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A94507 To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Peeres now assembled in Parliament. The humble petition and protestation of all the bishops and prelates now called by his Majesties writts to attend the Parliament, and present about London and Westminster, for that service. 1642 (1642) Wing T1496C; Thomason 669.f.3[27]; ESTC R33291 1,088 1

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To the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Peeres now assembled in Parliament The humble Petition and Protestation of all the Bishops and Prelates now called by his Majesties Writts to attend the Parliament and present about London and Westminster for that Service THat whereas the Petitioners are called up by severall and respective Writs and under great penalties to attend in Parliament and have a cleer and undubitate Right to Vote in Bills and other matters whatsoever debateable in Parliament by the ancient Customes Laws and Statutes of this Realm and ought to be protected by your Majesty quie●ly to attend and prosecute that great Service They humbly remonstrate and protest before God your Majesty and the Noble Lords and Peers now assembled in Parliament That as they have an indubitate Right to sit and Vote in the House of the Lords so are they if they may be protected from force and violence most ready and willing to perform their Duties accordingly And that they do abhominate all Actions or Opinions tending to Popery and the maintenance thereof as also all propension and inclination to any malignant party or any other side or party whatsoever to the which their own Reasons and Consciences shall not move them to adhere But whereas they have been at severall times violently Menaced Affronted and Assaulted by multitudes of people in their coming to perform their Services in that Honorable House and lately chased away and put in danger of their lives and can finde no redresse or protection upon sundry complaints made to both Houses in these particulars They likewise humbly protest before your Majesty and the Noble House of Peers That saving unto themselves all their Rights and Interests of Sitting and Voting in that House at other times they dare not Sit or Vote in the House of Peers untill your Majesty shall further secure them from all Affronts Indignities and dangers in the premisses Lastly Whereas their fears are not built upon Phantasies and Conceipts but upon such Grounds and Objects as may well terrifie men of good Resolutions and much Constancy They do in all duty and humility protest before your Majesty and the Peers of that most Honorable House of Parliament against all Laws Orders Votes Resolutions and determinations as in themselves Null and of none effect which in their absence since the 27 of this instant Month of December 1641. have already passed as likewise against all such as shall hereafter passe in that most Honorable House during the time of this their forced and violent absence from the said most Honorable House not denying but if their absenting of themselve● were wilfull and voluntary that most Honorable House might proceed in all these premisses their absence or this their Protestation notwithstanding And humbly beseeching your most Excellent Majesty to command the Clerk of that House of Peers to enter this their Petition and Protestation amongst his Records They will ever pray to God to blesse and preserve c. Jo. Eborac Thomas Duresme Robt Co. Lich. Jos. Norwich Jo. Asaphen Guil. Ba. Wells Geo. Hereford Rob. Oxon. Ma. Ely Godfr Glouc. Jo. Peterburg Mor. Llandaff Vera Copia Jo Browne Cleric Parliament London Printed for Joseph Hunscutt 1642.