THE HUMBLE PETITION OF The Gentry and Commons of the County of York, presented to His Majesty at York, April 22. 1642. AND His MAI ESTIES Message sent to the Parliament, April 24. 1642.  
Concerning Sir john Hothams' Refusal to give His Majesty Entrance into Hull.  
LONDON, Printed for W. J. in the year, 1642.   

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 acknowledge 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 of which we concieve 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 david's, the light of Israel, and more worth than ten thousand of us.  
Who shall daily pray etc.   

¶ His Majesty's Message sent to the Parliament, April 24. 1642.  
Concerning Sir John Hotham's Refusal to give His Majesty Entrance into Hull  
HIs Majesty having received the Petition enclosed from most of the chief of the Gentry near about York, desiring the stay of his Majesty's Arms and Munition in His Magazine at Hull, for the safety (not only of His Majesty's Person and Children, but likewise of all these Northern parts: The manifold rumours 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 Majesty's Scots Subjects that are to go thither, Or to replenish his chiefest Magazine of the Tower of London, Where being come, upon the three and twentieth 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 Majesty's anger against him, for that he most Seditiously and Traitorously would have put his disobedience upon his Majesty's 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, and 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 only with twenty Horse, finding that the main of his pretence lay, That his Majesty's 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 aswell for refusing Entrance to his natural Sovereign, as by laying the reason the reof 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 justice of his Parliament against the said Sir John Hotham, to be exemplarily inflicted one 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.