To the honorable the knights cittizens and burgesses of the Commons House assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the High Sheriffe and divers of the gentrey, ministers, freeholders, and inhabitants of the county of Hereford. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94493 of text R211870 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.6[19]). 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. 3 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 A94493 Wing T1463 Thomason 669.f.6[19] ESTC R211870 99870548 99870548 160880 2240955438

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94493) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160880) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f6[19]) To the honorable the knights cittizens and burgesses of the Commons House assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the High Sheriffe and divers of the gentrey, ministers, freeholders, and inhabitants of the county of Hereford. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Iohn Francke, London : 1642. The chief commodity of the county is wool, whose price is falling owing to the importation of Spanish wool. Prays that Ireland be relieved, evil counsellors removed, votes of Popish Lords taken away, papists disarmed, a Godly ministry settled, .. -- Steele. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Wool industry -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Herefordshire (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A94493 R211870 (Thomason 669.f.6[19]). civilwar no To the honorable the knights cittizens and burgesses of the Commons House assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the High Sheriffe anon. 1642 1 449 4 0 0 0 0 0 89 D The rate of 89 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 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 HONORABLE THE KNIGHTS CITTIZENS AND BVRGESSES OF THE COMMONS HOVSE ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT . The humble Petition of the High Sheriffe and Divers of the Gentrey , Ministers , Freeholders , and Inhabitants of the County of Hereford . Most Humbly sheweth ,

THat withall thankefulnesse we acknowledge those many and great Blessings we have already received through Gods mercy , the favour of our Gratious Soveraigne , the Wisedome , Councell , Sollicitation , and unwearied Paines and Patience of this Honorable Assembly for the preservation of the Priviledges of Parliament , and liberties of the Subiect , the removing of many of these Obstructions which hindred your good endevours ; your zealous furthering of bleeding Irelands Reliefe , earnest desire of disarming Papists , and securing of their persons ; your prudent care in disposing the Militia , Navie , and places of Importance of this Kingdome to such persons of Trust as may ( by Gods blessing ) give assurance of safetie to the Kings Royall person , and good subiects of all his Maiesties Dominions ; your Pious Care to settle a Governement in the Church according to the Word of God , your godly desires to prevent the Prophaning of the Lords day , To take away Pluralities & Non Residents , and your zeale to provide Preaching Ministerie throughout the Kingdome , whereof this County stands in great neede , it now abounding with insufficient , Idle , and Scandalous Ministers , whereby the people generally are continued in Ignorance , Superstition , and prophanenesse , and are ready to become a prey to popish suducers , which Idolatrous profession hath of late yeares with much boldnesse appeared in this County : And wheras one of our cheife Commodities is the Native Wooll of this County , the price whereof is much fallen thrugh the excessive importation of Spanish woolls to our great impoverishing .

May it therefore please this Honorable House to continue your Prudence and Pious inte●●●ons and indeavours in all the Premisses not yet Accomplished , to hasten the speedy releife of ●●●…stressed and Gasping Ireland , To remove evill Councellors , To take away the Votes of Po●●h Lords , Speedily to disarme the Papists , To settle a Godly and Learned Ministery , and to re●●●aine the excessive Jmportation of Spanish Wooll .

And wee shall be ready with chearefulnesse to contribute all possible Assistance , our Prayers , lives , and livelyhoods may afford for the defence of his Maiesties Royall person , this Hhnorable House , and the preservation of the priviledges of Parliament .

London , Printed for Iohn Francke . 1642.