The
Humble
Petition
of
the
Citie
of
Bristoll
to
his
MAjESTY
for
an
Accommodation
of
Peace
betwixt
himselfe
and
PARLIAMENT
.
May
it
please
your
sacred
Majesty
,
The
lingering
calamities
of
this
present
〈◇〉
having
with
its
hideous
and
tumultuous
noyse
awakened
the
sleeping
tongues
of
your
Majesties
loyal
subj
cts
especially
those
of
the
greatest
and
wealthiest
Citie
of
your
Dominions
,
the
honourable
the
City
of
London
,
to
invoke
your
Royall
assistance
and
suffrage
for
the
establishing
an
unanimous
tranquillity
throughout
this
Realme
,
by
which
example
excited
(
though
we
should
have
willingly
been
the
formost
suitors
for
the
effecting
so
holy
and
just
a
purpose
)
wee
the
Inhabitants
of
your
Majesties
City
of
Bristoll
,
uninferiour
(
in
loyaltie
to
your
sacred
Person
)
to
no
City
in
this
Kingdome
,
and
equall
to
any
,
except
London
,
in
this
the
Realme
of
England
,
for
importance
of
trade
,
and
number
of
Inhabitants
,
esteemed
our selves
in
our
duty
to
God
,
and
abounden
allegeance
to
your
Majesty
injoyned
,
not
to
be
the
last
who
should
present
your
Highnesse
with
the
humble
intimation
of
our
grievances
and
zealous
desires
for
the
good
of
your
Majestie
,
and
the
peace
of
your
Dominions
.
May
it
therefore
please
your
sacred
clemency
and
goodnesse
,
seriously
to
ponder
with
what
superaboundant
felicity
and
daily
blessings
of
the
Almighty
,
all
your
Majesties
good
subjects
,
and
wee
the
Inhabitants
of
this
City
have
been
filled
full
even
with
plenty
,
during
the
peacefull
raign
of
your
Royall
Father
,
of
blessed
and
famous
memory
,
nay
,
during
divers
yeeres
of
your
Majesties
raigne
(
which
God
long
continue
over
us
)
and
then
but
with
the
eyes
of
your
Royall
clemency
and
pity
be
pleased
to
take
a
strict
survey
of
the
face
of
things
in
this
your
Kingdome
of
England
at
this
instant
,
and
surely
your
Majesty
will
finde
it
as
full
of
horror
and
wrath
as
any
object
which
can
incounter
humane
eye-sight
,
appearing
meerly
the
Ghost
of
that
England
which
it
was
so
lately
;
in
stead
of
the
continuall
and
gainfull
trade
and
commerce
which
all
the
maritime
towns
,
in
especiall
this
City
of
Bristoll
had
into
forraigne
parts
;
our
Ships
lie
now
rotting
in
the
Harbor
without
any
Mariners
or
fraught
,
or
trade
into
forraigne
parts
,
by
reason
of
our
home-bred
distractions
,
being
growne
so
contemptible
and
despised
there
,
that
our
credits
are
of
no
value
,
wee
being
(
through
the
misfortune
of
our
nation
)
reputed
abroad
as
men
meerly
undone
at
home
;
and
what
detriment
this
discontinuance
of
traffique
with
forraigne
nations
may
beget
and
bring
forth
,
both
to
your
Majesties
particular
revenue
,
by
decay
of
the
emolument
of
customes
,
and
to
the
Subject
in
generall
by
the
want
of
exportment
and
importment
of
commodities
,
cannot
to
your
sacred
wisdome
be
unknowne
:
but
this
as
the
least
of
all
the
ills
which
your
Majesty
may
behold
incumbring
and
oppressing
us
and
all
your
Subjects
;
no
man
injoyes
his
life
,
his
wife
,
children
,
family
or
estate
in
safety
this
day
,
producing
effects
of
ruine
in
those
places
,
and
on
those
persons
who
in
the
foregoing
night
were
rich
and
happy
;
so
that
unspeakeable
is
our
misery
,
unutterable
our
grievances
,
fathers
being
ingaged
enemies
against
sons
,
and
sons
