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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE HVMBLE PETITION of the Inhabitants of the County OF BVCKINGHAM, Pre&s;ented to the KINGS mo&s;t Excel|lent Maie&s;tie at WINDSOR the thirteenth of this in&s;tant <HI>January.</HI> 1642.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">In the behalfe of M^r. Hampden Knight for the &s;aid County, and of the re&s;t of the members of Parliament, accu&s;ed by his Maie&s;tie of Trea&s;on.
VVith his Maie&s;ties gratious an&s;were thereunto.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sheweth,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THat your petitioners having by vertue of your highnes writt cho&s;en <HI>Iohn Hampden</HI> E&s;quire Knight for our Shire in who&s;e loyaltie and wi&s;dome, we his Contrymen, and Neighbours have ever had good cau&s;e to confide: how ever of late, to our no le&s;&s;e amazement then greife, wee find him with other members of Parliament ac|cu&s;ed of Trea&s;on, and haveing taken to our &s;erious con&s;ideration, the manner of their impeachments we cannot but (under your Maje&s;ties favour) conceive, that it doth &s;o op|pugne the rights of Parliaments, to the maintenance whereof our Prote&s;tation bind us: That we beleive it is the malice (which their zeale to your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, &amp; the State, hath contracted) in the enemies to your Maje&s;ty, the Church, and common wealth hath occa&s;ioned this fowle ac|cu&s;ation rather then any de&s;ert of theirs; who doe likewi&s;e through their &s;ides wound the judge|ment and care of us your Petitioners, and others, by who&s;e choice they were pre&s;ented to the Hou&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><HI>Your petitioners mo&s;t humbly pray that</HI> Ma&s;ter Hampden, <HI>and the re&s;t that lye under the burden of that accu&s;ation may enjoy the Iu&s;t privi|ledges of Parliament.</HI> And your Petitioners will ever pray &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD>His Maie&s;ties an&s;wer.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At the Court at</HI> Wind&s;or <DATE><HI>the</HI> 13^t^h. <HI>of</HI> Ianuary. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>HIs Maje&s;ty being graciou&s;lie plea&s;ed to let all his &s;ubjects under&s;tand his care not (knowingly) to violate in the lea&s;t degree, any of the Priviledges of Parliament, hath therefore lately by a Me&s;&s;age &s;ent by the Lord Keeper &s;ignified; That hee is plea&s;ed (be|cau&s;e of the doubt that hath beene rai&s;ed of the manner) to waive his former proceedings a|gain&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Ma&s;ter Hampden</HI> and the re&s;t mentioned in this Petition, concerning whom his Ma|je&s;ty intends to proceed in an unque&s;tionable way. And then his Maje&s;ty &s;aith it will appeare that hee had &s;o &s;ufficient grounds to que&s;tion them, as hee might not in Iu&s;tice to the Kingdome, and Honour to him&s;elfe have forborne; and yet his Maje&s;ty had much rather that the &s;aid per|&s;ons &s;hould prove innocent, then be found guilty, however, hee cannot conceive that their crimes can in any &s;ort reflect upon tho&s;e his good Subjects, who elected them to &s;erve in Parlia|ment.</P>
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<P>London Printed for <HI>Iohn Burroughes</HI> 1641.</P>
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