To the honourable, the knights, citizens and bvrgesses in the House of Commons in Parliament. The humble petition of sundry of the knights, gentlemen, free-holders, and others of the inhabitants of the County of Suffolke, to the number of above 13000. Presented Jan. 31. 1641. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06116 of text R224640 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1458). 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. 4 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 B06116 Wing T1458 ESTC R224640 49521013 ocm 49521013 174235 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. B06116) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174235) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2679:2) To the honourable, the knights, citizens and bvrgesses in the House of Commons in Parliament. The humble petition of sundry of the knights, gentlemen, free-holders, and others of the inhabitants of the County of Suffolke, to the number of above 13000. Presented Jan. 31. 1641. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Suffolk (England) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n.], [London : Printed in the yeare, 1641. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in: Jesus College (University of Cambridge). Library. eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1625-1649 -- Sources. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. B06116 R224640 (Wing T1458). civilwar no To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses in the House of Commons in Parliament. The humble petition of sundry of the knights, [no entry] 1642 564 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO THE HONOURABLE , THE KNIGHTS , CITIZENS AND BVRGESSES IN the House of Commons in Parliament . The humble Petition of sundry of the Knights , Gentlemen , Free-holders , and others of the Inhabitants of the County of Suffolke , to the number of above 13000. presented Jan. 31 . 1641. Humbly Sheweth , THat whereas by the blessing of God , His Majesties grace and favour towards us , and the long continued labours of this Honourable Assembly , many grievances and burthens both in Church and Commonwealth ( under which we had a long time groaned ) are removed , which with all humility and thankfulnesse we humbly acknowledge , yet understanding that many Bills tending to the honor of His Majesty , the safety and welfare of this Kingdome , have by this Honourable Assembly been voted and now lye in the Lords House unpassed , by reason of the Popish Lords and Bishops sitting there , as we conceive , by reason whereof together with the not execution of Laws against the Popists ( who not with standing through the providence of God , have been discovered and disappointed in many of their treacherous plots against the King and State ) they & their adherents are still emboldned in their mischievous plots and conspiracies , a lamentable experience of whose treasons and bloudy cruelties we heare is daily presented to this Honourable Assembly from Ireland , whose dolefull condition your Petitioners do much piety & bewaile . We therefore your Petitioners being greatly distracted and full of fears of some sudden & cruell design to break out against the peace of the Kingdome which puts us into an unsetled condition , & occasioneth a generall decay in trading , tending to the impoverishing of the Nation unlesse timely prevented , and having most of us solemnly protested to maintaine the Protestant Religion against all Popery , and to desend his Majesties Royall person , honour and estate and the High Court of Parliament , and to endeavour the union and peace of the three united Kingdomes , doe humbly and earnestly pray , That this Honourable Assembly will be pleased to improve all good meanes that the Popish Lords and Bishops may be removed out of the House of Peeres , that this Kingdome may bee secured , and our poore distressed brethren in Ireland may be speedily relieved , that the Lawes against Popists may be put in execution , that delinqurnts may be punished and out former Petitions against Bishop Wren and cur scandalous Ministers may be speeded , and that all burthens in Church and Commonwealth may be removed , with the causes thereof . And your Petitioners according to their bounden duty shall daily pray for a prosperous successe of this Parliament . THE ANSWER OF THE HOVSE OF COMMONS TO This Petition , delivered by Mr. Speaker . Gentlemen , I Am commanded by the House to return hearty thanks to the Petitioners for their love and care expressed in the first part of this Petition , and the House is resolved to take the rest of the Petition into their serious consideration ; and I am further commanded to tell you , that the House hath already transmitted Bishop VVren to the Lords . Printed in the Yeare , 1641.