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<P>A true Coppy of the PETITION of the Lord Major, Alder|men, and the re&s;t of the Common-Councell of <HI>LONDON,</HI> pre&s;ented to both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT, <HI>March</HI> 18. 1641.</P>
<P>To vindicate the Honour of the City again&s;t a Fal&s;e, Scandalous, and Seditious Petition, printed, and pretended to be exhibited to the Parliament in <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, as</P>
<P>The Petition of the Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> again&s;t the pre&s;ent di&s;po&s;all of the <HI>Militia</HI> of that City, made by the Parliament.</P>
<P>And to a&s;&s;ure the Parliament, and the whole Kingdome; that the &s;aid City is very glad of, and thankfull for the pre&s;ent <HI>Ordinance</HI> touching that matter, and will readily obey it.</P>
<P>Together with the &s;everall An&s;wers of both Hou&s;es of Parliament to the afore&s;aid Petition.</P>
<P>Ordered to be Printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
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<FIGDESC>blazon of the City of London</FIGDESC>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Iohn Frank.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Honourable, the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Commons Hou&s;e in Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Major, Aldermen and the re&s;t of the Common councell of the City of <HI>London</HI>:</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THAT the Petitioners doe much re|joyce in the happy Concurrence of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, as in o|ther things, &s;o e&s;pecially, in that mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary <HI>Ordinance</HI> touching the <HI>Militia</HI> of this Kingdome, and Dominion of <HI>Wales</HI>; Whereunto the Petitioners doe mo&s;t humbly and cheerefully &s;ubmit, for the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">fety of His Maje&s;ty, the Parliament, and Kingdome: For the ordering whereof, many pre&s;&s;ing Petitions from mo&s;t parts of the Kingdom have beene exhibited, in this time of imminent dangers, proceeding from the bl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">udy Councells of Papi&s;ts and o|thers, ill affected to the honour, peace and pro&s;perity of our mo&s;t gracious King, and his Kingdomes.</P>
<P>And the Petition<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rs doe likewi&s;e humbly returne all po&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le thanks to this Honourable Hou&s;e, for the great honour, and high favour vouch&s;afed, in giving them leave to nominate the per&s;ons to whom the <HI>Militia</HI> of this City &s;hould be committed; And for accepting and approving of the Nomination and returne made to this Honourable Hou&s;e, by the Petitioners on that behalfe.</P>
<P>But this their joy is much di&s;turbed and interrupted by an untrue, unadvi&s;ed, and dangerous Petition, Intituled, <HI>The Petition of the Citizens of London, who&s;e names are under written,</HI> directed and dilivered in <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, <HI>To the</HI>
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Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament; And &s;ince publi&s;hed in print, with this title, <HI>The humble Peti|tion of the Citizens of London</HI>: Thereby to publi&s;h it thorow the Kingdome, as the Petition of al the Citizens: Wherein is &s;et forth (as appeareth by one of tho&s;e printed coppies annexed) that the ordering of the Armes of Lon|don hath, time out of mind, beene annexed to the Majo|raltie of the &s;aid Citie; That the conferring thereof up|on others would reflect upon the government and cu|&s;tomes of this Citie, granted by the great Charter of Eng|land, and confirmed by, divers Acts and Charters &s;ince that tim<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">; and wh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ch everie Free-man of the &s;aid Citie is by the oath of his freedome bound to maintaine to the utmo&s;t of his power; And that &s;uch alteration in the an|cient government might breed great di&s;tractions and in|conveni<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ncies: or to this effect.</P>
<P>Nor this alone, but the Petitioners are yet more deeply wounded and grieved, by the pre&s;umptuous boldne&s;&s;e of the publi&s;hers of the &s;aid Petition in print, by joyning therewith his Maje&s;ties An&s;wer and denyall, intituled his <HI>Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age to both Hou&s;es of Parliament,</HI> February 28. 1641. Which An&s;wer (as the Petitioners humbly conceive was grounded upon the &s;aid Petition, and mi&s;|information of &s;ome per&s;ons, ill affected to His Maje&s;ty and to the City, who have thereby, and otherwi&s;e, often endeavoured to make divi&s;ions betwixt the King and the Parliament; betwixt the Parliament and the City; and betwixt the Citizens them&s;elves, to the intollerable abu&s;e of his &s;acred Maje&s;ty, and of all his loyall Subjects.</P>
<P>And they verily beleeve that this bold publi&s;hing in print, of the &s;aid Petition, and in his Maje&s;ties me&s;&s;age (which &s;hortly after followed the exhibiting of the &s;aid Petition) together in one printed paper, was purpo&s;ely done, wickedly and &s;editiou&s;ly, to make divi&s;ions as afore|&s;aid to beget an opinion throughout the Kingdome, that the City of <HI>London</HI> doth not intend to conforme unto, but complaine of, and oppo&s;e the afore&s;aid Ordinance, and to make the &s;aid petition a de&s;perate pre&s;ident to the re&s;t of the Kingdome, to do the like; Therby to hinder the cheer|full,
