The Poor Man's Petition Noah Millstone Principal Investigator MPESE Sebastiaan Verweij Co-Investigator MPESE Richard Bell Research Associate Victoria Anker BRIHC Research Impact Fellow Mike Jones Research Software Engineer Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) 2017 United Kingdom London British Library Additional MS 22601

British Library, Additional MS 22601

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7 May 1603 English Latin petition offices corruption law lawyers monopolies Cout of Wards Court of Exchequer Court of Chancery merchants customs and excise royal parks royal officers anti-catholicism puritanism church government church ministers simony soldiers

7 Maij. 1603 The poore mans Peticion to the Kinge.

1. Good Kinge let there be an vnifor: =mity in true Religion without disturbance of Papist or Puritan

2. Good King let good Preachers be well prouided for, and without any bri =bery come to their liuinges.

3. Good King let poore Souldiours be payd their wages while they be imployed and well prouided for, when they are maihmed./

4. Good King let there not be suche great deleys and craftie proceedinges in Lawe, and let Lawyers haue mode- =rate fees. A pox take the proude Couetous Attorney and merciless Lawyer.

5. Good King let poore Suitours be hearde quickly, and with speede dispat= --ched fauourablie./

6. Good King let no man haue more offi= =ces then one, espetiallie in the Court or touchinge the Lawes.

7. Good King cutt of theis paltry licenses and all Monopolies: fye vpon a close bitinge Knauerie.

8. Good King suffer no great ordenance to be carried out of the Realme to thy Enimies as it hath byn: A plague, vpon all couetous bitinge Treasorours./

9. Good King let ordinarie Causes be deter= =mined in thy ordinarie Courts, and let not the Chancerie be made a common shiftinge place to prolonge causes for priuate gaines.

10. Good King looke to thy Takers & officers of thy house and to their exceedinge fees, that pull and gelde from thy princely allowaunce./

11. Good King let not vs be oppressed with so many Impositions, powlinges and payments./

12 Remember thy Infants Court who in Warde do euer remaine with Ideots & Nediotes, so longe as they haue either wooll or lead: Their trees are not windshaken, and yet downe they are fallen: a Guifte for a Prince more fitt, then for Crookback who would haue all./

13 Looke to thy Exchequour where Subiects be all cheaked by Osborne and Fanshaw, thy Tellers & Auditours. Also whose Dames are not contented with Mastres but Ladilike do goe, wee dare not speake their treasour is so greate, but weale & lament, and vnder the burthen of Milles & Roper Offices do daylie groane./

14. Looke vnto thy houses Parkes & forrests. howe downe and bare they bee. And then what Courtier keepes them maye you easily see:/

15. Forgett not thy Marchants howe with Customes they be opprest. I meane not the Vsurer what callinge so euer he be, Let him within thy Realme haue little rest./

16 Good King let make not lord of good Lincoln Duke of Shorditche for is a &c:

17 Good King make not Sr W.R. Erle of Pan= =cridge for he is a &c.

Good Kinge loue vs & we will loue thee, and will spend our harts bloods for thee./