PET ITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF CYRENCESTER whose names are 〈…〉 subscribed.  
Presented to His Maiestie at Oxford.  
WITH HIS MAJESTY Answer thereunto.  
Printed, by His MAJESTY'S Command, AT OXFORD, February 28. By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the University. 1642.   

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.  
The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of CYRENCESTER.  
DREAD SOVEREIGN,  
WE Your poor Subjects the Inhabitants of the miserable distressed Cyrencester, having undergone all the heavy effects of Your Majesties justly incensed Army, do prostrate ourselves at Your Majesty's feet, not to excuse, or in the lest measure to extenuate our ill-deserving. We acknowledge us unexcusably faulty, but to appeal unto Your mercy, and to beg Your pardon, That as we have been through all Your Kingdoms the first example of Your justly deserved Rigour, and the terror thereof working its due effect upon all others, to deter them from provoking Your like displeasure, we may remain Your most remarkable object of Your mercy, the most glorious and resplendent gem of Your Crown. O, Sir, the God of Heaven hath given You unto us our God upon the earth. We have grievously sinned against him by our undutiful carriage against You his Vicegerent. Behold us now lying before You, acknowledging, and from our hearts detesting the foulness of our offence, and ourselves for committing it. And most humbly beseeching Your Majesty in imitation of that Divine virtue, the most lively Character of his Image in You, to Pardon us, and to receive us into Your protection. In the assurance whereof, we may securely return to, and abide at our several homes, begin to go on in our former Trades and Occupations, and, by God's good blessing upon us, in them many hundreds of People of our Town and adjoining parts of the County, who have no other livelihood, may again be set on work and relieved, and we may have the hope in time, upon our after care, to endeavour to express the sincerity of our true return to the Duties of our Allegiance, to joy in the recovery of Your wont Favour, and all of us, all our lives long, and our posterity after us, bound to acknowledge the height of Your mercy, to pray to Almighty God to bless Your Majesty with all the happiness which he hath promised in his sacred word, to all that shall show mercy.  


ANdrew Solace.  
Row. Freeman.  
Robert Iles.  
Thomas Dutton.  
William Willis.  
Edmund Freeman.  
William Taylor.  
George Stone.  
Amos Dansey.  
Virgil Crippes.  
Thomas Gibbes.  
More Gwilliam.  
Edward Causton.  
William Chance.  
john Beaton.  
Edmund Feribee.  
Michael Sharp.  
William Groves.  
Thomas Man.  
john Portlocke.  
john Batt.  
Richard Aucutt.  
Edward Prat.  
john Kerby.  
Thomas Tipping.  
john Petty.  
james Armand.  
Thomas Maysey.  
Richard Matthew.  
john Flacher.  
Richard Solace.  
Thomas Man.  
Thomas Cartor.  
Edward Scovell.  
Richard Masters.  
john Franklin.  
Walter Portlocks.  
Richard Evans.  
james Burge.  
Thomas Allen.  
Samuel Spencer.  
Henry Webb.  
Richard Man.  
William Burge.  
Michael Hartred.  
George Laurence.     

HIS MAJESTY'S GRACIOUS ANSWER TO the foregoing PETITION.  
At the Court at Oxford the 25. day of February 1642.  
HIS MAJESTY graciously accepts the submission of the Petitioners, & is Himself sorry that the Rebellion and disloyalty of that place hath brought so great a measure of sufferings upon any of His Subjects; which was not in His Majesty's power to prevent. He is well pleased that all the Inhabitants of that Town of Cyrencester return safely to their Houses, and live securely in them, from all violence by any of His Majesty's Soldiers, that the Trade and Wealth of that place may (by God's blessing) be again renewed. And His Majesty's Will is, and doth hereby give precise Order, that no violence or Injury be henceforward offered by any of His Majesty's Garrison or Soldiers to the Petitioners, or any the Inhabitants of Cyrencester, they demeaning themselves with that duty and obedience to His Majesty's just and necessary Commands, as the condition of the present time, and His Majesty's necessities require. And His Majesty's express Command is, That the Governor of Cyrencester for the time being, and all other, His Majesty's Officers and Soldiers of that His Garrison, take Order and conform themselves accordingly.  
EDW. NICHOLAS.   
FINIS.