HIS MAJESTY'S SPEECH TO The Inhabitants of Denbigh and Flintshire. 27. Septemb. 1642.  
LONDON, Printed for R.L. 1642.   

His Majesty's Speech to the Inhabitants of Denbigh and Flintshire,  
27. Septemb. 1642.  
gentlemans  
I Am willing to take all occasions to visit all my good Subjects, in which number I have cause to reckon you of these two Counties, and having lately had a good expression of your loyalty & affections to me by those Levies which at your chargé have been sent me from your parts (which forwardness of yours, I shall always remember to your advantage) and to let you know how I have been dealt with by a powerful malignant party in this Kingdom, whose Designs are no less then to destroy my person and Crown, the Laws of the Land, and the present government both of Church and State, The Leaders of these men by their subtlety and cunning practices have so prevailed upon the meaner sort of people about London, that they have called them up into frequent and dangerous tumults, and thereby have chased from thence myself, and the Greatest part of the Members of both Houses of Parliament; Their power and secret plots have had such influence upon the small remaining part of both Houses, that under colour of orders and Ordinances made without the Royal assent (a thing never heard of before this Parliament) I am robbed and spoilt of my Towns, Forts, Castles, and Goods, my Navy forceably taken from me, and employed against me, all my Revenue is stopped and seized upon, and at this time a powerful Army is marching against me. I wish this were all; They have yet further I boured to alienate the affections of my good People, they have most injuriously vented many false reproaches against my person and Government, they have dispersed in Print many notorious false scandals upon my actions and intentions, and in particular have laboured to cast upon me some aspersions concerning the horrid bloody, and impious rebellion in Ireland. They tell the people that I have recalled two ships appointed for the Guard of these Seas, 'tis true: but they conceal that at the same time I sent my Warrants to the Downs commanding four as good ships to attend that service in stead of those should be recalled, which Warrant by their means could not find obedience. They forget that they then employed 40 ships (many of them my own, & all of them, set forth at the public charge of this and that Kingdom) to rob & pillage me of my goods, to chase my good subjects and maintain my own Town of Hull against me. And that by the absence of those ships from the Irish Seas, the Rebels have had opportunity to bring store of Arms, Ammunition, and supplies to their succours (to which we may justly impute the calamities, which have overwhelmed my poor Protestant subjects there) They cry out upon a few suits of  appointed (as they say) for Ireland, which some of my Forces took, but conceal that they were taken as entering into Conventry (then in open rebellion against me) where I had reason to believe they would have been disposed of amongst their Soldiers who t●en bore arms against me: they talk of a few horses which I have made use of for my carriages (concealing that they were certified to the useless for the service of Ireland) when they themselves have seized 100000 pounds particularly appointed by act of Parliament for the relief of Ireland (where my army is ready to perish for want of it) and employed it (together with such part of the 400000 pounds' subsidy as they have received) to maintain an unnatural civil war at home. Neither have they used their fellow Subjects better than they have done me their King. By their power the law of the land (your birth right) is trampled upon and in stead thereof they govern my people by votes, and arbitrary orders. Such as will not submit to their unjust unlimited power are imprisoned, plundered, and destroyed, such as will not pay such exactions as they require towards this rebellion are threatened to be put out of Protection (as they call it) of the Parliament, such as conscientiously remember their duty and loyalty to me their Sovereign are reviled, persecuted, and declared traitors, such as do desire to maintain the true Protestant Religion, as it is established by the Laws of the Land are traduced and called Popish, and superstitious; And on the contrary such as are known Brownists, Anabaptists, and public depravers of the Book of Common Prayer, or countenanced and encouraged. They exact, and receive Tonnage, and poundage, and other great duties upon merchandizes, not only without law, but in the face of an Act of Parliament to the contrary, past this present Parliament, which puts all men into the condition of a Praemunire that shall presume so to oppress the People. If you desire to know who are the contrivers of these wicked designs you shall find some of their names in particular and their actions at large in my declaration of the twelfth of August (to which I shall refer you) I wish their craft and power were not such, that few of those copies can come to the view of my good people; since that time these men so thirst after the destruction of this kingdom, that they have prevailed to make all my offers of Treaty (which might bring peace to this kingdom, and beget a good understanding between me and my Parliament) fruitless. In this distress into which these men have brought me, and this kingdom, my Confidence is in the Protection of Almighty God, and the affections of my good People, and that you may clearly see what my resolution lately taken to be read to you, And I desire that the Sheriffs of these two Counties will dispose Copies of that and what I now deliver unto you, having no other way to make it public; these men having restrained the use of my presses at London and the universities.  
FINIS.