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<P>TO THE SUPREAM AUTHORITY OF ENGLAND, the PARLIAMENT a&s;&s;embled, The SCOPE of the humble REMEMBRANCE Of that Prodigious CONSPIRACY, CALLED The BLOODY PETITION, To be Humbly pre&s;ented By <HI>DA&V;ID BROWN</HI> and his Family, as Di&s;coverers thereof, BESIDES, Many other Di&s;coveries and faithful Services:</P>
<P>Whereunto is annexed, Their humble Petition for A&s;si&s;tance to|wards the Repairing of certain Wrongs, done unto them by Lieutenanant Colonel <HI>John Lilborn, Samuel Chidley, John Mu&s;grave,</HI> and &s;ome others.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Field,</HI> Printer to the Parliament of ENGLAND, 1652.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE SUPREAM AUTHORITY OF ENGLAND, the Parliament a&s;&s;embled:</HEAD>
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<P>The <HI>Scope</HI> of the humble <HI>Remembrance</HI> of that mo&s;t prodigious Con&s;piracy, called the <HI>Bloody-Petition,</HI> to be humbly pre&s;ented by <HI>David Brown</HI> Gent. and his family, as di&s;coverers thereof, be&s;ides many other di&s;coveries and faithful &s;ervices; whereunto is annexed, their humble Petition for a&s;si&s;tance, to|wards the repairing of certain Wrongs done unto them by Lieutenant Colonel <HI>John Lilburn, Samuel Chidley, John Mu&s;grave,</HI> and &s;ome others,</P>
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<OPENER>SHEW,</OPENER>
<P>THat in con&s;ideration of the manifold unex|pected Victories which it hath plea&s;ed the Lord of Ho&s;ts (in his unde&s;erved mercy) to vouch&s;afe upon this Nation, and chiefly up|on your Honors, whom He hath &s;o highly advanced as to repre&s;ent the Face and Authority thereof again&s;t all Oppo&s;ers, during all the&s;e cruel and de&s;tructive Wars, in reference to the Recovery and Defence of all our ju&s;t Freedoms.</P>
<P>Which days of &s;o great troubles, though they were
<PB N="4" REF="3">the Seed-time of Tears and Sorrows in their dark evening, yet now in regard of the happy Harve&s;t there|of, reaping &s;o great fruits of Joy and Comfort in this bright morning, as our ble&s;&s;ed Redeemer &s;aid to the Jews in another ca&s;e, <HI>Many of the be&s;t Prophets and mo&s;t righteous of our predece&s;&s;ors</HI> (who onely for his Cau&s;e have been driven to wilderne&s;&s;es) <HI>would have much rejoyced to &s;ee, but could not &s;ee them, and to hear the things which we hear, but could not hear them.</HI></P>
<P>And al&s;o in con&s;ideration of your Honors dutiful Remembrance of every &s;pecial Victory and Delivery, at lea&s;t, which God hath been plea&s;ed to give you throughout all the&s;e Wars, by an appointed day of Thank&s;giving to that purpo&s;e; and now of late by a commendable Act, Ordaining a con&s;tant day every year to be kept in commemoration of the la&s;t; but yet &s;till (through the multiplicity of your weighty and ur|gent affairs) &s;eeming to forget, or (at lea&s;t) not &s;o effe|ctually to remember the fir&s;t.</P>
<P>In order therefore, to the reviving of that prime and original Victory and Delivery out of the grave of ob|livion, as the chief terre&s;trial fountain from which all the re&s;t have flowed, and that it may have as durable a continuance (at lea&s;t) as the la&s;t, which is now &s;o recent and in mo&s;t mens e&s;teem &s;o excellent; though neither it, nor any other, for many hundreds of years (as we humbly conceive) was &s;o dangerous, immi|nent, and inevitable as the former, which (God wil|ling) in the <HI>Remembrance</HI> it &s;elf, by comparing thereof with any of the greate&s;t, &s;hall be made to appear.</P>
<P>We your Honors humble &s;ervants, by who&s;e in|&s;trumental means of Di&s;covery by word and writing,
