The humble petition of the inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, presented to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie at VVindsor the thirteenth of this instant January. 1642. In the behalfe of Mr. Hampden Knight for the said county, and of the rest of the members of Parliament, accused by his Maiestie of treason. VVith his Maiesties gratious answere thereunto. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86798 of text R209739 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[33]). 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. 3 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 A86798 Wing H3513 Thomason 669.f.3[33] ESTC R209739 99868605 99868605 160591 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. A86798) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160591) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f3[33]) The humble petition of the inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, presented to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie at VVindsor the thirteenth of this instant January. 1642. In the behalfe of Mr. Hampden Knight for the said county, and of the rest of the members of Parliament, accused by his Maiestie of treason. VVith his Maiesties gratious answere thereunto. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Iohu [sic] Burroughes, London : 1641 [i.e. 1642] The King's answer is dated: 13 January, 1642. With engraved border. Annotation on Thomason copy: "1641". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Hampden, John, 1594-1643 -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Treason -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. A86798 R209739 (Thomason 669.f.3[33]). civilwar no The humble petition of the inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, presented to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie at VVindsor the thirteent England and Wales. Sovereign 1642 484 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. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE HVMBLE PETITION of the Inhabitants of the County OF BVCKINGHAM , Presented to the KINGS most Excellent Maiestie at WINDSOR the thirteenth of this instant January . 1642. In the behalfe of Mr. Hampden Knight for the said County , and of the rest of the members of Parliament , accused by his Maiestie of Treason . VVith his Maiesties gratious answere thereunto . Sheweth , THat your petitioners having by vertue of your highnes writt chosen Iohn Hampden Esquire Knight for our Shire in whose loyaltie and wisdome , we his Contrymen , and Neighbours have ever had good cause to confide : how ever of late , to our no lesse amazement then greife , wee find him with other members of Parliament accused of Treason , and haveing taken to our serious consideration , the manner of their impeachments we cannot but ( under your Majesties favour ) conceive , that it doth so oppugne the rights of Parliaments , to the maintenance whereof our Protestation bind us : That we beleive it is the malice ( which their zeale to your Majesties service , & the State , hath contracted ) in the enemies to your Majesty , the Church , and common wealth hath occasioned this fowle accusation rather then any desert of theirs ; who doe likewise through their sides wound the judgement and care of us your Petitioners , and others , by whose choice they were presented to the House . Your petitioners most humbly pray that Master Hampden , and the rest that lye under the burden of that accusation may enjoy the Iust priviledges of Parliament . And your Petitioners will ever pray &c. His Maiesties answer . At the Court at Windsor the 13th . of Ianuary . 1642. HIs Majesty being graciouslie pleased to let all his subjects understand his care not ( knowingly ) to violate in the least degree , any of the Priviledges of Parliament , hath therefore lately by a Message sent by the Lord Keeper signified ; That hee is pleased ( because of the doubt that hath beene raised of the manner ) to waive his former proceedings against the said Master Hampden and the rest mentioned in this Petition , concerning whom his Majesty intends to proceed in an unquestionable way . And then his Majesty saith it will appeare that hee had so sufficient grounds to question them , as hee might not in Iustice to the Kingdome , and Honour to himselfe have forborne ; and yet his Majesty had much rather that the said persons should prove innocent , then be found guilty , however , hee cannot conceive that their crimes can in any sort reflect upon those his good Subjects , who elected them to serve in Parliament . London Printed for Iohn Burroughes 1641.