A speech spoken by St. Thomas Wroth, knight in the honourable House of Commons vpon his delivery of a petition from the knights, gentlemen and freeholders of the county of Somerset February 25, 1642 : together with the petition of the said county then delivered. Wroth, Thomas, Sir, 1584-1672. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A71290 of text R11578 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W3731). 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 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A71290 Wing W3731 ESTC R11578 13013365 ocm 13013365 96520 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. A71290) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 96520) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 259:E200, no 33 or 259:E200, no 34) A speech spoken by St. Thomas Wroth, knight in the honourable House of Commons vpon his delivery of a petition from the knights, gentlemen and freeholders of the county of Somerset February 25, 1642 : together with the petition of the said county then delivered. Wroth, Thomas, Sir, 1584-1672. [7] p. Printed for H. S., London : 1642. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library. eng Somerset (England) -- History -- Sources. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Sources. A71290 R11578 (Wing W3731). civilwar no A speech spoken by Sr. Thomas Wroth Knight, in the Honourable House of Commons: upon his delivery of a petition from the knights, gentlemen, Wroth, Thomas, Sir 1642 541 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. 2005-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-05 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-09 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2005-09 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A SPEECH Spoken by Sr. THOMAS WROTH KNIGHT , In the Honourable House of COMMONS : Vpon his delivery of a Petition from the Knights , Gentlemen , and Freeholders of the County of Somerset . February , 25. 1642. Together with the Petition of the said County then delivered . LONDON , Printed for H. S. 1642. A SPEECH spoken by Sir THOMAS WROTH Knight , in the Honourable House of Commons upon his delivery of a Petition from the Knights , Gentlemen , and Freeholders , of the County of Somerset , February , 25. 1641. Mr. Speaker , THe High and Glorious Assembly of the three Estates in Parliament , hath a neere Resemblance to the Day of Judgement ; for in Parliament we are called to Account for our Actions both Good and Evill ; here wee heare the Voice of Ite and Venite ; From this Venite , the Knights , Gentlemen and Freeholders of the County of Somerser have been encouraged to entrust Us humbly to present their Petition to this Honourable House . It coms not attended with a numerous or multitudinous Troop , but guarded with some thousand of Hands to attest their approbation and assent . By reason of our Remotenesse , divers other Countries have had the Honour to presede Ours in the like Expressions of Loyalty and Duty , which Precedency may much disadvantage our Cordiall Intentions , if this House be not candid . Mr. Speaker , It is our humble Supplication to this great Senate in behalfe of them that sent us and our selves , that neither the paucity of our Attendance , nor the circumstance of time in the exhibiting this Petition , may make It or Us invalid or unacceptable , since we have Hearts and Hands as zealous and ready to maintain whatsoever is contained in our Petition , as any of the preceding Countries . The Labourers who entred into the Worke at the shutting in of the Day , received as much Wages as those that came early . It is the earnest desire of our Hearts that this Honourable and prudent Councell would vouchsafe Us such wages ( Gratious-Acceptance ) and that our Petition may be honour'd with a Reading . Sr , I have but one thing more in charge ; Whilst this Petition was ambulatory in our Country for Hands , that renowned Act concerning Bishops and others in Holy-Orders , never to be forgotten , and ever to be memoriz'd with thankfulnesse to God , his Maiesty , the Peeres and Commons , passed , to the unspeakeable content of all the well-affected Christians of this Kingdome ; For which , I am commanded to give this Honourable House all humble and hearty thanks . And Mr. Speaker , might it be lawfull in humility to speake my own thoughts , when the Bill of Pluralities ( the next great worke towards the blessed Reformation ) is perfected , I will then say , Lord , now let thy seruant depart this World in peace , for mine eye hath seen the great Salvation thou art beginning to worke for England . God blesse England .