A true relation of some remarkeable passages concerning Nottingham-shire petition and His Majesties answer also the ill usage of the Linconshire gentlmen at Yortk who delivered their petition / written from an esquire of Nottingham-shire ... and sent to his brother dwelling in London ; whereunto is added His Majesties message sent to the Parliament Aprill 8, 1642 concerning his resolution to go into Ireland. Widmerpole, Joseph. 1642 Approx. 16 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2013-12 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A63667 Wing T2919 ESTC R22404 12621176 ocm 12621176 64517

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A True RELATION Of Some Remarkeable Paſſages Concerning Nottingham-Shire PETITION, and His Majeſties ANSWER.

Alſo the ill uſage of the Linconſhire Gentlmen at York, who delivered their Petition.

Written from an Eſquire of Nottinghamſhire (being one of the Gentlemen who preſented their Petition at York) and ſent to his brother, dwelling in London.

Report this from me to be a true Copey of our Anſwer there,

I. W.

Whereunto is added His Majeſties Meſſage, ſent to the Parliament, Aprill 8. 1642. Concerning His reſolution to go into Ireland.

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LONDON, Printed for R. H. in Queens-head Alley.

To the Kings moſt excellent Majeſty. A Petition preſented to the Kings Majeſty at York, the 1 of Aprill, by the Inhabitants of the County of Nottingham, and the County of the Town of Nottingham, ſubſcribed by 4540 hands of Knights, Eſquiers, Gentlemen, Freeholders, and the Major, Aldermen, and other Inhabitants of the Town of Nottingham. We your loyall and peacefull Subjects, Inhabitants of the County of Nottingham, and the Town of Nottingham, do humbly crave leave to ſhew, and pray, as followeth;

THat whereas after many ſtraight Yoakes, and heavy burthens in the late long intermiſſion, or interruptions of Parliamentary Iuſtice, by the predominance of evill councels impoſed on us, and with much patience borne by us (though to the extreame preſſure of our perſons, conſciences and eſtates) we were in the mid'ſt of many troubles, dangers and extremities, to which this Kingdome was thereby reduced; at laſt by Your Majeſties grace, in calling this Parliament, relieved and eaſed, and by ſo happy a conſtitution of a Parliament, as this in many bleſſed effects hath appeared, together with the late mutuall correſpondence of both Houſes, we were revived with freſh and pregnant hopes, that all our former evils, with the cauſe of them, ſhould by this Parliament (with Your Majeſties gracious Aſſent) be henceforth removed, and greater good wrought and eſtabliſhed to us, than we or our fore-fathers have ſeen: Yet now by Your Majeſties late withdrawing both Your perſon & former grace to ſuch a diſtance from Your Parliament, we feell our hopes fainting, and almoſt extinct; new fears raiſed of the old, and greater evils toward us; and foreſee all ordinary remedy like to be removed, or the timely application thereof to extreme danger, retarded▪ Eſpecially, by the advantage which the malignant perſons within us, and our enemies abroad (both in Ireland, and elſewhere) may make of ſuch Your diſtance from Your Parliament, and diſtruſt of it, to the promovall and accompliſhment of their miſchievous deſignes (by Your Parliament faithfully repreſented) and the overwhelming of this Kingdome in the ſad effects of inteſtine diſcord.

We Your poore Subjects therefore, from deep and bleeding ſenſe of miſeries of all ſorts, thus growing on Your Selfe, on Yours, on us, on all, do humbly preſume to beg, That Your Majeſty (weighing the the premiſſes in your Princely Thoughts) would be pleaſed to vindicate Your Kingdomes from approaching ruine, Your ſelfe to ſecurity, and reſtore us to our now languiſhing hopes.

1 By rejection of evill counſels and Counſellors, as have ſomented Iealouſies or differences between Your Majeſty and Parliament, and therein, or other ways, obſcure Your Native luſtre from Your people, making You appeare leſſe amiable than (we beleeve) You are: and next, without which, we can expect no good.

2 By a timely return to ſome place neer Your Parliament, where they may have ſuch a ready recourſe as the exigencies of the times require, and Your Royall Anceſtors have ever vouchſafed their Parliaments; and alſo to Your good opinion of them, and truſt in them, as the beſt ſupporters of Your Wealth, Honor, and Soveraignty.

