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<P>THE ANSWER <HI>OF THE</HI> HOUSE OF COMMONS TO The Citi&s;ens of <HI>Londons</HI> Petition for Peace: Wherein they declare their Re|&s;olution concerning the &s;ame Likewi&s;e their Propo&s;itions to the Knights Gentry, and Trayned Bands of the county of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> Concerning the Proceedings in this city, and the Affairs of the whole KINGDOME.</P>
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<P>ORdered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in parli|ment, that the&s;e Particulars be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;yng Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Decmeb</HI> 20. London, printed for <HI>Richard VVe&s;t.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="Parliamentary resolutions">
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<HEAD>THE RESOLVTION OF THE LORDS aad COMMONS In this pre&s;ent PARLIAMENT <HI>Concerning the Citi&s;ens of Londons petition for peace.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Honourable Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, having taken into &s;erious con&s;ideration the late petition of the Citti&s;ens of <HI>London,</HI> wherein they mo&s;t earne&s;tly de&s;ire an accommodation of Peace, between his Maie&s;ty and both hou|&s;es,
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 16 -->but in &s;uch away, that they do not care if it be with the lo&s;&s;e of their Reli|gion and Liberties.</P>
<P>But his Maje&s;ties great Coun&s;ell, the Worthies of <HI>I&s;raell,</HI> out of their pious and Religious care to the publique Good, ha|ving ever &s;ince the fir&s;t time of their fit|ting, laboured by all po&s;&s;ible means that might be to &s;ettle this Kingdom in a happy and glorious Union: and hath al&s;o ever &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e pre+&s;ent di&s;tractions in this Kingdome, both by their humble Petitions and Me&s;&s;ages to His Maie&s;ty, mo&s;t earne&s;tly de&s;ired a Peace and Union, and that the&s;e differen|ces which are now in di&s;&s;ent betwixt his Miie&s;ty and both hou&s;es, might be com|po&s;ed and brought to a full-period, &s;o that it is to be admired at, that the&s;e Ci|ti&s;ens which hath now petitioned for peace, &s;hould pre&s;ume &s;o farre, knowing that the Honourable hou&s;es of Parlia|ment hath oftentimes petitioned to His Maje&s;ty for the &s;ame.</P>
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And therefore to &s;atisfie the De&s;ires of all the aforenamed per&s;ons, both hou&s;es have have thought fit and meet to de|clare this their full will and plea&s;ure un|to them, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>THat whereas divers of the afore&s;aid per&s;ons have framed a petition for Peace, and pre&s;ented it to the Hou&s;e of Commons, mo&s;t earne&s;tly de&s;iring an an|&s;wer of the &s;ame, after &s;ome time &s;pent in debate thereof, the hou&s;e returned this an&s;wer, That ever &s;ince their fir&s;t &s;itting it hath alwayes bin their care to pre&s;erve the peace of this Kingdom, and that they have and do &s;till labour after peace by all po&s;&s;ible means, &s;o as the &s;ame might bee obtained in a &s;afe and honourable way, but to have a peace without &s;ecuring of our Religion, Lawes, and Liberties, and without bringing Traytors and Delin|quents to puni&s;hment, which are and have bin the only cau&s;ers of this warre, there can be no warre &s;o perilious and grievous as &s;uch a peace.</P>
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<HEAD>The Parliaments propo&s;itions to the Knights, Gentry, and Commonalty of the County of E&s;&s;ex.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas it doth appeare to the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that his Maje&s;ty hath &s;ent out divers Commi&s;&s;ions for the levying of more Forces, to the great hazzard of Religion: but for preventing of the&s;e de&s;igns, the Honourable Court of Parlia|ment have agreed that the&s;e following propo&s;itions &s;hall be forthwith printed, and &s;ent down to the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex, viz.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>I.</LABEL><LB>
That you &s;hall take &s;peciall care to &s;tay &s;earch, and examine, all &s;u&s;pitious per&s;ons and carriages, and to &s;earch or cau&s;e to be &s;earched all &s;u&s;pitious places.</P>
<P><LABEL>II.</LABEL><LB>
That you &s;hall &s;eize upon all Hor&s;es, Arms, Ammunition, Money, or any other provi&s;ion what&s;oever, which you &s;u&s;pect
<PB REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 17 -->is rai&s;ed or provided for the fomenting or maintaining any &s;uch unnaturall and unlawfull warre again&s;t the Parl. and Kingdom.</P>
<P><LABEL>III.</LABEL><LB>
That you &s;hall conduct and lead all &s;uch forces of hor&s;e and foot as &s;hall bee appointed by the E. of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and &s;hall fight with, kill and &s;lay all &s;uch as &s;hall oppo&s;e you.</P>
<P><LABEL>IV.</LABEL><LB>
That you are hereby authorized and required forthwith to di&s;arm all popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, and other dangerous and ill-affected per&s;ons, as well Clergy-men as others, as have te&s;tified their ill di&s;po&s;i|tions to the King, Parliament and King|dome. It is likewi&s;e reported to the hou&s;e that His Maj. being now grown &s;tronger and abler as hee conceives to make good his own ends by Armes his confidence in the papi&s;ts doth more clearly appear, per|&s;ons impri&s;ond for prie&s;ts &amp; Ie&s;uits have bin relea&s;ed out of the Gaol of Lanca&s;ter
<PB REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 18 -->profe&s;t papi&s;ts have bin invited to ri&s;e and take up Armes.</P>
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<HEAD>A true and brief Relation of the late wofull battell fought upon Sonday la&s;t in the fore noon by Prince Rupert and Col. Brown.</HEAD>
<P>PRrince <HI>Rupert</HI> having information of the la&s;t great Overthrow given to the L. <HI>Grandi&s;on</HI> at <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> he was much perplexed in mind, taking a great and &s;olemn Oath to be revenged upon the &s;aid Col. <HI>Brown,</HI> but he fayled of his de&s;ign; for although upon Sonday la&s;t he advanced near to C, <HI>Brown</HI> with about 3000. hor&s;e, giving him battell; yet &s;uch was the wi&s;dome and policy of C. <HI>Brown</HI> and Sir <HI>W. Waller,</HI> that dividing their ar|my in two divi&s;ions&punc; being in number a|bout 1200. hor&s;e and Dragoons, they char|ged the Prince with &s;uch a de&s;perate &amp; violent charge, that there fell neer upon 500. of the Princes &s;oldiers to the ground, and after 3. hours fight, Newes came that Ser j. Major <HI>Skippen</HI> were comming, which cau&s;ed the enemy to leave the field.</P>
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