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
Lynsey
,
the
Lord
Savile
,
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
County
(
which
hath
wel-nigh
,
for
three
yeers
last
past
,
been
the
tragicall
Stage
of
Armies
and
War
)
by
reason
of
your
Majesties
distance
in
Residence
,
and
difference
in
Councels
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
private
advantage
;
The
drawing
together
of
many
Companies
of
the
Trained
Bands
,
and
others
,
both
Horse
and
Foot
of
that
County
,
and
retaining
multitudes
of
Commanders
and
Cavaliers
from
other
parts
;
The
dayly
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
Councels
whatsoever
,
unite
your
Confidence
to
your
Parliament
;
And
that
your
Majestie
would
not
divide
your
Subjects
joynt-duty
to
your
Majestie
,
the
Parliament
and
Kingdom
,
nor
destroy
the
essence
of
your
great
Councell
and
highest
Court
,
by
subjecting
the
Determinations
and
Councels
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
Majestie
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
County
,
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
County
,
such
may
not
be
thrust
upon
them
,
as
Men
of
that
County
,
that
neither
by
their
Fortune
or
Residence
are
any
part
of
it
:
All
which
their
humble
&
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
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
joyne
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
County
to
discharge
,
so
do
we
stand
engaged
to
God
and
Man
for
the
performance
thereof
,
by
the
Trust
reposed
in
us
,
and
by
our
solemne
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
County
in
particular
,
the
Peace
and
quiet
of
the
Kingdom
,
(
as
is
well
observed
by
those
Gentlemen
,
and
Free-holders
of
York-shire
,
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
of
all
your
Dominions
.
❧
His
Majesties
Answer
to
the
aforesaid
Petition
.
HIs
Majestie
having
carefully
weighed
the
matter
of
this
Petition
,
presented
to
Him
at
York
,
on
Friday
the
seventeenth
of
Iune
,
by
the
Lord
Howard
,
Sir
Hugh
Cholmeley
,
and
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
Iustice
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
Iustice
and
Honour
unanswered
,
is
graciously
pleased
to
return
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
qualitie
of
the
Petitioners
,
which
His
Majestie
hath
great
reason
to
beleeve
,
was
not
in
truth
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
there
was
,
upon
His
Majesties
Summons
,
the
greatest
&
the
most
cheerfull
concourse
of
people
that
ever
was
beheld
of
one
County
,
appearing
before
Him
at
York
,
a
Gentleman
(
one
Sir
Thomas
Fayrefax
)
offered
,
in
that
great
Confluence
,
a
Petition
to
His
Majestie
,
which
His
Majestie
seeing
to
be
avowed
by
no
man
but
himself
,
and
the
generall
and
universall
Acclamations
of
the
people
seeming
to
disclaim
it
,
did
not
receive
,
conceiving
it
not
to
be
of
so
publike
a
nature
as
to
be
fit
to
be
presented
or
received
in
that
place
:
And
His
Majestie
is
most
confident
(
and
in
that
must
appeal
to
those
who
were
then
present
)
that
what
ever
the
substance
of
that
Petition
was
,
it
was
not
consented
to
by
any
considerable
number
of
Gentrie
or
Free-holders
of
this
Countie
;
but
solicited
by
a
few
,
mean
,
inconsiderable
persons
,
and
disliked
and
visibly
discountenanced
by
the
great
body
of
the
known
Gentry
,
Clergie
,
and
Inhabitants
of
this
whole
Countie
.
And
if
the
matter
of
that
Petition
were
such
as
is
suggested
in
this
,
His
Majestie
hath
great
reason
to
beleeve
it
was
framed
and
contrived
(
as
many
others
of
such
nature
have
been
)
in
London
,
not
in
Yorkshire
.
For
sure
no
Gentleman
of
quality
and
understanding
,
of
this
County
,
would
talk
of
His
great
preparations
of
Arms
,
and
other
warlike
Provisions
,
to
the
great
terrour
and
amazement
of
His
peaceable
Subjects
,
when
they
are
witnesses
of
the
violent
taking
His
Arms
from
Him
,
and
stopping
all
wayes
for
bringing
more
to
Him
;
And
if
there
were
no
greater
terrour
and
amazement
of
His
Majesties
peaceable
Subjects
in
other
places
by
such
preparations
and
provisions
,
there
would
be
no
more
cause
to
complain
of
a
great
decay
of
Trade
and
Commerce
there
,
then
is
in
this
place
:
But
His
Majestie
hath
so
great
an
assurance
of
the
fidelitie
and
generall
affections
of
His
good
Subjects
of
this
Countie
(
which
He
hopes
will
prove
exemplar
over
His
whole
Kingdom
)
that
He
hath
great
cause
to
beleeve
,
That
they
do
rather
complain
of
His
Majesties
confidence
,
and
of
His
slownesse
,
that
whilst
there
is
such
endeavour
abroad
to
raise
Horse
,
and
to
provide
Arms
against
His
Majestie
,
and
that
endeavour
put
in
execution
,
His
Majestie
trusts
so
much
to
the
Iustice
of
His
cause
,
and
the
affections
of
his
people
,
and
neglects
to
provide
strength
to
assist
that
Iustice
,
and
to
protect
those
affections
.
