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A45052 The humble petition of the major, aldermen, and commons of the Citie of London to His Majestie with His Majesties gracious answer thereunto. City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). 1642-1643 (1643) Wing H3556B; ESTC R221338 4,169 13

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all Or whether they think it possible that Almighty God can blesse that City and preserve it from destruction whilest persons of such known Guilt and Wickednesse are defended and justified amongst them against the power of that Law by which they can onely subsist His Majestie is so farre from suffering Himself to be incensed against the whole City by the actions of these ill men though they have hitherto been so prevalent as to make the Affections of the rest of little use to Him and is so willing to be with them and to protect them that the Trade Wealth and Glory thereof so decayed and ecclipsed by these publike Distractions may again be the Envy of all forraign Nations That He doth once more graciously offer His free and generall Pardon to all the Inhabitants of that His City of London the Suburbs and City of Westminster except the Persons formerly excepted by His Majestie if they shall yet return to their Duty Loyalty and Obedience And if His good Subjects of that His City of London shall first solemnly declare That they will defend the known Laws of the Land and will submit to and be governed by no other Rule If they shall first manifest by defending themselves and maintaining their own Rights Liberties and Interests and suppressing any force and violence imlawfully raised against those and His Majestie their Power to defend and preserve Him from all Tumults Affronts and Violence Lastly if they shall apprehend and commit to safe Custody the Persons of those four men who enrich themselves by the spoyl and oppression of His loving Subjects and the ruine of the City that His Majestie may proceed against them by the course of Law as guilty of high Treason His Majestie will speedily return to them with His Royall and without His Martiall Attendance and will use His utmost endeavour that they may hereafter enjoy all the Blessings of Peace and Plenty and will no longer expect Obedience from them then he shall with all the faculties of His Soul labour in the preserving and advancing The true reformed Protestant Religion The Laws of the Land The Liberty and Propriety of the Subject and The just Priviledges of Parliament If notwithstanding all this the Art and Interest of these men can prevaile so far That they involve more men in their guilt and draw that His City to sacrifice it's present Happinesse and future Hopes to their Pride Fury and Malice His Majestie shall onely give them this Warning That whosoever shall henceforward take up Arms without His consent contribute any Money or Plate upon what pretence of Authority soever for maintenance of the Army under the Command of the Earle of Essex or any other Army in Rebellion against Him or shall pay Tonnage and Poundage till the same shall be setled by Act of Parliament every such Person must expect the severest punishment the Law can inflict and in the mean time His Majestie shall seize upon any part of his Estate within His Power for the relief and support of Him and His Army raised and maintained for the Defence of His Person the Laws and this His Kingdom And since he denies to His Majestie the duty and benefit of his subjection by giving assistance to Rebels which by the known Laws of the Land is high Treason His Majestie shall likewise deny him the benefit of his Protection and shall not onely signifie to all His forreign Ministers That such Person shall receive no advantage by being His Subject but shall by all other wayes and means proceed against him as a publike Enemy to His Majestie and this Kingdom But His Majestie hopes and doubts not but His good Subjects of London will call to mind the Acts of their Predecessors their Duty Affection Loyalty and merit towards their Princes the Renown they have had with all Posterity for and the Blessings of Heaven which alwayes accompanyed those vertues and will consider the perpetuall scorn and infamy which unavoydably will follow them and their Children if infinitely the meaner part in quality and much the lesser part in number shall be able to alter the Government so admirably established destroy the Trade so excellently setled and to wake the wealth so industriously gotten of that flourishing Citie And then they will easily gather up the Courage and Resolution to joyn with His Majestie in Defence of that Religion Law and Li●erty which hitherto hath and onely can make themselves His Majestie and His Kingdom Happy For concurring with the Advice of His Two Houses of Parliament which with reference to the Common-wealth may be as well at this distance as by being at White-hall His Majestie doubts not but His good Subjects of London well know how far beyond the example of any of His Predecessors His Majestie hath concurred with their advice in passing of such Laws by which He willingly parted with many of His known Rights for the benefit of His Subjects which the fundamentall Constitutions of this Kingdom did not oblige Him to consent unto and hath used all possible means to beget a right understanding between them And will therefore apply themselves to those who by making Iust Peaceable and honourable Propositions to His Majestie can onely beget that Concurrence FINIS