<PB N="5" REF="3">your Honors had that matchle&s;s Victory and Deli|very, which the great God of Battels (out of the ocean of his infinite compa&s;&s;ions) was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to give you, and this long en&s;laved Nation by his Al|mighty power, without any weapons of War; even when ye had neither Strength, In&s;truments, nor Means to re&s;i&s;t your numerous and mighty Adver&s;a|ries, nor &s;o much as the lea&s;t apprehen&s;ion of your own dangers; do in all due re&s;pect, humbly be&s;eech your Honors, that ye will be plea&s;ed never to let &s;lip out of your memories, whiles ye enjoy your natural lives, this &s;o gracious and &s;pecial a favour, which both is &s;till to many thou&s;ands &s;o con&s;picuous and remark|able, &amp; was then to your &s;elves and all your adherents &s;o joyful and acceptable, that ye &s;ent Sir <HI>Henry Vane junior,</HI> to give us the Thanks of the Hou&s;e; even when all was fini&s;hed, and the chief Con&s;pirators impri&s;on|ed: &s;aving onely ye were &s;o over-acted, that no Con&s;piracies yet dur&s;t be &s;o intituled, until afterwards that upon their mi&s;carriage (through di&s;covery of this their main hope) they break out fir&s;t into bold In&s;urrections, and then into bloody Wars, which have continued to this day.</P>
<P>But that unanimou&s;ly according as ye &s;ee your own duties, and wi&s;h a further increa&s;e of ble&s;sings from heaven upon all your earthly endeavors, your Ho|nors will be plea&s;ed with all the convenient &s;peed that may be (in this &s;o happy an opportunity, which &s;o many years with &s;o great patience we have expect|ed) fir&s;t, to &s;earch your own Records of Parliament for the true Relation thereof, beginning on the 28. day of the fir&s;t moneth (called <HI>March</HI>) in the year of
<PB N="6" REF="4">Chri&s;t, 1642. and continuing all the &s;econd Moneth following, as it was by word and writing faithfully di&s;covered by us unto you, upon divers occa&s;ions in publick when ye were a&s;&s;embled in the Hou&s;e: next, to &s;earch tho&s;e of the late Hou&s;e of Lords; and la&s;t, of the general Committee of both Lords and Commons.</P>
<P>All which being likewi&s;e truly extracted, read, con&s;idered, and compared with any other Victory or Delivery, either over a mighty Army by foreign In|va&s;ion, dangerous In&s;urrection, or treacherous Con|&s;piracy that hath been &s;ince that time (of which mo&s;t probably none had been at all, but both ye and all your true&s;t friends and well-willers &s;uddenly de&s;troy|ed, without any the lea&s;t means u&s;ed either of De|fence or Re&s;i&s;tance, if that infernal Con&s;piracy had not been &s;o timely di&s;covered and happily prevented) yea, and notice being likewi&s;e taken of what is here in brief, and of what will follow in the <HI>Remembrance</HI> it &s;elf at large, then we doubt not but your Honors &s;hall finde as great cau&s;e, at lea&s;t, to make an Act for keeping a certain day of Thank&s;giving every year mo&s;t &s;olemnly unto the Infinite Maje&s;ty of our good and gracious God, for that great Victory and Deli|very, as ever ye had for any Victory or Delivery &s;ince the&s;e Wars began, yea, or your Predece&s;&s;ors before you, &s;ince <HI>England</HI> was a Nation.</P>
<P>But for &s;ome further Information at pre&s;ent, unto &s;uch of your Honors as were not then cho&s;en Mem|bers of the Hou&s;e, then the bare title of the <HI>Bloody-Petition</HI> (which though di&s;covered and burned, yet a rectified Copy thereof (to face out the matter with
<PB N="7" REF="4">&s;ome &s;hew of goodne&s;s) was pre&s;ented by three hun|dred men, upon delivery of their Swords and drawing up of <HI>London</HI> Bridge, le&s;t the number had multiplied) this Con&s;piracy &s;hould have been acted (if God had permitted) both upon the Parliament and Well-af|fected People throughout all the three Nations, even when it would have been accounted Trea&s;on for them in the highe&s;t degree, to call either Army or Guard for their own Defence; and that by forty thou|&s;and armed Malignants out of <HI>Kent,</HI> with the a&s;|&s;i&s;tance of all their numerous and mighty Confede|rates both in the City and Countrey, under pretence of pre&s;enting a ju&s;t Petition to the Parliament, which (in reference to the matter and end) was forged by the Popi&s;h Faction then at <HI>York,</HI> and pre&s;ented by Sir <HI>Edward Deering</HI> (who then had been lately expelled the Parliament) even in a di&s;&s;embled imitation of tho&s;e five thou&s;and men who brought a ju&s;t Petition indeed out of <HI>Buckingham&s;hire,</HI> on that glorious Sun|&s;hine day (to all per&s;ecuted and well-principled peo|ple) that the Parliament was honourabl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> relea&s;ed from their unnatural Exile at <HI>Grocers-Hall, London,</HI> (as they had ju&s;tly relea&s;ed both the Exiled and Cap|tivated <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">fore) and returned home to &s;it in their wont|ed place, it being the very next day after the late king went from the Parliament, and &s;leighted that pre&s;um|ptuous Court of Guard at <HI>White-Hall,</HI> which was &s;o unju&s;tly &s;et up (when Sin was ripe for the &s;ickle) to make all hone&s;t Petitioners who brought ju&s;t Petiti|ons to your Honors for redre&s;s of their Grievances, &s;tand.</P>
