"Peace, are reviled, injured, and murder'd, even by the "Magiftrates of that City, or by their Directions: Laftly "what hopes his Majesty can have of fafety there, whilst Al"derman Pennington, their pretended Lord Mayor, the principal Author of those Calamities which fo nearly threaten "the ruin of that famous City, Ven, Foulke, and Manwairing, "all Perfons notoriously guilty of Schifm and High Treason, "commit fuch Outrages, in Oppreffing, Robbing, and Impri"foning, according to their difcretion, all fuch his Majesty's "Loving Subjects, whom they are pleased to suspect for, but "withing well to his Majefty. "AND his Majesty would know, whether the Petitioners "believe, that the reviling, and fuppreffing the Book of Com"mon Prayer,eftablish'd in this Church ever fince the Refor"mation, the discountenancing and imprifoning godly, learn"ed, and painful Preachers, and the cherishing and counte"nancing of Brownifts, Anabaptifts, and all manner of Secta"ries, be the way to defend and maintain the true Reform'd "Proteftant Religion? That to comply with, and affift Perfons who have actually attempted to kill his Majefty, and to "allow, and favour Libels, Pafquils, and Seditious Sermons against his Majefty, be to defend his Royal Perfon, and Ho"nour, according to the duty of their Allegiance? Whether "to imprifon Mens Perfons, and to plunder their Houses, "because they will not Rebel against his Majefty, nor affift thofe that do; whether to deftroy their property by taking "away the twentieth part of their Eftates from them, and by the fame Arbitrary Power, to refer to four Standers-by, of "their own Faction, to judge what that twentieth part is, be "to defend the Lawful Rights, and Liberties of the Subject? "And if they think these Actions to be inftances of either; "whether they do not know the Perfons before named to be guilty of them all? Or whether they think it poffible that "Almighty God can blefs that City, and preferve it from de"struction, whilft Perfons of fuch known guilt, and wicked"nefs, are defended, and juftified among them, against the "power of that Law, by which they can only fubfift. His Majefty is fo far from fufferring himself to be in"cenfed against the whole City, by the Actions of these ill Men, though they have hitherto been fo prevalent, as to "make the Affections of the rest of little ufe to him; and is "fo willing to be with them, and to protect them, that the "Trade, Wealth, and Glory thereof, fo decayed and eclipfed "by these publick distractions, may again be the Envy of all "Forreign Nations, that he doth once more gracioufly offer "his free and general Pardon to all the Inhabitants of that his "City of London, the Suburbs and City of Westminster (except "the "the Perfons formerly excepted by his Majesty) if they fhall "yet return to their Duty, Loyalty, and Obedience. And "if his good Subjects of that his City of London fhall first fo"lemnly declare, that they will defend the known Laws, of "the Land, and will fubmit to, and be govern'd by, no other Rule, if they fhall firft manifeft, by defending themselves, "and maintaining their own Rights, Liberties, and Interefts, and fuppreffing any Force and Violence unlawfully, raifed against thofe and his Majefty, their power to defend, and "preferve him from all Tumults, Affronts, and Violence; "Lastly, if they fhall apprehend, and commit to fafe cuftody, "the Perfons of those four Men who enrich themselves by the "fpoil, and oppreffion of his Loving Subjects, and the ruin "of the City, that his Majefty may proceed against them by "the Courfe of Law, as guilty of High Treafon; his Majefty "will speedily return to them with his Royal, and without "his Martial Attendance, and will ufe his utmoft endeavours, "that they may hereafter enjoy all the bleffings of Peace and « Plenty; and will no longer expect Obedience from them, than he fhall, with all the faculties of his Soul, labour in "the preferving, and advancing the true Reform'd Proteftant "Religion, the Laws of the Land, the Liberty and Property "of the Subjects, and the juft Privileges of Parliament. IF, notwithstanding all this, the Art, and Intereft of these "Men can prevail fo far, that they involve more Men in "their guilt, and draw that his City to facrifice its prefent "happiness, and future hopes, to their Pride, Fury, and Ma<lice, his Majefty fhall only give them this warning; That <whosoever shall henceforward take up Arms, without His confent,contribute