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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<P>The Humble PETITION OF Knights, E&s;quires, Gentlemen, (&s;ome of the Committee) with Divines, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the county of <HI>War|wick,</HI> and the city of <HI>Coventrey:</HI> To both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>Humbly laying open the pre&s;ent Grie|vances of that county; to which Petition was annexed betweene three and four thou&s;and hands, pre&s;ented on Wedne&s;day the 21. of AUGUST; 1644.</P>
<P>ALSO The humble Petition of mo&s;t of the Committee, Commanders, and others of the county of STAFFORD: Setting forth the pre&s;ent dangers threatned to that coun|ty, expre&s;&s;ing their humble de&s;ires, That the Right Honorable the Earl of <HI>Denbigh,</HI> their Lord Gene|rall, may wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h &s;utable conveniences be &s;peedily accommodated and &s;ent down to their relief.</P>
<P>To this Petition was annexed many hands.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>G. S.</HI> 1644.</P>
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<PB N="3" REF="2">
<HEAD>To the Right Honorable, The Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament;</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Gentry, Free|holders and Jnhabitants of the County of <HI>VVarwick,</HI> and the City and County of <HI>Coventrey:</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat withall thankfulne&s;&s;e we acknowledge the great favor vouch&s;afed unto us, in &s;ending downe the right Honourable the Earl of <HI>Denbigh,</HI> to be our Lord Lieutenant Generall of all our forces, who&s;e integrity, faithfulne&s;&s;e and valour being &s;ufficiently manife&s;ted to us and the whole kingdom, we humbly de&s;ire all po&s;&s;ible encouragement may be added for his noble proceedings herein.</P>
<P>And whereas it hath plea&s;ed this Honorable a&s;&s;embly to Ordaine a Grand Committee for taking of the accompts of the great disbur&s;ments of the whole kingdom, with power to nominate a Sub-Committee in each particular County, which hath not yet been &s;et<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">led in ours.</P>
<P>And whereas by diver&s;e Ordinances of other A&s;&s;ociated
<PB N="4" REF="3">Counties, your petitioners finde the weekly &s;ums to be rai&s;ed upon the &s;aid Counties, Limited, and not to exceed a certayn &s;um, But in the Ordinance of A&s;&s;ociation of the&s;e our Counties, and of the County of Stafford, there is power given unto the Committees of the &s;aid Counties, to Tax, A&s;&s;e&s;&s;e and rai&s;e what &s;um they &s;hould thinke fit, for the making of Fortifications, payment of Garri&s;ons, Officers and &s;ouldier, without reducing the &s;ame to any &s;uch certain &s;um, by rea&s;on of which unlimited power (different from other Ordinances) This County hath been extreamly burthened with divers great weekly Tax|ations, double if not treble (at the lea&s;t) to other Neigh|bouring Countyes, of far larger extent and better values, contrary (as wee humbly conceive) to the intention of this honorable a&s;&s;embly, be&s;ides the lo&s;&s;es &s;uffered by free quarter, frequent plundering, almo&s;t throughout the whole County, and diver&s;e other in&s;upportable burthens, hard taxes &amp; other grievances of our county, have drawn a generall di&s;content vpon the whole people, and thereby mo&s;t are di&s;abled, others di&s;couraged, to doe that &s;ervice for the Parliament, which otherwi&s;e they might.</P>
<P>Doe therefore humbly pray, that this Honourable a&s;&s;embly would bee plea&s;ed that the weekly tax for payment of the &s;aid Garri&s;ons, Officers and &s;ouldiers, may be reduced, not to exceed a certain &s;um, and to give order to the &s;aid Grand Committee for taking of ac|compts, that at &s;uch time as they &s;hall thinke fit to nomi|nate Sub-Committees for our County (which we humbly de&s;ire may be effected with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed) that our Lord-Lieutenant may be moved by the &s;aid Co~mittee to be then and there pre&s;ent to give his a&s;&s;ent and approbati|on of &s;uch as &s;halbe by them nominated, and that all ju&s;t
<PB N="5" REF="3">complaints and grievances what&s;oever within the&s;e coun|ties by vertue of &s;eque&s;trations and Parliament, propo&s;i|tions may be a&s;&s;igned unto the &s;aid Earl, for the better encouragement of the &s;aid Earl, and towards the payment of his &s;ouldiers, if it may &s;tand with the wi&s;dom of this Honourable a&s;&s;embly, and that &s;peciall care of the Go|vernment of the Town of <HI>Warwick,</HI> and the Gari&s;on of <HI>Compton</HI> may be recommended to the Earl of <HI>Denbigh,</HI> and to &s;uch Gentlemen of the Countie as the &s;aid Earl &s;hall nominate, and &s;hall be approoved by this Hono|rable a&s;&s;embly, and that &s;ome of the members of the Committee may be ordered to &s;it con&s;tantly in the &s;aid Borough of <HI>Warwick,</HI> which will tend to the ea&s;e of the greate&s;t part of the &s;aid County, who are now forced to travell many miles, to their great trouble and expence; for which end your Petitioners further humbly pray, that &s;uch Gentlemen of quality, known e&s;tate in the &s;aid coun|ty, and approved integrity, may be added the Committee, as &s;hall be recommended by our Lord-Lieutenant, and approoved of by this Honourable a&s;&s;embly, and likewi&s;e that this Honourable a&s;&s;embly would be plea&s;ed to ap|point &s;uch Deputy Lieutenants as our Lord-Lieutenant &s;hall commend unto them.</P>
