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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>TWO PETITIONS OF THE <HI>Lord Major, Aldermen, and Commons</HI> of the City of <HI>LONDON,</HI> IN Common-Councell ASSEMBLED: To the Right Honourable THE LORDS and COMMONS in Parliament A&s;&s;embled: <HI>Which</HI> Petition <HI>was Pre&s;ented to both Hou&s;es, July</HI> 18. 1648.</P>
<P>With the An&s;wer of the LORDS.</P>
<P>Printed by RICHARD COTES, Printer to the Honourable city of <HI>London,</HI> 1648.</P>
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<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD><HI>TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE The Commons IN High Court of Parliament a&s;&s;embled:</HI> The humble Petition of the Lord Major, Alder|men, and Commons of the City of London, in Common-councell a&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEVVETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THat your Petitioners do thankfully acknowledge the favour of this honorable Hou&s;e, in that (before they gave an&s;wer to the de&s;ires of the Town of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> upon <HI>Tyne,</HI> for laying an impo&s;ition upon Coles) they were plea&s;ed to communicate the &s;ame to the
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Petitioners, who taking into &s;erious con&s;ide|ration the great increa&s;e and mi&s;erable condi|tion of the Poor of this City, occa&s;ioned by the extreme decay of Trade both by Sea and Land, want of employment, &s;carcity and dearne&s;s of provi&s;ion, cannot but be very &s;en&s;ible of the &s;ad effect (they fear) will follow, if any &s;uch Tax &s;hould be laid upon Coles, which mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity lie mo&s;t heavie upon the poorer &s;ort; and will al&s;o be an occa&s;ion of di&s;content to Seamen, and di&s;|couragement of Merchants trading that way. And although your Petitioners cannot finde any expedient for the &s;upply of the Gari&s;on in <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> as is propounded; yet they doe offer to the Grave con&s;ideration of this hono|rable Hou&s;e, That if the Profits of all places and emploiments enjoyed contrary to the Self-denying Ordinance of the Fourth of <HI>Aprill,</HI> 1645. And the &s;everall Votes of the Tenth of <HI>June,</HI> 1647. and likewi&s;e the profits of the &s;everall places belonging to the Cu&s;tomes, Exci&s;e, Po&s;tma&s;ters, Committee-men, Offices &s;eque&s;tred, and &s;uch like, may be di&s;po&s;ed of for the Publique occa&s;ions of the
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Kingdom, and not converted to private u&s;es, (rea&s;onable Salaries for &s;uch and &s;o many as &s;hall be nece&s;&s;arily employed therein excep|ted) the &s;ame might advance a con&s;iderable &s;umm for that or other Publick charge, during the time of the mi&s;erable di&s;tractions of this Kingdom.</P>
<P>Your Petitioners do therefore humbly pray,</P>
<P>That no Tax or new Impo&s;ition be laid upon Coles; And that the afore&s;aid repre&s;en|tations may be effectually taken into the Grave con&s;ideration of this honourable Hou&s;e;</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And they &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c. <HI>Michel.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="4" REF="4">
<HEAD><HI>To the Right Honourable the</HI> Lords <HI>in high Court of Parliament a&s;&s;embled:</HI> The humble Petition of the Lord Major, Aldermen and Commons of the City of <HI>LONDON</HI> in Common-Councell a&s;&s;embled:</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THat the Petitioners calling to minde the happy &s;ucce&s;&s;es and great benefits, which not onely the Parliament and City, but al&s;o the Kingdom re|ceived, when the Forces within the late Lines of Commu|nication were united to the City, under the command of one <HI>Militia;</HI> And the inconveniences that have happened &s;ince they were di&s;united, their &s;trength thereby being much abated, and they made more un&s;erviceable to the Parliament and City.</P>
<P>And your Petitioners being very &s;en&s;ible thereof, and of the great benefit that may be expected (by the ble&s;&s;ing of God) by their re-uniting, having received &s;everall Petitions from divers wel-affected per&s;ons Inhabitants of the city of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> Hamblets of the Tower, and Bur|rough of <HI>Southwark,</HI> declaring their de&s;ires thereof; And upon conference with them, (and finding them not willing to be a Sub-committee as formerly) in our de&s;ire to fur|ther &s;o good a work, tending &s;o much to the enabling of us to be &s;erviceable to the Parliament, City and Kingdom, your Petitioners did condi&s;cend, That the &s;aid adjacent parts &s;hould have five for every Divi&s;ion, to be joyned to the pre&s;ent <HI>Militia</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> and to make one entire <HI>Militia:</HI> Provided, That they &s;hould be nominated by
<PB N="5" REF="4"> the Common-councell, and pre&s;ented to the honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament for their approbation and allow|ance; And having received &s;everall Votes from the honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament for their re-uniting:</P>
<P><HI>They therefore humbly pray,</HI><LB> That an Ordinance of Parliament may be &s;peedily pa&s;&s;ed, for the adding unto the pre&s;ent <HI>Militia</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> the Fifteen per&s;ons nominated by the Common-councell, and by them humbly pre&s;ented and &s;ubmitted to the honourable Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment for their confirmation.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And they &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c. <HI>Michel.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="6" REF="5">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Martis, 18 Julii, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>UPON reading of the Petition of the Lord Major, Aldermen and Commons of the City of <HI>London</HI> in Common-councell a&s;&s;embled; It is Ordered by the Lords in Parliament, That the&s;e Lords fol|lowing &s;hall be a Committee to draw up &s;uch an Ordinance as is de&s;ired in the &s;aid Petition, and in pur&s;uance of the Vote of this Hou&s;e 6. <HI>July,</HI> 1648. and that the names of &s;uch as they mention in their Petition be pre&s;ented to the &s;aid Committee.</P>
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<ITEM>E. Northumberland</ITEM>
<ITEM>E. Rutland</ITEM>
<ITEM>E. Lincolne</ITEM>
<ITEM>E. Suffolke</ITEM>
<ITEM>E. Middle&s;ex</ITEM>
<ITEM>L. North</ITEM>
<ITEM>L. Hun&s;don.</ITEM>
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<P>Their Lord&s;hips, or any Two, to meet on Thur&s;day next at Nine in the Lord Keepers Lodgings, and to adjourn them&s;elves as they plea&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Io. Brown, Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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