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<P>The Humble PETITION OF Many thou&s;ands of Young Men and Apprentices of the City of LONDON, TO THE High and Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es, in the &s;upreame COURT OF Parliament A&s;&s;embled.</P>
<P>At it was Pre&s;ented by Alderman <HI>Atkin</HI> the fir&s;t day of <HI>March,</HI> 1646.</P>
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<P><HI>A</HI> Petition being &s;tiled the Humble Petition of divers Young men and Apprentices of the Citie of <HI>London</HI> was this day read and it is ordered that Alderman <HI>Atkin,</HI> Collonel <HI>Venn,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Va&s;|&s;ell</HI> doe from this Hou&s;e give the Petitioners thanks for the expre&s;&s;ions of their good affections; that they will take their Petition into con&s;ide|ration in convenient time; and as for that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e concerning dayes of relaxation is already under con&s;ideration and Committee.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;ynge Cler. Par. Dom. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>George Whittington,</HI> at the Blew Anchor in <HI>Cornhill,</HI> neer the Royall Exchange. 1646.</P>
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<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>TO THE High and Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es, in the &s;upreame Court of Parliament A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Petition of divers Young men and Apprentices of the City of <HI>London,</HI> humbly</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THat out of the grounded confidence wee have of the readine&s;&s;e of this Honourable Hou&s;e, to hear and repaire the grievances of all tho&s;e for who&s;e well-fare you were cho&s;en and betru&s;ted to take care and provide; and being encouraged unto the &s;ame, by &s;everall good<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>A</HI> Declarat. May 19. 1642. Remon&s;t may 26. 1642.</NOTE> Ordinances and Declarations of your owne to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Wee who&s;e names are hereunto annexed, although the meane&s;t members of this great Common-wealth; yet having by birth a right of &s;ub&s;i&s;tance, here conceive our &s;elves (in our proportion) to have as reall an Intere&s;t in the Kindomes enjoy|ments, as tho&s;e who in re&s;pect of place or other accidente are above us: As al&s;o many of us, having under the direction of your Honourable grave Coun&s;ell and Guidance, freely adven|tured our lives, for the pre&s;ervation of our Native Rights, and
<PB N="4" REF="3">the ju&s;t Priviledges of our deare Country again&s;t the publique violaters of the &s;ame: upon the&s;e and other &s;erious grounds, we are hold at this time to make our humble a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">re&s;&s;es to this Honorable &amp; &s;upreme Court of Judicature, (the only refuge un|der God we have to fly to) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in the fir&s;t place we cannot but with all thankfulne&s;&s;e take notice of the unwea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ed paines toge|ther with many great and almo&s;t intolerable di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ficulties by you undergone, in the faithfull di&s;charge of your tru&s;t, in b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nging about the e&s;tabli&s;hment of a well grounded peace. The perfe|ction of which (in relation to the common enemy) &s;eems now by the ble&s;&s;ing of God to be brought neare to a wi&s;hed peri|od: Yet the con&s;ummation of this worke being (as it were) the Crowne of all your labours, wee humbly conceive it may de&s;ervedly challenge from you a more then ordinary re&s;pect, which we doubt not but that your grave wi&s;edomes are very &s;encible of: yet (noble Senators) let it &s;eem no pre&s;umption, if we your poore Petitioners in all humility make knowne the grounds of &s;ome feares and jealou&s;ies to us apparent in this particular. And tho&s;e are (among&s;t other great grievances) chiefly derived from the pre&s;ent &s;en&s;e we have of the too much prevalency of that party who have dealt in the late wars, de|clared them&s;elves di&s;affected to the peace and well <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">re of the Kingdome; who now &s;eem to be in hopes of obtaining that by policy, which they have not been able to doe by force. Cun|ningly contriving to aggravate and encrea&s;e differences be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ween the well-aff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cted party, and &s;triving to bring an <HI>Odium</HI> upon all good men, under the di&s;tinction of &s;everall tearms of obloquie and di&s;grace, by &s;uch &s;ubtle endeavours, labouring to avert the edge of Ju&s;tice from them&s;elves (who come de|&s;ervedly under the &s;troke of it, and to turne it upon tho&s;e who are mo&s;t Innocent. Strongly endeavouring (and have already affected it in part, to ju&s;tle all hone&s;t faithfull, well affected men out of places of tru&s;t, office and unthority, and to put in New|ters, Ambodexters, or per&s;ons apparently di&s;affected: By all the&s;e meanes, together with the advantage of the Kingdomes pre&s;ent an&s;etledne&s;&s;e) they &s;eem to be in a more then probable expectation of getting the rein<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s once more into their owne