For
any
affronts
offered
by
the
Earle
of
Lindsey
and
the
Lord
Savile
,
to
those
who
intended
to
petition
His
Majestie
,
His
Majestie
wishes
that
both
His
Houses
of
Parliament
would
have
examined
that
Information
,
and
the
credit
of
the
Informers
,
with
that
gravity
and
deliberation
,
as
in
cases
which
concern
the
Innocence
and
Honour
of
persons
of
such
quality
hath
been
accustomed
,
before
they
had
proscribed
two
Peers
of
the
Realm
,
and
exposed
them
(
as
much
as
in
them
lay
)
to
the
rage
and
fury
of
the
people
,
under
the
Character
of
being
Enemies
to
the
Commonwealth
,
a
brand
newly
found
out
(
and
of
no
legall
signification
)
to
incense
the
people
by
,
and
with
which
the
simplicity
of
former
times
was
not
acquainted
:
And
then
His
Majestie
hath
some
reason
to
beleeve
they
would
have
found
themselves
as
much
abused
in
the
report
concerning
those
Lords
,
as
he
is
sure
they
are
in
those
which
tell
them
of
the
resort
of
great
numbers
of
discontented
persons
to
him
,
and
of
the
other
particulars
,
mentioned
to
be
in
that
Petition
:
Whereas
they
who
observe
what
resort
is
here
to
His
Majestie
,
well
know
it
to
be
of
the
prime
Gentlemen
of
all
the
Counties
in
England
,
whom
nothing
but
the
love
of
Religion
,
the
care
of
the
Laws
and
Liberties
of
the
Kingdom
,
besides
their
affection
to
His
Person
,
could
engage
into
great
journeys
,
trouble
,
and
expence
,
men
of
as
precious
reputation
,
and
as
exemplary
lives
as
this
Nation
hath
any
;
whose
assistance
His
Majestie
knows
He
must
not
expect
,
if
He
should
have
the
least
designe
against
Honour
and
Iustice
;
and
such
witnesses
His
Majestie
desires
to
have
of
all
His
actions
.
For
the
declining
all
other
Councels
,
and
the
uniting
His
Confidence
to
His
Parliament
,
His
Majestie
desires
both
His
Houses
of
Parliament
seriously
and
sadly
to
consider
,
That
it
is
not
the
name
of
a
great
or
little
Councell
that
makes
the
Results
of
that
Councell
Iust
or
Vnjust
,
Neither
can
the
Imputation
upon
His
Majestie
,
of
not
being
advised
by
His
Parliament
,
(
especially
since
all
their
Actions
,
and
all
their
Orders
are
exposed
to
the
publike
view
)
long
mis-lead
His
good
Subjects
,
except
in
truth
they
see
some
particular
sound
Advice
,
necessary
to
the
Peace
and
Happinesse
of
the
Common-wealth
,
dis-esteemed
by
His
Majestie
;
and
such
an
Instance
He
is
most
assured
,
neither
can
,
nor
shall
be
given
:
And
that
they
will
think
it
merit
in
His
Majestie
,
from
the
Common-wealth
,
to
reject
such
Councell
as
would
perswade
Him
to
make
Himself
none
of
the
Three
Estates
,
by
giving
up
His
negative
voyce
,
to
allow
them
a
Power
superiour
to
that
which
the
Law
hath
given
Him
,
whensoever
it
pleaseth
the
Major
part
,
present
,
of
both
Houses
,
to
say
,
That
He
doth
not
discharge
His
Trust
,
as
He
ought
,
and
to
subject
His
,
and
His
Subjects
unquestionable
Right
and
Proprietie
to
their
Votes
,
without
,
and
against
Law
,
upon
the
meer
pretence
of
necessitie
.
And
His
Majestie
must
appeal
to
all
the
world
,
who
it
is
that
endeavours
to
divide
the
joynt
duty
of
His
Subjects
;
His
Majestie
,
who
requires
nothing
but
what
their
own
duty
,
guided
by
the
infallible
Rule
of
the
Law
,
leades
them
to
do
;
or
they
,
who
,
by
Orders
and
Votes
(
opposite
and
contradictory
to
Law
,
Custom
,
President
,
and
Reason
)
so
confound
the
Affertions
and
Vnderstandings
of
His
good
Subjects
,
that
they
know
not
how
to
behave
themselves
with
honesty
and
Safety
,
whilest
their
Conscience
will
not
suffer
them
to
submit
to
the
one
,
nor
their
Securitie
to
apply
themselves
to
the
other
.
