To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Sir Iohn Stawell. Stawell, John, Sir, 1599-1662. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A93837 of text R212138 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[51]). 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. 2 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 A93837 Wing S5350 Thomason 669.f.19[51] ESTC R212138 99870784 99870784 163388 2240953396

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A93837) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163388) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[51]) To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Sir Iohn Stawell. Stawell, John, Sir, 1599-1662. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb: 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Stawell, John, -- Sir, 1599-1662 -- Estate -- Early works to 1800. Estates (Law) -- England -- Early works to 1800. A93837 R212138 (Thomason 669.f.19[51]). civilwar no To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland; the humble petition of Sir Iohn Stawell Stawell, John, Sir 1654 1 311 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE PARLIAMENT Of the COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND , SCOTLAND , and IRELAND ; The humble Petition of Sir Iohn Stawell SHEWETH ,

THat your Petitioner hath met of late with severall Papers , which have , at the Parliament Dore , been preferred unto you ; The one Intituled Reasons for the establishment of publike Sales : The other a Petition of William Lawrence of Edenburgh Esq ; with reasons thereunto annexed , why the Petitioners Purchase ought not to be questioned by Sir JOHN STAWELL : There being but little of truth contained in either of them ; He humbly conceives their principall ends are but to dishonour two Great , and Honourable Courts , who have done your Petitioner Justice : The one as unto his Life , The other as unto his Estate : To retard the proceedings of the Committee , to whom you have been pleased to referr his late Petition ; And utterly to extinguish those hopes , he for the present conceives , of being restored to your favour , and a right understanding , after his very great losses , and long sufferings .

Wherefore your Petitioner most humbly prayes , That since he hath made his humble addresses unto you , without reflections upon persons , or cause given to irritate those passions which appears in the expressions in those Papers ; You will be pleased to permit the proof of his Petition , according to the rule prescribed by the Committee , and receive hereafter , as there shall be cause , such a further manifestation of his wrong , as may give some light to works of darkness , answer those Objections now made , and give further satisfaction , as your Honours shall please to require ,

And your Petitioner shall ever pray , &c. JOHN STAWELL .