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A71065 To the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Commons House in Parliament now assembled the humble, a, petition of Iohn, b, Salvin in the county of Durham, gent. Salvin, John, 1621 or 2-1672. 1642 (1642) Wing S520; ESTC R15633 6,413 18

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These we hope will be sufficient to perswade your Majesty to beleeve that as we had some cause to give credit to the said Informations so we had no intention to make any ill use of them to your Majesties dishonour but did impute the blame to your Ministers who might have beene more carefull to have informed your Majestie of the Quality of those persons named in your Licences and so to have limited them that they might not have extended to others as they did how many and dangerous soever And they pray your Majesty to rest assured that they shall alwayes be tender of your Honour and reputation with your good Subjects and for this cause have made this true Declaration of the full state of this matter that they may thinke no otherwise of it then the truth in all things shall labour to establish a good understanding and confidence betwixt your Majestie and your people which they heartily desire and pray for as the chiefest meanes of preserving the Honour safetie and prosperity of your Majestie and your Kingdome FINIS To the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House in Parliament now assembled The humble a Petition of Iohn b Salvin in the County of Durham Gent. Humbly sheweth THat whereas the Inhabitants of severall Counties have by petition to this Honourable House made knowne theirs and the Kingdoms grievances your Petitioner though but a private member of the Common-wealth suffering in like manner most humbly addresseth himselfe to this Honourable Assembly for that his private injuries are not onely to himselfe but have relation to the publique as by the sequele will appeare Your humble Petitioner having beene here at London nine moneths foure in obedience to the c House of Peers the other five about his most necessary and urgent occasions is now in great want and penury occasioned by some of his nearest friends and familiar acquaintance who are d Papists and of the most dangerous of that sect in the County of Durham yet through their wealth are countenanced in their unconscionable wayes by the Bishop of Durham his Officers Doctor Cousins and others e which Doctor Cousins had and hath yet when hee resideth in the County resort to Master George Collingwood of Dalden his house a great Papist and one of your Petitioners oppressors and there had conference with his Priests with whom he holdeth correspondence And the Bishop not withstanding he knoweth the houses of f Dalden Hebburne Walworth Thornley Harbor house and other places in the County to be receptacles of Priests and Iesuits Nurseries of Popery and to be frequented by the Papists in greater multitudes on their Saints dayes and Festivals then divers Parish Churches in the County by the Protestants on the Lords day yet never did nor yet doth take course in these dangerous times ●o discover or suppresse them and in time of common danger did make g dep●ty Lieutenants of those whose wives he knew to be profest P●pists and their children so educated and brought up Neither doth the Bishop wrong the County onely by his connivency and countenance to the P●pists but by his oppressions in imposing and gathering heavy and injurious assessements concerning the Militia and other affaires of the County great profits arising thereby to his h Officers and Servants and in the exercising of his Ius Regale the i Inhabitants of the County feele his heavy and oppressive hand That though the Bishop knew your Petitioner and his children to suffer in his estate and for k Religion sake most unjustly yet your Petitioners mother and uncle being rich Papists found his favour although the Bishop exprest himselfe upon the hearing of their most unnaturall dealing against your Petitioner and his children that his mother and uncle did not deserve to have at their death Christian buriall That your Petitioners life and liberty through inexpressive griefe penury and want ●re in danger l his rents and present maintenance wrongfully detained your Petitioners mother and uncle withholding from him besides 120. pounds per annum and hath damnified your Petitioner 3000. pounds and more and doe m endeavour to get all his lands at a great undervalue whereby your Petitioner and his children suffer under the extremity of want and necessity because he will not condiscend to their cunning and undoing practices That although his complaints may seeme strange to this Honourable House being of a Nephew against an Uncle a Sonne against a Mother yet their n strange usage of your Petitioner and his children will plead your Petitioners just excuse to your Honours as he fully can make appeare Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prayeth for that he suffereth the said injuries and oppressions by the malignant party supported as aforesaid and hath represented to your Honours nothing but what by his duty and the late Protestation hee ought to doe in the behalfe of the Church King and Common-wealth That this Honourable and grave Assembly will bee pleased to regulate the said dangerous enormities by suppressing the aforesaid o places and receptacles which hitherto the Bishop and his Officers have conniv'd at and concealed being places as now the times are knowne to be dangerous for entertaining Priests and Iesuits and their confederates to have often meetings and more now then before And that the Bishop and his Officers may make restitution of the moneyes they have illegally levyed and taken to the oppression of the whole County and that your Petitioner may have such reliefe against his Uncle and Mother as from your great wisdomes and charities his crying necessi●ies may seeme to plead for redresse whereof he humbly waiteth never ce●sing to pray for prosperity on your consultations c. To the Honourable the HOUSE of Commons now in Parliament assembled The humble Petition of Iohn Salvin Gent. Sheweth THat in obedience to the agreement made by the Lords Comm ssioners at R●ppon in the County of Yorke your Petitioner did contribute with the Inhabitants of the County of Durham 21. pounds 10. shillings for his proper part towards the maintenance of our brethren the Scots during their abode there which is part of the 26000. pounds that this Parliament was pleased to undertake the payment of in November last That your Petitioner prefer'd his humble Petition to this Honourable House for a reimbursement of those moneys which he dutifully disbursed for the Republique upon which Petition your Petitioner receiving this answer from some of the members of this Honourable House that it would open a gap if condiscended unto to others to sue for the like satisfaction which according to the present necessity the publique engagement could not afford To which exceptions your Petitioner in all humility and under your Honours favour conceiveth these satisfactory reasons in his behalfe 1. That the County in generall having sent up Sir William Lambton Sir Thomas Riddell Sir George Vane Knights and Thomas Davison Esquire in December to petition this Honourable Assembly in their behalfe for repayment of the