LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON ON 3 JANUARY 1642
Our will and command is
that
you take especiall care
that none of Our trained
bands
be raised without speciall warrant from
us,
and wee shall take in Our royall care that
nothing
shall be don to the prejudice or
disturbance
of Or said Citty, which we shall be as
vigilant
to keepe in quietness as others are to
engage
& put into tumult and disorder: But
in
case you shall find any great numbers of
people together in a tumultuary
& disorderly manner
Within
Our said City or the liberties
thereof,
Our will and command is that you then
cause
soe many of Our trained bands to be
raised
as you shall thinke fitt, well armed and
provided,
and that you give order to suppresse
all
such tumults and disorders, and if they
shall
find resistance, and that the persons soe
assembled
shall refuse to retire to their houses
peaceably,
or to render themselves into the handes
of
justice, that then, for the better keeping of
the
peace, and preventing of further mischeeſes,
you
command the Captains,, Officers, and Souldiers
of our
said trained bands, by shooting with
bullets,
or otherwayes, to suppresse those tumults,
&
destroy such of them as shall persist in their
tumultuous
wayes and disorders: or which
this shall be your
warrant.”
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