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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>TVVO PETITIONS From the City of LONDON ONE To the ARMY, the other to the Hou&s;e of LORDS.</P>
<P>Concerning the late Lord Mayor, Sir <HI>John Geyre,</HI> Alderman <HI>Bunce,</HI> and others, who were ingaged in the bloody mur|ther at <HI>Guild-Hall.</HI></P>
<P>WITH The Repre&s;entation of the Officers of the Army, (of their Re&s;olutions) to the PARLIAMENT, therein.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>October 12. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe&s;e Petitions of the City of <HI>London,</HI> with the Re&s;olutions of the Army, are appointed to be Printed and publi&s;hed by the Authority of the Licen&s;er, appointed by the Hou&s;e of Peeres, according to an Ordinance of both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>Imprimatur,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>G. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on,</HI> in Smithfield, neer the Queenes-head Tavern, 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>TO HIS EXCELLENCY Sir <HI>THOMAS FAIRFAX</HI> Captain Generall Of the <HI>PARLIAMENTS</HI> Forces.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of divers Inhabitants of the City of <HI>London,</HI> who were cut, and wounded, at the <HI>Guild-hall</HI> of the &s;aid City, on Monday the &s;econd day of <HI>Augu&s;t, 1647.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THAT your Petitioners with many o|ther Citizens, perceiving a preparation in &s;ome to rai&s;e a new warre again&s;t the Ar|my, addre&s;&s;ing them&s;elves by Petition unto the Common Councell of <HI>London</HI> for peace; And attending the &s;itting of the &s;aid Court at the <HI>Guild-hall;</HI> your petitioners were vio|lently &s;et upon, by Major Generall <HI>Poyntz</HI> and his Reformadoes, and cut and wounded
<PB N="2" REF="3"> by them, and two of our number &s;laine out|right; and no cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice being had in the City again&s;t the murtherers or tumul|ters, but they rather abetted and incouraged, by the then Lord Mayor, and Alderman <HI>Bunce</HI> who began the violence: your peti|tioners repre&s;ented their &s;ufferings unto the high Court of Parliament, by their petition, a copy whereof is hereunto annexed: But have hitherto reaped no fruite thereby, other bu&s;ine&s;&s;e &s;tepping between.</P>
<P>Now for as much as your Petitioners were &s;o wounded and abu&s;ed for their good affe|ctions to your Excellency and the Army, and for moving in oppo&s;ition to the new warre intended again&s;t you; And for as much as your Petitioners are poore, and cannot &s;pend much time in attendance, without adding to their afflictions, and ruining their families.</P>
<P><HI>Your Petitioners therefore mo&s;t humbly pray, that your Excellency will be plea&s;ed to recommend their &s;ufferings, and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed condition, unto the &s;peedy con&s;ideration and redre&s;&s;e of the Honoura|ble Hou&s;es of Parliament.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>And your petitioners &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.
<SIGNED><LIST>
<PB N="3" REF="3">
<ITEM>Edward Mor<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">craft,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Collet,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Abraham,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Vallance,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Howell,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Daller,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Web&s;ter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Childe,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Bland,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Harbert,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edmund Bird,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Walter&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Eddes,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Lea,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Valentine Frea&s;ton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Hou&s;e of Peeres in <HI>Parliament</HI> A&s;&s;embled:</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of divers Inhabitants of the City of <HI>London,</HI> who were cut and wounded at the <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> of the &s;aid City, on Monday the 2 of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1647.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat your Petitioners, and many other Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> being deeply &s;en|&s;ible of the de&s;tructive de&s;igne of &s;ome, who laboured to foment a new warre, in this Ci|ty joyned to the number of three thou&s;and, or thereabouts, in a Petition for peace, direct|ed to the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Com|mons of the &s;aid City, in Common Coun|cell A&s;&s;embled, and went unarmed, in a peaceable manner unto the <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> to pre|&s;ent the &s;ame, on the day above&s;aid, and in regard the Court was not &s;ate, but &s;hortly expected (according to appointment) to &s;it.</P>
<PB N="4" REF="4">
<P>The Petitioners attended at the Common Councell-doore, and in the Hall, and yard, there to deliver their &s;aid Petition into the Court, and had appointed one (or more if occa&s;ion were) to &s;peak thereto: At which time an Alderman comming to the Com|mon Councell doore, laid hands on one of the petitioners, who was &s;o appointed to &s;peak, and endevoured by force to pull him to the Committee of the <HI>Militia</HI> there &s;itting; thereby to terrifie the petitioners, which not taking effect, the Lord Mayor came to the &s;aid doore, and (in a violent manner) did &s;trike and thru&s;t &s;ome of the petitioners, urg|ing to have the petition from them, and bid|ding them to be gone: And when his Lord|&s;hip returned back toward the <HI>Militia</HI> doore, pre&s;ently after came downe their Major Ge|nerall <HI>Poyntz,</HI> and divers Reformadoes with him (Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> being gone out before). And the &s;aid <HI>Poyntz</HI> with his Re|formadoes, when they came to the lower end of the yard, and had got more of their party together, returned back with drawn &s;words in their hands, and fell upon the Petitioners in the yard, calling them <HI>Independent Dogges,
<PB N="5" REF="4"> and Rogues,</HI> &s;aying, they would give them <HI>Peace:</HI> and wounded above thirty of them, killed one out right, &amp; another (if not more) is &s;ince dead, &s;ome of them are maimed, di|vers of them had four, or &s;ix wounds a peece, and have thereby lo&s;t their Trades, and are put to great paine, charges, and expences.</P>
<P>And while this cruelty was in acting, Ma|jor Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> with a great party more of Reformadoes, came into <HI>Ba&s;sin&s;haw-&s;treet,</HI> with their &s;words drawn, where &s;ome of the Petitioners (who had e&s;caped that way from the former violence) w re afre&s;h a&s;&s;aulted by the &s;aid <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> and a dangerous blow made by him&s;elf at one of the Petitioners.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding all which, the &s;aid <HI>Poyntz</HI> and <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> were &s;uffered to ride up &amp; down the &s;treets, both that night and the next day, without any controle, or indevour u&s;ed to apprehend them, for the murther and Riot a|fore&s;aid: Neither hath &s;o much as &s;earch, or hue and cry been made after the &s;aid <HI>Poyntz,</HI> or the other murtherers, nor menti|on made of the &s;lain, in the weekly Bills of Mortallity.</P>
<P><HI>Your Petitioners therefore mo&s;t humbly pray, that
<PB N="6" REF="5"> &s;ome effectuall cour&s;e may be taken for the ap|prehending and puni&s;hing of the &s;aid Rioters, and murtherers, and of all tho&s;e who have aided or abetted, or countenanced them in their out|rages afore&s;aid: And that your Petitioners may have reparations for their wounds, lo&s;&s;es, and &s;ufferings out of their e&s;tates: In &s;uch manner as your Honours in your great wi&s;dome &s;hall think meet.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>And your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="resolution">
<OPENER><DATELINE>Putney <DATE>October 8. 1647.</DATE> At the Committee of Generall Officers.</DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Upon the Petition of the per&s;ons wound|ed by Major Generall <HI>Poyntz</HI> and the Refor|madoes, at their petitioning for peace:</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved upon the Question,</HI></P>
<P>That in regard (as we conceive) their con|dition &s;o immediately concernes his Excel|lencies Cognizance in re&s;pect of their appea|rance at that time for the Army: His Excel|lency be de&s;ired to write an effectuall Letter to the Parliament in their behalf.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the appointment of the Com|mittee of Officers;<HI>Signed, JOHN GILLOT, Cleric.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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