any Money,or Plate, upon what pretence "of Authority foever, for maintenance of the Army under the "Command of the Earl of Effex, or any other Army in Rebellion against him, or fhall pay Tonnage and Poundage, 4 till the fame, fhall be fettled by Act of Parliament, every fuch Perfon must expect the feverest punishment the Law can inflict and, in the meantime, his Majefty fhall feife upon any part of his Estate within his power, for the Relief and Support of Him and his Army, raised and maintained "for the defence of his Perfon, the Laws, and this his Kingdom: And fince he denies to his Majefty the duty and be "nefit of his Subjection, by giving Affiftance to Rebels, which, "by the known Laws of the Land, is High Treafon; his Majéfty fhall likewife deny Him the benefit of his Protection, "and fhall not only fignify to all his Forreign Ministers, that "fuch Perfon fhall receive no advantage by being his Subject, "but fhall, by all other ways and means, proceed against him as a publick Enemy to his Majefty, and this Kingdom. ba "YET 1 "YET his Majefty hopes, and doubts not, but his good "Subjects of London will call to mind the Acts of their Pre"deceffors, the Duty, Affection, Loyalty, and Merit towards "their Princes, the Renown they have had with all Posterity "for, and the bleffing of Heaven which always accompanied, "those Virtues; and will confider the perpetual scorn and "infamy which unavoidably will follow Them and their Chil"dren, if infinitely the meaner part in Quality, and much "the feffer part in Number, fhall be able to alter the Go"vernment, fo admirably establish'd, deftroy the Trade fo "excellently settled, and to wafte the Wealth fo industriously gotten, of that flourishing City: And they will eafily gather "up the Courage and Refolution to joyn with his Majefty in "defence of that Religion, Law, and Liberty, which hitherto "hath, and only can, make Themselves, his Majefty, and his "Kingdom, happy. "FOR Concurring with the Advice of his two Houfes of "Parliament, which, with reference to the Common-wealth, "may be as well at this diftance, as by being at White-Hall, "his Majefty doubts not, but his good Subjects of London "well know, how far, beyond the example of his Predecef"fors, his Majefty hath concurr'd with their Advice, in passing " of fuch Laws, by which he willingly parted with many of "his known Rights, for the benefit of his Subjects; which "the fundamental Conftitutions of this Kingdom did not "oblige him to confent unto; and hath ufed all poffible "means to beget a right understanding between them: And "will therefore apply themfelves to thofe who by making “Just, Peaceable, and Honourable Propofitions to his Majesty "can only beget that concurrence. THIS Anfwer the King fent by a Servant of his own, fuppofing, that if he fent by the Meffengers who brought the Petition, it might either be fupprefs'd, or not communicated in that manner as He defired. Besides, the Meffengers themfelves, after the King had caused it to be read to them, were very well contented that it fhould be deliver'd by other hands than theirs. So they promised his Majesty, that they would procure a Common Hall (which is the moft general Affembly of the City, the meaneft Perfon being admitted) to be call'd affoon as they return'd; where his Meffenger might deliver it: And having been graciously used by the King and the Court, after two days ftay, they return'd from Oxford together with the Gentleman fent by his Majefty. When they came to London, the contents of the Answer were quickly known, though not deliver'd; and the two Houses made an Order, "That the Lord Mayor fhould not call a "Common «Common Hall, till he receiv'd farther direction from Them. So that, though the Gentleman, fent by the King, often fol licited the Lord Mayor, "That he would call a Common "Hall, at which he was to deliver a Meffage from the King, many days paffed before any Orders were iffued to that purpose. AT laft, a day was appointed, and, at the fame time, a Committee of the Lords and Commons were fent to be prefent, to fee that it might not have fuch a reception, as might render their Intereft fufpected. As foon as the Gentleman fent by the King had read his Majefty's Answer, the Earl of Manchefter told them, "Of the high value the Parliament had "of the City; that they had confider'd of those wounding "Afperfions, which, in that Anfwer, were caft upon Perfons "of fuch eminent Affection in their