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A26103	A collection of svndry petitions presented to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie as also to the two most honourable houses, now assembled in Parliament, and others, already signed, by most of the gentry, ministers, and free-holders of severall counties, in behalfe of episcopacie, liturgie, and supportation of church-revenues, and suppression of schismaticks / collected by a faithful lover of the church, for the comfort of the dejected clergy, and all moderately affected Protestants.	Aston, Thomas, Sir, 1600-1645.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing A4073; ESTC R208748	30,703	48

of the County of KENT within the Diocesse of CANTERBURY Most humbly shewing THat notwithstanding this Kingdome hath by the singular providence of Almighty God for many yeares last past happily flourished above all other Nations in the Christian World under the Religion and Government by Law established Yet hath it beene of late most miserably distracted through the sinister practises of some private persons ill affected to them both By whose meanes the present Government is disgraced and traduced The Houses of God are prophaned and in part defaced The Ministers of Christ are contemned and despised The Ornaments and many Vtensils of the Church are abused The Liturgy and Booke of Common Prayer depraved and neglected That absolute modell of Prayer The Lords Prayer vilified The Sacraments of the Gospell in some places unduly administred in other places omitted Solemne dayes of fasting observed and appointed by private persons Marriages illegally Solemnized Burials uncharitably performed And the very Fundamentall of our Religion subverted by the publication of a new Creed and teaching the abrogation of the Morall Law For which purpose many offensive Sermons are dayly Preached and many impious Pamphlets printed and in contempt of authority Many doe what seemeth good in their owne eyes onely as if there were no King nor Government in this our Israel Whereby Almighty God is highly provoked his sacred Majesty dishonoured The peace of the Kingdome endangered The Consciences of the people disquieted The Ministers of Gods Word disheartned and the Enemies of the Church emboldned in their enterprises For redresse whereof May it please this Great and Honourable Councell speedily to command a due observation of the Religion and Government by Law established in such manner as it may seeme best to the Piety and Wisdome of his Royall Majesty and this Honourable Court Your Petitioners as they shall Confidently expect a blessing from Heaven upon this Church and Kingdome So shall they have this further cause to implore the Divine Assistance upon this Most Honourable Assembly Subscribed by Knight Barronets and Knights 24. Esquires and Gentlemen of note above 300. Divines 108. Freeholders and Subsidie men 800. All within the Diocesse of Canterbury To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of the Gentry Clergy and other Inhabitants subscribed of the Counties of Flint Denbigh Mountgomery Carnarvan Anglesey Merioneth being the sixe Shires of Northwales As it was presented this present March the 5. 1641. Acccompanied with thirty thousand hands WHereas the present condition of the Church of England in the publike Liturgy thereof in the ancient liberties and forme of Government as they doe now stand established by Law hath beene lately brought in question and manifold Petitions from the severall quarters of this Kingdome and other such like addresses concerning the same have beene presented to this Honourable House Wee his Majesties faithfull Subjects in the Principalities and Counties of North-wales whom it equally concerneth and as strongly tied in duty and conscience doe likewise presume to make our humble Remonstrance and wee doe it after a long silence and expectation joyned with some feares And first for those things which concerne the publique Service of God as they bee of neerest importance and wee nothing doubt but you will take unto your tendrest thoughts so wee doe earnestly propound and prostrate before you that dangerous consequence of Innovation in matters of so high concernment as wee conceive and leave it to your owne great Wisdomes to Iudge what scruples and jealousies are like to arise if wee bee taught a new and different way of serving God after a full perswasion of the lawfulnesse of that which is prescribed according to the Word of God not without the deliberate and concurrent approbation and industry of the most learned of the Protestant Church of this and other Nations and the possession of so many yeares in the practise thereof and all since the blessed time of Reformation The meere report hereof hath already produced no good effect breeding in the minds of ill-disposed persons Insolence and contempt in others perplexity and griefe not knowing how to settle themselves or forme their obedience in such distractions and sometimes repugnancy of commands Then for the outward