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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

all others what high presumption is it and how great a tyranny may it prove over the minds and consciences of men The great increase of late of Schismaticks and Sectaries and of persons not onely separating and sequestring themselves from the publike Assembly at Common Prayers and Divine Service but also opposing and tumultuously interrupting others in the performance thereof in the publike Congregation the frequent and many Conventicles held amongst them and their often meetings at all publike conventions of Assizes Sessions Faires Markets and other publike Assemblies their earnest labouring to sollicit and draw the people to them and the generall correspondence held amongst them to advance their ends herein Of these things wee cannot but take notice and must needs expresse our just feares that their desires and endeavours are to worke some great change and mutation in the present state of the Church Government and in the Forme of the publique Worship of God and Divine Service and Common Prayers Of the Common grievances of the Kingdome wee as others have beene and are sensible and doe professe that wee have just cause with joy and comfort to remember and with thankefulnesse to acknowledge the pious care which is already taken for the suppressing of the grouth of Popery the better supply of able and painefull Ministers and the removing of all Innovation and wee doubt not but in your great Wisdomes you will regulate the rigour and exorbitancy of the Ecclesiasticall Courts to suit with the temper of our Common Lawes and the nature and condition of Freemen And wee hope and humbly pray that the present Forme of Church Government and of Church Service and Common Prayers now established by the Statutes of this Kingdome shall bee setled and that all such as shall oppose themselves against the same or shall doe or speake any thing in derogation or depraving of the said Divine Service or Booke of Common Prayer may without any further tolleration or connivence undergoe the paines punishment and forfeitures due therefore and that such care shall bee taken for placing of Orthodox and peaceable men Lecturers in all places whose Doctrine may tend rather to sound instruction and edification then lead to Schisme and Faction All which wee humbly submit to your great judgements and shall pray to God to assist and direct you from above with his heavenly wisdome to guide and bring all your consultations to happy conclusions To the High and Honourable Court of Parliament now sitting The humble Petition and Remonstrance of the Knights Gentry Clergy Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Somerset Delivered to the House of Peers by the Lord Marquesse Hartford the 10. of December 1641. Wee humbly shew THat having with griefe of mind heard of sundry Petitions which have beene exhibited to this Right Honourable Assembly by some of the Clergy and Laity about London and some Counties tending to the subversion of the Church-government established in this Kingdome Wee therefore tendring the Peace and Welfare of Both Doe in all humblenesse presume to make knowne our Opinions and Desires concerning the same Nothing doubting of the like good acceptance of our humble Petition and Remonstrance in this behalfe being tendred with no lesse good Affection to the Peace and Happinesse of the Church the prosperity of His Sacred Majesty and this whole Kingdome For the present government of the Church we are most thankefull to God believing it in our hearts to be the most pious and the wisest that any People or Kingdome upon earth hath beene blest withall since the Apostles dayes though wee may not deny but through the frailty of Men and corruption of Times some things of ill consequence and other needlesse are stollen or thrust into it which wee heartily wish may be reformed and the Church restored to its former Purity And to the end it may be the better preserved from present and future Innovation We wish the wittingly and maliciously guilty of what condition soever they be whether Bishops or inferior Clergy may receive condigne punishment But for the miscarriage of Governours to destroy the Government we trust it shall never enter into the hearts of this wise and Honourable assembly Wee will not presume to dispute the Right of Episcopacy whether it be Divine or not It sufficeth us to know that the Church-government by Bishops is ancient even neere to the Apostles dayes and that it hath pleased God from time to time to make them most glorious instruments for the propagation and preservation of Christian Religion which with their blood they have frequently sealed to Posterity And how much this Kingdome in particular is indebted to them for their Piety their Wisedomes and Sufferings wee trust shall never be forgotten Our hearts desire therefore is That the Precious may be separated from the Vile that the bad may be rejected and the good retayned Furthermore having credibly heard that our Common Prayer hath beene interrupted and despised of some mis-understanding or mis-led people to the great scandall of the Religion professed in our Church Wee humbly beseech you to take into your care the Redresse therof as of an Impiety not to be endured as also to take order for the severe punishment of those men if they may be discovered who frequently publish Pamphlets under a veile of Religion yet conducing to confusion and Rebellion All which wee humbly offer to your Wisedomes as the thoughts and desires of this County And as wee are perswaded of multitudes of the sound Members of the Church of England and his