against
fathers
;
every
good
Towne
and
City
,
as
this
your
City
of
Bristoll
,
being
inforced
to
their
great
and
infinite
expence
,
to
maintaine
garrisons
and
courts
of
guards
for
their
security
,
which
takes
away
all
sense
of
our
formmer
happinesse
,
our
sleeps
being
disturbed
by
the
surley
noyse
of
Drums
,
we
overwhelmed
with
an
increasing
perpetuity
of
cares
and
troubles
,
such
as
no
time
nor
history
hath
scarce
mentioned
in
this
Kingdome
,
neither
in
the
Barons
nor
any
other
civill
warres
:
Your
Majesty
being
,
at
it
were
,
divorced
from
those
husbands
of
the
Common-wealth
,
the
honourable
the
high
Court
of
Parliament
who
have
made
so
frequent
and
so
reall
expresses
of
their
duty
and
zeale
to
the
service
and
advancement
of
your
Majesties
affaires
,
onely
desiring
that
your
gracious
Majesty
would
please
to
desert
and
give
off
the
councells
of
such
notorious
Malignants
,
as
for
their
owne
sinister
and
unworthy
ends
aime
at
the
ruine
of
the
Commonwealth
,
and
destruction
of
the
essences
of
Parliament
,
to
which
are
conterminated
and
confined
the
liberty
and
right
of
the
English
Subject
.
Furthermore
,
may
it
please
to
take
into
consideration
of
your
sacred
Majesty
,
what
strange
and
uncouth
distractions
that
have
lately
broken
forth
into
the
Church
of
England
,
sometimes
the
glory
of
all
the
reformed
Churches
,
the
too
much
power
of
the
Prelacie
in
forcing
new
Canons
and
unheard
of
doctrines
upon
us
,
such
as
have
corrosives
to
the
hearts
,
and
goads
in
the
sides
of
most
of
the
religious
and
well-affected
persons
to
Church
and
Commonwealth
in
these
your
Majsties
Dominions
,
which
have
been
the
immediate
and
efficient
causes
of
the
many
dissentions
and
troubles
now
raigning
in
this
Realme
,
no
oppression
being
so
forcible
or
oppressive
to
mens
consciences
,
as
that
which
is
intruded
on
them
concerning
their
Beliefe
and
the
worship
of
God
.
In
consideration
of
all
which
troubles
and
unhappy
dissentions
,
wee
your
Majesties
most
faithfull
and
humble
Subjects
the
Inhabitants
of
your
good
and
loyall
City
of
Bristoll
,
in
all
duty
to
your
sacred
Crowne
and
Dignity
,
implore
and
beseech
,
that
taking
these
grievances
aforesaid
into
your
royall
thoughts
,
you
would
vouchsafe
us
the
speediest
meanes
that
may
conclude
the
differences
both
in
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
to
devise
some
speedy
way
for
a
reconciliation
and
perfect
Accommodation
of
peace
betweene
your
gracious
selfe
and
your
high
Court
of
Parliament
,
which
hath
alwayes
been
the
happiest
Councell
of
your
famous
Ancestors
,
and
still
prompt
in
all
obedience
to
serve
the
intentions
and
purposes
of
your
Majesty
,
and
so
to
rectifie
all
abuses
in
the
Church
,
and
finish
all
the
bleeding
dissentions
of
the
Kingdome
,
that
peace
and
happinesse
may
flourish
in
the
rest
of
your
Majesties
raigne
,
and
the
blessings
of
peace
fall
upon
us
your
people
,
and
we
your
humble
Petitioners
and
obedient
Subjects
,
shall
as
wee
are
ingaged
in
all
duty
,
ever
pray
for
your
gracious
Majesties
increase
of
temporall
felicity
in
this
life
,
and
eternall
happinesse
in
the
world
to
come
.
His
Majesties
gracious
Answer
to
the
Petition
of
the
Citie
of
Bristoll
,
delivered
to
them
by
my
Lord
Faulkland
,
Principall
Secretarie
of
State
.