City, and upon others, "of great Fidelity and Truft among them: That they own'd "themselves to be equally interefted in all things that con"cern'd them, and would ftand by them with their Lives, "and Fortunes, for the Prefervation of the City in general, "and thofe Perfons in Particular who had been Faithful, and "deferv'd well both of the Parliament, and Kingdom. And "they would purfue all means with their Lives and Fortunes, "that might be for the prefervation of that City, and for the "procuring of Safety, Happiness, and Peace, to the whole "Kingdom. "ASSOON as his Lordship had finish'd his Oration, which was receiv'd with marvellous Acclamations, Mr Pym enlarg ed himself, in a Speech then printed, upon the feveral parts of the King's Answer (for it was fo long before it was deliver'd, that the printed Copies from Oxford, which were printed there after the Meffenger was gone fo long that all Men concluded it was deliver'd, were publick and in all hands and told them the fenfe of the two Houses of Parliament, upon every part of it. Among the reft, "That the demanding the "Lord Mayor, and the other three Citizens, was against the "Privilege of Parliament (two of them being Members of "the Houfe of Commons) and most dishonourable to the City, "that the Lord Mayor of London fhould be fubjected to the "violence of every base Fellow; and that they should be com"manded to deliver up their chief Magiftrates, and fuch emi"nent Members of the City, to the King's pleasure, only be "cause they had done their duty, in adhering to the Parlia "ment, for the defence of the Kingdom. HE told them, "That, to the objection that the Govern "ment of the City had been manag'd by a few defperate Per"fons, and that they did exercise an Arbitrary Power, the "two Houses gave them this Teftimony, that they had, in "most "most of the great occafions concerning the Government of "the City, follow'd Their direction: and that direction which "the Parliament had given; They had executed; and they ❝ mult, and would maintain to be fuch, as food with Their "honour in giving it, and the others truft, and fidelity in "performing it. To the objecton, That the Property of the Subject was "deftroy'd by taking away the twentieth part by an Arbi❝trary Power, he told them, that That Ordinance did not "require a twentieth part, but did limit the Affeffors that "they should not go beyond a twentieth part, and that was "done by a Power deriv'd from both Houfes of Parliament; "the Lords, who had an hereditary Intereft in making of "Laws in this Kingdom; and the Commons, who were elect❝ed and chosen to reprefent the whole Body of the Com“mönalty, and trufted, for the good of the People, when "ever they fee caufe, to charge the Kingdom. He faid farther, "That the fame Law which did enable the two Houses "of Parliament to raise Forces to maintain, and defend "the fafety of Religion, and of the Kingdom, did likewife "enable them to require contributions whereby those Forces "might be maintain'd; or else it were a vain power to raise "Forces, if they had not a power likewife to maintain them "in that Service for which they were raised. He obferv'd, "that it was reported, that the King declar'd he would fend "fome Meffengers to obferve their carriage in the City, and "what was done among them: the Parliament had juft cause "to doubt, that thofe would be Meffengers of fedition, and "trouble, and therefore defir'd them to obferve and find them "out, that they might know who they were. He concluded with Commending unto their confideration, the great dan "ger that they were all in; and that the danger could not be "kept off, in all likelyhood, but by the Army that was then "on foot and affur'd them, "That the Lords and Commons were fo far from being frighted by any thing, in that Anfwer, that they had for Themfelves, and the Members of both Houfes, declar'd a further contribution, towards the «maintenance of that Army; and could not but hope, and defire, that the City, which had fhew'd fo much good affe«&tioni in the former neceffities of the State, would be fenfible of their own, and of the condition of the whole Kingdom, and add to that which they had already done, fome "farther Contribution, whereby that Army might be main"tain'd for all their fafeties. WHETHER the folemnity for the reception of this Merfage after it was known what the contents were, and the bringing fo great a Guard of arm'd Men to the place where it was to |