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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HIS MAIESTIES SPEECH TO THE Gentlemen of York|&s;hire, on Thur&s;day the fourth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1642.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Li&s;t of the Names of the Coun&s;ell of W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> now re&s;i|dent with his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<Q LANG="lat">IN DOMINO CONFIDO</Q>
<FIGDESC>printer's device consisting of a framed fleur-de-lis surrounded by the motto "In Domino Confido"</FIGDESC>
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<P><ADD>August 8^t^h</ADD> Printed at Yorke by <HI>Robert Barker,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, and reprinted at <HI>London</HI> for <HI>Tho. Banks,</HI> and <HI>Will. Ley.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<FIGDESC>royal blazon surmounted by a crown</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties Speech to the Gentlemen of <HI>York-&s;hire,</HI> on <DATE>Thur&s;day the fourth of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WHen I directed that Summons &s;hould bee &s;ent out for your meeting here this day, my prin|cipal end was, That I might give you thanks for the great forwardne&s;&s;e and expre&s;&s;ions you have made of your affections to me &s;ince I came into this Country, and to a&s;&s;ure you, That as the whole King|dome hath great rea&s;on to value you exceedingly for it, &s;o I &s;hall be very un&s;atisfied with my &s;elfe, till I have found &s;ome way to fixe a marke of favour, and e&s;timation upon this County, and this People, which may tell po&s;terity, how good Subjects you have beene, and how much Gen|tlemen; and J am confident the memory of it will grow up with my &s;ons too, in a ju&s;t acknowledgment. This was the mo&s;t I intended to &s;ay to you, but there is an unquiet Spirit abroad, which every day throws in new accidents to di&s;turb, and confound the publique Peace. How I was driven from London, when I cho&s;e this place for my &s;afe|ty, is &s;o notorious that all men know it, who know any thing; with what &s;trange violence, and indignities I have been pur&s;ued, &s;ince I came hither, needs no other e|vidence, then Sir <HI>Iohn Hothams</HI> behaviour at Hull, who is now arrived at that in&s;olence, that hee will not &s;uffer his Trea&s;on to be longer confined within tho&s;e Walls but makes Sallyes out of the Towne, upon his fellow Subjects
<PB N="2" REF="3">drownds their Land, burnes and plunders their hou&s;es, murthers, and with unheard of cruel<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ie, torments their P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ns; And his with &s;o much delight, That he would not have the patience, to wair what an&s;wer &s;hould be &s;ent to my ju&s;t demands, though in that re&s;pect, I engaged my &s;elfe to forbeare to u&s;e any force, and kept my word; but cho&s;e the night before that came, (as if hee well knew what an&s;wer I was to receive) to act the&s;e outrages.</P>
<P>You &s;ee the &s;ad effects of Feares and jealou&s;ies, the mi|&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ies they have produced; No man can tell you the lea&s;t good they have brought forth, or the lea&s;t evill they have prevented: What inconvenience and burthen my pre&s;ence hath beene here, what di&s;turbance it hath brought upon the publique, or grievance upon any private per&s;on, your &s;elves are the be&s;t Iudges; And what ever &s;candall &s;ome men have plea&s;ed to ca&s;t upon the Cavaliers (which they intend &s;hould reach all my retinew, and by degrees &s;hal in|volve all Gentlemen) I am confident, there hath not binany eminent di&s;order, or damage befallen any man, by any Per|&s;on of my traine, or under my Protection. I am &s;ure my di|rections have been very &s;trict in that point, and if they had not bin ob&s;erved, I think I &s;hould have heard of it by nea|rer complaints, then from London; I pray God the &s;ame care may be taken there: I am &s;ure it hath not been. And to give you the fulle&s;t te&s;timony of my affection to you, &amp; to the peace of this County, &amp; to &s;hew you that no provo|ca<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;hall prouoke me to make this place the &s;eate of the War, I have for your &s;akes, pa&s;&s;ed over the Con&s;ide|rations of Honour; And notwith&s;tandi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g the reproaches every day laid on me, laid no &s;iege to that place, that they may not have the lea&s;t pretence of doing you mi&s;chiefe, but re&s;olve by Gods help to recover Hull &s;ome other way, for that I will ever &s;it down under &s;o unexcu&s;able a Trea|&s;on