And if Your Majeſty ſhall be pleaſed to renew and continue this Your wonted gracious regard to, and concurrence, with the beſt advice of Your Parliament, for manage and ſettlement of Your Kingdoms affairs (which their fidelity may deſerve, and Your frequent promiſes have made Your people expect) the effects will undoubtedly prove the glory of God, Your Majeſties trueſt honor, the terror of Your enemies, ſafety of Your Kingdoms, and joy of Your good Subjects, eſpecially of us, who ſhall ſo clearly, according to to our Proteſtation, with our Lives and Fortunes maintain and defend Your Ma-Majeſties Royall Perſon, Honor, and Crown; With the Power and Priviledges of Parliament, The Rights & Liberties of Your Subjects, And the Power and Purity of Proteſtant Religion.

And we ſhall ever pray, &c.
At the Court at York 31 Martii 1642. His Majeſty hath given me expreſſe command to give you this His Anſwer to your Petition.

THat this Petition (as ſome others of this nature) is grounded upon misinformation; and being grieved and highly offended, to ſee how his good people, have been and are abuſed by falſe rumors and intelligences (which have procured cauſeleſſefears and apprehenſions) refers the Petitioners to the two anſwers He hath given to His Parliament; viz. to the Declaration preſented to Him at Newmarket; And to the Petition preſented to Him the 26 of this month at Yorke, wherein you will clearely perceive, That His Majeſty is not gone, but driven a way from His Parliament; and therefore His Majeſty hath reaſon to thinke, that now underſtanding the love He beares to and confidence he hath of His Peoples fidelity: As likewiſe His conſtant reſolution for the maintaining off, and governing by the Laws of the Land▪ you may find reaſon to Petition the Parliament to comply with his majeſties juſt deſires and gratious offers; This being the only way ſafely and ſpeedily, to cure the preſent diſtractions of this Kingdome and (with Gods bleſſing) to put a happy end to the Iriſh rebellion; for the effecting whereof (as His Majeſty hath often ſaid) He will neither ſpare paines nor decline any hazard of His perſon or fortune.

Oliver Nicholas.
The Letter. Loving Brother,

I Was this laſt weeke at Yorke, with twenty Gentlemen more, and divers others, to deliver a Petition to his Majeſty, which was done on Thurſday laſt being the laſt of March: and Lincolneſhire delivered one on Munday before; Yorkeſhire delivers one about Tueſday next; and Darbyſhire about Wedneſday, or Thurſday next, all which are much tending to one effect, that is, humbly to entreate his Majeſty to abide neare, and hearken to His Parliament, and to remove evill Councellors from about him, with ſome other things. I have Copies of them all, but they are too long for me to coppy out at this time, ours I am confident John Drewrey ſhewed you the laſt weeke, if not Maſter Fankingham can ſhew it you, and you may ſhew him this Anſwer given to us, under the Secretaries hand with His Majeſties direction, and it is the very ſame Lincolne-ſhire Gentlemen received from His Majeſty, to their Petition. Yorke-ſhire is ſaid, will appeare 14 thouſand in perſon to avow theirs, the Sherriffe is a chiefe man in it: Darby is ſaid to be 300▪ at leaſt, the Sherriffe, Baronets, Knights, Eſquires, Gentlemen and others. Lincolneſhire, Sir Richard Earle, delivered it with ſome twenty Gentlemen of quality, who were ſcoffed at by the Courties and Citizens, and called Round-heads, they lay in Yorke on Sunday being Corronation day, where was bonefiers made, and much diſorder; and about midnight that night, about threeſcore perſons with clubs and bils aſſalted the houſe where they lay, and ſwore they would have the blouds of them, the Gentlemen being up, and the Rogues got into the houſe they were forced to put out their lights, and betake themſelves to their Swords, which done the unknowne Raſcals departed, giving threatning ſpeeches, that they would cut the throats of them that came next; yet I praiſe God we had reaſonable faire quarter with them; the City of Yorke we perceive offers theſe abuſes to Petitioners on purpoſe to deterre them for comming to the King, becauſe they would have reſide with them; thoſe that are well affected (which are but few in compariſon of the multitude) do joyne with us willingly and freely, both in judgement and matter; the Court is very thin as yet, but encreaſeth dayly; the latter Declaration mentioned in our Anſwer, is not yet in print; the Kings firſt Anſwer was (He refers us to the Kentiſh Petition) but we prſſing for a further and more ſatisfactory Anſwer, had as you may here ſee, with hopes ſtill of a better. The Kentiſh Petition was ordered to be Printed, but ſpeeding ſo badly at London, it is ſtopped as yet; much more I could tell you, but my occaſions will not permit me, therefore with our beſt affections to you all, I commit you to the Lords protection and reſt,

Your ever loving brother while Joſeph Widmerpole.

Report this from me to be a true Coppy of our Anſwer there.

