To the Parliament of the commonwealth of ENGLAND. The Humble Petition of many of the well-affected of the County of KENT,  
Showeth,  
THat though the Kings of the Earth have been unwilling that the Anointed Jesus should Reign: yet the observation of the outgoings of the most High in these latter days, causeth your Petitioners to believe that the day of the accomplishment of the Promises on the behalf of the Son of Righteousness is dawned, if not approached very near its Noon, who is weary always to behold the burdens on the Backs, the yokes on the Necks, & to hear the Groans & cries from the mouths of his People, wherefore he hath poured forth a Spirit which hath encountered and vanquished our open Oppressors, and poured contempt upon those who would be but partial deliverers, the Sun of whose power sat at Noon, because it ripened not the Desires and Petitions of God's People by a favourable influence, but suffered their Hopes to blast, after so many Promises and Protestations, and so much expense of Treasure and blood. The same God who hath pulled them down hath set you up; but not to rule for yourselves, but for the People of God; not to seek your own, but the honour of Christ; And we can do no less than hope and pray that the Spirit of the Lord may fall down upon you (and teach you to rule after the heart of Christ) to whom we make bold to make this humble address, not to interrupt your weighty Affairs, or misdoubting your wisdom and Faithfulness, But only to show how our hearts own you as our Parliament, and to confess we dare not neglect our assistance to the great work of the Lord, though it be but in being your Remembrancers of what you have proposed to us of your desires in your late Declaration, to the breaking of all our yokes, & removing all our burdens, at which our soul's joy. And to keep warm the Breathing of that Spirit, We humbly crave leave to spread before you one Grand burden, under which we have groaned till our hearts ache;  
Humbly desiring that tithes of all Sorts, Root and Branch, may be abolished, That that Jewish and Antichristian, Bondage and burden on the Estates and Consciences of the Godly may cease, And that we may not be ensnared with forced Maintenance, or any thing like it in the stead thereof.  
And your Petitioners shall own the Lord in you, and bless the Lord for you, and pray, hope and wait to see your hands stretched out for the Lord, till you shall help to tear the flesh of the Whore, and burn her with fire.  
This Petition being subscribed by above two thousand persons, whereof four were Justices of the Peace, and presented on Thursday the fourth of August, the Speaker returned the Petitioners this Gracious Answer;  
Gentlemen, I am commanded by the House to give you thanks for your good affections to the Parliament, That the business of your Petition is, and shall be, under Consideration, and that the House will do therein as the Lord shall direct them.   

London, Printed by Henry Hills, living at the sign of Sir John Old Castle in money-corner, MDCLIII.