by Sir Edward Stanhop That he came from his Majesty to command us that we should depart from this meeting and if wee did stay his Majesty would judge us guilty of that he spake on yesterday which was Tampering Notwithstanding which Command wee read the fourth Article of our Instructions to the whole Company that being pertinent to the businesse wee were then upon and desired them to consider whether the Parliament had not expressed therein such a care of the Kings safety that there would bee little need of Guards Wee told them that wee had a good right of being there as Freeholders of the County but that in obedience to the King wee would depart for this time But whensoever there should be occasion of our being there in pursuance of our Instructions and Commands from the Parliament wee should bee ready The whole company received great satisfaction and desired a Copy of that instruction which wee gave them Wee were the more willing at that time to goe from thence because wee should not onely give obedience to the Kings command which otherwise hee would have said wee constantly disobeyed but because the Committee of Twelve appointed yesternight were then to withdraw so that there was nothing for the present for us to doe Wee immediatly went to the King and befought him that since wee were continually so discountenanced by him in the face of our County that hee would bee pleased to let us know in particular wherein wee had given the occasion for wee otherwise conceived wee were deprived of that Liberty which was our due in respect of that Interest wee had here His Majesty was pleased to tell us that if wee would lay aside that condition of Committees from the Parliament hee would not hinder us to bee there as Gentlemen of the Countrey Wee humbly replyed that wee could not lay that downe nor could wee be absent from any meeting where our presence was required for the service as Committees from the Parliament to which his Majesty said That indeed hee thought wee could not lay it downe neither that it was reasonable wee should have Votes and bee in a double Capacity The Committee hath beene together most part of this day but not agreeing Sixe of them have drawne up this Answer enclosed which they have communicated to the Gentlemen and Freeholders The greater part of the Gentlemen and all the Freeholders have agreed too and subscribed it The other sixe have concluded upon this other Answer consenting to a Guard of Horse but this wee doe not heare that they have gotten many names too nor can wee get a Copie of those names as yet though these be very few yet whether they can bring in any Horse or no wee cannot yet judge The King hath received both these resolutions which with his Answers to them you shall likewise have here inclosed His Majesty had declared himselfe yesterday that hee would raise that Regiment which was Sir Robert Stricklands for his foot Guard but he hath now laid aside that Resolution The Freeholders of the County are now newly summoned to attend his Majesty about a week hence