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A95471	Tvvo petitions of the sequestred clergie of England and Wales. One, to the King's most excellent Majestie: the other, to Sir Thomas Fairfax. With the declaration of the generall, and his Councell of Warre thereupon. As also, his Majesties proclamation against intruding into other mens cures, and detaining their tythes.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); England and Wales. Army. Council.	1647 (1647)	Wing T3516; Thomason E400_36; ESTC R201766	4,609	8

TVVO PETITIONS OF THE Sequestred Clergie of England and Wales ONE To the Kings most excellent Majestie THE OTHER To Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX WITH The Declaration of the Generall and his Councell of Warre thereupon AS ALSO His Majesties Proclamation against Intruding into other mens Cures and detaining their Tythes LONDON Printed for Richard Royston August 2. 1647. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty The Humble Petition of many thousands of Your Majesties loyal Subjects the poore sequestred Clergy of England and Wales Humbly sheweth THat whereas your Petitioners have a long time been destitute of all liveli-hood by meanes of sequestration of their Estates and other losses and are at present driven to extream necessities how to provide for themselves and their families and the season now approching for the receiving the benefits of the Harvest before which time if some charitable course be not taken they are like to starve or beg another yeare May it therefore please Your most Sacred Majesty to take our sad condition into Your Gracious consideration and care that some course may be taken for our speedy reliefe as may preserve us alive and enable us to doe more service in Gods Church to Your Majesty and the Kingdome And as in duty bound we shall ever pray for Your Maiesties happy establishment and long and prosperous Reigne This Petition was delivered to His Majesty on Saturday July 17. by two of the sequestred Clergy imployed by others of their Brethren to prosecute this business His Majesty very graciously expressed himselfe how deeply sensible he was of their condition and bid them rest assured that whatsoever was in his power for their reliefe should not be wanting but for the present all that he could doe was to recommend the Petition to the Generall and the Commanders of the Army which accordingly he did both by speciall Messengers and by word of mouth at severall times Hereupon this Petition ensuing was delivered to the Generall and Copies thereof left with some of the chief Commanders To His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax The Humble Petition of many thousands of the poore sequestred Clergy of England and Wales Humbly sheweth THat whereas the eyes of all the oppressed people of the Kingdome are fixed upon Your Excellency and the Army as the great Instruments under God to restore them to their legal Rights and Liberties which they doe justly ground upon Your severall Declarations published to the World And whereas your Petitioners a considerable number of the free-born men of this Kingdome have been for divers yeares outed of their lively-hood and free-holds contrary to Magna Charta and other fundamentall Laws of the Land by the arbitrary power of Committees whose proceedings usually have been by no Rule of any known Law but by their own wills of whose orders no Record is kept nor scarce any notes or memorials whereby it may appeare when by whom or for what your Petitioners were removed the Committee for scandalous and for plundered Ministers by whom the greatest part are turned out being grounded not so much as upon any Ordinance of both Houses the most of your Petitioners outed for refusing the Covenant or adhering to the King and the Religion established according to their Judgements and Consciences and of those diverse never called to answer scarce one had any Articles proved by oath or other legal processe and some put out upon private information given to the Chair-man Mr. White by which unheard of proceedings not to be paralleld in any age Your Petitioners who have lived heretofore in good esteem according to their Calling Degrees Birth and Education are reduced to extream misery and want with their Wives and children that they must either starve or begge if some speedy course be not taken for their reliefe And whereas those who are put into our places labour by all meanes to stir up the people to involve this Kingdom in a new warre and are generally men ignorant and unable to instruct the People and many of them scandalous in their practices if impartially examined and divers of them bold three or foure of the best Benefices whilest divers other Churches are void and without any constant Preacher And Your Petitioners are ready to submit themselves for their Rights to tryall by the known Lawes of the Land and if any appear guilty of any legall scandal which we know to have been unjustly charged upon many and is a great part of their present sufferings we shall leave them to undergoe the severest punishment and censure which by any known Law can be inflicted And forasmuch as the maine profits of our Benefices consist in the Harvest which is now at hand which many of the present possessors if they could receive would presently be gone whereby the burden of the Cure will lye upon Your Petitioners having nothing to live upon all the next yeare Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray that Your Excellency would be pleased to make stay of the Profits of this Harvest in such way as Your Excellency shall think fit that such as are charged with any legal scandal may come to a just tryal and both they if they be found innocent and the rest may enjoy their Rights and have the benefit of Subjects according to the known Law of the Land and Your Petitioners shall ever pray c. Upon the delivery of this Petition the matter was debated at a Councel of War July 19. and afterwards by the Prosecutors of the Clergy and others whom His Majesty had entrusted herewith with the Generall Lieutenant-Generall Commissary-Generall and others at severall meetings And the result of all in conclusion was this That whereas the Generall and his Councell of War had resolved to send a Proposition or Declaration to the Parliament that the estates of all sequestred persons should remaine in the hands of the Tenents and occupiers untill a generall peace be settled That this Proposition should extend to the Clergy as well as others so as to include the Tithes and all other Ecclesiastical profits due to them to remaine in the hands of the Parishioners or others their Tenents or occupiers untill the said publick settlement And accordingly the said Declaration was drawn up and agreed upon by the Generall and Councell of War upon Thursday July 22. to this effect viz. That the estates of all persons of what rank or condition soever whether real or personal under any sequestration howsoever or to whomsoever disposed shall remaine in the hands of the Tenents Parishioners or any other persons from whom they are legally due untill the general peace be settled and then to be restored and accounted for to those to whom they shall be justly and legally due This Proposition which by reason of the present distractions hopning since in the Parliament hath been hindred from passing by way of Ordinance is thought fit to be now publisht in regard of the present Harvest as containing a Declaration of the sense of the Army grounded upon apparent