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book_n	esq_n	thomas_n	william_n	2,797	5	9.0689	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71065	To the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Commons House in Parliament now assembled the humble, a, petition of Iohn, b, Salvin in the county of Durham, gent.	Salvin, John, 1621 or 2-1672.	1642 (1642)	Wing S520; ESTC R15633	6,413	18

26000. pounds the publique necessities not affording it rests contented 2. That none of the Contributors of that County have occasion in that deplorable way to presse upon your Honours for reliefe as your Petitioner hath First for that he is necessarily to be here in towne about his urgent affaires Secondly for that hee hath two daughters in London the one newly come out of Ireland in want and out of service the other very weak and infirme spitting blood and not able to make service both of them with your Petitioner like to perish for want of sustenance 3. That in the stories of all Commonwealths their benefactors have been found to have if not reward yet in time of distresse reliefe wherefore your Petitioner doth humbly implore the Honourable House of Commons to take pitty of him and to repay your Petitioner in this his time of great need for reliefe of him and his poore children the moneyes hee in duty layd downe for the Common-good And he and they shall daily pray c. a Discovering in the practises of the Bishop of Durham the hypocrisie and tyranny of the Prelates b Discovering in his private sufferings the present dangers and grievances of the County and the Kingdome c As a witnesse between Mr. Smart and Doctor Cousins for which by the procurement of the Doctor and his Popish adherents this Petitioner is highly maligned of his friends with whom they being Papists the Doctor sideth d Rebecca Salvin his mother George Collingwood his uncle Lancelot Holby This George Collingwood is a very dangerous Papist in great favour with the Bishop an agent for the Benedictines and their Monasteries and was a collectour in our County for those monies the Papists by way of benevolence gave the Queene towards the maintenance of the wars against the Scots This Lancelot Holby is a dangerous Papist in favour with the Bishop and his officers and a Factour and Agent for the Iesuits and their Colledges beyond the seas and doth sue in their behalfe for monies c. e Doctor Cousins viewing the Altar at Dalden being demanded by Mr. Collingwood what he thought thereof made answer that if he had an auditory that did understand latine he would say Masse unto them for he holdeth the Romans missall and the new Service booke intended for Scotland not to differ either in practise of Ceremony or point of Doctrine And Mr. Maxton a Prebend of the Church of Durham tooke a comparison from a paire of bandstrings saying there was no more difference betwixt the Service booke intended for Scotland and the booke of Common praier then if one paire of the strings should be but a haire breadth longer then the other f Dalden and Hebborne are places neare and adjoining to the sea from whence are exported and imported Priests Iesuits Students monies bookes or what be advantagious to the Papists g Sir William Blaxton deceased Gerard Salvin Esq living h To Sir William Darcy at one time sixty pound to Mr. William Mallory one forty pound and other monyes since much monies to Mr. Thomas Laton and William Friseul i Rowland Place of Dinsdale Esq N. Cooke of Redmarshall The poore of Medridge k The petitioners mother being a Papist presently after his fathers death took him from Saint Julians a Protestant Schoole in Harfordshire and sent him beyond the seas to be brought up in popery to which being very young hee was by farre words soone wonne but having since discovered the falsehood and treachery of that religion is become a true and sincere Protestant and hath converted all his children whom he so educateth for which his mother denieth him and them that maintenance that should come from naturall and loving parents l By his tenant conspiring with his Papist friends who labour to buy his lands at a great undervalue knowing the petitioner to be at a very low eb not able for the present to help himselfe under an unjust pretence to have a lease to be made to him by the petitioner for his life will come to no account nor let him have his lands m Assisted by Edward Wright the Counsellor at Law who with them and the priest of Dalden hath had meetings to that purpose the petitioners mother and uncle having wonne Edward Wright by great fees and large gifts my uncle holding this maxime never to faile viz. That a man with money enough may prevaile let his sute be never so unjust and may moreover wade through felony murther and the like treason only excepted in some of which he hath had successe for himselfe and others n Knowne to the whole County for which they are accounted monstruous o Where Lancelot Holby as I am credibly informed holdeth suspicious and dangerous meetings FINIS