TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR, THE RIGHT worshipful THE ALDERMEN AND COMMONS Of the City of LONDON in COMMON council Assembled.  
The Humble PETITION of divers well affected CITIZENS and freemen of LONDON, under the Jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor.  
Showeth:  
THat the great care and uncessant pains of this Honourable Court, for promoting the Cause of God is so eminently known, that your Petitioner● conceive they shall be too much wanting to their own duty, and safety, if they should be backward in the thankful acknowledgement thereo● Wherefore, as they give You many humble and hearty thanks for what You have already done in reference to the public Good, so being desirous, what in them lies, yet farther to strengthen your hands to so glorious a work, they cannot but let You know their Resolutions to adhere unto you in all your just and legal proceedings: Not doubting 〈◊〉 the same good hand of God that hath hitherto been with You, will still be upo● You for good, while you endeavour in ●our places the establishment of Truth and Peace, and the removal of those pressing Grievances that lie upon us, as you have lately done in that free and necess●rie, yet Humble and dutiful Remonstrance and Petition to the Honourable Houses of Parliament. And however there want not those for the present, who out of self-respects calumniate your good intentions therein, yet being persuaded that in very faithfulness to the public You have done it; Your Petitioners not only approve of it, but rejoice in it, the rather, since they know no other orderly way for obtaining remedy for their common Grievances, then by your addresses to the Parliament in their behalf.  
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, That this Honourable Court would be pleased still to persevere, and courageously to go on in and by all pious and prudent means, endeavouring the speed●e settlement of Religion, the Peace of the Kingdom, the Union of both Nations, the safety and welfare of this City, and in a word, the performance of that Covenant wherein we are solem●ly engaged to God the Righteous judge of all the world. In reference to all which go●d e●ds, Your Petitioners further pray, Tha● you would still continue your Humble addresses to the Parliament, not only ●or a gracious Answer to your said late Remonstrance, b●t for all such other things as shall necessarily conduce to putting an happy period to our present miserable 〈◊〉; And that in the m●a● tim● you would put in execution, among yourselves, so many branches thereof as the Power wherewith (by the Laws of this Kingdom, you are already invested, will extend unto.  
And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.