To the Honourable the Lords and Commons now assembled in the high court of Parliament The humble petition of the University of Cambridge. Humbly presenteth to your honourable consideration the sad dejected estate of the said University: how our schools daily grow desolate, mourning the absence of their professours and the wonted auditories: ... University of Cambridge. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79377 of text R37460 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.8[11]). 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 A79377 Wing C358 Thomason 669.f.8[11] ESTC R37460 99872480 99872480 161062 2264191389

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A79377) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161062) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f8[11]) To the Honourable the Lords and Commons now assembled in the high court of Parliament The humble petition of the University of Cambridge. Humbly presenteth to your honourable consideration the sad dejected estate of the said University: how our schools daily grow desolate, mourning the absence of their professours and the wonted auditories: ... University of Cambridge. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London? : 1643] Title from caption and first lines of text. Date of publication from by Wing. Praying for exemption "from all preparations and contributions to war". Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 8. 1643". Reproductions of the originals in the Bodleian Library (Early English books), and the British Library (Thomason Tracts). eng University of Cambridge -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A79377 R37460 (Thomason 669.f.8[11]). civilwar no To the Honourable the Lords and Commons now assembled in the high court of Parliament. The humble petition of the University of Cambridge. H University of Cambridge 1643 1 398 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. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Honourable the Lords and Commons now assembled in the High Court of Parliament . The humble Petition of the Vniversity of Cambridge

HUmbly presenteth to your Honourable consideration the sad dejected estate of the said University : How our Schools daily grow desolate , mourning the absence of their Professours and the wonted Auditories : How in our Colledges our numbers grow thinne , and our Revenues short , and that subsistence we have abroad is for the most part involved in the common miseries : How frighted by the neighbour noise of War , our Students either quit their Gowns , or abandon their Studies : How our Degrees lie disesteemed , and all hopes of our publick Commencement are blasted in the bud , besides sundry other pressing inconveniences which We forbear to mention .

We cannot but conceive your Honourable piety ( out of a Noble zeal to Learning ) will cordially pity our sad condition , and ( as the present generall calamities give way ) afford us some succour and encouragement . Your Wisdomes best know what Priviledges and Immunities have been in all good times afforded to the seats of Learning , and the Professors of it ; and even in the fury and heat of War , places of Religion and Devotion have usually not onely ( on both sides ) been spared from ruine , but supported , and esteemed as Sanctuaries . Hence is it that the Members of our University ( by Charter confirmed by Act of Parliament ) stand expressely freed from all preparations and contributions to War : Hence is it , that in neighbour Territories , where the Excise is most in use , the Universities with all their Students are exempt .

May it not therefore be displeasing to your pious wisdomes , if in al humility we crave at your hands a tender commiseration of our case , that you will be pleased to exempt our poore estates from all such Rates and Impositions ; to vouchsafe such freedome to our persons ( not giving just offence ) as may enable us the better to keep together , and daily to offer up our joynt prayers to God for a blessed union betwixt our Gracious Soveraigne and you , and the blessing of peace upon the Land .

June 8. 1643