THE PETITION OF THE Inhabitants of CYRENCESTER, whose names are hereunto subscribed.  
Presented to His MAJESTY at OXFORD.  
WITH HIS MAJESTIES Answer thereunto.  
Printed, by His MAjESTIES command At OXFORD, Febr. 28.  
By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the University. 1642.   

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.  
The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of CYRENCESTER.  
Dread sovereign,  
WEE Your poor Subjects the Inhabitants of the miserable distressed Cyrencester, having undergone all the heavy effects of Your Majesties justly incensed Army, do prostrate ourselves at Your Majesties feet, not to excuse, or in the least measure to extenuate our ill-deservings. We aclowledge us inexcusably faulty, but to appeal unto Your mercy, and to beg Your pardon, That as we have been through all Your kingdoms the first example of Your justly deserved Rigor, and the terror thereof working its due effect upon all others, to deter them from provoking Your like displeasure, we may remain Your most remarkable object of Your mercy, the most glorious and resplendent gem of Your crown. Oh, Sir, the God of Heaven hath given You unto us our God upon the Earth. We have grievously sinned against him by our undutiful carriage against You His Vicegerent. Behold us now lying before you, acknowledging, and from our hearts detesting the foulness of our offence, and ourselves for committing it, And most humbly beseeching Your Majesty in imitation of that Divine virtue, the most lively character of his Image in You, to Pardon us, and to receive us into Your protection. In the assurance whereof, we may securely return to, and abide at our several homes, begin to go on in our former Trades and Occupations, and, by Gods good blessing upon us, in the●… many hundreds of People of our town and adjoining parts of the County, who have no other livelihood, may be again set on work and relieved, and we may have the hope in time, upon our after care, to endeavour to express the sincerity of our true return to the Duties of our Allegiance, to joy in the rec●very of Your wonted Favour, and all of us, all our lives long, and our posterity after us, bound to aclowledge the height of Your mercy, to pray to Almighty God to bless Your Majesty with all the happiness which he hath promised in his sacred Word, to all that shall show mercy.  

ANdrew solace.  
Row. Freeman.  
Robert Iles.  
Thomas Dutton.  
William Willis.  
edmond Freeman.  
William tailor.  
George ston.  
Amos D●nsey.  
virgil Crippes ▪  
Thomas Gibbes.  
More Gwilliam.  
Edward C●us●o●.  
William Chance.  
John Beaton.  
edmond Feribee.  
michael Sharp.  
William Groves.  
Thomas Man.  
John Portlocke.  
John bat.  
Richard Aucutt.  
Edward Prat.  
John Kerby.  
Thomas T●pping.  
John Petty.  
james Armand.  
Thomas Maysey.  
Richard M●●thew.  
John Flacher.  
Richard solace.  
Thomas Man.  
Thomas Cartor.  
Edward Scovell.  
Richard Masters.  
John franklin.  
Walter Portlocks.  
Richard Evans.  
james Burge.  
Thomas Allen.  
Samuel Spencer.  
Henry web.  
Richard Man.  
William Burge.  
Michael Hartred.  
George laurence.    

HIS MAJESTIES Gracious Answer to the fore-going PETITION.  
At the Court at Oxford, the 25. day of February, 1642.  
HIs MAjESTY graciously accepts the submission of the Petitioners, and is Himself sorry that the Rebellion and disloyalty of that place hath brought so great a measure of sufferings upon any of His Subjects; which was not in His Majesties power to prevent. He is well pleased that all the Inhabitants of that town of Cyrencester return safely to their houses, and live securely in them, from all violence by any of His Majesties Souldiers, that the Trade and Wealth of that place may( by Gods blessing) be again renewed. And His Majesties Will is, and doth hereby give precise Order, that no violence or injury be henceforward offered by any of His Majesties Garrison or Souldiers to the Petitioners, or any the Inhabitants of Cyrencester, they demeaning themselves with that duty and obedience to his Majesties just and necessary Commands, as the condition of the present time, and his Majesties necessities require. And his Majesties express Command is, That the governor of Cyrencester for the time being, and all other, his Majesties Officers and Souldiers of that his garrison, take order and comform themselves accordingly.  
EDW. NICHOLAS.  
FINIS.