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A26103	A collection of svndry petitions presented to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie as also to the two most honourable houses, now assembled in Parliament, and others, already signed, by most of the gentry, ministers, and free-holders of severall counties, in behalfe of episcopacie, liturgie, and supportation of church-revenues, and suppression of schismaticks / collected by a faithful lover of the church, for the comfort of the dejected clergy, and all moderately affected Protestants.	Aston, Thomas, Sir, 1600-1645.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing A4073; ESTC R208748	30,703	48

A COLLECTION OF SVNDRY PETITIONS Presented to the KINGS Most excellent Majestie AS ALSO To the two most Honourable Houses now assembled in PARLIAMENT AND OTHERS Already signed by most of the Gentry Ministers and Free-holders of severall Counties in behalfe of Episcopacie Liturgie and supportation of Church-Revenues and suppression of Schismaticks Collected by a faithfull Lover of the Church for the comfort of the dejected Clergy and all moderatly affected Protestants Published by his Majesties speciall Command Ezek. 34.18 20 21 22 23 24. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture but you must tread downe with your feet the residue also Therefore thus saith the Lord God Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder and pusht all the diseased with your hornes till you have scattered them abroad therefore will I save my flock and they shall be no more a prey and I will judge betweene Cattell and Cattell And I will set up one Shepheard ouer them and he shall feede them even my servant David he shall feed them and he shall be their Shepheard J the Lord will be their God and my servant David a Prince among them J the Lord have spoken it Printed for William Sheares 1642. The Collector to the Reader READER LET mee put thee in mind as these times doe mee of a speciall Law in that singular Patterne of a well composed State Sparta So sensible were they of the ill effects of Innovations in Government that who ever proposed a new Law presented himselfe with a Halter about his neck his Head paid the trespasse of a new invented Prejudice But oh Quantum mutantur Tempora quantum nos So rare a gift have the illuminated fancies of this all-knowing age That old women without Spectacles can discover Popish plots young men and prentizes assume to regulate the Rebellion in Jreland Sea-men and Marriners Reforme the House of Peers Poore men Porters and Labourers spy out a malignant party and discipline them The countrey clouted-shoe renew the decayed trade of the Citie The Cobler patch up a Religion all these petition for a translation both of Church and State with so little feare of the Halter that they would thinke themselves neglected if they had not thanks for their care of the Re-publicke only he that desires the ratification of an old Law or of a long setled Ecclesiastick Government lookes as if the Halter were his share And though there be thirty thousand hands subscribed to it 'T is ods not one of all those dares preferre a Petition to that purpose Oh! Quis pudor quod non praestet fides quod praestitit infidelitas Oh! what a shame is it that an ignorant Seperatist shall covertly draw Subscribers out of blind zeale to loose papers and those to be annext to some Embryon yet unhatcht and delivered in the name of a County with confidence when a Knight of a shire shall perhaps smother the true child and dares not owne it That a few Innovators shall be able to summon to Black-heath South-warke and Saint-george his fields thousands of credulous people with implicite faiths to goe along with Petitions shall be shewed them when they come there for the alteration of Lawes and Government and the Resolutions of an assizes or Sessions of Iustices published in all Parishes signed by all the Free-holders of a County for the supportation of Lawes and Government shall not produce one Patriot to present the unanimous desires of a County yet it fals out often so when single hearted men are encounter'd by a faction each man thinkes he stands alone unassured of a second when ten of the other confederated make more noyse then 10000. silent men Episcopacy and Lyturgie are both legally planted at this time both violently assaulted The question is whether the battery or the defence be the stronger the one side charges furiously the other suffers silently patiently and a reserved strength oft masters a violent But each orthodox sonne of the Church thinkes himselfe in Eliahs case that hee alone is left of all the Prophets and alas what can hee doe And perhaps thou my Reader art one of those Courage man the same God that taught him to know he had reserved seven thousand that had never bowed their knees to Baall when he opens thy eyes can shew thee not seven but seventy times seven thousand true Protestants that will lend their hands and hearts to uphold that Apostolicke order this blessed forme of divine service The busines is 't is a hard time every man's afraid to breake his shins by being foremost But the Ice is broke already This Collection of these many sleeping Petitions wil shew every County that the way is open And since noise and number are taken into consideration the forwardnesse of the Assaylants will I beleeve put shame upon the Defendants to be so farre behind The Iudges being honourable and impartially receiving the arguments on both sides I presume none will discover a distrust of a faire acceptance or betray a Trust out of a personall respect by detayning such Petitions as the Counties have committed into their hands If all such as are already signed see the light I am sure this volume will be a large one and the Number and quality of the Defendants as much over-sway the Opponents as their arguments drawne from the Lawes of God and man will out-weigh the Motives of those who only will because they will As if it were cause enough to overthrow established Lawes that they have desired it though they shew no reason for it But if all other Counties all true Protestants with like liberty expresse their affections the distractions of the Church will be quickly setled To that good worke I have lent my hand by lending thee and the world this light Farewell A PETITION DELIVERED In to the Lords SPIRITUALL and TEMPORALL By Sir THOMAS ASTON Baronet from the County Palatine of Chester concerning EPISCOPACY To the High and Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT