To the most honourable the House of Peeres, and the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the baronets, justices, and gentlemen of the county of Devon at their generall sessions. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74210 of text in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.4[52]). 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 A74210 Thomason 669.f.4[52] 50811861 ocm 50811861 160674 2248525311

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A74210) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160674) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f4[52]) To the most honourable the House of Peeres, and the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the baronets, justices, and gentlemen of the county of Devon at their generall sessions. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for H. Blunden, [London] : 1642. Place of publication suggested by Wing. With engraved border. Annotation on Thomason copy: "2" in publication date has been altered to "1". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Devonshire (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A74210 (Thomason 669.f.4[52]). civilwar no To the most honourable the House of Peeres, and the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament.: The humble petition of the barone England and Wales. Parliament. 1642 1 504 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. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE MOST HONOVRABLE THE HOVSE OF PEERES , AND THE HONOVRABLE HOVSE Of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT . The humble Petition of the Baronets , Justices , and Gentlemen of the County of DEVON at their Generall Sessions . Sheweth ;

THat your Petitioners observing to our comfort your infinite labours , and to our sorrows your abounding pressures and incombrances ; and studying how we might possibly in our degree contribute to your help ; The Complaints and fears of our Countreymen herewith commended to your view , have given us an overture , charging us , by all the interest of our common welfare and danger , to represent to His Majestie , and your Honors , their present distresses and expected miseries . The Port Towns as they are for the most part the first receivers of forraigne intelligence ; so are they soonest sensible of inconveniences occurring by the proceedings of their trade , losses by Turkish Pyrates , Crosses by the Irish Rebellion , and London distractions though first felt , yet are these their least feared calamities ; Neither do the flocks of poore Protestants coming from that Kingdom robd of their late good Fortune , and now depending upon their Christian charity so much affright them , with the charge of their relief . As for the threatning messages they bring from their woolvish enemies , That the bounds of that Kingdom shall not limit their malicious Tyrannie : So these as your Honors may perceive by the perusall ( which we humbly pray you to afford ) they adde the Popish Plots by your wisedom and vigilancie alreadie discovered , as certain arguments of warre intended and readie for Execution .

And all this they do with so much probabilitie conjecture to proceed from the practises of the Popish Lords , and their constant adherents in most of their Votes , the Prelates in the House of Peers , as your Petitioners concurre with these our neighbours in opinion and desires , that your Honors would once more imploy your endeavours to our most gracious King , to exclude Papists from his great affairs , and his Prelates from Temporall Iurisdiction .

By the bearers hereof your Petitioners have presumed to make the like tender to his Majesties Royall hand , being from thence confident of their happie effects ; instead of distractions , unitie ; for remora's , celeritie ; for misunderstanding , correspondencie . And by the mercie of God upon his Church and people , and upon the best of Kings their Supreme Governor ; Prerogative and Priviledge will kisse each other , when His Maiestie shall think it his greatest Honor to grant your just Priviledge , and you acknowledge it your best Priviledge , to enioy the benefit and glorie of his due and princely Prerogative .

For these and all other wished Felicities , your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c.

Printed for H. Blunden , 1641.