<PB N="3" REF="3">no hone&s;t man can imagine. But it &s;eemes other men are not of my minde, but re&s;olve to make a Warre at your owne doores, what&s;oever you do, or I &s;uffer. To what purpo&s;e el&s;e is their new Generall armed with an au hority to kill and de&s;troy all my good Subjects; their levies of Hor&s;e and Foote, &s;ome whereof are upon their March to|wards you, with Canon mounted, and the &s;ending &s;o many new Souldiers into <HI>Hull,</HI> when there is no ap|proach made towards it, but to &s;ally out, and to commit Rapine, and by degrees to poure out an Army upon you: In this I mu&s;t aske your advice, what you will doe for your &s;elves, what you would have me doe for you. You &s;ee how I am &s;tript of my Navie at Sea, which is imployed a|gain&s;t me, of my Forts and Townes at Land, which are filled with armed men to de&s;troy me; my Money and Pro|vi&s;ions of my Hou&s;e taken from mee, and all my Subjects forbid and threatned if they come neere mee, that I may by famine or &s;olitarine&s;&s;e be comp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lled to yeeld to the mo&s;t di&s;honourable Propo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ions, and to put my Selfe and Children into the hands of a few Malignant Per&s;ons, who have entred into a combina<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ion to de&s;troy us: And all this done under pretence of a tru&s;t repo&s;ed by the People. How far you are from commi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ting any &s;uch tru&s;t, mo&s;t of the per&s;ons tru&s;ted by you, and your owne expre&s;&s;ions of duty to me, hath manife&s;ted to all the world; and how farre the whole Kingdome is from avowing &s;uch a tru&s;t, hath alrea|dy, in a great mea&s;ure, and I doubt not will more every day appeare, by the profe&s;&s;ions of every County: For I am wholly ca&s;t upon the affections of my people, and have no hope but in the ble&s;&s;ing and as&s;i&s;tance of God, the ju&s;t|ne&s;&s;e of my cau&s;e, and the love of my Subjects, to recover what is taken from mee and them, for I may ju&s;tly &s;ay they are equall lo&s;ers with me.</P>
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<P>Gentlemen, I de&s;ire you to con&s;ider what cour&s;e is to be taken for your owne &s;ecurity from the excur&s;ions from <HI>Hull,</HI> and the violence which threatens you from thence: I will a&s;&s;i&s;t you any way you propo&s;e. Next, I de&s;ire you, out of the publike Provi&s;ion, or your private Store, to fur|ni&s;h me with &s;uch a number of Armes (Mu&s;quets and Co&s;lets) as you may conveniently &s;pare, which I doe promi&s;e to &s;ee fully repaid to you: The&s;e Armes I de&s;ire may be &s;peedily delivered to the cu&s;tody of my Lord Ma|jor of Yorke, for my u&s;e, principally from tho&s;e parts, which by rea&s;on of their di&s;tance from <HI>Hull</HI> are lea&s;t &s;ub|ject to the feare of violence from thence. And who&s;oe|ver &s;hall &s;o furni&s;h me, &s;hall be excu&s;ed from their atten|dance and &s;ervice at Mu&s;ters, till their. Armes &s;hall be re|&s;tored; which may well be &s;ooner than I can promi&s;e, or you expect. I de&s;ire nothing of you but what is nece&s;&s;ary to be done for the pre&s;ervation of Gods true Religion, the Lawes of the Land, the Liberty of the Subject, and the very being of the Kingdome of England: for 'tis too evident all the&s;e are at &s;take.</P>
<P>For the Compleating my Sonnes Regiment for the guard of my Per&s;on, under the command of my Lord of Cumberland, I referre it wholly to your &s;elves, who have expre&s;&s;ed &s;uch for|wardne&s;&s;e in it.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="list of names of war council">
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<HEAD>The Names of the Coun&s;ell of Warre are the&s;e following.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>LOrd Duke of Richmond</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Marque&s;&s;e Hartford</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Lin&s;ey</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Cumberland</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Bath</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Southampton</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Dor&s;et</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Bri&s;toll</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Carnarvan</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earle of Newport</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Savile</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Vicount Falkland</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Vicount Grande&s;&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Willowby of Er&s;by</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord Seaymor</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter Secretary Nicholas</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Iohn Culpepper</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter Comptroller</ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell Henry Wentworth</ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell Wilmott</ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell William Vava&s;or</ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell Feilding</ITEM>
<ITEM>Colonell Lun&s;ford</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir William Vuedall</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Iacob A&s;hley</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Thomas Glemham</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Nicholas Byron</ITEM>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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