THE TWO PETITIONS OF THE County of Buckingham: As they were presented to both Houses, by Knights, Esquires, Captaines, and Gentlemen, with a very great number of Freeholders, being the true Copy as it was presented to the Houses of PARLIAMENT, january 11. 1641.  
AS ALSO The humble Petition of the mariners and Sea-men, Inhabitants in and about the ports of London, and the River Thames.  
Together with The Petition of the four inns of COURT.  
Printed at London for F. coals, & T. Banks, 1641.   

The humble Petition of the Gentlemen of the four inns of Court, to the House of COMMONS.  
THat you will be pleased to reflect upon the Honourable service of God, to behold him in his Throne and dignity, that thereby the poor Protestants of this kingdom, between the two extremities of zeal, may not suffer a distraction in Religion.  
That you will be pleased to serve Gods anointed, his immediate Vice-gerent, our true and lawful sovereign Lord the King, in his person and all his regal dignities and lawful immunities, without any impeachment of his Regality, in whose honour the reputation of the three kingdoms depend.  
That you will be pleased to ratify and confirm all things, both concerning his Majesty and the state of this kingdom, as they were in those blessed daies of Qu Elizabeth, and K Iame●, that we may thereby live in these latter and turbulent times with as much peace to our consciences, with as much dignity to our Nation, in as true love and obedience to our lawful sovereign, and with as much liberty and liberality of our fortunes, as our fore-fathers heretofore have done.  
That you will not suffer learning to be defaced, nor discountenanced by the ignorant but rather that you will be pleased to advance it to its dignity, it being the main supporter of lawful obedience, of Order, civility, and regularity in all sorts.  
That you will be pleased to qualify the exorbitances of the Separatists and disorderly persons, that thereby the City of London, and the Suburbs, may be disburdened from their continual care and fears, besides their loss of time, health ▪ and fortunes, which by their Trainbands, double and triple Watches and wards they continually do su●taine.  
That you will be pleased, as the State by election hath made you members of this Honourable House, and adopted you our Fathers, to govern our Fortunes, to establish our laws, and to regulate our actions; So we now beseech you, to satisf●e our consciences, to preserve our reputations, and to admit of a li●erall and free discourse in Parliament concerning all these particulars without interruption or fear of punishment, that thereby the glory of God may be exalted, the dignity of our King and Kingdom may be preserved, the Immun●ties of your House, according to the ancient custom of England continued, all precipitated tumults appeased, and all discords amongst us peaceably united, the valiant and renowned Actions of our Predecessors revived, our totte●ing Fortunes established, our King and kingdoms united, that so our minds and consciences may be fully satisfied.   

To the Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, of the House of COMMONS, now assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of BUCKINGHAM,  
Sheweth,  
THat whereas for many yeers past we have been under very great pressures( which are clearly set forth in the late Remonstrance of the House of Commons; the redress thereof which hath for a long time been by you endeavoured with unwearied pains, though not with answerable success, having still your endeavours frustrated or retarded, and we deprived of the fruit thereof, by a malignant faction of Popish Lords, Bishops and others, and now of late, to take from us all that little hope was left of a future Reformation: the very being of the PARLIAMENT shaken, and by the mischievous practices of most wicked Counsellors, the privileges thereof broken in an unexampled manner, and the members thereof unassured of their lives, in whose safety, the safety of us and our posterity is involved. We held it our duty, according to our late Protestation to defend and maintain the same persons and privileges, to the utmost expense of our lives and estates.  
To which purpose we are now come to make the humble tender of our service, and remain in expectation of your Command and Order; to the execution whereof, we shall with all alacrity address ourselves, ready to live by you, or to die at your feet, against whomsoever shall in any sort illegally attempt upon you.  
MAy it therefore please this Honourable Assembly to assist the ardent prayer of your poor Petitioners, that Popish Lords and Bishops may be forthwith outed the House of peers, that all privileges of PARLIAMENT( Yours and our posterities inheritance) may be confirmed to you, and that all evil Counsellors, the Achans of this Common-wealth, may be given up to the hand of Iustice; without all which your petitioners have not the least hope of Israels peace, or to reap those glorious advantages, which the fourteen moneths seed-time of Your unparallelled endeavours hath given to their unsatisfied expectations:  
So your Petitioners will be bound to pray, &c.   

