To the Right Honourable, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, the humble petition of the gentry, ministers, free-holders, and other substantiall inhabitants of the county of York. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94656 of text R213019 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1684). 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. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A94656 Wing T1684 ESTC R213019 45097956 ocm 45097956 171530 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. A94656) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 171530) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2576:32) To the Right Honourable, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, the humble petition of the gentry, ministers, free-holders, and other substantiall inhabitants of the county of York. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Imprinted at York, and reprinted at London for Richard Lownes, [London] : June 8. 1642. Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library. eng Yorkshire (England) -- History. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. A94656 R213019 (Wing T1684). civilwar no To the Right Honourable, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, the humble petition of the gentry, ministers, free-holders, and othe [no entry] 1642 759 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 C The rate of 13 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-04 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion ¶ To the Right Honourable , the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled , The humble Petition of the Gentry , Ministers , Free-holders , and other substantiall Inhabitants of the County of YORK . Sheweth , THat they cannot be affraid , themselves , or any other shall inour your displeasures for declaring their just feares in an humble way , or representing that these generall distractions have a more powerfull influence and operation upon this particular County , than upon any other Member , or part of this Kingdom , whereby for divers years last past it hath endured the miseries which inevitably follow Armies , paying neverthelesse Taxes and Subsidies , equally to other Counties which have been free from those Burdens and Pressures , and have besides laid out great sums of Money for billiting Souldiers ( whereof a very small part is hitherto re-imbursed ) to the great exhausting the whole County , and ruine of divers Persons and Families : Yet the discontented Retirement of His Majestie from you His great Councell , and the different Commands since severally issuing and proceeding , especially concerning the Militia , which distracts the mindes of all who desire to build up their obedience upon a sure and knowne foundation , and the great distaste His Majestie takes to have a Garrison , without His allowance , kept so neer His Sacred Person , and the many inconveniences which may from thence arise to this County , doe make us already sensible of more dangerous effects than have hitherto befallen us ; especially seeing thereby Trade and Commerce ( the very subsistence of this County ) which hitherto staied in all the late noise of Armes and Tumults , is now driven away and frighted from among us , whereby we suffer before hand the ruinous consequences of a reall War , and from thence apprehend the greatest of Calamities to follow , unlesse Gods blessing and a speedy union doe happily prevent them from the sense of those imminent mischiefes , and consideration of His Majesties Expressions of His good intentions and endeavours for Peace and a right Vnderstanding , we are bold in all humility to Pe●ition , That a timely remedy may be applyed , lest our Disease grow desperately past Cure , without such applications as may endanger the vitall Spirits of the Kingdom : That since your selves have declared his Maiesties absence to be the main hinderance of this necessary Work , and his Maiesty expressed his willingnesse to return when you shall give life to the Laws of the Land , for his security against Tumults ; That his Maiesty may receive such assurance , for His secure residing in all places , and such Invitations as may allure His abode with you , his Great Councell ; That such a due regard may be had for the reparation of his Maiesties Honour , as well in this unfortunate businesse of Hull , as ( where it hath in any sort beene blemished , and where he may iustly expect it ) together with the safety of the Kingdom , as may evidence to all the world , that nothing is dearer to us then the security and glory of our King and Kingdom , whose Honour and Reputation , both at home and abroad , must stand and fall together ; That his Maiesties gracious Message of the twentieth of Ianuary ( which your selves then so termed , and gave humble thanks for ) as also his others since his retirement , may be taken into such serious consideration , as may give hopes to all good Subjects of an effectuall concurrence : That we may not be distracted by contrary Commands , but that the known Law of the Land , which we humbly conceive is the fundamentall Liberty of the Subiect , and no Arbitrary government may be the Rule of our Obedience , and the Guide and Determiner of all our Actions and Differences : And we , according to our Allegiance , shall be ready to maintain His Maiesties Royall Person , Crown , and Dignity , his iust Rights and Prerogative , together with the lawfull Priviledges of Parliament , the just Liberty of the Subject , the true Protestant Profession , and the Peace of the Land . And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c. Imprinted at York , and reprinted at London for Richard Lownes , June 8. 1642.