TO THE MOST honourable And high Court of Parliament.  
The humble Petition of the Gentlemen, and other of the Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall.  
HAving seen and heard the many (though scarce divers) Petitions to this Honourable Assembly by the Inhabitants of divers, Counties and Cities of this Land, as also Corporations, Companies, and Trades, some against Bishops, some against the Common Prayer, and all against such judicial, and things super-elementary to the Region of their capacity of judging, and matters only belonging to the judicature of this grave Synod, which seems either to distrust, or direct, or both, your great wisdoms; We therefore the Gentlemen and other the Inhabitants of Cornwall, with as many hearts, though not hands, with as many good wills, though not persons, not in imitation, but rather by provocation and necessity, in these times, to show our good minded affections, do humbly prostrate the utmost of our service to your feet. In which (or rather after which) we take leave humbly to beg,  
That you will be pleased to bend your auxiliary and good affections to the redress of the distress of the miserable Protestants in Ireland. To gain whose good, prosperity, peace, and tranquillity, to preserve the sovereignty of that Land to our royal King, and to maintain his and this kingdom's honour, We shall willingly lay down our lives and fortunes.  
That you will be pleased to continue your great respect, dutiful love, and true obedience, to our royal sovereign, by maintaining his just, and no way antilegall Prerogative.  
That you will be pleased to put the laws in due execution against all Jesuites, Seminaries, Papists and Recusants.  
That you will be pleased to look upon the other side, and duly weighing the actions (or rather factions) of some, (whom most men call Citizens) to scourge their irregular and disorderly schism and heretical Sects, into right paths of serving God, to frequent his House, and to pray as well as hear, to allow order, and obey conformity, to reverence Learning, and bow to Authority, to be under a discipline, and live in order.  
That you will be pleased to maintain and establish the ancient fundamental and most venerable laws, Order and Discipline, both of our Church and commonwealth, to continue the reverenced Office, and punish the offending persons of Bishops, to have in high account, and eternize (as far as in you lies) the Divine and excellent form of commonprayer, to correct brain-forged doctrine, by your exemplary precepts strike a reverence of God's House into every man's breast.  
That you will be pleased to intimate to the people your honourable and wise intentions concerning Divine Service, lest while you hold your peace, some rejecting it in part, others altogether, they vainly conceive you countenance them.  
Lastly, (not to trouble your great affairs any longer) That you will be pleased to take into your sage consideration, those scandalous and ill-affected Pamphlets, which fly abroad in such swarms, as are able to cloud the pure air of truth, and present a dark ignorance to those who have not the two wings of justice and knowledge to fly above them.  
Now to polish this our work with a smooth demonstration of our modest intents, that the tinctures which in introduction fell on the fore-mentioned presents may slide without a stain from this; We do in all humility declare, that neither distrust of your intentions, nor opinion of any of our counsels worthy your ears ever tainted our thoughts, but that we have still been, and are confident, that this most wise Synod hath ever thought fit, resolved, and will confirm into action, what we now humbly request, therefore this our present, not so much a Petition, as a prayer of willing and thankful hearts for the hoped sequel, is only to show our true intentions and good will towards his gracious majesty, and this high Court, as Instruments of the peace of our souls and bodies, for which we are unanimously, and immutably resolved to spend our dearest blood.  Published by I.B. Gent.