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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; The humble Petition of His Maje&s;ties loyall Subjects in the County of Lincoln.</HEAD>
<P>_IN all humility repre&s;enting, as our thankfulle&s;t acknowledgements to God, and to your Ma|je&s;tie, of the great Ble&s;&s;ings which we have for the&s;e many yeers enjoyed under your graci|ous Government, and particularly the ble&s;&s;ed Fruits of this pre&s;ent Parliament, by your Maje&s;ties Wi&s;dom and Goodne&s;&s;e a&s;&s;embled, whereby many whol&s;om Laws have been enacted, for the great Honour of your Maje&s;tie, relief of your People, the pro&s;perous Go|vernment of this, and happy &s;etling of the late Troubles in both Kingdoms, &s;o our &s;adde&s;t regrete for any the lea&s;t mi&s;-under&s;tanding, and Differences which have hapned betwixt your &s;acred Maje&s;tie and the &s;aid Parliament, or any Members of the &s;ame, with our many Di&s;tractions thereupon, and Fears of the ut|ter ruine of your Maje&s;tie, and your Royall Po&s;terity and Kingdoms, by the malicious and in&s;olent De|&s;ignes of the Popi&s;h partie, and the advantage that forreign Enemies may ea&s;ily take thereby.</P>
<CLOSER>Humbly pro&s;trating our &s;elves at your Maje&s;ties feet, mo&s;t affectionately pray, that your Maje&s;tie and Parliament may by all good means be firmly united. And for that purpo&s;e you would graciou&s;ly plea&s;e to re&s;ide neer, and li&s;ten unto the faithfull coun&s;els of your &s;aid Parliament, whereby Romi&s;h Idolatry and Super&s;tition may be extirpated, Church and Common-Wealth duly reformed, the true Religion, and all things el&s;e, &s;etled in a ble&s;&s;ed Peace under your Maje&s;ties Government; And we &s;hall have &s;till further cau&s;e to continue our cheerfull aids both of Per&s;ons and E&s;tates, for your Maje&s;ties, and your Kingdoms Pro|&s;perity and Honour. And &s;hall ever pray for your Maie&s;ties long and happy Reigne over us.</CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>&leaf; At the Court at York. <DATE>28. Martii. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<OPENER>His Maje&s;tie hath given me expre&s;&s;e Command to give you this His An&s;wer to your Petition.</OPENER>
<P>_THat this Petition (as &s;ome others of this nature) is grounded upon mi&s;-infor|mation, and (being grieved and highly offended to &s;ee how His good People have been, and are abu&s;ed by fal&s;e Rumors and Intelligences, which have procured cau&s;le&s;&s;e Fears and Apprehen&s;ions) refers the Petitioners to the two An&s;wers He hath given to His Parliament, <HI>viz.</HI> To the Declaration pre&s;ented to Him at <HI>New-Market,</HI> and to the Petition pre&s;ented to Him the &s;ix and twentieth of this moneth at <HI>York:</HI> wherein you will cleerly perceive, That His Maie&s;tie is not gone, but dri|ven away from His Parliament, and therefore His Maie&s;tie hath rea&s;on to think, that now (under&s;tanding the love He bears to, and Confidence He hath of His Peoples Fidelity; As likewi&s;e His con&s;tant Re&s;olution for the maintaining of, and governing by the Laws of the Land) you may finde rea&s;on to petition the Parliament to comply with His Maie&s;ties iu&s;t De&s;ires, and gracious Offers, this being the onely Way, &s;afely and &s;peedily to cure the pre&s;ent Di&s;tractions of this Kingdom, and (with Gods ble&s;&s;ing) to put a happy end to the Iri&s;h Rebellion: for the effecting whereof (as His Maie&s;tie hath often &s;aid) He will neither &s;pare pains, nor decline any hazard of His Per&s;on or Fortune.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed by Ma&s;ter Secretary NICHOLAS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at York by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of JOHN BILL. 1642.</P>
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