To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Sir Iohn Stawell. Stawell, John, Sir, 1599-1662. 1654 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A93837 Wing S5350 Thomason 669.f.19[51] ESTC R212138 99870784 99870784 163388

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A93837) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163388) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[51]) To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Sir Iohn Stawell. Stawell, John, Sir, 1599-1662. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb: 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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eng Stawell, John, -- Sir, 1599-1662 -- Estate -- Early works to 1800. Estates (Law) -- England -- Early works to 1800. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE PARLIAMENT Of the COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND; The humble Petition of Sir Iohn Stawell SHEWETH,

THat your Petitioner hath met of late with ſeverall Papers, which have, at the Parliament Dore, been preferred unto you; The one Intituled Reaſons for the eſtabliſhment of publike Sales: The other a Petition of William Lawrence of Edenburgh Eſq; with reaſons thereunto annexed, why the Petitioners Purchaſe ought not to be queſtioned by Sir JOHN STAWELL: There being but little of truth contained in either of them; He humbly conceives their principall ends are but to diſhonour two Great, and Honourable Courts, who have done your Petitioner Juſtice: The one as unto his Life, The other as unto his Eſtate: To retard the proceedings of the Committee, to whom you have been pleaſed to referr his late Petition; And utterly to extinguiſh thoſe hopes, he for the preſent conceives, of being reſtored to your favour, and a right underſtanding, after his very great loſſes, and long ſufferings.

Wherefore your Petitioner moſt humbly prayes, That ſince he hath made his humble addreſſes unto you, without reflections upon perſons, or cauſe given to irritate thoſe paſsions which appears in the expreſsions in thoſe Papers; You will be pleaſed to permit the proof of his Petition, according to the rule preſcribed by the Committee, and receive hereafter, as there ſhall be cauſe, ſuch a further manifeſtation of his wrong, as may give ſome light to works of darkneſs, anſwer thoſe Objections now made, and give further ſatisfaction, as your Honours ſhall pleaſe to require,

And your Petitioner ſhall ever pray, &c. JOHN STAWELL.