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<HEAD>Gold tried in the fire, <HI>OR</HI> The burnt Petitions revived.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Preface.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>June 14^t^h 1647</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>COuteous Reader, I &s;hall give thee a &s;hort Narative of &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages upon the following Petitions, fir&s;t con|cerning the large Petition: Divers printed coppies thereof being &s;ent abroad to gaine &s;ub&s;criptions, one whereof was intercepted by an Informer, and &s;o brought to the hands of Mr. <HI>Glyn</HI> Recorder of <HI>London,</HI> and a member of the Commons Hou&s;e: who was plea&s;ed to call it a &s;canda|lous, and &s;editious paper: Whereupon it was referred to Co|lonell <HI>Leighes</HI> Commitee (it being that Commitee appoynted to receive informations again&s;t tho&s;e men who preached with|out licence from the Ordainers) to finde out the Authours of the &s;aid Petition; upon this a certificate being drawn up, and intended by the Petitioners, to have been delivered to the &s;aid Commitee, for vindication of the &s;aid Petition, as will appeare by the certificate herewith printed; and notice being taken of one of the petitioners named <HI>Nicholas Tue,</HI> who red the &s;aid certificate in the Court of Reque&s;t; for the Concur|rence of friends who had not formerly &s;een nor &s;ub&s;cribed the certificate: and for his &s;o doing he was &s;ent for pre&s;ently before the &s;aid Commitee, and for refu&s;ing to an&s;wer to Interroga|tories, was pre&s;ently by them Committed, and &s;till remaineth in pri&s;on, it being at the lea&s;t three Moneths &s;ince his fir&s;t com|mitment.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e Major <HI>Tuledah,</HI> was upon complaint of that Com|mitee, the next day committed by the Hou&s;e; but &s;ince di&s;charged
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upon baile, without any ju&s;t cau&s;e &s;hewn for either of their Commitments: and others of the Petitioners abu&s;ed, and vi|lified by that Committee; &s;ome of them offering to draw their &s;words upon the Petitioners. All which, with more was ready to be proved to the whole Hou&s;e, but could by no meanes be obtained, though earne&s;tly de&s;ired, by a Petition, pre&s;ently de|livered into the Hou&s;e, humbly de&s;iring the examination of the&s;e mi&s;carriages; but after eight weekes attendance, with much importunity; after many promi&s;es and dayes appointed to take their Petition into con&s;ideration, they obtained a very &s;light an&s;wer: which was that they could not like of their Peti|tion.</P>
<P>Occa&s;ion being taken &s;odainely after to commit one of the Petitioners named Mr. <HI>Browne</HI> to the pri&s;on of <HI>Newgate;</HI> for his importunity in de&s;iring an an&s;wer to that Petition, after many promi&s;es and delayes. Shortly after the &s;light an&s;wer obtained to the &s;aid Petition, the Petitioners thought good to deliver a &s;econd Petition to the Hou&s;e, to &s;ee if it were po&s;&s;ible to obtain a better an&s;wer to their ju&s;t de&s;ires; hoping that they would better con&s;ider of things, but after attendance and im|portunity, they obtained an an&s;wer in the&s;e words. That the Parliament had Voted it a breach of priviledge, &s;candalous, and &s;editious, and that Petition, and the large Petition, to be bur|ned by the hand of the Hangman; which was accordingly done by Order of the Hou&s;e, in the&s;e words.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Iovis 20 May, 1647,</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Re&s;olved <HI>&amp;c.</HI> That the Sheriffes of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> be required, to take care that the Petition and paper be burnt, which accordingly was done, before the Exchange, two dayes after the &s;aid Vote and Order of the Hou&s;e.</P>
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<P>And &s;hortly after this the Petitioners prepared a third Peti|tion, which is the la<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">t Petition herewith printed: and after much importunity with the Members of the Hou&s;e; after al|mo&s;t two dayes attendance, obtained &s;o much favour from one of the Members, as to pre&s;ent that Petition to the Hou&s;e, and after all this could obtaine no other an&s;wer to that Petition;
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but the Hou&s;e after long di&s;pute thereupon pa&s;&s;ed this Vote.</P>
