THE PARLIAMENTS REPLY TO The Kings Majesties Answer to the Petition to the House of Commons, sent 29 january. 1641.  
Wherein is exactly declared the mutual conjoinment, agreement, concordance, and concurrence of the Kings Majesty with the Parliament concerning the State and government of the whole kingdom.  
LONDON, Printed in the year, 1641.   

THE PARLIAMENTS Reply to the Kings Majesties answer to the Petition of the House of Commons, sent 29. Ian. 1641.  
THE House of Commons having with affectionate zeal to the public good of this kingdom, and loyal fidelity to the imperial crown, presented thei● Petition to his M●jesty, and wi●h●ll receiving so gracious an answer to their Petition, do withall obsequious hum●lity accept the same with gr●ti●ude, and resp●ctively do thus reply to his M●j●sties answer to their Petition. Your M●j●st●es good hopes that your gracious Messag● the twentieth of this mon●h to both Houses, would have produced some such over●ur, which, by offering what is fit on our parts to do and what is proper for your M●j●sty to grant, might ●● get a mutu●ll confidence in each other: these( we s●y) good hopes of y●u● M●j●sty are yet nei●●er f●ustr●te, nor scarce retarded for w● endeav●u● with sedulou● diligence rather to stre●●then an● corro●or●te, then in any wise to debil 〈…〉 the sa●● recip●ocall conjunction, and mutual co-op●ration.  
Concerning the Tower of London, wee did greatly suspect that your Majesty having preferred a person of a fortune( though perhaps better known to your Majesty) yet unknown to us, and the City, and in that regard of a questionable reputation to that trust, would be graciously pleased, and respectively induced( and not thereunto pressed) to remove him, many particular charges being there in agitation to be objected against him, and therefore we return this answer, that if hereafter upon due examination many particulars shall be presented to your Majesty, whereby it shall appear, that your Majesty was respectively mistaken in your good opinion of the Gentleman, and that he is suspected to be unfit for the trust committed to him, your Majesty will make no scruple in discharging him, for otherwise( wee aclowledge) your Majesty is obliged in justice to yourself to preserve your own work, that your favour and good opinion may prove a great advantage, and the highest fortune to your servants without any other preferment, of which your Majesty needs not to doubt, but this House of Commons would have been so impartially t●nder( as of all business wherein your Majesties honour is so much concerned) that if they had not found many material exceptions against his person, they would have rather endeavoured to satisfy and reform the fears of other men, then( by complying with them) induce your M●jesty to any resolu●ion, which may seem so much to reflect upon your Honour and Iustice.  
For the Forts and Castles of the kingdom wee are obsequiously most grateful, that your M●jesty is so graciously resolved, that they sh●ll ●lwaies be in such hands, and onely in such, as the parliament may safely confided in; yet we were more solicitous for the common safety of the realm, and therefore we presumed to elect deserving persons for the same; but withall( wee confess●) the nomination of any person to those places being so principal and inseparable a flower of your crown vested in you, and derived to you from your Ancestors, by the fundamental Laws of the kingdom, you may reserve to yourself; in bestowing whereof, as your Majesty will t●ke care that no corrupt or sinister courses shall prevail with you, so your M●jesty is graciously willing to declare that you will not bee induced to express● that favour so soon to any one, as to those whose good demeanour sh●ll bee eminent to you, or your Parliament. And we are very respective to hear of your Majesties so gracious conjunction with us, wherein you declare, that if you have now or shall at any time by mis-information confer such trust upon an undeserving person, you are, and always will be ready to leave him to the wisdom and Iustice of your Parliament.  
As for our petitionary desire for the Militia of the kingdom, your Majesty hath given us a most plenary and contentive Answer to the great satisfaction of us all( which Militia we likewise aclowledge, by the Law is subject to no comm●nd but of your M●jesty, and of authority lawfully derived from you) that when any particular course for ordering the same( which your Majesty, as is declared, holds very necessary for the peace and security of your kingdom) sh●ll bee considered,( ●s your M●jesty hath expressed) and digested by you● Parliament, and proposed to you, your M●j●sty will be pleased to return such an Answer as shall be agreeable to your Honour, and the safety of your people: you have been graciously pleased to answer us so fully in every particular proposition herein, that we are respectively satisfied. A●d wee do moreover willingly subscribe to that, wherein your M●j●sty is resolved to impose the ●l●ction on our parts, but onely to deny those things, the granting whereof would alter the fundamental laws, and endanger the very foundation, upon which the public happiness and welfare of your people is founded, and constituted, and would nourish a greater and more destructive jealousy betwixt the crown and the Subjects, then any of these, which would seem to bee taken away by such a satisf●ction. And your M●jesty need not to doubt, or have the least dubitation, that your having granted more then ever King hath granted, will ever persuade your House of Commons to ask more then ever Subjects have asked. And wee most humbly gratify your Majesty for your gracious solicitation for, and conjunction with us, in that you have declared, that if wee shall acqu●int your M●j●sty with the particular grounds of our doub●s and fears, you will very willingly apply remedies proportion●ll to those fears. For we call God to witness, that the inviolation of your imperial crown, and the preservation of the public peace, the laws and liberties of the Subjects, shall always bee our chiefest care and industry, as of our own lives, and the lives of our dearest friends. And therefore wee by all the Acts of Iustice and favour, that wee have received from you this parliament, by our hopes of future happiness in your Majesty, and in one anothers love of Religion, and peace of this kingdom( in which that of Ireland shall not be forgotten) that wee will not be transported with jealousies, and apprehensions of possible dangers, to put ourselves and your Majesty into real and present inconveniences, but that we will speedily pursue the way proposed by your Majesties former message, which you in human reason are the onely way to compose, and both co●un●tely to mi●igate the distractions of the kingdom, in a conjoined concurrence of our determinations: and with Gods propitious blessings wee shall thereby restore a great measure of felicity to King, Parliament, and whole realm.  
FINIS.