policy and forme of Government under the Iurisdiction of Bishops bounded by Law and kept within their owne limits It is as wee beleeve that forme which came into this Island with the first Plantation of Religion heere and God so blest this Island that Religion came earely in with the first dawning of the day very neere or in the time of the Apostles themselves And in the succession of all after Ages the same hath beene constantly maintained among us and that without any eminent interruption or gaine-saying even till these our dayes And now from the comfortable experience which wee feele and which our Fathers have told us of the conveniency and moderation of this Government together with the antiquity of the same a strong argument of Gods speciall Protection Wee doe in all humility represent and pray that the same may be still preserved entire in all the parts thereof professing yet withall that wee heartily disclaime all scandalous Innovation and Popish corruption whatsoever And we are the more incouraged in this suit because wee find it to be the unanimous and undevided request and vote of this whole Country who cannot without some trembling entertaine a thought of change In all which we doe not presume to give any rules but as it becomes us humbly declare and open our owne breasts and labour to deliver our owne soules in testimony of our loyalties and discharge of our Consciences who shall ever take comfort to find the same way of honouring God continued in his owne House of Prayer the lawes of the land put to actuall execution the Peace and Government of the Church preserved the rumor'd alterations declined and the distractions already too visible arising thereupon avoyded And as wee doubt not but your great Wisdomes will take care that our Doctrine and Discipline established shall be still in force and observed untill by some absolute law and the opinions of learned Convocations or Synod according to the Customs of our prudent fore-Fathers in best times it be otherwise ordained So shall wee never cease to pray for a permanent blessing upon your Counsels and Resolutions to the generall happinesse of Church and Kingdome To the sacred MAIESTIE of our most Gracious Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith The humble Gratulation and Petition of divers His Majesties faithfull Subjects of the true Protestant Religion within the County Palatine of Lancaster Most gracious Soveraigne THe most Reall and convincing'st testimonies of your Princely care for the advancement of Gods true Religion in your Majesties Realmes And the common good of all your Subjects Could no lesse then draw from us who have hitherto in these stirring Times sate

should teach conformity to established Lawes but in contempt thereof in many places wholly neglected All these dayly practised with confidence without punishment To the great dejection of many sound Protestants and occasioning so great insultation and rejoycing in some Separatists as they not onely seeme to portend but menace some great alteration And not containing themselves within the bounds of Civill Government doe commit many tumultuous if not Sacrilegious violences both by day and night upon divers Churches Therefore your Petitioners being all very apprehensive of the dangerous consequences of Innovation and much scandalized at the present disorders Doe all unanimously pray That there bee admitted no Innovation of Doctrine or Liturgy that holy publike Service being so fast rooted by a long setled continuance in this Church that in our Opinion and Judgements it cannot bee altered unlesse by the advice and consent of some Nationall Synode without an universall discontent And that some speedy course bee taken to suppresse such Schismatiques and Separatists whose factious Spirits doe evidently endanger the peace both of Church and State And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. The Petition signed by Lords Knights Iustices of the Peace and Esquires 94. By Gentlemen of quality 440. By Divines 86. By Freeholders and others in all 8936. To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty And to the High Court of Parliament The humble Petition of Colledges and Halls and others well-willers to Piety and Learning throughout the Kingdome of England Sheweth THat whereas many Persons dis-affected to the present forme of Government of the Church of England established not onely by the Ecclesiasticall but also by the Common Law of this Realme and diverse Acts of Parliament have of late in great multitudes petitioned this Honourable Court against the Orders Honour Iurisdiction and meanes of the Clergy And have published such their desires in print and Pulpit and dayly seeke to advance and propagate the same To the great disheartning of all Learning if such designes find favour the grievous scandall of the Reformed Religion as unstable and the unspeakeable advantage of our Enemies of Rome WEe therefore well weighing that the Seminaries must decay when the Garden shall bee wasted in all humility most