<P>And for your Honors better receiving both of what
<PB N="8" REF="5">Truth is here declared, and will be more at large (with Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance) upon further occa&s;ion mani|fe&s;ted, we humbly de&s;ire (among other things) it may be &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered, that we your humble <HI>Remembrancers</HI> are not meerly Di&s;coverers of this one Bu&s;ine&s;s, as &s;ome have been of one particular, or o|ther, &s;ince that time, and have willingly done no more, neither before nor after in reference to the Publique good; which notwith&s;tanding was no &s;mall &s;ervice, more then that of <HI>Mordecai,</HI> concerning the &s;aving of one life, which king <HI>Aha&s;huerus,</HI> though both he a Heathen and the other a &s;tranger, was &s;o far from &s;leighting or de&s;pi&s;ing, like that poor wi&s;e Mans &s;er|vice &s;poken of by the wi&s;e&s;t of men, who by his wi&s;|dom delivered a little Cith wherein there was but few men, from all the Forces of a great King; that he out of his ingenuity and noble di&s;po&s;ition for his own ho|nor and crecit, &s;o re&s;pected that worthy in&s;trument of his &s;afety, that he without the lea&s;t reque&s;t of any, both naturalized him, and eternized his favor towards him and all of his Nation, as wel as Religion for his &s;ake unto all po&s;terities, &s;o far as lay in his power: But we have made many other Di&s;coveries, and done abundance of other Services, which although they were never publi&s;hed in Books, at lea&s;t under any of our names, alwayes chu&s;ing rather to advance the Publique Cau&s;e in &s;ecret, then to be eminent either for popular applau&s;e, or private re&s;pect; yet now being forced by the manifold Caluminations, corrupt Practices and unju&s;t Dealings of &s;ome Deceitful, Ambitious and Covetous people, to make &s;ome Vin|dications of our own Integrity, Actings and Suffer|ings,
<PB N="9" REF="5">even in the wor&s;t of times, and greate&s;t of dan|gers, both for the Publique good of the&s;e Nations in general, and even of the &s;ame men, and others of the like principles, as well at lea&s;t, as of our &s;elves in particular; which being more grievous to us (in re|gard tho&s;e men were as near and dear to us, almo&s;t as <HI>Jonathan</HI> was to <HI>David</HI>) then thrice &s;o many afflicti|ons for the Publique, like tho&s;e which <HI>David</HI> &s;uffered of his own &s;on <HI>Ab&s;olom,</HI> and of <HI>Achitophel</HI> with whom he conver&s;ed, being wor&s;e then man of the re&s;t; All which (we hope) &s;hall be made at large to appear, as they are onely mentioned in the Fronti&s;piece and Contents of a Book, here following briefly in order.</P>
<P><HI>Seventy years Memorial</HI> of a re&s;olute Soldiers warfare, both in <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> fir&s;t again&s;t Corruptions, Delu&s;ions and Frailties, and next again&s;t the Abominations of Churches, and Iniqui|ties of States, &s;hewing to the great prai&s;e of Gods rich Grace; In order to the one, His manifold happy Victories after divers &s;ad &s;urprizals; and to the other, His and his Families matchle&s;s Di&s;coveries, mighty Attempts, grievous Sufferings, manifold Lo&s;&s;es, great Hinderances, and exce&s;&s;ive Charges, (be&s;ides their unavoidable &s;hare of all the general Calamities, even death it &s;elf; &s;ome of their children being &s;toned in the &s;treets for their Cau&s;e, and others left for death, yea, and above a hundred times driven from their Habitations and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions; &s;ome where|of, were Three hundred miles by Land with &s;mall Children a whole Moneth on the way divers times) all in relation to the Recovery and Defence both of Spiritual and Temporal Freedoms, and that through|out