The Nobility Knights Gentry Ministers Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County Palatine of Chester whose Names are subscribed in the severall Schedules hereunto annexed Humbly shew THat whereas divers Petitions have lately beene carried about this County against the present forme of Church-governement and the hands of many persons of ordinary quality solicited to the same with pretence to bee presented to this Honourable Assembly which wee conceiving not so much to aime at Reformation as absolute Innovation of Government and such as must give a great advantage to the Adversaries of our Religion wee held it our duty to disavow them all And humbly pray that wee incurre no miscensure if any such clamours have without our privity assum'd the name of the County Wee as others are sensible of the common grievances of the Kingdome and have just cause to rejoyce at and acknowledge with thankefulnesse the pious care which is already taken for the suppressing of the growth of Popery the

our unanimous desires That the Government of this Church may continue as is now by Law established And that the Liturgy may bee setled with such alterations if there bee cause as your Wisdomes shall approve That the Lawes against Papists which oppose our Religion And against Sectaries of late dangerously encreased among us that trouble the Peace thereof may bee put in full execution And where those Lawes are defective such further remedy therein may bee provided as to your wisdomes shall seeme fit That a free Synod of Orthodox and peaceable Divines may bee convened according to the forme of the Primitive and Purest times of Christianity for composing of all differences in Doctrine and Ceremonies of Religion That the Safety of this County and Kingdome may bee provided for by the disposing of such a Militia as may consist with the native Liberties of the Subject That you would bee pleased to continue your Care in hastening the further Reliefe of our distressed Brethren in Ireland And your Petitioners shall bee ready to maintaine with their Lives and Estates his Majesties Person Honour and Estate together with the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. To the Most Honourable and High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Gentlemen and other of the Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall HAving seene and heard the many though scarce divers Petitions to this Honourable Assembly by the Inhabitants of divers Counties and Cities of this Land as also Corporations Companies and Trades some against Bishops some against the Common Prayer and all against such Iudiciall and things Super-elementary to the region of their capacity of judging and matters onely belonging to the Iudicature of this grave Synod which seemes either to distrust or direct or both your great Wisdomes Wee therefore the Gentlemen and other the Inhabitants of Cornwall with as many hearts though not hands with as many good willes though not persons not in imitation but rather by provocation and necessity in these times to shew our good minded affections doe humbly prostrate the utmost of our service to your feet In which or rather after which wee take leave humbly to begge THat you will bee pleased to bend your auxiliary and good affections to the redresse of the distresse of the miserable Protestants in Ireland To gaine whose good prosperity peace and tranquility to preserve the Soveraignty of that Land to our Royall King and to maintaine His and this Kingdomes Honour We shall willingly lay downe our lives and fortunes That you will bee pleased to continue your great respect dutifull love and true obedience to our Royall Soveraigne by maintaining his just and no way Antilegall Prerogative That you will bee pleased to put the Lawes in due execution against all Iesuites Seminaries Papists and Recusants That you will bee pleased to looke upon the other side and duly weighing the actions or rather factions of some whom most men call Citizens to scourge their irregular and disorderly Schisme and Hereticall Sects into right paths of serving God to frequent his House and to Pray as well as Heare to allow Order and obey Conformity to reverence Learning and bow to Authority to bee under a Discipline and live in order That you will bee pleased to maintaine and establish the Ancient Fundamentall and most venerable Lawes Order and Discipline both of our Church and Common-wealth to continue the reverenced Office and punish the offending persons of Bishops to have in high account and eternize as farre as in you lies the Divine and excellent forme of Common-prayer to correct braine-forg'd doctrine by your examplary precepts strike a Reverence of Gods House into every mans breast That you will bee pleased to intimate to the people your Honourable and wise intentions concerning Divine Service lest while you hold your peace some rejecting it in part others altogether they vainly conceive you countenance them Lastly not to trouble your great affaires any longer That you will bee pleased to take into your Sage consideration those Scandalous and ill-affected Pamphlets which fly abroad in such swarmes as are able to cloud the pure aire of Truth and present a darke ignorance to those who have not the two wings of Iustice and Knowledge to fly above them Now to polish this our worke with a smooth demonstration of our modest intents that the tinctures which in Introduction fell on the fore-mentioned presents may slide without a staine from this Wee doe in all humility declare that neither distrust of your intentions nor opinion of any of our Counsels worthy your eares ever tainted our thoughts but that wee have still beene and are confident that this most wise Synod hath ever thought fit resolv'd and will confirme into action what wee now humbly request therefore this our present not so much a Petition as a Prayer of willing and thankefull hearts for the hoped sequell is onely to shew our true intentions and good will towards his gracious Majesty and this High Court as Instruments of the peace of our soules and bodies for which wee are unanimously and immutably resolv'd to spend our dearest bloud Published by I.B. Gent. To the Right Honourable the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in the high Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Knights Esquires Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders and other Inhabitants within the County of HEREFORD Who Most humbly pray THat the present publique forme of Gods Worship and the