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A94526 To the Kings most Excellent Maiesty, the humble petition of many thousand citizens of great ranke and quality in the City of Westminster presented to his Maiestie at Yorke, May 25. 1642. 1642 (1642) Wing T1525; Thomason 669.f.6[23]; ESTC R212342 1,350 1

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TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTY The humble Petition of many thousand Citizens of great ranke and quality in the City of Westminster presented to his Maiestie at Yorke May 25. 1642. Most Humbly sheweth THat whereas your Petitioners weigh with mature consideration the Diurnall labours and indefatigable paines of the Parliament for the security of this Kingdome notwithstanding your Majesties long absence from them doe conceive it to bee no lesse heart-bleeding griefe unto all your loving Subjects then a great discouragement unto your Parliament For while they are wrastling with the great disturbances and distractions of this Kingdom they are opposed by new strang suspitions while they are breaking the Cockatrice egge Wherein the envie of a malignant partie is hatching in the meane time a prodigious Serpent of growing jealousie doth arise while they are curing the corrupted wounds of the body with the medicable balsome of the Lawes the Head seemes to bee distempered And whereas your Petitioners understanding that your Majesties continuance at York will be both disadvantageous to your owne Royall person and preiuditiall to the Epidemicall welfare of this whole Kingdome and that your Majesties intention to take Hull would not have beene more secure then to have taken Whit hall and that your Majesties supposed resolution to take Armes against the Parliament which strooke amazement it selfe amaz'd was so derogatory from the heart of a Prince and so opposite to the Lawes of the Land that your Petitioners must impartially confesse that they could scarce entertaine any such suspition in their mindes having greater confidence in you their Soveraigne and in your Majesties more sollicitous care for the publique peace and welfare of your Kingdomes which by the Law of God and man you are to maintaine In the revolution of all which premisses your Petitioners hearts have beene deepely wounded with pationate griefe and the ambiguous feare of imminent danger Wherefore your Petitioners seriously considering the manifold dangers inpendent to this Kingdome and all flowing from one generall fountaine in your Majesties absence doe with all submission of heart and ardency of affection humbly beseech your Sacred Majesty gratiously to vouchsafe to returne to your Parliament to the accomplishment of the future peace and safety of the Kingdome wherein your Petitioners doe acknowledge themselves and their Posteritie to be involved And withall your Petitioners doe obsequiously implore your Maiestie to concurre and comply with your Parliament and correspond with them in all their consultations by the blessed connection of love that so both all feares and suspitions all griefes and molestation which hath long poysoned their hearts in your absence may be forthwith expelled with the happie Antidote of you Royall presence In humble supplication to your Majestie we likewise desire that you would gratiously condescend to the disposall of the Militia of the Kingdome as the Parliament have already judiciously ordered and appointed That so we may be Armed in preparation to mitigate any domesticke Insurrection or Mutany and able to withstand the oppositions of any foraigne enemy whatsoever That your Maiestie would not altogether forget the bloody continuance of the Rebellion in Ireland and their still persecution of the British Nation but that greater ayde and assistance may be speedily sent And that the fountaine of Religion may flow in a more sanctified and purer current to the absolute extirpation of Popery and Superstition Hereticall faction and Schisme and to the pious reformation of the Church of England But most especially what the Alpha and Omega of our Prayers intimates is That your Majestie would be gratiously pleased to returne suddenly to the Parliament and bee conioyned to them in a reciprocall and coherent unity and then the perfection of our wishes shall bee consummated while your Petitioners will maintaine and secure your sacred Majestie from any unjust injurie to the utmost of their lives fortunes estates and liberties And for your Majesties happy returne your Petitioners as in all Loyaltie and Obedience bound shall for ever pray c. London printed for T. B.