Sacred Majesties most loyall Subjects Beseeching God to direct and prosper your Counsels and yee to pardon our Errors Wee rest At your Commands Knights Esquires Divines Gentlemen Free-holders Inhabitants of the County of Somerset none of them Papists but all Protestants of the Church of England and his Majesties loyall Subjects 14350 Whereof Knights Esquires and Gentlemen 200 Divines 221 Io BROVVNE Cler. Parliament To the high and honourable Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Knights Esquires Gentlemen and Housholders in the County of RVTLAND in behalfe of our selves and our Families And of the Parsons Vicars and Curats for the Clergy in behalfe of themselves and their Families Humbly shewing THat whereas there have beene divers Petitions exhibited to this Honourable Court by persons disaffected to the present Government for the utter extirpation of the apostolicall Government of the Church by Bishops They by sedulity and zeale supplying the want of faire pretences for the abolition of that which wee hope no just reason can condemne and on the otherside many pious persons true sonnes of the Church of England have represented their just desires of the continuance of it upon great and weighty causes both in Divinity and true Policy wee also lest we might seem unconcerned and for feare lest our silence should be exacted as a crime at our hands if wee be deficient to what wee are perswaded is the cause of God In

of the County of KENT within the Diocesse of CANTERBURY Most humbly shewing THat notwithstanding this Kingdome hath by the singular providence of Almighty God for many yeares last past happily flourished above all other Nations in the Christian World under the Religion and Government by Law established Yet hath it beene of late most miserably distracted through the sinister practises of some private persons ill affected to them both By whose meanes the present Government is disgraced and traduced The Houses of God are prophaned and in part defaced The Ministers of Christ are contemned and despised The Ornaments and many Vtensils of the Church are abused The Liturgy and Booke of Common Prayer depraved and neglected That absolute modell of Prayer The Lords Prayer vilified The Sacraments of the Gospell in some places unduly administred in other places omitted Solemne dayes of fasting observed and appointed by private persons Marriages illegally Solemnized Burials uncharitably performed And the very Fundamentall of our Religion subverted by the publication of a new Creed and teaching the abrogation of the Morall Law For which purpose many offensive Sermons are dayly Preached and many impious Pamphlets printed and in contempt of authority Many doe what seemeth good in their owne eyes onely as if there were no King nor Government in this our Israel Whereby Almighty God is highly provoked his sacred Majesty dishonoured The peace of the Kingdome endangered The Consciences of the people disquieted The Ministers of Gods Word disheartned and the Enemies of the Church emboldned in their enterprises For redresse whereof May it please this Great and Honourable Councell speedily to command a due observation of the Religion and Government by Law established in such manner as it may seeme best to the Piety and Wisdome of his Royall Majesty and this Honourable Court Your Petitioners as they shall Confidently expect a blessing from Heaven upon this Church and Kingdome So shall they have this further cause to implore the Divine Assistance upon this Most Honourable Assembly Subscribed by Knight Barronets and Knights 24. Esquires and Gentlemen of note above 300. Divines 108. Freeholders and Subsidie men 800. All within the Diocesse of Canterbury To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of the Gentry Clergy and other Inhabitants subscribed of the Counties of Flint Denbigh Mountgomery Carnarvan Anglesey Merioneth being the sixe Shires of Northwales As it was presented this present March the 5. 1641. Acccompanied with thirty thousand hands WHereas the present condition of the Church of England in the publike Liturgy thereof in the ancient liberties and forme of Government as they doe now stand established by Law hath beene lately brought in question and manifold Petitions from the severall quarters of this Kingdome and other such like addresses concerning the same have beene presented to this Honourable House Wee his Majesties faithfull Subjects in the Principalities and Counties of North-wales whom it equally concerneth and as strongly tied in duty and conscience doe likewise presume to make our humble Remonstrance and wee doe it after a long silence and expectation joyned with some feares And first for those things which concerne the publique Service of God as they bee of neerest importance and wee nothing doubt but you will take unto your tendrest thoughts so wee doe earnestly propound and prostrate before you that dangerous consequence of Innovation in matters of so high concernment as wee conceive and leave it to your owne great Wisdomes to Iudge what scruples and jealousies are like to arise if wee bee taught a new and different way of serving God after a full perswasion of the lawfulnesse of that which is prescribed according to the Word of God not without the deliberate and concurrent approbation and industry of the most learned of the Protestant Church of this and other Nations and the possession of so many yeares in the practise thereof and all since the blessed time of Reformation The meere report hereof hath already produced no good effect breeding in the minds of ill-disposed persons Insolence and contempt in others perplexity and griefe not knowing how to