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<P>HIS MAjESTIES LETTER <HI>AND</HI> DECLARATION TO THE SHERIFFES and CITTY of LONDON.</P>
<P>Ianuary 17. 1642.</P>
<P>Printed, by His MAjESTIES Command, <HI>AT OXFORD, Ianuary</HI> 18.</P>
<P>By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer <HI>to the Vniver&s;ity.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAjESTIES LETTER AND DECLARATION to the SHERIFFES and CITTY Of LONDON.</HEAD>
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<P>_TRu&s;ty and Welbeloved, We greet you well. We received lately a Petition from the Alder|men and Common-Councell of Our City of <HI>London,</HI> by the hands of Per&s;ons entru&s;ted by them for the delivery, who found &s;uch a re|ception from Vs, as well manife|&s;ted Our regard to that body which &s;ent them; Though We well knew by whom that Petition was framed, and where peru&s;ed and examined, before it was approved by tho&s;e from whom it &s;eemed to be &s;ent, yet We were &s;o willing to enter into a corre&s;pondence with that Our Ci|ty, and to receive any addre&s;&s;e and application from them according to that Invitation We had given by Our late Proclamation; And were &s;o glad to find that there
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was yet &s;ome hopes they would look to the Peace and happine&s;&s;e of that City, and at la&s;t &s;ever them&s;elves from any Faction or dependence, which might in&s;en&s;ibly in|volve them in tho&s;e Calamities they did not fore&s;ee, that We returned &s;uch a gracious An&s;wer therunto, &s;o full of Candor and Affection, that the meane&s;t Inhabitant of that Our Citty, if he carefully con&s;ider the &s;ame, will find him&s;elfe concerned in it, and that We have had an e|&s;peciall care of his particular. With this an&s;wer of Ours We &s;ent a &s;ervant of Our own, in the company of tho&s;e who had been &s;o well u&s;ed here, to require and &s;ee that it might be communicated to the whole body of that Our City; not doubting but that both it &amp; the Bringer &s;hould receive &s;uch Entertainment there, as might manife&s;t their due regard of Vs, &amp; of Our Affection to them: But to Our great wonder, We finde that after ten dayes Attendance, and &s;uffering ridiculous Pamphlets to be publi&s;hed in Our name, as if We retracted Our former Re&s;olutions, (which Pamphlet We have cau&s;ed to be burned by the hand of the Hangman, as We al&s;o require you to &s;ee don) in&s;tead of that admi&s;&s;ion We expected to Our Me&s;&s;enger and Me&s;&s;age, guards of Armed Men have beene brought to keep Our good Subjects, to whom that Our An&s;wer was directed, from being pre&s;ent at the reading thereof; and Speeches have been made by Strangers (who have been admitted to the Citty Councells, contrary to the Freedome and Cu&s;tome of tho&s;e meetings,) to Bla&s;t Our &s;aid An&s;wer, and to Di&s;honour and Slander Vs, which if Our good Subjects there &s;hall &s;uffer, We &s;hall be much di&s;couraged in Our de&s;ired corre&s;pondence with that Ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> City, and &s;o by the cunning and power of tho&s;e Incendi|aries mentioned in Our An&s;wer (Alderman <HI>Pennington</HI> (who to &s;how his great Loyalty to Vs, and his fitne&s;&s;e to
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bee the chiefe Magi&s;trate of &s;uch a City, being informed that a de&s;perate per&s;on there, &s;aid, that <HI>hee hoped &s;hortly to wa&s;h his hands in Our Bloud,</HI> refu&s;ed to &s;end any Warrant, or to give any direction to any Officer for his Apprehen|&s;ion,) <HI>Ven, Fulke,</HI> and <HI>Manwaring</HI>) who have plunged that Our City into &s;uch un&s;peakable Calamities, in which they would &s;till keepe it to cure their owne de&s;perate condition, Our good Subjects there are not &s;uffered to re|ceive Our gratious An&s;wer to that Petition; Wee have therefore thought fit to write the&s;e Our Letters to you, requiring you the Sheriffes of Our &s;aid City; to take care for the publi&s;hing that Our An&s;wer (which Wee here|with &s;end you) to Our good Subjects of that Our City; And Our plea&s;ure is, That you the Ma&s;ters and Wardens of the &s;everall Companies of our &s;aid City forth with &s;ummon all the Members of your &s;everall Companies, with all the Freemen and Apprenti&s;es (who&s;e hopes and intere&s;ts are &s;o much bla&s;ted in the&s;e generall Di&s;tracti|ons) belonging thereunto, to appeare at your &s;everall Halls, where you &s;hall cau&s;e Our &s;aid An&s;wer, together with the&s;e our Letters, to bee publiquely read, that all Our good Subjects may cleerely under&s;tand how farre We have beene from begetting, how farre Wee are from continuing or nouri&s;hing the&s;e unnaturall civill di&s;&s;enti|ons, and how much it is in their owne power to remove the pre&s;ent pre&s;&s;ures, and to e&s;tabli&s;h the future happi|ne&s;&s;e and glory of that famous City, and may &s;eriou&s;ly weigh every part of that Our An&s;wer, as well that which carries caution in it for the future, as pardon for what is pa&s;t, for a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves, for the time to come, Wee &s;hall proceed with all &s;everity again&s;t &s;uch who &s;hall in|curre the penalty of the Law in tho&s;e points, of which wee have given them &s;o faire a warning in Our &s;aid An|&s;wer,
