To the supreame authority of England the Parliament assembled. The humble petition of divers well-affected people, for themselves and in the behalf of many thousands in this nation This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62827 of text R220149 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1727A). 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. 3 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 A62827 Wing T1727A ESTC R220149 99831575 99831575 36039 2240945730

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TO THE Supreame Authority of England the Parliament Assembled . The Humble Petition of divers well-affected people , for themselves and in the behalf of many thousands in this Nation . SHEWETH ,

THat whereas in reference to their former Petition , humbly presented to your Honours in Decemb. 1650. desiring that all , both Free and Copy-hold Lands in your Dominions , may be made subject to pay all the owners or Inheritors just debts , according to equity and reason , howsoever there be some kind of law yet in full force to the contrary , it hath pleased God so to move your hearts , as that ye have Voted a very happy and hopeful Act for that purpose .

That in regard many , both of your Honours truest friends in all these troubles , and other honest Creditors who are Imprisoned , and in great distresse , through want of that long expected Act , shall notwithstanding have no reliefe thereby of their Debtors ( whereof most are not only at liberty , but many of them live richly , and some prodigally ) unlesse your honours be pleased likewise , to make the beginning of the time in the afore-mentioned Act , to be according as was humbly desired in their former Petition , viz. either some yeares before , or at least , about the end of Q. Elizabeths Reign .

The premises considered , it is still your Petitioners humble and earnest desires . That as your Honors have been pleased in much compassion to this distressed Nation , to Vote such a just and needfull Act , as that all Free and Copy-hold Lands may be made lyable to pay all the Owners or Inheritors just Debts , so ye will be also pleased , to vouchsafe that just extent of time for the aforesaid hopefull Act to begin , which in their former Petition is humbly desired , That both your Honours owne true friends , and all those Creditors , Prisoners and others , may thereby be relieved , who through want thereof are exceedingly impoverished , and like to be speedily ruined , if either the same Act should begin at a later time then is Petitioned , or otherwise be longer delayed .

So shall they have , both new matter , and further cause to pray , and stand for your Honors happinesse and safety , in all your just Proceedings , whiles they live or breath .