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A74785	The humble petition of the Lord Major, aldermen, and commons of the City of London, in Common-councell assembled. To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in High Court of Parliament.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Thomason E419_1; ESTC R202440	2,862	13

The humble PETITION OF THE Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common-councell ASSEMBLED To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in High Court of PARLIAMENT Printed by Richard Cotes Printer to the Honorable City of LONDON TO THE HONOVRABLE THE House of Commons ASSEMBLED In High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common councell assembled Sheweth THat your Petitioners doe with all readinesse acknowledg the High Court of Parliament to bee the supreame Power and Judicatory in this Kingdome constituted for the defence and contrivement of the safety and freedome of this Nation unto whom all other Powers and Societies of men ought to submit with their utmost ability to assist and support in whose well-being and happy progresse the peaceable and slourishing condition of this Nation doth principally consist The contempt and overthrow of whose power and authority cannot but bee the wofull inlet to all Tyranny and confusion the peoples slavery and the Lawes subversion And your Petitioners doe with all thankfulnesse acknowledge and remember the unwearied paines uncessant labour and constant indeavours of this present Parliament in the common cause of God and this Kingdome wherein though your enemies have been many and great their oppositions strong their counsells deepe and your discouragements not a few Yet through the good hand of God upon you with the united assistance of our Brethren of Scotland and the well-affected people of this Kingdome joyned together in a solemne League and C1ovenant whose lives and treasure under God became your Bulwark among whom this Citie hath been by you often acknowledged to bee contributers of an ample share Your enemies have been dispersed their counsells broken your endeavours crowned with honour and your Armies rest successefull And though the long desired fruits of peace of freedome and common Justice the easing of the peoples burthens and reforming of abuses have been much obstructed and retarded by the necessities of a long continued warre the sad divisions amongst all orders and societies of men in the Kingdome the feares of apparent dangers and suddaine changes to arise thereby yet when your Petitioners looke upon their exemption from monopolies and other illegall impositions the deliverances they have had from the power and tyranny of the Prelats and their vexatious Courts the demolishing of the High-Commission Star-Chamber and that unparallel'd benefit and freedome this Kingdome now enjoyes in the removall of the Court of Wards whereby the persons the posterities and estates of the Subjects were so much incumbred and inthral'd all which by many are ungratefully forgotten and cast out of mind and which therefore out of duty your Petitioners have imboldned themselves thus publiquely to enumerate they cannot choose but with renewed hopes expect ere long to see the Kingdome flourish and their troubles ended And when your Petitioners do consider how not many months agon the whole Kingdom seemed to be reduced to the obedience of the Parliament their Brethren of Scotland returned home with good content the City replenished againe with Inhabitants the exchange of moneys with forraigne Nations brought into a good Medium Trade in a prosperous condition the Excise and Customes increasing thereby a way of settlement agreed upon by the Parliaments of both Nations and all things looking with a face of quietnesse and sweet composure They cannot but with griefe of heart remember the unhappy disagreement betweene the Parliament and Army and that late dangerous ingagement which as it was set on foot in or about this City without their knowledge or consent so they doe utterly disavow and abhorre it Those many discontents and great disturbances which accompanied the same and followed thereupon both to Parliament and City Those unparalleld outrages and affronts committed by Reformadoes and other tumultuous and discontented persons upon both Houses and the Armies advancing towards this City The Common-Councell hurried into a Declaration and into divers Military preparations intended by them for no other end but the safety of Parliament and City Whereupon hath followed the free-quartering of the Army about the City which hath occasioned the dearnesse of Provisions and given opportunity to evill minded persons to soment differences and discontents both in the City and Army and hath caused forraigne Nations and others to call home and remove their stockes to parts beyond the Seas to the great decay of trade in this Citie and Kingdome and by the disproportion of exchange this Kingdome is not onely deprived of forraign Bullyon but through the incouragement taken thereby have their owne coyn transported away That your Petitioners are deeply sensible of the great displeasure of the Parliament towards this City manifested in the limiting the extent of their Militia taking away the nomination of the Persons intrusted therewith and of the Lievtenancy of the Tower of London the guarding of the Parliament and Tower with Souldiers of the Army the imprisoning of their Recorder severall Aldermen and other Members of this City Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray That the Honor Power and Priviledges of Parliament may by your Wisdome and Justice be inviolably preserved That the Army may be so provided for that they may be enabled to remove their Quarters to a farther distance from the City whereby the price of Provisions may be abated and Trade encouraged That Free-quarter may be prevented and supernumerary Forces disbanded That a more vigorous course may bee taken in setling of the Peace and Government of the Kingdome so long desired That the Covenant may be duly observed That all wel-affected Persons that have adhered to the Parliament may be effectually protected and defended That the Recorder Aldermen and other Citizens now imprisoned so as it may stand with the Honor and Wisdome of Parliament may be enlarged which your Petitioners shall esteem a great favor to this City And that all the late unhappy proceedings as unto this City and Members thereof may be forgotten and obliterated That your Petitioners may enjoy the splendor of your former favors and be thereby enabled to be the more serviceable to the preservation of the Parliament and City and re-uniting of all that are wel-affected thereunto Which is their most earnest and hearty desire And your Petitioners shall pray c. Die Mercurii 1. Decembr ' 1647. THE Lords have commanded me to let you know that they return you Thanks for the acknowledgments you now make for the benefits received by this Parliament and for the care of the Honor and Priviledges of Parliament as the supreme Court and Judicatory of this Kingdome Together with those good affections which are very largely and seasonably expressed by this your Petition They desire you to bee assured that they will improve their utmost endeavors for the easing of the burdens that lie upon the Kingdome for the procuring of a just and safe Peace neither wil they omit any meanes that may restore aga in the City of London unto a flourishing and happy condition in respect of Trade as a return for those great and faithfull services that they have done to the Parliament and Kingdom As to the other particulars in the Petition which relate to the Power of this House they shall take them into their consideration and doe therein what shall bee according to Honor and Justice Job Brown Cler. Parliamentorum Die Mercurij 1. Decembr 1647. THe House being informed that the Sheriffe and divers Aldermen and Common-Councell men were at the doore desiring to preferre a Petition to the House They were called in and Sheriffe Bide acquainted the House that they were commanded by the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons in Common-Councell assembled to preferre a Petition from them to this House the which the Petitioners being withdrawne was read Resolved c. THat this shall bee the substance of the answer to the Citizens Viz. To give them thankes for the expression of their good affections to the Parliament that as to the desires in their Petition in some of them order hath been taken already some are under consideration as that concerning free quarter and other and as to their last desire touching some members of the Citie that lye under restraint the house will speedily doe therein what may consist with the justice and honor of this House The Citizens were againe called in and Mr. Speaker by the command of the House gave them the substance of the aforesaid answer Hen. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS