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A94636 To the Right Honourable the Lords of the higher house of Parliament the humble petition of many thousands of the inhabitants of Norwich. 1642 (1642) Wing T1661; Thomason 669.f.6[54]; ESTC R212419 2,068 1

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To the Right Honourable the Lords of the Higher House of Parliament The humble Petition of many thousands of the Inhabitants of Norwich THe dayly growing evills and almost desperate diseases which have overspread the whole body of this Kingdome both in Church and State doe paine us so sore as members thereof and fills us with such fears as that we can no longer refraine from making the same known to your Honors But shewing that after we had lien under a great burthen in our Religion by a multitude of frivolous ridiculous and unwarranted Ceremonies pressed with the vehemencie of suspencion excommunication and deprivation of many godly and painfull Ministers vexing and grievously oppressing of great multitudes of others of his Majesties good subjects so that they were enforced to fly the Kingdom in our civill rights by a multitude of Monopolies by the impositions of illegall taxations by illegall imprisonment by oppressions and cruelties in censures of Courts of Justice as if Government had beene set free from restraint of Lawes and as if that malignant party who were the authors thereof as we verily beleeve they did intended the undermining and utter subversion both of our Religion and Liberty all at once We hoped upon the assembly of this Parliament thereby as the onely meanes under God to have enjoyed a perfect reformation in both but finding the same as hitherto not perfected by reason the causes of these our evills as we conceive are not removed which put us in feare of falling into a relapse more dangerous then in the first disease The Causers and Authors of all which evills are by the Remonstrance of the House of Commons declared to be the Jesuited Papists the Bishops and corrupt part of the Clergy bad Counsellors and Courtiers and their late practices doe give us good cause to beleeve the same as namely that hellish damnable Rebellion salvage and bloudy cruelty of the Papists in Ireland the late Protestation of the Prelates in England which did strike at the very essence and being of Parliaments and many other plots and designes which have beene lately discovered and attempted upon the Parliament no lesse dangerous then the former the endeavours of some ill affected ones to set division betweene the King and his people and to render them odious to his Majesty who are his loyall and faithfull Subjects And that which now dampeth our spirits makes sad our hearts takes away the life of our trading breeds scarcenesse of money brings on such poverty as we can scarce keep the poore from mutiny and filleth us with feares such as hasten on apace even to desperation and make many people to mutter and speake it out that they account those persons enemies to the State who are oppugners of those good things which tend to the generall good and safety of the Land is the not proceeding to bring to condigne punishment the troublers of this our Israel the not disarming of Papists and the execution of the Lawes against them and the Jesuits of whose perfidious treachery this Kingdome hath had experience enough and cannot be strong untill they be made weake the delayes of sending aid to the Protestants in Ireland whilst the Rebells increase their strength and ammunition from forraine Nations so that they beginne to thinke for transporting themselves hither and make this Kingdome the seat of their war for which neglect we may justly feare the curse of Merous to befall us the not putting of the Kingdome into a posture of defence placing the Castles Forts and Magazines of this Kingdome into such hands as the King and Parliament may confide in in these times of eminent dangers when such distractions are in the land the Papists and malignant party so exasperated the Rebells in Ireland so strengthened such preparations for warres in forraine Nations who emulate our Religion and that incitation which they have by the counsell of such delinquents who have fled from the Justice of this Kingdome and intelligence of our distempers from them who yet remaine amongst us the stopping of many good Lawes tending to the security of the Kingdome conceived by the House of Commons not yet brought forth but stifled in the birth and made abortive notwithstanding the uncessant and unwearied labours and endeavours of the renowned House of Commons who represent the persons of Vs and the rest of the Commons of this Kingdome who are truly sensible of our evills as seeing with our eyes hearing with our eares and acting with our hands the maintenance of whose warrantable actions and proceedings in which the honour of the King and the safety of the kingdome consisteth with our lives estates and fortunes wee account our selves bound by the Protestation by us lately taken and shall be ever ready thereunto We humbly desire your Honours will be pleased to joyne with the House of Commons in the speedy redresse of these present evills both in Church State and in using effectuall means for prevention of those which be eminent that a strong Navy the walls of the Kingdome be provided where our adversaries may be disheartned and we better strengthened for defence that the Votes of Popish Lords who as we conceive hitherto have beene great obstacles may be removed meanes may be used to his Majesty that he will be pleased to returne that so his Royall Presence so often as need be give life to your endeavours that the Locusts the Vermin and Caterpillers of Egypt who have endeavored to devoure our Religion consume our Peace and destroy the good things of this Land may with one blast of King and Parliament bee overthrown and drowned in the red Sea of Iustice and that Religion may bee established in the purity both of Doctrine and Discipline so shall the Kings Throne bee established in peace and the Land shall be at rest And your Petitioners shall ever pray for your Lordships c. London Printed for George Tomlinson and R. C. and are to be sold in the Old Bayly Iuly 16. 1642.