His Majesties resolution for the calling of a free Parliament upon the humble motion and advice of a great council of his peers. James II, King of England, 1633-1701. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A46593 of text R31540 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing J380). 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 A46593 Wing J380 ESTC R31540 12083774 ocm 12083774 53681 2240943735

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46593) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 53681) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1012:11) His Majesties resolution for the calling of a free Parliament upon the humble motion and advice of a great council of his peers. James II, King of England, 1633-1701. 1 broadside. s.n., [London : 1688] Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament. Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688. eebo His Majesties resolution for the calling of a free Parliament, upon the humble motion, and advice of a great council of his peers. James II, King of England, 1688 1 395 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
HIS Majesties Resolution For the Calling of a FREE PARLIAMENT , Upon the Humble Motion , and Advice of a Great Council of his Peers .

His Majesty was Graciously pleased , upon Tuesday , Nov. 27. 1688. to advise with a Council of his Peers , about the present Unhappy State of his Affairs , where they attended his Royal Pleasure according to a Summons unto them directed . There were present , twenty five Protestant Temporal Lords , and nine Lords Spiritual , being the whole number that were within distance of appearing according to the time of Summons . His Majesty was pleased to express himself with great Clearness and Respect upon the Subject of that Meeting , requiring their Lordships to deliver their Judgments with all Freedome upon the Matter in hand , wherein they acquitted themselves accordingly upon the several Points that they had in Debate ; and upon a full Consideration of the whole Affair , their Lordships came to this Resolution , ( without so much as one Negative ) that they saw no way of Redress , considering the Grievances and Distempers of the People , and the present Circumstances of his Majesties Condition , but by the speedy calling of a Free Parliament , which their Lordships with one voice humbly besought the King to do : Whereupon his Majesty was pleased to Declare to their Lordships , to this Effect ; that their Advice was according to his own Inclinations , but it being a Matter of so great an Importance , he would take time til the next day to consider of it . And upon the day following , his Majesty was pleased to Order the Issuing out of Writs for the calling of a Free Parliament .

There were present , His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury , and His Grace of Tork in Nomination , with seven Prelates more .

The Right Honourable the Lord Chancellour , the Marquiss of Hallifax , the Earls of Oxford , Pembrook , Clarendon , Anglesey , Carlisle , Craven , Aylesbury , Burlington , Yarmouth , Berkley , Nottingham , Rochester , Vicount Falconberg , Vicount Newport , Vicount Weymouth . The Lords , Chandois , Paget , Vaughan , Montague of Boughton , Maynard , Howard of Escrick , Ossulston , Godolphin .