TO THE HONOURABLE, THE KNIGHTS, CITIZENS AND burgesses IN the House of Commons in Parliament.  
The humble Petition of sundry of the Knights, Gentlemen, freeholders, and others of the Inhabitants of the County of Suffolk, to the number of above 13000. presented Jan. 31. 1641.  
Humbly showeth,  
THat whereas by the blessing of God, His majesty's grace and favour towards us, and the long continued labours of this Honourable Assembly, many grievances and burdens both in Church and Commonwealth (under which we had a long time groaned) are removed, which with all humility and thankfulness we humbly acknowledge, yet understanding that many Bills tending to the honour of His Majesty, the safety and welfare of this kingdom, have by this Honourable Assembly been voted and now lie in the Lord's House unpassed, by reason of the Popish Lords and Bishops sitting there, as we conceive, by reason whereof together with the not execution of Laws against the Popists (who not with standing through the providence of God, have been discovered and disappointed in many of their treacherous plots against the King and State) they & their adherents are still emboldened in their mischievous plots and conspiracies, a lamentable experience of whose treasons and bloody cruelties we hear is daily presented to this Honourable Assembly from Ireland, whose doleful condition your Petitioners do much piety & bewail. We therefore your Petitioners being greatly distracted and full of fears of some sudden & cruel design to break out against the peace of the kingdom which puts us into an unsettled condition, & occasioneth a general decay in trading, tending to the impoverishing of the Nation unless timely prevented, and having most of us solemnly protested to maintain the Protestant Religion against all Popery, and to descend his majesty's royal person, honour and estate and the High Court of Parliament, and to endeavour the union and peace of the three united kingdoms, do humbly and earnestly pray,  
That this Honourable Assembly will be pleased to improve all good means that the Popish Lords and Bishops may be removed out of the House of peers, that this kingdom may be secured, and our poor distressed brethren in Ireland may be speedily relieved, that the laws against Popists may be put in execution, that delinqurnts may be punished and out former Petitions against Bishop Wren and cur scandalous Ministers may be sped, and that all burdens in Church and Commonwealth may be removed, with the causes thereof.  
And your Petitioners according to their bounden duty shall daily pray for a prosperous success of this Parliament.   

THE ANSWER OF THE house OF COMMONS TO This Petition, delivered by Mr. Speaker.  
Gentlemen,  
I Am commanded by the House to return hearty thanks to the Petitioners for their love and care expressed in the first part of this Petition, and the House is resolved to take the rest of the Petition into their serions consideration; and I am further commanded to tell you, that the House hath already transmitted Bishop Wrens to the Lords.   

Printed in the year, 1641.