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THE PETITION AND PROtestation of twelve Bishops for which they were accused of High Treason by the House of Commons and Committed by the Lords to the Blacke Rod .

THat whereas the Petitioners are called upon by severall , and respective writs , under great penalties to attend in Parliament , and have a cleare and indubitable right to vote in Billes , and all other matters whatsoever debated in Parliament , by the ancient customes , lawes and Statutes of this Realme , and are to be protected by your Majesty quietly to attend that great service .

They humbly remonstrate and protest before God , your Maiesty and the noble Peeres now assembled in Parliament , that as they have an indubitable right to sit and vote in the House of Lords , so they , if they may be protected from force & violence , are most ready & willing to performe that duty accordingly , & that they do abhominate all actions and opinions tending to Popery , or any inclination to the Malignant party , or any other side and party whatsoever , to the which their own reasons & consciences shall not adhere . But whereas they have been at severall times violently menaced , afronted , & assaulted by multitudes of people , in coming to performe their service to that Honourable House , and lately chased away and put in danger of their lives , and can find no redresse or protection upon sundry complalnts made to both Houses in that particular . They likewise protest before y●ur Maiesty and that noble House of Peeres , and saving to themselves all their rights and interests of sitting and voting in your house at other times , they dare not sit to vote in the House of Peeres unlesse your Maiesty shall further them from all affronts , indignities and danger in the premises .

Lastly , whereas their feares are not built upon fancies and conceipts , but upon such grounds & obiects as may well terrifie men of great resolution and much constancy , they doe in all humillity and duty protest before your Maiesty and the Peeres of this most honourable House of Parliament , against all votes , resolutions and determinations , and that they are in themselves nul , and of no effect , which in their absince the twenty seven of December 1641. have already passed , and likewise against all such as shall hereafter passe in that most Honourable assembly , during such time of their forced and violented absence from the said most honourable House .

Not denying , but if their absenting of themselves were willfull and voluntary , that most noble House might proceed in all these premises , theire absence and Protestation notwithstanding .

And humbly beseecheth your most excellent Maiesty to Command the Lords of the House of Peeres to enter this their Petition and protestation in their Records .

They will ever pray God to blesse and preserve &c.

Printed for T. Bankes 1641.

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