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<P>To the Kings mo&s;t Excel|LENT MAJESTIE. THE HVMBLE PETITION Of the Inhabitants of the County of <HI>Gloce&s;ter.</HI> WITH THEIR PROTESTATION to his MAJESTIE. Whereunto is annexed Sir <HI>Edward Hales,</HI> his worthy Speech in PARLIAMENT, <HI>Ian.</HI> 20. 1641. Vpon the reading of the Letter, which his Maje&s;tie &s;ent to both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Thomas.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Kings mo&s;t ex|cellent Maje&s;tie. The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of Gloce&s;ter, with the Prote&s;tation annexed.</HEAD>
<P>_IT hath beene made knowne unto your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, and al&s;o unto the Honora|ble hou&s;e of Parliament now a&s;&s;embled, how for a long &s;ea&s;on your poore Petiti|oners, and mo&s;t Loyall Subjects, have beene mo&s;t grievou&s;ly burthened, and oppre&s;&s;ed, both in their temporall, and &s;pirituall e&s;tates, both by mo&s;t grie|vous impo&s;itions and taxes, and also by extreame, and unlimited power of Ecle&s;ia&s;ticall government, from which mo&s;t grievous oppre&s;&s;ions your Petitioners, did long age hope to have beene disburthened, and re|lea&s;ed, but they find as yet &s;mall comfort, or hopes thereof, by rea&s;on of the manifold de&s;tractions, and di&s;agrements, which have aro&s;e betweene your Sacred Maje&s;tie, and the hou&s;e of Commons now a&s;&s;embled by the interpo&s;ition, and per&s;wa&s;ion of &s;ome ill af|fected Subjects both to your Maje&s;ties Peace and con|tent, and your Subjects &s;ecurity and quiet, the&s;e &s;ug|ge&s;tions have begot and bred in your Maje&s;ty a mo&s;t &s;ini&s;ter conceit of your mo&s;t loyall Subjects, wher|by they have undergone the hard burthen of your ill
<PB REF="3">opinion of them, which &s;eems unto them being &s;o loy|ally affected a mo&s;t extream cau&s;e of di&s;content being &s;tigmatiz'd with the marke of Di&s;obedience, which they neuer dur&s;t conceive or think on, and now of late when we did well that all our hopes would have beene brought vnto maturity and perfection, and that we &s;hould have had an i&s;&s;ue of our former de&s;ires pre&s;ented vnto the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, your Maje&s;ty hath accu&s;ed &s;ome of the Principall members thereof of Trea&s;on, whereby all proceedings are &s;tayd, and your Petitioners hopes are now by this meanes made fru&s;trate, &s;o that they &s;ee no way by which they can be relieved, or have their injuries re|dre&s;&s;ed, for by the impeachment of the&s;e men, we do conceive the Generall affaires of this Kingdome to be procra&s;tinated and delayed, the Subject to be vn|releived, and your Maje&s;ty to be deluded. For &s;o long as whi&s;perers and flatterers, who&s;e &s;ole Aimes, reach onely to their owne Benifit, are in places of Power and dignity, we conceive very &s;mall po&s;&s;ibility of a flouri&s;hing Kingdome; We plead not this cau&s;e led on by faction, or envie, but having beene depri|ved by the Pride of our late Prelate of the liberty of our con&s;ciences and al&s;o being burthened with heavy burthens farre beyond our abilities in E&s;tate, we pre|&s;ent our grievances vnto your Maje&s;ties con&s;iderati|on, not doubting but to have all our injuries addre&s;|&s;ed, hoping that your Maje&s;ty will be plea&s;ed to look vpon our aggrievances with a gracious eye.</P>
<P>May it therefore plea&s;e your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty to take the&s;e pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mi&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> into your mo&s;t Royall con&s;idera|tion, and with all to take &s;ome Order, for the faire and legall proceedings of Parliament, where your
<PB REF="3">mo&s;t humble Petitioners do hope to have their agre|vances heard, &s;earched and &s;alved, and withall that tho&s;e whom your Maje&s;ty lately accu&s;ed of High Trea&s;on, may enjoy their Priviledges in Parliament, to performe that re&s;pect unto their Countrey, by who&s;e votes they were cho&s;en for Members in this great a&s;&s;embly; that by this meanes the more vrgent affayres of this di&s;quieted Realme may take effect, the Praelates by who&s;e meanes and power our liber|ties and con&s;cience have been much abu&s;ed, may bee cen&s;ured according to equity, your loyall Subjects may be relieved, and the generall E&s;tate of this King|dome may be &s;etled in peace and tranquility, and