settle themselves or forme their obedience in such distractions and sometimes repugnancy of commands Then for the outward policy and forme of Government under the Iurisdiction of Bishops bounded by Law and kept within their owne limits It is as wee beleeve that forme which came into this Island with the first Plantation of Religion heere and God so blest this Island that Religion came earely in with the first dawning of the day very neere or in the time of the Apostles themselves And in the succession of all after Ages the same hath beene constantly maintained among us and that without any eminent interruption or gaine-saying even till these our dayes And now from the comfortable experience which wee feele and which our Fathers have told us of the conveniency and moderation of this Government together with the antiquity of the same a strong argument of Gods speciall Protection Wee doe in all humility represent and pray that the same may be still preserved entire in all the parts thereof professing yet withall that wee heartily disclaime all scandalous Innovation and Popish corruption whatsoever And we are the more incouraged in this suit because wee find it to be the unanimous and undevided request and vote of this whole Country who cannot without some trembling entertaine a thought of change In all which we doe not presume to give any rules but as it becomes us humbly declare and open our owne breasts and labour to deliver our owne soules in testimony of our loyalties and discharge of our Consciences who shall ever take comfort to find the same way of honouring God continued in his owne House of Prayer the lawes of the land put to actuall execution the Peace and Government of the Church preserved the rumor'd alterations declined and the distractions already too visible arising thereupon avoyded And as wee doubt not but your great Wisdomes will take care that our Doctrine and Discipline established shall be still in force and observed untill by some absolute law and the opinions of learned Convocations or Synod according to the Customs of our prudent fore-Fathers in best times it be otherwise ordained So shall wee never cease to pray for a permanent blessing upon your Counsels and Resolutions to the generall happinesse of Church and Kingdome To the sacred MAIESTIE of our most Gracious Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith The humble Gratulation and Petition of divers His Majesties faithfull Subjects of the true Protestant Religion within the County Palatine of Lancaster Most gracious Soveraigne THe most Reall and convincing'st testimonies of your Princely care for the advancement of Gods true Religion in your Majesties Realmes And the common good of all your Subjects Could no lesse then draw

from us who have hitherto in these stirring Times sate still this humble acknowledgement of our due and necessary thankes Wee with the inmost and choicest thoughts of our soules doe esteeme and prize your Majesties most righteous intentions of governing your liege people according to the wholsome Lawes of this Kingdome A thing so often and with such earnestnesse avowed by your sacred Majesty whereunto we yeeld that hearty credence which is due to so religious a Prince Wee doe also with all humility and thankfulnesse acknowledge your manifold and evident manifestations to the world that you affect not an Arbitrary Government But the common prosperity and happinesse of all your loyall subjects by your readines to joyn with your Parliament in speedy raysing of forces for a timely suppression of that odious Rebellion in Ireland by your late Proclamation for the putting in due execution the Lawes against Papists By your most gracious condiscending to the desires of your Great Councell in signing the Bill for the trienniall Parliament for the relinquishing your Title of imposing upon Merchandize and power of pressing souldiers For the taking away the Star-chamber and High Commission Courts for regulating of the Councell Table As also for the Bils for the Forrests and Stannerie Courts with other most necessary acts Moreover wee are confident and well assured of your Majesties zeale for the advancement of the true Protestant Religion And with inexpressible joy doe understand your most Christian and pious resolution for the preservation of those powerfull encouragements of Industry Learning and Piety the meanes and honour of the Ministry for the maintenance and continuance of our Church Government and solemne Liturgy of the Church of long continuance and generall approbation of the most pious and learned of this Nation and of other countries Composed according to the Primitive Patterne by our blessed Martyrs and other religious and learned men As also your gracious pleasure that all abuses of Church and State shall bee reformed according to the modell of Queene Elizabeths dayes of ever blessed and famous memory By the one you have weakned the hopes of the sacrilegious devourers of the Churches Patrimony if there be any such And by the other provided against all Popish Impieties and Idolatries and also against the growing danger of Anabaptists Brownists and other Novelists All which Piety Love and Iustice wee beseech God to returne into your Royall bosome But yet most gracious Soveraigne there is one thing that sads our hearts and hinders the perfection of our happinesse which is the distance and mis-understanding between your Majesty and your Parliament whereby the hearts of your subjects are filled with feares and jealousies Iustice neglected sacred ordinances prophaned and Trading impaired to the impoverishing of many of your liege people For the Removall whereof wee cannot find