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CP ICH DIENE  To The honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled. The humble petition of the Gentry, Clergy, and others Inhabitants, subscribed of the Counties of Flint, Denbigh, Mountgomery, Carnarvan, Anglesey, Merioneth, being the six Shires of North-wales. As it was presented this present March the 5th. 1641. Accompanied with thirty thousand hands.  
WHereas the present condition of the Church of England (in the public liturgy thereof in the ancient liberties and form of government as they do now stand established by law) hath been lately brought in question, and manifold petitions from the several quarters of this kingdom and other such like addresses concerning the same have been presented to this Honourable house.  
We his majesty's faithful Subjects in the Principalities and Counties of North-Wales whom it equally concerneth, and as strongly tied in duty and conscience, do likewise presume to make our humble Remonstrance, and we do it after a long silence and expectation joined with some fears.  
And first, for those things which concern the public service of God as they be of nearest importance, and we nothing doubt but you will take unto your tenderest thoughts, so we do earnestly propound and prostrate before you that dangerous consequence of Innovation in matters of so high concernment: as we conceive and leave it to your own great wisdoms to judge, what scruples and jealousies are like to arise, if we be taught a new and different way of serving God after a full persuasion of the lawfulness of that which is prescribed according to the word of God, not without the deliberate and concurrent approbation and Industry of the most learned of the Protestant Church of this and other Nations, and the possession of so many years in the practice thereof, and all since the blessed time of Reformation.  
The mere report hereof hath already produced no good effect, breeding in the minds of ill disposed persons Insolence and contempt, in others perplexity and grief, not knowing how to settle themselves, or form their obedience in such distractions and sometimes repugnancy of commands.  
Then for the outward policy and form of government, under the jurisdiction of Bishops, bounded by law and kept within their own limits.  
It is as we believe, that form which came into this Island with the first plantation of Religion here, and God so blessed this Island, that Religion came early in with the first dawning of the day very near or in the time of the Apostles themselves, And in the succession of all after ages the same hath been constantly maintained among us, and that without any eminent interruption or gainsaying even till these our days.  
And now from the comfortable experience which we feel and which our Fathers have told us of the conveniency and moderation of this government together with the antiquity of the same (a strong argument of God's special protection) we do in all humility represent and pray that the same may be still preserved entire in all the parts thereof, professing yet withal that we heartily disclaim all scandalous Innovation and Popish corruption whatsoever.  
And we are the more encouraged in this suit, because we find it to be the unanimous and undivided request and vote of this whole Country, who cannot without some trembling entertain a thought of change. In all which we do not presume to give any rules, but as it becomes us, humbly declare and open our own breasts, & labour to deliver our own souls in testimony of our Loyalties and discharge of our consciences, who shall ever take comfort to find the same way of honouring God, continued in his own House of prayer, the laws of the Land put to actual execution, the peace and government of the Church preserved, the rumoured alterations declined, and the distractions already too visible arising thereupon avoided.  
And as we doubt not but your great wisdoms will take care that our Doctrine, and Discipline established shall be still in force, and observed, until by some absolute Law, and the opinions of learned Convocations, or Synod (according to the custom of our prudent forefathers in best times) it be otherwise ordained.  
So shall we never cease to pray for a permanent blessing upon your counsels, and resolutions, to the general happiness of Church, and kingdom.   

London printed for. F. Couls and R. Phillips. 1641.