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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94439	To the Commons of England, assembled in Parliament. The humble petitions of the well-affected, in and about the City of London, Westminster, and parts adjacent; presenters, and approvers of the late petition of the 11. of September, &c.		1649 (1649)	Wing T1391; Thomason E579_9; ESTC R206178	4,485	4

TO THE Commons of England Assembled in PARLIAMENT The Humble Petition of the well-affected in and about the City of London Westminster and parts adjacent Presenters and Approvers of the late Petition of the 11. of September c. SHEVVETH THAT As the wisdome and Goodnesse of God is the best example to all Authorities in the World so those in Authoritie can in nothing more resemble God then in their readinesse to heare and receive the complaints and Petitions of any that apply themselves unto them And who in cases of dissatisfaction willingly condiscend to a reasoning out of all doubts and differences for so his goodnesse daigned to commune wi●h his servant Abraham and even to a sinnefull and gainsaying People hee saith come let us Reason together And surely if ever there were neede of such a goodnesse now is the time when not only complaints and distractions abound in all places but multitudes of cordiall friends to the Parliament are exceedingly grieved and sadned in their spirits as not seeing the Common-Wealth in a condition of freedome or exemption from grievances and burthens in any measure answerable to the many promises of the Parliament to the affections of those that have assisted them or to the endeavours engagements intentions and desires of the Army Every one believing That in a very short time after the expulsion of the greater number of the Members of this honourable House as betrayers of their trust A new Representative should immediately have beene ordered according to that Moddell of an Agreement of the People tendered by the Counsell of the Army or in some other way And that because that honourable Councell in their Declaration of December last Declared That they should not looke on the remaining part as a formall standing Power to bee continued but in order unto and untill the inttoducing of a more full and formall Power in a just Representative to bee speedily endeavoured by an Agreement of the People And we were the more confident hereof because they had formerly declared also That where the Supreame Authoritie was fixt in the same Persons during their owne pleasure it rendered that Government no better then a Tyrannie and the People subject thereunto no better then Vassells That by frequent Elections men come to taste of subjection as well as Rule and are thereby oblieged for their owne sakes to bee tender of the good of the People so that considering those expressions and those extraordinary things done declaredly for a speedy new Elected Parliament how it should come not only to bee wholly deferred but to bee matter of blame for us or any of our friends earnestly to desire what is so evidently just and necessary in it selfe and so essentiall to the Liberties of the Nation perplexeth us above measure and wee intreat some satisfacton therein And truly when you had voted the People under God to bee the originall of all just Power and the chosen Representatives of the People the Supreame Authoritie wee conceived that you did it to convey those Righteous principles which wee and our friends long laboured for to the next full and formall Representative and not that you intended to have exercised the Supreame Law making Power Much lesse that such ensnaring Lawes should ever have issued from a house of Commons so often and so exceedingly purged intentionally by the Army for the freedome of the Common-Wealth as is your Act against Treason wherein contrary to the course of former Parliaments and to Magna Charta so many things are made Treason that it is almost impossible for any to discourse with any affection for performance of Promises and Engagements or for the Liberties of the Nation but hee is in danger of his life if Judges and Juries should take it for good Law which God forbid Also your Act for continuance and receipt of Excise which every one hoped upon the prevailing of the Army weuld have had a finall end to Trade more oppressive then all the Pattents Projects and Shipmoney put together Also your act for continuance strict receipt of Customs was exceeding crosse to expectation that and the other for Excise being esteemed most destructive to all kind of Commerce Shiping and Navigation and are so chargeable in the receipt as that if what is disbursed to Officers and Collectors were raised in an ordinary way of Subsidies it would goe very farre towards the publique charge which it was hoped you would have seriously laid to heart and have prepared a way to have cased the Nation of both and to have raised all publique moneys by way of Subsidies It was hoped also That you would have don something towards easing the People of the long complained burthen of Tythes rather then to have enforced the same upon treble dammages It was also expected upon the prevailing of the Army and the reducement of this honourable House That the Printing Presses should have beene fully opened and set at free Liberty for the cleare Information of the People the stopping of them having beene complained of as a great oppr●ssion in the Bishops times and in the time of the late unpurged Parliament rather then such an Act against all unlicensed Printing Writing or Publishing as for strictnesse and severity was never before seene in England and is extreamely dissatisfactory to most People And truly when you had Declared so highly and resolvedly for the maintenance of the Law of the Land as to the defence of every mans Liberty and Property according to that excellent Law of the Petition of Right you may soone conceive what heart breaking and torment of Spirit was occasioned by your seizing in an hostile manner such constant cordiall Promoters of those excellent Maximes forementioned by the commitment of them in an extrajuditiall manner to an Arbitrary Prison where they have beene long time Prisoners and most of that time closse Prison●rs their Chambers and Pockets search'd more then once to find matter against them things altogether unparliamentary yea denyed a legall Tryall no legall Crime being laid to their Charge nor Accuser or Witnesse over seene by them face to face as Law requires and this to the Ruine of themselves and Families as to temporall subsistance Wee professe wee are not able to expresse the griefe and amazement that seized on us thereupon and which is dayly renewed upon us in that now after extreame provocations you seeme Resolved to take away the life of our deare friend Mr. Lilburne and others not by any ordinary way of Triall at the usuall Assizes but by a speciall Commission of Oyer and Terminer the judges being composed of such as whose interest hee hath long opposed a way much complained of in the corrupt times before this Parliament and which wee hoped wee should have heard no more of in this Nation And although this is too too lamentable yet would this were all but if wee understand the Petition of Right truly the puting of Souldiers to death or to other reproachfull