THAT your poore Petitioners being fallen into great want and necessity through the great decay of Tra­ding, as it is generally conceived, occasioned for want of due execution of Iustice upon incendiaries and de­linquents upon this State, producing the manifold distractions and distempers that are now therein; and having divers times petitioned for redresse thereof, and composing the differences in the same, the reliefe and remedying the excessive grievances not onely by the Citizens of London, and Tradesmen in and about the Suburbs thereof, which have not yet been answered, not as wee conceive through the neglect or reiection of the Honourable House of Commous, but by the meere opposition of some Bishops and Lords sitting in the House of Peeres: And there having also beene severall Petitions by your Petitioners delivered formerly into the Lords House, which they having received no satisfactory answere of as yet, info [...]ceth us once againe to Peti­tion this Honourable House for answer to the same, in granting your Petitioners their iust desires and requests, which are:

First, that Bishops, with their whole usurped government, both Spirituall and Temporall, and all Offices appertaining to the same government, wherein they have exercised and executed iniustice and oppression o­ver the Children and Saints of God, the Kings faithfull and loyall Subiects; may be extinguished and a­bolished, all superfluous and superstitious Ceremonies now ioyned to the service of Almighty God, and introduced into the exercise of true Religion, and war [...]anted by the same, but repugnant to the purity and sincerity thereof, whose beginning is from Satan and that sonne of Perdition, who is the childe of that bottomlesse pit, Antichrist and his followers and Disciples, children of disobedience to God and their law­full Princes, the principall steppes leading to idolatry; and finally to Apostasie from God and his true Religi­on, the onely meanes and instrument to nourish vice and impurity in the Clergie and Ministery in their lives and conversations; the mixing with the true Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles, the Traditions and Inventions of man, thereby corrupting the pure and sincere teaching of the Word of God, seducing and blinding the people and Disciples of Christ in their Religion; may bee annihilated and utterly abolished in the Church of England, and other his Maiesties Dominions under his Royall subiection.

Secondly, that faithfull, laborious and learned Teachers may be placed in the Ministery, whereby the people of God may rightly be taught and instructed in the wayes of Godlinesse and Holinesse, and such as are scandalous and vicious in their lives and conversations, whose examples doth more encrease the Kingdome of Darknesse, whose originall is the Divell, by teaching men to live in uncleannesse and unholinesse, then their Doctrines win soules to God, or such as are unsound and corrupt in their doctrines, may be removed from the place of the Mi­nistery.

Thirdly, that Popish Lords, and all such in the House of Peers may be sequestred the House, that are any wayes dissaffected to the Protestant Religion, who are generally conceived to bee the hinderers and opposers of composing the differences in the State, of bringing evill doers to triall, and deserved punishment, and of setling true Religion in this Kingdome.

Fourthly, that the distressed estate in Ireland may be in time remembred before it be too late, and that spee­dy aide and assistance of men money and ammunition may be thither transported for their Releefe.

Fiftly, that this Kingdome may be put into a present posture of Warre, for the safety and defence there­of.

Sixtly, that all incendiaries and delinquents, may without any further delay, be brought to tryall, and punish­ment, as they shall be found to deserve the protraction of time therein, hath been the onely cause of the decay of trading, as it is conceived, and of all the miseries and troubles this Kingdome now groanes under.

And your humble and distressed Petitioners, with bended knees, and upright hearts, shall daily pray for the continuance and prosperous successe of this High and Honourable Court of Parliament, to settle and reforme all things that are amisse in this Common-Wealth, both in Church and State, and all other his Maiesties Kingdomes, to which they shall ever say, Amen.