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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE
PARLIAMENT
OF THE
Common-wealth of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI>
The Humble Petition of <HI>Nathaniel Iones</HI> of <HI>Bridgewater,</HI> in the County
of <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> Clerk.</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THat your Petitioner was mo&s;t illegally &s;eque&s;tred in the Year, 1648. without
any Charge of Delinquency, or the lea&s;t Te&s;timony again&s;t him.</P>
<P>That your Petitioner appealed to <HI>Haberda&s;hers</HI> Hall for relief, but they
being not impowred to give any in &s;uch Ca&s;es, your Petitioners name was
in&s;erted into the Act of Parliament for &s;ale, bearing date the 18. of <HI>Nov.</HI>
1652. whereby he was forced to pro&s;ecute his Complaints before the Ho|nourable
Committee for Petitions, in the la&s;t Parliament, who &s;ent &s;everall
Orders to the Committee of the County of <HI>Sommer&s;et,</HI> Commanding them
to Certifie how your Petitioners Ca&s;e &s;tood, and the grounds of his Seque&s;tration.</P>
<P>That the Committee of <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> accordingly Certified, That you Petitioner was clear from
any matter of Fact again&s;t the State, and was onely &s;eque&s;tred as a Scandalous Mini&s;ter, not as a
Delinquent, there being never any &s;uch Charge again&s;t him; Whereupon the Committee of Pe|titions
ordered your Petitioners Ca&s;e to be reported to the Parliament for his relief; but
they di&s;&s;olving before his Ca&s;e was reported, your Petitioner petitioned his Highne&s;s for relief,
who granted your Petitioner a Reference to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Haberda&s;hers</HI> Hall, for them
to certifie the grounds of your Petitioners &s;eque&s;tration; and they have likewi&s;e certified, That
your Petitioner had never any Delinquency charged upon Record again&s;t him; but this pre&s;ent
Parliament &s;oon after a&s;&s;embling, His Highne&s;s plea&s;ure was not known thereupon.</P>
<P>In tender con&s;ideration of the Premi&s;es, And for that your Petitioner never Com|mitted
the lea&s;t Act of Delinquency again&s;t the State; Neverthele&s;s hath been deprived,
not onely of his Spiritual e&s;tate, and his own temporal means &s;old from him, but had
lately a Copyhold E&s;tate, held onely by the life of his wife, &s;eque&s;tred and &s;old al&s;o, to
the utter ruin of your poor Petitioner, his wife and family.</P>
<P>Your Petitioner mo&s;t humbly be&s;eecheth this High and Honourable Court to do
him Ju&s;tice, and re&s;tore unto him his Temporal E&s;tate, &s;o unju&s;tly &s;old and de|tained
from him; And the Lord will not only ble&s;s your immediate proceed|ings,
but you will highly engage the oppre&s;&s;ed &s;oul of your Petitioner to ble&s;s
the Lord al&s;o on your behalf.</P>
<CLOSER>And be bound for ever to pray, &amp;c.
<SIGNED>Nathaniel Iones.</SIGNED> <DATELINE><DATE><ADD>Septemb: 1654</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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