THat being Smok't out of the Parliament, and sent to their Ware-house, the Tower, he hath look't about him and bethought himself, how if in Lieu of his being their Te­nant at will and pleasure, they had made him Lieutenant of the place; he might like Baxter to the Gold-smiths been a great Honour and Ornament to your Company: He [...]ell remembreth himself, to have once been of your Cunning Profession, but that it is no more [...]hen a Puny Craft to the Grand Mistery of a Senator, and that the Divel ought not to be longer [...]aited with a GROCER. He applies himself therefore to your Worships, Beseeching your [...]rotherly Intercession for him to the Parliament, and presumes to advise you of the words where­ [...]ith he stands Charged, and which he Humbly Requests you to Extenuate: First that he cared [...]ot a FIG for the Parliament; That they were sweetly Dissolved in the Armies Tears like a­ [...]y Sugar; That a Retail Safety Committee Man, was better then a Tail Parliament Mem­ [...]er; That he your Petitioner was too Sweet-sented for such a House; besides this he conjectures [...]lso that the Parliament have taken Pepper in their Nose at his being Spiced with Sir Harry Vane's [...]rinciples, by whom he was Garbled and made Net for the interest of John Lambert, when he [...]hrew out the Refuse and the Tare.

He therefore beseecheth you to mind the Parliament that he is a Frail-Man, & in such a year & [...]ch inconstant changeable weather, they must not expect Reasons for what he did, & that if he [...] not Currant 'tis General Moncks fault, that engrost all and spoild the Market, and hath also trad­ [...]d into Spain for better things then Plums. And furthermore to hint to the Parliament his Sub­missive demeanour at his charge in the House; how Gingerly he sate, and how Tongue-bitten, how [...]e reverenced the Mace, so that he has great hopes he shall not be Bank-rumpt or Disseated, [...]hough for a while he may be superseded, and in good time suspended. But if the worst come to the worst he hath a small stock to set up with at Queen-Hithe, which with your [...]elping hand to a beginner may prove better then the stock he had from Sir Harry, and if all [...]rades fail him (as he never doubted of that last) he is sure to have a Licence to sell Stued [...]runes Excise Free.

In tender consideration therefore of these Premisses, May it please this worshipful Society, effectu­ally to Address themselves to, and Mediate with the Parliament that they would be pleased to put into the Scale his present Heaviness, and Ballance their Anger with his former Merits, and rebate pro Parliament rato, thats 60. for 500. considering what a bad Bargain he hath made, and how bad the Times are, that have more need of a Committee of Insurance then Safety: al­wayes remembring that good City Adage, To doe as they would be done by; no man knowing whose Turn may be next, according as your learned Clerk Mr. Bunbury hath it in his Suburb-Exercises upon Ganymede.

And your Petitioner, &c.