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&amp; who&s;oever &s;hall not behave him&s;elfe like a good Subject in this Our Kingdome, &s;hall not (if We can helpe it) receive the benefit and advantage of being Our Sub|ject in any other, but all Forraigne Princes &s;hall know, that as &s;uch Per&s;on hath parted with his Loyalty to Us, &s;o he mu&s;t not hope for any Security by Us, and to that purpo&s;e Wee &s;hall hence forward have a very inqui&s;itive Eye upon the Actions of all Our Subjects, that &s;ome ex|ample may be made, how ea&s;ie it is for Us to puni&s;h their di&s;loyalties abroad, who for a time may avoyd Our Iu|&s;tice at home. And to the end that none of Our good Sub|jects of that Our City may thinke them&s;elves bound to obey any of the Orders or Commands of the pretended Lord Major (whom We have and doe &s;till accu&s;e of high Trea&s;on, &amp; con&s;piring to take Our life from Vs,) it is well knowne to tho&s;e Citizens who under&s;tand the Charter of that City (&s;o amply granted by Our Royall Progeni|tors, and &s;o gratiou&s;ly confirmed by Us, &amp; of which We pre&s;ume Our good Subjects there doe &s;till de&s;ire to re|ceive the benefit,) that the &s;aid <HI>I&s;aack Pennington</HI> was ne|ver regularly elected, or lawfully admitted to bee Lord Major of that Our City, that in truth Alderman <HI>Cordwell,</HI> was by the plurality of voyces cho&s;en, and that this Man was never pre&s;ented to, or admitted by Us, in &s;uch man|ner as is pre&s;cribed by the &s;aid Charter, neither had that Iudge, who pre&s;umed to &s;weare him, any more colour of Law or Authority to admini&s;ter &s;uch an Oath to him, then hee hath to doe the &s;ame to morrow to any other Alderman of the City: And Wee doe therefore hereby Declare the &s;aid <HI>I&s;aack Pennington</HI> not to bee Major of that Our City of <HI>London,</HI> and to have no lawfull Autho|rity to exerci&s;e the &s;ame, and that Our good Subjects of that Our City, ought not to &s;ubmit to any Order, dire|ctions,
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or commands which &s;hall i&s;&s;ue from him as Lord Major of that Our City, but that the &s;ame are void and of none effect. And Wee doe once more require you the Sheriffes of Our &s;aid City, and all other the Magi&s;trates of the &s;ame, in which all Our good Subjects of that City will a&s;&s;i&s;t you, that you cau&s;e the &s;aid <HI>I&s;aack Pennington, Ven, Fulke,</HI> and <HI>Manwaring,</HI> to bee apprehended and committed to &s;afe Cu&s;tody, that Wee may proceed a|gain&s;t them as guilty of high Trea&s;on, and principall Authours of tho&s;e Calamities which are now &s;o heavy upon Our poore Subjects of that City, and if not &s;udden|ly remedied, will in a &s;hort time utterly confound a Place, and a People lately of &s;o flouri&s;hing an e&s;timation in all the parts of Chri&s;tendome, And where as We are informed that one <HI>Browne</HI> a Wood-monger, <HI>Titchborne</HI> a Linnen-Draper, and one <HI>Harvy</HI> a Silke-man, have exer|ci&s;ed great In&s;olencies and out rages in that Our City, and when many of Our good Subjects there, have a&s;&s;em|bled together in a peaceable and mode&s;t manner, to con|&s;ult about the Peace and welfare of that City, the &s;aid mutinous and &s;editious Per&s;ons have pre&s;umed to lead Multitudes of armed Men again&s;t them, and by &s;uch force have beaten, wounded, and killed Our good Subjects; Our Will and Plea&s;ure is, that if the &s;aid <HI>Browne, Titch|borne,</HI> and <HI>Harvy,</HI> or either of them, &s;hall &s;o farre neglect Our gratious offer of Pardon, as &s;till to engage them|&s;elves in tho&s;e unwarrantable and &s;editious cour&s;es, That you Our Sheriffes of <HI>London,</HI> ray&s;e power to &s;up|pre&s;&s;e the &s;aid force, and that you and all Our Mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice, u&s;e your utmo&s;t meanes to apprehend the &s;aid Per&s;ons, and to bring them to condigne puni&s;hment. And We doe here by Declare, That it &s;hall be lawfull for any of Our loving Subjects, to re&s;i&s;t and oppo&s;e the &s;aid
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Per&s;ons, if they &s;hall hereafter, in &s;uch a Warlike manner, endeavour to mole&s;t them as they would doe Rebels and Traytours: And We hope that all Our good Subjects of that Our much injured City of <HI>London,</HI> doe take notice of Our Grace and Favour towards them in our &s;o freely pa&s;&s;ing by and pardoning the Offences there committed again&s;t Us, as Wee have offered by Our Proclamation and Our late An&s;wer; and of Our very earne&s;t de&s;ire to bee with them, and to re&s;ide among&s;t them for their Comfort, Support, and Protection, if they &s;hall, by fir&s;t providing for their owne &s;ecurity (in &s;uch manner as We have directed them in Our late An&s;wer) give Us an in|&s;tance that We may be &s;afe there too; And that they doe likewi&s;e ob&s;erve, that being by &s;uch violence kept from them, Wee have done Our utmo&s;t endeavour to continue and advance the decayed trading of that Our City, by permitting and encouraging all re&s;ort and traffique thi|ther, and therefore if by the &s;topping of Carriages, and &s;eizing Commodities by other men, the commerce and corre&s;pondence be broken betweene that place and Our good Subjects of other Counties, they will impute that mi&s;chiefe to the true Authours of it, and looke upon Us onely as not able to helpe them. Doe but your Duties, and this Cloud, which threatens a pre&s;ent confu&s;ion, will quickly vani&s;h away, and you will enjoy all the Ble&s;&s;ings of a happy Nation, to the which no endeavour of Ours &s;hall bee wanting.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at our Court at <HI>OXFORD,</HI> <DATE>this 17. day of <HI>IANUARY.</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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