To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, &c. The humble petition and representation of divers well-affected of the county of South-hampton. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94570 of text R211191 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[40]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A94570 Wing T1584 Thomason 669.f.21[40] ESTC R211191 99869923 99869923 163536 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94570) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163536) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f21[40]) To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, &c. The humble petition and representation of divers well-affected of the county of South-hampton. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, at the three Daggers in Fleet-street, London : 1659. Praying that the existing form of government should be secured and maintained. With the answer of the Parliament. Parliamentary response dated: Thursday, May 26. 1659. Signed: Thomas St. Nicholas, clerk of the Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 27". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Southampton (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A94570 R211191 (Thomason 669.f.21[40]). civilwar no To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, &c. The humble petition and representation of divers well-affected of the county of South England and Wales. Parliament. 1659 808 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 C The rate of 12 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO THE PARLIAMENT OF THE Common-wealth of England , &c. The Humble Petition and Representation of divers well-affected of the County of South-hampton . THAT having seriously considered the wonderfull Providences of God in the Revolutions of late years , we cannot but greatly rejoyce in his goodness , who hath so miraculously delivered us , and broke the Yoak of our Oppressors . We still remember how victoriously he went forth with this Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land , destroying the powers of our former enemies at home and abroad . We also thankfully acknowledge his gratious Providence in defeating and strangely disappointing the Counsels of others of late , who treading in the steps of our former Oppressors made many of us fear our latter end would be worse then our beginning . But the Almighty turned their Counsels into foolishness , and hath in Peace restored the Power and Authority of the Nation to the People , whose undoubted right it is : and you their Representatives to the place from whence you have been by force and injustice thus long restrained ; since which time our Calamities have been numerous and insupportable , our Brethrens blood streaming in several parts of the world , our Liberties scornfully trodden underfoot , our Treasures expended on Instruments of our slavery at home , and abroad in personall quarrells ▪ our Old Enemies encouraged , Prophaness encreased , the whole Nation oppressed and impoverished and all this to set up an Interest contrary and destructive to that of the Nation , and raise a party that hath skin'd the people to clothe themselves . But our God having now restored our liberties , so that henceforth we hope through Gods blessing , the Power and Peace , the Treasure and Trade of the Nation , the Lives and Consciences , Liberties and Estates of the people thereof shall never again be disposed of by , or sacrificed to the lust and ambition of a particular Person or Family , or any other Usurpers of Power over the People : But that by you and the Peoples successive equall Representatives in their general Courses , all the concernments of the Nation shall be freely debated and determined without any Check or Obstruction from a distinct and contrary Interest ; And that Religion may flourish the Gospel , with the Ordinances , Ministers and sober Professors thereof may be maintained and encouraged , the Freedom , Rights and Priviledges of the People and their Representatives may be ever kept sacred and inviolable , the Law equally Administred , and Courts of Justice freed from Corruption . And in order to the security of the People and your selves , whilest these great works and the settlement of the Government of the Common-wealth is upon you , that the Militia and strength of the People may be speedily put into a due form under the Power and Command of those persons of interest who have shewed their faithfulness and integrity to the Common-wealth without any defection : So shall our enemies be ashamed , and all their attempts like his that built Jericho , when God had destroyed it : and the Generations to come shall bless God for their liberties ( buryed by others , but ) revived by you in making us a Happy Free-state : for the attainment whereof , we together with our prayers faithfully and freely promise to stand by you to the uttermost hazard of the lives and fortunes of us . Thursday , May 26. 1659. THE House being informed that some Gentlemen of Hampshire were at the door , they were called in , and being come to the Bar , Mr. Tulse on the behalf of himself and the rest presented an humble Petition , and prayed that the same might be read , which was Entituled The humble Petition and Representation of divers of the well affected of the County of South-hampton : And after the Petitioners were withdrawn , was read ; and afterwards the Petitioners were again called in , and Mr. Speaker gave them this Answer . Gentlemen , The House hath read your Petition , and found therein many sober and discreet expressions of your affections , and tenderness of the good and welfare of the Nation , and will take the Particulars in the Petition , into their consideration in due time . And for your good expressions and affections , they have commanded me to give you their thanks : and I do give you the thanks of this House accordingly . Thomas St. Nicholas , Clerk of the Parliament . London , Printed by R. W. for Francis Tyton , at the three Daggers in Fleet-street . 1659.