out any lawfull meanes without your Majesties assistance and direction Wherefore we humbly beseech your most excellent Majesty to continue your most Christian and pious Resolution of ruling your people according to the Lawes of the Land and maintaining of the same of being a zealous Defender of the estabilshed Doctrine Liturgie and Government of our Church from heresies Libertinisme and prophannesse an advancer of Learning Piety and Religion an Encourager of Learned Painefull Orthodox Preachers And whatsoever your Parliament shall offer to your Royall view conducing to this blessed end the common good and tranquillity of your subjects to be pleased to condiscend unto and graciously to confirme and withall to declare unto us some expedient way how we may make a dutifull addresse unto your Parliament for the taking away of these differences and impediments which stay the happy proceedings of that most honourable Assembly whereof your Majesty is the Head which once removed wee doubt not but you will bee as neare your Parliament in Person as in affection That there may be a blessed harmony betwixt your Highnesse and that great Councell wee shall with all alacrity oserve the same Humbly rendring our lives and fortunes for the preservation of your Royall Person Crowne and Dignity according to our bounden duty and allegiance And heartily praying for your Majesties long and prosperous Raigne over us Wee the Subscribers of this Petition doe hereby give authority unto the Bearers hereof to put our names to such Transcript hereof as shall be presented to His Majesty Attested by Knights and Esquires 64. Divines 55. Gentlemen 740. Free-holders neare 7000. To the Kings most Excellent MAIESTIE The humble Petition of the County of Cornewall WEe your Majesties loyall subjects In all duty render unto your Majesty all thankfulnesse for your Majesties unexampled favour and grace in granting unto your Subjects in concurrence with your Parliament such Lawes and Freedomes which have most fully expressed your Majesties Gracious Goodnesse unto your people And wee most thankfully receive your Majesties free offer of a generall pardon whereof wee most humbly desire to be made Partakers And wee most humbly beseech your Majesty never to suffer your Subjects to be governed by an arbitrary Government nor admit an alteration in Religion And your Petitioners being most feelingly grieved for your Majesties discontents partly occasioned by divers scandalous Pamphlets and no way lessened by seditious Sermons Doe wish a confluence of all comforts honour and happinesse unto your Majesty and doe heartily pray for the reconcilement betwixt your Majesty and your Parliament And in all thankfulnesse for your Majesties said Grace and Goodnesse your Petitioners doe offer themselves most ready to maintaine and defend with their lives and fortunes your Maiesties sacred Person Honour and Estate And lawfull Prerogative against all persons whatsoever according to the oaths of allegeance and Supremacy May 22. 1642. Jndorsed Wee the Petitioners to this Petition doe constitute and appoint Peter Courtney Walter Langdon Benatus Bellot and Nevill Bligh Esquires to deliver this Petition in the name of the county of Cornwall to His sacred Majesty To the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament The Humble Petition of the Gentry Ministers and Commonalty of the County of Kent agreed upon at the generall Assizes of the County Most Humbly sheweth THat wee cannot but take notice how welcome to this Honourable House many Petitions have beene which yet came not from an assembled body of any county as this doth wee doe therefore hope to find as gentle and favourable a reception of this as any other have found of their Petitions our hearts witnessing unto us as good peaceable and pious purposes as the best These are therefore the true and Ardent desires of this County 1 That you will be pleased to accept our due and hearty thankes for those excellent Lawes which by his Majesties grace and goodnesse you have obtained for us 2. That all Lawes against Papists be put in due execution and an account taken of their disarming and that all children of the Papists may be brought up in the reformed Religion 3. That the soelmn Liturgy

our unanimous desires That the Government of this Church may continue as is now by Law established And that the Liturgy may bee setled with such alterations if there bee cause as your Wisdomes shall approve That the Lawes against Papists which oppose our Religion And against Sectaries of late dangerously encreased among us that trouble the Peace thereof may bee put in full execution And where those Lawes are defective such further remedy therein may bee provided as to your wisdomes shall seeme fit That a free Synod of Orthodox and peaceable Divines may bee convened according to the forme of the Primitive and Purest times of Christianity for composing of all differences in Doctrine and Ceremonies of Religion That the Safety of this County and Kingdome may bee provided for by the disposing of such a Militia as may consist with the native Liberties of the Subject That you would bee pleased to continue your Care in hastening the further Reliefe of our distressed Brethren in Ireland And your Petitioners shall bee ready to maintaine with their Lives and Estates his Majesties Person Honour and Estate together with the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. To the Most Honourable and High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Gentlemen and other of the Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall HAving seene and heard the many though scarce divers Petitions to this Honourable