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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maie&s;tie.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The mo&s;t humble Petition of your mo&s;t faithfull Servants and Subiects, the Iu&s;tices and Gentlemen a&s;&s;embled at the generall Se&s;sions for the County of Devon.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth.</OPENER>
<P>_THat your Petitioners pre&s;t by the earne&s;t complaints herewith humbly pre|&s;ented, and well experienced in your Princely Clemencie and Iu&s;tice, are thereby heartned to tender into your Royall hands both their and our mo&s;t lowly and loyall de&s;ires.</P>
<P>It is not (Dread Sovereigne) the feare of Poverty that doth only or chiefly afflict us, though if things continue but a while in the pre&s;ent State, we &s;ee it comming unre&s;i&s;tably as an armed man, nor yet of death if our lives might be &s;pent in your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice. But your Petitioners beholding Popery in <HI>Ireland</HI> prevayling (that mercile&s;&s;e Religion where it doth pre|vaile) and in <HI>England</HI> too much countenanced. For our owne Con&s;cien|ces &s;ake, and for the &s;alvation of our infant Childrens &s;oules, wee humbly beg your Maje&s;ty upon our knees to looke into the cau&s;e. Di&s;tractions in your Parlia|ment. How can it be otherwi&s;e? When Popi&s;h Lords are admitted to vote in your principall Affaires, and your chief Prelates appeare in a malevolent conjunction with them again&s;t the be&s;t proceedings. Oh! that the King of Kings would be plea&s;ed to put it into your Maje&s;ties Royall heart to &s;eque&s;ter the different in Religion, to privacy, and your Bi&s;hops to their &s;pirituall Callings, your Maje&s;ty would &s;oon find (as your Petitioners confidently believe) an effectuall benefit and a pre&s;ent corre&s;pondencie. Had your Church Gover|nours beene cordiall and &s;ub&s;tantiall in their duties, tho&s;e &s;warmes of Papi&s;ts in <HI>Ireland</HI> and <HI>England</HI> too, had (probably) been prevented.</P>
<P>If in your Hou&s;e of Commons any be &s;u&s;pected of ill affections, it is far from your Petitioners to de&s;ire their impunity, only your Petitioners implore, their faire tryall according to the Privilege of their Parliamen|tary places, wherein your Petitioners and their Po&s;terity have an intere&s;t. To which wee undervalue all things, but our Religion and loyalty.</P>
<P>In the name of God let them there receive the fruit of their demerits. This Iu&s;tice as it will be a perpetuall comfort to your Maje&s;ty in your &s;oul, &s;o &s;hall it be a reall and compleat &s;atisfaction to your Petitioners, who as they are in all duty bound, will for ever pray for your Maje&s;ties temporall and eternall happine&s;&s;e.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Lawrence Blaikelocke,</HI> 1642.</P>
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