To the Parliament of England the humble petition of the Mayor, aldermen, and commons of the City of London, in Common-Council assembled. City of London (England). Court of Common Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94568 of text R211622 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[61]). 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 A94568 Wing T1580 Thomason 669.f.23[61] ESTC R211622 99870333 99870333 163717 2240949141

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94568) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163717) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[61]) To the Parliament of England the humble petition of the Mayor, aldermen, and commons of the City of London, in Common-Council assembled. City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Iohn Redmayn in Lovells-Court in Pater-noster-Row, London : [1660] Imprint from Wing. The petition of the Mayor and commons of London in Common Council assembled, that the militia of London may be forthwith settled in the hands of citizens of known integrity and interest in the city. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb. 24 1659". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- Militia -- Early works to 1800. A94568 R211622 (Thomason 669.f.23[61]). civilwar no To the Parliament of England: the humble petition of the Mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in Common-Council assembled. City of London 1660 1 308 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 C The rate of 32 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 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 PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND : The Humble Petition of the Mayor , Aldermen , and Commons of the City of London , in Common-Council Assembled . Sheweth ,

THat the Petitioners in a deep sense of what the City of London hath lately suffered by misapprehensions of their affections to the Parliament of England , ( to which in all times they have constantly adhered ) do humbly adore that gracious God , who hath so mercifully restored this Honourable Parliament to the exercise of their Trust , for this Cities just vindication , and their and the Nations deliverance and preservation : and do with unfeigned thankfulnesse acknowledge the happy concurrence of this Honourable House , in their late worthy and prudent Resolves , in order to the general Settlement of the Nation , and for your tendernesse to this City , in enlarging their late imprisoned Members , restoring their Common-Council , and ordering their Gates and Portcullisses , Posts and Chains , to be repaired at the publick Charge ,

By all which signal marks of Honour , and respects to your Petitioners , they do find themselves fully drawn forth into duty and affection , to tender to this Honourable House , their sincere and most ready service in all the capacities God hath put them in , for the maintenance of your Parliamentary Authority , and safety of your persons : and your Petitioners hope they neither have , nor shall forfeit that confidence , which the Parliament hath alwaies had of them .

The Petitioners do therefore Humbly pray that the Militia of London may be forthwith settled in the hands of Citizens of known integrity & interest in the City ,

And your Petitioners shall pray , &c. Sadler .

London Printed by Iohn Redmayn in Lovells-Court in Pater-noster-Ro●●