The humble petition of Captain William Booth of Killingholme in the county of Lincoln with His Majesties answer thereunto. Booth, William. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A28807 of text R25935 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B3740). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A28807 Wing B3740 ESTC R25935 09296313 ocm 09296313 42640 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A28807) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 42640) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1303:4) The humble petition of Captain William Booth of Killingholme in the county of Lincoln with His Majesties answer thereunto. Booth, William. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 6 p. Printed by Robert Barker, and by the Assignes of John Bill, York : 1642. "York, 30 June, 1642." Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Sources. A28807 R25935 (Wing B3740). civilwar no The humble petition of Captain William Booth of Killingholme, in the county of Lincoln. VVith His Majesties answer thereunto. York, 30 June, Booth, William 1642 1147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2005-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs 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 .