His Majesties MESSAGE TO Both Houses of PARLIAMENT of the eleventh of july. 1642.  
TOGETHER With His MAJESTIES Proclamation declaring His MAJESTIES purpose to go in His royal Person to HULL: and the true occasion and end thereof.  
LONDON: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL. 1642.   

 arms of Charles I  
His Majesties Message To both Houses of Parliament of the eleventh of July, 1642.  
BY Our former Declarations and this Our Proclamation( which We herewith sand you) you and all Our good Subjects may see the just grounds of Our present Journey towards Our Town of HULL. Before We shall use force to reduce that place to its due Obedience, We have thought fit once more to require you, that it may be forthwith delivered up to Us( the business being of that nature that it can admit no delay) Wherein if you shall comform yourselves, We shall then be willing to admit such addresses from you, and return such Propositions to you, as may be proper to settle the Peace of this Kingdom, and compose the present Distractions. Do your duty herein, and be assured from Us in the word of a King, that nothing shall be wanting on Our part that may prevent the Calamities which threaten this Nation, and may render Our People truly happy. If this Our Gracious invitation shall be declined, God and all good men judge betwixt Us. We shall expect to receive satisfaction herein by your Answer to be presented to Us at Beverley upon Friday next, being the fifteenth day of this present July.   

¶ By the King. ¶ A Proclamation declaring Our purpose to go in Our royal Person to HULL; And the true occasion and end thereof.  
WE having long complained of the high affront done unto us in Our own Person by Sir John Hotham, when We went to Our town of Hull to view Our Magazine and Arms, Our own proper goods( if We shall be allowed to call any thing Our own) which then were there, and since by, and under colour of Orders made by both Our Houses of Parliament, not only without but against Our consent, violently taken and carried from thence, and for that the Town itself, being the principal Fort and Port of these northern parts of this Kingdom, in a Warlike manner, with many hundreds of Souldiers hath been kept & maintained against us as a Garrison and Town of War; as against an enemy; And that by the practise of a Malignant Party, which hath too great an influence upon Our two Houses of Parliament, in stead of repairing Our Honour for this indignity, several Orders and Votes of the mayor part, then present, have been made to justify all this as legal; which Orders and Votes would have us, and others, to believe, upon the many Protestations in Print, That there hath been nothing done therein( as in many other things of that nature) but for the safety of Our Person, the Honour of Our Crown, and the good of the Kingdom; as if words directly contrary ●o these Actions of Hostility could satisfy us, or any reasonable man, not blinded with self opinion, or abused and misled by vain and false Surmises or groundless jealousies; We have now looked somewhat more narrowly into the manner of Sir John Hothams carriage in this his employment, and did find by the certain Relation of others, That for the Fortifying of the Place against us, his Liege Lord, he hath used the help of Art in making out-works to defend the Town; he hath purposely cut the Banks, and let in the waters to drown the Land-passages, and to make the Town inaccessible by that way; he hath set forth a Pinnace( amongst other good Services) to intercept a Pinnace of Ours employed for carrying of Letters, Messages and Passengers between us and Our dearest Consort the Queen; he permitteth his Souldiers to issue out of the Town, and forage upon the country; he hath not onely unlawfully but Tyrannically cast out divers Inhabitants of the Town from their dwellings, because he could not confided in them; he hath disarmed all the Towns-men, that he might put the sole power in the soldiery under his command; he doth compel some others of the Inhabitants, desirous to depart the Town with their Families, to abide & continue there against their wills; a by drowning of the lands about the Town in manner as aforesaid, he hath destroyed the Pastures, meadows and Corn-lands within that compass, containing some thousands of Acres of very fruitful grounds, amounting to a great value, to the great impoverishing of the owners and occupiers thereof; And he hath, for divers moneths continued in pay many hundreds of Souldiers; and endeavoureth, under pretence of Authority from the two Houses of Parliament, to increase their number from the county of Lincoln adjoining, and from other places; and this at the public charge of the Kingdom, and out of those moneys provided for the relief of the miseries of Ireland, and payment of the great debt to Our Kingdom of Scotland.  
