The Resolution, Vow, and Covenant of 4736 Persons in and about the City of London. WHereas by the Votes of both Houses of Parliament, that no Addresses be made to the King, his Majesty is totally outed of his Government, and by his imprisonment the reverence and high esteem due to his royal Person is much lessened, if not (with some) totally withdrawn, his Person with more opportunity and secrecy exposed to private Murder and poison (as appears by late experience) and his majesty's Attendants being only such as the Faction of Independents (opposite to Kingly Government) have against his majesty's liking, placed about his Person, there cannot want Executioners for any secret and bloody design. And for that the many Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, for his majesty's freedom and return to Parliament, have received only dilatory and fruitless answers: we cannot esteem the Houses of Parliament so careful of the honour and safety of his majesty's Person, as they have often pretended. We therefore do hereby publish to the world that we have solemnly promised and vowed to God, that if our sovereign Lord the King shall by Murder, poison, or otherwise depart this life (which God forbid) before his enlargement and freedom from Prison, we shall esteem it (as all good Subjects will) the effect of his restraint and hard usage, and them (detaining his enlargement) as the abetters thereof, and shall accordingly (though with the hazard and loss of our own lives) strictly and severely require his blood at the hands of all such who denied or delayed (upon what pretences soever) his and their voice or assistance for his majesty's enlargement, and doubt not but we shall herein find aid and assistance from very many thousands of loyal Subjects. God bless King CHARLES.