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A94497 To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses of the Commons House in Parliament now assembled. The humble petition of the lay-Catholiques recusants of England. 1641 (1641) Wing T1472; Thomason 669.f.4[23]; ESTC R205398 1,774 1

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TO THE HONOVRABLE THE KNIGHTS CITIZENS AND BVRGESSES OF THE COMMONS HOVSE IN PARLIAMENT NOW ASSEMBLED The humble Petition of the Lay-Catholiques Recusants of England Sheweth THat the chiefest and most glorious Attribute of power being Mercy the safest addresse thereto must be Submission which makes us in all humility offer unto the consideration of this Honourable Assembly the great and heavy burthen under which wee grone and though to Lawes we humbly shall submit yet such is the weight of some that lye upon us that nothing lesse then linity can let us live nor can wee any way find out reliefe but by applying our selves unto this High Court whereas Fathers and supreame Judges you reside retaining still full power to frame or change according to the exigency of times and occasions and being prudent and mercifull can affoord us patience and favour in this short Petition wherein wee shall yeeld our selves fit Subjects for your mercy or obedient Submittees to your wills and resolutions The many penall Lawes in force against your humblest Petitioners are to this Honourable Assembly knowne as is the ground on which they first were made not out of memory having had their birth but under Queene Elizabeth when partly extraordinary proceedings from the See of Rome against her person and partly the claime our dread Soveraignes Grandmother wholly devoted to that Religion layd to the immediate succession of the Crowne occasioned severall distractions and even cast jealousies and suspitions upon all that in Religion had relation to that See whereupon from emergent reason of State and by way of prudent cautions and prevanting future disobedience and not to put restraint upon the conscience of the Subject or to punish contrariety of opinion or beliefe these lawes as we conceive were made and afterward much aggravated and made more heavy to us all by occasion of that ever most derestable plot of those few decayed turbulent and desperatly discontented persons indeed professors of the same Religion but quite neglecting and transgressing and most inhumanly therein forgetting all duty and obligation If thus Right noble Gentlemen these Lawes originally vvere appropriated to these times and no such reason now we hope appeares and still these Lawes overwhelmes us It is either for the personall offences of other men whose wicked facts we are no waies guilty of with all good Christians utterly abhorre or for supposed errours of our understanding and beliefe which as in it selfe according to all Divines is an effect immediate of grace and therefore not to be enforced So in its tenets there is not any thing forbids invites or hinders the professors of it from their due obedience to their Prince and faithfull preservation of their Countries liberties In prosecution of vvhich truth we heere abjure as false and most erroneous both assasination of Princes and faith is not to be kept with all sorts of people and doe detest them both as most oppugnant to humanity and not to be allowed by any Religion whatsoever We also shall and will be ever ready to maintaine and defend with all our powers lives and fortunes all our Countries liberties the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliaments the Subjects lawfull Rights liberty and propriety the peace and unity of his Majesties three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland and in all just and honourable wayes endeavour the punishment of all that seeke or worke the contrary as dutifull obedient and loyall Subjects are obliged and as true borne Lovers of their Countries good are bound All which under favour as the Lavves now stand we no wayes are permitted as having neither freedome nor fortunes of our ovvne for strictly are our actions Judgements and our tongues tyed up But the approaching storme that seemes to threaten here moves us to take shelter under your mercies vvings most freely spread to comfort all agrieved vvhere vve doe hope for shadovv and protection And humbly are Petitioners that you vvill be pleased to ease our sufferings by mitigating the Rigor of those penall Lavves that either ruine us and our posterity or cast a thraldome on our consciences so as vve meekly vvalking in our fore-Fathers steps aspiring unto nothing but possessing our selves in peace as people that seeke ease not honours and that the crime of Catholiques before this Honourable Assembly ●o●… appeares but onely different vvaies in serving the same God you serve the same Christ which you beleeve for whosoever in any other sort offends Quipeccaverit ipse moriatur vve most humbly in your prudence and your goodnesse trust in this publique Iubilee vvhen all 's intended to be joy and consolation vvee shall not be the onely Subject of sorrovv and desolation nor that the Lavves made for offendours in one time should lay upon the innocent in another And therefore humbly begge you vvill cast your eye upon the Schedule of these Lawes annexed and then your mercifull repeale of vvhat your vvisdomes and mercy find shall give the conscience reliefe that is afflicted not the mind content that is ambitious and a thing vve thirst not after And for so great a charity your humble Petitioners shall ever as in duty bound pray for Your continuall prosperitie and eternall happinesse Printed 1641.