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<P> Five &s;peciall Pa&s;sages: <HI>viz.</HI> TWO PETITIONS OF THE COVNTIE OF YORKE.</P>
<P>The one Pre&s;ented to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Ma|je&s;tie at York the third of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1642.</P>
<P>The other, to the Lords and Commons in Parlia|ment A&s;&s;embled.</P>
<P>With the Additionals thereunto annexed.</P>
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<P>Die Lunae Jun. 6. 1642. <HI>Ordered by the Lords a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that the&s;e Petitions, together with the ad|ditions, be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</HI></P>
<P>John Brown, <HI>Cler. Parliamentor.</HI></P>
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<P>The Petition of the <HI>Kingdom</HI> of SCOTLAND, to the Lords of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privie Councell of that Kingdome.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO</HI> His Maje&s;ties Letter to the Lords of his Privie Coun&s;ell of the Kingdome of SCOTLAND.</P>
<P>AND A Letter from Sir <HI>Io. Bourchier</HI> to Sir <HI>Thomas Barrington</HI> Knight and BARONET.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Edward Blackmore,</HI> 1642. <HI>May</HI> 8.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petitions and response">
<PB REF="2">
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="petition">
<HEAD>To the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;ty.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Gentry, Mini&s;ters, Free-holders, and other Inhabitants of the County of <HI>York,</HI> A&s;&s;embled by his Maje&s;ties &s;peciall Summons at <HI>Heworth Moore;</HI> neere the City of <HI>York,</HI> on Fridy the third of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1642.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Sheweth,</HI></P>
<P>_THat this particular County, mo&s;t affectionate to your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, hath well night for the&s;e three yeers la&s;t pa&s;t been the Stage, whereon the Tragi|call mi&s;eries, which nece&s;&s;arily accompany Warre and Armies, have beene pre&s;ented and acted, whereby the generall wealth and plenty of this County is exhau&s;ted and brought very low: Which waight of mi&s;eries are &s;en&s;ibly become much more heavy, by rea&s;on of your Maje&s;ties di&s;tance in re&s;idence, and difference in Coun&s;ells, from your great Councell the Parliament; begetting great di&s;tempers and di&s;tractions throughout the Kingdome; and have, &s;pecially among&s;t us, produced facti|ons and divi&s;ions, drawing into the&s;e parts great numbers of di&s;contented per&s;ons, that may too ju&s;tly be feared doe affect the publike ruine, for their private advantage. All which evils are daily fomented, and made more formidable, by your Maje&s;ties drawing together (as wee conceive not according to Law) many Companies of the Trained Bands, and o|thers both Hor&s;e and Foot of this County, and retaining multitudes of Commanders and Cavaleers from other parts, and by the daily re&s;ort of Recu&s;ants, and per&s;ons di&s;affected in Religion, to your Maje&s;ties Court at York; and by the great preparation of Armes, and o|ther warlike provi&s;ions, which begets in us feares of Warrs, to the great terrour and amaze|ment of us your Maje&s;ties peaceable Subjects, and to the great decay of all Commerce and indu&s;trious cour&s;es, for the wealth and pro&s;perity of the Country, e&s;pecially of Clothing, which is the maine &s;ub&s;i&s;tence of this County, and is &s;ince your Maje&s;ties re&s;idence among&s;t us, and the following di&s;tractions thereupon, &s;uddenly ob&s;tructed; in&s;omuch that many thou&s;and Families, who are of, and have their livelihood by the Trade of Clothing, are now at the point of utter undoing; which inevitably will prove to be of dangerous con&s;equence, and will be the in-let to our approaching and unavoidable ruine, unle&s;&s;e your Maje&s;ty plea&s;e graciou&s;ly to give redre&s;&s;e, by removing the cau&s;es which produce the&s;e mi&s;erable ef|fects; it being too true, that very many in the&s;e and other parts of the Kingdome, doe wholly withdraw them&s;elves from their former Commerce and Dealing; and others, both Mer|chants and Chapmen, doe generally refu&s;e to make payment for Goods long &s;ince &s;old and delivered; alledging, that others refu&s;e to pay them for any Commodity formerly &s;old, till the fears and di&s;tractions of the Land be &s;ettled: Which if not &s;uddenly prevented, will fortwith over-turn all &s;uch wayes of advantage and comfort as have formerly made this Kingdome (and this County in particular) pro&s;perous and happy.</P>
