The humble PETITION OF Divers Noblemen and Gentlemen, estated in Ireland, now at London. Presented to His majesty at YORK. Together With His Majesties Answer thereunto. March 28. 1642.  
YORK: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL. 1642.   


TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT majesty.  
The humble Petition of divers Noblemen and Gentlemen, estated in Ireland, now at London,  
Humbly sheweth,  
THat most of Your Petitioners, and many thousands of Your Majesties most faithful Subjects, and late Inhabitants of Your Kingdom of Ireland, being robbed and spoiled of all their substance( and thereby many of them reduced to a most miserable condition, who formerly faithfully served your majesty) are now enforced to fly into this Kingdom, by occasion of the unexampled bloody and inhuman Cruelties of the Rebels of that Kingdom, who through the instigation of popish Priests, friars, and jesuits, and other malignant persons, have risen in arms in that Kingdom, against your Majesties Crown and Dignity, and destroyed or banished almost all your Majesties loyal and dutiful Subjects, the Protestants there, for no other cause, but for that they do not worship God after their idolatrous and superstitious manner; which is manifest by their public Declarations, Speeches, Oaths, and Confederacies( albeit some few other fond Pretences are added to gloss their most barbarous actions) That these four moneths past, the expectation of powerful Supplies, Treasure, and Amunicion from England and Scotland, hath supported the drooping and languishing Spirits of your Petitioners, and others, the Protestants interressed in that Kingdom; who finding but small Succours hitherto sent thither, notwithstanding the several Orders of both Houses of Parliament, do now, with unspeakable grief of heart, apprehended nothing but despair of ever being restored to their habitations, if your majesty be not graciously pleased to give Life and Power to the painful endeavours of both Houses of Parliament; the prosecution of that War necessary requiring a great sum of Money to be presently raised. And in all humility, the Petitioners conceive the Act lately passed by Your majesties royal Grace and goodness( upon the Propositions made by those who shall adventure their Moneys) to be the onely way left for raising present Money for that work: And they find that the removal of your Sacred majesty to places so remote and distant from the Parliament, doth much discourage the Adventurers in advancing Money for effectual proceeding in the work, & consequently will be a means unavoidably to retard the long expected Supplies, contrary to your majesties royal Intentions often expressed, and will much encourage the Rebels and their Adherents in that Kingdom; and may, in the opinion of some, as they fear, gain a belief of those false reports which divers of the Rebels have taken the boldness to raise, even very lately, since the publishing of your majesties Proclamation for suppressing the Rebels, That they are your Majesties Souldiers, and that the Supplies that arrived there, were but the Parliament Supplies. And your Petitioners further humbly show, That if strong Forces be not presently raised and transported thither( the season of the year now serving) the british and Protestants in that Kingdom cannot long subsist, but will be extirpated, and Papists, and the idolatrous mass thereby established; which is already publicly used in most of the Churches of that Kingdom.  
May it therefore please Your most Sacred majesty to reflect upon the desperate and miserable Condition of that poor Kingdom, and weighing the Premises, and other the Consequences of delaying the effectual setting forward of the War against the Rebels in Ireland, of Your Princely goodness and Wisdom to vouchsafe Your Majesties Presence unto Your Parliament, for the encouragement of the Adventurers and all other Your majesties good Subiects in this pious work, for the Discouragement of the Rebels, and for expediting such further Acts, Commissions, or Warrants to issue, as shall be requisite for the preservation of the remnant of your good Subjects, the Protestants yet left in Ireland, or driven for the present thereout. And your Suppliants will pray, &c.   

At the Court at York. 28. Martii, 1642.  
His majesty hath given me express Command to give you this His Answer to your Petition.  
THat this Petition( as some others of this nature) is grounded upon mis-information, and( being grieved and highly offended to see how His good People have been, and are abused by false Rumors and Intelligences, which have procured causeless Fears and Apprehensions) refers the Petitioners to the two Answers He hath given to His Parliament, viz. To the Declaration presented to Him at New-Market, and to the Petition presented to Him the six and twentieth of this month at York: wherein you will clearly perceive, That His majesty is not gone, but driven from His Parliament: And therefore His majesty hath reason to think, that now( understanding the love He bears to, and Confidence He hath of, His Peoples Fidelity; As likewise His constant Resolution for the maintaining of, and governing by the Laws of the Land) you may find reason to petition the Parliament to comply with His majesties just Desires, and gracious Offers; this being the onely Way, safely and speedily to cure the present Distractions of this Kingdom, and( with Gods blessing) to put a happy end to the Irish Rebellion for the effecting whereof( as His majesty hath often said) He will neither spare pains, nor decline any hazard of His Person or Fortune.  
Signed by Master Secretary Nicholas.   
FINIS.