❧ To the Right Honourable the House of Peers assembled in Parliament.  
The humble Petition of the knights, Gentlemen, Ministers, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Kent.  
Showeth,  
THat the Petitioners do with Joy and humble thankfulness acknowledge the good Correspondency and Concurrence, which (by the blessing of God) this Honourable House hath held with the Worthy House of Commons, in passing the Bill to take away the Votes of the Prelates in this Honourable House, and disabling them from temporal employments; And for setting the Kingdom into a Posture of war for its defence.  
And the Petitioners do in like manner most humbly and heartily profess. That they will ever honour this Honourable House, and to the utmost of their power defend the same, so far as your Lordships shall continue to hold Correspondence and Concurrence with the said House of Commons in all their just desires and endeavours. Upon which the Petitioners do humbly conceive, greatly dependeth the Peace and Welfare of this Kingdom.  
And the Petitioners most humbly pray, That this Honourable House (declaring therein your Noble Resolutions for the public good) would be pleased to go on with the said House of Commons, to a through Reformation, especially of the Church, according to the Word of God; To press dispatch for the aid of Ireland; To expedite proceedings against Delinquents; To Vindicate Parliament privileges; To discover, remove, and punish evil councillors; To deprive the Popish Lords of their Votes; To difarm and search out Papists, and put them into safe custody; To suppress mass, both in public and private; To cast out scandalous Ministers, plant painful Preachers everywhere; And discover who are Church Papists, as well as known Recusants,  
And the Petitioners shall daily pray, &c.  
This is the perfect Copy which was presented to the House of Peers on the eighth of this instant February.   

London, Printed for to Joseph Hunsco●t. 1641.