THE
HVMBLE
PETITION
OF
THE
WELL-AFFECTED
YONG
MEN
IN
The
City
of
London
and
Liberties
thereof
,
To
the
Right
Honourable
the
Lords
and
Commons
in
the
High
Court
of
PARLIAMENT
now
Assembled
.
In
most
humble
manner
sheweth
,
THat
your
former
gracious
acceptation
of
Petitions
,
from
person
of
as
meane
quality
as
our selves
,
together
with
your
late
kind
imbracement
of
that
PETITION
from
our
Masters
and
others
of
eminent
quality
(
for
which
wee
present
our
humble
thanks
)
hath
incited
us
(
though
in
regard
of
our
present
condition
not
so
much
considerable
)
to
addresse
our selves
also
in
all
humility
to
this
Honourable
assembly
(
whom
wee
conceive
the
only
meanes
under
God
for
our
redresse
)
beseeching
you
to
endeavour
to
these
ruinating
distractions
,
and
though
the
present
calamities
doth
not
so
immediately
reflect
on
your
Petitioners
,
yet
wee
considering
the
losse
of
so
many
of
our
fellowes
lives
,
and
the
dayly
hazard
the
rest
are
exposed
to
,
and
foreseeing
the
face
of
our
owne
ruine
,
in
our
Masters
present
condition
,
as
also
prizing
our
Parents
and
friends
lives
and
livelyhoods
,
as
deare
as
our
owne
:
hold
our selves
ingaged
by
the
lawes
of
conscience
and
nature
,
to
be
no
lesse
solicitous
for
the
bleeding
miseries
of
our
Church
and
State
,
in
regard
(
though
servants
)
wee
are
Subjects
,
and
humbly
conceive
our selves
to
be
considered
herein
.
Wee
come
therefore
(
in
the
still
voyce
)
to
imbowell
our
grievances
and
zealous
desires
before
you
,
not
presuming
to
dictate
to
your
graver
judgments
,
but
humbly
desiring
you
to
pardon
our
boldnesse
in
petitioning
;
and
the
errors
of
our
Petition
,
if
any
be
.
We
unanimously
beseech
you
to
consider
these
present
distractions
,
the
continuall
increasing
violation
of
our
Religion
by
Papists
and
Sectaries
,
the
breach
of
our
knowne
Lawes
,
the
invasion
of
the
Subjects
liberties
,
and
generall
decay
of
Trade
,
reflecting
also
with
serious
thoughts
upon
those
inevitable
dangers
,
that
hover
over
our
heads
,
ushered
in
by
a
civill
,
unnaturall
,
and
bloody
Warre
,
whose
effects
are
the
impartiall
destruction
of
christians
,
the
effusion
of
much
innocent
bloud
,
the
impoverishing
and
dispeopling
the
Kingdome
,
and
exposing
the
body
of
the
State
,
to
the
mercilesse
tyrany
of
Famine
,
Sicknesse
,
and
Invasion
,
the
producers
of
an
universall
confusion
.
All
which
(
better
knowne
to
your
apprehensions
)
wee
humbly
desire
you
to
ponder
,
and
leave
no
just
way
unattempted
,
which
may
conduce
to
the
settlement
of
these
differences
,
that
the
undiscerning
sword
be
not
umpire
to
discide
controversies
of
so
neere
concernment
,
neither
give
audience
to
the
incendiaries
of
this
Warre
,
whose
only
ayme
(
wee
feare
)
is
to
prey
upon
the
lives
and
livings
of
his
Majesties
good
and
loyall
subjects
,
that
so
the
gospell
of
peace
may
not
be
maintained
by
Warre
,
but
that
these
cemented
joynts
of
the
Church
may
hold
firmer
the
bond
of
unity
,
to
the
glory
of
God
,
the
good
of
his
Majesty
,
the
preservation
of
the
Parliament
,
the
only
happinesse
of
the
Kingdome
,
and
inablement
for
a
supply
of
the
necessities
of
our
distressed
brethren
in
IRELAND
:
and
your
petitioners
shall
dayly
pray
,
as
in
all
duty
bound
,
for
a
blessing
upon
your
consultations
;
to
which
wee
subscribe
our
hands
and
hearts
,
each
ready
to
sacrifice
his
life
for
accomplishment
hereof
.
Subscribed
with
,
at
the
least
20000.
hands
.