heartely pray Your Majesty and this Honourable Court that all the Orders of Holy Church of Bishops Priests and Decons which from the Apostles times till these have withstood so many Practices may have yet hopes to flourish under Your gracious Protection And that by your assistance under our most Religious Soveraigne the ancient Catholique Faith and Discipline as also the devout and decent service of God in our Church Liturgy may bee defended from all Innovations and Novelties The meanes and liberties of the Churches as well Cathedrall and Collegeat as Parochiall to them hitherto of right belonging according to the pious Wills of their blessed Founders may bee continued and preserved Many thousand Families which on them depend secured from ruine And that our Nation whose Lawes already favour as much as any in the World the right of the First borne may retaine Ecclesiasticall promotions as the Patrimony of younger Children the prize of labour and study an incitement of learning and a reward of those that can intitle themselves thereto by honest desert And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. This Petition is subscribed generally by all the Doctors Masters and Batchelours of all Degrees and Faculties in the Vniversity of Oxford And by very many other persons of quality Baronets Knights Esquires Ministers and Gentlemen within the Counties of Oxford Berks Wilts South-hampton Dorset Kent Surrey Westmerland Cumberland and other Shires Devonshire Petition To the Right Honourable the Lords Spirituall and Temporall now assembled in the House of PARLIAMENT The humble Information and Petition of the Knights Esquires Gentlemen and others of ability within the Diocesse of Exeter WEe whose Names are underwritten have for these many yeares found the benefit and comfort of Episcopall Government under which wee have lived hitherto peacebly and happily with great freedome and frequency of the Preaching of the Gospell and incouragement of the conscionable and painefull Preachers thereof As wee blesse God for his favour to us in the behalfe So wee doe humbly and earnestly professe our desire that the same Government may bee still continued both to us and our posterity submitting all personall offences and redresse of abuses to your Honourable Wisdomes In witnesse whereof wee have hereunto subscribed Signed by Knights Esquires Gentlemen and other Inhabitants neere upon Eight thousand The Staffordshire Petition To the Right Honourable the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in the High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Knights Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders and other Inhabitants within the County of STAFFORD hereunto subscribed Who Most humbly pray THat the present publique forme of Gods Worship and administration of the blessed Sacrament with other Rites agreeable to Gods holy Word and purest antiquity which hath beene formerly sundry times established by godly Acts of Parliament may now againe in these broken and troubled times bee to Gods glory and the Churches Peace re-established and confirmed That Episcopacy being the ancientest and Primitive Government of the Church renowned for successes victorious against Schismes and Heresies and especially of late yeares against that Hydra of Heresies the Roman Papacy glorious for ancient and late Martyrdomes happy before the corruption of Popery and since the Reformation in the Plantation and Preservation of Truth and Peace eminently serviceable to this Common-wealth most compliable with the Civill Government into the Fabrick and body of which it is riveted and incorporate most apt easie a● all times by the State to be reduced into Order may for the future as formerly by your Great Authority bee continued and maintained for the glory of God preservation of Order Peace and Vnity the Reformation and suppression of wickednesse and vice and the mature prevention of Schismes Factions and Seditions The which wee your humble Petitioners the more earnestly beseech your Honours to grant For that strong feare doe possesse our hearts that the sudden mutation of a Government so long setled so well knowne and approved cannot recompence with any proportionable utility the disturbances and disorders which it may worke by novelty being most confident in your Honours Wisdome and Iustice That all excessive exorbitances and incroachments which shall bee found issuing not from any poison in the nature of the Discipline but rather from the infirmity or corruption of the person unto which the very best Government is subject shall bee duely regulated and corrected And your Petitioners shall duly pray for your Honours happiest proceedings Subscribed by 3000. of the best quality of the County To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty And to the Right Honourable the LORDS and the Honourable the House of COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT The most humble Petition of divers Baronets Knights Iustices Gentry Ministers and Freeholders Inhabitants