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A26103	A collection of svndry petitions presented to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie as also to the two most honourable houses, now assembled in Parliament, and others, already signed, by most of the gentry, ministers, and free-holders of severall counties, in behalfe of episcopacie, liturgie, and supportation of church-revenues, and suppression of schismaticks / collected by a faithful lover of the church, for the comfort of the dejected clergy, and all moderately affected Protestants.	Aston, Thomas, Sir, 1600-1645.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing A4073; ESTC R208748	30,703	48

worke by Novelty with any proportionable utility being most confident in your Honours Wisdomes and Iustice that all Excesses Exorbitances and Encroachments that shall bee found issuing not from any poyson in the nature of the Discipline but rather from the infirmity and corruption of the Persons unto which the very best Government is subject shall bee duely regulated and corrected And your Petitioners shall pray c. Subscribed by Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of Quality 68 Doctours 8 Ministers of good repute as will appeare by the Originall Petitions 150 Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Hereford 3600 To the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Honourable House of Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Knights Esquires Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall Humbly shewing THat wee are no lesse thankefull for the many excellent Lawes which by his Majesties grace and favour and your care and assiduousnesse you have obtained for us then those who have beene more forward to present you with Petitions doubting not but you will welcome this with as hearty acceptance as you have done any other it proceeding from loyall hearts to our Soveraigne a tender care of our Protestation and aboundance of affection to the Common-wealth And whereas wee understand that there is a purpose if not a presentment already to this honourable House of a Petition heretofore by some Iustices of the Peace tendred to the grand Enquest at our last Assises to be by them considered whether fit to be presented to this Honourable House which on deliberate debate was much disliked as it was laid but since as we are informed indirectly obtruded on diverse persons without reading or peru●all many of them since retracting their opinions and wishing back their hands and we having resolved to rest upon the abilities and care of our Knights and Burgesses our hands and mouths for matter of our particular concernments yet since their absence from us and attendance in Parliament finding and feeling our owne grievances giving us just grounds and feare of sudden misery by disobedience and contempt of Lawes thus provoked with bleeding hearts wee beg the helpe of your Wisedomes to advise and apply some speedy remedy for these felt and feared evils And for as much as there are lately risen amongst us some few of the Clergy and many of the Laity publike contemners and depravers of the Ceremonies and the Service of the Booke of Common Prayer by Law established irreverent vilifiers of Gods House and Church Assemblies in Prayer times and generally disobedient to Ecclesiasticall Government of whom many have subscribed or subsigned to the recited Petition Although the said Ceremonies and Booke of Common Prayer are by far the greater and discreeter part of our Congregations inoffensively and reverently received and approved 1 WE pray no way presuming to prescribe rules but submitting to your graver Judgements that a Nationall Synod of our learned and approved Clergy by the rest to be chosen may be convened and some Parliamentary course speeded for the ordaining confirming establishing of the said Service Booke and Ceremonies or some of them or others not repugnant to Gods Word tending most to the peace and purity of our Religion and Church before which settlement our humble desires are that a Parliamentary Declaration may speedily issue forth for requiring of obedience to the Lawes established 2 We likewise humbly pray the continuance of that ancient and ever reverenced Episcopall Government in our Church and that the Delinquences of any particular person may not cause that high and holy Office or Calling to suffer 3 We pray likewise that in every Parish unprovided there may bee a Preaching Minister and a competent maintenance raised for him and where Impropriations are and Preaching Ministers not sufficiently cared for allowance may be had or bettered 4 We pray likewise that such of our Clergy as upon enquiry shall be found either Scandalous or not Orthodox may bee admonished and bound for the better supply and discharge of their Cures or removed 5 Wee pray likewise that some positive Law may bee Inacted for Parsons and Vicars recovery of their Tithes and that such course may bee taken for the obtaining of them as may bee most speedy and least chargeable That so those that Minister at the Altar may live by the Altar 6 We pray likewise that for the restraining and preventing of inordinate