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<NAME>John Latta</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es Of the Hou&s;e of Commons in PARLIAMENT a&s;&s;embled. The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the Pari&s;hes, of <HI>Stepney, Shorditch, VVhitchappell</HI> and <HI>Algate,</HI> the Chappelgy of <HI>Wapping,</HI> the Precinct of St. <HI>Katherins,</HI> and the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Peter Advincula,</HI> adjacent to the <HI>TOWER,</HI> and without the liberties of <HI>LONDON.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THAT a great part of the Inhabitants of the Places above&s;aid, are <HI>Mariners,</HI> and other Per&s;ons belonging to Naviga|tion, who are often at Sea, or abord their Ships and Ve&s;&s;ells, and &s;o their Hou&s;es and Families left de&s;titute of de|fence, and expo&s;ed to danger in time of any Uproare; Another part of the &s;ame Inhabitants, are <HI>Trained Souldiers</HI> (bearing their own charges) under the command of the Lieutenant of the <HI>Tower,</HI> at who&s;e plea&s;ure they are called, either in their whole number, or &s;everall &s;maller divi&s;ions of them, both night and day into the <HI>Tower,</HI> to doe &s;er|vice there, or unto other places remot from their own dwellings, wherby al&s;o their Hou&s;es and Families are de&s;ti|tute of defence, and open to like danger in time of any commotion; And the re&s;idue of the &s;aid Inhabitants, are moft Handy-crafts-men, undi&s;ciplined in <HI>Militarie</HI> affaires, not &s;et in any order for defence, and thereby as lyable to danger, as any others.</P>
<P>That the apprehen&s;ions of the&s;e and greater dangers, are increa&s;ed in the Petitioners, from the grounds and rea&s;ons here under mentioned, which they humbly offer to your grave con&s;ideration: <HI>(vi&z;t.)</HI> becau&s;e</P>
<P N="1">1. The <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>London</HI> (which the Petitioners formerly accompted a defence and &s;afeguard to them) is taken out of the Cu|&s;tody of Per&s;ons of honour and tru&s;t; a number of Cannoneirs with their Labourers drawne into the &s;ame, many pretending attendance upon the <HI>Bi&s;hops,</HI> re&s;ide there, the new Warders lately put into the &s;ame, are many of them Alehou&s;e-keepers, and mo&s;t of them, of loo&s;e Conver&s;ations, yet have great tru&s;t in the <HI>Tower;</HI> and the Trained Souldiers of the Hamlets, who watch in the <HI>Tower,</HI> are confined unto &s;trait places, where, for want of power and number, they can neither prevent any de&s;perate de&s;igne, which may po&s;&s;ibly be attempted, nor be any way &s;erviceable, for the defence of the Place.</P>
<P N="2">2. Divers words (&s;ome whereof are particularized in the <HI>Schedule</HI> annexed) have been &s;poken, by &s;undry Per&s;ons dwelling in the places above &s;aid, tending to the di&s;uniting of the two Kingdomes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> to the defamation of divers Mem|bers of this honourable Hou&s;e, and intimating &s;ome bloody de&s;igne in hand, again&s;t the well affected of the Kingdome, under the names of <HI>Puritans</HI> and <HI>Browni&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. One <HI>Richard Cray,</HI> a new Warder in the <HI>Tower,</HI> and a Con&s;table of a large Precinct neere <HI>Wapping,</HI> hath (be&s;ides his dange|rous &s;peeches) endeavoured to rai&s;e men in Armes, to keepe tho&s;e whom he calls <HI>Puritans</HI> and <HI>Browni&s;ts,</HI> from coming to <HI>Church,</HI> and hath with many others, his partakers, greatly oppo&s;ed, the two worthy Preachers at <HI>Stepney,</HI> Mr. <HI>Burroughs,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Greenhill.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. On Thur&s;day night la&s;t, when the Citizens of <HI>London</HI> were up in Armes, for their defence, upon the rumor of approach|ing danger, divers of the Petitioners having Armed them&s;elves al&s;o, for their own defence, and being peaceably in their Watch, to prevent further inconvenience, the &s;aid <HI>Cray</HI> in a violent manner tooke the Armes from &s;ome of the Petitioners, threatned the re&s;t, and &s;aid, if he had known, he would have been better provided for them, meaning (as they conceive) either to hurt, unarme, or oppo&s;e them.</P>
<P>The Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that they may have Authority from this honourable A&s;&s;embly, freely to put them&s;elves into a Po&s;ture of defence, for the better enabling of them, to maintaine his <HI>Mate&s;ties</HI> Per&s;on and Authority, the power and Privileges of <HI>Parliament,</HI> and their own lives, liberties and e&s;tates, according to their late Prote&s;tation: And that they may have liberty to that end, to choo&s;e Officers for their better guidance and in&s;truction, to exerci&s;e them&s;elves in <HI>Militarie Di&s;cipline,</HI> and to provide Armes and Amunition, that &s;ome &s;peedy cour&s;e may be taken for the better ordering of the &s;aid <HI>Tower,</HI> and to prevent the dangers by fireworks and otherwi&s;e, which may ari&s;e from that place: And that the &s;aid <HI>Cray</HI> and others, who have threatned, or oppo&s;ed the Petitioners, may an&s;wer the matters layd to their charge, and receive &s;uch condigne puni&s;hment as this honourable A&s;&s;embly in your great wi&s;domes &s;hall thinke fit.</P>
<CLOSER>And the Petitioners &s;hall daily pray, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The CHEDULE.</HEAD>
<P N="5">5. <HI>RIchard Cray</HI> a Con&s;table of the Pari&s;h of <HI>Stepney,</HI> and one of the new Warders in the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> hath late|ly &s;ince the la&s;t Pacification with the <HI>Scots,</HI> and the happy union betweene the&s;e two Kingdomes, affirmed that the <HI>Scots,</HI> are all Rogues and Rebells; That he hopes all <HI>Puritans</HI> and <HI>Browni&s;ts</HI> &s;hall be wor&s;e hampered, tortured and torne, then ever the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> were, and that he him&s;elfe would helpe to do it, and this he delivered with a great deale of vehemency, &s;miting his hand upon the Table</P>
<P><HI>Mathew Owen</HI> on the 5^t^h of <HI>January</HI> in&s;tant, affirmed, that Mr. <HI>Pym,</HI> and the other foure, did carry two faces under one hood, that the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> would be quiet enough, if they might be let alone, and that it was long of the <HI>Puritans</HI> that all this &s;tir is.</P>
<P><HI>John Walter</HI> of Lime-hou&s;e, on the 27^t^h of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t, being asked why the Drum did beat, did enter into many rayling &s;peeches, calling divers people of hone&s;t report, a company of damned Puritan-whores and rogues, and &s;aid he hoped ere long, to &s;ee all their throates cut, or they hang'd, as tho&s;e are in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thomas Bungie</HI> affirmed, that he would joyne with the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Puritans</HI> and <HI>Browni&s;ts,</HI> if the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> &s;hould ri&s;e.</P>
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