THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE LORDS and COMMONS in PARLIAMENT Assembled. 
 TO THE KING'S Most Excellent Majesty.  
For a Pacification between His Majesty and both Houses. As it was delivered by the Lord of Holland to His Majesty at Beverly, on Saturday, July 16. 1642.  
May it please your Majesty,  
ALthough we Your Majesty's most humble and faithful Subjects, the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, have been very unhappy in many former Petitions and Supplications to Your Majesty, wherein we have represented our most dutiful Affections, in advising and desiring those things which we held most necessary for the preservation of God's true Religion, Your Majesty's safety and Honour, and the peace of the Kingdom; And with much sorrow do perceive, That Your Majesty, incensed by many false Calumnies and Slanders, doth continue to raise forces against us, and Your other peaceable and loyal Subjects, and to make great preparations for War, both in the Kingdom, and from beyond the Seas; and by Arms and violence to overrule the Judgement and Advice of Your great Council, and by force to determine the Questions there depending, concerning the Government and Liberty of the Kingdom yet such is our earnest desire of discharging our duty to Your Majesty and the Kingdom, to preserve the peace thereof, and to prevent the miseries of Civil War amongst your Subjects: That notwithstanding we hold ourselves bound to use all the means and power, which by the Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdom we are trusted with, for defence and protection thereof, and of the Subjects from force and violence; We do in this our humble and loyal Petition prostrate ourselves at Your Majesty's feet, beseeching your Majesty, That you will be pleased to forbear, and remove all Preparations and Actions of War, particularly the forces from about Hull, from Newcastle, Tynmouth, Lincoln, and Lincolnshire, and all other places; And that Your Majesty will recall the Commissions of Array, which are illegal; Dismiss Troops, and extraordi-Guards by you raised; That Your Majesty will come nearer to your Parliament, and hearken to their faithful Advice, and humble Petitions, which shall only tend to the defence and advancement of Religion, Your own Royal Honour and safety, the preservation of our Laws and Liberties; And we have been, and shall ever be careful to prevent and punish all Tumults, and seditious Actions, Speeches, and Writings, which may give Your Majesty just cause of distaste or apprehension of danger. That Your Majesty will leave delinquents to the due course of Justice; And that nothing done or spoken in Parliament, or by any Person in pursuance of the Commands and Directions of both Houses of Parliament, be questioned any where, but in Parliament.  
And we, for our Parts, shall be ready to lay down all those preparations, which we have been forced to make for our defence. And for the Town of Hull, and the Ordinance concerning the Militia, as we have in both these particulars, only sought the preservation of the Peace of the Kingdom, and the defence of the Parliament, from force and violence. So we shall most willingly leave the Town of Hull in the state it was before Sir John Hotham drew any forces into it, delivering Your Majesty's Magazine into Your Tower of London, and suppressing whatsoever hath been disposed by us for the service of the Kingdom. We shall be ready to settle the Militia by a Bill, in such a way, as shall be Honourable and safe for Your Majesty, most agreeable to the Duty of Parliament, and effectual for the good of the Kingdom; That the strength thereof be not employed against itself; and that which ought to be for our security, applied to our destruction: And that the Parliament, and those who profess and desire still to preserve the Protestant Religion, both in this Realm and in Ireland, may not be left naked, and indefensible, to the mischevous designs, and cruel attempts of those, who are the professed and confederate enemies thereof, in Your Majesty's Dominions, and other Neighbour Nations. To which, if Your Majesty's Courses and Counsels shall from henceforth concur, We doubt not but we shall quickly make it appear to the World, by the most eminent effects of Love and Dury, That Your Majesty's personal safety, Your Royal Honour and Greatness are mach dearer to us then our own Lives and Fortunes, which we do most hearty Dedicate, and shall most willingly employ for the support and maintenance thereof.   

Veneris Julii 15. 1642.  
Ordered by the Lords in Parliament, That this Petition be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Jo. Brown, Cler. Parl.