A PETITION Presented unto the Honourable the House of Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT: the 15. of September, 1647.  
By divers well affencted Inhabitants of London, burrow of southwark and places Adjacent.  
For removing out of the House all persons who sate in the late pretended Parliament, and Voted for raising a new War, &c.  
When the true Parliament was driven away by Force.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year. 1647.   

TO The Honourable the Commons in PARLIAMENT Assembled.  
The humble Petition of divers well-affected Citizens of London and others,  
Sheweth,  
THat as it is impossible for any people to be safe and happy whilst their supreme council is mixed and composed of persons directly opposite to just and equal Government.  
Our late woeful experience doth sadly witness; even so do we at present despair of any effectual good from this honourable House, whilst usurpers of Parliamentary Authority, and men of tyrannous and treacherous dispositions remain therein.  
And it is very much to our grief, that any true member of Parliament should either sit with them, or permit them to Vote in the affairs of the Commonwealth, and we were hopeful the urgent importunity of the Army and other well-affected people, and the justness of their desires would before this time have prevailed to their utter expulsion, otherwise we had not been thus long wanting to justice and the safety of this Nation, but had speedily made known our desires therein to have been the same with theirs.  
But observing it to be stil deferred, and knowing all delays of this nature to be full of danger, and that God may justly give us up to their malice, if this opportunity given by him should be neglected, we are constrained to beseech you not to let pass this season of his goodness, nor to provoke him further by joining with those his Enemies( whom he hath put into your hands for Justice) but immediately declare all those to be culpable in the highest nature against the Freedom and Peace of this Nation, who having sate in the late pretended Parliament shall after this day presume to enter the doors of this House before they shal have given satisfaction concerning their sitting at Westminster during the absence of the Speaker, and shall have acquitted themselves by sufficient evidence that they did not procure or give their consent unto any of those pretended Votes, Orders and Ordinances tending to the raising or levying of War, or for the King coming forthwith to London; All other ways of purging the House being in our apprehension delatory and destructive: We also entreat you to consider whether it be not necessary to secure the persons of the more violent amongst them, there being great cause to fear that time will be wasted as formerly, as evil and destructive things will be effected, trading lost, burdens increased, Delinquents presume and New War contrived if this be any longer deferred.  
And therefore we most earnestly entreat you to take no other business into your Consideration until this be thoroughly and effectually done.  
And we shal pray, &c. This Petition being presented to the Honourable the House of Commons, on wednesday the 15 of September with much confidence to have an effectual Answer thereof, which will give much satisfaction to the whole kingdom.