To the Honourable the COMMONS of ENGLAND in Parliament Assembled.  
The Second Humble Petition of Abel Carew an Excluded Doorkeeper from this Honourable House, with a True Account of the Cause of the present Sergeants Acting against your Petitioner. Also a Description of the Serjeant's Power in reference to any Place belonging to this House:  
Humbly showeth, 
 THAT whereas your Petitioner lately Petitioned your Honours, setting forth the Cause of his being Secluded the last Parliament by Sergeant Shoreditch of his wearing the Ribbon at Oxford with this Motto, No Slavery, No Popery. Your said Petitioner further sets forth, That as he was the last Parliament taken into Custody for speaking some Words of an Alteration against Popery in Seven Years time, he has sufficient cause to believe, that the whole House was at that time acquainted of him; for it happened within a day or two after he was discharged: When the House was up, he went in to see what it was of the Clock by the Dial; there remained some of the Members behind, who took notice of him; and one of them asked your Petitioner, What he did there? and bid him be gone, Saying, That he was one that wished for the time to wear the Ribbon again. Thus your Petitioner, through much difficulty, by the Intercession of a Friend, obtained his Liberty from a Prison, with paying of Fees. And Sergeant Topham being now restored to his Place, your said Petitioner agreeing to the Authority of this House against Popery, and expecting for the said Sergeant to do likewise, he was willing to humble himself to the said Sergeant in any manner that your Honours should require of him: But the said Sergeant having thwarted the Authority of the Members, in not admitting your Petitioner to his said Place; therefore your said Petitioner further sets forth, That the Cause of the said Sergeants acting against your Petitioner, and of his being offended at him, in keeping him out of his said Doorkeepers Place, doth arise upon some old Grudge: Ever since he did belong to this House, he has endeavoured to undermine, and to sell your Petitioner out of his said Doorkeepers Place for 20 or 30 l. And accordingly in the late King Charles' time, he was pleased to tell your Petitioner, he was offered so much for it; and within a a short time after he turned your Petitioner out, and was then Restored by some of the worthy Members of the House; but was first told by one of the Worthy Members, that the Sergeant said, That he should ask pardon; whereas your Petitioner is Conscious of no Crime that he had committed against him; and the said Sergeant having no objections against him, he was then restored without ask Pardon, and without paying any Money for it. But it may be objected, That the Sergeant is a Patent Officer, and so he has a Power to Depute Servants under him. For Answer, He has no Patent to act unjustly, and to twhart the Authority of any of the Members of this House against Popery; and your Petitioner being thankful to those Worthy Members, who have spoken to the Sergeant in his behalf; and the said Sergeant pretends to some of them, that he shall have share of the Profits, which is nothing at all; and that he pretends that he offered your Petitioner a Messengers Place, which your Petitioner is not capable of; and this is only with a design to exclude your Petitioner for ever from his said Doorkeepers Place; and so to make him his Bondslave, and to turn your Petitioner out at his pleasure: And he makes an Objection concerning Letters, which was occasioned about Six or Seven years ago, upon the said Sergeants receiving some Money out of the Exchequer for the Under-Servants belonging to this House, which was never paid to any other Sergeant before this; for the Under-Servants did formerly use to receive it themselves, (as the Doorkeepers to the House of Lords, the Usher of the Black Rod did never concern himself with their Money that they received out of the Exchequer) but this Sergeant has endeavoured to engross that Money to himself; and accordingly he kept back part of your Petitioners Money, and threatened to turn him out of his Place; thereupon he sent a Letter to the said Sergeant at Windsor for his Money, who sent him an answer by his Son, wherein he doth seem to question your Petitioners due, and yet acknowledges the Debt: But your Petitioner having confuted him in that Letter, and so fully convinced him of his due, that he sent another Letter by his Son of what time he would be at London, within some time after he paid him half a Guinea in part, though it was in a great rage and storm: But when the said Sergeant came to Town again, your Petitioner went to demand the rest of his Money; thereupon he stormed at your Petitioner, and said, that it was not his due, and that he would not pay it him; and after the said Sergeant received many Letters