To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty: The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons now assembled in. PARLIAMENT Delivered at Colebrook, 10 Nov. 1642. by the Earls of Pembroke and Northumberland, Lord Wainman, M. Perpoint, and Sir Jo. Hippesley.  
WE Your majesty's most loyal Subjects, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, being affected with a deep and piercing sense of the Miseries of this Kingdom, and of the Dangers to Your majesty's Person, as the present Affairs now stand, And much quickened therein with the sad Consideration of the great effusion of Blood at the late battle, and of the loss of so many eminent Persons; And farther weighing the addition of loss, Misery, and Danger to Your Majesty and Your Kingdom which must ensue, if both Armies should again join in another battle, as without God's special Blessing, and Your majesty's Concurrence with Your Houses of Parliament, will not probably be avoided.  
We cannot but believe that a suitable Impression of tenderness and Compassion is wrought in Your majesty's royal Heart, being yourself an eyewitness of the bloody and sorrowful Destruction of so many of Your Subjects; And that Your Majesty doth apprehend what diminution of Your Own Power and greatness will follow; And that all Your Kingdoms will thereby be so weakened, as to become subject to the Attempts of any ill affected to this State. In all which Respects we assure ourselves, That Your Majesty will be inclined graciously to accept this our humble Petition, that the Misery and Desolation of this Kingdom may be speedily removed and prevented: For the effecting whereof, we most humbly beseech Your Majesty to appoint some convenient Place, not far from the City of London, where Your Majesty will be pleased to reside, until Committees of both Houses of Parliament may attend Your Majesty with some Propositions for the removal of these bloody Distempers and Distractions, and settling the state of the Kingdom, in such a Manner as may conduce to the preservation of God's true Religion, Your majesty's Honour, Safety, and Prosperity, and to the Peace, Comfort, and Security of all Your People.   

His majesty's Answer To the foresaid Petition, given to the Committee at Colebrook, Nov. 11. 1642.  
WE take God to witness how deeply We are affected with the Miseries of this Kingdom, which heretofore We have striven (as much as in us lay) to prevent; It being sufficiently known to all the world, That as We were not the first that took up Arms, so We professed Our readiness of composing all things in a fairway, by Our several offers of Treaty; And shall be glad (now at length) to find any such Inclinations in others. The same tenderness to avoid destruction of Our Subjects (whom we know to be Our greatest Strength) which would always make Our greatest Victories bitter to us, shall make us willingly harken to such Propositions, whereby these bloody Distempers may be stopped, and the great Distractions of this Kingdom settled, To God's Glory, Our Honour, and the welfare and Flourishing of Our People. And to that end shall reside at Our Own Castle at Windsor (if the Forces shall be removed) till Committees may have time to attend us with the same (which, to prevent the inconveniences that may intervene, We wish may be hastened) and shall be ready there, or (if that be refused us) at any place where we shall be, to receive such Propositions as aforesaid, from both Our Houses of Parliament. Do you your Duty, we will not be wanting to Ours. God of his mercy give a Blessing.