<PB N="10" REF="6">all Dangers and Difficulties in the Revolution of States, Nece&s;&s;ities and Extremities in the alteration of times.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e, through the &s;ame Grace, with what Fidelity, Magnanimity and Con&s;tancy (yea, and re|&s;olved Per&s;everance al&s;o to the end) both during all the&s;e cruel Wars, and thrice &s;o many years before (even when the very word <HI>[Parliament]</HI> dur&s;t not be &s;o much as mentioned) they have not onely a&s;&s;i&s;ted, encouraged and incited other Actors and Sufferers, yea, and helped to defend the Parliament both day and night when they could have none others, but a few &s;uch free Voluntiers, again&s;t multitudes of &s;trong cruel Enemies; but likewi&s;e, by means of Printing, both informed the generality of the people, who were always readier to be deceived then recovered, and vindicated the Parliament and Army, when they were unju&s;tly oppo&s;ed, traduced, and in great danger to be deluded by fair pretences of Covenant, known Laws, Prote&s;tant Religion and Reformation, even when no other means, either of the Word or Sword could avail, far le&s;s prevail in the pro&s;ecution of the Publique Cau&s;e; for which all the Millions of Lives, Trea&s;ures and E&s;tates have been &s;pent.</P>
<P>Though always with little earthly encouragement, le&s;s Maintenance or A&s;si&s;tance, and not any the lea&s;t mea&s;ure of reparation or degree of &s;atisfaction; nor in reference to either, any kinde of due or competent con&s;ideration, but large addition of trouble and affli|ction, by the indirect means of fal&s;e Brethren, and policy of &s;elf-&s;eeking, crafty and deceitful People, one of who&s;e lives we have pre&s;erved, another to a
<PB N="11" REF="6">great E&s;tate preferred, and of the third to the la&s;t great kindne&s;s have de&s;erved, but with many evils have been rewarded, howbeit, none of them (&s;aving one woman) be &s;o old in years as we have been &s;uffer|ers, in order to that long expected Freedom, which is now (by Divine Providence) in Agitation, <HI>Gal.</HI> 5.1. <HI>Acts</HI> 22.28. <HI>E&s;ther</HI> 6.3. 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.5. Solemn De|claration of both Nations, <HI>Ianuary</HI> 30. 1643.</P>
<P>Moreover, we in all due humility be&s;eech your Ho|nors to bear with our Prolixity, becau&s;e it is the fir&s;t Suit in writing that ever we made to your Honors (ei|ther &s;ince the afore&s;aid di&s;covery, or before, for that deliverance of a Pa&s;tor and Church then in Pri&s;on, was granted by your Honors onely upon my word, at Mr. <HI>Lilborns</HI> Reque&s;t to me, he &s;eeing me able to be heard, though it had been in a greater matter) and like|wi&s;e, That your Honors will be plea&s;ed the rather to vouch&s;afe your Audience and Patience to hear and con&s;ider the&s;e few other needful Particulars.</P>
<P>As your Honors (to your endle&s;s Fame) upon the Victory at <HI>Dunbar,</HI> were moved &s;o thankfully to ac|knowledge Gods ine&s;timable and unexpected Mercy then (among&s;t multitudes of his tender Compa&s;&s;ions before) as to grant unto his Church and People under your Authority, &s;o happy a Deliverance from all Spi|ritual Slavery, that &s;carce the like is any where with|out your Dominions, even that worthy Act for ten|der Con&s;ciences: &s;o we humbly be&s;eech your Ho|nors to proceed and per&s;evere in all the Particulars of well-doing, both concerning Religion and Pro&s;perity of the Nation, e&s;pecially the aboli&s;hing of Tithes and all Popi&s;h Innovations, with all corrupt, unju&s;t
