To the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons now assembled in this present Parliament The humble petition of the inhabitants in the county of Essex. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94658 of text R212583 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.6[102]). 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 A94658 Wing T1686 Thomason 669.f.6[102] ESTC R212583 99871187 99871187 160963 2240939638

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94658) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160963) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f6[102]) To the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons now assembled in this present Parliament The humble petition of the inhabitants in the county of Essex. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1643] Imprint from Wing. Praying Parliament "to tender unto our gracious Soveraigne propositions for accomodation." Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan. 5. 1642". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Essex (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A94658 R212583 (Thomason 669.f.6[102]). civilwar no To the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons now assembled in this present Parliament. The humble petition of the inhabitants in the county anon. 1643 1 316 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 RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS AND COMMONS NOW ASSEMBLED IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT . The humble Petition of the Inhabitants in the County of ESSEX , SHEWETH :

THat We your Petitioners , true members of this Church and State , being sensible of the present Distractions and bloody Miseries wherein this Nation is most unhappily involved , whereby the ruine of our Religion , Estates , Lives and Liberties , is inevitably threatned , in a most unnaturall and unchristian manner ; the neerest and deerest relations Plotting and Acting Destruction each to other : Neither is this our so great Misery bounded within our selves , but it extendeth it selfe to our poore Brethren of bleeding-Ireland , not only to the ruine of their Persons and Estates , but even to the utter extirpation of the Protestant Religion it selfe in that miserable Kingdome , by disabling us to afford them that timely aide and assistance which in truth was due unto them . The tender consideration of the Premises doth enforce us humbly to addresse our selves to the favour and wisdome of this Honourable Court for reliefe ; not doubting , but that the blessing of GOD meeting with your grave and timely endeavours , may yet put a Period to these our miserable Distractions . And to that end , we have addressed our selves by Petition to His sacred MAJESTIE .

And therefore doe in all humilitie begge , you would be pleased seriously to consider of our present approaching Calamities ; and before any more blood be shed , to tender ( with all possible convenient speed ) unto our gracious SOVERAIGNE , such Propositions for Accommodation , as may be for the Preservation of the true Protestant Religion , his Majesties safetie and Honour , the peace and prosperity of all his Subjects .

And we shall pray , &c.