The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_and_Branch_petition" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Root and Branch petition">Root and Branch petition</a>, signed by 15,000 Londoners calling for the abolition of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_polity" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Episcopal polity">episcopacy</a>, is presented to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Parliament" id="mwWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Long Parliament">Long Parliament</a>.<sup about="#mwt47" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_11#cite_note-8" id="mwXA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwXQ">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt44" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFRees2016">Rees, John (2016). <i id="mwByQ">The Leveller Revolution</i>. Verso. p.<span id="mwByU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>2. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwByY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwByc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1784783907" id="mwByg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1784783907"><bdi id="mwByk">978-1784783907</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt44" class="Z3988" id="mwByo" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Leveller+Revolution&amp;rft.pages=2&amp;rft.pub=Verso&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-1784783907&amp;rft.aulast=Rees&amp;rft.aufirst=John&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+11"></span></span>