To the right Honourable the House of Commons, assembled in Parliament.  
The humble petition of Thomas Man, Humphrey Lownes, Clement Knight, Thomas Daniel, Thomas Purfoot, William Jaggard, John Beale, Nicolas Bourne, William jents, Simon Stafford, William Lugger, John Dawson, Nathaniel Newberry, john Trundle, Henry Gosson, George Norton, john Speed, George Humble, John Tappe, Christofer Purset, John Wright, ●u●hbert Wright, George Latham, john Mariott, john Grisman, Thomas Langly, John White, Philip Birch, George Lowe, Richard Sharsakers, Laurence Dudley, with many others.  
Whereas Roger Ward and Thomas Simcocke, for the benefit of Marine Boisloret (a Frenchman) have of late obtained from the Kings most excellent Majesty under the great Seal of England, a Privilege to imprint, utter, & sell, all and all manner of Briefs of Letters Patents for losses by fire or water, all Indentures for Apprentices, all indentures for Waterworkes, all bonds and Recognizances, all licenses to gather by, licenses to marry, licenses for Victuallers, all acquittances, all articles for visitations of Bishops and Officials, all bills for teaching scholars, bills for Physicians, and all play-billes, all passports, Charts, Epitaphs, portraitures and pictures whatsoever, and all other things printed, and hereafter to be printed vp●n oneside only of a sheet or sheets of paper, or a skin or skins of parchment, as mort at large by the said grant may appear.  
Now may it please this Honourable Assembly to be informed, That the Petitioners respectively have ever had the free use of printing these things, from the first times the same were imprinted, until the seventeenth year of his Majesty's happy Reign. And if the benefit thereof be taken from the petitioners, it will not only be a great hindrance unto them who have been brought up in this Art, and maintained themselves and their several families thereby, But also to all other his Majesty's loving subjects that have occasion to use any of the things mentioned in the said Letters Patents.  
The humble suit of the Petitioners is, that this Honourable Assembly will take such order, that the Petitioners may have free liberty to imprint the premises, as formerly they have done, before the said Letters Patents were granted,  
And they shall ever pray, etc.