THat your Petitioners having (not as Mercinaries, but like faithfull and free-borne Subjects) exposed their Estates to ruine, and their Lives to all dangers, for the preservation of the King, the Priviledge of Parlia­ment, and Liberty of the Subject, cannot but looke upon these new Divi­sions, with sad and bleeding hearts, and justly dread the evill conse­quence that doth probably threaten desolation to these three Kingdomes, if not timely prevented, by your Honours great wisdomes and Care; And your Petitio­ners doe cordially protest before God and man, that they would gladly undergoe the worst of ills, might their Sufferings divert those heavie judgements from us, yet nothwithstanding their Fidelity and constant affection to the Priviledge and Ho­nour of both Houses of Parliament. They are sensible there hath been strong en­deavours to render them odious to the World, under the notion of Fomenters of a new Warre, and disturbers of a happie Peace; And have by that Colourable pre­tence, and for some other reasons best knowne to your Honours, procured an Ordi­nance to banish them this City, which if you shall put in execution without remu­nerating their said Services, and Sufferings with some considerable part of their Ar­reares, they must inevitably be lyable to all the Miseries and Reproaches that are incident to Vagabonds, and consequently perish, having spent their Patrimony, lost their Imployments, and some their Limbes to discharge their Consciences, and du­ties to serve your Honours, and the Kingdomes safety.

Your Petitioners doe thankfully acknowledge Your vigilancy and restlesse en­deavours to prevent the effusion of more Blood and settle a happie Peace; And our humble requests are, That your Honours would leave no meanes unattemp­ted to Compleat the same; And that our abode in this City and necessitated ad­dresses to your Honours, may bee no hinderance nor impede the speedy Con­summation thereof, You would be pleased in tender Consideration of the pre­misses, to grant them whose Accompts are already audited, that part of their Arreares which appeares due by their Debentures, and vendable Security for that part which is respited on the publique Faith; Provided they shall not be further charged by the severall Counties of the Kingdome; And that speciall order be taken for the stating of their Accompts, who are not yet Cast up, and they Li­censed to attend the same, till they shall bee proportionably satisfied; that so your Petitioners (some of them being Strangers, others farre remote from their native Countries, and all deeply ingaged and impoverished by their tedious At­tendances for their Arreares) may be inabled to discharge their Debts; And as they have conformed themselves (in all the Course of this Warre) to your Ho­nours orders, so now being in some measure restored to their pristine Conditi­on, they shall withall cheerfulnesse yeeld perfect Obedience to the same.

And they shall ever pray, &c.