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religion_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	subject_n	3,349	5	6.8187	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90363	The petition of the gentry, ministers, and commonalty of the county of Kent. Agreed upon at the generall assizes last holden for that county. The copie of which petition being delivered to Judge Mallet (who was for that circuit) and afterwards to the Earle of Bristoll. Which petition being concealed from the Parliament by the Earle of Bristoll and the said Iudge Mallet, was for the same, both committed to the Tower, March 28. 1642.	Peirce, Edmund, Sir, d. 1667.	1642 (1642)	Wing P1064; Thomason E142_10; ESTC R212738	2,530	7

THE PETITION Of the Gentry Ministers and Commonalty of the County of KENT Agreed upon at the Generall Assizes last holden for that County The Copie of which Petition being delivered to Judge Mallet who was for that Circuit and afterwards to the Earle of Bristoll Which Petition being concealed from the Parliament by the Earle of Bristoll and the said Iudge Mallet was for the same both committed to the Tower March 28 1642. LONDON Printed 1642. 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 Honor●ble House many Petitions have beene which yet came not from an Assembled body of any County as this doth we 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 Countie 1. That you will be pleased to accept our due and heatty thanks for those excellent Lawes which by his Majesties grace goodnesse you have obtained for us 2. That all Lawes against Papists be put in due execution and an accompt taken of their disarming and that all Children of the Papists may be brought up in the reformed Religion 3. That the Solemne Litturgy of the Church of England Celebrious by the piety of the Bishops and Martyrs who composed it establisht by the supreame Lawes of this Land attested and approved by the best of all Forraigne Divines confirmed by the subscription of al the Mi●istry of this Land A Cle●rgy as able and Learned as any in the Christian world ●re injoyed and with a holy love embraced by the most and best of all the Laity tha● this holy exercise of Religion may by your Authority be injoyed quiet and free from interruptions scornes prophanenesse threats and force of such men who dayly do deprave it and neglect the use of it in divers Churches in despight of the Lawes established 4. That Episcopall Government as Antient in this Island as Christianity it selfe deduced and dispersed throughout the Christian world even from the Apostolicall times may be preserved as the most pious most prudent and most safe Government for the peace of the Church 5. That all differences concerning Religion and Cerimonies may be referred to a Lawfull free and Nationall Synod as your Remonstrance promiseth to a genner●ll Synod of most grave learned pious and Iudicious Divines the proper Agents whose interests gifts and callings may quicken them in that great Worke whose choyce to be by all the Cleargy of the Land because all the Cleargy are to be bound by their Resolutions and the determination of this Synod to bind us all when you have first formed them into a Law and this we take to be according to the antient and fundamentall Law of this Land confirmed by Magna Charta 6. That some speedy and good provision may be made as by his Majesty hath been and is by all good men desired against the odio●s abominable scandall of schismaticall and seditious Sermons and Pamphlets and some s●vere Law made against Lay-men for daring to arrogate to themselves and to execute the holy function of the Ministry who some of them doe sowe their impious and discontented Doctrine even in Sacred places by abuse of Sacred Ordinances to the advancing of Heresie Schisme Prophanensse Libertinisme Anabaptisme and Atheisme 7. That if the coertive power of Ecclesiasticall Courts by way of Excommunication be already abrogated or shall be thought fit so to be that there be some other power and authority speedily established for suppressing the heynous and now so much aboundings sinnes of Incest Adultery and Fornieation and other crimes and for recovering Tythes repairing of Churches Probate of Wills Church Assesses providing Bread and Wine for the Communion and choice of Church-Wardens and other Officers in the Church and especially for Minnisters who neglect the Celebrating of the Holy Communion and the Parishioners for not Receiving 8. That the Professors of that Learned faculty of the Civill Law without which this Kingdome cannot but suffer manifold Inconveniences may not find discouragements and so divert their Studies and Professions 9. That honour and profits the powerfull enconragements of industry Learning and Piety may bee preserved without further dimination to the Clergie 10. That you please sadly to consider the bleeding wounds of our Brethren in Ireland and with speedy succours endeavour to preserve them whereunto his Majesty hath promised a gracious concurrence 11. That you please to frame an especiall Law for the Regulating of the Militia of this Kingdome so that the Subject may know how at once to obey both his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament a Law whereby may be left to the discretion of Governours as little as may be but that the number of Armes and what measure of punishment shall be inflicted upon the offendors may be expresly set downe in the Act and not left to any Arbitrary power and that according to the president of former Lawes the offendors may not be tryed out of the County 12. That the Precious Liberty of the Subject the common birth right of every Englishman may be as in all these poynts preserved entire so in this also that no order of either of both Houses not grounded on the Lawes of this Land may bee enforced on the Subject till it be fully enacted by Parliament 13. That his Majesties gracious Message of the 20. of Ian. last for the present and future establishment of the Priviledges of Parliament the free enjoying of our estates and Fortunes the liberty of our persons the security of the true Religion professed the maintaining of his Majesties Iust and Regall Authority the establishing his Revenue may be taken into speedy consideration the effecting whereof will sati●fie the desires of all us his faythfull and loving Subjects 14. That all possible care may be taken that the Native Commodities of this Kingdome may have a quicke Vent and that Cloathing and other Mannufactures may be improved where in the livelyhood of of many thousands doe consist and that Trade may be ballanced that the importation doe not exceed the exportation otherwise it will prove a consumption of the Land 15. That you please to frame some Lawes concerning Depopulations Purveyances Cart-taking delayes in Iustice Trafficke Pishing in the Coasts Fulling Earth that our Sea Forts may be repayred and our Magazines renewed 16. That you please to consider the generall poverty that seemes to overgrow this Kingdome 17. Lastly Wee humbly beseech you to consider the sad condition that we and the whole Land are in if a good understanding be not speedily renued betweene his Majestie and both houses of Parliament Our hopes are yet above our feares secure them we beseech you God direct and guide your consultations for the removing of all distrusts and Iealousies for the renuing that tye of confidence and trust which is the highest happinesse betweene our gracious Prince and his loving Subjects And you shall have the dayly prayers of your humble Orators of the Commonalty of Kent To meete at Blacke Heath the 29. of Aprill by 9. of the Clocke at the furthest to accompanie this Petition to the Parliament 1642. FINIS