The humble Supplication of the Borrough of Alishbury in the
County of bucks was this day read.
To the Parliament of ENGLAND.
The humble supplication of the Inhabitants of the Borrough of
Alisbury in the County of Bucks.
Most humbly shewing,
That they have been zealous and constant in their affections,
and endeavours to, and for the Parliament, and have runne
great hazards, and suffered very great losses in that respect, yet
cannot but rejoyce therein, seeing themselves and this whole
Nation freed from that grievous yoke of Tyranny, under which
they so long suffered; and that blessed freedome under Parliamentary
Government, which through your Wisdomes, and
endeavours they now enjoy.
That your Honours have beene so farre pleased to take notice
of their Fidelity and endeavours, that upon their former Petition
to you, touching the re-establishing their Corporation granted
in the first year of Queene Mary, and enjoying certaine right of
Pasturage in a ground called Heydon hill for reliefe of their
poore, and for the Waste and Royalties within their Towne,
which are claimed by Sir John Packington a Delinquent, as by
your Order of the ninth of May last, to referre it to the Committee
of Goldsmiths-hall to take into consideration the Mittigation
of the Fine of the said Sir John Packington, and the requests
of your Suppliants former Petition. And how both the
Incorporation, and the said ground called Heydon hill, with
Royalties, and Wasters claimed by the said Sir John Packington
might be settled, and Confirmed to the Petitioners, and report
their opinions as by the annexed Order.
They humbly conceive the said Committee are ready for a
Report, and your Petitioners most humbly beg (as and addition
to your former favours, the speedy hearing of their Report, and
your finall resolution thereon, to which they shall (as in all other
things)most cheerfully submit, with this full assurance (on
behalfe of all that Burrough) that what every favour or bounty
you shall please to confer on them shall never be forgotten, but
further oblige them everlastingly to serve the parliament of England