TO THE RIGHT worshipful The Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Company of GROCERS.  
The Humble Petition of Major Salloway.  
Showeth,  
THat being smoked out of the Parliament, and sent to their warehouse, the Tower, he hath looked about him and bethought himself, how if in Lieu of his being their Tenant at will and pleasure, they had made him Lieutenant of the place; he might like Baxter to the goldsmiths been a great Honour and Ornament to your Company: He ●ell remembreth himself, to have once been of your Cunning Profession, but that it is no more ●hen a Puny Craft to the Grand mystery of a Senator, and that the devil ought not to be longer ●…aited with a GROCER. He applies himself therefore to your Worships, Beseeching your ●rotherly Intercession for him to the Parliament, and presumes to advise you of the words where●ith he stands Charged, and which he Humbly Requests you to Extenuate: First that he cared ●ot a FIG for the Parliament; That they were sweetly Dissolved in the Armies Tears like a●y Sugar; That a Retail Safety Committee Man, was better than a Tail Parliament Mem●er; That he your Petitioner was too Sweet-sented for such a House; besides this he conjectures ●lso that the Parliament have taken Pepper in their Nose at his being Spiced with Sir Harry Vane's ●rinciples, by whom he was Garbled and made Net for the interest of John Lambert, when he ●hrew out the Refuse and the Tare.  
He therefore beseecheth you to mind the Parliament that he is a Frail-Man, & in such a year & ●●ch inconstant changeable weather, they must not expect Reasons for what he did, & that if he 〈◊〉 not Currant 'tis General monks fault, that engrossed all and spoilt the Market, and hath also trad●d into Spain for better things than Plums. And furthermore to hint to the Parliament his Submissive demeanour at his charge in the House; how Gingerly he sat, and how Tongue-bitten, how ●…e reverenced the Mace, so that he has great hopes he shall not be Bank-rumpt or Disseated, ●hough for a while he may be superseded, and in good time suspended. But if the worst come to the worst he hath a small stock to set up with at Queen-Hithe, which with your ●elping hand to a beginner may prove better than the stock he had from Sir Harry, and if all ●rades fail him (as he never doubted of that last) he is sure to have a Licence to sell stewed ●runes Excise Free.  
In tender consideration therefore of these premises, May it please this worshipful Society, effectually to Address themselves to, and Mediate with the Parliament that they would be pleased to put into the Scale his present Heaviness, and balance their Anger with his former Merits, and rebate pro Parliament rato, that's 60. for 500 considering what a bad Bargain he hath made, and how bad the Times are, that have more need of a Committee of Insurance than Safety: always remembering that good City Adage, To do as they would be done by; no man knowing whose Turn may be next, according as your learned Clerk Mr. Bunbury hath it in his Suburb-Exercises upon Ganymede.  
And your Petitioner, &c.   

Printed for Henry James.