from your Petitioner, and would show him no Reason and Justice; so that at the last, as he was in Town, he stormed at your Petitioner and threatened to serve a Warrant upon him: Thereupon your said Petitioner replied, That he would save him that trouble, and go with him before any Magistrate without a Warrant; and if it was not his due, he would not have a Farthing of him; and so your said Petitioner went voluntarily with him without a Warrant, before Justice Dewcy, who forthwith ordered the said Sergeant to pay him the rest of his Mony. And thus your Petitioner recovered his due: And by the payment thereof, (as your Petitioner is able to make manifest by Letters) the said Sergeant doth acknowledge the said Inward Doorkeepers Place to be your Petitioners Right, and his due, by the Authority and Command of any Member of this House, who is pleased to give it him, as being above the power of the Sergeant; though the said Sergeant, by his Arbitrary Power, has denied divers of the Members, and doth still keep your Petitioner out of his said Place; and though the Sergeant is trusted with a Power to depute in case of a Vacancy, yet as he is a Servant himself, it is all in reference to the Service of this House; and so they are all Servants under the command of all your Honours, according to the Example of other old Servants, and of Mr. Cooper, who was Outward Doorkeeper to this House about 40 years, till he died; and so was continued in by the Authority of the Members against any Sergeant at Arms that opposed him; and according to the Example of a Sergeant at Arms, (within the memory of your Petitioner) who disobeyed the Order of the House; thereupon the House turned him out, and sent for another Sergeant; yet notwithstanding the Doorkeepers continued in their Places; and if they were his Servants, than they were dismissed too; but they were Servants to the House; and so they were mentioned in the Resolves of the House for Collections to pay the Under-Servants attending the Service of this House; and by a former Resolve of the House, as in the year 1671. for them to be recommended to his Majesty to give order for a Recompense and Satisfaction of the said Servants attending the Service of this House. And your Petitioner doth remember, that in the late King Charles' time, when the said Sergeant threatened to turn him out; your said Petitioner told the said Sergeant, That he was a servant to the House of Commons; thereupon the said Sergeant threatened to break your Petitioners Head, if he told him so again, saying, That he was the King's Sergeant at Arms; but, by the Sergeants Favour, as he is the King's Sergeant at Arms, so he is the King's Servant; and as he is the King's Servant, so he is constituted by the King to attend the Service of this House. But your Petitioner has sufficient cause to believe, that the said Sergeant at Arms would Assume a Regal Power to himself. And now your Petitioner may say, that it is an undeniable Argument by the Sergeants denying divers of the Worthy Members for your Petitioner to be admitted to his said Place, who has been a Sufferer for speaking against Popery, that the said Sergeant doth look upon his Old Grudge; that it ought to take place before Loyalty, or it ought to extirpate Loyalty, or any part of Loyalty to his Present Majesty; yea, if it was in his power for lucre of gain, he would take any man into custody, that acts against Popery; for he has commanded your Petitioner to depart the Lobby, and laid hold on him to turn him out by Violence, when he has given him no provocation; and has told him that the Doorkeepers Place is no Place for him, who doth agree to the Authority of all your Honours against Popery. And thus the said Sergeant stands brazening and confronting the Authority of your Honours in your Loyalty to the Kings most excellent Majesty, who is Defender of the Faith against Popery and Arbitrary Government. And the said Sergeant may consider, that though he frowns upon your Petitioner, yet the Times do smile upon him: But the said Door being still kept by the same Man that was put in the last Parliament by Sergeant Shoreditch, who turned your Petitioner out for being against Popery. And thus all the Places belonging to this House being under the Authority and Jurisdiction of all your Honours;  
Therefore your Petitioner doth further humbly pray for the Consideration of this Honourable House, That as it was his Father's Place before him, so he hopes that as consistent to the Benevolence of this House in point of Charity, and his suffering upon the account of Popery, as concurrent to the Authority of this House against Popery or Arbitrary Government, will be Arguments to prevail with all your Honours to reconcile the said Sergeant to him, so that he may be restored to his said Doorkeepers Place.  
And your Petitioner shall Pray, etc.