31 CI Mr. NEAL's11d VOL ofthe gave the Committee his Hand to kifs, and took time to return an Anfwer. ti He treated them with much more RefpeEt than was due to them, as appears from Rufhworth *. Neal, p. 517. His Majefly, in his Anfwer to this Petition about a Week after, complains very juftly of the Difrefpea of the Commons,in printing their Remon- flrance, before he had time to return an Anfwer. And then follow thefe Words, (in Rufhworth, omitted by Mr. Neal ":) ' It isour Intention that no failing on your part,, íhall make us fail in ours, ' ofgiving all due Satisfaction ro our People in a ' Parliamentary way ; and therefore we fend you this Anfwer to your Petition, referving ourfelf in point of the Declaration, which we think Unparlia- ' mentar y, and íhall take a courfe to do that, which ' we (hall think fit in Prudence and Honour.' Neal, p. 519. Some time after, [Decemb. r 5.] his Maj,fly publ'd his Anfwer to the Remonfirance, with a Declaration to all his loviv Subjecîs. The Gracioufnefs and Temper of this An- fwer, (lays Lord Clarendon) made no Impre{on on them, but they proceeded in their ufual man- ner, framing, and encouraging underhand, thofe Whifpers, by, which the Rebellion in Ireland 4 might be underftood to receive fome extraordi- nary Countenance from the Court of England ' the Scandal whereof they knew would fall upon ' the Queen. At this time, the diligence anddex. ' terity of the L,rd Mayor caus'd an Addrefs to be prepar'd to his Majefty, from the Court of Aldermen ; which was fent by the two Sheriffs, ' and two others of that Body ; bywhich his IVIa- jetty was humblydefir'd to refide at Whitehall: ' which anger'd the Governing Party, as much as * Rufhworth, Vol. IV. p. 436, 437. -t- Ib. Vol. IV. p. 412. Cl4rewdon's Hittory of the Rebellion, Vol. I. p. 256.. their
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