An Answer  
To His majesty's Speech, by the Gentry of the County of York, attending His majesty at the City of York on Thursday the 12 of May, 1642.  
May it please Your Most Excellent majesty.  
YOur Propositions delivered to us yesterday from your majesty, are of so high concernment to the weal and peace of the whole kingdom, and do so nearly touch upon the affection and fidelity of all your Subjects in general, and we being but a part of one County only, do not conceive it safe for us to advise therein, but rather humbly to beseech Your majesty to impart the grounds of Your majesty's fears and jealousies, to Your high Court of Parliament, (of Whose most loyal care and affection to your majesty's honour and safety, and the prosperity of Your Subjects and dominions, we are most confident) and whatsoever shall be advised by Your Great council, therein we shall most willingly embrace, and give our concurrence and assistance to it as shall be come us; In whose fidelitity Your Maje sty: Hath often declared especial trust, and albeit we do not presume to advise Your majesty to that particular, it being of transcendent consequence.  
Nevertheless, in the behalf of those Members of Parliament, lately employed to attend Your majesty, from both Houses being all of them Gentlemen of quality and estate in this County and trusted to serve in that Most Honourable Assembly, we humbly crave Your majesty's leave to express our confidence in their unstained loyalty and affection to Your majesty to be such as Your majesty may securely admit their attendance to negotiate their employments until they be recalled by the Parliament, and for their fidelity we do all engage ourselves to Your majesty, and we are most assured that Your royal Person shall be secured in the real fidelity of Your subjects of this County without any extraordinary guard.   

London Printed for Richard Lowndes, at his shop next without Ludgate, 1642.