HIs Maiestie having re­ceived the Petition in­closed from most of the chief of the Gentry neer about York, desiring the stay of his Maiesties Arms and Munition in His Magazine at Hull, for the safe­ty (not onely of His Maiesties Per­son and Children, but likewise of all these Northern parts: The mani­fold rumours of great Dangers inducing them to make their said Supplication) Thought it most fit to go Himself in Per­son to his Town of Hull, to view His Arms and Munition there, that there­upon he might give Directions, what part thereof might be necessary to re­main [Page 4] there, for the security and satisfa­ction of His Northern Subiects, and what part thereof might be spared for Ireland. The Arming of His Maiesties Scots Subiects that are to go thither, Or to replenish his chiefest Magazine of the Tower of London, Where being come, upon the three and twentieth of this in­stant Aprill, much contrary to his ex­pectation, He found all the Gates shut upon him and the Bridges drawn up, by the expresse command of Sir Iohn Ho­tham, (who for the present commands a Garrison there) and from the Walls flatly denied his Maiestie Entrance into his said Town, the reason of the said de­niall being as strange to his Maiestie, as the thing it self, It being, That he could not admit His Maiestie without breach of Trust to his Parliament; which did the more incense his Maiesties anger against him, for that he most Seditiously and Traiterously would have put his disobedience upon his Maiesties parlia­ment; which his Maiestie being willing [Page 5] to clear, demanded of him if he had the impudence to aver, that the Parliament had directed him to deny his Maiestie en­trance, and that if he had any such Or­der, that he should shew it in Writing, for otherwise his Maiestie could not beleeve it; which he could no wayes produce, but maliciously made that false interpretati­on according to his own Inferences con­fessing that he had no such positive Order, which his Maiestie was ever confident of: But his Maiestie not willing to take so much-pains in vain offered to come in­to that his Town onely with twentie Horse, finding that the maine of his pre­tence lay, That his Maiesties Traine was able to Command the Garrison: Notwithstanding, his Maiestie was so desirous to go thither in a private way, that he gave warning thereof but over­night; Which he refusing, but by way of Condition (which his Maiestie thought much below him) held it most necessarie to declare him Traitour) unlesse upon better thoughts, he should yeeld obedi­ence) [Page 6] which he doubly deserved aswell for refusing Entrance to his naturall Sove­raign, as by laying the reason the reof groundlesly and maliciously upon his Parliament.

One Circumstance His Maiesty can­not forget, That his Son the Duke of York, and his Nephew the Prince Elector, having gone thither the day before, Sir John Hotham delayed the letting of them out to his Maiestie till after some Con­sultation.

Hereupon His Maiestie hath thought it expedient to demaund Iustice of his Parliament against the said Sir John Hotham, to be exemplarily inflicted one him according to the Laws, and the ra­ther, because his Maiestie would give them a fit occasion to free themselves of this imputation, by him so injuriously cast upon them, to the end His maie­stie may have the easier way for the chastising of so high a disobedience.