Includes: His Majesties letter to the gentry of York-shire, May 16. 1642.
The Lords and Commons do declare that the King can only summon those subjects holding of him by special service. Whoever shall take armes on this pretence is a disturber of the public peace, .. It is ordered by the House that if the trained bands assemble on the King's order, the sheriff is to raise the county to suppress them, .. -- Steele.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) E1663.
Steele, I, 2140.
Thomason 669.f.5[26].
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[26])