HIs
Majestie
hath
received
your
Petition
,
and
is
verie
well
pleased
with
this
early
demonstration
of
your
dutie
,
and
accepts
in
verie
good
part
your
heartie
advices
to
Him
;
which
His
Majestie
(
as
far
forth
,
as
for
the
present
can
be
correspondent
to
his
occasions
)
is
resolved
to
hearken
unto
,
and
put
in
practice
.
The
many
distractions
that
are
now
immergent
in
these
his
Majesties
Dominions
,
He
commanded
me
to
let
you
know
,
that
He
hath
as
tender
a
sense
and
compassion
of
the
afflictions
of
his
good
Subjects
,
as
they
possibly
can
have
themselves
,
that
Hee
hath
neither
fought
the
continuation
of
these
dissentions
,
nor
will
ever
cherish
them
;
but
use
and
employ
his
best
possibilitie
and
endevours
,
for
the
establishing
and
reconsuming
peace
and
quietnesse
among
all
His
Majesties
Subjects
,
that
everie
man
may
follow
his
vocation
to
his
best
profit
,
that
traffique
and
commerce
with
forraine
Nations
may
be
continued
and
promoted
,
and
all
the
fruits
of
peace
may
bee
multiplyed
amongst
you
.
For
the
abuses
and
innovations
that
have
lately
happened
in
the
Church
of
England
(
to
the
grievance
of
many
mens
consciences
)
His
Majestie
declares
,
that
as
Hee
is
ignorant
of
the
said
innovations
,
so
Hee
will
be
alwayes
ready
to
expurge
and
take
away
all
such
innovations
,
being
resolute
,
as
He
is
Defender
of
the
Faith
,
to
propugne
,
and
maintaine
no
other
religion
,
but
the
Orthodox
established
Doctrine
of
the
Church
of
England
,
which
hath
so
flourished
under
the
reignes
of
his
glorious
Predecessours
.
That
for
the
insolencie
and
pride
of
the
Prelacie
,
His
Royall
Majestie
never
intended
to
patronize
,
or
protect
the
vices
of
the
men
;
but
what
their
deserts
are
,
or
have
been
,
according
to
the
nature
of
their
crimes
,
they
shall
suffer
the
justice
of
the
Law
,
of
which
Himselfe
being
the
Fountaine
and
Protectour
,
will
never
be
either
the
Diminisher
or
Infringer
.
For
his
difference
betweene
Himselfe
and
His
High
Court
of
Parliament
,
His
Majestie
protests
with
all
integririe
,
that
there
is
nothing
in
the
world
more
coveted
by
Him
,
than
a
speedy
and
faire
attonement
with
that
Honourable
Assembly
:
nor
any
thing
that
has
or
does
more
afflict
,
or
disturb
his
Royall
temper
,
than
that
He
hath
been
enforced
to
absent
Himselfe
so
long
from
their
Association
and
Councels
,
to
which
Hee
alwayes
hath
given
much
honour
,
and
esteemed
them
as
the
principall
and
securest
advice
,
both
for
His
owne
good
,
and
the
benefit
of
His
People
.
And
therefore
,
as
a
finall
resolution
and
determinate
answer
.
His
Majestie
by
me
declares
to
you
,
that
He
will
ever
make
it
his
uttermost
endevour
,
to
preserve
the
liberties
and
fortunes
of
all
His
good
Subjects
;
and
that
He
will
bestow
as
provident
and
pious
an
eye
upon
your
Citie
of
Bristoll
,
as
upon
any
Citie
or
Towne
in
this
Kingdome
.
And
for
a
reconciliation
with
His
High
Court
of
Parliamet
,
His
Majestie
gives
you
His
Royall
thanks
,
for
that
loyall
and
faithfull
advice
,
which
His
Highnesse
resolves
to
put
in
practice
,
with
all
the
celeritie
his
occasions
will
permit
,
not
doubting
but
ere
many
dayes
passe
,
to
reduce
His
affaires
to
that
conformable
condition
,
as
to
finish
all
jars
and
contentions
betwixt
Himselfe
and
Parliament
,
by
an
happie
union
,
that
you
and
all
his
good
Subjects
may
have
their
desires
,
by
the
establishment
of
a
constant
peace
in
these
His
Dominions
.
FINIS
.