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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63496	A true copy of the petition of the centlewomen, [sic] and tradesmens-wives in and about the city of London Delivered, to the Honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, of the House of Commons in Parliament, the 4th. of February, 1641. Together, with the reasons why their sex ought thus to petition, as well as the men; and the manner how both their petition and reasons was delivered. Likewise the answer which the honourable assembly sent to them by Mr. Pym, as they stood at the House-doore. Whereunto is added the prophesie of old Sybilla.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing T2657A; ESTC R222532	4,024	11

A TRUE COPY OF THE PETITION OF THE CENTLEWOMEN and Tradesmens-Wives in and about the City of LONDON Delivered To the Honourable the KNIGHTS Citizens and Burgesses of the House of COMMONS in Parliament the 4th of February 1641. Together With the Reasons why their Sex ought thus to Petition as well as the Men and the manner how both their Petition and Reasons was delivered Likewise the Answer which the Honourable Assembly sent to them by Mr. Pym as they stood at the House-doore Whereunto is added the Prophesie of old Sybilla LONDON Printed for Iohn Bull dwelling in Grubstreet 1642. TO THE HONOVRABLE Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT The most humble PETITION of the Gentlewomen Trades-mens-wives and many others of the Femall Sex all Inhabitants of the City of LONDON and the Suburbs thereof With lowest submission shewing THat we also with all thankfull humilty acknowledging the unwearied paines care and great charge besides hazatd of health and life which you the noble Worthies of this Honourable and Renowned Assembly have undergone for safetie both of Church and Common-wealth for a long time already past for which not only we your humble Petitioners and all well affected in this Kingdome but also all other good Christians are bound now and at all times to acknowledge yet notwithstanding that many worthy deeds have been done by you great danger and feare doe still attend us and will as long as Popish Lords and Superstitious Bishops are suffered to have their Voice in the House of Peeres and that accursed and abominable Idole of the Masse suffered in the Kingdome and that Arch-enemy of our Prosperity and Reformation lyeth in the Tower yet not receiving his deserved punishment All these under correction gives us great cause to suspect that God is angry with us and to be the chiefe causes why your Pious endeavours for a further Reformation proceedeth not with that successe as you desire is most earnestly praied for of all that wish well to true Religion and the flourishing both of King and Kingdome the insolencies of the Papists and their Abbettors raiseth a just feare and suspition of sowing sedition and breaking out into bloody persecution in this Kingdome as they have done in Ireland the thoughts of which sad and Barbarous events maketh our tender hearts to melt within us forcing us humbly to Petition to this Honourable Assembly to make safe provision for your selves and us before it be too late And whereas we whose hearts have joyned cheerefully with all those Petitions which have bin exhibited unto you in the behalfe of the purity of Religion and the liberty of our Husbands persons and estates recounting our selves to have an interest in the common priviledges with them doe with the same confidence assure our selves to finde the same gracious acceptance with you for easing of those greevances which in regard of our fraile condition do more neerely concerne us do deeply terrifie our soules our Domestical dangers with which this kingdom is so much distracted especially growing on us from those trecherous and wicked attempts already are such as we find our selves to have as deep a share as any other We cannot but tremble at the very thoughts of the horrid and hideous facts which modesty forbids us now to name occasioned by the bloody Wars in Germany his Majesties late Northern Army how often did it affright our hearts whilest their violence began to breake out so furiously upon the persons of those whose Husbands or Parents were not able to rescue we wish we had no cause to speak of those insolencies and savage vsage and unheard of rapes exercised upon our Sex in Jreland and have we not just cause to feare they will prove the forerunners of our r●ine except Almighty God by the wisdom care of this Parliament be pleased to succour us our Husbands and Children which are as deere and tender unto us as the lives and bloud of our hearts to see them murthered and mangled and cut in pieces before our eyes to see our Children dashed against the stones and the Mothers milk mingled with the Infants bloud running downe the streets to see our Houses on flaming fire over our heads Oh how dreadfull would this bee wee thought it misery enough though nothing to that wee have iust cause to feare but few yeares since for some of our Sex by uniust divisions from their bosom comforts to be rendred in a manner Widdowes and the children Fatherlesse Husbands were imprisoned from the Society of their Wives even against the Lawes of God and Nature and little Infants suffered in their Fathers banishments thousands of our deerest friends have bin compelled to fly from Episcopall persecutions into desert places amongst wilde Beasts there finding more favour then in their native soile and in the midst of all the sorrowes such hath the pitty of the Prelates beene that our cries could never enter into their eares or hearts nor yet through multitudes of obstructions could never have accesse or come nigh to those Royall mercies of our most gracious Soverrigne which wee confidently hope would have relieved us but after all these pressures ended we humbly signifie that our present feares are that unlesse the bloud-thirsty faction of the Papists and Prelates be hindred in their designes our selves here in England as well as they in Ireland shall bee exposed to that misery which is more intollerable then that which is already past as namely to the rage not of men alone but of Devils incarnate as we may so say besides the thraldome of our soules and consciences in matters concerning God which of all things are most deare unto us Now the remembrance of all these fearefull accidents aforementioned doe strongly move us from the example of the Woman of Tekoa to fall submissively at the feete of his Majesty our dread Soveraigne and cry Helpe O King helpe O yee the noble Worthies now sitting in Parliament And wee humbly beseech you that you will bee a meanes to his Majesty and the House of Peeres that they will bee pleased to take our heart breaking grievances into timely consideration and to adde strength and incouragement to your noble indeavours and further that you would move his Majesty with our humble requests that hee would bee graciously pleased according to the example of the good King Asa to purge both the Court and Kingdome of that great Idolatrous service of the Masse which is tollerated in the Queenes Court this sinne as wee conceive is able to draw downe a greater curse upon the whole Kingdome then all your noble and pious indeavours can prevent which was the cause that the good and pious King Asa would not suffer Idolatry in his owne Mother whose example if it shall please his Majesties gracious goodnesse to follow in putting downe Popery and Idolatry both in great and small in Court and in the Kingdome throughout to subdue the Papists and their abetters and