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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90570	A Petitjon [sic] from the towne and county of Leicester unto the Kings most excellent Majesty. Also an other petition from the grand inquest of the same county unto his Majesty for the remouing of the magazine. : With his Majesties answer therewith. : Likewise certain propositions to his Majesty by Captain Grey and the Earl of Stamfords souldiers touching the magazin. : Also a declaration from the knights, esquires, gentlemen, grand iury-men, and free-holders, in the county of Leicester.	Grey, Captain.; Stamford, Henry Grey, Earl of, 1599?-1673.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing P1756A; ESTC R181708	3,129	12

A PETITION From the Towne and County of Leicester unto the Kings most excellent Majesty Also an other Petition from the Grand Inquest of the same County unto his Majesty for the remouing of the Magazine With his Majesties Answer thereunto Likewise certain Propositions to his Majesty by Captain Grey and the Earl of Stamfords Souldiers touching the Magazin Also a Declaration from the Knights Es-quires Gentlemen Grand Iury-men and Free-holders in the County of Leicester Ordered to be printed by speciall command London Printed by A.N. for William Gay and are to be sold at his shop in Hosier Lane at the signe of the Axe 1642. July 30. To the Kings most excellent Majestie The humble petition of the Inhabitants of the Town and County of Leicester JULY 22. ACknowledging your Majesties Princely protestations for defence of the Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land which your Highnesse makes the justest measure and rule of your royall prerogative the liberty and obedience of your subjects as also for the peace of the Kingdom disavowing not only intentions of war as opening an issue to drown your Majesty posterity but also taking care that no posture should affright the subjects Yet we cannot but in all humility expresse our deep sorrows for your Majesties long estrangement from and opposition to your highest and safest Councell of Parliament on the successe whereof the safety honour and glory of your Majesty and happinesse of your subjects doth depend Well we can never expect while we see Delinquents protected against the justice of Parliament promoted to Honour and Offices of high trust and power such as M. Henry Hastings who after he had appeared in an hostile manner to the great terrour of your Majesties peaceable subjects and was rescued from the Minister of Parliament did notwithstanding to the greater affrightment of all miscarrying of divers women came with a troope of Horse and Foot at midnight to Leicester demanding the Magazine and proclayming the Earl of Stamford and divers others by name with all their adherents traitors and after all this is protected as wee conceive and made high Sheriff and an approved Gentleman cast out for no other cause appearing to us then the discharging of his duty to your Majesty and the parliament Wee are deeply affected with these proceedings as presaging the ruine of all at once Therefore wee humbly pray that your Majesties Commission of Array declared to be so directly against Law which your Majesty makes the rule of our allegeance and obedience may be recalled That justice may impartially proceed against all Delinquents without which a parliament cannot subsist That you would cashiere all such desperat persons as would ingage the Kingdom in a bloudy civill War and abandon all the Counsellours of Division That the honour and innocency of our worthy Knight and the other five Members impeacht may be vindicated That you would joyn your self to your parliament as the only way to save our selves and bleeding Ireland and that our M●gazine and Militia may remain in the hands of the honorable Earl of Stamford who is instrusted by the parliament Wee stand resolved ever to maintain the true reformed protestant Religion your Majesties person and authority the Laws and free course of Iustice together with the high and honourable Court of parliament as the Bottom wherein all is imbarqued Wee are Enemies to all that divide betwixt your Majesty and your parliament or that have or shall affront or cast base aspersions on th●t faithfull Assembly and according to our just and free protestation wee 'l venture our estates and lives herein and shall ever pray c. To the Kings most excellent Majestie The humble Petition of the great Inquest for the County of Leicester JVLY 23. WEe doe in all humblenesse acknowledge that during your Majesties Reigne hithertowe have enjoyd that which is the greatest blessing that can befal a Natiō a stable and uninterrupted peace your Declaration expresses your Princely desires of your subjects peace and welfare being therfore the presages of bloud and ruine do impend and hang over our heads wee are forced to seeke a preservative by our addresses