<P>We doe therefore in all humility and duty, in the &s;ence of our pre&s;ent deplorable condi|tion, be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty to pardon Vs, if We importune Your Maje&s;ty more than others, &s;ince We have endured, and are in hazard more than any; and that from the&s;e apprehen&s;i|ons, We may offer to Your Maje&s;ty our earne&s;t Petition, for redre&s;&s;e and prevention of the&s;e evils daily threatning danger to Your Maje&s;ty, and de&s;truction to us; which we con|ceive is impo&s;&s;ible any other way to be effected, than by Your Maje&s;ties entertaining a right under&s;tanding betwixt Your Selfe and Parliament, and affording Your Gracious eare and con&s;ent to &s;uch coun&s;els and Propo&s;itions, as &s;hall be tendered by them to Your Maje&s;ty, for
<PB REF="2"> the honour and greatne&s;&s;e of Your Maje&s;ty and Po&s;terity, and the good of this Church and Kingdome, and by Your Maje&s;ties declining all other Coun&s;els what&s;oever, and uniting Your confidence to Your Parliament: And that Your Maje&s;ty would in no way think fit to put us upon that Rock of dividing the duty we owe to Your Maje&s;ty, Your Parliament, and the whole Kingdome, to which we are &s;o deeply engaged by our Prote&s;tation, which Your Maie&s;ty (to our knowledge) never di&s;&s;ented from, nor declared again&s;t; and that whil&s;t Your Maie&s;ty expects our performance in one part thereof, we may not (being equally engaged) impeach at all, or in the lea&s;t degree doe le&s;&s;e than our duty in the other, which (we &s;tand re&s;olved of) by no meanes either of feare or favour to bee drawn to doe: and that Your Maie&s;ty would take into con&s;ideration, that Your Parliament being the &s;u|preame Judicatory of Your Kingdom, the very e&s;&s;ence thereof mu&s;t of very nece&s;&s;ity bee de&s;troyed, if their Coun&s;els and determinations be &s;ubiected to alteration, or rever&s;all, by the Coun&s;els or opinions of any private per&s;ons, how learned or iudicious &s;o ever; and &s;eeing your Maie&s;ty hath pa&s;&s;ed an Act, that this Parliament &s;hall not be di&s;&s;olved, or ad|journed, without con&s;ent of your Maje&s;ty, and both Hou&s;es, Wee humbly be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty to take into your gracious and provident thoughts, that nothing may be done ten|ding thereunto, and that the Lords and great Officers now called hither by your Maje&s;ties command, may &s;peedily return to the High Court of Parliament, whereby it may be evident to the World, that your Maje&s;ty intends not to decline the Law &s;o enacted; and that &s;ince your Maje&s;ty hath graciou&s;ly declared your confidence in the affections of this County, Your Maje&s;ty would not think it fit an extraordinary Guard &s;hould be rai&s;ed thereour, and the Cavaleers, and others of that quality &s;till continued about your Maje&s;ty, as men mo&s;t u&s;efull, and as if kept for &s;ome d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;igne; they not having (for ought we know) either in|tere&s;t in, or affections to the publike good, their language and behaviour &s;peaking no|thing el&s;e but divi&s;ion and warre, and their advantage con&s;i&s;ting in that which is mo&s;t de|&s;tructive to others.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, that &s;ince your Maje&s;ty hath called in this County to attend your Maje&s;ty this day, your Petitioners do mo&s;t humbly &s;upplicate, that none, either Cavaliers or others, (who in truth have not pre&s;ent fortunes in this County) may be admitted into any meeting this day, concerning the publike bu&s;ine&s;&s;e thereof, or hereafter into any pre&s;ent Vote, or Con|&s;ultation, when any further meeting may be, to prepare and con&s;ider of &s;ome fit an&s;wer to what your Maje&s;ty &s;hall propound; we humbly conceiving it neither ju&s;t nor equall (but a thing to be prote&s;ted again&s;t) that any who&s;oever &s;hould be thru&s;t upon us, as men of this County, that are not either by their fortune or re&s;idence, any part of us.</P>
