WIth inexpressable joy of heart doe acknowledge and render all humble thanks, for this great pledge of your Majesties favour, and affection towards this Countrey, that in this time of so much trouble and distraction, you have revived their dejected spirits with the reall comfort of your Royall presence, and intrusted Your sacred Person amongst them. And Your Majesties most loyall and affectionate Subjects, knowing there is no Seed so pure amongst which spring not up some Tares, they humbly pray that by Your Princely Wisedome and Providence, they may bee secured from the just jealou­sies of such malignant Persons amongst them, who envying the peace of the Country, they have too much cause to feare, waite but for an opportunity to make spoile of them, whiles they with such fidelity and diligence endeavour your defence, as becomes their duties. And though they cannot but with great regreet and sorrow of heart apprehend, that notwithstanding all those vnexampled acts of justice, mercy, and grace, wherewith you have for ever obliged this Nation and People, in the greatest bonds of gratitude, ever put by Prince upon his Subjects, that there should still remaine any cause, or shadow of feare and jealousies amongst any of Your Subjects, pretending loyalty or gratitude, much more that there should be actuall levying of Armes, and waging of warre within this Nation, to the barbarous assascination and ruine of one another.

Yet since divers of our fellow Subjects are destroyed, slaine, and plundred, by those forces, under pretence of publike good, and that Your Majesty hath thought fit to disavow Your assent to such leavyes, to prohibite them by Your Proclamations, and to declare them raised against Your Sacred Person, and to take away Your Life, we being no Iudges of the grounds of such jealousies as should justly occasion those Armes. And declaring to all the world that wee see no cause for them, doe humbly pray, that whiles Your Majesty is amongst us, you will bee pleased to call before you the Collectors of such moneyes as have beene levied upon this County, under pretence of releife of Ireland, (whose miseries we see daily increase) to give account in whose hands the same remaines, or to whom transmitted, that by your piety and providence it may bee so disposed, that the right end may not bee abused, nor the Subjects owne moneyes, inverted against them to their owne ruine, whiles they are imploy­ed in Your defence, who as they are bound by their oaths of Supremacy, Allegiance, and the late Protestation, are ready with their lives, fortunes, and utmost power, to assist and defend Your Sacred Majesty, against all conspiracies, power, and attempt whatsoever, made or to be made against Your Royall Person, Crowne, and Dignity, or any of Your Princely issue, whose long, peaceable, and prosperous raigne, over all your three Kingdomes, in your full rights, power and glory, your Petitioners vnanimously pray God to continue.