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needfull, lawfull, and unanimous Concurrence of the Kingdome, in yeelding due, full, and timely obedience to the &s;aid Ordinance.</P>
<P><HI>They doe therefore humbly pray, that this Honourable Hou&s;e will vouch&s;afe.</HI>
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<ITEM>1. To beleeve, that neither this nor any other Petition of the like kinde ever came from the Petitioners, nor was fra|med, contrived or approved of by them. And that they doe wholly and with dete&s;tation di&s;avow and di&s;claime the &s;ame as an untrue, unadvi&s;ed, and dangerous Petition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. To put a difference betweene the Authors, Contrivers, Promoters, Advi&s;ers, Publi&s;hers and Printers of it, and &s;uch as it &s;hall appeare to this Honourable Hou&s;e, were by &s;ubtilty drawne in unawares to &s;ub&s;cribe the &s;ame, without any ma|lignant intention, and &s;hall clearly acknowledge their errour, and ra&s;hne&s;&s;e therein; And that this latter &s;ort may have &s;uch lawfull favour as may &s;tand with the Honour and Iu&s;tice of the high Court of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lastly, they doe humbly pray, that this Honourable Hou&s;e will &s;till encrea&s;e their joy, by endeavouring to uphold and continue, by all good meanes that ble&s;&s;ed concurrence of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, in all your great affaires, and effectu|ally to proceed against all di&s;turbers and undermyners ther|of, and that &s;hall endeavour to beget or cheri&s;h any mi&s;under|&s;tanding, or to make divi&s;ion betwixt the King and <HI>Parliment</HI> whom God and the Lawes of this Land have united in &s;o neer a Relation.</ITEM>
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<P>And they &s;hall ever be ready to as&s;i&s;t and &s;tand by this H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|nourabbe Hou&s;e therein, with their lives and E&s;tates to the utmo&s;t of their power, according to their late prote&s;tation.</P>
<CLOSER>And &s;hall ince&s;&s;antly pray, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<P>Another of the &s;ame Petitions, (with change only of the title) was likewi&s;e pre&s;ented to the mo&s;t Honourable Hou&s;e of Peeres, the &s;ame day (<HI>March</HI> 18.) by divers Al|dermen, and other worthy Members of the Court of Com|mon Coun&s;ell afore&s;aid.</P>
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<HEAD>The An&s;wer to the afore|&s;aid Petition.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Veneris 18. Martij. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Aldermen and Citizens that delivered the Petition this day to the Lords in Parlia|ment were called in, and the Lord Keeper told them by the direction of the Hou&s;e, That their Lord&s;hips did give them thanks for their readine&s;&s;e and forwardne&s;&s;e in their Obedience to the ordnance of Parliament made by both Hou|&s;es concerning the <HI>Militia,</HI> and further care of preventing any di&s;orders that might have happened by preferring or exhibi|ting a fal&s;e and &s;candalous Petition in the name of the City, whereas it was not &s;o, That their Lord&s;hips have ordered, that this Petition now pre&s;ented &s;hall be printed and publi&s;hed, And for the &s;candalous Petition, the Lords have ordered the &s;ame &s;hall be burnt by the hand of the Common Hangman: And that their Lord&s;hips doe re&s;olve to make a difference betweene tho&s;e that were the Authors and Contrivers of that &s;candalous Petition and tho&s;e that were &s;educed and ignorantly drawne in to &s;ub&s;cribe to that Petition.</P>
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<HEAD>The An&s;wer of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons to the afore&s;aid Petition.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Veneris 18. Mertij 1641.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe humble Petition of the Major, Aldermen, and the re&s;t of the Common Coun&s;ell of the City of <HI>London</HI> was this day read in the Hou&s;e of Commons, and ordered to be entred in the Iour|nalls of the &s;aid Hou&s;e, and to bee printed. The Petitioners were called in, and Ma&s;ter <HI>Speaker</HI> told them that the Hou&s;e had read their Petition, and received it with a great deale of contentment and approbation, and it being of that great con&s;equence, and &s;o full of expre&s;&s;ion of zeale and affecti|on to his Maje&s;ty, and the Kingdome; and in particular, that he was of re&s;pect to this Hou&s;e, commanded to returne them hearty thankes in the name of the whole Hou&s;e: And wi&s;hed, that he had words &s;ufficient to expre&s;&s;e it.</P>
<P>And for tho&s;e of the City of <HI>London,</HI> that &s;ub&s;cribed that dangerous Petition complained of by the Petitioners, and are de&s;irous to acknowledge their errour. (Provided they were none of the contrivers of that Petition: nor had a malignant &s;pirit in the advancing and exhibiting thereof) This Hou&s;e according to the de&s;ires of the Petitioners, is willing to &s;hew favour unto them. And as the Petitioners doe expre&s;&s;e their care of the King and Kingdome, and of this Hou&s;e in parti|cular; &s;o this Hou&s;e will bee alwaies ready to give their be&s;t endeavours to further tho&s;e things that may concerne the ho|nour and &s;afety of the King and Kingdome, and in particular of the good and &s;afety of the City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ing Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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