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<P>The City of LONDONS RESOLVTION, CONCERNING Their Loyalty to the King, and their Love and Affection to the Parliament, in laying down their Lives, Liberties, and goods for the maintenance of the true prote&s;tant Religion.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the &s;everall Propo&s;itions which the Common Councell &s;ent to His Maje&s;ty by the Lord Newburgh, one of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honou|rable privie Coun&s;ell.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e an Honourable and worthy Speech &s;poken by the Lord Newburgh to the Common Councell.</P>
<P>With a Letter &s;ent from Secretary <HI>Nicholas</HI> to the Lord Major, and the Report which Mr. Recor|der made to the Common Coun&s;ell concer|ning the &s;ame, <HI>Iune</HI> 20.</P>
<P>Together with a Command from the Hou&s;e of Peers, concerning the &s;topping of all kinde of Ammunition in the Northern Road.</P>
<P><HI>JOH. BROVVN Cler. Parl.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Iune</HI> 22. Printed for <HI>I. Tomp&s;on</HI> and <HI>A. Coe.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>The Citi&s;ens of Londons Re&s;olution, concer|ning the taking up of Arms.</HEAD>
<P>AT this Common Councell, Mr. Re|corder declared, That by the dire|ction of the Lord Major, he was to &s;ignifie to them the cau&s;e of their A&s;&s;em|bly, how that his Lord&s;hip had ye&s;terday received a Letter from Sir <HI>Edward Ni|cholas,</HI> one of his Maje&s;ties principall Se|cretaries, intimating that the Lord Major &s;hould call a <HI>Common Councell,</HI> and then he &s;hould hear further of his Maje&s;ty: there was al&s;o pre&s;ent in the Coun&s;ell Cham|ber the Lord <HI>Newburgh,</HI> who came to de|liver his Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age or Reque&s;t to t' is Court: And thereupon the L. <HI>New|burgh</HI> was de&s;ired to come into the Court who declared and &s;aid in this manner.</P>
<P><HI>Gentlemen,</HI> His Maje&s;ty out of his good affection in acknowledging of your
<PB REF="3">great loves lately &s;hewed unto His Ma|je&s;ty, hath &s;ent me in a Me&s;&s;age unto you a&s;&s;uring it to be the &s;ame contained in a Paper, which he pre&s;ented and de&s;ired to be read to this Common Councell, which was accordingly done.</P>
<P>The humble de&s;ire of the Court they thought nece&s;&s;ary to pre&s;ent His Maje&s;ty to be graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed, that all the <HI>De|linquents</HI> and Cau&s;ers of the&s;e Tumults, what&s;oever they be, being apprehended, may be brought into Examination, and receive condigne puni&s;hment according to the Law.</P>
<P>And the&s;e things thus agreed upon, were by Direction of this Common-Councell here openly declared and deli|vered by the mouth of Mr. Recorder, un|to that Honourable per&s;on of the Lord <HI>Newburgh,</HI> with de&s;ire that the &s;ame &s;hould be by his Lord&s;hip accordingly pre&s;ented unto his Maje&s;ty, the which he promi&s;ed to perform with tru&s;t.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e touching the great neg|lect
<PB REF="3">in appearance of the Trained Bands of this City to their Colours at the beat of the Drum, e&s;pecially in the&s;e times of danger, in contempt of Authority, being a matter of exceeding great con&s;equence, and not fit to be &s;uffered. And thereupon this Common-Councell taking much to heart, that &s;uch di&s;obedience &s;hould grow and be found in the Inhabitants of this City, to the great di&s;re&s;pect of Magi&s;tra|cie and contempt of Government; And that &s;uch di&s;orders and tumultary A&s;&s;em|blies &s;hould be permitted in &s;uch a City as this, formerly famous for the good and quiet government therof, hath thought it very expedient and behoveful, for redre&s;&s;e and remedy to be had in the&s;e abu&s;es, be|ing not fit to be any longer indured, that every Member of this Common-Councel now a&s;&s;embled, &s;hall in their &s;everal pre|cincts, &s;pread it abroad, &amp; make it known That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;hall from henceforth neglect his duty and &s;ervice to be performed, as afore&s;aid, he &s;hall receive condign puni&s;hment, according to Law.</P>
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<P>It is al&s;o further thought fit, and &s;o a|greed by the Common Coun&s;ell, that the Lord Major may &s;end out his Precepts in &s;uch manner, and to &s;uch purpo&s;e, as his Lord&s;hip, and his Brethren the Al|dermen, &s;hall think fit for Watch and Ward, rai&s;ing of Arms, or otherwi&s;e, for the pre&s;ervation of this City; to which this Court, and all the Members thereof promi&s;e all due and cheerfull Obedience.</P>
<P>And although the troubles and di&s;tra|ctions of this City hath bin many, &s;o that they could not re&s;t in peace, nor quiet; yet they are now re&s;olved by the help of Almighty God, to a&s;&s;i&s;t both King and Parliament, again&s;t any forrein inva&s;ion abroad, or in&s;urrection at home, and though many &s;candalous and &s;curro|lous &s;peeches hath bin &s;pread abroad, and divulged throughout the whole Kingdom, by factious people, to the great di&s;grace of the whole City, &s;aving that they are Traytors again&s;t the King, intending to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Parliament, and to take Arms again&s;t him.</P>
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<P>This is fal&s;e and contrary, for neither the Honourable Court of Parliament nor the City of <HI>London</HI> never were intended to take Arms again&s;t his Royall Maje|&s;ty.</P>
<P>For they are re&s;olved to a&s;&s;i&s;t him with all their might and power, again&s;t all tho&s;e that &s;hall offer to oppo&s;e or re|&s;i&s;t him.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e this Court entred into fur|ther con&s;ultation and debate, touching the tumultuous A&s;&s;emblies lately &s;pread to the great trouble and affrightment of His Maje&s;ties Subjects, and al&s;o touching the great neglect of that due re&s;pect which ought to be given by the Inhabi|tants of this City, to the &s;everall precepts lately i&s;&s;ued out by the Lord Major, fora continuall Watch and Ward day and night, for prevention and &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of &s;uch tumults and di&s;tempers.</P>
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<HEAD>Die Sabbathi, 11. Junii, 1642.</HEAD>
<P><HI>IT is this day ordered by the Lords in Par|liament a&s;&s;embled, That a &s;trict &s;earch and Examination he made by the Ju&s;tices of peace Maior, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, and other his Ma|je&s;ties Officers, inhabiting, or neer adjoyning to all the Northerne Roads, for the &s;topping and &s;taying of all Armes, Ammunition, Pow|der, Light-hor&s;es, or hor&s;es for &s;ervice in the Warres, and great Saddles that are, or &s;hal be carryed towards the North parts of</HI> England, <HI>but by the privity and direction of one, or both Hou&s;es of Parliament; And that the &s;aid Of|ficers &s;hall &s;tay them accordingly, and &s;peedily give information thereof unto one of the Hou|&s;es of Parliament.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Mercurii,</HI> 15. <HI>Iun.</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Ordered by the Lords in Parliament, That this Order &s;hall be printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Io. Browne, Cler. Parl.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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