HIS majesties SPEECH TO THE Gentlemen of Yorkshire, on Thursday the fourth of August, 1642. Also a List of the Names of the counsel of w now resident with his Majesty. IN DOMINO CONFIDO printer's device consisting of a framed fleur-de-lis surrounded by the motto "In Domino Confido" August 8th Printed at york by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and reprinted at London for Tho. Banks, and Will. lay. 1642. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon surmounted by a crown His Majesties Speech to the Gentlemen of York-shire, on Thursday the fourth of August. Gentlemen. WHen I directed that Summons should bee sent out for your meeting here this day, my principal end was, That I might give you thanks for the great forwardness and expressions you have made of your affections to me since I came into this Country, and to assure you, That as the whole kingdom hath great reason to value you exceedingly for it, so I shall be very unsatisfied with myself, till I have found some way to fix a mark of favour, and estimation upon this County, and this People, which may tell posterity, how good Subjects you have been, and how much Gentlemen; and J am confident the memory of it will grow up with my sons too, in a just acknowledgement. This was the most I intended to say to you, but there is an unquiet Spirit abroad, which every day throws in new accidents to disturb, and confounded the public Peace. How I was driven from London, when I choose this place for my safety, is so notorious that all men know it, who know any thing; with what strange violence, and indignities I have been pursued, since I came hither, needs no other evidence, then Sir John Hothams behaviour at Hull, who is now arrived at that insolence, that he will not suffer his Treason to be longer confined within those Walls but makes sallies out of the town, upon his fellow Subjects drownds their Land, burns and plunders their houses, murders, and with unheard of cruel●ie, torments their P●rs●ns; And his with so much delight, That he would not have the patience, to wair what answer should be sent to my just demands, though in that respect, I engaged myself to forbear to use any force, and kept my word; but choose the night before that came,( as if he well knew what answer I was to receive) to act these outrages. You see the sad effects of fears and jealousies, the mise●ies they have produced; No man can tell you the least good they have brought forth, or the least evil they have prevented: What inconvenience and burden my presence hath been here, what disturbance it hath brought upon the public, or grievance upon any private person, yourselves are the best Iudges; And what ever scandal some men have pleased to cast upon the Cavaliers( which they intend should reach all my retinue, and by degrees shal involve all Gentlemen) I am confident, there hath not binany eminent disorder, or damage befallen any man, by any Person of my train, or under my Protection. I am sure my directions have been very strict in that point, and if they had not been observed, I think I should have heard of it by nearer complaints, then from London; I pray God the same care may be taken there: I am sure it hath not been. And to give you the fullest testimony of my affection to you,& to the peace of this County,& to show you that no provoca●i●n shall provoke me to make this place the seat of the War, I have for your sakes, passed over the Considerations of Honour; And notwithstandi●g the reproaches every day laid on me, laid no siege to that place, that they may not have the least pretence of doing you mischief, but resolve by Gods help to recover Hull some other way, for that I will ever sit down under so unexcusable a Treason no honest man can imagine. But it seems other men are not of my mind, but resolve to make a war at your own doors, whatsoever you do, or I suffer. To what purpose else is their new general armed with an au hority to kill and destroy all my good Subjects; their levies of Horse and foot, some whereof are upon their March towards you, with Canon mounted, and the sending so many new Souldiers into Hull, when there is no approach made towards it, but to sally out, and to commit Rapine, and by degrees to poure out an Army upon you: In this I must ask your advice, what you will do for yourselves, what you would have me do for you. You see how I am stripped of my navy at Sea, which is employed against me, of my Forts and towns at Land, which are filled with armed men to destroy me; my Money and Provisions of my House taken from me, and all my Subjects forbid and threatened if they come near me, that I may by famine or solitariness be comp●lled to yield to the most dishonourable Propos●●ions, and to put myself and Children into the hands of a few Malignant Persons, who have entred into a combina●ion to destroy us: And all this done under pretence of a trust reposed by the People. How far you are from commi●ting any such trust, most of the persons trusted by you, and your own expressions of duty to me, hath manifested to all the world; and how far the whole kingdom is from avowing such a trust, hath already, in a great measure, and I doubt not will more every day appear, by the professions of every County: For I am wholly cast upon the affections of my people, and have no hope but in the blessing and assistance of God, the justness of my cause, and the love of my Subjects, to recover what is taken from me and them, for I may justly say they are equal losers with me. Gentlemen, I desire you to consider what course is to be taken for your own security from the excursions from Hull, and the violence which threatens you from thence: I will assist you any way you propose. Next, I desire you, out of the public Provision, or your private Store, to furnish me with such a number of arms( muskets and Coslets) as you may conveniently spare, which I do promise to see fully repaid to you: These arms I desire may be speedily delivered to the custody of my Lord mayor of york, for my use, principally from those parts, which by reason of their distance from Hull are least subject to the fear of violence from thence. And whosoever shall so furnish me, shall be excused from their attendance and service at Musters, till their. arms shall be restored; which may well be sooner than I can promise, or you expect. I desire nothing of you but what is necessary to be done for the preservation of Gods true Religion, the laws of the Land, the Liberty of the Subject, and the very being of the kingdom of England: for 'tis too evident all these are at stake. For the completing my sons Regiment for the guard of my Person, under the command of my Lord of Cumberland, I refer it wholly to yourselves, who have expressed such forwardness in it. FINIS. The Names of the counsel of war are these following. LOrd Duke of Richmond Lord marquis Hartford earl of Linsey earl of Cumberland earl of Bath earl of Southampton earl of Dorset earl of bristol earl of Carnarvan earl of Newport Lord Savile Lord viscount Falkland Lord viscount Grandesson Lord Willowby of Ersby Lord Seaymor Master Secretary Nicholas Sir John Culpepper Master controller colonel Henry Wentworth colonel Wilmott colonel William Vavasor colonel fielding colonel Lunsford Sir William Vuedall Sir jacob Ashley Sir Thomas Glemham Sir Nicholas Byron FINIS.