licenciousnesse there may be some penall Law Inacted for the punishment of Adulteries and diverse other offences not punishable by the Common Law 7 As likewise that there may be some Coersive power or Law ordained for compelling of refactory men to the payment of their rates and for the reparations of their Parish Churches in which of late some are growne very remisse and backward 8 Wee pray likewise that great care may bee taken not onely for disarming of Recusants but for the Education of their children in the Protestant Religion 9 Wee likewise pray that some speedy course may bee taken for the Redemption of those wofull Christian Captives in Barbarie the want of whom hath occasioned an extraordinary decay and poverty in our Maritine Townes and Parishes and that our Coasts may bee sufficiently gaurded and secured 10 Wee likewise pray that whereas this County hath beene and is surcharged double at least with Armes and very high in Subsidies much above our abilities and the respective charge of diverse parts of this Kingdome we may in consideration hereof bee relieved in future 11 Wee likewise pray that the Sheriffes Turne now growne an unnecessary Court and onely used to the grievous oppression of the meaner sort of people may bee suppressed and taken away it being more burdensome then the Office of the Clerke of the Market formerly hath beene 12 Wee likewise pray that such Dutchcy Tenants as within our County pay over their rightfull Rents and Duties unto the Dutchy Officers may not bee doubly charged by Proces out of the Exchequer as now they are by extreame and continuall Amercements 13 Wee likewise pray that there may bee a reparation of the decay of the Castle of Saint Mawes and that there may bee a supply of the wants of Ordnances Carriages Powder and Ammunition in all which it is extreamely defective And thus with all humblenes Craving pardon for with-holding you from your other Weighty Affaires but perswaded that the cause is considerable and may well challenge a part of your thoughts and be put in action for the effecting of which as of all things standing to the Purity and Peace of our Church and Religion as for the safe Defence and Honour of his Majestie his Royall Posterity and Kingdomes And in these your and our happinesse as for uniting of his Gratious Majestie and this Honourable Assembly in a mutuall consent and compliancy as for the unanimous and prosperous proceedings of this Parliament wee doe and ever shall with humble hearts implore Gods gracious assistance and blessing The Index of the Petitions CHeshire Pag. 1 Oxford University Pag. 4 Cambridge Universitie Pag. 6 Nottingham Pag. 8 Huntington Pag. 9 Somerset Pag. 13 Rutland Pag. 15 Cheshire Pag. 21 Colledges Halls c. Pag. 23 Exeter Diocesse Pag. 24 Stafforashire Pag. 25 Diocesse of Canterbury Pag. 26 Six Counties of North-Walles Pag. 27 Lancashire Pag. 29 Cornwall Pag. 32 Kent Pag. 33 Oxford County Pag. 36 Cornwall Pag. 37 Hereford Pag. 39 Cornwall Pag. 40 Viz. De jure non eidem de facto till 555 years after Christ and then but once in the case of Pope Pelagius and that irregularly never since unlesse by Papall usurpation Comment in Epist. ad Titum Timotheus Titus Clements Linus Marcus Dyonysius Onesimus Caius Epaphroditus Iacobus Hierosolimit Evodias Simeon

established may continue in force with such alteration if there bee cause as to your Honours Wisdomes shall seeme meet And as in Duty bound Wee shall dayly pray c. Subscribed by one Viscount five Knights above a hundred Gentlemen of quality all the Clergy of the County and above six thousand Commoners being all of them Communicants The Remonstrance and Petition of the County of Huntington the Knights Gentlemen Clergy Free-holders and Inhabitants To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the continuance of the Church-Government and Divine Service or Booke of Common-prayer Presented to the House of Peeres by the Lord Privy Seale the 8. of December 1641. We humbly shew THat whereas many attempts have beene practised and divers Petitions from severall Counties and other places within this Kingdome framed and penned in a close and subtle manner to import more than is at first discernable by any ordinary eye or that was imparted to those who signed the same have beene carried about to most places against the present forme and frame of Church-Government and Divine-Service or Common Prayers and the hands of many persons of ordinary quality sollicited to the same with pretence to bee presented to this Honourable assembly in Parliament and under colour of removing some Innovations lately crept into the Church and Worship of God and reforming some abuses in the Ecclesiasticall Courts which wee conceiving and fearing not so much to aime at the taking away of the said Innovations and Reformation of abuses as tending to an absolute Innovation of Church-Government and subversion of that Order and Forme of Divine Service which hath happily continued amongst us ever since the Reformation of Religion Out of a tender and zealous regard hereunto wee have thought it our duty not onely to disavow all such Petitions but also to manifest our publike affections and