<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2007-10-04</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B070914.apex.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="OX" ID="A84891">
<STC T="W">F2126</STC>
<STC T="T">669.f.19[57]</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99870824</BIBNO>
<VID>163394</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 7 -->
<HEAD>To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and Dominions thereunto belonging,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Sub&s;cribers on the behalf of them&s;elves, and other Reduced Officers and Souldiers therein concerned.</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THAT in their zealous and cordial affection to the ju&s;t rights and freedome of this Nation, with expence of blood and patrimony, they have faithful|ly &s;erved this Common-wealth from the beginning of the late wars until reduced by Order of Parliament, with promi&s;e of fatisfaction forth with of &s;uch Arrears as were due unto them, which may appear by &s;everal Or|ders and Ordinances of Parliament, and many of them voluntarily &s;ince the &s;aid reducement, engaged, to the hazard of all that was dear unto them for the Publike good.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;&s;e their con&s;tant expectations (grounded upon the many pro|mi&s;es and engagements of the then Supreme Authority of this Nation) have been wholly fru&s;trated, although they (to their great expence) con|&s;tantly attended with many humble Addre&s;&s;es during the &s;pace of &s;even yeers pa&s;t, for the obtaining of their ju&s;t &s;atisfaction; for want of which, divers are brought to extreme penury, many &s;tarved, and others in pri&s;on ready to peri&s;h.</P>
<P>But their long and tedious attendance producing no fruit from the Parliament, after their di&s;&s;olution, they then made their humble Addre&s;&s;es to his Highne&s;&s;e, and Honourable Council, who were plea&s;ed to refer their Petition to the Council of the Army; who upon mature con&s;ideration and conference had with your Petitioners, returned their &s;en&s;e and re&s;ults thereon to his Highne&s;&s;e, and the &s;aid Council, by who&s;e Order the &s;ame was tran&s;mitted (by the hands of Captain <HI>Howard)</HI> to the late Parliament, who after daily &s;olicitations, did admit them (for &s;atisfaction out of hands in <HI>Ireland)</HI> into an Act, inti|tuled, <HI>An Act for &s;atisfaction of Adventurers and Souldiers,</HI> dated the twenty &s;ixt day of <HI>September,</HI> 1653.</P>
<P>That after the late Parliament di&s;&s;olved them&s;elves, they then made their humble Addre&s;&s;es to his Highne&s;&s;e, who was plea&s;ed to recommend them and their de&s;ires unto the &s;peedy and &s;erious con&s;idera|tion of his Council &s;itting at <HI>White-Hall,</HI> in order to their due relief and &s;atisfaction, and perceiving that upon the addre&s;&s;es of &s;ome Officers, (under the &s;ame qualification with your Petitioners) Lands both in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> have been obtained for their &s;atisfaction; and your Petitioners hitherto (by rea&s;on of the great and weighty affairs of the Common-wealth) are un&s;atisfied, &s;o that your Petitioners upon this account are without hope of reaping any benefit, or to be enabled to receive &s;a|tisfaction by that &s;ecurity in the &s;aid Act, according to the purport and meaning thereof.</P>
<P REND="indent italic">Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your Honours would be plea&s;ed to take the premi&s;es into your &s;erious con&s;ideration, to the end, that as the &s;aid Act of the late Parliament intends a &s;ecurity unto them, their intere&s;t may be pre&s;erved therein; And that &s;ome &s;peedy cour&s;e may be taken for &s;tating the Arrears of &s;uch Officers and Souldiers, as are not yet &s;tated; And that &s;uch who&s;e Arrears are already &s;tated by Committees, or Commi&s;&s;ioners, or any Anthori&s;ed by Order or Ordinance of Parliament, having faithfully &s;erved this Common|wealth, and no ways forfeited their right to their ju&s;t dues; All of them or their A&s;&s;ignes may be enabled by bond or otherwi&s;e to receive &s;atisfaction for their Arrears &s;o &s;tated, and to be &s;tated out of &s;uch Lands in <HI>Ireland,</HI> as are yet undi&s;po&s;ed of <HI>(viz)</HI> in the Counties of <HI>Dublin, Cork, Kildare,</HI> and <HI>Ca|terlagh,</HI> or out of &s;uch Lands there belonging to Corporations forfeited, or out of Bi&s;hops, Dean and Chapters Lands there, or out of Forre&s;ts Lands in <HI>Eng|land</HI> yet un&s;old, or by &s;ome &s;uch other way as to your grave Judgement &s;hall &s;eem meet, that &s;o your Petitioners may be freed from their tedious and ex|pen&s;ive attendance, receive the price of their blood, and be put into a condi|tion to be more in&s;trumentally &s;erviceable for this Common-wealth, which is their de&s;ire.</P>
<CLOSER>And they &s;hall pray, &amp;c.
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Edward Freman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humphrey Brew&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicholas Devereux.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Emanuel Neal.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walter Bo&s;vile.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Samuel Carlton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Hook.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ambro&s;e Tyndale.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Stevens.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Mall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Tovey.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Poe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Timothy Cru&s;oe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Leonard Morton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Birkbeck.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Rugeley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Francis Cotton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Pickering.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Matthias Nichols.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Anthony Poe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Griffith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Harrington.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