<PB N="12" REF="7">and tedious Laws; as al&s;o the &s;ubjecting of all In|tailed Lands, to the payment of all the owners ju&s;t Debts, beginning at the decea&s;e of Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and e&s;tabli&s;hing that Office of General Remem|brance, both which being already Voted; and doing of what&s;oever things el&s;e which may be&s;t and &s;pe|die&s;t bring this Nation to a happy condition of Eree|dom, Trading, Pro&s;perity and Tranquility, that the adjoyning Nations may reap the like benefit, chiefly the poor Commons of <HI>Scotland,</HI> who have been en|&s;laved, blindfolded and impoveri&s;hed for many hun|dreds of years, by means of their cruel Taskma&s;ters, and that ye may gain the Peoples Affections of all the three Nations; which with &s;ome other matters of publique concernment, I &s;um up and refer unto an|other <HI>Remembrance;</HI> likewi&s;e, even of that remark|able Pa&s;&s;age in his Excellencies the Lord Generals Letter from <HI>Dunbar,</HI> as it is printed on the Tenth page, beginning at the third line, and ending at the One and thirtieth: The words are the&s;e,</P>
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<P><HI>It is in your hands, and by the&s;e eminent Mercies, God puts more into your hands to give glory to him, to improve your Power and his Ble&s;sings to his Prai&s;e; we that &s;erve you beg of you, not to own us but God alone; we pray own his People more and more, for they are the Chariots and Hor&s;men of</HI> I&s;rael; <HI>di&s;own your &s;elves, but own your Authority, and improve it to curb the Proud and In&s;olent, &s;uch as would di&s;turb the Tran|quility
of</HI> England, <HI>though under what &s;pecious Pre|tences &s;oever, relieve the Oppre&s;&s;ed, hear the Groans of your poor Pri&s;oners in</HI> England; <HI>Be plea&s;ed to re|form
<PB N="13" REF="7">the abu&s;es of all Profe&s;sions, and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich, that &s;uits not a Commonwealth. If he that &s;trengthens your Ser|vants to fight, plea&s;es to give you hearts to &s;et upon the&s;e things in order to his glory, and the glory of your Commonwealth, be&s;ides the benefit that</HI> England <HI>&s;hall feel thereby, ye &s;hall &s;hine forth to other Nations, who &s;hall emulate the glory of &s;uch a pattern,
and through the Power of God turn into the like. The&s;e are our de|&s;ires, and that ye may have liberty and opportunity to do the&s;e things, and not be hindred, we have been and &s;hall be (by Gods a&s;si&s;tance) willing to venture our lives, and not de&s;ire ye &s;hould be precipitated by im|portunity from your care of Safety and Pre&s;ervation, but that the doing of the&s;e good things may have their place among&s;t tho&s;e which concern wel-being, and &s;o be wrought in their due time and order.</HI></P>
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<P>The premi&s;es being &s;eriou&s;ly read and con&s;idered, our humble and earne&s;t De&s;ires are, That as your Ho|nors out of your di&s;cretion and ingenuity &s;hall &s;ee ju&s;t cau&s;e, the &s;ame may be accordingly acted, an&s;wered or referred; and withal, That as we have (to our ut|mo&s;t abilities) faithfully &amp; con&s;tantly adhered to your Honors in all your Extremities, &s;o ye will be plea&s;ed in much compa&s;sion (becau&s;e of our greater
affliction now then ever heretofore, by the indirect means of the aforementioned People; and being out of breath al&s;o by multitudes of former afflictions for the Pub|lique) to vouch&s;afe your be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance in protecting us, not onely from all &s;uch further Arre&s;ts for &s;uch Debts in reference to the Commonwealths, which
<PB N="14" REF="8">may be ju&s;tly called theirs, becau&s;e they and their A&s;&s;ociates did unju&s;tly di&s;po&s;e of the privy Contri|butions of many well-affected People (chiefly tho&s;e whereof the &s;econd party above &s;pecified was Trea|&s;urer) on Printing &s;ome idle Projects when the Army lay at <HI>Putney,</HI> and when the Parliament was called a Juncto, which &s;hould have paid tho&s;e former Debts, with our Disbur&s;ments and Engagements above our power, to Printers, Stationers and others, upon that accompt, for Printing abundantly to the Vindication of both Parliament and Army again&s;t all railing Pam|phlets; as al&s;o to the inciting of the People to adhere unto them, when no other means was &s;o forcible, but likewi&s;e from all other Indempnities, Troubles and Dangers, in the pro&s;ecution of this our ju&s;t Cau&s;e, both for the&s;e and other matters, e&s;pecially, becau&s;e they count us Strangers; although they them&s;elves (by tho&s;e and the like fruits) &s;hall appear much more to be both Strangers and Enemies to all goodne&s;s; for as in a &s;piritual &s;en&s;e, <HI>Egyptians</HI> and <HI>Ethiopians</HI> walking faithfully, are e&s;teemed in the word of God to be born in <HI>Sion;</HI> &s;o in a temporal &s;en&s;e, all Scots or others, who have been all along the&s;e Troubles (at lea&s;t) true and faithful to this Commonwealth; chief|ly &s;uch as have both