<PB N="5" REF="3">hands, to the evident endangering of the Common-wealths &s;peedy ruine, and to the great griefe of your poore Petitioners, and all others who cordially de&s;ire the peace and &s;afety of this de&s;tracted Kingdome. And further we are bold to make known (as more particularly relating to the condition of your Petiti|oners) That whereas, we at our being made free of the City are enjoyn'd by oath, to maintaine the Liberties and Priviledges of the &s;ame City; which notwith&s;tanding we are in a great mea&s;ure di&s;abled to doe, by the interce&s;&s;ion of divers illegall and undue Cu&s;tomes, and<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>A</HI> clau&s;e of 11 of Hen. 6.</NOTE> Monopolies (partly about the ele|ction and removall of our Magi&s;trates) crept into the diminu|tion of the ancient Liberties of this famous City, who&s;e ju&s;t immunities we are confident your Honours have beene and are very tender of.</P>
<P>Wherfore, your Petitioners humbly pray that this Honourable Hou&s;e, taking into con&s;ideration the Premi&s;es, would be plea&s;ed by your mature Prudence and Care, to endeavour (as much as po&s;&s;ibly you can) to take away all occa&s;ions of breaches be|tween the well-affected party. And, that &s;uch as have in the&s;e late times of trouble, (by adve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">uring their lives or otherwi&s;e) approved them&s;elves faithfull to their Countrys common good, may without re&s;pect to differences, no way prejudiciall to the Common-wealth, impartially enjoy their Birth right Privi|ledges, and be equally capable with others of the freedome to officiate in place of tru&s;t, which they are or &s;hall be cho&s;en un|to. And on the contrary, that all tho&s;e who have di&s;-franchi&s;ed them&s;elves by Trayterou&s;ly adhering to the enemy, may be di&s;|abled from bearing office, or voting in the Election of offices in the Common-wealth. And we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urther crave, (with &s;ubmi&s;|&s;ion to your Honours grave Approvements) that in regard of the Kingdomes pre&s;ent un&s;etledne&s;&s;e, it may not be left de&s;titute of a tru&s;ty and &s;ufficient guard to &s;ecure it from inte&s;tine Broyles, and forraigne Inva&s;ion. And as for your Petitioners more parti|cular grievances, as they are members of this City;<NOTE PLACE="marg">e&s;pecially <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> of King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> we humbly pray that you would be plea&s;ed by you. Author ty &s;o to pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vide, that w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (as we are or &s;hall be capable of it) may be e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> enjoy the benefit of all ancient Charters and G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ts, made <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB N="4" REF="4">confirmed by &s;everall Acts of Parliament, for the enlargement of our freedomes and Priviledges; and that what&s;oever hath been illegally intended, may be taken away and made void. And la&s;t|ly, (as &s;ome have already de&s;ired) we likewi&s;e pray, that (if &s;o &s;mall a thing may be worthy the intention of this grave and Honourable A&s;&s;embly) you would be plea&s;ed to appoint &s;ome times of lawfull Recreations for &s;ervants, as your wi&s;edomes &s;hall thinke fit.</P>
<P>And your Petitioners, as they have many of them already (according to their duty) freely adventured their lives, and what&s;oever was deare to them for the common &s;afety of their Country; &s;o they &s;till profe&s;&s;e their readine&s;&s;e, to give their be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing all Arbitrary and tyranicall power; and to the upholding the fundamentall Rights and Liberties of free-borne Engli&s;h men, and the ju&s;t Priviledges of this Honou|rable Hou&s;e again&s;t all that &s;hall &s;et them&s;elves in oppo&s;ition of the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><HI>And be ever bound to pray, &amp;c.</HI>
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<P>What&s;oever is contained in the Petition, the Sub|&s;cribers will be ready to make good by particular in|&s;tances, when they &s;hall bee lawfully called to the &s;ame.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Lunae <HI>1</HI> March. <HI>1646.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>A Petition being &s;tiled the humble Peti|tion of divers Young men and Appren|tices of the Citie of <HI>London</HI> was this day read, and it is ordered that Alderman <HI>Atkin,</HI> Col|lonell <HI>Venn,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Va&s;&s;ell,</HI> doe from this Hou&s;e give the Petitioners thanks for the ex|pre&s;&s;ions of their good affections; that they will take their Petition into con&s;ideration in convenient time; and as for that bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e concerning days of relaxation is already under con&s;ideration and Committee.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;ynge Cler. Par. Dom. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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