Excerpt from The Camden Miscellany, Vol. 8: Containing Four Letters of Lord Wentworth, Afterwards Earl of Strafford, With a Poem of His Illness; Memoir by Madame De Motteville on the Life of Henrietta Maria; Papers Relating to the Delinquency of Lord Savile, 1642-1646; A Secret Negociation With Cha The statement at page 2 is valuable as giving direct evidence of the authorship of the Petition of the Peers, which has hitherto been believed to have been the work of Pym alone, but which is here Shown to have been drawn up by Pym and St. John. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.