To the Right Honourable the House of peers now assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of BUCKINGHAM,  
Sheweth,  
THat whereas wee hoped upon the happy assembly of this present Parliament wee should have had a speedy redress of those great pressures, we had for many yeares been under, but have hitherto been in great measure frustrate of our hopes by the strange Counterworking of a malignant faction, whereby the perfecting of Reformation is hindered, the endeavours of the House of Commons, in great part successless, our dangers grown upon us by iterated plots, Priests and other delinquents unpunished, to the encouragement of others, Ireland near lost by protract d Counsels, while Thousands are there butchered by immane cruelties, and to cut off all hopes of future reformation, the very being of our Parliaments endangered by desperate and unexampled breach of privileges, which by our Protestation lately taken we are bound with our lives and estates to maintain, And in respect of that late attempt upon the Honourable House of Commons, we are now come to offer our service to that end, as resolved in their just defence to live and die.  
ANd do therefore humbly pray, that this most Honourable House will cooperate with the house of Commons, in most speedy perfecting the most necessary work of Reformation, bringing to condign and exemplary punishment both wicked Counsellors and other plotters and delinquents: That Ireland may be speedily relieved, the privileges of Parliament fortified against all future attempts, And the whole kingdom put into such a present posture of defence, that we may be safe both from all practise of the malignant party at home, and the endeavours of ●●y ill affencted States abroad,  
And they shall pray, &c.   

To the honourable, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Commons, assembled in Parliament.  
The humble Petition of the mariners and Sea-men, Inhabitants, in, and about the Ports of London, and River of Thames,  
showing,  
THat they with all submiss acknowledgement do conjoin with the Citizens and common Counsell-men of London, in the Petition lately presented to this Honourable Assembly, in their hearty thankfulness for the great pains and care taken by you, in seeking out the roote and remedies of those monstrous evils of late happening to both Church and Common-wealth; which although it hath not taken that full effect, which was by you desired, Yet your endeavours was not thereby lessened, nor are any way( we hope) discouraged.  
As the pressures of the kingdom are many, so are they weighty, and at large expressed in your late Remonstrance; amongst which, as those your Petitioners are most sensible of( and they, their wives and children, too heavily feel the burden of) is the decay of Trade, and lying still of the Ships, which hath occasioned many Sea-men to leave this land, and seek employment in other Countries, Men being at such a strait that they durst not adventure their ships, nor estates in foreign parts, in regard things are not as yet settled, neither in England nor Ireland, and that the Papists remain as stout, strong, and insolent, as formerly, Which under favour they conceive to arise, by reason of the continuance of the Vote of the Popish Lords and Bishops in the House of peers. Your Petitioners having had sad experience by their Travels in foreign parts, what evils and miseries, that Religion, and men of those spirits have brought forth, which doth justly occasion your Petitioners, utterly to abominate and abhor their Religion, and most unjust practices.  
From which grounds the Petitioners cannot omit to represent unto you the great terrors, and fears, and distractions that they lye under, of a sudden surprise by their bloody hands, by means whereof, the trading of the City and kingdom is much more of late decayed, then it hath been for many yeares past; no man following his trade cheerfully, whilst the lives of himself, and family, and the public safety of the kingdom are in jeopardy, and whiles he knoweth not how soon they may feel the like cruelty and inhumanity from the Papists, and their adherents, as those in Ireland have done: which if ever it shall happen; This honourable Assembly must expect to have a deep share in the malice and cruelty, against whom they have already by themselves, and their abettors endeavoured to raise a dis-respect in the hearts of the people to divide between the Kings Majesty and the Parliament.  
To the end therefore, that the destructive plots of the Papists and their adherents may be defeated, the ground of their hopes, and insolences removed, considerable forces with expedition sent to subdue those abominable and bloody Rebels in Ireland, The petitioners freed from their fears, encouraged in their calling, and in due time obtain their wonted employments and traffic, the want whereof, causeth the whole land to mourn.  
It is humbly prayed, that you will vouchsafe to be a means to the Kings majesty, and House of peers, that life may be given to your good endeavours, by their concurrence with you in the punishment of delinquents, and redressing the pressures and grievances in the Church and Common-wealth: And for the better effecting hereof, that the Popish Lords and Bishops, may be removed out of the House of peers, as was desired in the presence of divers of this honourable Assembly, by the representative body of the City of London, in Guildhall.  
And the Petitioners who well know that their own safeties are wrapped up in yours, shall not fail to put up daily prayers to Almighty God for your good success, and maintain and defend to the utmost hazard of their lives and estates, according to the late Protestation, the Kings Majesty, and High Court of Parliament, against all wicked councils and malignant opposers, or that endeavour, by secret plots, or open force, to prejudice the one or the other: And to make division between his Majesty and the Parliament, whom God, and the lives of the Commons, have united into so near a relation. And it is not unknown unto your Honours, that upon any foreign invasion, or enterprises, your Petitioners estates and lives must be foremost.  
And your Petitioners shall every pray, &c.  
This Petition was subscribed by many thousands, and presented to the Committee of the Honourable House of Commons at Grocers-Hall, 8. january 1641.