The humble PETITION And resolution Of the county Of KENT, Presented and red to the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament, August 30, 1642.  
With the Answer of the Lords thereunto Annexed.  

August 30, 1642.  
ORdered by the Lords in Parliament, that this Petition together with the Answer thereunto, shall bee forthwith Printed and published.  
John brown clear. Parliamentorum.   
September 1, Printed for John Wright. 1642.   

To the Right Honourable the Lords Assembled in Parliament,  
The humble Petition and Resolution of the gentlemen, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Kent.  
WE your humble and faithful Petitioners, inhabiting the County of Kent, being deeply sensible of the many miseries which these calamitous times( notwithstanding your great care and vigilence to prevent the same) are likely to produce, wherein his gracious majesty seduced by the malevolent counsel of an ill affencted party of malignants and Cavaliers; The Protestant Religion, his royal person, and Honour, the privilege of Parliament, and the subject, Liberty, are threatened with too too apparent hazard and ruin, Towards the support of which your Petitioners, according to the duty of loyal Subiects, and good Christians, are not onely willing to contribute their best wishes and votes, but even the utmost of their endeavours, both with their lives and fortunes for the redeeming of his majesty from such hands, and our Religion and Liberty from such peril and danger: But may it please this Honourable House to consider that the Petitioners apprehended themselves in a condition and posture nothing suitable to this their Resolution being deprived, and left naked by the taking our arms from us in the late Expedition for Scotland: we therefore beseech your provident care to empower us with such a proportion of Ammunition and arms to be magazined in these parts, whereby we may be enabled to manifest our Affections and obedience to the command of King and Parliament, both for the pursuance of the aforesaid Intentions, and opposition of all illegal Infringements of our laws and Liberties, such as the commission of Array, wherewith we are at this time threatened, and what other of the like Nature and condition soever shall be hereafter obtruded upon us.  
And your Petitioners shall be bound, &c.   

The Answer of the Lords, to the aforesaid Petition.  
MY Lords have taken your Petition into consideration, and cannot but with great content observe the constancy of your good affections to the King and Parliament, which as well formerly as at this present you have expressed by your Petitions to this House, and disclaiming and opposing with so much industry and fidelity, the seditious designs and endeavours of some Malignant and ill-affected persons within your County, to suppress whose malicious practises and to preserve that County in peace; care hath already been taken by the Parliament with good success, and as they intended it, and do believe to your content, safety and satisfaction. And their Lordships do further assure you that they will always continue the like care, as for the good, safety, and peace of the whole kingdom, so in particular of that County, being encouraged thereunto by this seasonable Petition, of your Resolutions and good affections, for the manifestation whereof, of the whole kingdom, and of their Lordships kind acceptation and thankes for the same. Their Lordships have commanded your petition and their Answer, to be forthwith printed and published.  

August 30, 1642.  
ORdered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this Petition and Answer shall be forthwith Printed and Published.  
John brown Cleric. Parliamentorum.   
FINIS.