TO THE King's MOST EXCELLENT majesty.  
The Humble Petition of the Citizens of York, delivered to his Majesty by the High sheriff of York.  
Most Gracious sovereign.  
We Your majesty's loyal and obedient Subjects, do most humbly supplicate your highness to look with compassion upon your Protestant subjects of Ireland, that lie weltering in their own blood, most inhumanly shed by the bloody cruelty of the Popish Rebels, who have already in a manner, eradicated ●●e Protestant Religion, your majesty's sovereignty, and the English 〈…〉 ation out of that kingdom.  
And with like compassion, to look upon your majesty's Subjects ●f England; whose just fears of the like calamity, daily expected, do ●ake them (in a measure) partakers of them before they fall.  
Which miseries present, and dangers eminent, can neither be pre●●ted, nor redressed, if these distances of place, and differences of ●ouncels, do continue between your Majesty, and your majesty's ●●eat council the Parliament.  
And therefore your majesty's Petitioners, do humbly supplicate, that your Majesty will be pleased to reconcile the displeasures conceived against your loyal Subjects of this realm (represented by the Parliament) unto whose religious and faithful counsels, as we have referred ourselves, so we do most humbly desire your Majesty to vouchsafe your Princely ear, and personal presence. That by their advice, your majesty's piety and wisdom may prevent the dangers, that in these distracted times, do threaten the destruction of Religion, laws, Liberties, and Lives of your perplexed Subjects.  
And in particular, they humbly pray your majesty's consent to pass an Act, prepared by the Parliament, for supply of money, for payment of the forces entertained to subdue the Rebels of Ireland, and for payment of the Billet money, due unto this Country.  
And your Petitioners shall humbly pray, &c.   

Printed at London for Joh Bellamy, & Ralph Smith. 1642.