To the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament 
 The humble Petition of the Knights, Esquires, Gentry, and Commons, Inhabitants of the County of Cambridge. ALSO, His Majesty's Message to both Houses of Parliament upon His Removal to the City of York.  
SHOWETHS,  
THat your Petitioners most thankfully acknowledging the wonderful mercy of Almighty God, the wisdom and goodness of his Majesty, the constant endeavours of your Honourable Assembly, and the inestimable benefits which we have already received by your unwearied pains, in the enacting those many wholesome Laws, for the maintaining of truth and peace amongst us, notwithstanding the daring insolences, and desperate plots of the malignant party, from which being (by your vigilancies) delivered, we and the age to come are no less in thankfulness obliged to our merciful God, than for those former deliverances, whose memories we yearly celebrate, Are by those main pledges of your undaunted pious resolutions, for a through Reformation in the Church and State, now at length emboldened to present to your gracious acceptance. This as a testimony of our readiness to lay down what you have redeemed, our lives and livelihoods in your aid towards the perfecting so pious and blessed a work, And humbly to beseech you to believe us in our particular grievances. But above all to go on in your wont zeal for the general, especially for the advancement of God's glory in settling his worship according to his Word. That able and painful Ministers may be encouraged and placed in the rooms of scandalous and insufficient: All their unwarranted Orders and dignities taken away; The smaller Live comfortably augmented with a strict means, for the recovery of their deuce. The Universities throughly purged from Popery and Arminianism, with their encroaching privileges. And that their government may be ordered  to the Laws, and that Orthodoxal and prudent Governors be there in placed, to provide that purer Authors may be read to Students, and severer courses taken to prevent their future insolences towards the Country, which at the last Assizes did violently break forth upon their discontents (as we conceive and some of them did then express) because the Doctors and Heads of the University, were by the late Act left out of the Commission. That there may be a Synod of the most pious, zealous, and learned Divines. That Papists may be confined, their subtle conveyed estates, to avoid forfeiture may be prevented, and they speedily disarmed. That Wills and Testaments be proved, and Legacies recovered in temporal Courts. That the Bishop of Ely's vast Jurisdiction may be limited, and his prejudicial government taken away. That our County and Huntingtonshire may be reunited under one Sheriff as formerly. That sale of honour and office be prevented, Ill Counselors removed, Delinquents presently and deservedly punished, Ireland speedily and powerfully relieved, and for the timely prevention of many eminent dangers from thence and otherwise. That the Militia of the Kingdom be forthwith put in a warlike posture of defence.  
In all which and other your future endeavours herein for the good of the public; the safety and honour of our King, and the glory of the King of Kings, according to the late Protestation hereby signified to have been most cheerfully taken by us, we shall be always ready, willing to aid and assist you, And continually pray, etc.   

HIs Majesty being now in his Remove to His City of York, where He intends to make His Residence for some time, thinks fit to send this Message to both Houses of Parliament.  
That He doth very earnestly desire, That they will use all possible industry, in expediting the business of Ireland, in which they shall find so cheerful a Concurrence by His Majestry, that no inconvenience shall happen to that Service by His absence, He having all that Passion for the reducing of that Kingdom, which He hath expressed in His former Messages, and being unable by words to manifest more affection to it, than He hath endeavoured to do by those Messages (having likewise done all such Acts as he hath been moved unto by His Parliament) Therefore if the Misfortunes and Calamities of His poor Protestant Subjects there shall grow upon them (though His Majesty shall be deeply concerned in, and sensible of their sufferings) He shall wash his hands before all the World, from the least imputation of slackness in that most necessary and pious Work.  
And that His Majestry may leave no way unattempted, which may beget a good understanding between Him and his Parliament; He thinks it necessary to Declare, That as He hath been so tender of the Privileges of Parliament, that He hath been ready and forward to retract any Act of His own, which He hath been Informed hath Trenched upon their Privileges, so He expects an equal tenderness in them of His Majesties known and unquestionable Privileges (which are the Privileges of the Kingdom) amongst which, He is assured it is a fundamental One, that His Subjects cannot be Obliged to Obey any Act, Order, or Injunction to which His Majesty hath not given His consent: And therefore He thinks it necessary to publish, That He expects, and hereby Requires Obedience from all His loving Subjects to the Laws established, and that they presume not upon any pretence of Order, or Command (to which his Majesty is no party) concerning the Militia or any other thing, to do or execute what is not warranted by those Laws, His Majesty being resolved to keep the Laws himself, and to require Obedience to them from all His Subjects.  
And His Majesty once more recommends to His Parliament the substance of His Message of the twentieth of January last, that they compose and digest, with all speed, such Acts as they shall think fit, for the present and future establishment of their Privileges; The free and quiet enjoying their Estates and Fortunes; The Liberties of their Persons; The Security of the true Religion now professed in the Church of England; The maintaining His Majesty's Regal and just Authority, and settling his Revenue; His Majestry being most desirous to take all fitting and just ways, which may beget a happy understanding between Him and His Parliament, in which He conceives his greatest power and riches doth consist.   

London, Printed for john Frank, 1641.