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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>THE PETITION OF THE Inhabitants of CYRENCESTER, who&s;e names are hereunto &s;ub&s;cribed.</P>
<P>Pre&s;ented to His MAJESTY at <HI>OXFORD.</HI></P>
<P>WITH <HI>HIS MAJESTIES</HI> An&s;wer thereunto.</P>
<P>Printed, by His MAjESTIES command At <HI>OXFORD, Febr.</HI> 28.</P>
<P>By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer <HI>to the &V;niver&s;ity.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition to king">
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<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD TYPE="sub">TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.</HEAD>
<HEAD>The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of <HI>CYRENCESTER.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dread Soveraigne,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WEE Your poore Subjects the In|habitants of the mi&s;erable di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed <HI>Cyrence&s;ter,</HI> having under|gone all the heavy effects of Your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> ju&s;tly incen&s;ed Army, doe pro&s;trate our &s;elves at Your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> feet, not to excu&s;e, or in the lea&s;t mea&s;ure to extenuate our ill-de&s;er|vings. We acknowledge us inexcu&s;ably faulty, but to appeale unto Your mercy, and to beg Your pardon, That as we have been through all Your Kingdomes the fir&s;t example of Your ju&s;tly de|&s;erved
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Rigor, and the terrour thereof working its due effect upon all others, to deterre them from provoking Your like di&s;plea&s;ure, we may re|maine Your mo&s;t remarkable object of Your mercy, the mo&s;t glorious and re&s;plendent Gemme of Your Crowne. Oh, Sir, the God of Hea|ven hath given You unto us our God upon the Earth. We have grievou&s;ly &s;inned again&s;t him by our undutifull carriage again&s;t You His Vice|gerent. Behold us now lying before you, ac|knowledging, and from our hearts dete&s;ting the foulne&s;&s;e of our offence, and our &s;elves for com|mitting it, And mo&s;t humbly be&s;eeching Your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> in imitation of that Divine vertue, the mo&s;t lively character of his Image in You, to Pardon us, and to receive us into Your protecti|on. In the a&s;&s;urance whereof, we may &s;ecurely re|turne to, and abide at our &s;everall homes, begin to goe on in our former Trades and Occupati|ons, and, by Gods good ble&s;&s;ing upon us, in the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> many hundreds of People of our Towne and ad|joyning parts of the County, who have no other livelihood, may be againe &s;et on worke and relieved, and we may have the hope in time, upon our after care, to endeavour to expre&s;&s;e the &s;incerity of our true returne to the Duties of our
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Allegiance, to joy in the rec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">very of Your wonted Favour, and all of us, all our lives long, and our po&s;terity after us, bound to acknowledge the height of Your mercy, to pray to Almighty God to ble&s;&s;e Your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> with all the happine&s;&s;e which he hath promi&s;ed in his &s;acred Word, to all that &s;hall &s;hew mercy.</P>
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<ITEM>ANdrew Sollace.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Row. Freeman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Iles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Dutton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Willis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmund Freeman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Taylor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Stone.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Amos D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;ey.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgill Crippes&punc;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Gibbes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>More Gwilliam.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Chance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Beaton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmund Feribee.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Michaell Sharp.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Groves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Portlocke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Batt.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Aucutt.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Prat.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Kerby.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">pping.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Petty.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iames Armand.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas May&s;ey.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">thew.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Flacher.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Sollace.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Cartor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Scovell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Ma&s;ters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Francklin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walter Portlocks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Evans.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iames Burge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Allen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Samuel Spencer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Webb.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Burge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Michael Hartred.</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Lawrence.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="response to petition">
<PB N="4" REF="4">
<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES Gracious An&s;wer to the fore-going PETITION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>At the Court at</HI> Oxford, <DATE><HI>the 25. day of February,</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_HIs MAjESTY graciou&s;ly accepts the &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion of the Petitioners, and is Him&s;elf &s;orry that the Re|bellion and di&s;loyalty of that place hath brought &s;o great a mea&s;ure of &s;ufferings upon any of His Subjects; which was not in His Maje|&s;ties power to prevent. He is well plea&s;ed that all the Inhabitants of that Towne of <HI>Cyrence&s;ter</HI> return &s;afely to their hou&s;es, and
<PB N="5" REF="4"> live &s;ecurely in them, from all violence by any of His Maje&s;ties Souldiers, that the Trade and Wealth of that place may (by Gods ble&s;&s;ing) be againe renewed. And His Maje&s;ties Will is, and doth hereby give preci&s;e Order, that no violence or injury be henceforward offered by any of His Ma|je&s;ties Garri&s;on or Souldiers to the Peti|tioners, or any the Inhabitants of <HI>Cyrence|&s;ter,</HI> they demeaning them&s;elves with that duty and obedience to his Maje&s;ties ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary Commands, as the condition of the pre&s;ent time, and his Maje&s;ties ne|ce&s;&s;ities require. And his Maje&s;ties expre&s;&s;e Command is, That the Governour of <HI>Cy|rence&s;ter</HI> for the time being, and all other, his Maje&s;ties Officers and Souldiers of that his garri&s;on, take order and conform them|&s;elves accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>EDW. NICHOLAS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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