HIS MAJESTIES MESSAGE Sent from Beverley to both Houses of Parliament, 24. April.  
Concerning Sir John Hothams refusal to permit His majesty to enter into His Town of HULL.  
Together with a Petition presented unto His majesty in the name of the Gentry, and Commons of the County of YORK.  
With His Majesties Letter to the mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Town and Port of Kingston upon HULL. 25. April. 1642.  
YORK: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL. 1642.   

❧ His Majesties Message sent to both Houses of Parliament, 24. April. Concerning Sir John Hothams refusal to permit His majesty to enter into His Town of Hull.  
HIs majesty, having received the Petition enclosed from most of the chief of the Gentry near about York, desiring the stay of His Majesties Arms and Munition in his magazine at Hull, for the s●fety, not onely of His Majesties Person and Children, but likewise of all these Northern parts, the manifold rumors of great dangers inducing them to make their said Supplication, thought it most fit to go himself in Person to His Town of Hull, to view His Arms and Munition there, that thereupon He might give directions what part thereof might be necessary to remain there, for the security and satisfaction of His Northern Subjects, and what part thereof might be spared for Ireland, the arming of His Majesties Scots Subjects that are to go thither, or to replenish His chiefest magazine of the Tower of London: Where being come, upon the 23. of this instant April( much contrary to His expectation) He found all the Gates shut upon Him, and the Bridges drawn up, by the express command of Sir John Hotham, who, for the present, commands a Garrison there, and from the walls flatly denied His majesty entrance into His said Town, the reason of the said denial being as strange to His majesty as the thing itself; it being, That he could not admit His Majesty, without breach of trust to His Parliament, which did the more incense His Majesties Anger against him, for that He most Seditiously and traitorously would have put his Disobedience upon His Majesties Parliament, which His Majesty being willing to clear, demanded of him, If he had the impudence to aver, That the Parliament had directed him to deny His majesty entrance, & that if he had any such Order, that he should show it in writing, for otherwise His Majesty could not believe it; which he could no ways produce, but maliciously made that false Interpretation, according to his own Inferences, confessing that he had no such positive Order, which His majesty was ever confident of. But His majesty, not willing to take so much pains in vain, offered to come into that His Town onely with twenty Horse, finding that the main of his pretence lay, That His Majesties Train was able to command the Garrison( notwithstanding His majesty was so desirous to go thither in a private way, that He gave warning thereof but overnight) which he refusing, but by way of Condition( which His majesty thought much below Him) held it most necessary to declare him traitor( unless, upon better thoughts, he should yield obedience) which he doubly deserved, as well for his refusing entrance to His natural Sovereign, as by laying the Reason thereof groundlessly and maliciously upon His Parliament. One Circumstance His majesty cannot forget, That His Son, the Duke of York, and His Nephew, the Prince Elector, having gone thither the day before, Sir John Hotham delayed the letting of them out to His majesty, till after some Consultation.  
Hereupon, His majesty hath thought it expedient to demand Iustice of His Parliament against the said Sir John Hotham, to be exemplarily inflicted on him, according to the Laws; and the rather, because His majesty would give them a fit occasion to free themselves of this Imputation by him so injuriously cast upon them; to the end His Majesty may have the easier way for the chastising of so high a Disobedience.   

TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT majesty. The humble Petition of the Gentry and Commons of the County of YORK.  
Most royal Sovereign,  
ENcouraged by Your Majesties many Testimonies of Your gracious goodness to us and our County, which we can never sufficiently aclowledge, We, in all Duty and Loyalty of heart, address ourselves to your Sacred majesty, beseeching You to cast your Eyes and Thoughts upon the safety of your own Person, and your Princely Issue, and this whole County; a great means whereof we conceive doth consist in the Arms and Ammunition at Hull, placed there by your Princely Care and Charge, and since upon general Apprehension of Dangers from foreign parts, represented to your majesty, thought fit as yet to be continued: We, for our parts, conceiving ourselves to be still in danger, do most humbly beseech your majesty, That you will be pleased to take such course and order, that your magazine may still there remain, for the better securing of these, and the rest of the Northern parts: And the rather, because we think it fit, That that part of the Kingdom should be best provided where your sacred Person doth reside, your Person being like Davids, The light of Israel, and more worth then ten thousand of us;  
Who shall daily pray, &c.   

