TO THE HONOURABLE house OF COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT, The Humble Petition of the Ministers of the County of HERTFORD, Concerning CHURCH-GOVERNMENT.  
Humbly showeth,  
THat Your Petitioners having already received many happy fruits of your unwearied endeavours, for the reformation of the Church; which with all due thankfulness they acknowledge; do notwithstanding find that those fruits have not grown up to that maturity which they expected, for want (as they humbly conceive) of a settled government in the Church; but rather to the retarding of their hopes, there be such universal distractions raised in the minds of men, increasing, and multiplying daily, and posting to such confusion, as we had rather leave to your wisdoms to judge what the issues may be, then to represent them according to our fears,  
Wherefore Your Petitioners do most humbly supplicate this Honourable House, to apply Your wisdom and Providence to the preventing and cureing of these mischievous evils, by the speedy establishing of Church-Government amongst us.  
And Your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c. This Petition was the 31 of August, read in the Honourable House of Commons with very good approbation, and an Order made thereupon.   

Printed at London for I. W. in the old bailiff, 3. Sept. 1644.