LAMENTABLE news FROM IRELAND.  
WITH The Humble Petition of Your Majesties most faithful and loyal Subjects, The distressed Protestants in Your Majesties Kingdom of Ireland: Concerning His Majesties Resolution for that kingdom.  
ALSO, A LETTER SENT FROM THE KINGS majesty To the Lords of His Privie-Councell.  
WITH A true AND PERFECT RELATION of the particular Passages at York  
June 8. London, Printed for I. Green, and A. Co●. 1642.   

A True and Perfect Relation of particular Passages at York.  
HIs Majesty having summoned the Free-holders of the County of york, to appear before him on Hewarth Moor, on the day above said, to satisfy them concerning his Intentions, many of them did appear together with a great multitude of Labourers and poor people, as also divers of the Inhabitants of the County of Lancaster, in all according to the estimate of myself, and divers others of judgement about the number of seventy thousand or upwards, they came not in any warlike way, nor put themselves into any posture or order, neither was the third part of the Free-holders, and Farmers of orkeshire there.  
His Majesty had appointed 800. foot completely armed ●o guard his Person, and about 11. of the clock came to the Field or Moore accompanied with a great number of Lords and Knights of great quality.  
The Prince also lead a Troope of Horse consisting of 150 Knights, Esquires and Gentlemen, some whereof had four, some three; and most two men a piece, which made another Troope.  
As soon as his Majesty came near the Moore, the people did entertain him with a very loud shout, and being come into the Moore, and as much silence made as could be, his Majesty made a Speech, therein declaring his constancy in the Protestant Religion, and his great affection to that County, intimating that he resolved to reside amongst them in those parts to keep the County in peace. His Speech being ended, he road round the Moore, and about the number of 65000. followed him, crying all the way( God bless the King,) but the rest which were about 5000. all Free-holders, separated themselves to Petition to his Majesty, and had their Petition ready to present to him, the effect of it, was to beseech his Majesty to come to the Parliament, &c. but their Petition was intercepted by th● Lord Savill, who carried himself very strangely in that particular, and in a forcible manner, suffered them not to deliver the same: His Majesty having road round the Field, all the people brought him off the Moore with a great shou●, and there m●ny left him, but 20000. accompanied him to the Court Gate, and saw him safe at Court, and with a great shout left him.  
A great multitude of the people never came at the Field, but stayed in the City, and others came but into the Moore, when the rest came out. And having thus made their appearance about eight of the clock at night all were returned out of the Field.   

To the Kings most Excellent majesty.  
The humble Petition of Your Majesties most faithful and loyal Subiects, the distressed Protestants in Your Majesties kingdom of Ireland, concerning His Majesties Resolution for that kingdom.  
Humbly showing,  
unto Your most Sacred majesty, that Your Majesties most faithful and loyal Subjects, the distressed Protestant party of Your kingdom of Ireland, have, and do suffer a most heavy and cruel tyranny, raised and prosecuted by the rebellious Papists in Your Majesties Kingdom of Ireland, to the utter ruin and subversion of our fortunes, liberties and persons. For even so far hath this hideous Hidra of Rebellion proceeded, and their ungrateful treachery hath taken such progress, that beside their unnatural rising up in Arms, and their unparaled expressions and detestations against Your Majesties government over them, and against all the English Nation; They have spilled( unprovoked) the blood of many thousands of Your Majesties most loyal and faithful Subjects, and destroyed the Estates of all the Protestants in this your Majesties kingdom, not sparing unto them out of their inhuman cruelty, the least part of the fruits of their care and industry, but have most maliciously endeavoured to ruin both them and their posterity, and( as may appear by many and several concurring circumstances) have by this means laboured( notwithstanding your Majesties continual Grace and goodness unto them when they stood in the condition of good and loyal Subjects, and also your often proffered grace unto them since their Revolt, which their own ingratitude will not let them be sensible of) even to deprive your majesty of your royal Crown and dignity, and to place over them some one of their Rebellious faction, or some other foreign Prince, and so altogether to shake off the English-government. And whereas your gracious majesty out of a just sense of the great miseries and afflictions, of Your distressed and oppressed Subjects in Your kingdom of Ireland, occasioned by the barbarous and inhuman cruelties of the rebellious Papists there, had firmly resolved( by the assistance of the Almighty God) to visit this your distressed kingdom in your own royal person, for the full and final suppression of this Rebellion, and out of your Majesties most gracious care and vigilancy unto this Nation to purchase the peace thereof with the hazard of your own loyal person.  
We Your Majesties most faithful( although distressed Subjects) out of that duty which becomes the breast of every loyal subject, as also out of the respective desire of your Majesties welfare and security, knowing that upon Your happiness consists the felicity of this and of the rest of Your Majesties Kingdoms. And also considering the cruel and bloody disposition of those with whom Your Maj. must encounter; Do in all humble and thankful manner, from the bottom of our hearts, and with hearts & bodies prostrate at your Maj. feet, & with the loyal duty of faithful subjects, render most hearty thanks for this your Maj. most royal and Princely purpose to relieve your poor distressed Subjects, and to take just and deserved vengeance on the causers of cheese calamities, for the vindicating of Your honour, Revenging the blood of so many of Your Majesties most faithful and loyal Subjects, and the securing the future safety of Your Majesties Crowns and kingdoms.  
And we Your Majesties most loyal Subjects, considering the condition of those with whom Your sacred person must deal, to be bloody, contumacious, and desirous to shake off Your Majesties Government from off them,( and so to forget that duty which Your Grace and goodness hath formerly engaged them to aclowledge and to perform for Your Sacred clemency expressed to their errors and Enormities) do humbly beg and beseech you, That you would forbear to hazard your royal person among such barbarous Monsters, but that you would rather take speedy and such Order for our Relief, as in Your Princely wisdom shall be thought fit and convenient, without the danger of Your Princely person, unto whom the least misfortune cannot befall, without a general grief unto all Your most faithful Subjects, and by that means, your loyal Subjects suffer a greater affliction then the burden of their present calamities.  
May it therefore please Your most Sacred majesty to take these humble and hearty desires of Your Majesties most faithful and loyal Subjects into your Princely consideration, and out of the loving care and vigilancy which Your majesty hath always expressed for the Advancement of Your Majesties Subjects their Peace and prosperity, the danger and hazard of Your Sacred Person.  
And we shall pray, as in duty we are, &c.   