<P>And now your Petitioners doe even heartily pray, that the God of Heaven (in who&s;e hand are the hearts of Kings) would this day incline your Maje&s;ties heart &s;eriou&s;ly to con|&s;ider the&s;e pre&s;ent and imminent mi&s;eries that this your Kingdome now groanes under; in the peace whereof (vi&s;ibly under God) con&s;i&s;ts the pre&s;ervation of the Prote&s;tant Religion, the redemption of our Brethren in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the e&s;tabli&s;hment of that Kingdom to your Maje&s;ty and Po&s;terity, from tho&s;e de&s;perate and unparaleld Rebels; that &s;o your Maje&s;ty might graciou&s;ly grant the&s;e your Petitioners humble de&s;ires; which (what&s;oever will be &s;aid to the contrary) your Petitioners are well a&s;&s;ured would abundantly redound to the glory of God, the honour and &s;afety of your Maje&s;ty, the good of your Po&s;terity, and the only probable meanes, under God, with peace and plenty to make this your Kingdome happy; be&s;ides the acqui&s;ition of your peoples hearts, the greate&s;t trea&s;ure of Princes: all which will gloriou&s;ly repre&s;ent your Maje&s;ty a lively portraiture of him, who is the foun|taine of Wi&s;edome and Piety: To whom we &s;hall ever pray for your Maje&s;ties long and pro&s;perous Reigne.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable, the Lords and Commons in the High Court of Parliament a&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The humble Petition of the Gentry, Mini&s;ters, Free holders, and other Inhabitants of the County of</HI> York, <HI>a&s;&s;embled there at his Maje&s;ties command, the</HI> 3. <HI>of</HI> June, 1642.</HEAD>
<P>WEe being re&s;olved humbly to petition His Maje&s;ty for the redre&s;&s;e of tho&s;e grievances which we now lie under, did de&s;ire to have met in the Ca&s;tle|yard at <HI>York,</HI> we conceiving it the fitte&s;t place to con&s;ider of &s;uch publique affaires as concerned the County; which we were not only denied of, but charge was given to the Officer there, that we &s;hould not have admittance; and when we a&s;&s;embled upon the place appointed by his Maje&s;ty, and did acquaint the County there met with the forme of a Petition, the &s;en&s;e whereof they formerly approved of, and then upon the reading thereof, generally con&s;ented to, and de&s;ired the &s;ame &s;hould be pre&s;ented to his Maje&s;ty, wee were violently interrupted by the Earle of <HI>Lind&s;ey,</HI> who with a great Troop attending him, in an imperious way, &s;natcht out of a Gentlemans hand of good qua|lity, a copy of the fore-names Petition, which at the de&s;ire of the Countrey he was reading to them, and &s;ome of his Lord&s;hips company laid hold of his Bridle and Cloak, haling him in great fury, and &s;aid, you are a company of traiterous Rogues and Villanes, and often lifted up his Cane, as if he would have &s;truck him. And al&s;o a Knight of this County was affron|ted by the Lord <HI>Savile,</HI> upon his reading the draught of a Petition to him&s;elf, upon the place afore&s;aid, the day above: Fir&s;t, his Lord&s;hip told him it was a Pamphlet, which he denied, thereupon the Lord <HI>Savile</HI> demanded it of him, which he refu&s;ing to deliver, his Lord&s;hip laid hands upon his &s;word, and almo&s;t pluckt him from his Hor&s;e; upon which the &s;aid Knight, fearing &s;ome mi&s;chiefe would be done him, delivered the &s;ame: And then the &s;aid, Lord <HI>Savile</HI> told him, he laboured to &s;ow &s;eeds of Sedition, and if he would fight, there &s;hould be fighting enough, and many of the &s;aid Lord <HI>Savil's</HI> company held up their Canes at him, and one of them &s;aid, hold your prating, it were good to Cane you: Which pro|vocations, had not the people been peaceably inclined, might have produced bloody effects. Notwith&s;tanding all which, and divers other in&s;ufferable injuries, &s;o confident were we, of his Maje&s;ties former profe&s;&s;ions, never to refu&s;e any Petition pre&s;ented by his people to him in an humble way, that we de&s;i&s;ted not to wait our be&s;t opportunity, to pre&s;ent the &s;aid Petition to his Maje&s;ty: (A copy whereof wee here humbly pre&s;ent unto your grave con&s;iderations,) which his Maje&s;ty notwith&s;tanding plea&s;ed not to accept of.</P>
