THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE GENTRY and Inhabitants of HOLDERNES: WITH His Majesties Answer July 6. 1642.  
LONDON: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL. 1642.   

To the Kings most Excellent majesty, The humble Petition of the Gentry and Inhabitants of Holdernes.  
WE your Majesties most loyal and oppressed Subjects, having for the space of four Moneths( with much patience and prejudice) endured great and insupportable loss by Sir John Hothams taking into Hull( a distinct county from us) part of the Trained Bands of Yorkshire, contrary to Law, your Sacred Majesties right, and express Command, by detaining our Arms, destroying our Trade and Markets, with many more Pressures upon us, then we are willing to repeat. Howbeit this last attempt of cutting our Banks, Drowning part, and endangering the rest of the level of Holdernes, is a Presumption higher then was ever yet attempted by any Subject to our knowledges; As if Sir John Hotham at once intended to destroy our Free-holds and Proprieties; And for no other Cause, as we conceive, but for serving your majesty, according to our Allegiance and the known Laws of the Land.  
Our most humble Prayer therefore is, That Your majesty will vouchsafe speedily to take the premises into your gracious and tender consideration for securing our Fears.  
And your Majesties Petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray for your happy and glorious Reign over us, &c.  
Subscribed by Rob. Hilliard, Christopher holm, Matthew Wentworth, Francis Cobb, Leonard Robinson, James Cane, Christopher Hilliard, Gilbert Gower, and near three hundred others, and delivered to His majesty at Beverley, the sixth of July, 1642.   

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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT At the Court at York, the sixth of July, 1642.  
His majesty hath commanded me to give this Answer to this Petition.  
THat He with just Commiseration and all possible Compassion considers the miserable condition of the Petitioners, And will both by publishing His Proclamations, and by drawing such Forces together as He shall be able to leavy, endeavour the Petitioners Relief in their present sufferings, and prevention of their future, with any hazard that may befall His own Person. In the mean time His majesty hopes all His good Subjects do plainly discern, how impossible it is for their Interests to be preserved, when His just Rights and Power are taken from Him.  
Falkland.   
FINIS.