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52:, the king, to avoid the importunity of the Parliament, who petitioned for the exclusive control of the militia, and for other privileges subversive of the royal authority, moved from London to York, and was received by the inhabitants of York with every demonstration of loyalty and affection. He sent a message to both houses of Parliament, and afterwards advanced to Hull, to secure the arsenal there which had been left in that town, upon the disbanding of the army raised to oppose the Scots in the 192: 222: 64:, the parliamentary governor, he returned to York. Parliament soon after appointed a commission to reside in York, to strengthen their party, and to watch the movements of the king. On their passing an ordinance for embodying the militia, the king ordered his friends to meet him in York, whither he directed the several courts to be in future adjourned. The 91:, and one hundred and fifty knights in complete armour, and attended with a guard of eight hundred infantry, greeted him with the loudest acclamations of loyalty and respect. The king, in a short address, explained the particulars of the situation in which he was placed, and thanking them for their assurances of loyalty and attachment. 126:
Charles returned from the meeting to York, where, after keeping his court for more than five months, during which time every attempt at negotiation had failed, he advanced to Nottingham, and there erected his standard on 22 August 1642. From there by an indirect route his army advanced on London, to
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took place on 3 June 1642. Hopper (2007:1-4) ("'Black Tom': Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution") provides a vivid account of the meeting and its important role in the period leading up to the civil war. The lords and gentry of Yorkshire were summoned there by King
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was required by Parliament to present a petition to his sovereign, entreating Charles to hearken to the voice of his Parliament, and to discontinue the raising of troops. This was at a great meeting of the freeholders and farmers of
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It became clear after the meeting on Heworth Moor that opinion in the county of Yorkshire was divided, so a local peace treaty was negotiated for the county of Yorkshire, known as the
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On 27 May 1642, the king issued a proclamation from his court at York, appointing a public meeting of the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood to be held at
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for the Royalists, on 29 September 1642, but was within days repudiated by Parliament in London and both in Yorkshire duly took up arms.
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convened by the king on Heworth Moor on 3 June near York. Charles evaded receiving the petition, pressing his horse forward, but
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to garner support from the county in his struggle with Parliament. At the meeting, at the request of Parliament,
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petitioned Charles to listen to Parliament and to discontinue the raising of troops.
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However, not all those who attended were sympathetic to the King's cause.
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followed him and placed the petition on the pommel of the king's saddle.
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During the summer of 1642 both the Parliamentary party and King
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on 23 October 1642, the first pitched battle of the
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negotiated with each other while preparing for war.
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York
Charles I
Lord Fairfax
Charles I
English Civil War
Bishops War
denied admission
Sir John Hotham
Lord-Keeper
Lyttelton
Great Seal
Heworth Moor
Prince Charles
Lord Fairfax
Yorkshire
Thomas Fairfax
Treaty of Neutrality
Henry Belasyse
Battle of Edgehill
First English Civil War



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Chisholm 1911
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Chisholm, Hugh
Fairfax of Cameron, Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron
Encyclopædia Britannica
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