British Library, Additional MS 11045
The Kings letter w
scribed at Yorke to the Citty of London, is comen to them, it being
brought to the Guildhall by my Lord Privy Seale, and my Lord
Goring, The letter was publiquely read, and it was to this purpose,
To require the Citty to prouide those two remayning Som
Money to be payd in to his Ma
ted in the former letter namely one hundred Thousand pounds the
fifteenth day of November, and the other fifty thousand
poundes the moneth after, And vnlesse the Citty did supply his
Ma
money to disband his Army, w
hono
Scotch Armye lye at Newcastle: This letter being read, my
Lord Privy Seale vsed all gentle perswasions to procure the
Citty to provide the money, but w
vate Instrucc
should find them ready to Comply, and w
or 15. dayes longer tyme then was sett downe in the Lords
first Letter to the Citty to prouide the money;
retyred, and the Citizens being all together, my Lord Maior
not fynding that forwardnes that
and w
all proposeth to the Commoners, that since they had 15 dayes
longer tyme giuen to prouide this Money, they should at this
tyme forbeare to giue any Answer to this Letter, but seeing
the Parliam
suspend their Answers, till the Parliam
dayes, and by that tyme they might better resolue vpon it,