It being the laudable custom of our ancestors, when they elected and authorized their knights, citizens, and burgesses to deliver them breviates of all those publick grievances they thought necessary to be redressed, and such propositions as they apprehended most effectual for the welfare and prosperity of themselves and the English nation, to be vigorously prosecuted by them in Parliament; ...

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Title taken from first lines of text. Imprint information from Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library.