To the High Court of Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, &c. The humble petition of John Wagstaff, gent. Inhabitant of the county of Warwick. Wagstaff, John, of Warwickshire. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96419 of text R212193 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[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 A96419 Wing W200 Thomason 669.f.19[61] ESTC R212193 99870839 99870839 163398 2240955429

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96419) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163398) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[61]) To the High Court of Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, &c. The humble petition of John Wagstaff, gent. Inhabitant of the county of Warwick. Wagstaff, John, of Warwickshire. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1655] Imprint from Wing. Requesting that Sir Richard Temple not be allowed to be a member of Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan. 1654.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Temple, Richard, -- Sir, 1634-1697 -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Membership -- Early works to 1800. A96419 R212193 (Thomason 669.f.19[61]). civilwar no To the High Court of Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, &c. The humble petition of John Wagstaff, gent. Inhabitant of the county of Wagstaff, John, of Warwickshire 1655 1 317 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 High Court of Parliament of the Common-wealth of England , &c. The humble Petition of John Wagstaff , Gent. Inhabitant of the County of Warwick . Sheweth :

THat whereas Sir Richard Temple Barronet , was chosen a Member of this present Parliament , for the County of Warwick , being under the Age of one and twenty years , until the 28 of April next , as appears by the Registers Book of Saint Martins in the Fields , it being contrary to the Instrument of Government ; And whereas many of the said County of Warwick did by Petition to the Lord Protector and his Council make known so much , whereupon the said Sir R. Temple was rejected by the said Council , as a person incapable to sit in Parliament , and the Petitioners were promised that a new Writ should issue forth for the choosing another in his place , which being delayed , the said Sir Richard Temple hath contrary to the said qualification , intruded himself into the House , which your Petitioner fears may be prejudicial to him in regard of a tryal with Sir Richard Temple by Doctor Denton his Gardian , although his Interest is wholly in trust , for the Lord Baltinglass is in right of his Lady , the Trial being for summ 1000 l. per annum , on Monday next in the Upper Bench .

Therefore he humbly prayes that the said Sir R : T : ( according to the said qualification , which all other Countries have carefully follow'd , as the County of Warwick are desirous to observe ; ) may not be admitted to sit in the House , but that a new Writ may be issued for the chosing of another in his place .

And your Petitioner shall ever pray , &c. John Wagstaff .