To the high covrt of Parliament the humble petition of all colledges and halls, and other well-willers to piety and learning throughout the kingdome of England. University of Oxford. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09650 of text R181286 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O987). 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 2018 B09650 Wing O987 ESTC R181286 61297118 ocm 61297118 180644 2240886197

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TO THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT , The humble Petition of all Colledges and Halls , and others well-willers to Piety and Learning , throughout the Kingdome of England , SHEWETH

THAT whereas many Persons disaffected to the present forme of Government of the Church of England ( established not noly by the Ecclesiasticall , but also by the Common Law of this Realme , and diverse Acts of Parliament , ) have of late in great multitudes Petitioned this Honourable Court against the Orders , honour , jurisdiction , and meanes of the Clergie ; And have published such their desires in Print , and Pulpit , and dayly seeke to advance and propagate the same : To the great disheartning of all Learning , ( if such disignes find favour , ) the grievous scandall of the Reformed Religion as unstable , and the unspeakable advantage of our Enemies of Rome .

WE therefore ( well weighing , that the Seminaries must decay when the Garden shall be wasted , ) in all humility most heartily pray this Honourable Court , that all the Orders of holy Church , of Bishops , Priests , and Deacons , which from the Apostles times till these , have withstood so many Practices , may have yet hopes to flourish under Your gracious protection . And that by Your assistance under our most Religious Soveraigne the ancient Catholique Faith , and Discipline , may be defended from all Jnnovations , and novelties : The meanes and liberties of the Churches , as well Cathedrall , and Collegiat , as Parochiall to them hitherto of right belonging , according to the pious Wills of their blessed Founders , may be continued and preserved : Many thousand Families which on them depend secured from ruine : And that our Nation whose Lawes already favours as much as any in the world , the right of the First borne , may ratain Ecclesiasticall promotions , as the Patrimony of younger Children , the prize of Labour and Studie , an incitement of Learning , and a reward of those that can intitle themselues thereto by honest desert .

And Your Petitioners &c.