It
is
not
the
bare
saying
,
That
His
Majesties
Actions
are
against
the
Law
(
with
which
He
is
reproached
in
this
Petition
,
as
if
He
departed
from
His
often
Protestations
to
that
purpose
)
must
conclude
Him
,
there
being
no
one
such
particular
in
that
Petition
alleadged
,
of
which
his
Majestie
is
in
the
least
degree
guilty
:
Whether
the
same
reverence
and
esteem
be
paid
by
you
to
the
Law
,
(
except
your
own
Votes
be
judge
)
needs
no
other
evidence
then
those
many
,
very
many
Orders
published
in
print
,
both
concerning
the
Church
and
State
,
those
long
imprisonments
of
severall
persons
,
without
hearing
them
,
upon
generall
information
,
and
the
great
unlimited
Fees
to
your
Officers
,
worse
then
the
imprisonment
,
and
the
Arbitrary
Censure
upon
them
when
they
are
admitted
to
be
heard
;
let
the
Law
be
judge
by
whom
it
is
violated
.
For
that
part
of
the
Petition
which
seems
to
accuse
His
Majestie
of
a
purpose
to
dissolve
this
Parliament
(
contrary
to
the
Act
for
the
Continuance
)
by
commanding
away
the
Lords
and
great
Officers
,
whose
attendance
is
necessary
,
which
His
Majestie
well
knows
to
be
a
new
Calumnie
,
by
which
the
grand
Contrivers
of
ruine
for
the
State
,
hope
to
seduce
the
minds
of
the
People
from
their
Affection
to
,
or
into
Iealousie
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
Tumults
(
which
no
Votes
or
Declaration
can
make
to
be
no
Tumults
)
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
Bar
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
Commons
,
and
sent
up
by
them
to
the
House
of
Lords
,
taking
notice
of
the
prevalencie
of
a
Malignant
faction
which
made
abortive
all
their
good
Motions
,
which
tended
to
the
Peace
and
Tranquilitie
of
the
Kingdom
,
desiring
,
That
those
noble
Worthies
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
speedie
remedie
were
taken
for
the
removall
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
remedie
which
was
at
hand
to
remove
the
disturbers
of
their
Peace
,
and
(
want
and
necessitie
breaking
the
bounds
of
modestie
)
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
removall
,
they
conceived
,
would
put
a
period
to
these
distractions
.
Vpon
which
,
a
great
number
of
Lords
departing
,
the
Vote
,
in
order
to
the
Ordinance
concerning
the
Militia
,
was
immediately
passed
,
though
it
had
been
twice
before
put
to
the
question
and
rejected
by
the
Votes
of
much
the
major
part
of
that
House
.
And
who
ever
considers
the
strange
Orders
,
Votes
and
Declarations
which
have
since
passed
,
to
which
whosoever
would
not
consent
,
that
is
,
with
freedom
and
libertie
of
Language
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
proposition
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
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
Libertie
and
Dignitie
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
necessitie
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
Securitie
,
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
thereof
,
is
notoriously
known
;
That
when
he
was
informed
two
or
three
of
His
intended
Guard
were
of
that
Religion
,
He
gave
speciall
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
Allegiance
and
Supremacy
;
That
He
commanded
the
Sheriffe
to
proceed
with
all
severitie
,
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
knows
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
strictly
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
seems
,
much
in
disfavour
)
there
hath
not
been
the
least
Complaint
here
;
and
therefore
't
is
probable
the
fault
was
not
found
in
this
Countie
.
Neither
can
his
Majestie
imagine
what
is
meant
by
the
mention
of
any
men
thrust
upon
them
,
in
such
Consultations
and
Propositions
as
his
Majestie
makes
to
this
County
,
who
are
neither
by
their
Fortune
or
Residence
,
any
part
of
it
;
and
therefore
can
make
no
Answer
to
it
.
To
conclude
,
his
Majestie
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
Ingenuitie
to
receive
all
Petitions
,
how
senslesse
and
scandalous
soever
,
of
one
kinde
,
under
the
pretence
of
understanding
the
good
peoples
minds
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
misunderstanding
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
will
not
onely
think
it
convenient
,
but
necessary
to
give
his
Majestie
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
see
this
to
be
the
surest
way
for
the
preservation
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
the
redemption
of
your
Brethren
in
Ireland
,
the
happinesse
and
prosperity
of
your selves
,
and
all
Our
Dominions
,
and
of
the
dignitie
and
freedom
of
Parliament
.
FINIS
.