<P>Upon the 2^d. of <HI>June</HI> 1647. That no an&s;wer &s;hall be given to the Petition at the pre&s;ent: and two dayes after the Petiti|oners attended the Hou&s;e, for a further an&s;wer delivering copies of their Petition to the &s;everall Members of the Hou&s;e, but could obtaine no further an&s;wer thereunto; but received ma|ny vilifying, and di&s;gracefull &s;peeches, from &s;everall Members of the Hou&s;e: and &s;o after a whole dayes attendance, departed without any hope, to receive any an&s;wer to their ju&s;t de&s;ires in the &s;aid Petition.</P>
<P>And thus I have faithfully, and truly (though briefly) given ye an account of the proceedings upon the en&s;uing Petitions. Now let the judicious and con&s;iderate Reader judge whether the Petitioners have received equall and even dealing herein from this pre&s;ent Parliament: the Petitioners being &s;uch who have laid out them&s;elves, both in their per&s;ons and pur&s;es, far above their abilities; who have not valued their lives, their childrens lives, nor their &s;ervants lives, nor e&s;tates, to deare for the &s;ervice of the Parliament, and Common-wealth.</P>
<P>And is this the reward they &s;hall receive, after they have thus laid out them &s;elves? Nay, they have ju&s;t cau&s;e to feare that they and their friends are men appointed to utter ruine, and de&s;tru|ction; otherwi&s;e what meaneth all the rayling, reviling, and reproachfull &s;peeches of their Mini&s;ters, and Agents, out of the pulpit and pre&s;&s;e, to &s;tirre up the rude multitude to fall upon them, and de&s;troy them; is not this ingratitude in the highe&s;t degree, &s;hall not the very Heathen ri&s;e up in judgement again&s;t &s;uch a generation, of degenerate men as the&s;e? Who could &s;ay, <HI>Si ingratum dixeris, omnia dixeris.</HI></P>
<P>You cannot chu&s;e but take notice of &s;everall Remon&s;trances, and Petitions pre&s;ented to the Hou&s;e from the&s;e men, who call them&s;elves Lord Major, Aldermen and Commons, of the City of <HI>London</HI> in Common-councell a&s;&s;embled, what high affronts they have offered to the Parliament; yet they have in &s;ome mea&s;ure by &s;teps, and degrees, an&s;wered the Remon&s;trances, and granted their Petitions, and you may ob&s;erve what an&s;wer they have given to their la&s;t Petition, for rai&s;ing of Hor&s;e, &amp;c. (The tendencie whereof may be of very dangerous con&s;e|quence
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if well weighed) which is thus. Mr. <HI>Speaker</HI> by com|mand of the Hou&s;e, expre&s;&s;e unto them the true &s;en&s;e the Hou&s;e hath of their con&s;tant good affections to this Parliament; and that no alterations what&s;oever can work any change in their duty, and love; for which he is to give them the hartie&s;t thanks of this Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>I could enlarge my &s;elfe, but I affect brevitie, and the judi|cious and con&s;iderate Reader, may enlarge him&s;elfe in his own thoughts: well weighing the matter in the &s;aid Remon&s;tran|ces, and Petitions; and upon due con&s;ideration may judge whe|ther their Petitions, or the Petitions burnt, vilified, and di&s;|graced, de&s;erve mo&s;t thanks, or tend mo&s;t to the &s;afetie of the Parliament, and Common-wealth.</P>
<P>And will hence forth conclude, that as there is little good to be hoped for from &s;uch Parliaments, as need to be Petitioned; &s;o there is none at all to be expected from tho&s;e that burn &s;uch Petitions as the&s;e.</P>
<P>If the endeavours of good Common-wealths-men in the Hou&s;e could have prevailed, the&s;e Petitions had not been burnt, nor the Petitioners abu&s;ed; but the &s;ons of <HI>Zerviah</HI> were to &s;trong for them, that is to &s;ay, the Malignants, and Delinquents, the Lawyers (&s;ome few excected) the Monopoli&s;ing mer|chants, the &s;ons and &s;ervants of the Lords; all the&s;e joyning to|gether, over Voted them about 16 Voyces; but God in time, will we tru&s;t, deliver the people of this Nation, from their de|ceipt, and malice; and therefore let us not &s;orrow as men with|out hope, nor be di&s;couraged, but goe on and per&s;i&s;t, for the ju&s;t liberties of <HI>England,</HI> a word to the wi&s;e is &s;ufficient.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Fare|well,</SALUTE></CLOSER>
<BYLINE>By a well-wi&s;her to truth and peace.</BYLINE>
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<P>Printed in the yeere 1647.</P>
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