The true Copy of a PETITION, DELIVERED To the Right honourable the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in common-council assembled, on Tuesday the 23 of June, 1646.  
To the Right Honourable the Lord MAJOR, 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 Major.  
Showeth,  
THat the great care and uncessant pains of this Honourable Court, for promoting the Cause of God, is so eminently known, that your Petitioners conceive they shall be too much wanting to their own duty and safety, if they should be backward in the thankful acknowledgement thereof; 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 further 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 but the same good hand of God that hath hitherto been with You, will be still upon You for good, while You endeavour in your 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 Necessary, 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 go on in and by all Pious and Prudent means, endeavouring the speedy 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 solemnly engaged to God the Righteous Judge of all the World. In reference to all which good ends, Your Petitioners further pray, That you would still continue your humble Addresses to the Parliament, not only for a gracious Answer to your said late Remonstrance, but for all such other things as shall necessarily conduce to putting an happy period to our present miserable Distractions: And that in the mean time you would put in execution among yourselves so many branches there●f, as the Power wherewith (by the Laws of this Kingdom) you are already invested, will extend unto.  
And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.   

THis Petition was subscribed by many Thousands, all of them Citizens of the best rank and quality, Freemen and Inhabitants within the Jurisdiction of the Lord Major, and presented by many grave and eminent Persons of worth and quality, in the Names of themselves and all the rest of the Subscribers.  
Further, they did declare the reason wherefore they did present the said Petition, because they did perceive by divers scandalous Pamphlets, published and set forth (by some who are no friends to Peace, Truth, and Government) wherein it is declared that the late Remonstrance and Petition presented to the Honourable Houses of Parliament by the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, was not the Act of the City, but of some few of the common-council. To prevent which gross untruth, the said Citizens did present this Petition thus subscribed, to show their concurrence with, and approbation of so good a Work; and likewise to manifest their good affections and earnest desires of a well grounded Peace, and of a settled Government in Church and commonwealth; and of using all good and lawful means for the removal of those pressing Grievances that so heavily are upon them. As also to express their utter dislike to the proceedings of those who have replied against the said Remonstrance.   

London, Printed by Richard Cotes, Printer to the honourable City of London, 1646.