His Majeſties Meſſage, ſent to the Parliament the eighth of Aprill. 1642. Concerning His Reſolution to go into Ireland for ſuppreſſing the Rebels there.

HIs Majeſty being grieved at the very ſoule, for the Calamities of His good Subjects of Ireland, and being moſt tenderly ſenſible of the falſe and ſcandalous Reports disperſed amongſt the People, concerning the Rebellion there, which not only wounds His Majeſty in Honour, but likewiſe greatly Retards the reducing of that unhappy Kingdom, and multiplies the Diſtractions at home, by weakning the mutuall confidence betwixt Him and His People: Out of His pious Zeale to the Honour of Almighty God, in eſtabliſhing the true Proteſtant Profeſſion in that Kingdom, and His Princely care for the good of all his Dominions, hath firmly reſolved with all convenient ſpeed to go into Ireland, to chaſtiſe thoſe wicked and deteſtable Rebells (odious to God and all good men) thereby ſo to ſettle the Peace of that Kingdom, and the ſecurity of this, that the very name of Feares and Ielouſies may be no more heard of amongſt Vs.

As His Majeſty doubts not, but that his Parliament will cheerfully give all poſſible aſſiſtance to this good Worke; ſo he requires them and all his loving Subjects to beleeve, that he ſhall upon thoſe conſiderations as earneſtly purſue this Deſigne (not declining any hazard of His perſon, in performing that Duty which he oweth to the defence of Gods true Religion, and His diſtreſſrd Subjects) as for theſe, and only theſe ends He undertakes it: to the ſincerity of which profeſſion He cals God to witneſſe, with this further aſſurance, that His Majeſty will never conſent (upon whatſoever pretence) to a toleration of the Popiſh profeſſion there, or the abolition of the Laws now in force againſt popiſh Reculants in that Kingdome,

His Majeſty hath further thought fit, to advertiſe his Parliament, that towards this Work He intends to raiſe forthwith by his Commiſſions, in the Counties neer Weſtcheſter, a Guard for His own perſon (when he ſhal come into Ireland) conſiſting of two thouſand foot, and two hundred Horſe, which ſhall be Armed at Weſtcheſter from His Magazine at Hull: At which time all the Officers and Souldiers ſhall take the Oathes of Supremacy, and Allegiance: The charge of raiſing and paying whereof His Majeſty deſires His Parliament to adde to their former Vndertakings for that War, which His Majeſty will not only well accept; But if their pay be found too great a burthen to His good Subjects, His Majeſty will be willing (by the advice of His Parliament) to ſell, or pawn any of His Parks, Lands, or Houſes towards the ſupplies of the Service of Ireland: With the Addition of theſe Levies to the former of Engliſh and Scots agreed upon in Parliament, He hopes ſo to appeare in this Action, that (by the aſſiſtance of Almighty God) in a ſhort time that Kingdom may be wholly reduced and reſtored to peace, and ſome meaſure of happineſſe whereby He may cheerfully return, to be welcomed home with the Affections and bleſſings of all His good Engliſh people.

Toward this good work, as His Majeſty hath lately made diſpatches into Scotland, to quicken the Levies there for Ʋlſter; So He heartily wiſhes that his Parliament here would give all poſſible expedition to thoſe which they have reſolved for Munſter and Conaught: and hopes the encouragement which the adventurers (of whoſe intereſt his Majeſty will be alwaies very carefull) will hereby receive (as likewiſe by the lately ſigning of a Commiſſion for the Affaires of Ireland, to ſuch perſons as were recommended to him by both houſes of Parliament) will raiſe full ſums of money for the doing thereof▪

His Majeſty hath been likewiſe pleaſed (out of His earneſt deſire to remove all occaſions, which do unhappily multiply miſ-undeeſtandings between Him & His Parliament) to prepare a Bill to be offered to them by His Attourny, concerning the Militia, whereby He hopes the Peace and ſafety of this Kingdom may be fully ſecured, to the generall ſatisfaction of all men, without violation of His Majeſties juſt Rights, or prejudice to the Liberty of the Subject. If this ſhall be thankfully received; He is glad of it. If refuſed; He cals God, and all the world to judge, on whoſe part the default is. One thing His Majeſty requires, (if this Bill be approved of) That if any Corporation ſhall make their lawfull • ights appear, they may be reſerved to them.

Before His Majeſty ſhall part from England, He will take all due care to entruſt ſuch perſons with ſuch Authority in His abſence, as He ſhall find to be requiſite for the peace and ſafety of this Kingdom, and the happy Progreſſe of this Parliament.

FINIS.