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A40437 The Free-mens petition to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of London in common-council assembled the humble representation of many thousands of the free-born people of England, inhabiting in London, and free-men of the same city. 1659 (1659) Wing F2152; ESTC R34857 966 1

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The Free-Mens Petition To the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of LONDON in Common-Council Assembled The Humble Representation of many Thousands of the Free-born People of England inhabiting in London and Freemen of the same City Most humbly shewes THat we cannot without Horrour and Amazement reflect and look back upon those Halcion dayes of Peace and Prosperity many of us have enjoyed in these our Three Nations and this once Famous City the Renown and Glory of them in Civills and Spirituals under their Lawfull Governours and Free Parliaments And that now it hath pleased the onely good and wise God for Our and the Nations crying Sins to manifest his Displeasure against us in giving the Rod of his Anger into the hands of such Persons whose Principles and Actings tend to the over-turning of those Two great Pillars of the Land Gods Ordinances Magistracy and Ministry and of Parliaments Themselves Wherefore we can no longer hold our peace but represent to your Honour and Worships as the now visible Authority over us in this Nation the Deplorable Condition of this Once Renowned Nation and City whose Conservation you ought to tender as our selves seeing God hath placed you in those Emenencies you now are in and put a present Opportunity into your hands That you would 1. Consider the total decay of Trade chiefly by the frequent Revolutions of Government and intolerable Taxes Excizes incessantly continued upon us through the Ambition Avarice of self-seeking men which in all probability must bring suddain unavoidable misery and confusion to this once far-famed Nation and City if not timely remedied 2. That you would therfore endeavour by all means possible for the healing of these distracted and divided Nations and City the probable means under God as we humbly conceive that a free English Parliament be speedily summoned according to the Laws of this Nation and 16o Cap. 1. 3. That your Honour would be pleased to put the Militia of London into the Hands of such persons as are known Assertors of Magistracy and Ministry and Liberties of Parliament And the City Guarded by its own Militia That so we and our Servants maybe free from such Insolencies and Disturbances of the Souldiery as have been lately committed 4. That such Officers and Souldiers of the Army as shall comply with your Honour and Worships for setling the peace of the Nation and asserting the Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament maybe assured theirs Arrears of Pay And for the accomplishment of these our Just Desires we will with the hazard of our Lives and Fortunes stand by and assist your Honour and Worships And ever pray for you This Representation was Delivered to the Lord Mayor in Common-Council Assembled on Wednesday last Dec. 14. with many thousand Hands and twenty times as many Hearts