To the right honourable the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. The humble petition of the Company of worsted-weavers of the City of Norwich, and county of Norfolk Loyal Society of Worsted Weavers in the city of Norwich (England) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A42566 of text R218312 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing G447A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A42566 Wing G447A ESTC R218312 99829919 99829919 34366 2240873342

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A42566) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 34366) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2029:28) To the right honourable the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. The humble petition of the Company of worsted-weavers of the City of Norwich, and county of Norfolk Loyal Society of Worsted Weavers in the city of Norwich (England) Gedney, Job. aut 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London? : 1655?] Imprint conjectured by Wing. Signed at end in MS.: Job. Gedney. Reproduction of the original in the Guildhall Library, London. eng Loyal Society of Worsted Weavers in the city of Norwich (England) -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A42566 R218312 (Wing G447A). civilwar no To the right honourable the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. The humble petition of the Company of worsted-weavers of the City of Loyal Society of Worsted Weavers in the city of Norwich 1655 1 324 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-02 Sampled and proofread 2007-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND . The humble Petition of the Company of Worsted-Weavers of the City of Norwich , and County of Norfolk .

Humbly Sheweth , THat whereas upon the Complaint and Petition of the Company of Worsted-Weavers , and others in the City and County aforesaid , of great abuses done to their Trade by certain Persons , calling themselves a Company of Wooll-Combers ; who by their deceits in making false Yarns , have undone many of your Petitioners , and spoiled their Manufacture .

That your Honours were pleased , to refer the said Complaint to the hearing of a Committee . That the said Committee , after many hearings of the parties on both sides , did report the same to this Honourable Parliament . That upon hearing of the said report , made by the said Committee to this Honourable Parliament , it was Ordered that an Act should be drawn , whereby provision should be made against the irrigularities of the said Combers . That the said Act hath been read and recommitted , and for a long time hath been ready to be produced . That your Petitioners finding a decay of Trade still to encrease , and that many Families , are daily ruined for want of a just regulation , are forced to be thus solicitous with your Honours ; and humbly do pray , That your Honours would be pleased , to consider the case of your poor Petitioners ; who have waited above thirteen Moneths to their great expences , and grant that the said Act according to your Order , of the thirtieth of July last , may be this day read and determined .

And your Petitioners shall ever pray .

Signed in the Name , and by the appointment of the Company of Worsted-Weavers in Norwich and Norfolke . Per me _____