The humble petition of Captain William Booth of Killingholme in the county of Lincoln with His Majesties answer thereunto. Booth, William. 1642 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A28807 Wing B3740 ESTC R25935 09296313 ocm 09296313 42640

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 eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Sources. 2005-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

The humble PETITION OF Captain William Booth of Killingholme, in the County of Lincoln.

With His Majeſties Anſwer thereunto.

York, 30 June, 1642.

YORK: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings moſt Excellent Majeſtie; And by the Aſſignes of JOHN BILL. 1642.
TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE. The humble Petition of Captain William Booth of Killingholme in the County of Lincoln. Sheweth,

THat whereas upon Wedneſday, the 8 day of June inſtant, the Trayned Bands of the Diviſion of Caiſter Seſſions, were ſummoned by Francis Lord VVilloughby of Parham and the Committe, to appear at Caiſter before them, contrary to your Majeſties Proclamation; Your Petitioner being there, was informed againſt by one Francis Fields and Iohn Barnard for reading Your Majeſties ſaid Proclamation, and ſent for and delivered to a Meſſenger, and diſarmed to his great diſgrace in the preſence of his own Souldiers, and to the great diſheartning of the Countrey from Your Majeſties ſervice; which ſaid Proclamation was ſleighted, and termed a ſeditious Pamphlet by Sir Chriſtopher VVray, who called himſelfe Captain of the ſaid Company which your Petitioner commands under Your Majeſtie; and told the Souldiers he would live and dye with them, and would gladly know who durſt oppoſe their proceedings: further ſaying, That he heard that the Earle of Lindſey was to be there that day, whom he would be glad to ſee, for they had a Meſſenger ready to receive him. All that Your Petitioner was then charged with was, that He had ſaid the day before, That there was a brave appearance of the Trained Bands at Lincolne of ſome fifteen or ſixteen; which was interpreted to be an affront to their proceedings, and was threatned to be further charged at Lowth the next day with buſineſſe of a high Nature, and to have witneſſes produced againſt him face to face; which ſaid witneſſes never appeared, your Petitioner being all this while under commitment contrary to Law, which being offered to be argued in point of Law by Sir Gervaſe Scroop in the behalf of your Petitioner; It was anſwered by Sir Chriſtopher VVray, That they came thither, neither to diſpute the Law, nor to be taught the Law, nor did value the Law, but muſt obſerve the Orders of the Houſe; ſufficient Bayle being offered was utterly refuſed, your Petitioner being ſtill under commitment and commanded to wait their further pleaſures at Horne Caſtle the next day; where, being able to prove nothing againſt him, they releaſed him.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly deſireth, That Your Majeſtie would be graciouſly pleaſed to call theſe men to anſwer their contempt againſt Your Majeſtie, and to make ſatisfaction to your Petitioner for the injury and publique diſgrace, they have put upon him.

And your Petitioner will daily pray, &c.
York, 30 June, 1642. His Majeſtie hath expreſly commanded me, to give this His Anſwer to this Petition.

THat it is not at all ſtrange to Him, That thoſe perſons who have ventured to aſſume a command over the Militia (a Right of His never before ſeparated from the Crown) by direction from thoſe who pretend to this power by the Fundamentall Laws, and yet vouchſafe not to ſhew any one Clauſe of any one Statute, or any one preſident of any time, which might ſeem, with the leaſt colour, to give them that Authority, though He hath often preſſed them to it, and as little vouchſafe any Anſwer to the Statutes, or to thoſe multiplyed and perpetuall preſidents, which cleerly and palpably declare that Authority, to be in Him, ſhould uſe that Authority with as much injuſtice as they have aſſumed it; And not onely term His legall Proclamation a ſeditious Pamphlet (ſince it is moſt certain, that if that be not, then they are moſt ſeditious,) but contrary to the Law of the Land, both ancient and modern, both to Magna Charta, and to the Petition of Right, vex and impriſon His good ſubjects for a legall obedience to His legall commands, or a legall diſobedience or diſreſpect to their illegall Orders and Actions; ſince He often before foretold, that their Contempt of His Regall Rights and Prerogatives, which are the guard of His Subjects Liberties, would in ſhort time encourage them to deſtroy thoſe too, when that which ſhould guard them were oure deſtroyed. And as little doth His Majeſtie wonder that the Inſolence of thus violating ancient and known Laws ſhould encourage them to that of uſing words proportionable to their actions, and profeſſing (with great truth and ingenuity) that they value not the Law. His Majeſtie nevertheleſſe (not following the example of other men in concluding any thing before examination) is reſolved to have the truth of theſe allegations legally examined, and if (as is very probable by the annexed Affidavit) they be found true, to provide by all legall wayes, That both His Majeſtie and the Petitioner may receive full ſatisfaction for the injuries done to both, and to the Law of the Land; His Majeſtie profeſſing it the principall reaſon of His deſire to have juſtice in the like matters done to Him, that (His juſt Authority being no longer ſcorned and vilified) He may be enabled to ſee it done to others, and that His good Subjects, who are wiſely carefull to defend the Law (which is their common Birthright, and to which onely they owe all they have beſides) may not (by unjuſt and intolerable oppreſſions) be made Martyrs for it.

Edw. Nicholas.

CAptain William Booth of Killingholm, and William Scroop of Little Coats, in the County of Lincoln Gentlemen make Oath, That the Petition delivered by the ſaid William Booth unto his Majeſtie, concerning the impriſonment he ſuffered, by the Command of Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham, and the reſt of the Committees of Parliament for the County aforeſaid, and all the Actions and Paſſages therein expreſſed are moſt true, in that manner and forme therein is declared.

Jurat. coram me in Cancellaria Magiſtro, Decimo Octavo die Junii, Anno Domini. 1642. W. Wentworth. FINIS.