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A58257 England's petition to the two houses assembled in Parliament, or, An Humble petition of the distressed and almost destroyed subjects of England to the two houses, containing (in the judgment of the wise) the very sense of all the truehearted of the kingdom ... / N.R. N. R. 1643 (1643) Wing R54; ESTC R33935 6,941 10

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ENGLANDS PETITION TO THE TWO HOVSES Assembled in PARLIAMENT OR An humble Petition of the distressed and almost destroyed Subjects of England To the TWO HOVSES Containing in the Iudgement of the wise the very sense of all the true hearted of the Kingdom but because the way to their Highnesse eare is stopt it was sent to OXFORD and there Printed and afterwards presented to the HOVSES By N. R. Know yee not yet that our Canaan is destroyed Exod. 10.7 Printed at London and Reprinted at Oxford M.DC.XLIII TO THE TWO HOVSES ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the distressed and almost destroyed Subjects of the Kingdome of England RIGHT HONOVRABLE IT is a double griefe to our soules that we should be contrained to beg for our lives at Your our fellow Subjects hands who are bound by the Law of God and nature and by the Oathes Protestations that you have taken to preserve them and that we should be forced to intreat you to spare our estates which you have nothing to doe withall Liberties and blood whose honour and strength depends so much on these our enjoyments But extremity prevaileth and drives us to You the grand Court of England and casteth us here prostrate at your feet and let not your Greatnesse be offended if we speake more plainely then usually becommeth us for necessity hath no Law It is for our lives and more and therefore blame us not to speake our Friends our Wives our Children our wants our dangers our Country our blood doe all pierce our eares and hearts with their daily and dolefull cries O that our requests could finde as quicke accesse to yours Surely it is impossible that you being so many should All be ignorant of the dolefull condition His Majesties two Kingdomes are in Doe ye not know that our houses are plundered and the fruit of our long labour taken from us That men who have heretofore relieved hundreds of the poore have not left them a Bed to lye on food to sustaine them or a house except it be a Gaole to put their heads in And the poore they were wont to relieve are become Souldiers and rob us even at noone day by Your authority Know you not how many thousand distressed soules cry to God day and night in their anguish and misery while they see you who have undertaken to relieve them having no compassion on them Oh where are now those Heroick and renowned Spirits that have formerly sate in your Seat They were wont to beat downe Heresie and Schisme to relieve the oppressed to settle Peace to suppresse Vice and to endeavour a generall Reformation both in Church and State but now you foster Hereticks and Schismaticks in your bosome You send Knaves to oppresse us and rob us of all we have and then imprison our bodies where many thousand able and Religious men are ready to starve for want of sustenance You breake the Peace and beget Rebellion and Confusion in all places You countenance Vice and Sinne how ever you would make the gul'd people believe that you are mighty religious whilest you zealously pull downe Cross●s and Pharisaically debarre men from workes of charity yea necessity upon the Lords day which is to straine at Gnats and swallow Camells You have brought in a generall Deformation over the whole Kingdome They were wont to take order for the reliefe of poore oppressed Prisoners at home and Galley-slaves abroad but now the loathsome Prisons of London Lambeth Cambridge Norwi●h Ipswich Yarmouth Colchester and other places are filled with their miserable starved diseased bodies who some of them would thinke themselves halfe free-men were they Turkish Gally-slaves such is their cruell usage Know you not how our Lands lye untilled whilest your Souldiers take away our Horses and tolerate our servants to runne from us And what can follow this but extreame Famine Know you not how much precious blood is spilt and the dead bodies of the Kings Subjects yea many of his Nobles scattered as dung upon the face of the earth Have not many of your eyes seene it and your eares heard the groanes of the wounded gasping for life Is all this nothing in your eyes To whom should we goe but unto You who have taken upon you to relieve us in our distresses You have disabled His Majesty from relieving of Himselfe You have bewitched or by force kept back his Subjects every where from comming to His helpe we have tryed all other knowne meanes and professe in the sight of God we know none but you that can deliver us without more blood and desolation and the World knowes you may doe it if you will and doe it easily and doe it with increase of your Honour of your Loyalty of your Honesty of your and the whole Kingdomes safety and happinesse What if it were to part with some thing of your owne wills and quietly to yeeld up the bodyes of some few Delinquents and knowne Traytors to His Majesty and enemies to the Peace to save all the rest of the Kingdome Dread Senators We beseech you consider what hath His Sacred Majesty done that deserves this from you Is it because He hath relieved you from oppressing Courts a Grace beyond president and biting Taxations Is it because He hath condescended to the calling of a Trienniall Parliament a thing never heard of in former ages and granted His Royall Assent to the continuance of this as long as you please Ought wee not all of us for these singular and unheard of Acts of Grace to lay downe our lives at His feet Is it because He hath ever yeelded to the punishment of those that are called Delinquents though it may be his best friends and supposed enemies to the Kingdome If you were a Court of Iustice as you are the Highest Court you would doe the like to those among you that have deserved it But can those be friends to you and worth the defending that are enemies to the King and Kingdome And for His Forts and Navy which you have taken from him were they not most of them bought with His owne money And yet were they not alwayes imployed for the Kingdomes good And are not you the Kingdome Representative yet not so as if there were but two Wise men in a County and all the rest Fooles And will you wrong that Trust that we have reposed in you 'T is true His Majesty cannot possibly manage all in His own Person but by His Ministers and those chosen by Councell and it hath been alwayes judged that none have beene more able impartiall and faithfull to advise Him then His Parliament but what shall we call you a Parliament when your Head and most of your best Members have deserted you He offered not to stirre from you till absolute necessity constrained Him till He saw Ireland in Rebellion the Rebels threatning England the same Spirits as malignant and active at home White-Hall even at His owne house where His owne life wee