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B06127 To the Kings most excellent Majestie. The most humble petition of your most faithfull servants and subjects, the iustices and gentlemen assembled at the generall sessions for the County of Devon. 1642 (1642) Wing T1547; ESTC R185321 797 1

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TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maiestie The most humble Petition of your most faithfull Servants and Subiects the Iustices and Gentlemen assembled at the generall Sessions for the County of Devon Sheweth THat your Petitioners prest by the earnest complaints herewith humbly presented and well experienced in your Princely Clemencie and Iustice are thereby heartned to tender into your Royall hands both their and our most lowly and loyall desires It is not Dread Sovereigne the feare of Poverty that doth only or chiefly afflict us though if things continue but a while in the present State we see it comming unresistably as an armed man nor yet of death if our lives might be spent in your Majesties service But your Petitioners beholding Popery in Ireland prevayling that mercilesse Religion where it doth prevaile and in England too much countenanced For our owne Consciences sake and for the salvation of our infant Childrens soules wee humbly beg your Majesty upon our knees to looke into the cause Distractions in your Parliament How can it be otherwise When Popish Lords are admitted to vote in your principall Affaires and your chief Prelates appeare in a malevolent conjunction with them against the best proceedings Oh! that the King of Kings would be pleased to put it into your Majesties Royall heart to sequester the different in Religion to privacy and your Bishops to their spirituall Callings your Majesty would soon find as your Petitioners confidently believe an effectuall benefit and a present correspondencie Had your Church Governours beene cordiall and substantiall in their duties those swarmes of Papists in Ireland and England too had probably been prevented If in your House of Commons any be suspected of ill affections it is far from your Petitioners to desire their impunity only your Petitioners implore their faire tryall according to the Privilege of their Parliamentary places wherein your Petitioners and their Posterity have an interest To which wee undervalue all things but our Religion and loyalty In the name of God let them there receive the fruit of their demerits This Iustice as it will be a perpetuall comfort to your Majesty in your soul so shall it be a reall and compleat satisfaction to your Petitioners who as they are in all duty bound will for ever pray for your Majesties temporall and eternall happinesse London Printed for Lawrence Blaikelocke 1642.