To the Honourable the COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.  
The humble Petition of the Reduced Officers and soldiers entrusted on the behalf of the subscribers of a late Petition presented to this Honourable House.  
Showeth,  
THat their deep sense of those uncessant and endless clamours that did attend your Honours, the extreme penury and thraldom of their fellow Officers and soldiers, and your honour's willingness to remove the same (Expressed by your several Notes and Orders) encouraged them to contrive such a way for their present subsistence, and future satisfaction, as they humbly conceived might be most effectual to those ends, and least prejudicial or obstructive to the grand affairs of this kingdom, which being referred to a select Committee, was after several debates approved on, than the particular heads twice read in this Honourable House, first Committed and at last past, and ordered that an Ordinance should be brought in, in pursuance thereof, which respective considerations has invited your Petitioners, to an Elaborate and expensive attendance, wherein, if they shall be longer delayed they must inevitably be ruined and the rest perish, And left their silence might argue a guilt, they have thought fit to take notice of some un-merited prejudices, that are thrown upon them by converting the prosecution of their honest intention, into a dishonest and destructive design, wherein they presume the said Committee will give sufficient Testimony of their Candid affections, and constant honour to this House, expressed by their Civilityes in all their Addresses to them.  
The premises your Petitioners humbly submit to your honour's consideration and therefore pray 
 That you would no longer prerogue the passing of the Ordinance, now before you, so as by virtue thereof, there may be an evident assurance to gain the present advance of the hundred thousand pounds already voted to make up the three months full pay, those endurance released and all protected, for prevention of those cruel and unheard-of miseries that will otherwise of necessity accrue to the said Petitioner , whose enforced cries and unpitied sufferings . (for want of their so dearly-deserved salary ) cannot but attract some heavy judgements from the God of Justice on this whole Nation which we dread to think on, it being in no human power, but yours to divert and whereby you will perpetuate your former engagements on them which is the hearty Prayers of  
James Mydhope, Richard Sandys, Edward Aldrich, Walter Bosvill, Edward Freeman, John White, William Tovey, John Fincher,