six Matters of State, which hath lately happened between his Majesty, and his high Court of PARLIAMENT.  

First, His Majesties Demands to the Gentry of yorkshire, concerning the town of Hall, answered by two several parties.  
Secondly, The humble Answer of those, who petitioned to his Majesty the thirtieth of April, and divers other Knights and Gentlemen of that Country.  
Thirdly, the humble answer of the ●entry of the County of york.  
Fourthly, The humble Petition of the gentry, Ministers, and Free-holders of the county Palatine of Chester, presented to his majesty at York. 1642.  
Fifthly his Majesties Answer to the humble Petition of the Gentlemen, Free-holders, and Ministers of the County Palatine of Chester, delivered to his majesty at York, the 7. of May. 1642.  
sixthly, A Letter sent from Hull, to the Right worshipful the high sheriff of York-shire, together with the gentry of that county, now attending hi● Majesties pleasure at York.   
London, Printed for F. Coules, and T. Bates. 164●.   

His Majesties demands to the Gentry of York-Shire, concerning the town of Hull, Answered by two several parties.  
WEe conceive that the substance of His Majesties proposition unto us the 30. of April consisted in two particulars, First, to know, Whether wee would defend his Majesties royal Person from violence, or no, according to our duties. Secondly, To have our advice concerning his Majesties not being admitted into his town of Hull, and how his Majesty may be vindicated in his honour for that affront, and how he may be put into the possession of his own.   

The humble Answer of those who Petitioned your Majesty the 30. of April. and divers other Knights and Gentlemen.  
May it please your most Excellent Majesty,  
WEe shall be ready to defend his Majesties person from violence, by al● such ways, as the Law and our duties bind us. And for the means to uindicate your Majesties honour, and to put you into possession of your own, Wee conceive that the best advice, that we can offer unto your Majesty is, humbly to desire you to harken to the Counsels of your Parliament, who( we assure ourselves will bee careful of your Majesties person and honour, and to whom your Majesty hath already been pleased to direct a message to that purpose.   

The humble Answer of the gentry of the County of York.  
ACcording to Your Majesties Command to Your Majesties proposition, we profess our willingness, as in duty wee are bound to defend your Majesties Sacred person against all foreign and domestic attempts, to the uttermost of our power, and as our allegiance binds us, And for the keeping of your Majesties honour, touching the business of Hull, Your M●jesty being pleased to commend it to Your Parliament, the h●gh counsel of Your kingdom, wee do humbly crave pardon that wee do not interpose: But forasmuch as Your majesty may look for a particular satisfaction at our hands, w●e humbly and hear●ily profess that wee shall be ●eady to serve Your Majesty in the same and all other occasions, with our lives and fortunes, as far as your Majesty shall bee pleased legally to enable and command us.   

To the King● most Excellent majesty: The humble petition of the gentry, Ministers and Free-Holders of the county Palatine of Chester, and of the Inquests serving at the Assizes for the body of the said county. Presented to his majesty at york, May 7. 1642.  
Humbly sheweth,  
THat though our heart-breaking griefs have been many and great, through a lively apprehension of our woeful distractions, which have been of late much increased by this long night of your absence from your great council, yet we have had some surviving relics of hop●, that the sighs and groans ▪ the tears and prayers of so many dutiful and well affencted Subjects from all parts might( in time) have been accepted, and at length have proved powerful to have melted your royal breast into compassion, and with( such a loving and pleasant violence) might have won you to em●race again with all tenderness, your whole kingdom as it is at this present represented in Parliament.  
But now we lament, that even those hopes appear to us ghastly, as breathing their last, having little vigour remaining in them to uphold our heart●, for our sorrows are doubled, our fears multiplied, by the report of your Majesties resolutions, to undertake a dangerous voyage into your kingdom of Ireland, whereon wee look with much wonder & astonishment ▪ far be it from you( dread sovereign) to blame our hearts, which( guided by the strength of Law and duty) cannot consent to a journey so perilous, by which your royal Person( wherein wee challenge so great an interest, that it is no more Yours than ours) shall undergo variety of dang●rs by sea and land, wind and waters, having no difference betwixt a King and his meanest vassal.  
And if God( the Guardian and preserver of Princes) shall safely waft you over, what valuable security can bee given us of Your lif●, being amongst such Popish, barbarous, and cru●ll Rebels ▪ as( h●ving banished the sense of all Religion, piety, and humanity ▪ and rejecting God, and you their King from ra●gning over them,) do c●n●i●ue to mu●ther daily your innoce●t and Protestant Subj●cts, of all ages, sexes, and conditions, and which they would persuade the world they do act by Your Au●horiti●, Approbation ▪ and Command, thereby heaping vengeance upon their own heads, and rendering them unc●pable and u●worthy the thoughts of the least g●ace and favour; let Your Iustice, we beseech Your Majesty, have its proper work upon them, and your mercy upon us, by granting our most humble prayers to these particulars:  

