THat your pretty Petitioners having heard of your admirable Vigilence and Policie, in granting free leave to the Apprentices of this City for the Publique Good to runne from their Masters, and to serve their time out under his Excellency, with whom they may have the honour to live and die; and that for the satisfaction of their friends, who foolishly expect that their said Children should be taught their Trades, wherby they might be hereafter enabled to live honestly in their severall Vocations; Your wonderfull Justice and Power hath ordained, that they shall loose no time in the expedition they have now undertaken, but that when his Excellency and the Publique good shall be able to defend one another, all evill Conncellours and the Malignant Party be devoured and eaten up, and his Majesty gotten into honest hands againe; that the said Apprentises shall (if they please) returne to their severall shops, and be made Fore-men and Free-men, as if their Aprons had never been left off, with other notable priviledges against their Masters and with their Mistresses, which your grave wisdomes for the encouragement of well affected persons have provided for them.

Your Petitioners fall upon their knees before your Almightinesse, and desire that in this yeer of Jubile, when all manner of People are suffered to doe what they please, and no Rules, Lawes, or Orders left to compell the Free-borne Nation; they may not be left the onely Subjects of this Kingdome, but may be also at liberty to exercise their conscience, and suffered to doe their weak endeavours against their Soveraigne for his good, under the command of his Excellency; not doubting but that they shall so learne the use of their Arms too, that they may be able to kill any man within two foot of the Kings Majesty and never endanger him, against whom they desire not to be thought to bear the least ill will in the world. And that you will Declare and Vote, that after the short businesse in hand shall be performed; your hopefull Petitioners shall be as good Schollers, as if they had continued at Schoole, or in the Vniversity, and have the same Priviledges and Abilities to Preach and Teach, as those simple lazie people, who neglecting to joyne with you in making these present distractions, make no advantage of the wonderfull things you have done, but in contempt of your Authority, live as if there were no Parliament,
And your Petitioners shall grow up and conforme themselves to those Principles of necessary and wholsome Rebellion, which your grave wisdome shall Declare to be most agreeable to the funda­mentall Lawes of this Kingdome.