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<OPENER><SIGNED>Charles R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf;To Our tru&s;ty and welbeloved, the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Sheriffes of Our City of <HI>London.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_TRu&s;ty and Welbeloved, We greet you well.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas We have recei|ved &s;everall Informations of great &s;ummes of Money endevoured to be borrowed of Our City of <HI>London</HI> by &s;ome direction proceeding from both Our Hou&s;es of Parliament, and likewi&s;e that great labour is u&s;ed to per&s;wade Our Subjects to rai&s;e Hor&s;e, and to furni&s;h Money, upon pretence of providing a Guard for Our Parliament; The&s;e are to let you know, that (notwith&s;tanding any &s;candalous Votes which have pre&s;umed to Declare Our Intention of leavying War again&s;t Our Parliament, and to by other a&s;per&s;ions on Us, &s;o fully di&s;avowed by Us in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, by Our &s;everall An&s;wers and Declarations) all Our de&s;ires and purpo&s;es are for the publike Peace, and that we have not the lea&s;t thought of rai&s;ing or u&s;ing Force, ex|cept We are compelled to it, for the defence of Our Per&s;on, and in Protection of the Law: And therefore we expect, that you &s;uffer not your &s;elves to be mi&s;-led by &s;uch vain and improbable &s;ugge&s;tions, and to declare, that if you &s;hall lend any &s;ums of Money towards the relief of <HI>Ireland</HI> (to which We have contributed all the a&s;&s;i&s;tance could be de&s;ired of Us, which way &s;oever the Money given and rai&s;ed to that purpo&s;e is di&s;po&s;ed) or towards the payment of Our Scots Subjects, We &s;hall take it as an ac|ceptable Service at your hands; but if upon generall Pretences contrived by a few, Factious per&s;ons again&s;t the peace of the Kingdom, you &s;hall give or lend any Money, or provide or rai&s;e any Hor&s;es or Arms toward the rai&s;ing &s;uch a Guard, We &s;hall look upon it as the rai&s;ing Force again&s;t Us, and to be done in malice and contempt of Us and Our Authority. And we do therefore &s;traitly charge and command you to publi&s;h this Our Letter to the &s;everall Ma&s;ters and Wardens of the &s;everall Companies, thay they may be a&s;&s;ured, that &s;uch Money as they &s;hall lend out of their good affection to the Kingdom, may be onely imployed for <HI>Ireland</HI> or <HI>Scotland,</HI> and not toward &s;uch Guards, which (in truth) are intended by the Contrivers of that De&s;igne (though We beleeve many hone&s;t men &s;educed by them do not yet &s;ee their end) to be imploy|ed again&s;t Us: And if you and they &s;hall herein fail punctually and &s;everally to ob&s;erve Our commands, We &s;hall not onely proceed again&s;t the &s;everall Companies for decei|ving the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them; but again&s;t the particular per&s;ons, as Contemners and Oppo&s;ers of Our Authoritie, and of the Law of the Land, in the mo&s;t exemplary way the known Law of the Land &s;hall pre&s;cribe to Us; And &s;hall be compelled to que&s;tion the Charter of your City, which We are willing yet to beleeve (notwith&s;tanding the Barbarous and In&s;olent demeanour of the meaner and ba&s;er &s;ort) in a good degree to continue Loyall to Us. And of your obedience to the&s;e Our Commands We do expect and require a full Account, and of the names of &s;uch Per&s;ons who &s;hall oppo&s;e the &s;ame. Hereof faile you not as you will an&s;wer the contrary at your perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>York</HI> <DATE>the 14 day of June, in the 11 yeer of Our Reign. 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at London for <HI>T.A.</HI> 1642.</P>
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