TO THE LORDS AND COMMONS, CONTINUING AT WEST MINSTER,  
The humble Petition of the scholars Of the several Gramer-Schooles, in and about the City of LONDON.  
Showeth,  
THat your pretty Petitioners having heard of your admirable Vigilence and policy, in granting free leave to the Apprentices of this City for the public Good to run from their Masters, and to serve their time out under his Excellency, with whom they may have the honour to live and die; and that for the satisfaction of their friends, who foolishly expect that their said Children should be taught their Trades, whereby they might be hereafter enabled to live honestly in their several Vocations; Your wonderful Justice and Power hath ordained, that they shall lose no time in the expedition they have now undertaken, but that when his Excellency and the public good shall be able to defend one another, all evil Conncellours and the Malignant Party be devoured and eaten up, and his Majesty gotten into honest hands again; that the said apprentices shall (if they please) return to their several shops, and be made foremen and freemen, as if their Aprons had never been left off, with other notable privileges against their Masters and with their Mistresses, which your grave wisdoms for the encouragement of well affected persons have provided for them.  
Your Petitioners fall upon their knees before your almightiness, and desire that in this year of jubilee, when all manner of People are suffered to do what they please, and no Rules, laws, or Orders left to compel the freeborn Nation; they may not be left the only Subjects of this kingdom, but may be also at liberty to exercise their conscience, and suffered to do their weak endeavours against their sovereign for his good, under the command of his Excellency; not doubting but that they shall so learn the use of their Arms too, that they may be able to kill any man within two foot of the King's Majesty and never endanger him, against whom they desire not to be thought to bear the least ill will in the world. And that you will Declare and Vote, that after the short business in hand shall be performed; your hopeful Petitioners shall be as good scholars, as if they had continued at school, or in the university, and have the same privileges and Abilities to Preach and Teach, as those simple lazy people, who neglecting to join with you in making these present distractions, make no advantage of the wonderful things you have done, but in contempt of your Authority, live as if there were no Parliament, 
 And your Petitioners shall grow up and conform themselves to those Principles of necessary and wholesome Rebellion, which your grave wisdom shall Declare to be most agreeable to the fundamental laws of this kingdom.   

Printed in the year 1642.