we &s;hall pray. And doe here before God and the world make our Prote&s;tation, that we are not moved unto this our de&s;ire by any &s;ini&s;ter or by re&s;pect, or that neither malice, or envy unto any particular per&s;on, or more then ordinary affection unto any cau&s;e or per&s;on hath &s;tirred us vnto this de&s;ire, but onely our deepe aggrievances, the decay of this Kingdomes fe|licity in Trade, whereby many of your poore Pe|titioners have beene vtterly ruin'd and overthrowne, and the want of Liberty of con&s;ciences cau&s;ed by the Prelates, have moved your Petitioners to move your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty to the con&s;ideration of the&s;e our grievances. And we do here al&s;o declare our Loyall and faithfull intentions, that for the Go&s;pell, our King, and the Kingdomes good, we &s;hall bee at all times ready to hazard both our lives, Liberties, and fortunes, to the vtter mo&s;t of all our endeavours, and abilities.</P>
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<HEAD>SIR Edward Hales, his Speech in Parliament, upon the reading of a Letter from his Maje&s;ty the 20. of <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Ma&s;ter <HI>Speaker,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe&s;e propo&s;itions of his Maje&s;ty concer|ning the Liberties and priviledges of the Subject, the e&s;tabli&s;hing of Religion, and the indifferent v&s;e of &s;uch Ceremonies in the exerci&s;e thereof, as may be received, and v&s;ed without offence, are gracious expre&s;&s;io~s of his Prince|ly Care and tender affection towards his good and Loyall Subjects, and his propo&s;ition for the mainte|nance and defence of his Maje&s;ties iu&s;t Prerogatives and Regall Power in his Dominions, are now to be taken into the con&s;ideration of this Honnourable Hou&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Mr. Speaker</HI> We are here met and a&s;&s;embled on|ly for the defence and pre&s;ervation of the Subjects and ju&s;t Priviledges of the Subject, &s;etling of true Religion, maintenance of his Maje&s;ties Royall Power and Prerogative, and the defence of the Lawes and
<PB REF="4">Ordinances e&s;tabli&s;hed in this Kingdome for the good government thereof, and for the redre&s;&s;ing the mani|fold grievances and oppre&s;&s;ions of the Common|wealth by evill and wicked Members thereof; wee have to this porpo&s;e made already many good Laws a&s;&s;ented to and confirmed by his &s;acred Maje&s;ty Vo|ted for the &s;etling of Religion, and aboli&s;hment of &s;uperfluous Ceremonies, &s;tood for the defence of the Liberties of the Subject for Parliaments, the Rights and Priviledges thereof, for the maintaining his Ma|je&s;ties righfull power in his Regall Government, and as farre as in us lay endeavoured to redre&s;&s;e the grie|vances of the Kingdome, and to appea&s;e the differen|ces of late betweene his Maje&s;ties Kingdomes to bring the Authors and incendiaries of the &s;ame to condigne puni&s;hment, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd to &s;ettle Vnity and Concord among&s;t our &s;elves, but the &s;ubtle and wily practices of the e|nemies and profe&s;&s;ors thereof having &s;o farre prevailed that they have rai&s;ed &s;uch di&s;tempers and di&s;tractions in the State that laying a&s;ide the former affayres we had in hand, we have beene forced again&s;t our de&s;ires and reall intentions to certifie all things ami&s;&s;e both in Church and State, to bend all our endeavours to prevent eminent danger now in agitation both again&s;t the Parliament and the whole State, and to remove the impediments that have hindered the &s;ame; to &s;e|cure our owne per&s;ons from their malicious de&s;igns, and to comply with our Brethren in Scotland for the timely ayd and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prote&s;tants in Jreland. But intending I make no doubt but by the ble&s;&s;ing of Almighty God in due time when the pre|&s;ent
<PB REF="5">di&s;tempers &s;hall be remoued to pro&s;ecute our de&s;ires, for the confirmation and conclu&s;ion of all things in agitation by this great Councell concerning the well being of Church and Common-wealth.</P>
<P>Therefore my humble motion is, that wee may joyne with the Lords by Petition to his Maje&s;ty therein, informing his Maje&s;ty of the cau&s;es of hinderance in our former procee|dings upon tho&s;e things now propounded to our con|&s;ideration by his Sa|cred Maje&s;ty.</P>
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