The humble petition of many cordial friends, to this present parliament, inhabiting within the city of London, and places adjacent, in behalf of Mr. Christopher Love, prisoner in the Tower. Presented to the supreme authority, the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. The 11. of July, 1651. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86771 of text R206606 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 A86771 Wing H3469 Thomason E637_5 ESTC R206606 99865725

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 eng Love, Christopher, 1601-1643. Detention of persons -- Early works to 1800. Civil rights -- England -- Sources -- Early works to 1800. eebo The humble petition of many cordial friends, :$bto this present parliament, inhabiting within the city of London, and places adjacent, in behalf of Mr n/a 1651 6 540 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. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-05 Sampled and proofread 2014-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF MANY Cordial Friends , To this present PARLIAMENT , Inhabiting within the City of LONDON , AND Places adjacent , in behalf of Mr. Christopher Love , Prisoner in the Tower .

PRESENTED To the Supreme Authority , the Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND . The 11. of July , 1651.

LONDON , Printed by J.C. 1651.

TO THE Supreme Authority , THE Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND . The humble Petition of many cordial Friends to this Parliament , inhabiting the City of London , and places adjacent , in behalf of Mr. Christopher Love , prisoner in the Tower . Humbly Sheweth ,

THat having with extream grief observed how the manifold miseries which have long invested this Nation , have arisen very much from the divisions and misunderstandings amongst such as in the beginning of our unhappy troubles were all conjoyned against the Enemy : It hath been our earnest desires and prayers to God , that before our breaches were tendred past making up , some effectual meanes of reconcilement might be attained : And although Mr. LOVE , formerly an active friend for the Parliament , hath been transported to do such things as are not more evidently destructive to the Common-wealth , then to his own Relations , and hath brought himself into the woful condition wherein he is , now daily expecting a most heavy punishment , whereby all hopes of reconcilement seemeth to be taken away : yet the wayes of God seriously in a cause of so weighty concernment , may possibly shew unto your wisdom , how out of so great an evil , you might yet produce the greatest and most desirable good .

And if not for his own sake , or any service he hath formerly done , he should be conceived worthy of any favour : yet if in regard unto his own Relations ( many whereof no doubt ) are pious well-meaning people , full of grief for his sad condition , and the reproach following thereupon , it should appear , that mercy unto him , will be upon them , a firm obligation of faithful adherence unto your Authority , work a true remorse in him , and cause both him , and them , for the future to place their safety and happiness , in the prosperity of this Common-wealth ; we humbly conceive it would be a most happy effect , of this most unhappy occasion , and an assured bond of a blessed reconcilement .

And if upon serious consideration , it shall so appear to your Wisdoms ( as we trust it may ) we then make it our humble Petition , That you will be merciful , as our Heavenly Father is merciful : overcome his evil with your good , and for his Relations sake , remit his punishment , That so through the blessing of God , we may see those that have been disjoyned once more , and for ever firmly united ; and live together in peace ; as becometh Brethren .

And as in duty bound , we shall pray , &c. PINIS .