WHereas there is a printed Petition (intitu­led, To the right Honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the Gentry, Ministers, Free-holders, and other sub­stantiall Inhabitants of this County of Yorke) spread abroad in the County, which we conceive to bee a great wrong and scandall to all well-affected persons, not onely in respect of the matter thereof which wee utterly dislike, as laying an imputation upo [...] [...]he Parliament, in not gi­ving life to the Lawes of the Land, and likewise in charging them to be the cause of the distractions of this Kingdome: But also, that it was never presented to the Countrey at the generall meeting the 3. of June, albeit it was printed the next day, and since read in divers Churches; VVee whose names as here subscribed, doe hereby make our Protestation against the said Petition, as no way ever approved on by us, or agreeing with our sence. And we doe hereby further declare, that wee shall (according to our Protestation lately taken by us) with our lives and fortunes defend his Majesties Royall Person, Honour and Estate, and also the power and priviledge of Parliament, together with the rights and liberties of the Subjects; of which Rights and Liberties we conceive the Priviledges of Parlia­ment to be the chiefe.