Whereupon, We being very sensible of this extreme dishonour to us, That a Town of such importance, and so near to the place of Our present Residence, should be thus fortified, kept and maintained against us; That the Port and Passage by Sea should be defended against us by Our own Ships, under the conduct of the Earl of Warwick, who being legally discharged by us of his employment at Sea, by Our Revocation of the Commission formerly granted by us to the Earl of Northumberland, and by Our command signified unto him under Our own hand, to deliver the command of Our Ships into the hands of another person name by us, hath, notwithstanding Our said Commands( to which the Earl of Northumberland paid a dutiful obedience) presumed not onely to dispossess us of Our said navy, but to employ it against us, and to take Prisoners such of Our Captains as expressed a loyalty to us according to their oaths and the duty of Subjects; And that a Ship of Ours lately employed for Our particular Service into Holland, and returning from thence with some of Our proper Goods, hath been chased by them as an Enemy, and enforced, for her safety, to put into a small Creek within six Miles of that Town, and there to run on ground, to the great hazard of Our said vessel; and that both Our Ship and Goods there were yet remaining in danger to be suprized by Our own Subjects, We took a journey on Wednesday the sixth of this month from York towards the said Creek, to take a view of Our said Ship and Goods thus exposed to danger; We having just cause to fear that Sir John Hotham, and others of his Confederacy, would( for Our good, and the good of the Kingdom) make prise of these also; and by the opportunity of that journey, We ourself are now fully informed of the certainty of those things, which We had before received but from the relation of others; and there received a lamentable Petition of Our Subjects of those parts, complaining of the unheard of Insolence and Babarisme of Sir John Hotham, and desiring Our just and necessary Protection of them from those cruel Oppressions.  
Vpon all which considerations, that We may at length, after this long patience, do that right to Our Honour, Our Crown and royal Dignity, and to Our good Subjects in general, and those of and near to Our Town of Hull in particular, Which We had reason to have expected from Our two Houses of Parliament; but have failed of the fruit of Our long expectation, by the malice of some ill-affected spirits amongst them, who study nothing more then by false pretences to amuse and abuse Our good people; We have taken this Resolution, by Gods blessing, and the Assistance of Our good Subjects, to force Sir John Hotham & all that shall take part with him in the unjust and treasonable Defence of the Town of Hull against us, to that obedience which is due by Subjects to their liege Lord and sovereign, and to resist the Assistance intended to Sir John Hotham from Our said County of Lincoln and other places adjoining, if they shall attempt it. And to this purpose We will and require all Our loving Subjects to yield their best Assistance of what kind soever, to so necessary a defence of Our Person, and just vindication of so great an injury offered unto us, to the dishonour of this Nation. And We do declare, That whosoever shall give us their cheerful help at this time, and to this purpose, either with Men, Horse, Arms or Money, to be brought, sent or conveyed unto us, We shall look upon it as a Service never to be forgotten.  
And this We publish to all Our Subjects, and to all the World, that they may truly understand the cleared of Our Intentions herein, as We shall do in all other things concerning Our Government; And that We do, and ever shall maintain those Resolutions We have professed so often, and so seriously by Our former Declarations, That We will continue and defend the true Protestant Religion as it is by Law established in the Church of England, The Laws of the Land, The Rights and just Liberties of Our Subjects, equally to and with Our own just Prerogative, and the true privileges of Parliament, And never infringe any Act consented to by us this Parliament, And that We have not, nor ever had the least thought of making War upon Our two Houses of Parliament, as hath been slanderously and maliciously published. And these things, not Our words onely, but all Our Actions shall make good. And in this Resolution and the just Observation thereof We shall both live and die.  
Given at Our Court at Beverley the eighth day of July, in the eighteen year of Our Reign. 1642.  
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