XXIX.

PETITION OF THE JEWES JOHANNA & EBENEZER CART[EN][W]RIGHT

THE | Petition | Of The | Jewes | For the Repealing of the Act of | Parliament for their banishment | out of England. |

Presented to his Excellency and the | generall Councell of Officers on | Fryday Jan. 5. 1648. | _With their favourable acceptance thereof._ |

Also a Petition of divers Comman-|manders, (_sic_) prisoners in the Kings | Bench, for the releasing of all pri-|soners for Debt, according to | the Custome of other | Countries. |

_London_, Printed for _George Roberts_, 1649. |

(_4to._ 1 _l._ + 6 _pp._) [I. S.]

_sig._ A.2. “To the Right Honourable, Thomas _Lord_ Fairfax, (His Excellency) Englanes (_sic_) Generall, And The Honourable Councel of Warre, Conveaned for Gods Glory, _Izraells_ Freedom, Peace, and Safety, _The humble Petition of_ Johanna Cartenright, _Widdow, and_ Ebenezer Cartwright _her Son, freeborn_ of England, _and now Inhabitants of the City of_ Amsterdam.”

_sig._ A.3. “_This Petition was presented to the generall Councell of the Officers of the Army, under the Command of his Excellency, Thomas Lord Fairfax, at Whitehall on Ian. 5. And favourably received with a promise to take it into speedy consideration, when the present more publike affaires are dispatched._”¹

¹ American Elements in the Re-settlement. By Lucien Wolf. (Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, vol. iii. 1896‒8.... London, ... 1899.... _p._ 87.)