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A95465	The two petitions of the knights, gentlemen, and free-holders of the county of Oxon together with the two petitions of the knights, gentlemen, ministers, free-holders, and other inhabitants of the county of Kent, as they were presented to both Houses of parliament on the eighth, and ninth of February.	Oxfordshire (England); Kent (England)	1642 (1642)	Wing T3509; ESTC R201117	3,125	8

THE Two Petitions Of the Knights Gentlemen and Free-holders of the County of OXON Together with the two Petitions of the Knights Gentlemen Ministers Free-holders and other Inhabitants of the County of Kent as they were presented to both Houses of Parliament on the eighth and ninth of February Printed at London for F. Couls and T. Banks 1642. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE The House of PEERS now assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Knights Gentlemen Freeholders and Subsidie-men of the best rancke and quality in the County of Oxon. Sheweth THAT your Petitioners have for divers yeares groaned under most heavy pressures and grievances both in our Religion civill rites and liberties which were growne to such height that they became unsupportable and yet no hopes of redresse appeared to the eye of man till it pleased the Almighty God of his infinite goodnesse to stirre up the Kings Majesty to call this present Parliament whereby our dying hopes were raised to very great and confident expectations to of a full and perfect Reformation but they were soon abated to our exceeding great discouragement by the lets and hinderances which are largely expressed in the late Remonstrance of the state of the Kingdome set forth by the Honourable house of Commons arising from the endeavours of a malignant party within this Kingdome and as we humbly conceive from the popish Lords and Bishops Voting in the House of Peers Neverthelesse we now cannot but entertain new hopes of comfort and of the happy proceedings and successe of this Parliaement beholding with unspeakable joy your late concurrence with the Honourable House of Commons especially in taking away the Votes of prelats and setling this Kingdome in a posture of defence which we do with all possible thankfulnesse acknowledg Humbly beseeching your Lordships that you would keep up our hopes by proceeding in your happy concurrence with the house of Commons to a perfect Reformation and particularly in vindicating the priviledges of Parliament discovering punishing and removing evill Counsellors and Magistrates taking away from the popish Lords their Votes in parliament utterly abollishing that Kingdome destroying sin of idolatry together with superstition and Arminianisme so much professed and countenanced in our Vniversity pasing the Bill against plurallities and joyning in that order of the house of Commons for the demollishing of Altars and scandalous pictures And your petitioners shall still have cause to look upon your Lordships with as high esteem as ever our fore-Fathers did upon your most Noble progenitors and also with our best endeavours will maintain you in your happy concurrence with the said House of Commons in your persons Honours and Dignities And your petitioners shall ever pray c. To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament The humble petitian of the Gentlemen Freeholders Subsidy-men and others of good rank and quality Inhabitants of the County of Oxon. Sheweth OVr most humble and thankfull acknowledgment of your exceeding great care and pairs already taken during this Parlament to the hazarding of your healths and lives in the endeavouring a removal of the many grievances in Church Common-wealth As also the continued care and unwearied endeavours for a perfect Reformation The Remonstrance wherof as we cannot consider without unspeakable joy it putting life into our languishing soules so we desire it may be remembred with high esteeme by us and our posterity for ever And for that you under Almighty God and his most excellent Majesty are now called to the place of our chiefest hopes against all our ells Your Petitioners humbly presnt our daily fears and distractions arising from the desperate plots of the malignant Party of this Kingdome and from the certaine reports of the most barbarous and bloody practises of the Rebels in Iceland by whose prevailing and the small provision that is made for their suppressing and securing of this Kingdom against the like attempts the said party is much imboldened the Petitioners feares augmented their common Commerce and Trading abated and the publike safety of the Kingdome end angered It is therefore the humble desire of your Petitioners That some course may bee taken as to suppresse those Rebels in Ireland so to put this Kingdom in such a posture of defence as the present condition therof requireth And that it may please you in our behalfs to be a meanes to the Kings most gracious Majesty and to the House of Peers to perfect their endeavours by their concurrence with you in punishing Delinquents and removing ull those pressures and grievances in Church and Common-wealth with the causes and Causers of the same And your Petitioners shall uncessantly pray unto Almighty God for the prosperous and happy successe and withall put forth our best endeavours to maintaine and defend the Kings most excellent Majesty and high Court of Parliament in their good endeavours and undertakings for the comfortable and secure setling of Religion and Liberties against all malignant opposers whatsoever To the Right Honourable the House Peers assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of the Knights Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the County of Kent Sheweth THat the Petitioners doe with joy and humble thankfulnesse acknowledge the good Correspondency and Concurrence which by the blessing of God this Honourable House hath held with the Worthy House of Commons in passing the Bill to take away the Votes of the Prelats in this Honourable House and disabling them from Temporall imployments And for setting the Kingdome into a Posture of War for its defence And the Petitioners doe in like manner most humbly and heartily professe That they will ever honour this Honourable House and to the utmost of their power defend the same so far as your Lordships shall continue to hold Correspondence and Concurrence with the said House of Commons in all their just desires and endeavours Upon which the Petitioners doe humbly conceive greatly dependeth the peace and Welfare of this Kingdome And the Petitioners most humbly pray That this Honouable House declaring therein your Noble Resolutions for he publike good would bee pleased to go on with the said House of Commons to a through Reformation especially of the Church according to the Word of God To presse dispaech for the reliefe of Ireland To expedite proceedings against Delinquents To Vindicate Parliament Priviledges To discover remove and punish evill Counsellors To deprive the Popish Lords of their Votes to disarme and scarch out Papists and put them into fafe custody To suppresse Masse both in publike and private To cast out scandalous Ministers plant painfull Preachers every where And discover who are Church Papists as well as known Recusautss And the Petitioners shall daily pray To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House now assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of many Knights Gentlemen Freeholders and other Inhabitants in the County of Kent Sheweth THat we these many years past have bin pressed with many unusuall and heavy burdens on our consciences and states to our great grief and discouragement yet good hath been shewed us from the Lord our God who hath extended mercy to us to give us a little reviving by the provideece and uncessant care of this Honourable House whose matchlesse diligence hath already removed many almost insuperable difficulties whose pious intentions under our God upholds our hopes for removal of al our pressures which continue upon us by the Popish Lords and Prelates with their party in the House of Peers which have been the great opposers of your just proceedings and zealous endeavours whereby our grievances increase upon us First the trade of cloathing being decaid to the impoverishing of the County and to the bringing of many thousands of the poore depending thereon to unavoidable necessities 2. That this his Majesties County bordering upon the Sea Coast is exposed to danger by forraign enemies whose fears threaten us being greatly weakned by so many armes forced from us for the Northern Service 3. That our brethren the Protestants in Ireland lie bleeding under the inhumane hand of Popish Rebels who have conspired and lift up the head to root out true religion there and without timely prevention to cause confusion here 4. That the priviledges of Parliament in the peace wherof is our peace broken in so a unparelled a manner to the great amazement of us who according to our duty are come to make expression of our loyalty to our Soveraign and fidelity to his Parliament in maintaining and defending as far as lawfully we may with our lives power and estates his Majesties Royall Person and priviledges of Parliament against all adversarie attempts Wherefore our ardent prayer is that by the wisedome of this Honourable House the popish Lords may be outed the House of Peers the causes of our grievances taken away the County put in a posture of defence the ports fortified and committed to trusty hands our armes restored the fire in Ireland spsedily quenched delinquents punished and the priviledges of Parliament confirmed which will turne our mourning into a good day And wee shall pray that God would crowne this happy Parliament with such successe that the Lord may be an habitation of Iustice and the Church the mountaine of holinesse FINIS