To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the aldermen, and Common-councell, in Common-councell assembled

My Lord, knights, and gentlemen, the deep sence of our particular miseries, together with a tender fellow feeling of the sad and distempered condition of this famous city, and also of the whole kingdom, hath upon divers serious and mutuall debates so far prevailed with us, a great and considerable part of this county of Essex, as humbly to make our addresses in a petitionary way to the honourable houses of Parliament the fourth of this instant May ...