To comfort our hearts by your residing where you may with best conveniency consult with your great council before you thus hazard your Pe●son and your people.  
To consider to what danger hereby you expose us to the Popish faction, when your majesty shall leave us naked, and not put into a posture of defence, to repel the rage and attempts of the enemies to our Religion, when wee have too just cause to fear, that they do but wait for an opportunity to bring to birth their cruel Conceptions. And what so great advantage can they hope for, as would be this of Your absence.  
To advice whether this journey would not much retard the intended relief for Ireland since( upon the first rumour) many who were minded to subscribe thereto, do demur in their proceedings, and others wish they might recall what they have subscribed.  
Not ●o deprive us at once of that poor remainder of hope w● have to ro●p further good by the endeavours of Your Parliament ▪ whereof we shall despair, when Your Presence shall be wa●ing to infuse life in their Proposals and Conclusions.  
To believe that a journey to White-Hall will be the more fo● Your Honour and safety, and far more acceptable to your truest Subjects than a voyage to Ireland.  
To view at our humble entreaty that part of King Davids story, who being resolved in person to war against his own Rebels, acquainted the people with his intention, in these words of resolution, I will go with you myself also, but his best Subjects( that were ready to hazard their lives for him, would not suffer him to venture his regal Person, which was to them so perilous) opposed him in those terms, Thou shalt not go forth● neither did David reject them as presumptuous, knowing that their confident expression in that particular, was the issues of their duty and love, but gave them this mildred and satisfactory reply,( which we humbly beg may be your Majesties answer to your Parliament: us, and all other your good Subjects) What seemeth you best, that will we do.   
So shall we ever pray, &c.   

His Majesties Answer to the Humble Petition of the Gentle-men, Free-Holders, and Ministers of the county Palatine of Chester, delivered to his majesty at York, May 7. 1642.  
At the Court at York, May 9. 1542. His majesty hath given me express command to give you this His Answer to your Petition.  
THat He sees plainly that this Petition of yours hath been framed without having heard the Answer His majesty gave to His Parliament, upon their Petition to Him, for desisting from his journey into Ireland; for he cannot think that that country( from whence he hath received formerly so good expressions of their loyal intentions, by two former Petitions presented long since to Him and the Parliament) would have been so much mistaken, as to have made this Petition, after they had seen and well considered his Majesties said Answer. And his majesty observes very well, that this Petition is not like others, which by an untimely zeal, have desired Him to return to his Parliament; You only desiring Him there to reside, where with more convenienci● and secu●itie He m●y consult with his great council, than by going into Ireland: His Majest●e being confident, That your well w 〈…〉 ng of h●s Answers concerning that subject, hath been the 〈◇〉 you have no● imitated some few other Countries in that particular; And that y●u have well considered the Rebellious Aff●ont offered to Him at Hu●l, by an hostile opposition of His entrance; and therefore believes that the same reason which made you, at this time express your tender care of his Person, and the former good expression● you made of your loyalty and right-set affections to the good of the whole kingdom may sooner induce you to petition the Parliament to apply themselves to a right unde●standing of his Majesties ways and intentions, and to do Him justice for that Aff●ont, than make you to prefer any such ill-grounded Petition. And that you may be the better informed of hi● Majesties proceedings in those particulars; he recommends to you● view and consideration, his Answers to the Declaration presented to Him at New-Market, to the Petition presented to Him at York, the 26 of March last, concerning his journey into Irela●d, his two Messages ●nd Declaration concerning Hull; all which, when it shall be fully represented to the rest of your county, he doubts not but that you will rest very well satisfied of his constant Resolution for the maintaining of, and governing you by the Law of the Land, his unmovable Resolutions for the maintenance and defence of the true Protestant Profession, and the suppression and chastising of the barbarous Irish Rebellion. As for your apprehensions of danger of being left naked, and not put into a Posture of Defence, his majesty assures you, That he will take care that it shall be done in the true old legal way which hath been used in this kingdom, without bringing in strangers to govern you, or admitting ●ew and exorbitant Powers, derogating both from his Majesties undoubted legal authority, and the liberty of the Su●ject, which as He hath constantly denied, so He expects, and no ways doubts, but that you will give obedience to that, and that only, which shall proceed from his majesty in a legal way.  
Subscribed by M. secretary Nicholas.   