<P>We therefore humbly de&s;ire the&s;e Honourable Hou&s;es well to weigh the&s;e particulars, and to take &s;uch cour&s;e therein as may tend to the pre&s;ervation of our Liberties, and the peace of the Kingdome. And that you would plea&s;e to addre&s;&s;e your &s;elves to His Maje&s;ty on our behalfe, that through your wi&s;domes our De&s;ires may finde better acceptation with his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<CLOSER>And we &s;hall heartily pray, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Monday the</HI> 6. <HI>of Iune,</HI> 1642. <HI>P. Merid.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Lords and Commons ob&s;erving not only the wi&s;dom, but the affections of the County of <HI>York</HI> expre&s;&s;ed in the&s;e Petitions, and likewi&s;e that they cannot be di&s;cou|raged from their con&s;tant fidelity to the laws and government of this Kingdom, which have their life and being from the Parliament, have thought it fit to declare their good accepta|tions of their affections, a&s;&s;uring them that they will intere&s;t them&s;elves in this their De|mands, which tends to the honour and &s;afety of his Maje&s;ty, the peace of his Kingdom, and may prove an effectuall means to keep us from the de&s;perate mi&s;chiefs tho&s;e Lords that op|po&s;ed this Petition, would have brought this Kingdome into.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="petition">
<HEAD>The PETITION of the Kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> To the Lords of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privie Councell of that Kingdome: Declaring their loyalty to his Maie&s;ty, and &s;incere affection and love to their Brethren of <HI>England,</HI> And the Parliament now A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re&s;ented by two Earles, two Knights, two Burge&s;&s;es, and two Mi|ni&s;ters, in behalfe of them&s;elves, and the well affected of the whole Kingdom,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the Right Honourable, the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privie Councell, the hum|ble Petition of many Noblemen, Gentlemen, Burge&s;&s;es, and Mini&s;ters occa&s;ionally meeting at</HI> Edenburgh.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Mo&s;t humbly &s;hewing,</HI></P>
<P>_WHereas they upon the report and &s;ight of great Convocations &s;uddenly endeavou|red and unexpectedly brought into this great Coun&s;ell day, for the mo&s;t part by tho&s;e who have beene e&s;teemed by the Countrey and challenged by the Parlia|ment, as Incendiaries, plotters, and enemies to the peace of this Kingdome, have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cca&s;ionally conveened at <HI>Edenburgh.</HI> And having heard of Letters from His Maje&s;ty, and Declaration from the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> anent the pre&s;ent di&s;tractions of that King|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ome, they have rea&s;on from bygon experience, and pre&s;ent pre&s;umptions, to feare the inten|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ions and endeavours of the&s;e evill affected per&s;ons and their adherents, le&s;t by their convo|tations and &s;ollicitations they take occa&s;ion of the&s;e differences to rai&s;e jealou&s;ies and di|vi&s;ions betwixt the&s;e Kingdomes. And con&s;idering the common intere&s;t of all the Subjects of this Kingdome to pre&s;erve the late peace, &s;o happily concluded betwixt the&s;e Nations, by the providence of God, His Maie&s;ties goodne&s;&s;e and wi&s;edom, and the moderation of the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and &s;o &s;olemnly e&s;tabli&s;hed by the late Treaty, oath of Parliament, publike faith, and the great Seales of the&s;e Kingdomes; as in all other points, &s;o e&s;pecially in the&s;e Articles (whereunto the re&s;t are called but prefaces) for &s;etling and entertaining a &s;olid peace betwixt the&s;e Nations in true union; le&s;t upon any pretence they &s;hould be da&s;ht one again&s;t another. Wherein it is declared the duty of the e&s;tates, yea of every &s;ubiect for to con|veene and &s;uppre&s;&s;e any evill affected per&s;ons who would rai&s;e Armes again&s;t the &s;ubiects of the other Kingdome without con&s;ent of Parliament, as traytors to the e&s;tate, much more to Petition again&s;t it; and wherein there is appointed a Commi&s;&s;ion of the e&s;tates for the con|&s;ervation of this peace in the interim betwixt Parliaments. All which the Petitioners, among&s;t the re&s;t of the good &s;ubiects of this Kingdome, did hazard their lives and e&s;tates to obtaine: And did demand in the Treaty upon their dangerous experience of the Coun|cell of <HI>England</HI> there medling in the affaires betwixt His Maie&s;ty and this Kingdome, to the engaging of the Nations in Warre, which is &s;o often condemned by the e&s;tates of this Kingdome in their Remon&s;trances, pre&s;&s;ing that common rule of Equity, <HI>To doe as you would be done unto;</HI> which now is and may bee retorted on this Kingdom. Like as de&s;iring earne&s;tly, that your Lord&s;hips in the&s;e publique re&s;olutions of &s;o great con&s;equences to the&s;e Kingdoms, may carry along with you the hearts and con&s;ciences of the body of this King|dom, and prevent that the breaches grow not wider by fal&s;e confidences grounded upon &s;udden undertakings of any per&s;ons, as al&s;o their naturall affection and duty to their graci|ous <GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1+ pages"></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Die Lunae</HI> 6. <HI>Junii</HI> 1642. The copy of a Letter &s;ent from Sir <HI>Io. Bourchier</HI> to Sir <HI>Tho. Bar|rington</HI> Knight and Baronet, from YORKE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YE&s;terday being at <HI>Heworth-Moor,</HI> I ob&s;erved one reading &s;omething, &s;o as I drew nee to him, and by enquiry I found that it was a Petition, that was to be pre&s;ented pre&s;ent to His Maje&s;ty: tho&s;e that heard it read, approved of it. Meeting with a friend, I enquire of him if he had not the Petition, or a copy of it; which he told me he had: I entreated hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that he would lend me it; which accordingly he did: And having read part of it, my Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Savill</HI> came with a great company in a furious manner, and demanded what I did ther<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and told me that I was reading &s;ome Pamphlet to the People, and that I was labouring t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ow &s;ome &s;eeds of Sedition, to &s;educe the Kings Subjects: Whereupon I told him that it wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a Petition that I was reading privately to my &s;elf, which I upon his approach put in my poc+ket. My Lord <HI>Sav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll</HI> in an imperious manner demanded of me to deliver it to him; which refu&s;ed: Then his Lord&s;hip laid his hand on the belt of my &s;word, and almo&s;t pulled me of my hor&s;e, and forced me to deliver the Petition to him; le&s;t otherwi&s;e &s;ome greater mi&s;chie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> might have come to him; for his Lord&s;hip told me, If we loved fighting we &s;hould hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fighting enough. I told his Lord&s;hip, I came this day to labour for peace. And immediate|ly before his Lord&s;hips departure, he told me that he knew me well enough; then I told his Lord&s;hip, that I hoped he knew no ill by me. Many that were with his Lord&s;hip held up their Games in a terrifying manner; and one of them &s;aid, Hold your prating, it were good to cane you: and when his Lord&s;hip and the re&s;t were gone, one of them turned back, and bid me be quiet, or el&s;e I &s;hould be caned; and that it were a good deed to &s;et me in the &s;tocks. Afterwards there was one Captaine <HI>Blague,</HI> who was one of my Lord <HI>Savils</HI> com|pany, came in an intruding manner into my company, and I being di&s;cour&s;ing with Sir <HI>Richard Darley</HI> and &s;ome other, and telling them how I was affronted even now by my Lord <HI>Savill,</HI> and formerly having fire throwne into my Coach, and &s;ome other affronts done unto me, which I have formerly told you of; this Captain told me I did ill to lay a&s;|per&s;ions upon per&s;ons of Honour: Whereupon I told him I did not lay it upon my Lord, but that I was &s;o abu&s;ed and affronted: upon due con&s;ideration, I verily beleeve he came to make &s;ome quarrell.</P>
<P>Sir, upon my parting from you, you de&s;ired to heare from mee; here I thought good to let you know thus much concerning my &s;elfe. Thus with my &s;ervice to you and my Lady, I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>York</HI> <DATE>4. <HI>June</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your affectionate Cou&s;in to &s;erve you, JO. BOURCHIER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>ORdered by the Lords in Parliament, That this Letter be forthwith Printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>JO. BROWN Cleric. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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