Assembly by the Inhabitants of divers Counties and Cities of this Land as also Corporations Companies and Trades some against Bishops some against the Common Prayer and all against such Iudiciall and things Super-elementary to the region of their capacity of judging and matters onely belonging to the Iudicature of this grave Synod which seemes either to distrust or direct or both your great Wisdomes Wee therefore the Gentlemen and other the Inhabitants of Cornwall with as many hearts though not hands with as many good willes though not persons not in imitation but rather by provocation and necessity in these times to shew our good minded affections doe humbly prostrate the utmost of our service to your feet In which or rather after which wee take leave humbly to begge THat you will bee pleased to bend your auxiliary and good affections to the redresse of the distresse of the miserable Protestants in Ireland To gaine whose good prosperity peace and tranquility to preserve the Soveraignty of that Land to our Royall King and to maintaine His and this Kingdomes Honour We shall willingly lay downe our lives and fortunes That you will bee pleased to continue your great respect dutifull love and true obedience to our Royall Soveraigne by maintaining his just and no way Antilegall Prerogative That you will bee pleased to put the Lawes in due execution against all Iesuites Seminaries Papists and Recusants That you will bee pleased to looke upon the other side and duly weighing the actions or rather factions of some whom most men call Citizens to scourge their irregular and disorderly Schisme and Hereticall Sects into right paths of serving God to frequent his House and to Pray as well as Heare to allow Order and obey Conformity to reverence Learning and bow to Authority to bee under a Discipline and live in order That you will bee pleased to maintaine and establish the Ancient Fundamentall and most venerable Lawes Order and Discipline both of our Church and Common-wealth to continue the reverenced Office and punish the offending persons of Bishops to have in high account and eternize as farre as in you lies the Divine and excellent forme of Common-prayer to correct braine-forg'd doctrine by your examplary precepts strike a Reverence of Gods House into every mans breast That you will bee pleased to intimate to the people your Honourable and wise intentions concerning Divine Service lest while you hold your peace some rejecting it in part others altogether they vainly conceive you countenance them Lastly not to trouble your great affaires any longer That you will bee pleased to take into your Sage consideration those Scandalous and ill-affected Pamphlets which fly abroad in such swarmes as are able to cloud the pure aire of Truth and present a darke ignorance to those who have not the two wings of Iustice and Knowledge to fly above them Now to polish this our worke with a smooth demonstration of our modest intents that the tinctures which in Introduction fell on the fore-mentioned presents may slide without a staine from this Wee doe in all humility declare that neither distrust of your intentions nor opinion of any of our Counsels worthy your eares ever tainted our thoughts but that wee have still beene and are confident that this most wise Synod hath ever thought fit resolv'd and will confirme into action what wee now humbly request therefore this our present not so much a Petition as a Prayer of willing and thankefull hearts for the hoped sequell is onely to shew our true intentions and good will towards his gracious Majesty and this High Court as Instruments of the peace of our soules and bodies for which wee are unanimously and immutably resolv'd to spend our dearest bloud Published by I.B. Gent. To the Right Honourable the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in the high Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Knights Esquires Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders and other Inhabitants within the County of HEREFORD Who Most humbly pray THat the present publique forme of Gods Worship and the Administration of the blessed Sacraments with other Rites agreeable to Gods holy Word and purest Antiquity which have beene sundry times established by godly Acts of Parliament may now againe in these broken and troubled times bee to Gods glory and the Churches Peace re-established and confirmed That Episcopacy being the Ancient and Primitive Government of the Church Renowned for Successes Victorious against Schismes and Heresies and especially of late yeares against that Hydra of Heresies the Roman Papacy Glorious for ancient and late Martyrdomes Happy before the corruption of Popery and since the Reformation in the plantation and preservation of Truth and Peace eminently serviceable to this Common-wealth most compliable with the Civill Government into the Fabrick and Body of which it is riverted and incorporated and most apt and easie at all times by the state to bee reduced into Order may for the future as formerly by your great authority bee continued and maintained for the glory of God the preservation of Order Peace and Vnity the Reformation and suppression of wickednesse and vice and the mature prevention of Schismes Factions and Seditions That Cathedrals the Monuments of our Forefathers Charity the reward of present Literature and furtherance of Piety bee also continued The which wee your humble Petitioners the more earnestly beseech your Honours to grant for that strange feares doe possesse our Hearts that the sudden Mutation of Government so long setled so well knowne and approved cannot recompence the Disturbances and Disorders which it may