To the King's Most Excellent Majesty the humble petition of William Lord Howard of Escrick now prisoner in the Tower. Howard of Escrick, William Howard, Baron, 1626?-1694. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A44664 of text R33610 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H3013). 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. 2 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 A44664 Wing H3013 ESTC R33610 13533551 ocm 13533551 100011 2240884869

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A44664) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 100011) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1551:23) To the King's Most Excellent Majesty the humble petition of William Lord Howard of Escrick now prisoner in the Tower. Howard of Escrick, William Howard, Baron, 1626?-1694. 1 broadside. Printed for Richard Baldwin, London : 1681. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Howard of Escrick, William Howard, -- Baron, 1626?-1694. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. eebo To the King's most excellent Majesty. The humble petition of William Lord Howard of Escrick, now prisoner in the Tower; Howard of Escrick, William Howard, Baron, 1681 1 288 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. 2007-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the KING 's Most Excellent Majesty . The Humble Petition of William Lord Howard of Escrick , now Prisoner in the Tower ; SHEWETH ,

THat as it cannot but be matter of great Mortification to him , that his Honour should be blemish'd with the Imputation of so horrid and detestable a Crime , as that is for which he stands committed to this Place ; so it is no less matter of Rejoycing and Triumph to him , that it has pleased the Righteous God to rescue his Innocency from the Villainous Attempts and Practices of those lewd and infamous Persons , who , by the division of their Tongues , and the apparent contradiction of their Evidence , did render themselves much stronger Witnesses against themselves , than against him , upon whose Life and Honour they have made so impudent and audacious an Assault , as has founded a loud Alarm to all Mankind , and has justly fill'd the whole Kingdom with Horrour and Amazement , to hear that Perjury and Subornation should shew its Face upon the Publick Theatre of Justice .

In humble confidence therefore that the Report thereof has , by this time , begot in Your Majesties Royal Breast softer and gentler Thoughts concerning Your Petitioner , whose Innocency God has made to shine through that black Cloud with which Malice has sought to darken it , he does in all humility pray , That Your Majesty would be graciously pleas'd to discharge him of this Imprisonment , either with or without Bail , as Your Majesty , in Your great Justice and Wisdom , shall think fit .

LONDON , Printed for Richard Baldwin . 1681.