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<HEAD><HI>To the Honourable, the</HI> Commons of England <HI>in Parliament A&s;&s;emble<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The humble Petition of</HI> Abel Carew, <HI>an Excluded Door-Keeper from This Honourable Hou&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THAT if your Petitioner had nothing to have help'd him&s;elf, and had no<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 letter"> met with &s;ome Friends that employed him in Writing, by which he made a &s;hift to live, he might have &s;tarv'd for want of Relief, in reference to his Place, ever &s;ince Their Maje&s;ties came to the Crown; for a poor Mans Employ|ment in reference to his livelyhood is as much to him as a rich Mans Employment or E&s;tate of a Thou&s;and a Year is to him, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 3. 15. &s;o that there is a right belongs to the poor <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to well as the rich&punc; but that which is above all, your Petitioner is for all Men to <HI>render unto Ce&s;ar the things that are Ce&s;ars, and unto God the things that are Gods;</HI> and accordingly as the Kings Honour is in the whole Nation, &s;o that what&s;oever all the Prote&s;tants in <HI>England</HI> can do for the King and Queen, it is not comparable to that ine&s;timable kindne&s;s of the King and Queens mo&s;t Excellent Ma|je&s;ties, in &s;ecuring and pre&s;erving the Prote&s;tant Religion again&s;t Popery, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and as the Convention Parliament denyed the Popes Supremacy upon their Coronation of King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary;</HI> &s;o your Petitioner is for all the Prote&s;tants in <HI>England</HI> to be unanimous in their denyal of the Popes Supremacy, and acknowledg King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary</HI> to be Supreme: But your Petitioner was never again&s;t making a gratification for any kindne&s;s that he receiv<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, as con&s;idering the words of King <HI>Solomon, Prov.</HI> 18 16. <HI>A mans gift maketh roome for him, and bringeth him before great men;</HI> and accordingly your &s;aid Petitioner <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aving now pre&s;ented your Ho|nours with the afore&s;aid vindication of the Prote&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t Religion, or of the innocency of the Martyrs again&s;t Popery, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as being the be&s;t of gifts, &s;o he hopes it will ob|tain for him the favour, benignity and benevolence of all you<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Honours above and before any thing of a Sum of Money in buying and &s;elling of Plac<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and your &s;aid Petitioners vindication of the Prote&s;tant Religion, or of the Innocency of the Martyrs, again&s;t Popery, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> is all the Offence that he has comm<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tted a|gain&s;t any per&s;on, and is the only cau&s;e of your &s;aid Petitioners being kept out of his Door-Keepers Place belonging to this Honourable Hou&s;e, by the late Serjeant at Arms Deceas'd, as having yet had no Relief ever &s;ince Their Maje&s;ties came to the Crown, and if it is in the power of any Officer, attending the Service of this Honourable Hou&s;e to Re&s;tore your &s;aid Petitioner either &s;or Money or without Money, how much more is it in all your Honours power to Re&s;tore and Continue him in his &s;aid Doorkeepers Place, upon his vindication of the Prote&s;tant Religion, or of the Innocency of the Martyrs again&s;t Popery, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But what partiallity is this, that if a Man gives a Sum of Money for a Place, and afterwards &s;hall be turn'd out of it, and can have no Ju&s;tice &s;hewed him for his Money, how will that be look'd up|on to be, as bad as picking of a Man's Pocket, but as the Martyrs &s;uffered greater in|ju&s;tice then picking of a Man's Pocket, &s;o certainly the innocency of the Martyrs in reference to the Prote&s;tant Religion ought to be Regarded.</P>
<P>Therefore your Petioner pro&s;trates him&s;elf to all your Honours Mercies, pray|ing for all your Honours Commi&s;eration (in your Zeal for the innocency of the Martyrs, or for the Prote&s;tant Religion again&s;t Popery) to Re&s;tore and continue him in his Door-Keeper's Place, and your Petitioner doth now hope that no Per&s;on of Quality what&s;oever and worthy Member of this Honourable Hou&s;e that were for|merly his Friends will now be again&s;t him; for true Liberallity and Beneficence is <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> to the innocency of the Martyrs,</P>
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