To
the
Honourable
House
of
Commons
Assembled
in
PARLIAMENT
.
The
Humble
Petition
of
the
Gentry
,
Ministers
,
and
Commonnalty
of
the
County
of
Kent
,
agreed
upon
,
at
the
geneerall
Assizes
of
the
County
.
Most
humbly
sheweth
,
THat
wee
cannot
but
take
notice
,
how
welcome
to
this
Honorable
House
,
many
Petitions
have
beene
,
which
yet
came
not
from
an
Assembled
body
of
any
County
(
as
this
doth
)
we
do
therefore
hope
to
finde
as
gentle
and
favourable
a
reception
of
this
as
any
other
have
found
of
their
Petitions
,
our
hearts
witnessing
unto
us
,
as
good
,
peaceable
,
and
pious
purposes
as
the
best
.
These
are
therefore
the
true
and
Ardent
desires
of
this
County
.
-
1.
That
you
will
be
pleased
to
accept
our
due
and
hearty
thanks
for
those
excellent
Laws
(
which
by
his
Majesties
grace
&
goodnes
)
you
have
obtained
for
us
.
-
2.
That
all
Laws
against
Papists
,
be
put
in
due
execu●ion
,
and
an
accompt
taken
of
their
disarming
,
and
that
all
Children
of
the
Papists
,
may
be
brought
up
in
the
reformed
Religion
.
-
3.
That
the
Solemne
Litturgy
of
the
Church
of
England
(
Celebrious
by
the
piety
of
the
Bishops
and
Martyrs
who
composed
it
)
establisht
by
the
supream
Laws
of
this
Land
,
attested
and
approved
by
the
best
of
all
Forraigne
Divines
,
confirmed
by
the
suscription
of
all
the
Ministry
of
this
Land
.
A
Cleargy
as
able
and
Learned
as
any
in
the
Christian
world
ere
injoyed
,
and
with
a
holy
love
embraced
by
the
most
and
best
of
all
the
Laity
,
that
this
holy
exercise
of
Religion
may
by
your
Authority
be
injoyed
quiet
and
free
from
interruptions
,
scornes
,
prophanenes
,
threats
and
force
of
such
men
,
who
dayly
do
deprave
it
,
and
neglect
the
use
of
it
in
divers
Churches
,
in
despight
of
the
Laws
established
.
-
4.
That
Episcopall
Government
,
as
Ancient
in
this
Iland
as
Christianity
it selfe
,
deduced
and
dispersed
throughout
the
Christian
world
,
even
from
the
Apostolicall
times
,
may
be
preserved
(
as
the
most
pious
most
prudent
,
and
most
safe
Government
)
for
the
peace
of
the
Church
.
-
5.
That
all
differences
concerning
.
Religion
and
Ceremonies
,
may
be
referred
to
a
Lawfull
,
free
,
and
Nationall
Synod
,
as
your
Remonstrance
promiseth
,
to
a
generall
Synod
of
most
grave
,
learned
,
pious
and
Iudicious
Divines
,
(
the
proper
Agents
)
whose
interests
,
gifts
,
and
callings
,
may
quicken
them
in
that
gret
Worke
,
whose
choyce
to
be
by
all
the
Cleargy
of
the
Land
,
because
all
the
Cleargy
are
to
be
bound
by
their
Resolutions
,
and
the
determination
of
this
Synod
to
bind
us
all
,
when
you
have
first
formed
them
into
a
Law
,
and
this
we
take
to
be
according
to
the
ancient
and
fundamentall
Law
of
this
Land
,
confi●med
by
Magna
Charta
.
-
6.
That
some
speedy
and
good
provision
may
be
made
(
as
by
his
Majesty
hath
been
and
is
by
all
good
men
desired
)
against
the
odious
and
abominable
scandall
of
schismatical
and
seditious
Sermons
and
Pamphlets
,
and
some
severe
Law
made
against
Lay
men
,
for
daring
to
arrogate
to
themselves
&
to
execute
the
holy
function
of
the
Ministry
,
who
(
some
of
them
)
do
sow
their
impious
and
discontented
Doctrin
even
in
Sacred
places
,
by
abuse
of
Sacred
Ordinances
,
to
the
advancing
of
Heresie
,
Schisme
,
Profanenesse
,
Libertinisme
,
Anabaptisme
,
and
Atheisme
.
-
7.
That
if
the
coertive
power
of
Ecclesiasticall
Courts
by
way
of
Excommunication
bee
already
abrogated
,
or
shal
be
thought
fit
so
to
be
,
that
there
be
some
other
power
and
authority
speedily
established
,
for
suppressing
the
heynous
and
now
so
much
abounding
sins
of
Incest
,
Adultery
,
and
Fornication
,
and
other
crimes
,
and
for
recovering
Tythes
,
repairing
of
Churches
,
Probate
of
Wills
,
Church
assesses
,
providing
bread
and
Wine
for
the
Communion
,
&
choice
of
Church-wardens
,
and
other
officers
in
the
Church
and
especially
for
Ministers
,
who
neglect
the
Celebrating
of
the
Holy
Communion
,
and
the
Parishioners
for
not
receiving
.
