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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE HONOURABLE, THE KNIGHTS, CITI|ZENS AND BVRGESSES IN the Hou&s;e of Commons in Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The humble Petition of &s;undry of the Knights, Gentlemen, Free-holders, and others of the Inhabitants of the County of Suffolke, to the number of above 13000. pre&s;ented Jan.31.</HI> 1641.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat whereas by the ble&s;&s;ing of God, His Maje&s;ties grace and favour towards us, and the long continued labours of this Ho|nourable A&s;&s;embly, many grievances and burthens both in Church and Commonwealth (under which we had a long time groaned) are removed, which with all humility and thankfulne&s;&s;e we humbly acknowledge, yet under&s;tanding that many Bills tending to the honor of His Maje&s;ty, the &s;afety and welfare of this Kingdome, have by this Honourable A&s;&s;embly been voted and now lye in the Lords Hou&s;e unpa&s;&s;ed, by rea&s;on of the Popi&s;h Lords and Bi&s;hops &s;itting there, as we conceive, by rea&s;on whereof together with the not execution of Laws again&s;t the Popi&s;ts (who not with &s;tanding through the providence of God, have been di&s;covered and di&s;appointed in many of their treacherous plots again&s;t the King and State) they &amp; their adherents are &s;till emboldned in their mi&s;chievous plots and con&s;piracies, a lamentable experience of who&s;e trea&s;ons and bloudy cruelties we heare is daily pre&s;ented to this Honourable A&s;&s;embly from Ireland, who&s;e dolefull condition your Petitioners do much piety &amp; bewaile. We therefore your Petiti|oners being greatly di&s;tracted and full of fears of &s;ome &s;udden &amp; cruell de&s;ign to break out again&s;t the peace of the Kingdome which puts us into an un&s;etled condition, &amp; occa&s;ioneth a generall decay in trading, tending to the impoveri&s;hing of the Nation unle&s;&s;e timely preven|ted, and having mo&s;t of us &s;olemnly prote&s;ted to maintaine the Prote&s;tant Religion again&s;t all Popery, and to de&s;end his Maje&s;ties Royall per&s;on, honour and e&s;tate and the High Court of Parliament, and to endeavour the union and peace of the three united Kingdomes, doe humbly and earne&s;tly pray,</P>
<P>That this Honourable A&s;&s;embly will be plea&s;ed to improve all good meanes that the Popi&s;h Lords and Bi&s;hops may be removed out of the Hou&s;e of Peeres, that this Kingdome may bee &s;ecured, and our poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed brethren in Ireland may be &s;peedily relieved, that the Lawes again&s;t Popi&s;ts may be put in execution, that delinqurnts may be puni&s;hed and out former Petitions a|gain&s;t Bi&s;hop <HI>Wren</HI> and cur &s;eandalous Mini&s;ters may be &s;peeded, and that all burthens in Church and Commonwealth may be removed, with the cau&s;es thereof.</P>
<P>And your Petitioners according to their bounden duty &s;hall daily pray for a pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e of this Parliament.</P>
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<HEAD>THE ANSWER OF THE HOVSE OF COMMONS TO This Petition, delivered by Mr. <HI>Speaker.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am commanded by the Hou&s;e to return hearty thanks to the Petitioners for their love and care ex|pre&s;&s;ed in the fir&s;t part of this Petition, and the Hou&s;e is re&s;olved to take the re&s;t of the Petition into their &s;erions con&s;ideration; and I am further commanded to tell you, that the Hou&s;e hath already tran&s;mitted Bi&s;hop <HI>VVren</HI> to the Lords.</P>
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<P>Printed in the Yeare, 1641.</P>
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