xv. Fiefteenth, that you pleas to frame some lawes concerning
depopulations, pourveyance, Cart-taking, delayes in Justice,
Traffick, Fishing on the coast, fulling earth, that our sea Ports
may bee repayred, and our Magazines renewed.
xvj. Sixteenth, that you pleas to consider the generall poverty
that seemes to overgrow the Land.
xvij. Lastly, we humbly beeseech you to consider the sad
condition that wee and the whole land are in, if a good
understanding
bee not speedyly renewed beetween hys Maty and the
howses of Parlyament.
Our hopes are yet above our fears; secure them wee
beseech you.
God direct and blesse your consultations
for ye remoeving of all
distrusts and jealousies, and for
renewing that tye of confidence
and trust wch is the
highest liappinesse beetween a most gratious
Prince, and us his loving people.
And you shall have the dayly prayers of your humble
Orators
ye Commons of Kent."
It is desired that whosoever doe deliver forth any copy, that
he doe testyfy the same to bee a trwe Copy.
For ye expediting this Petition, it is desired that the gentlemen
in their severall Divisions doe agree upon one amongst
themselves, to receive ye Copies of all these Petitions, and all
subscriptions, beetweene this and Easter Sessions at Maydstone;
and that all ye Gentry of Kent doe meete at Blackheath,
on Fryday morning, the 29th of Aprill, at nine of ye clock, in
the morning, at the farthest, from thence to accompany this
petition to the howse.
This was all publiquely read, agreed unto, and concluded, at
the Assizes at Maydstone, on the 25 March, 1642.
32. This is all that past at Maydstone, wch I have set
downe with every particular, ye after tymes (if at least
this should outlive ye present age) may judge whither
the offence was of ye transcendency, it were fit to cause
any man, not otherwise culpable, to bee in sequestration
(worse then a Premunire) to lye under a tedious and chargeable
imprizonment, and whether nurs 12 and 13
may not deserve consideration in Parlyament for securing
ye subject in future. For my part I will not heere
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