To the honourable Assembly of the Commons House of Parliament.  
The humble Petition of all and every the Inhabitants of the Town of old Braintford in the County of Middlesex.  
Shows,  
THat it is too manifest to the world, how that your Petitioners on the 12 and 13 days of this present Month, were plundered and bereft of their several and particular estates, as Money, Plate, Householdstuff of all sorts, and other necessaries of what condition soever, by His Majesty's forces, then happening amongst them, The grief whereof is more piercing unto them, than your Petitioners are able to express.  
The consideration of whose loss amounting to near 4000, as by particulars may appear, together with the miserable and sad condition they are brought unto, your Petitioners humbly leave to the consideration and wisdom of this honourable Assembly.  
Humbly craving some speedy course may be thought of and taken, for the relief of your Petitioners in this their great distress by such ways and means as in your great and grave wisdoms shall be thought meet,  
And they shall ever pray, etc.   

Die Sabbathi, 26. Novemb. 1642.  
IT is this day ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That the Ministers of Middlesex, and or those Parishes that are partly Middlesex, and partly of London, do the next Fast day read in their several Parish Churches the Relation of the sufferings of the Inhabitants of old Braintford on the twelfth and thirteenth of this month by his Majesty's Forces, and that they do excite the people to a compassionate consideration of them, and that whatsoever shall be collected upon the next Fast day within the Parishes aforesaid, may be employed for the relief of the Inhabitants of old Braintford aforesaid, and of such of new Braintford as have been plundered and ruined by the Forces aforesaid.  
Hen Elsinge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.   

24 Novemb. 1642.  
ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament, That this Relation, concerning the Passages of the King's Army at Old- Brainceford, be forthwith Printed and Published; And further, That no Person, upon any pretence whatsoever, shall presume to Print the same Passages but Edward Husbands and John Frank, until the 25 of December next ensuing the date hereof.  
H. Elsing, Cler. Parl Dom. Com.