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<NAME>Judith Siefring</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE MOST HONOVRABLE THE HOVSE OF PEERES, AND THE HONOVRABLE HOVSE Of COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Baronets, Ju&s;tices, and Gentlemen of the County of <HI>DEVON</HI> at their Generall Se&s;sions.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth;</OPENER>
<P>_THat your Petitioners ob&s;erving to our comfort your infinite labours, and to our &s;orrows your abounding pre&s;&s;ures and incombrances; and &s;tudying how we might po&s;&s;ibly in our degree contribute to your help; The Com|plaints and fears of our Countreymen herewith commended to your view, have given us an overture, charging us, by all the intere&s;t of our common welfare and danger, to repre&s;ent to His Maje&s;tie, and your Honors, their pre&s;ent di&s;tre&s;&s;es and expected mi&s;eries. The Port Towns as they are for the mo&s;t part the fir&s;t receivers of forraigne intelligence; &s;o are they &s;oone&s;t &s;en&s;ible of inconveniences occurring by the pro|ceedings of their trade, lo&s;&s;es by Turki&s;h Pyrates, Cro&s;&s;es by the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebellion, and <HI>Lon|don</HI> di&s;tractions though fir&s;t felt, yet are the&s;e their lea&s;t feared calamities; Neither do the flocks of poore Prote&s;tants coming from that Kingdom robd of their late good Fortune, and now depending upon their Chri&s;tian charity &s;o much affright them, with the charge of their relief. As for the threatning me&s;&s;ages they bring from their woolvi&s;h enemies, That the bounds of that Kingdom &s;hall not limit their malicious Tyrannie: So the&s;e as your Honors may perceive by the peru&s;all (which we humbly pray you to afford) they adde the Popi&s;h Plots by your wi&s;edom and vigilancie alreadie di&s;covered, as certain ar|guments of warre intended and readie for Execution.</P>
<P>And all this they do with &s;o much probabilitie conjecture to proceed from the practi&s;es of the Popi&s;h Lords, and their con&s;tant adherents in mo&s;t of their Votes, the Prelates in the Hou&s;e of Peers, as your Petitioners concurre with the&s;e our neighbours in opinion and de&s;ires, that your Honors would once more imploy your endeavours to our mo&s;t gracious King, to exclude Papi&s;ts from his great affairs, and his Prelates from Temporall Iuri&s;|diction.</P>
<P>By the bearers hereof your Petitioners have pre&s;umed to make the like tender to his Ma|je&s;ties Royall hand, being from thence confident of their happie effects; in&s;tead of di&s;tra|ctions, unitie; for remora's, celeritie; for mi&s;under&s;tanding, corre&s;pondencie. And by the mercie of God upon his Church and people, and upon the be&s;t of Kings their Supreme Governor; Prerogative and Priviledge will ki&s;&s;e each other, when His Maie&s;tie &s;hall think it his greate&s;t Honor to grant your ju&s;t Priviledge, and you acknowledge it your be&s;t Pri|viledge, to enioy the benefit and glorie of his due and princely Prerogative.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>For the&s;e and all other wi&s;hed Felicities, your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>H. Blunden,</HI> 1641.</P>
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