To the Honourable House of Commons in this present Parliament assembled The humble petition of the Company of Stationers of the City of London. Stationers' Company (London, England) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94455 of text R212592 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.6[107]). 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. 3 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 A94455 Wing T1413 Thomason 669.f.6[107] ESTC R212592 99871197 99871197 160968 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. A94455) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160968) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f6[107]) To the Honourable House of Commons in this present Parliament assembled The humble petition of the Company of Stationers of the City of London. Stationers' Company (London, England) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1643] Imprint from Wing. Praying that the "new impression of the Bible may be printed for the common benefit of the whole Company" and not for the benefit of eleven of their number, "who now labour to gaine to themselves the sole printing of this Bible." Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Stationers' Company (London, England) -- Early works to 1800. Printing -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A94455 R212592 (Thomason 669.f.6[107]). civilwar no To the Honourable House of Commons in this present Parliament assembled. The humble petition of the Company of Stationers of the City of Lon Stationers' Company 1643 561 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. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion To the Honourable House of Commons in this present Parliament Assembled . The humble Petition of the Company of Stationers of the City of London . Humbly sheweth , THat the Committee for Printing appointed by this Honourable House , was pleased to direct the Printing of a new Impression of the Bible , of the last Translation , with Notes in the Margent , for the better exposition of hard places , and cleerer understanding of the Scriptures . That diverse Reverend and Learned Divines of this Kingdome , were by Sr. Edward Dearing ( then in the Chaire of the said Committee ) appointed for the making of the said Notes , and have now very neare perfected the same for the Presse ; Yet so it is , may it please this Honourable House , that a very few Persons of the said Company , but Eleven in Number , ( whereas the Company consisteth of many hundred Families ) labouring to acquier the Printing and profit thereof to themselves , have privately gained some promise from some of the said Divines , intending to exclude all others of the Company , from having any benefit thereby . And your Petitioners doe further shew , that they have not any common Stock ( wherewith to pay the Subsidies charged upon their said Company by Parliament ; nor to provide Armes or Corne , for the safety and provision of this City as they are assessed ; neither to maintaine their owne Poore , which are very many : and hath cost them Communibus Annis , above 200lb . per Annum , neare upon 40 Yeares last past ) excepting the benefit of Printing a few small Bookes , which now also by means of irregular Printing , they are almost quite deprived of : And that all the Free-hold they have , belonging to their Corporation , together with their Common Seale , lies now ingaged for 1500lb . which was borrowed at Interest , for the use and service of this present Parliament . And their poverty is yet the greater , in that they have not so much as a Common Hall of their owne to assemble in ; And that these Eleven men , who now labour to gaine to themselves the sole Printing of this Bible and Notes ; are now , and have bin , ( many of them ) Pattentees , and Monopolizers of Printing the most vendable Bookes of worth and quantity now in use ; To the great detriment of the Kingdome , and to the ruine and destruction of this poore Company . THESE PREMISES CONSIDERED ; and for as much as this is a publick worke , and was first moved from a Committee of this Honourable House ; that therefore you would be pleased to Order that it may be Printed for the common benefit of the whole Company , which will much revive their languishing and miserable condition ; wherein they ( the aforesaid Eleven Parties ) together with the many hundreds others of the said Corporation , may equally partake , both in the Charge and Profit thereof : Which will be a means , that the same will be Printed with the greater care and circumspection . And your Petitioners shall ever pray .