A Letter sent to the Right worshipful the high sheriff, and the rest of the County of york, now attending his sacred Majesties Pleasure.  
Gentlemen,  
NOw( if ever) stand fast, quit yourselves as Fathers of your Country, let it appear before God and all the World, that truly generous blood runs in your vienes; Evidence in Gods Name, your heartiest loyalty and dearest affection to his most sacred Majesty. But while you remember the King, forget not the kingdom for the Lords sake; put not asunder those things which God hath so nearly joined together, Oh consider the Honour, the cause of God, the good success of this present Parliament, your lives, laws, Liberties, your temporal, your spiritual welfare lie all bleeding this day at your own feet, and earnestly supplicate your best assistance.  
Tell us We beseech you; shall we die and you live? Can it possibly go well with you, while ill with us? Is it not your own cause and quarrel? nay, Gods and the Kings which wee maintain? Stand you not as much interested and as deeply engaged to appear, for God and the Kings honour as we ourselves were disposed to recriminate, we could anathomize before God and man the worthlessness of those unreasonable men, who seem the great Zealots, not only for the ruin, but the ecclipsing of the glory of this blessed Parliament.  
But our intent onely is to beg that at your hands which in Justice you dare not, and in charity,( we are sure) ought not to deny us, and that's your help and utmost endeavour in this nick of our( we had almost said your) greatest necessity. Be assured there was never a greater prise in your hands then at this time. In poor Hull are embarked two of the richest Jewels in the world. God truth, and Christendomes Peace: each of which in valuation far exceed a Kings ransom.  
We delight not in a needless & superfluous expense of words, and therfore we shall in short tel you, what wee or rather God expects this day at al your hands. viz. That you( and that with instance) petition his most Excellent Majesty, to vouchsafe the influence of his Royal favour and gracious presen●e to his Great council, the High Court of Parliament, the only way,( in human apprehension) to staunch the bleeding wounds of Ireland, and distracted England.  
That you now help the Lord against the mighty.  
That with as humble boldness you manifest your extreme unwillingness to come in an hostile way against us, least you bring guiltless blood upon your own heads, and kindle such a fire in England, as will never be quenched: Assure yourselves, that without much caution and greatest circumspection, you may raise up such a spirit as will not be conjur●d down again in hast.  
Worthies, Ponder we beseech you our present but sad condition, set yourselves before Gods awful bar, make our case your own.  
Let your consciences speak, would you betray so great a trust committed to you, by so great a council? would you that we should wound through your sides heaven and Earth? what you shall attempt against us, will in the reflection result upon God, the King, the Church, the State, yourselves; Would you to satisfy a good King set open the Gates, and with the same courtesy gratify a very had company, who seek nothing less then either the safety of his Majesties royal Person and Posterity; or the security of his Dominions, and Leig●people? Would you have us wash our hands in your dearest blood? in sum; would you have us render you the people of the Kings wrath? Wee are confident you would not; Do then( according to the primordiall Law) as you would be done unto. Strike in we beseech you effectually whilst you have time, put not God upon another course of deliverance, least the honour of York-shire be laid in the dust for ever.  
Oh ▪ give us in this great streight, real testimony of your affections; and you shall for ever have the acknowledgement of the real obligations of all.  
Your affectionate friends and humble Servants in the port Town of hull.  
FINIS.