-
8.
That
the
Professors
of
that
Learned
faculty
of
the
Civill
Law
,
and
(
without
which
this
Kingdome
cannot
but
suffer
manifold
inconveniences
)
may
not
find
discouragements
,
and
so
divert
their
Studies
and
Professions
.
-
9.
That
honour
and
profits
the
powerful
encouragements
of
industry
,
Learning
,
and
Piety
,
may
be
preserved
without
further
dimination
to
the
Clergy
.
-
10.
That
you
please
sadly
to
consider
the
bleeding
wounds
of
our
Brethren
in
Ireland
,
and
with
speedy
succours
endeavour
to
preserve
them
,
whereunto
his
Majesty
hath
promised
a
gracious
concurrence
.
-
11.
That
you
please
to
frame
an
especiall
Law
for
the
Regulating
of
the
Militia
of
this
Kingdome
,
so
that
the
Subject
may
know
how
at
once
to
obey
both
his
Majesty
and
both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
a
Law
whereby
may
be
left
to
the
discretion
of
Governors
,
as
little
as
may
be
,
but
that
the
number
of
Armes
and
what
measure
of
punishment
shall
be
inflicted
upon
the
offendors
,
may
be
expresly
set
down
in
the
Act
,
and
not
left
to
any
Arbitrary
power
,
and
that
according
to
the
president
of
former
Lawes
the
offendors
may
not
be
tryed
out
of
the
County
.
-
12.
That
the
Precious
Liberty
of
the
Subject
(
the
common
birth
right
of
every
Englishman
)
may
be
as
in
all
these
points
preserved
entire
,
so
in
this
also
,
that
no
order
of
either
of
both
Houses
not
grounded
on
the
Lawes
of
this
Land
,
may
be
enforced
on
the
Subject
,
till
it
be
fully
enacted
by
parliament
.
-
13.
That
his
Majesties
gracious
Message
of
the
20.
of
Ian.
last
,
for
the
present
and
future
establishment
of
the
Priviledges
of
Parliament
,
the
free
enjoying
of
our
estates
and
Fortunes
,
the
liberty
of
our
persons
,
the
security
of
the
true
Religion
professed
,
the
maintaining
of
his
Majesties
Iust
and
Regall
Authority
,
the
establishing
his
Revenue
,
may
be
taken
into
speedy
consideration
,
the
effecting
whereof
wil
satisfie
the
desires
of
all
us
,
his
faithfull
and
loving
Subjects
,
-
14.
That
all
possible
care
may
be
taken
,
that
the
Native
Commodities
of
this
Kingdome
,
may
have
a
quicke
vent
,
and
that
Cloathing
,
and
other
Manufactures
may
be
improved
,
wherein
the
livelyhood
of
many
thousands
do
consist
,
and
that
Trade
may
bee
ballanced
,
that
the
importation
do
not
exceed
the
exportation
,
otherwise
it
will
prove
a
consumption
of
the
Land
.
-
15.
That
you
please
to
frame
some
Lawes
concerning
Depopulations
,
Purveyances
,
Cart-taking
,
delayes
in
Iustice
,
Trafficke
,
Fishing
in
the
Coasts
,
Fulling
earth
,
that
out
Sea
Forts
may
be
repaired
,
and
our
Magazins
renewed
.
-
16.
That
you
please
to
consider
the
generall
poverty
that
seemes
to
overgrow
this
Kingdome
.
-
17.
Lastly
,
We
humbly
beseech
you
to
consider
the
sad
condition
,
that
we
and
the
whole
Land
are
in
,
if
a
good
understanding
be
not
speedily
renued
between
his
Majesty
and
both
houses
of
Parliament
.
Our
hopes
are
yet
above
our
feares
,
secure
them
we
beseech
you
,
God
direct
and
guide
your
consultations
for
the
removing
of
all
distrusts
and
Iealousies
,
for
the
renewing
that
tye
of
confidence
and
trust
,
(
which
is
the
highest
happines
)
between
our
gracious
Prince
,
and
his
loving
Subjects
.
And
you
shall
have
the
dayly
prayers
of
your
humble
Orators
of
the
Commonalty
of
Kent
.
To
meete
at
Blacke
Heath
the
29.
of
April
,
by
9.
of
the
Clocke
at
the
furthest
to
accompany
this
Pettion
to
the
Parliament
.
1642.
FINIS
.