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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>To the Right Honorable, the LORD CHAN|CELLOR, the humble Petition of</HI> COVENT-GARDEN.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat having for many years pa&s;t lived under great Oppre&s;&s;ions, by the pretence of rai&s;ing great &s;ums of money for the paying of a <HI>Mini&s;ter,</HI> and the <HI>People</HI> being divided in <HI>Opinion,</HI> commonly called <HI>Religion,</HI> where the <HI>Godly</HI> have alwayes per&s;ecuted the <HI>Loyal,</HI> Upon the coming of His <HI>Sacred Maje&s;ty</HI> (who &s;eemed rather to be de&s;cended from <HI>above,</HI> then returned from the <HI>Low Countreys</HI>) they were in great hope to be relieved; yet &s;o it is, that the &s;ame Per&s;ons that did formerly torment them, being continued &s;till in Authority, they are &s;til trou|bled by vexatious <HI>Suits</HI> at the <HI>Common Law,</HI> by which means they are much hindered from following their <HI>lawful Callings.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wherefore we do humbly de&s;ire, that one Dr.</HI> Babre, <HI>who hath been a</HI> chief In|&s;trument <HI>in troubling the Pari&s;h ever &s;ince he came into it, and hath often threatned that we &s;hould have no</HI> QUIET <HI>as long as he continued in Commi&s;&s;ion of</HI> PEACE, <HI>may be removed out for the&s;e following Rea&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. He was a <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> to <HI>Cromwel</HI> in <HI>Scotland</HI> again&s;t the <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. He was employed by <HI>Cromwel</HI> for the taking away the Life of <HI>Panta|leon Sa,</HI> and had been hanged him&s;elf if he had not got <HI>Cromwell</HI>'s Pardon, to whom he was a <HI>Pentionary Spye.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. He indicted a very goodly <HI>Captain</HI> of the Parliament for trea&s;onable words again&s;t <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and endangered his Life without giving him any Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P N="4">4. He was indicted <HI>him&s;elf</HI> by the Pari&s;h for <HI>Forgery,</HI> the Indictment found, and his Ears like to have been lo&s;t.</P>
<P N="5">5. He is a general <HI>Solicitor</HI> practicing to &s;et Man and Wife together by the Ears, as in Mris. <HI>Juyes</HI> Ca&s;e it was plainly &s;een, when her Council told him, that if he had &s;tudied the <HI>Law</HI> he would have been an excellent <HI>Phy&s;ici|an,</HI> becau&s;e &s;tudying <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> he was become &s;o excellent a Lawyer.</P>
<P N="6">6. Being <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> to his <HI>Sacred Maje&s;ty,</HI> if he were an hone&s;t man, he would &s;tudy his <HI>Profe&s;sion,</HI> and leave his Law-Suits, and broking in other mens affairs.</P>
<P N="7">7. 'Tis a great di&s;couragement to the <HI>Bench</HI> of <HI>Ju&s;tices,</HI> that when they &s;hould &s;end a Vagabond to be whipped, His Maje&s;ty &s;hould &s;end His Phy&s;i|cian to cure them.</P>
<P N="8">8. He is a Knight of the <HI>P.</HI> a common <HI>Affidavit. Man.</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="9">9. He is a Phy&s;ician at the Court, a <HI>Doctor</HI> at the Colledge, a Commit|tee-man, a Militia-man, <HI>John Babre,</HI> and <HI>Jack of all Trades,</HI> Spye to all &s;ides, a <HI>Plague</HI> to all his Neighbours, and a <HI>Pe&s;tilence</HI> to the whole Town; and there|fore we come unto your Honor in the words of <HI>Robert Wi&s;dom:</HI></P>
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<Q><L>Help Lord, for <HI>good</HI> and <HI>godly</HI> men</L>
<L>Malicious are as Devils;</L>
<L>You Our good Angel, onely can</L>
<L>Seal up the&s;e pious Evils.</L></Q>
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<CLOSER>And as in duty bound, we &s;hall pray, &amp;c.

<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Bedford Berry,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>St. <HI>An. Shandois,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Piazza King,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henrietta Bedford,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>James Ru&s;&s;el,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Charles York,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bridges Bow&s;treet,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Amen Manto,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Todos Autros.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED><DATE><ADD>Jun. 1661</ADD></DATE></CLOSER>
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