To the Right Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses, assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the workmen-printers, freemen of the city of London[.]

To the Right Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses, assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the workmen-printers, freemen of the city of London[.] This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94624 of text R211152 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[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 A94624 Wing T1648 Thomason 669.f.21[19] ESTC R211152 99869885 99869885 163514 2240954303

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94624) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163514) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f21[19]) To the Right Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses, assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the workmen-printers, freemen of the city of London[.] Hawkins, George, fl. 1659. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1659] Signed: George Hawkins (and 9 others). Imprint from Wing. Protesting against the monopoly for printing Bibles, at present possessed by Henry Hills and John Field. Annotation on Thomason copy: "April. 14. 1659". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Bible -- Publication and distribution -- England -- Early works to 1800. Printing -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. A94624 R211152 (Thomason 669.f.21[19]). civilwar no To the Right Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses, assembled in Parliament, the humble petition of the workmen-printers, freemen Hawkins, George 1659 1 349 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 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Angela Berkley Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Angela Berkley Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

To the Right Honourable The Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses , assembled IN PARLIAMENT , The humble Petition of the Workmen-Printers , Freemen of the City of London , Sheweth ,

THat in the time of the late generall Liberty of Printing English Bibles , and Testaments at London , and untill the 6. of March 1655. last past , there were above sixty Workmen-Printers imployed in constant work at severall Printing-houses ; whereby the Books were vended at very moderate rates , to the great accommodation and benefit of the Common-wealth , and encouragement , and comfortable support of your Petitioners ; but by means of an undue , and unlawfull entrance of the late translated Copy of the Bible , then made in the Register of the Company of Stationers , and other unjust proceedings used by Henry Hills and John Field Printers , in reference to their Monopolizing ever since of the sole printing of Bibles and Testaments , and suppressing all other Master-Printers in that good work ; ( Whereby they themselves imploy not above ten or twelve persons in their service , and inhanse the prices of their Books to excessive dear rates , ) The Common-wealth is abused by an unreasonable necessity , and your Petitioners are for the generality of them much prejudiced and abridged in their hopes of lively-hood and fortunes , and many of them reduced to extream want and poverty , to the great grief of themselves and their relations .

May it therefore most graciously please your Honours to hear and redresse your Petitioners Grievances with all convenience , being of such universall influence upon , and concernment to the good of the Common-wealth .

And your Petitioners , as in duty bound , shall ever pray , &c. Signed by George Hawkins . Iohn Sporier . Thomas Webster . Iohn Richardson . Iohn Dever . Bryan Lambert . Iames Gray . Henry Barrow . Roger Vaughan . Thomas Milbourne senior .

For themselves , and in the names of 150. Workmen-Printers in London .