The Kings letter which the Lords of the Great Counsell sub= 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 Sommes of Money to be payd in to his Majesties Officers by the dayes appoin= 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 Majesty with those moneyes, hee should be forced for lacke of money to disband his Army, which would neyther be safe nor honourable for the Kingdome to disband the Army soe long as the 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 withall hee produced his pri= vate Instruccions not to presse the Citty further then hee should find them ready to Comply, and withall to giue them 14. or 15. dayes longer tyme then was sett downe in the Lords first Letter to the Citty to prouide the money; They have nowe till the last of November to prouide the money: The Lords being retyred, and the Citizens being all together, my Lord Maior not fynding that forwardnes that hee desyred in the Commoners and withall being very vnwilling that there should bee any deny= 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 Parliament was soe neere at hand, Hee desyred, they would suspend their Answers, till the Parliament had sitten 14. or 15./ dayes, and by that tyme they might better resolue vpon it, and soe that Assembly broke vp.//