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Also Correspondence of subsequent dechasing in the reign of Sir Edw, Nicholas and King Charles f,^ Edward VI« see voL i., pp. 213-215. appended to Evelyris Diary^ cd. 1827, ' State Papers^ Domestic^ Charles and Clarendon. Digitized by i&: Google 1641] The Grand Remonstrance presented to Charles I. 127 at Hampton Court.* " The King was much concerned at the harshness of it, but promised an answer as soon as the weight of business would permit, and desired there should be no publishing that decla...ration till they had received his answer to it" To this request, however, they paid no attention ; but immediately blazoned it throughout the king- dom — ^, course Charles took as an act of great disrespect to himself.* Three days after, perhaps to counteract, to some extent, its effect among the citizens of London, he sent for seven of the City aldermen to Hampton Court; and in response to a petition they brought with them, that he should come up and reside in London, " whereby the trade of the city, which had been so much hindered by the King's long absence in Scotland, might be revived," he promised to leave Hampton Court in a day or two, and come to Whitehall ; while, " to express his extraordinary love to the City," he made them all knights.* By such trivial actions does he seem to have thought, in his delusion, that he could stem the tide of dis- affection among his subjects, an opinion which was cer- tainly shared by the courtier-scribe who records the fact, and who exclaims, in a fervour of loyal enthusiasm, " What encouragement can subjects have more to love and obey a King than to have such favour and love shown by a King, for whose prosperous, happy and successive reigne, it be- hoves us all to pray : else there is no question to be made, but that judgment will be showred downe upon our heads by the Heavenly King, for not loving so good a heavenly King." * Whether or not his subjects in general were equally im- * Kennett's History^ vol iii., p.
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