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B09083
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The petition of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. Presented to His Majestie at Beverly the 16. of July 1642. With His Majesties answer thereunto.
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England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
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Wing E2175; ESTC R219217
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keep it And so refusing to deliver it with threats if he or any other of his fellow-servants should again repair to Hull about it and in taking and detaining Prisoners divers Gentlemen and others in their passage over the Humber into Lincolnshire about their necessary occasions and such other indignities as all Gentlemen must resent in his Majesties behalf his Majestie to shew his earnest desire of Peace for which he will dispence with his Own honour and how far he is from desire of Revenge will grant a free and generall Pardon all persons within that Town That his Majesties Magazine taken from Hull bee forthwith put into such hands as he shall appoint That his Navie be forthwith delivered into such hands as he hath directed for the government thereof the detaining thereof after his Majesties directions published and received to the contrary and imploying his Ships against him in such manner as they are now used being notorious high-treason in the Commanders of those Ships That all Arms Levies and Provisions for a War made by the Consent of both houses by whose example his Majesty hath been forced to make some preparations be immediatly laid down and the pretended Ordinance for the Militia and all power of imposing Lawes upon the Subject without his Majesties consent be disavowed without which the same pretence will remain to produce the same mischiefs all which his Majesty may as lawfully demand as to live and can with no more Justice be denyed him then his Life may be taken from him These being done and the Parliament adjourned to a safe and secure place his Majesty promises in the presence of God and bindes himself by all his confidence and assurance in the affection of his people that he will instantly and most cheerfully lay down all the force hee shall have raised and discharge all his future and intended Levies that there may be a generall face of Peace over the whole Kingdome and will repair to them And desires that all differences may bee freely debated in a Parliamentary way whereby the Law may recover its due reverence the Subject his just Liberty and Parliaments themselves their full vigour and estimation and so the whole Kingdome a blessed Peace Quiet and Prosperity If these Propositions shall be rejected his Majesty doubts not of the protection and assistance of Almighty God and the ready concurrence of his good Subjects who can have no hope left them of enjoying their own long if their King may be oppressed and spoyled and must be remedilesse And though his Towns his Ships his Arms and his Money be gotten and taken from him He hath a good Cause left and the hearts of his people which with Gods blessing he doubts not will recover all the rest Lastly if the preservation of the Protestant Religion the defence of the Liberty and Law of the Kingdome the Dignity and Freedome of Parliament and the Recoverie and the Relief of bleeding and miserable Ireland be equally precious to the Petitioners as they are to his Majesty who will have no quarrell but in defence of these there will be a cheerfull and speedy consent to what his Majesty hath now proposed and desired And of this his Majestie expects a full and positive Answer by Wednesday the 27. of his instant July till when he will not make any attempt of force upon Hull hoping in the Affection Duty and Loyalty of the Petitioners and in the mean time expects That no supply of Men be put into Hull or any of his Majesties goods taken from thence FINIS