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<P>NEW PROPOSITION Propounded to the City of LONDON <HI>By the</HI> LORDS <HI>and</HI> COMMONS, Concerning the rai&s;ing &s;peedy Ayd for the reliefe of <HI>HVLL.</HI></P>
<P>VVhereunto is annexed the Par|liaments Re&s;olution concerning Sir JOHN HOTHAM, and all tho&s;e that are faithfull to the Commands of the PARLIAMENT.</P>
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<P>Ordered that this be Printed, and pub|li&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne, Cler. Parl.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Whereunto is annexed,</HI> His MAIESTIES Declaration to the Parliament concerning Peace or Warre with <HI>Hull.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>T. F.</HI> for <HI>F. S.</HI> July, 15. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>New PROPOSITIONS propounded to the City of <HI>London.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HIs Maje&s;ty having an intent to be&s;iege Sir <HI>John Hotham,</HI> a Member of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, and by their appoint|ment Governor of his Maje|&s;ties Towne of <HI>Hull,</HI> and to that end ha|ving &s;ummoned all the Gentlemen Freehol|ders and others that had underwrit for Hor&s;e for His Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, giving them com|mand to march towards <HI>Hull,</HI> there to at|tend His Maje&s;ties further plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> having intelligence of his Maje&s;ties intention, thought it nece&s;|&s;ary to u&s;e the be&s;t prevention that he could to &s;ecure the Towne from being ta|ken,
<PB N="2" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 106 -->knowing how di&s;advantagious the lo&s;&s;e thereof would prove to the procee|dings of Parliament, and the Peace of the Kingdome, and that hee might al|together be left de&s;titute of meanes to pro|&s;ecute his Service begun, hee &s;ent out a a party of his men, with command that they &s;hould fetch in all the Cattell and Sheepe, that they could find within foure Miles of the &s;aid Towne, which being ac|cordingly performed, he gave order that the &s;luces &s;hould be drawne up, and that they &s;hould drowne the Medowes 3. miles round, to prevent the Kings Forces of mar|ching too neare, he being not able to vie for the pre&s;ent with &s;o great a power.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty having received intelligence of what Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> had done, drew his Forces to <HI>Beverley,</HI> and from thence &s;urrounded them at foure Miles di&s;tance, &s;topping all pa&s;&s;ages either to or from <HI>Hull</HI> withall cutting of all meanes of reliefe ei|ther by Sea or Land, taking away the Springs of fre&s;h water, by that meanes to &s;tarve
<PB N="3" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 106 -->them up, neverthele&s;&s;e Sir <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> &s;ent private intelligence to the Parliament, cer|tifying what hee had done, and in what e&s;tate him&s;elfe and the Towne was, which the Lords and Commons taking into con|&s;ideration, thought it nece&s;&s;ary to declare their re&s;olution to the world, as followes.</P>
<P>Whereas Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> hath been for|ced for the prevention of the &s;udden &s;ur|pri&s;all and de&s;truction of the Town of <HI>Hull,</HI> to let in &s;ome Tydes from <HI>Humber,</HI> upon the grounds adjoyning to the &s;aid Towne.</P>
<P>They have therefore promi&s;ed and a&s;&s;u|red all per&s;ons what&s;oever that are owners or Farmers of the &s;aid grounds, which are impayred by this overflowing of the Water, full and ample &s;atisfaction for any lo&s;&s;e they &s;hall &s;u&s;taine.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, they doe promi&s;e to &s;econd and &s;ave harmele&s;se all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall ei|ther by Sea or Land furni&s;h them with any provi&s;ion of Victuall, Beere, or any other thing, and al&s;o make good payment for
<PB N="4" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 107 -->the &s;ame, al&s;o that all per&s;ons of the &s;aid Towne, as &s;tand well affected to the &s;ervice and &s;tand clo&s;e in their fidelity and a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the Governour thereof, they doe here|by a&s;&s;ure them that they are re&s;olved that they &s;hall receive encouragement and pro|tection from them, an&s;werable to &s;uch a &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, they for the &s;peedy reliefe of the &s;aid Towne have u&s;ed their utmo&s;t en|deavour to rai&s;e &s;upplyes of men and Arms, as may appeare by their Propo&s;itions to the City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. That the Propo&s;itions &s;hould be ten|dered to the Common Councell of <HI>London,</HI> that they would con&s;ider of a way, for the &s;peedy rai&s;ing of 10000 men within the City.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the &s;aid men &s;hould be forth with li&s;ted to Officers, trained and entered into pay.</P>
<P N="3">3. That they &s;hall march into any part of this Kingdome by the direction and Au|thority of Parliament.</P>
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4. That if the Citizens of <HI>London</HI> &s;hall find any Armes towards the &s;etting forth of the&s;e men, if any Armes be lo&s;t or &s;poyled, they &s;hall be made good unto them.</P>
<P N="5">5. That &s;eeing there is &s;uch preparation with the King in the North, they de&s;ire that the&s;e Propo&s;itions may be put in exe|cution withfn foure dayes.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maie&s;ties Me&s;&s;age to the Par|liament, of the eleventh of <HI>July.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_BY Our former Declarations, and this Our Proclamation (which We heerewith &s;end you) you and all Our good Subjects may &s;ee the ju&s;t grounds of our pre&s;ent lourney towards Our Towne of <HI>Hull.</HI> Before Wee &s;hall u&s;e force to reduce that place to its due Obedience, Wee have thought fit once more to require you, that it may be forth|with delivered up to us, (the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e being of that nature that it can admit no
<PB N="6" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 108 -->delay) Wherein if you &s;hall conforme your &s;elves, we &s;hall then be willing to admit &s;uch addre&s;&s;es from you, and returne &s;uch Propo&s;itions to you, as may be proper to &s;ettle the Peace of this Kingdome, and com|po&s;e the pre&s;ent di&s;tractions. Doe your du|tie herein, and be a&s;&s;ured from Us in the word of a King, that nothing &s;hall be wan|ting on Our part that may prevent the Ca|lamities which threaten this Nation, and may render Our People truly happy. If this our gracious Me&s;&s;age &s;hall be declined, GOD and all good men judge betwixt Us. We &s;hall expect to receive &s;atisfaction here|in by your An&s;wers to be pre&s;ented to Us at <HI>Beverley</HI> upon Friday being the fifteenth day of this pre&s;ent <HI>Iuly,</HI> 1642.</P>
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