To the Kings most excellent Majestie. The most humble petition of your most faithfull servants and subjects, the iustices and gentlemen assembled at the generall sessions for the County of Devon. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06127 of text R185321 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1547). 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 B06127 Wing T1547 ESTC R185321 53299321 ocm 53299321 180048 2248537851

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06127) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180048) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2811:15) To the Kings most excellent Majestie. The most humble petition of your most faithfull servants and subjects, the iustices and gentlemen assembled at the generall sessions for the County of Devon. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Lawrence Blaikelocke, London, : 1642. Caption title. Initial letter. Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library. eng Anti-Catholicism -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Devon (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. B06127 R185321 (Wing T1547). civilwar no To the Kings most excellent Maiestie. The most humble petition of your most faithfull servants & subiects, the iustices and gentlemen assemb [no entry] 1642 1 448 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. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maiestie . The most humble Petition of your most faithfull Servants and Subiects , the Iustices and Gentlemen assembled at the generall Sessions for the County of Devon . Sheweth .

THat your Petitioners prest by the earnest complaints herewith humbly presented , and well experienced in your Princely Clemencie and Iustice , are thereby heartned to tender into your Royall hands both their and our most lowly and loyall desires .

It is not ( Dread Sovereigne ) the feare of Poverty that doth only or chiefly afflict us , though if things continue but a while in the present State , we see it comming unresistably as an armed man , nor yet of death if our lives might be spent in your Majesties service . But your Petitioners beholding Popery in Ireland prevayling ( that mercilesse Religion where it doth prevaile ) and in England too much countenanced . For our owne Consciences sake , and for the salvation of our infant Childrens soules , wee humbly beg your Majesty upon our knees to looke into the cause . Distractions in your Parliament . How can it be otherwise ? When Popish Lords are admitted to vote in your principall Affaires , and your chief Prelates appeare in a malevolent conjunction with them against the best proceedings . Oh! that the King of Kings would be pleased to put it into your Majesties Royall heart to sequester the different in Religion , to privacy , and your Bishops to their spirituall Callings , your Majesty would soon find ( as your Petitioners confidently believe ) an effectuall benefit and a present correspondencie . Had your Church Governours beene cordiall and substantiall in their duties , those swarmes of Papists in Ireland and England too , had ( probably ) been prevented .

If in your House of Commons any be suspected of ill affections , it is far from your Petitioners to desire their impunity , only your Petitioners implore , their faire tryall according to the Privilege of their Parliamentary places , wherein your Petitioners and their Posterity have an interest . To which wee undervalue all things , but our Religion and loyalty .

In the name of God let them there receive the fruit of their demerits . This Iustice as it will be a perpetuall comfort to your Majesty in your soul , so shall it be a reall and compleat satisfaction to your Petitioners , who as they are in all duty bound , will for ever pray for your Majesties temporall and eternall happinesse .

London , Printed for Lawrence Blaikelocke , 1642.