To the right honourable the Lord Maior, aldermen, and commons of the City of London in Common Councell assembled. The humble petition of divers well-affected housholders and freemen of the said city. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94629 of text R211541 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[34]). 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 A94629 Wing T1654 Thomason 669.f.23[34] ESTC R211541 99870258 99870258 163690 2240931399

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94629) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163690) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[34]) To the right honourable the Lord Maior, aldermen, and commons of the City of London in Common Councell assembled. The humble petition of divers well-affected housholders and freemen of the said city. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by J.H., London : 1659. [i.e., 1660] Praying for "a full and free Parliament". Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb. 9." Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. City of London (England). -- Court of Common Council -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 A94629 R211541 (Thomason 669.f.23[34]). civilwar no To the right honourable the Lord Maior, aldermen, and commons of the City of London in Common Councell assembled. The humble petition of div anon. 1659 2 505 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. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Right Honourable the Lord Maior , Aldermen , and Commons of the City of London in Common Councell Assembled . The Humble Petition of divers Well-affected Housholders and Freemen of the said City , SHEWETH ,

THat your Petitioners cannot but thankfully acknowledge the Just and Prudent Resolution of this Honourable Councel , expressed in your Declaration of the 20th of December last past ; And are unshakenly Confident , that that God who put your thoughts and Councels on the Resolve , will strengthen your Courage in prosecuting of those Lawfull means that may lead to the attainment of that just and necessary end A Free Parliament , without which the undoubted Birthright of the English Nation , in their Persons , Estates , and all Liberties , both Religious and Civil , can never be preserved : And should this Court submit themselves to any other Constitution of men , then such as may Rightfully claim the Legislative power of the Nation , and by acting on any other Authority in Assessing or Levying any summs of Money on your Petitioners Estates , your Petitioners humbly conceive that this Court shall give the whole Nation cause of very sad Reflections on your defection from your said Declaration , with which the most part of the other Countries and Corporations have freely concurred : And your Petitioners may have occasion to complain , that they have most unhappily been cast into the world in a Generation that hath at once made a costly purchase of present misery to themselves , and perpetual slavery to their posterity .

And therefore your Petitioners humbly pray , That it may please this Honourable Court to Act worthy of your Predecessors , and Your own professed Resolutions , by Declaring to the World , or at least assuring your Petitioners , That you will not Act your selves , or concent that any other Power or Person shall Impose any Law or Tax upon any of those Citizens , with whose general Concernments this Court is Intrusted , untill the Authoritie thereof may be derived from a Full and Free Parliament , as being the rightfull Representatives of the people , by whom every individual doth consent . By which , and which onlie , next under God , Your Petitioners can rationally hope their languishing Trades may be revived , and their Hearts and Purses together inlarged to a chearfull and liberal Contribution towards their lawfull Government and Protection , According to Magna Charta and the Petition of Right .

And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c.

This Petition was presented by divers Citizens of quallity the 8th of February , 1659.

The Answer whereunto was , That the Court had read this Petition , and will take the same into Consideration so far as concerns this Court : And did give the Petitioners the Thanks of the Court for their respects and patience .

LONDON , Printed by J. H. 1659.