 arms of Charles I HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT   

To Our trusty and well-beloved, the mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Our Town and Port of Kingston upon Hull.  
TRusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Whereas we have been long sensible of the just Complaints and great Burdens of Our Subjects in these Northern parts, by occasion of the Garrison in Our Town of Hull; And whereas We were upon Friday the 22. of this month petitioned by divers of the Gentry, and others, Inhabitants of this County, That the Munition at Hull might remain in the magazine there, for the security of Our Person, and of all these Northern parts, their Fears being much grounded upon the Parliaments Relations of foreign Invasions; Upon which, the more to express Our care of Our peoples safety, We did ourself go in Person to that Our Town, that upon Our own view, We might consult what proportion of it might be fitly removed upon any pressing Occasion, having a respect to the promised supply for Scotland, the necessary use of Arms for Ireland, as well as for the safeguard and satisfaction of these Northern parts: But much contrary to Our expectation, and the Duty and Allegiance of Our Subjects, We found the Gates of that Our Town shut, and the Bridges drawn up against Us; and though We came in a peaceable way, reposing the greatest Confidence in the Love and Loyalty of Our People, by offering( as We did) to put Our own Person, and Our two Sons, but with twenty Horse, into that Town, there being in it a Garrison of about eight hundred Souldiers; Yet We were not onely denied entrance, but in a warlike manner opposed by Sir John Hotham, the armed men being placed in all the Ports, and about all the Walls of the Town, alleging( though falsely) for his excuse, The Command of the Parliament, and being pressed by Us to show such an Order in Writing, he could not do it; for We were ever very confident that there was never any public Order of theirs, that could so much as imply a denial to Our Admission; We knowing well enough, that he was entrusted by them for a Guard and Security of that place against foreign Enemies, or those at home who are dis-affected in Religion, and not against His natural Sovereign; which hostile Opposition and actual Levying of War against Our Person, being, by the Statute of 25. Ed. 3. enacted High Treason: Which Statute considered, and that for the avoiding of all Jealousies, as We have said, We were content to have been admitted with so very small a number in Our Company, We were thereupon constrained to proclaim the said Sir John Hotham, and all those that should adhere to, or assist him, Traytors. Of all which abovesaid Passages, We have acquainted Our Parliament, demanding Justice to be done upon him, that they might thereby have opportunity to vindicate the imputation laid on them by Sir John Hotham, and We the easier way to chastise, according to the Law, so high a Treason. And lest a mis-understanding of Our Intentions, or of the Law may misguide any of Our loyal and well-affected Subjects, the Inhabitants, Captains, Officers, or Souldiers in that Town, We have thought fit to commend to your Consideration the aforenamed Statutes, with that of the 11. of Hen. 7. Cha. 1. wherein it is declared, by the unanimous Assent of Parliament, That the Subjects of this Realm are bound, by the Duty of Allegiance, to serve the King, for the time being, for the defence of His Person and the Land, against every Rebellion, Might, or Power raised against Him, and with His majesty to enter and abide in Service in battle, if cause so require. And it was therefore then enacted, That, from thenceforth no person whatsoever that shall attend vpon the King, or be in place, by His command, within, or without the Land, That for the same dead and true service of Allegiance, he, and they be no ways attaint or convict of high Treason, or of other Offences for that Cause, by any process of Law, whereby he, or any of them shall lose or forfeit Lives, Lands, Tenements, Goods, or any thing; but be, for that dead and Service utterly discharged of any vexation, trouble, or loss; And if any Act or Acts, or other process of Law thereupon for the same happen to be made contrary to this Ordinance, that then that Act or Acts, or other process of the Law whatsoever they shall be, stand and be utterly voided.  
All which, together with the Copies of Our Message and Petition( which We sand here enclosed) We require you to publish to the Inhabitants, and all such Commanders and Souldiers as will hear them: That knowing both the peril of the Law on the one side, and the security of such as shall adhere to Us on the other, they be not misled( through Ignorance) to decline their, Allegiance; and that the Souldiers may lay down their Arms, and admit Our entrance in a peaceable way. In so doing, you shall both discharge your duties, and those that shall have need, be assured to find( upon such their submission) Our ready Mercy and Pardon.  
And We do likewise require, and charge all you, the Inhabitants( as well Souldiers as others) upon your Allegiance, That you permit not any part of Our magazine or Munition to be removed or transported out of that Town under any pretence of Order or Power whatsoever, without Our royal Assent in writing under Our Hand. Assuring you, That it will be much more pleasing to Us to have Occasion administered by the Fidelity of the Inhabitants to enlarge those Graces and Immunities granted to that Town by Our Predecessors, then to have any occasion to question your Charter.  
Given at Our Court at York, the 25. of April, 1642.  
FINIS.