Administration of the blessed Sacraments with other Rites agreeable to Gods holy Word and purest Antiquity which have beene sundry times established by godly Acts of Parliament may now againe in these broken and troubled times bee to Gods glory and the Churches Peace re-established and confirmed That Episcopacy being the Ancient and Primitive Government of the Church Renowned for Successes Victorious against Schismes and Heresies and especially of late yeares against that Hydra of Heresies the Roman Papacy Glorious for ancient and late Martyrdomes Happy before the corruption of Popery and since the Reformation in the plantation and preservation of Truth and Peace eminently serviceable to this Common-wealth most compliable with the Civill Government into the Fabrick and Body of which it is riverted and incorporated and most apt and easie at all times by the state to bee reduced into Order may for the future as formerly by your great authority bee continued and maintained for the glory of God the preservation of Order Peace and Vnity the Reformation and suppression of wickednesse and vice and the mature prevention of Schismes Factions and Seditions That Cathedrals the Monuments of our Forefathers Charity the reward of present Literature and furtherance of Piety bee also continued The which wee your humble Petitioners the more earnestly beseech your Honours to grant for that strange feares doe possesse our Hearts that the sudden Mutation of Government so long setled so well knowne and approved cannot recompence the Disturbances and Disorders which it may

of the Church of England Celebrious by the piety of the Bishops and Martyrs who composed it establisht by the supreame Lawes of this Land attested and approved by the best of all Forraigne Divines confirmed by the subscription of all the Ministry of this Land a Clergy 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 prophanenesse threats and force of such men who daily doe deprave it and neglect the use of it in divers Churches in despight of the Lawes established 4. That Episcopall Government as ancient in this Iland as Christianity it selfe deduced and dispersed throughout the Christian world even from the Apostlicall times may bee 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 great Worke whose choyce to be by all the Clergy of the Land because all the Clergy are to bee 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 confirmed by Magna Charta 6. That some speedy and good provision may be made as by his Majesty hath beene and is by all good men desired against the odious and abominable scandall of schismaticall and seditious Sermons and Pamphlets and some severe Law made against Lay-men for daring to arrogate to themselves and to execute the holy function of the Ministry who some of them doe sow their impious and discontented Doctrine even in sacred places by abuse of sacred Ordinances to the advancing of Heresie Schisme Prophanenesse Libertinisme Anabaptisme and Atheisme 7. That if the coertive power of Ecclesiasticall Courts by way of Excommunication be already abrogated or shall be thought fit so to be that there be some other power 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 repayring of Churches Probate of Wils Church assesses providing Bread and Wine for the Communion and choyce 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 powerfull 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 will 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 bee left to the discretion of Governours as little as may bee but that the number of Armes and what measure of punishment shall bee inflicted upon the offendours may bee expresly set downe in the Act and not left to any Arbitrary power and that according to the president of former Lawes the offendours may not bee tried out of the County 12. That the precious liberty of the Subject the Common birth-right of every English man may bee 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 bee fully enacted by Parliament 13. That his Majesties gracious Message of the 20. of Jan. 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 just and Regall Authority the establishing his Revenue may bee taken into speedy consideration the effecting whereof will satisfie the desires of all us his faithfull and loving Subjects 14. That all possible care may bee taken that the Native Commodities of this Kingdome may have a quick Vent and that Cloathing and other Manufactures may bee improved wherein the livelihood of many thousands doe consist and that Trade may bee ballanced that the importation doe 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 Traffick Fishing in the Coasts Fulling earth that our Sea Forts may bee repaired and our Magazines renewed 16. That you please to consider the generall poverty that seemes to overgrow this Kingdome 17. Lastly Wee humbly beseech you to consider the sad condition that wee and the whole Land are in if a good understanding bee not speedily renewed betweene his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament Our hopes are yet above our feares secure them wee beseech you God direct and guide your consultations for the removing of all distrusts and Iealousies for the renuing that tye of confidence and trust which is the highest happinesse betweene our gracious Prince and his loving Subjects And you shall have the dayly prayers of your humble Oratours of the Commonalty of Kent To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of the Baronets Knights Esquires Gentlemen Clergy-men Free-holders Subsidy-men and others of good Rank and Quality in the County of OXFORD Agreed upon and subscribed at the times of their meetings to take the Protestation sent unto them Humbly shewing THat whereas some Petitions have beene exposed in print the common view under the names of the Knights Gentlemen Freeholders Subsidy-men of the best Ranke and Quality of the County of Oxford as preferred to the Honourable House of Parliament Wee doe hereby crave leave to shew to this Honourable House that such Petitions have not received Publique Examination among us at any Generall meeting directed by Authority for the service of the County ANd wee your now Petitioners knowing our selves to bee to Major part of those degrees within this County and as desirous to expresse our Gratitude in this Honourable House for your unwearied labours and the happy effects thereof for the good of this Land and State doe hereby offer up in all Humility the greatest expression of our Thankefulnesse And in like manner