To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty the humble petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal whose names are subscribed. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38331 of text R220132 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E2849). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A38331 Wing E2849 ESTC R220132 18424166 ocm 18424166 107580 2248554292

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A38331) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107580) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1632:43) To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty the humble petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal whose names are subscribed. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. 1 broadside. Printed for H. Jones, London : 1688. "Presented by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury ... the 17th of November, 1688." Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquariers Library, London. eng Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688. eebo To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the humble petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal, whose names are subscribed. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords 1688 1 350 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE Kings Most Excellent Majesty , The HUMBLE PETITION of the LORDS SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL Whose Names are Subscribed . May it please Your Majesty ,

WE your Majesties most Loyal Subjects , in a deep sense of the Miseries of a War now breaking forth in the Bowels of this your Kingdom , and of the Danger to which your Majesties Sacred Person is thereby like to be Exposed , and also of the Distractions of your People , by Reason of their present Grievances , do think our selves bound in Conscience of the Duty we owe to God and our Holy Religion , to your Majesty and our Country , most humbly to offer to your Majesty , that in our Opinion , the only visible way to preserve your Majesty and this your Kingdom , would be the calling of a Parliament , Regular and Free in all its Circumstances .

We therefore do most earnestly beseech your Majesty , that you would be graciously pleased with all speed to call such a Parliament , wherein we shall be most ready to promote such Councels and Resolutions of Peace and Settlement in Church and State , as may conduce to your Majesties Honour and Safety , and to the quieting the Minds of your People .

We do likewise humbly beseech your Majesty , in the mean time , to use such means for the preventing the Effusion of Christian Blood , as to your Majesty shall seem most meet .

And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c. W. Cant. Grafton . Ormond . Dorset . Clare . Clarendon . Burlington . Anglesey . Rochester . Newport . Nom. Ebor. W. Asaph . Fran. Ely. Tho. Roffen. Tho. Petriburg . T. Oxon. Paget . Chandois . Osulston . Presented by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury , the Arch-Bishop of York Elect , the Bishop of Ely , and the Bishop of Rochester , the 17th . of November , 1688.

LONDON , Printed for H. Jones . 1688.