A Letter sent from the Kings majesty, to the Lords of His Privie-Councell  
CHARLES R.  
RIght trusty and welbeloved Cousins, and counsellors, we greet you Well. Although We have already Written Our mind to you Our council; yet upon Our second thoughts, arising especially from some bad rumours, coming to our knowledge, find it necessary both for ourself, and for the good of that Our kingdom, to declare, and make known both Our disposition and desires more fully.  
We know and feel the charge to be great, and the place to be high, wherein God( the King of kings) hath placed Us, and that We must render an account of all Our actions to him, who in his own time shall judge all men without exception of persons. We have no other intentions, but by Our government to honour him by whom Kings reign, and to procure the good of Our People: and for this end to preserve the right and authority wherewith God hath vested Us, and which by his Providence hath been derived to Us, by many Princely progenitors: in the which glory, that Our ancient kingdom, and native Realm of Scotlaud doth participate.  
We did not require of you, that you should sit as Judges upon the affairs of another kingdom: We only intended to have both Our sufferings & Our actions,( as they are expressed in many papers past betwixt Us and Our parliament) made thoroughly known unto you: that since We have none besides you whom wee can acquaint with Our proceedings, you may clearly see that We have been so far from wronging Our Parliament of England, that we have given them all satisfaction, even above that which they themselves in the beginning did express, or almost desire: and as much as could well consist with safety of our person and Honor. We will not put you in mind of your natural affection toward Us, which We know will rather be kindled then extinguished by Our distress: Nor of your Covenant, wherein you are zealous of greatness and Authority, and which standeth in that sense wherein you did swear and subscribe it: Nor of any good laws made in Our late Parliament( of which We hope the present and succeeding generations shall reap the fruits, when We are dead and gone:) Nor of any promises made unto Us, Upon which We were willing to yield to such things for settling the government of that our kingdom, in Our personal absence which neither could We have granted, nor would you have craved( as yourselves did profess) had our greater affairs permitted Our residence amongst you. And whereas We are most unjustly blamed and calunniated, 1. That We are popishly affencted: 2. That we are the cause of the bloodshed in Ireland. 3. That we intend to bring in foreign forces: We here do protest and declare in presence of him who knows the most secret of Our intentions and actions, that We are no ways conscious to ourself of the guiltiness of any of the said aspersions: and do take him to witness Our innocency therein, who onely hath the privilege to be the searcher of ha●ts. And if any, after so full and plain profession, shall distrust this Our free Declaration, We attest God, that the fault is in the malignity of their rebellious humours, and no ways deserved on our part.  
Given at our Court at York, the 20. of May. 1642.  
FINIS.