desires to continue the Forme of Divine Service and common-Common-prayers and the present Government of the Church as the same have beene continued since the first Reformation and stand so established by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome For when wee consider that the Forme of Divine Service expressed and contained in the Booke of Common prayer was with great care piety and sincerity revised and reduced from all former corruptions and Romish Superstitions by those holy and selected Instruments of the Reformation of Religion within this Church and was by them restored to its first purity according as it was instituted and practised in the Primitive times standeth confirmed established and enjoyned by Act of Parliament and Royall Injunctions and hath ever since had the generall approbation of the godly and a publike use and continuance within this Church And that Bishops were instituted and have had their being and continuance ever since the first planting of Christian Religion amongst us and the rest of the Christian World that they were the lights and glorious Lamps of Gods Church that so many of them sowed the seeds of Christian Religion in their blouds which they willingly powred out therefore that by them Christianity was rescued and preserved from utter extirpation in the fierce and most cruell Persecutions of Pagan Emperous that to them wee owe the redemption of the purity of the Gospell and the Reformation of the Religion wee now professe from Romish corruption that many of them for the propagation of that Truth became glorious Martyrs leaving unto us an holy example and an honourable remembrance of their faith and Christian fortitude that divers of them lately and yet living with us have beene so great Assertours and Champions of our Religion against the Common enemy of Rome and that their Government hath beene so ancient so long approved and so often established by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome and as yet nothing in their Doctrine generally taught dissonant from the Word of God or the Articles established by Law and that most of them are of singular learning and piety In this case to call the forme of Divine Service and Common-prayers Erronious Popish Superstitious Idolatrous and Blasphemous and to call the Government by Bishops a perpetuall vassallage and intollerable bondage and at the first step and before the parties concerned bee heard to pray the present removall of them or the utter dissolution and extirpation of them their Courts and their Officers as Antichristian and Diabolicall wee cannot conceive to savour or relish of piety justice or charity nor can wee joyne with them herein but rather humbly pray a Reformation of the abuses and punishment of the Offenders but not the ruine or abolition of the Innocent Now on the contrary when wee consider the tenour of such writings as in the name of Petitions are spread amongst the Common people the contents of many printed Pamphlets swarming at London and over all Countries the Sermons preached publikely in Pulpits and other private places and the bitter invectives divulged and commonly spoken by many disaffected persons all of them shewing an extreme aversenesse and dislike of the present Government of the Church and Divine Service or Common Prayers dangerously exciting a disobedience to the established forme of Government and Church Service their severall intimations of the desire of the power of the keyes and that their congregations may bee independent and may execute Ecclesiasticall censures within themselves whereby many Sects and severall and contrary opinions will soone grow and arise whereby great divisions and horrible factions will soone ensue thereupon to the breach of that union which is the sacred band and preservation of the Common peace of Church and State their peremptory desires and bold assuming to themselves the liberty of conscience to introduce into the Church whatsoever they affect and to refuse and oppose all things which themselves shall dislike and what they dislike must not onely to themselves but also to all others bee scandalous and burdensome and must bee cried out upon as great and unsupportable grievances yea though the things in themselves bee never so indifferent of never so long continuance in use and practise and never so much desired and affected of others so that where three or foure of them bee in a Parish though five hundred others desire the use and continuance of things long used all must bee altered or taken away as scandals and grievances for these three or foure though to the offence of many others and whatsoever they will have introduced must bee imposed upon all others and must by all bee admitted without scandall or offence whereby multitudes of godly and wel-affected people are in some things deprived or abridged of what they desire and take comfort in and have had a long and lawfull use and practise of and other things imposed upon them against their wils and liking as if no accompt were to bee made of them or no liberty of conscience were left unto them which bold attempts of some few to arrogate to themselves and to exercise over