The _Gazette_ having told you, That the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of _London_, were directed by the Lord Chancellor, by His Majesties Command, not to suffer such persons as should sign tumultous Petitions to go unpunished, but that they should proceed against them, or cause them to be brought before the Council Board to be punished as they deserve, according to a Judgment of all the Judges of _England 2 Jacobi_, we suppose it may gratifie our Readers curiosity, (and prevent this danger too) to see what the Law Books say therein. Judge _Crook_ in his _Reports, folio 37._ saith, That by command from the King, all the Justices of _England_, and divers of the Nobility, with the Archbishop of _Canterbury_, and Bishop of _London_, were Assembled in the _Star-chamber_, when the Lord Chancellor demanded of the Judges, whether it were _an Offence_ punishable, and what punishment they deserve, who framed _Petitions_, and Collected a multitude of hands thereto, to present to the King in a publick cause, as the _Puritans_ had done, (_which was as it seems for Alteration of the Law_ (with an intimation to the King, that if he denied their Suit, many _Thousands_ of his Subjects would be _discontented_;) whereto all the Justices answered, “That it was an Offence fineable at _Discretion_, and very near Treason and _Fellony_, in the punishment, for they tended to the Raising of Sedition, Rebellion, and Discontent among the People,” To which Resolution all the Lords agreed, and then many of the Lords declared that some of the _Puritans_ had raised a false Rumor of the King, how he intended to to grant a Toleration to _Papists_, which offence the Justices conceived to be highly fineable by the Rules of the Common Law, either in the Kings Bench, _or by the King and his Council_, or now since the Statute of the 3. _Henry_ 7. in the _Star-chamber_, The Lords severally, declared how the King was discontented with the said false Rumor, and had made but the day before a Protestation unto them, _That he never Intended it, and that he would spend the last Drop of Blood in his body before he would do it, and prayed that before any of his issue should maintain any other Religion then what he truly professed and maintained, that God would take them out of the world_.