adventured their Lives and &s;pent their E&s;tates in defence thereof, may be ju&s;tly e&s;teem|ed in all re&s;pects, as if they had been born in <HI>England,</HI> yea in the chiefe&s;t and be&s;t place of <HI>London</HI> it &s;elf.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e Printing hath been their chiefe&s;t Weapon, and by that occa&s;ion they having great corre&s;pondency with the Printers; and &s;ome of them ready enough to Print what they plea&s;e again&s;t us, even
<PB N="15" REF="8">with the &s;ame Moneys which &s;hall be made appear they unju&s;tly detain from us. We humbly be&s;eech your Honors to give Order, either to your own Printer or any other in our behalf, to Print both by way of Quere and otherwi&s;e, &s;uch things as we have again&s;t the afore&s;aid per&s;ons, and other their A&s;&s;ociates; which with their po&s;itive An&s;wers may be an effectual means, not onely to procure us Ju&s;tice and Reparations of their deceitful and wrongous dealings, but to undeceive the people who had &s;ome further conceit of tho&s;e mens love to the Publique, then meerly obtaining their own private ends; and it may be, bring &s;ome truth to light for the good of the Publique, which hath been long ob&s;cure or doubtful. Humbly prote&s;ting here, before your Honors, again&s;t them, That what&s;oever Queres we propound, &s;hall not by them in &s;ufficient time (not exceeding Three Moneths) be
punctually an&s;wered, &s;hall be holden thence-forth as confe&s;&s;ed; promi&s;ing hereby unto them the like condition again&s;t our &s;elves, we having the equal benefit of the Pre&s;s, competent means of Sub&s;i&s;tance and Moneys to Printers.</P>
<P>By which means their manifold deceitful dealings and unju&s;t Levelings, chiefly of the &s;econd Party abovementioned, not onely in &s;piritual Matters again&s;t me, though he was preferred to an Office at <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI>-hou&s;e by my procurement, but likewi&s;e in Civil mat|ters there, again&s;t many both poor and rich; for which he was mo&s;t ju&s;tly, by direction of the Tru|&s;tees, expul&s;ed both from his Office and Lodgings, &s;hall in &s;hort time be made to appear; yea, and whe|ther he with the re&s;t above &s;pecified, or we, have act|ed
<PB N="16" REF="9">and &s;uffered mo&s;t, &s;ought their own profit lea&s;t, of walked according to their principles be&s;t, in relation to the Publique, both before and during all the&s;e troubles; and &s;o by con&s;equence of &s;uch trying of Titles, it will likewi&s;e appear, Whether they or we de|&s;erve be&s;t, to be called <HI>True, Con&s;tant, Faithful</HI> and <HI>Hone&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>So by this Your Honors ju&s;t a&s;si&s;ting and protect|ing the Weak in their ju&s;t cau&s;e again&s;t the &s;trong, chiefly in that they are made weak by the others &s;trength obtained by their means; both we and all others will be the more encouraged &s;till to adven|ture our lives, and all thats either neare&s;t or dear|e&s;t to us in advancing the Commonwealth; and pray for your Honors whiles we enjoy life or breath.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>DAVID BRVVON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>For him&s;elf, and in the behalf of his Family, <HI>viz.</HI> His Wife, Daughters and Servants, where|of <HI>Francis Jones</HI> (who decea&s;ed about Seven years ago) was one at that time.</TRAILER>
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<P>This was delivered (clo&s;ely and curiou&s;ly Written on a quarter &s;heet) to a Honorable <HI>Member</HI> of the Parliament, to be pre&s;ented unto them upon the 19^t^h day of the Tenth moneth (called <HI>December</HI>) 1651. Without &s;oliciting of any, both the <HI>Matter</HI> and <HI>De&s;ire</HI> being &s;o equitable.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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