To the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the reduced officers and souldiers, in and about the City of London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94482 of text R210560 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.11[45]). 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. 4 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 A94482 Wing T1446 Thomason 669.f.11[45] ESTC R210560 99869344 99869344 162694 2248506829

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94482) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162694) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f11[45]) To the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the reduced officers and souldiers, in and about the City of London. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1647] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July. 17. 1647". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- Militia -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A94482 R210560 (Thomason 669.f.11[45]). civilwar no To the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the reduced officers and souldiers, in and about the anon. 1647 1 560 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 the House of Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT . The humble Petition of the reduced Officers and Souldiers , in and about the City of LONDON . Humbly shewing :

THat your Petitioners having ( not as Mercinaries , but like faithfull and free-borne Subjects ) exposed their Estates to ruine , and their Lives to all dangers , for the preservation of the King , the Priviledge of Parliament , and Liberty of the Subject , cannot but looke upon these new Divisions , with sad and bleeding hearts , and justly dread the evill consequence that doth probably threaten desolation to these three Kingdomes , if not timely prevented , by your Honours great wisdomes and Care ; And your Petitioners doe cordially protest before God and man , that they would gladly undergoe the worst of ills , might their Sufferings divert those heavie judgements from us , yet nothwithstanding their Fidelity and constant affection to the Priviledge and Honour of both Houses of Parliament . They are sensible there hath been strong endeavours to render them odious to the World , under the notion of Fomenters of a new Warre , and disturbers of a happie Peace ; And have by that Colourable pretence , and for some other reasons best knowne to your Honours , procured an Ordinance to banish them this City , which if you shall put in execution without remunerating their said Services , and Sufferings with some considerable part of their Arreares , they must inevitably be lyable to all the Miseries and Reproaches that are incident to Vagabonds , and consequently perish , having spent their Patrimony , lost their Imployments , and some their Limbes to discharge their Consciences , and duties to serve your Honours , and the Kingdomes safety .

Your Petitioners doe thankfully acknowledge Your vigilancy and restlesse endeavours to prevent the effusion of more Blood and settle a happie Peace ; And our humble requests are , That your Honours would leave no meanes unattempted to Compleat the same ; And that our abode in this City and necessitated addresses to your Honours , may bee no hinderance nor impede the speedy Consummation thereof , You would be pleased in tender Consideration of the premisses , to grant them whose Accompts are already audited , that part of their Arreares which appeares due by their Debentures , and vendable Security for that part which is respited on the publique Faith ; Provided they shall not be further charged by the severall Counties of the Kingdome ; And that speciall order be taken for the stating of their Accompts , who are not yet Cast up , and they Licensed to attend the same , till they shall bee proportionably satisfied ; that so your Petitioners ( some of them being Strangers , others farre remote from their native Countries , and all deeply ingaged and impoverished by their tedious Attendances for their Arreares ) may be inabled to discharge their Debts ; And as they have conformed themselves ( in all the Course of this Warre ) to your Honours orders , so now being in some measure restored to their pristine Condition , they shall withall cheerfulnesse yeeld perfect Obedience to the same .

And they shall ever pray , &c.