unto your Highnesse if it may stand therefore with your Princely wisdome as wee judge it stands with the peace and safety of this County our humble desire is that there may be a safe distribution of this Magazine to the severall Hundreds in this County to be dispersed therein according to due proportions and this to be done immediatly from the Magazine That since it stands with the peace and safety of this County it may never be re-assumed but by a legall power that the Keepers thereof may have their liberty and protection from dangers for discharching their trust Thus shall you dissolve these clouds of calamities that threaten us and elevate us to higher hopes of peace And we shall ever pray c. Propositions to his Majesty from Captain Grey and the rest of the souldiers intrusted from the Earle of Stamford touching the Magazine I That there may be a safe distribution of this Magazine to the severall Hundreds in the County to be dispersed therein according to due proportion and this to be done immediatly from the Magazine II That it may never be re-assumed againe but by a Legall power III That the Keepers of it may have their liberty and protection from dangers for discharging their Trust Given at the Court at Leicester IULY 24 1642. HIs Majesty hath graciously considered this Petition and commanded mee to returne this Answer that as the Petitioners have enjoyed hitherto the blessing of peace under his Majesties Government so he hath never expressed a greater love of it and a care to preserve it then by his late bearing so many indignities to avoid all disturbance of it the which hee hopes will have that effect with his good subjects that they will hence-forward have as great a regard to his honour as hee to their peace of which if all other were equally tender no presage of bloud ruine would hang over their heads For your Magazine his Majesty hath never looked upon this under any other consideration then to preserve it for the County whose it is And therefore upon complaint heretofore made to him that some persons had presumed in warlike manner to leavy it without any lawfull authority his Majesty out of his good affection to this Countie gave direction to prevent future mischief that the same should be restored to the disposition of those to whom it belongs and therefore fore well approves that it be disposed in such manner and such place as shall seeme best and fittest to the County in which his Majesty will not intermeddle For the freeing and protecting the Keepers of the Magazin or their Seconds his Majesty knows not the meaning of the Petitioners if they have had a lawfull trust committed and done nothing in discharge and execution thereof but what is warrantable they need no other protection but that of the Law but if in the violent and forcible removing the Magazine and in the circumstances of keeping they have done any done any thing unjustifiable his Majesty believes no trust boldly undertaken can excuse them and therefore expects that this be immediatly delivered by the Keepers to the disposall of the County without condition CHARLES Rex OUr will and pleasure is That all our Officers and loving subjects doe suffer the Bearers hereof to passe quietly to their own houses Given at our Court at Leicester the 24 of Iuly 1642. WHereas the Grand Jury at the Generall Assizes held in the County of Leicester did prefer a Petition unto his Majesty for the distribution of the Countries Magazin to be divided into every hundred and therein dispersed into every Town according to the charge leavied upon them for the providing thereof And whereas it was also further in the said Petition desired that the said Magazine might not be re-assumed again Therefore the Baronets Knights Esquires Gentlemen Grand Jury-men and Free-holders c. doe hereby declare That whosoever shall go about to re-assume or gather into one body again the said Magazine or any part thereof by any Authority whatsoever shall be adjudged esteemed reputed and taken to be an Enemy to and a disturber of the publick peace of this County And because no man may plead ignorance in this behalfe It is agreed by all sorts ranks and degrees of persons above-named That this Declaration be now openly read and published with an audible voice in the face of the County at this Generall Assizes held for the County aforesaid Dated the 25 of Iuly 1642. The Copy of that the Grand Iury gave the Commanders of the Magazine VVE the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury for the County of Leicester have received the Magazine thereof from the East gate in the Newwork and do undertake so neer as we may that it shall be distributed to the severall Hundreds and therein dispersed to every Towne so neere as wee can equally And that it shall be never re-assumed to our powers In witnesse whereof we have subscribed our names the 25 day of Iuly Anno Domini 1642. Attested by all the Grand Jury FINIS