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A78136 The petition of Mr. Praise-God Barebone, and several others, to the Parliament. Presented on Thursday the 9th of February, 1659. Barbon, Praisegod, 1596?-1679. 1660 (1660) Wing B753; ESTC R230680 2,457 1

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The Petition of Mr. Praise-God Barebone and several others to the PARLIAMENT Presented on Thursday the 9th of February 1659. THE House being informed that divers Petitioners wer at the Door they were called in and Mr. Praise-God Barebone in the name of the rest being come to the Bar addressing himself to Mr. Speaker said we are come to wait upon this Honourable House with a Petition from such as are lovers of the Good Old Cause the Petitioners are such as have adhered to this Parliament and such as are lovers of Justice Righteousness Freedom and lovers of a Common-wealth accounting it the best Government There are many Subscriptions I may say thousands and in their names I do humbly present it to you And thereupon presented the Petition who being withdrawn the Petition was read and is as followeth To the PARLIAMENT of the Commonwealth of England The Representation and Address of the Well-affected Persons Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster and places adjacent being faithful and constant Adherers to this Parliament who are resolved by the assistance of Almighty God to stand by assert and maintain their Authority against all opposers notwithstanding the present confidence and bold attempts of the Promoters of Regal Interest by the declared Enemies of their Cause and Authority WHereas the good Old Cause was for Civil and Christian Liberty against Oppression and Persecution The Oppressors and Persecutors were chiefly the King his Lords and Clergy and their Adherents who to effect their designs raised War against the Parliament Whereupon the Parliament in defence of Civil and Christian Liberty call the oppressed and persecuted to their aid by whose assistance the Oppressors and Persecutors have been subdued Kingship and Peerage abolished and persecution checkt by which the number of conscientious Friends to the Parliament have been so exceedingly encreased that they are now by Gods assistance in a far more able capacity of keeping down their enemies than they were in those times when they subdued them Nevertheless so watchful hath the restless enemy been to make advantage that what time after time he hath lost in the Field he hath endeavoured to regain even in the Parliaments Council where because he had not the Face openly to bring in the King with the former oppressions and persecutions they shrowded and vailed themselves one while under a Personal Treaty another while under a Cloak of Zeal against Blasphemy and Heresie their endeavours being to bring in the King upon any terms to cherish the persecuting party and to brow-beat their most conscientious Opposers Upon which pretences nevertheless they have through tract of time and the unsettledness of Government prevailed so far as under the notion of a moderate Party to get the subtillest of their Friends into many places of Trust and Command both Civil and Military through whose countenance and encouragement albeit the Parliament upon good Grounds Voted the Government by King and Lords useless burdensom and dangerous and declare very largely for Liberty of Conscience yet of late a general boldness hath been taken to plead a necessary of returning to the Government of King and Lords a taking in of the Kings Son or which is all one for a return of the justly secluded Members or a Free Parliament without due Qualifications whereby the Good Old Cause of Liberty and Freedom so long contended for against Regal Interest with the expence of much Blood and Treasure and the assertors thereof will be prostituted to satisfie the lusts of the Enemies of the Common-wealth where in they have prevailed so far that unless all conscientious persons in Parliament Army Navy and Common-wealth do speedily unite and watchfully look about them as the Sword will certainly though secretly and silently be stolen out of their hands so also will they find all Civil Authority fall suddenly into the hands of their enraged enemies and a return of all those violences oppressions and persecutions which have cost so much Blood and Treasure to extirpate The Serious apprehensions whereof hath stirred up your cordial friends to desire you to use all possible endeavours to prevent the Commonwealths adversaries in this their most dangerous Stratagem And as the most effectual means thereunto We pray I. That you will admit no person or persons to Sit or Vote in this or any future Parliament or Council of State or to be in any Office or Judicatory or any Publick Trust in the Commonwealth or Command in the Army Navy or Garrisons or to be a publick Preacher to the people at Sea or Land or any Instructer of youth except such only as shall ABJURE or by Solemn Engagement renounce the pretended Title or Titles of Charles Stewart and the whole Line of the late King James and of every other person as a single person pretending or which shall pretend to the Crown or Government of these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland or any of them and the Dominions and Territories belonging to them or any of them or any other single person Kingship Peerage or any power co-ordinate with the peoples Representatives in Parliament And all coercive power in matter of Religion according to a Vote of a Grand Committee of this Parliament of the 11 of Sept. 1659. II. We further pray That it may be Enacted That whosoever shall move offer or propound in Parliament Council or any other Court or publick meeting any matter or thing in order to the introducing of Charles Stewart or any of that Family as aforesaid or any other single Person House of Lords Coercive power in matters of Religion or any power co-ordinate with the peoples Representatives in Parliament may be deemed and adjudged guilty of High Treason and may suffer the pains and penalties thereof And that whosever shall in Parliament Council or any other publick Court or meeting move for or propose the revocation of this Law when by you Enacted may be deemed and judged guilty of High Treason and suffer the pains and penalties thereof In the prosecution whereof we shall stand by You with our Estates and Lives to assert and maintain your Authority against all oppositions whatsoever Notwithstanding the present Confidence and bold Attempts of Yours and our Enemies Signed by c. Resolved That the Petitioners have the thanks of the House for the expression of their good affections to the Parliament The Petitioners being again called in Mr. Speaker gave them this answer Gentlemen The House have read your Petition and they do find that you have been such as have constantly born them good affections and that your affections are the same still and for the expressions of your good affections the House hath commanded me to give you Thanks and in their Names I do give you Thanks accordingly These Petitioners declare themselves disaffected to conscientious men in Civil Military imployment and also to godly Ministers as his Excellency the L. Gen. Monck doth take notice in the 9 10 pages of his Letter dated from Whitehall Febr. 11. 1659.