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.)