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<P>The humble PETITION OF The Well-affected of the County OF SOUTH-HAMPTON IN Behalf of the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel and for continuance of their Maintenance.</P>
<P>With Mr. RECORDERS Speech.</P>
<P>AND The Parliaments An&s;wer thereunto.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. Ibbit&s;on</HI> dwelling in Smith|field neer Ho&s;ier Lane. 1653.</P>
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<HEAD>THE Humble PETITION of the wel-affected of the County of SOUTH-HAMPTON, IN Behalf of the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel and for continuance of their MAINTENANCE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> 28 <HI>of September</HI> 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_COrnelius Hooper</HI> E&s;quire, Recorder of the City of <HI>Winche&s;ter; Edward Hoo|per, Henry Dawley, James Milles, and Robert Pe&s;cod,</HI> E&s;quires; were this day by Order of the Parliament called into the Hou&s;e, and being brought in with the Mace before them, Mr. Recorder made a Speech as followeth.</P>
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<HEAD>Mr. Recorders Speech.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e you Mr. Speaker,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe&s;e Gentlemen, with my &s;elf, do hum|bly pre&s;ent you with a Petition from the well-affected Inhabitants of the County of <HI>Southampton;</HI> It is not for their own Intere&s;ts but for the ancient Rights and Proprieties of the Mini&s;ters of this Nation, &s;o ancient that they have injoyed them for 500 yeare and up|wards, &amp; are al&s;o confirmed to them by &s;undry Acts &amp; Ordinances of Parliament, the fear they have of the &s;haking of tho&s;e Acts and Ordi|nances by a late Petition pre&s;ented unto your Honors from the County of <HI>Kent,</HI> hath cau|&s;ed them by us to make this humble Addre&s;&s;e unto you: It is u&s;uall for men that doe either fear or feele a &s;torme to &s;eeke out for &s;helter, and in danger to flye to the &s;anctuary; Parlia|ments through all &s;ucce&s;&s;ions of ages have been the reputed Shields and A&s;ylums to the Rights and Proprieties of the People, and we ble&s;&s;e God, that by his Providence wee have &s;uch a Sanctuary as this at this time to fly unto: Such
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a one that we may &s;ay of it, as was &s;aid of <HI>Salo|mons</HI> Throne, <HI>The like was never to be &s;een in our Nation before.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. Speaker,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Your Petitioners glories not in great Atten|dance, nor in an innumerable traine of names, yet if we had hoped thereby to have obtained the more favor in your Honors eyes, we might have had many thou&s;ands to have &s;ub&s;cribed it; As it is we humbly pre&s;ent it unto you: And with all humility crave the favour of your gra|cious Acceptance.</P>
<P>The Petitioners were then de&s;ired to with|draw. And then the Petition was read, and is as followeth:</P>
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<HEAD>To the Supream Authority of the Nation, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England.</HI> The humble Petition of many of the well-affected of the County of <HI>Southampton,</HI> and Town and County thereof.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat your Petitioners taking notice of a late petition to this Honourable A&s;&s;embly exhibited in the name of many of the well-affected of the County of <HI>Kent,</HI>
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by which they de&s;ire Tithes of all &s;orts root and branch may bee aboli&s;hed, and that they may not bee en&s;nared with forced maintenance, or any thing like it in the &s;tead thereof. Being herein of different judgements from them, and fore-&s;eeing the great mi&s;ery and di&s;tre&s;&s;e that there|by inevitably mu&s;t befall the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pell and their families, Impropriators of Tithes and their fa|milies, having for the mo&s;t part of them none other live|lihood wherewith to &s;u&s;tain their charge, and moved with a deep &s;en&s;e thereof, and with bowels of compa|&s;&s;ion towards their Brethren, as fellow-members of one and the &s;ame Body:
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<P>Doe humbly de&s;ire, that Tithes (which are above <HI>500</HI> years growth confirmed by <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> by di|vers and &s;undry Acts and Ordinances of Parlia|ment unto this pre&s;ent time) may not have the axe laid to the root of it, nor cut downe, nor aboli&s;hed. That you (who are the Protectors of our Laws, lives, liberties and e&s;tates) will maintain and continue all the Laws, Statutes and Ordinances in force, for the due payment of Tithes, at le&s;t wi&s;e untill the right of Patrons bee legally determined, the Mini&s;ters, faithfull di&s;pen&s;ers of Gods word, may by &s;ome hono|rable, &s;ure and no le&s;&s;e profitable way bee provided for, and the Impropriators of Tithes &s;atisfied for their re&s;pective intere&s;ts, that equal right may bee done unto all men, whereby your Ju&s;tice &s;hall &s;hine forth as the Sun at noon day throughout the world, have Gods ble&s;sing upon your endevours, and the unfeig|ned prayers of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble Petitioners, &amp;c.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 21 -->After a &s;hort debate the Petitioners were a|gaine called in, to whom Mr. Speaker gave An|&s;wer, That the Hou&s;e had commanded him to give them thanks for their good Affections; And that the particulars by them petitioned for were under Debate, And the Parliament will proceed therein as God &s;hall direct them.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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