A malicious man makes reasons To the honourable knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Prince Butler prays ... Butler, Prince. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A51690 of text R217759 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M320A). 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 A51690 Wing M320A ESTC R217759 99829405 99829405 33844 2240875255

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A51690) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 33844) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1993:14) A malicious man makes reasons To the honourable knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Prince Butler prays ... Butler, Prince. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1700?] Title from heading and first lines of text. Imprint from Wing. A satire of James Butler, Duke of Ormonde. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Ormonde, James Butler, -- Duke of, 1610-1688 -- Early works to 1800. Satire, English -- Early works to 1800. eebo A malicious man makes reasons. To the honourable knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. [no entry] 1700 1 455 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. 2006-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-07 Sampled and proofread 2006-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Malicious Man makes Reasons . To the Honourable Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses . in Parliament Assembled .

The Humble Petition of Prince Butler prays your Honours if you think it good Countenance , or no good Countenance , Right , or Wrong , Money , or no Money , Bawdy , or not Bawdy , Bastard , or no Bastard , Irish or no Irish , Alive , or Dead , to desire his Majesty and Secretary , by an Address , ( whether they are , or will be ill inform'd , or not ) to give or not give him positively without blushing , trembling , doubting , undervaluing , or scorning , an open general Letter to their Ambassadors abroad , that the Ambassador where he Arrives , ( whether he is or will be ill informed or not ) may desire the King , or Prince with his Secretary , to hear himself read his Grievances publickly or privately before them , and after a clear hearing to answer him as they please ; and the said Ambassador may give , or not give him Bed , and Bread , until he gets his answer in Writing , or not in writing from Court . And he prays your Honours , to desire his Majesty to give , or not give him Travelling-Money to Vienna , the Emperors Court , and he will pray . One Reason is good until another is told , and sometimes both Reasons are good ; And the Injurer makes Reasons .

The Petitioner prays to be heard at your Bar and he prays your Honours to give , or not give him a Certificate of all the Villanies and Shams , you may or shall hear reported of him by orders of Prince Pamphylion to the King , or your selves , without saying any thing to the contrary .

He prays your ignorant Honours , Ill informed or not , Disdainful or not , Scornful or not , Purse-proud or not , Bribed any of you all in general or not , to read this present Case Nicely . and Attentively , from the first to the last word in it ; like Honourable , Famous , Sensible , Attentive , Just , Judicoius , Pious , and compassionate Judges , as ye are , and ought to be ; and not to use it as Young , or old Rich or poor malicious People uses often Cases and Papers ; and not to own and prove the King and your selves barbarous , cruel , and inhuman People , to himself , in incredible Afflictions and Miseries these 20. Years .