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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
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<HEAD>TO THE MOST HONOVRABLE And high Court of Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Gentlemen, and other of the Inhabitants of the County of <HI>Cornwall.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HAving &s;eene and heard the many (though &s;carce divers) Petitions to this Honou|rable A&s;&s;embly by the Inhabitants of divers, Counties and Cities of this Land, as al&s;o Corporations, Companies, and Trades, &s;ome again&s;t Bi&s;hops, &s;ome again&s;t the Common Prayer, and all again&s;t &s;uch judiciall, and things &s;uper-elementary to the Region of their capacity of judging, and matters only belonging to the judica|ture of this grave Synod, which &s;eemes either to di&s;tru&s;t, or direct, or both, your great wi&s;edomes; We therefore the Gentlemen and other the Inhabitants of <HI>Cornwall,</HI> with as many hearts, though not hands, with as many good wils, though not per&s;ons, not in imitation, but rather by provocation and nece&s;&s;ity, in the&s;e times, to &s;hew our good minded affections, doe humbly pro|&s;trate the utmo&s;t of our &s;ervice to your feet. In which (or rather after which) we take leave hum|bly to beg,</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to bend your auxiliary and good affections to the redre&s;&s;e of the di|&s;tre&s;&s;e of the mi&s;erable Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ireland.</HI> To gaine who&s;e good, pro&s;perity, peace, and tranqui|lity, to pre&s;erve the Soveraignty of that Land to our Royall King, and to maintaine his and this Kingdomes honour, We &s;hall willingly lay downe our lives and fortunes.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to continue your great re&s;pect, dutifull love, and true obedience, to our Royall Soveraigne, by maintaining his ju&s;t, and no way antilegall Prerogative.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to put the Lawes in due execution again&s;t all Ie&s;uites, Seminaries, Pa|pi&s;ts and Recu&s;ants.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to looke upon the other &s;ide, and duely weighing the actions (or rather factions) of &s;ome, (whom mo&s;t men call Citizens) to &s;courge their irregular and di&s;orderly &s;chi&s;me and hereticall Sects, into right paths of &s;erving God, to frequent his Hou&s;e, and to pray as well as heare, to allow order, and obey conformity, to reverence Learning, and bow to Authority, to be under a di&s;cipline, and live in order.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to maintaine and e&s;tabli&s;h the ancient fundamentall and mo&s;t venerable Lawes, Order and Di&s;cipline, both of our Church and Common-wealth, to continue the reverenc'd Office, and puni&s;h the offending per&s;ons of Bi&s;hops, to have in high account, and eternize (as farre as in you lyes) the Divine and excellent forme of Common-prayer, to correct brain-forg'd doctrine, by your exemplary precepts &s;trike a reverence of Gods Hou&s;e into every mans brea&s;t.</P>
<P>That you will be plea&s;ed to intimate to the people your honourable and wi&s;e intentions concer|ning Divine Service, le&s;t while you hold your peace, &s;ome rejecting it in part, others altogether, they vainly conceive you countenance them.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, (not to trouble your great affaires any longer) That you will be plea&s;ed to take into your &s;age con&s;ideration, tho&s;e &s;candalous and ill-affected Pamphlets, which flye abroad in &s;uch &s;warmes, as are able to cloud the pure ayre of truth, and pre&s;ent a darke ignorance to tho&s;e who have not the two wings of Iu&s;tice and knowledge to fly above them.</P>
<P>Now to poli&s;h this our worke with a &s;mooth demon&s;tration of our mode&s;t intents, that the tin|ctures which in introduction fell on the fore mentioned pre&s;ents may &s;lide without a &s;taine from this; We doe in all humility declare, that neither di&s;tru&s;t of your intentions, nor opinion of any of our coun&s;els worthy your eares ever tainted our thoughts, but that we have &s;till been, and are confident, that this mo&s;t wi&s;e Synod hath ever thought fit, re&s;olv'd, and will confirme into acti|on, what we now humbly reque&s;t, therefore this our pre&s;ent, not &s;o much a Petition, as a prayer of willing and thankfull hearts for the hop'd &s;equell, is onely to &s;hew our true intentions and good will towards his gracious Maje&s;tie, and this high Court, as In&s;truments of the peace of our &s;oules and bodies, for which wee are unanimou&s;ly, and immutably re&s;olv'd to &s;pend our deare&s;t blood.</P>
<BYLINE><HI>Publi&s;hed by</HI> I.B. <HI>Gent.</HI></BYLINE>
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