The Humble PETITION AND Representation of many Inhabitants of the County of BUCKINGHAM, Concerning The late Votes passed, touching no farther Address to the KING, Presented to the Honourable House of Commons, March the Ninth, 1647.  
WITH And Order of the Commons assembled in Parliament, in approbation of the said Petition.  

ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That this Petition with the Order be forthwith Printed and Published.  
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London, Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the honourable House of Commons. March 15. 1647.   

To the honourable, the House of Commons assembled in Parliament: The humble Petition and Representation of many of the Inhabitants of the County of Buckingham,  
SHEWETH,  
THat the many Glorious Victories and successses wherewith God hath crwoned your faithful endeavours for the good of this Kingdom, being so clear a manifestation of his wisdom, power and care, against the fraud and force of all your enemies: Your Petitioners should justly incur the Censure of perpetual Infamy, if they should now requited your unwearied pains with Ingratitude and Dissertion: And having with joy observed your Resolution to go on in your honourable endeavours for the public benefit of this Kingdom, by your late Proceedings in taking away the heavy burden of Free-quarter, reducing your Forces, and settling your ever faithful Army( whom your Petitioners cannot mention without thankfulness, for that measure of Freedom they enjoy through their fidelity and valor) in such a condition of charge, as the public safety may admit. And in your late Votes & Declaration concerning the King( after his rejecting so many Applications) having so fully cleared yourselves, as may stop the mouth of Envy and Malignity itself for ever.  
Your Petitioners therefore in Testimony of their Duty and Cordial affection, do humbly tender their hearty thanks for all your care and pains in the preservation of their Interests against the strongest opposition of Malignants and Apostates you have met with; and do humbly Represent unto your Honors their faithful Resolutions, by Gods assistance, to adhere unto, and stand by you in the further prosecution therof against all opposers: and do humbly desire that you will proceed to a speedy settling of the civil Government, in such a way as may most conduce to the freedom and happiness of this Nation: To put forth your power for the promotion of Religion, according to the word of God: To give due encouragement to all godly and able Ministers, and to cast out such as are scandalous and unfit for the work of the ministry: To be tender of the Consciences of such whose conversations are as becometh the Gospel of Christ; To consider seriously of the deplorable condition of their Brethren in Ireland, and to sand them such seasonable relief and aid, that the streams of their blood may be dried up, and those Barbarous blood-thirsty Rebels rewarded according to the measure of their cruelties: To take care for your secure sitting against outward force and violence, and to punish the Authors, Printers, and Publishers of all wicked and scandalous Pamphlets, who privily instill into the breasts of many, a sinister conceit, and misinterpretation of all your noble actions and undertakings, and endeavour to blast the Loyal affections of all that faithfully adhere unto you: To take care for the easing of those Counties, as pay beyond their proportion of Taxes with others, and to go on with courage still to redress what ever else shall be found to be a grievance to this Nation. So shall the Lord of Hosts go before you, and make plain all mountains that shall obstruct your way, and give you Honor and answerable success in your further undertakings. And your Petitioners and many others seeing the further accomplishment of their desires, shall the more cheerfully proceed to hazard their lives and Fortunes in your assistance;  
And shall ever pray, &c.   

Die Jovis, 9. Martii, 1647.  
THe House being informed that divers gentlemen of the County of Buckingham were at the door, desiring to prefer a Petition to this House, They were called in, and Mr. Egleton, with divers others did prefer a Petition, entitled, The humble Petition & Representation of many of the Inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, the which was red and it is ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That Mr. Speaker, by the Command of this House, do take notice of their former and still continued Constant, Faithful, and good Services and Affections to the Parliament, and that he return them the very hearty thanks of this House for the same; and acquaint them, That this House hath Ordered their Petition to be Printed, to the end their early and continued good affections may be publicly taken notice of to their Honor and the furter satisfaction and encouragement of others: And that the house hath appointed to take their Petition into consideration in convenient time.  
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