An
Answer
To
His
Maiesties
Speech
,
by
the
Gentry
of
the
County
of
Yorke
,
attending
His
Maiestie
at
the
City
of
Yorke
on
Thursday
the
12
of
May
,
1642.
May
it
please
Your
Most
Excellent
Majestie
.
YOur
Propositions
delivered
to
Vs
yesterday
from
your
Majestie
,
are
of
so
high
concernment
to
the
Weale
and
peace
of
the
whole
Kingdome
,
and
doe
so
nerely
touch
upon
the
affection
and
fidelity
of
all
your
Subjects
in
Generall
,
and
we
being
but
a
part
of
one
County
only
,
doe
not
conceive
it
safe
for
Vs
to
advise
therein
,
but
rather
humbly
to
beseech
Your
Majestie
to
impart
the
grounds
of
Your
Majesties
feares
and
jealousies
,
to
Your
high
Court
of
Parliament
,
(
of
Whose
most
loyall
care
and
affection
to
your
Majesties
honour
and
safety
,
and
the
prosperity
of
Your
Subjects
and
dominions
,
we
are
most
confident
)
and
whatsoever
shall
bee
advised
by
Your
Great
Councell
,
therein
wee
shall
most
willingly
embrace
,
and
give
our
concurrence
and
assistance
to
it
as
shall
be
come
us
;
In
whose
fidelititie
Your
Maje
stie
:
Hath
often
declared
especiall
trust
,
and
albeit
wee
doe
not
presume
to
advise
Your
Majestie
to
that
particular
,
it
being
of
transcendent
consequence
.
Neverthelesse
,
in
the
behalfe
of
those
Members
of
Parliament
,
lately
imployed
to
attend
Your
Majestie
,
from
both
Houses
being
all
of
them
Gentlemen
of
quality
and
estate
in
this
County
and
trusted
to
serve
in
that
Most
Honourable
Assembly
,
wee
humbly
crave
Your
Majesties
leave
to
expresse
our
confidence
in
their
unstained
loyalty
and
affection
to
Your
Majestie
to
be
such
as
Your
Majestie
may
securely
admitt
their
attendance
to
negotiat
their
imployments
untill
they
be
recalled
by
the
Parliament
,
and
for
their
fidelity
wee
doe
all
ingage
our selves
to
Your
Majestie
,
and
wee
are
most
assured
that
Your
Royall
Person
shall
be
secured
in
the
reall
fidelity
of
Your
subjects
of
this
County
without
any
extraordinary
guard
.