To the honourable house of novv Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of many thousands of clothiers, weavers, bay-makers, serge-makers, say-makers, clothworkers, and worsted-combers with the realme of England, whose names are hereunder written, aswell for and on the behalfe of themselves as of all other persons that trade and deale in wooll, and the using and imploying thereof, in the making of cloth, stuffes and other manufacturers of vvooll within the said kingdome and the dominion of Wales, subscribed unto also by divers merchants and woollen-drapers of London for themselves and on the behalfe of the rest who are concerned therein, being dealers and adventurers of the commodities made of vvooll.