<CLOSER><HI>And &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.</HI>
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<P><HI>This petition was fir&s;t pre&s;ented to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, on wedne&s;day the</HI> 21 <HI>of Augu&s;t, it be|ing the grievance of the County, but by rea&s;on of the much bu&s;ine&s;&s;e then in the Hou&s;e, the petitioners there pre|&s;ent</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="4">(<HI>which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> about</HI> 20 <HI>Gentlemen</HI>) <HI>were that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y di&s;mi&s;&s;ed, being appointed Friday morning to make their addre&s;&s;e for the delivery of their petition, who after their departure finding opportunity, made their addre&s;&s;e to the Hou&s;e of Lords, where they had acceptance; their petition was read in the Hou&s;e, and al&s;o their grievances thereto annexed; after which they withdrew, and in a quarter of an hours &s;pace were called in again, to whom was returned a gratious and favourable an&s;wer to this effect;</HI> viz. <HI>That the Lords did well approove of their petition, and thought it fit that their ju&s;t de&s;ires therein &s;hould be granted, ex|pre&s;&s;ing thankes to the Gentlemen for their good affections, and expre&s;&s;ions to the Parliament and Kingdom, a&s;&s;uring them that nothing &s;hould be wanting in that hou&s;e, of their be&s;t endeavours to ea&s;e them of the burthen of their grie|vances, and that with all carefulne&s;&s;e and expedition.</HI></P>
<P><HI>On Fryday they came againe to the Commons Hou&s;e, and while they were wayting to be called in, the petitions which they had pre&s;ented to the Lords on wedne&s;day was transferred from the Lords Hou&s;e to the Commons, and by them received, and after three votes, it was committed to a Committee of Lords and Commons to be heard.</HI></P>
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<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y">
<HEAD>To the Right Honorable, The Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament;</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of many of the Com|mittee, Commanders, and others well af|fected in the County of <HI>Stafford.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat this our country being very much perplexed and infe&s;ted by &s;everall &s;trong Garri&s;ons, and parties of the enemy now of late increa&s;ed by Addition of many Northern Renegadoes, our forces being not able to de|fend them&s;elves or the Country from the grievous and daily Plunders, impri&s;onments, and in&s;upportable Tax|ations and ran&s;omes, cruelly exerci&s;ed and charged upon them; having al&s;o very credible intelligence that Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> is now recruting his Army about Che&s;ter, Salop, and North-wales, where a weeke &s;ince he has 5000 Hor&s;e and above 2000 Foot, and upon daily increa&s;e, rai&s;ing great &s;ums of money in tho&s;e parts, Salop now bu&s;ie in Collecting 9000 pounds more for him; And that many matters of great concernment for the Publique lie un|&s;ettled, and our forces without addition un&s;erviceable, to the great di&s;traction and prejudice of our Country and the affaires in hand.</P>
<PB N="8" REF="5">
<P>Humbly pray, that our Lord Generall the Earl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Denbigh,</HI> by who&s;e fidelity, valor and wi&s;dom, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> are experimentally confident under God, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> mi&s;eries may be prevented, and grievances redre&s;&s;ed, may not as heretofore to the enemies great advan|tage and our long &s;uffrings by particular indeavors, without generall Concurrences be retarded, but with all nece&s;&s;aries and &s;utable conveniences, &s;pee|dily accommodated and di&s;patched away to our re|lief, before our Countrey be quite over-run, and drai|ned of the wealth and &s;trength thereof by the enemy; and we &s;hall with his Lord&s;hip willingly adventure our lives and fortunes in this great cau&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><HI>And &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.</HI>
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<P><HI>This Petition was likewi&s;e well accepted, and is com|mitted to the &s;ame Committee of Lords and Commons.</HI></P>
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