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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84891	To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and dominions thereunto belonging. The humble petition of the subscribers on the behalf of themselves, and other reduced officers and souldiers therein concerned.	Freeman, Edward, fl. 1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2126; Thomason 669.f.19[57]; ESTC R212178	1,409	1

To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and Dominions thereunto belonging The humble Petition of the Subscribers on the behalf of themselves and other Reduced Officers and Souldiers therein concerned SHEWETH THAT in their zealous and cordial affection to the just rights and freedome of this Nation with expence of blood and patrimony they have faithfully served this Common-wealth from the beginning of the late wars until reduced by Order of Parliament with promise of satisfaction forth with of such Arrears as were due unto them which may appear by several Orders and Ordinances of Parliament and many of them voluntarily since the said reducement engaged to the hazard of all that was dear unto them for the Publike good Neverthelesse their constant expectations grounded upon the many promises and engagements of the then Supreme Authority of this Nation have been wholly frustrated although they to their great expence constantly attended with many humble Addresses during the space of seven yeers past for the obtaining of their just satisfaction for want of which divers are brought to extreme penury many starved and others in prison ready to perish But their long and tedious attendance producing no fruit from the Parliament after their dissolution they then made their humble Addresses to his Highnesse and Honourable Council who were pleased to refer their Petition to the Council of the Army who upon mature consideration and conference had with your Petitioners returned their sense and results thereon to his Highnesse and the said Council by whose Order the same was transmitted by the hands of Captain Howard to the late Parliament who after daily solicitations did admit them for satisfaction out of hands in Ireland into an Act intituled An Act for satisfaction of Adventurers and Souldiers dated the twenty sixt day of September 1653. That after the late Parliament dissolved themselves they then made their humble Addresses to his Highnesse who was pleased to recommend them and their desires unto the speedy and serious consideration of his Council sitting at White-Hall in order to their due relief and satisfaction and perceiving that upon the addresses of some Officers under the same qualification with your Petitioners Lands both in England and Ireland have been obtained for their satisfaction and your Petitioners hitherto by reason of the great and weighty affairs of the Common-wealth are unsatisfied so that your Petitioners upon this account are without hope of reaping any benefit or to be enabled to receive satisfaction by that security in the said Act according to the purport and meaning thereof Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honours would be pleased to take the premises into your serious consideration to the end that as the said Act of the late Parliament intends a security unto them their interest may be preserved therein And that some speedy course may be taken for stating the Arrears of such Officers and Souldiers as are not yet stated And that such whose Arrears are already stated by Committees or Commissioners or any Anthorised by Order or Ordinance of Parliament having faithfully served this Common-wealth and no ways forfeited their right to their just dues All of them or their Assignes may be enabled by bond or otherwise to receive satisfaction for their Arrears so stated and to be stated out of such Lands in Ireland as are yet undisposed of viz in the Counties of Dublin Cork Kildare and Caterlagh or out of such Lands there belonging to Corporations forfeited or out of Bishops Dean and Chapters Lands there or out of Forrests Lands in England yet unsold or by some such other way as to your grave Judgement shall seem meet that so your Petitioners may be freed from their tedious and expensive attendance receive the price of their blood and be put into a condition to be more instrumentally serviceable for this Common-wealth which is their desire And they shall pray c. Edward Freman Humphrey Brewster Nicholas Devereux Emanuel Neal. Walter Bosvile Samuel Carlton Edward Hook Ambrose Tyndale Richard Stevens John Mall William Tovey William Poe Timothy Crusoe Leonard Morton John Birkbeck John Rugeley Francis Cotton William Pickering Matthias Nichols Anthony Poe Richard Griffith Edward Harrington