The humble PETITION OF THE MAJOR ALDERMEN and COMMONS of the Citie of London to His Maiestie WITH HIS MAJESTIES Gracious Answer thereunto SHREWSBURY Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE The humble Petition of the Major Aldermen and Commons of the Citie of London Sheweth THat the Petitioners Your Majesties most humble and Loyall Subjects being much pierced with the long and great divisions between Your Majestie and both Your Houses of Parliament and with the sad and bloody effects thereof both here and in Ireland are yet more deeply wounded by the mis-apprehension which Your Majestie seemeth to entertain of the Love and Loyalty of this Your Citie as if there were some Cause of feare or suspicion of danger to Your Royall Person if Your Majestie should return hither and that this is made the unhappy Barre to that blessed Reconciliation with Your great and most faithfull Councell for preventing that desolation and destruction which is now most apparently imminent to Your Majestie and all Your Kingdoms For satisfaction therefore of Your Majestie and clearing of the Petitioners Innocency they most humbly declare as formerly they have done That they are no way conscious of any Disloyalty but abhorre all thoughts thereof And that they are resolved to make good their late solemn Protestation and sacred Vow made to Almighty God and with the last drop of their dearest Bloods to defend and maintan the true reformed Protestant Religion and according to the duty of their Allegiance Your Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate whatsoever is maliciously and most falsely suggested to Your Majestie to the Contrary as well as the Power and Priviledges of Parliament and the Lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject and do hereby ingage themselves their Estates and all they have to their uttermost Power to defend and preserve Your Majesty and both Houses of Parliament from all Tumults Affronts and Violence with as mach Loyalty Love and Duty as ever Citizens expressed towards Your Majestie or any of Your Royall Progenitors in their greatest Glory The Petitioners therefore upon their bended Knees do most humbly beseech Your Majestie to return to Your Parliament accompanied with Your Royall not Your Martiall attendance to the end that Religion Laws and Liberties may be setled and secured and whatsoever is amisse in Chruch and Common-wealth reformed by their Advice according to the fundamentall Constitutions of this Kingdom and that such a Peace may thereby be obtained as shall be for the glory of God the Honour and Happinesse of Your Majestie and Posterity and the safety and welfare of all Your Loyall Subjects who the Petitioners are fully assured whatsoever is given out to the contrary do unanimously desire the Peace herein express●d And the Petitioners shall ever pray c. MICHELL His Majestie hath graciously considered this Petition and returns this ANSWER THat His Majesty doth not entertain any mis-apprehension of the Love and Loyalty of His City of London As He hath alwayes expressed a singular regard and esteem of the Affections of that City and is still desirous to make it His chief place of Residence and to continue and renew many marks of His favour to it so He beleeves much the better and greater part of that His City is full of Love Duty Loyalty to his Maiesty And that the Tumults which heretofore forced His Majesty for His safety to leave that Place though they were contrived and encouraged by some principall members thereof who are since well known though they are above the reach of Iustice consisted more of desperate Persons of the Suburbs and the neighbouring Towns who were misled too by the cunning and malice of their Seducers then of the Inhabitants of that City He looks on His good Subjects there as Persons groaning vnder the same Burthen which doth oppresse His Majesty and awed by the same Persons who begat those Tumults and the same Army which gave Battell to His Majesty And therefore as no good Subject can more desire from His soul a Composure of the generall distractions so no good Citizen can more desire the establishment of the particular Peace and Prosperity of that place by His Majesties Accesse thither then His Majesty Himself doth But His Majestie desires His good Subjects of London seriously to consider what confidence His Majestie can have of Security there whilest the Laws of the Land are so notoriously despised and trampled under foot and the wholsome Government of that City heretofore so famous over all the World is now submitted to the Arbitrary Power of a few desperate persons of no Reputation but for malice and disloyalty to Him Whilest Arms are taken up not onely without but against His consent and expresse command and Collections publiquely made and Contributions avowed for the maintenance of the Army which hath given Him Battell and therein used all possible means Treason and Malice could suggest to them to have taken His Life from Him and to have destroyed His Royall Issue Whilest such of His Majesties Subjects who out of Duty Affection to His Majestie and Compassion of their bleeding Countrey have laboured for Peace are reviled injured and murthered even by the Magistrates of that City or by their directions Lastly what hope His Majestie can have of safety there whilest Alderman Pennington their pretended Lord Major the principall Author of those Calamities which so neerly threaten the Ruine of that famous City Ven Foulke and Main waring all Persons notoriously guilty of Schisme and high Treason commit such outrages in oppressing robbing and imprisoning according to their discretion all such His Majesties loving Subjects whom they are pleased to suspect but for wishing well to His Majestie And His Majestie would know whether the Petitioners beleeve That the reviling and suppressing the Book of Common-Prayer establisht in this Church ever since the Reformation the discountenancing and imprisoning Godly Learned and painfull Preachers and the cherishing and countenancing of Brownists Anabaptists and all manner of Sectaries be the way to defend and maintain the true reformed Protestant Religion That to comply with and assist persons who have actually attempted to kill His Majestie and to allow and favour Libells Pasquills and seditious Sermons against His Majestie be to defend His Royall Person and Honour according to the duty of their Allegiance Whether to imprison mens Persons and to Plunder their Houses because they will not rebell against His Majestie nor assist those that do Whether to destroy their Property by taking away the twentieth part of their Estates from them and by the same Arbitrary Power to refer to four standers by of their own Faction to judge what that twentieth part is be to defend the lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject And if they think these Actions to be instances of either Whether they do not know the persons before named to be guilty of them