The humble petition of all the inhabitants of the town of Old Braintford, to the Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament, for some speedy course for reliefe of such great damage and losse as they received by his Majesties forces of the twelfth and thirteenth of this present November. Together with an order for the ministers of Middlesex, and partly of London, to reade in their parish churches on the next fast day the relation of the sufferings of the inhabitants of old Braintford lately printed for Ed. Husbands and Jo. Frank, and to excite the people to a compassionate consideration of them. Ordered, that this petition and order be forthwith printed and published. H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86759 of text R788 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A86759 Wing H3450 Thomason E128_21 ESTC R788 99873206

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 eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Destruction and pillage -- Early works to 1800. Brentford (England) -- History -- Sources -- Early works to 1800. eebo The humble petition of all the inhabitants of the town of Old Braintford, :$bto the Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament, for some speedy co n/a 1642 8 521 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. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF Old Braintford , TO The Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament , for some speedy course for reliefe of such great damage and losse as they received by his Majesties Forces of the twelfth and thirteenth of this present November .

Together with an Order for the Ministers of Middlesex , and partly of London , to reade in their Parish Churches on the next Fast day the Relation of the sufferings of the Inhabitants of old Braintford lately printed for Ed. Husbands and Jo . Frank , and to excite the people to a compassionate consideration of them .

Ordered , That this Petition and Order be forthwith printed and published .

H. Elsynge , Cler . Parl . D. Com .

LONDON , Printed for Edward Husbands and John Frank , November 27. 1642.

TO The Honourable Assembly of the COMMONS House of PARLIAMENT , The humble Petition of all and every the Inhabitants of the Towne of old Braintford , in the County of Middlesex Sheweth ,

THat it is too manifest to the world , how that your Petitioners on the twelve and thirteen daies of this present moneth were plundered and bereaved of their severall and particular personall estates ; as money , plate , houshold-stuffe of all sorts , and other necessaries , of what condition soever , by his Majesties Forces , then happening amongst them : the griefe whereof it more piercing unto them , then your Petitioners are able to expresse .

The consideration of whose losse amounting to neere foure thousand pounds , as by particulars may appeare , together with the miserable and sad condition they are brought unto , your Petitioners humbly leave to the consideration and wisdome of this honourable Assembly ,

Humbly craving some speedy course may be thought of , and taken , for the reliefe of your Petitioners in this their great distresse , by such waies and meanes as in your great and grave wisdomes shall be thought meet .

And they shall ever pray , &c.
Die Sabbathi 26. Novemb . 1642.

IT is this day ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament , That the Ministers of Middlesex , and of those Parishes that are partly Middlesex , and partly of London , doe the next Fast day reade in their severall Parish Churches the Relation of the sufferings of the Inhabitants of old Braintford on the twelfth and thirteenth of this moneth by his Majesties Forces , and that they doe excite the people to a compassionate consideration of them , and that whatsoever shall be collected upon the next Fast day within the Parishes aforesaid , may be imployed for the reliefe of the Inhabitants of old Braintford aforesaid , and of such of new Braintford as have been plundered and ruined by the Forces aforesaid .

H. Elsynge , Cler . Parl . D. Com .

Ordered by the Commons in Parliament , that this Petition and Order be forthwith printed & published .