SEVERAL PETITIONS Presented to the Honourable Houses of PARLIAMENT now ASSEMBLED.  
1 The humble Petition of many thousands of Courtiers, Citizens, Gentlemen, and Tradesman's wives, inhabiting within the Cities of London and West-minster, concerning the staying of the Queen's intended voyage into Holland; with many serious causes and weighty reasons, (which they desire) may induce the honourable House to detain her Majesty.  
Presented and read in the House by the Lord Mandevill, the tenth of February, 1641.  
2. An other of the Gentry, Ministers, and Communality of Cleveland in the County of York, subscribed to by 1400 of the best rank and quality.  
3. The humble Petition of the Gentlemen, and other Inhabitants in the County of CORNWALL.  
London, Printed by a true Copy for john Wright. 1641.   

SEVERAL PETITIONS Presented to the Honourable Houses of Parliament now Assembled. The humble Petition of many thousands of Courtiers, Citizens, Gentlemen, and Tradesman's wives, inhabiting within the Cities of London and Westminster, etc.  
Humbly Sheweth,  
THat your Petitioners, their husbands, their children, and their families, amounting to many thousand souls have lived in plentiful and good fashion, by the exercise of several Trades and venting of divers works: for learning whereof, many of them have served Apprenticeships, others taken houses and shops both in the City and Suburbs, and also in the Exchanges at very great rents: all depending wholly for the sail of their Commodities, (which is the maintenance and very existence and being of themselves, their husbands, and families) upon the splendour and glory of the English Court and principally upon that of the Queen's Majesty; by occasion of whose Royal presence we have hitherto had ready utterance for our Commodities and were thereby enabled to pay our rents, and live in good repute: but upon late notice that her Majesty is resolved instantly to departed the Kingdom, we cannot but thereby foresee an utter cessation and decay of all our trading, so shall we become utterly disabled to pay our rents, support ourselves, or our families; and can apprehend nothing but distraction, penury, and ruin: or that our eminent and inevitable necessities will produce some violent effect. And your Petitioners have cause to fear that this sudden resolution in her Majesty is occasioned by some just distaste taken at divers unusual and tumultuous assemblies, to the affright of her Royal Person, and at the unpunished printing of many licentious and scandalous Pamphelets; some covertly, some plainly, wounding her sacred Majesty in the opinion of the vulgar, as an Abettor or Counsellor of such designs, which are pretended to disturb the peaceable government both of this Kidgdome and Ireland; whereas your Petitioners are confident she was not only a solicitous mediator for the assembling of this gracious Parliament, but that since Her coming into this Kingdom she never did ill office to any particular Subject, but hath oft been an instrument of many Acts of mercy and grace, to multitudes of distressed people.  
And your Petitioners likewise considering the great happiness brought to this Nation in her Princely Issue, of which native comfort this Nation hath been barren now almost a hundred years; are the more encouraged,  
Humbly to pray, That this Honourable Assembly would give some speedy assurance to her Majesty, that the Authors and Instigators of such seditious tumults and scandals, shall be strictly enquired after, and punished; and that she may receive such public vindication by Parliament, against all such calumners of her sacred Majesty; and give her that due honour and reverence we are sure she merits, and join with us in Petition for her continual residence amongst us: whereby she receiving full assurance of the love and fidelity of her Subjects in this Kingdom; your Petitioners may with some comfort redress themselves to her Majesty's compassion of her affectionate people, humbly to pray her stay.  
So shall they have cause to pray for your Honour's prosperity in all your actions: And ever remain the true and faithful Protestants to the Church of England, till death.   

To the Right HONOURABLE THE LORDS Assembled in Parliament, The humble Petition of the Gentry, Ministry, and Commonalty of Cleveland, in the County of YORK:  
WHereas we know no other means under God, to divert the just Judgements which he hath executed against the Church of the Laodiceans, for the lukewarmeness in Rebellion, or against the Church of Thyatira, for keeping Seducers, nor to prevent our eminent dangers, but by a most necessary and speedy executing of the Laws of God and the King. We do therefore desire to certify, that we are resolved to live and die in the Faith of the Protestant Religion; (knowing no other means of Salvation) and that we will defend it with our Lives and Goods, which that we may with our abilities, be encouraged in performing.  
We humbly above all things desire, that we may be secured, a happy Reformation aforded, and the Laws of God and the King without favour or delay, justly put in execution against Papists.   

To the most Honourable and high Court of Parliament. The humble Petition of the Gentlemen, and other of the Inhabitants of the County of Cornuwall.  
HAving seen and heard the many (though scarce divers) Petitions to this Honourable Assembly by the Inhabitants of divers Counties and Cities of this Land, as also Corporations, Companies, and Trades, some against Bishops, some against the Common prayer, and all against such judicial and things super-elementary to the Region of their capacity of judging, and matters only belonging to the Judicature of this grave Synot, which seems either to distrust, or direct, or both, your great wisdoms; We therefore the Gentlemen and other the Inhabitants of Cornwall, with as many hearts, though not hands, with as wany good wills, though not persons, not in imitation, but rather by provocation, and necessity in these times, to show our good minded affections, do humbly prostrate the utmost of our service to your feet. In which (or rather after which) we take leave humbly to beg.  
That you will be pleased to bend your auxiliary and good affections to the redress of the distress of the misertble Protestants in Ireland. To gain whose good, prosperity, peace, and tranquillity, to perserve the Sovereignty of that Land to our Royal King, and to maintain his and this Kingdom's honour, We shall willingly lay down our lives and fortunes.  
That you will be pleased to continue your great respect, dutiful love, and true obedience to our Royal Sovereign, by maintaining his just, and no way antelegall Prerogative.  
That you will be pleased to put the Laws in due execution against all Jesuits, Seminaries, Papists and Recusants.  
That you will be pleased to look upon the otherside, and duly weighing the actions (or rather factious) of some, (whom most men call Citizens) to scourge their irregular and disorderly schism and heretical Sects, into tied paths of serving God, to frequent his House, and to pray as well as hear, to allow order, and obey conformity, to reverence learning, and bow to authority, to be under a discipline, and live in order.  
That you will be pleased to maintain and establish the ancient fundamental and most venerable Laws, order and discipline, both of our Church and Commonwealth, to continue the revenceed Office, and punish the offending persons of Bishops, to have in high account, and eternize as fare as in you lies) the Divine and excellent form of Common prayer, to correct brain forged doctrine, by your exemplary precepts strike a reverence of God's House into every man's breast.  
That you will be pleased to intimate to the people your honourable and wise intentions concerning Divine Service, lest while you hold your peace, some rejecting it in part, others altogether, they vainly conceive you countenance them.  
Lastly, (not to trouble your great affairs any longer) That you will be pleased to take into your sage consideration, those scandalous and ill affected Pamphlets, which fly abroad in such swarms, as are able to cloud the pure air of truth, and present a dark ignorance to those who have not the two wings of Justice and knowledge to fly above them.  
Now to polish this our work with a smooth demonstration of our modest intents, that the tinctures which in introduction fell on the forementioned presents, may slide without a stain from this; We do in all humility declare, that neither distrust of your intentions, nor opinion of any of our counsels worthy your ears ever tainted our thoughts, but that we have still been and are confident, that this most wise Synod hath ever thought fit, resolved and will confirm into action, what we now humbly request, therefore this our present, not so much a Petition as a prayer of willing and thankful hearts for the hoped sequel, is only to show our true intentions and goodwill towards his gracious Majesty, and this high Court, as Instruments of the peace of our souls and bodies, for which we are unanimously and immutably resolved to spend our dearest blood.  
Published by I. B. Gent.  
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