THE PROTESTATION Of the Gentry, Ministers, freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of York against a Petition drawn up in the name of that County, Bearing date the third of June, 1642.  
WHereas there is a printed Petition (Entitled, To the right Honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the Gentry, Ministers, freeholders, and other substantial Inhabitants of this County of York) spread abroad in the County, which we conceive to be a great wrong and scandal to all well-affected persons, not only in respect of the matter thereof which we utterly dislike, as laying an imputation upo●●he Parliament, in not giving life to the laws of the Land, and likewise in charging them to be the cause of the distractions of this kingdom: But also, that it was never presented to the country at the general meeting the 3. of June, albeit it was printed the next day, and since read in divers Churches; we whose names as here subscribed, do hereby make our Protestation against the said Petition, as no way ever approved on by us, or agreeing with our sense. And we do hereby further declare, that we shall (according to our Protestation lately taken by us) with our lives and fortunes defend his majesty's royal Person, Honour and Estate, and also the power and privilege of Parliament, together with the rights and liberties of the Subjects; of which Rights and Liberties we conceive the privileges of Parliament to be the chief.   

LONDON, Printed by A. N. for Humphrey Tuckey, 1642.