To the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the ministers of the county of Hertford, concerning church-government. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94456 of text R212194 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[12]). 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 A94456 Wing T1415 Thomason 669.f.9[12] ESTC R212194 99870840 99870840 161110 2240954254

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94456) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161110) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f9[12]) To the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the ministers of the county of Hertford, concerning church-government. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) for I.W. in the old Baylie, Printed at London : 3. Sept. 1644. Order to print dated: 31 August 1644. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Church of England -- Government -- Early works to 1800. Church and state -- Great Britain -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Hertford (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A94456 R212194 (Thomason 669.f.9[12]). civilwar no To the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, the humble petition of the ministers of the county of Hertford, concerning churc England and Wales. Parliament. 1644 1 234 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 HONOURABLE HOVSE OF COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT , The Humble Petition of the Ministers of the County of HERTFORD , Concerning CHURCH-GOVERNMENT . Humbly Sheweth ,

THat Your Petitioners having already received many happy fruits of your unwearied endeavours , for the reformation of the Church ; which with all due thankfulnesse they acknowledge ; doe notwithstanding finde that those fruits have not growne up to that maturity which they expected , for want ( as they humbly conceive ) of a setled government in the Church ; but rather to the retarding of their hopes , there be such universall distractions raised in the mindes of men , increasing , and multiplying dayly , and posting to such confusion , as we had rather leave to your wisdoms to judge what the issues may be , then to represent them according to our feares ,

Wherefore Your Petitioners doe most humbly supplicate this Honourable House , to apply Your Wisdome and Providence to the preventing and cureing of these mischievous evils , by the speedy establishing of Church-Government amongst us .

And Your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c. This Petition was the 31 of August , read in the Honourable House of Commons with very good approbation , and an Order made thereupon .

Printed at London for I. W. in the old Baylie , 3. Sept. 1644.