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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE
LONDONERS PETITION. 
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE
the Lords and Commons novv a&s;&s;embled
in the High Court of Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of divers Inhabitants of the City of LONDON and the
Liberties thereof.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THat the pre&s;ent &s;ence of our mi&s;eries, and apprehen&s;ion of inevitable ruine both of the
Church and Common-wealth make us to become humble &s;uitors to this Honourable
A&s;&s;embly (the like&s;t meanes under God for our reliefe) to con&s;ider our di&s;tre&s;&s;ed e&s;tates,
and to provide a &s;peedy remedy for our pre&s;ent and future evils, earne&s;tly de&s;iring you to
weigh the care and Iudgement of our predece&s;&s;ors, who by a knowne Law &s;etled and
pre&s;erved our Prote&s;tant Religion, our Liberties and Properties, with a right under&s;tanding betweene
King and Subjects, which produced peace and plenty in our &s;treets.</P>
<P>And to reflect with &s;erious thoughts upon our pre&s;ent di&s;tempers, violating Religion by Papi&s;ts and
Sectaries, engaging our Nation into a civill, bloudy and de&s;tructive war; invading our Lawes and Li|berties,
endangering all our lives, and utterly di&s;inabling us to relieve our di&s;tre&s;&s;ed brethren in Ireland.
We be&s;eech you likewi&s;e to con&s;ider the effects of a continued war, as the de&s;truction of Chri&s;tians,
the unnaturall effu&s;ion of bloud, Fathers again&s;t Sonnes, brothers by brothers, friends by friends &s;laine;
then, famine and &s;ickne&s;&s;e, the followers of a Civill war, making way for a generall confu&s;ion, and in|va&s;ion
by a forraigne Nation, while our Trea&s;ure is exhau&s;ted, our Trade lo&s;t, and the Kingdome di&s;|peopled.
The&s;e things weighed and inlarged by your wi&s;domes, we doubt not will be as &s;trong mo|tives
in you to labour, as in us to de&s;ire, a &s;peedy Peace, and a happy Accommodation.</P>
<P>Wherfore we humbly pray, that (not lending an eare to any Fomenters of the&s;e pre&s;ent Wars, under
what pretence &s;oever, nor remembring ought that may encrea&s;e Iealou&s;ies, or continue divi&s;ions be|tweene
his Maje&s;ty and his Hou&s;e of Parliament) you will &s;peedily tender his Maje&s;ty (according to
his Royall Intimations) &s;uch propo&s;itions for Accommodation, as Hee may with Honour, and &s;afety
to the whole Kingdome, accept. For effecting whereof we &s;hall be ready to a&s;si&s;t you with the be&s;t
and utmo&s;t of our abilities; and while&s;t you endeavor peace, we &s;hall &s;end up our prayers to Heaven,
for the ble&s;sing of peace upon you, and all that de&s;ire it.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Adam Bell.</HI></P>
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