The Lord Bishop of Rochester's letter to the right honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Ecclesiastical Court Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A61160 of text R37588 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S5034). 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 A61160 Wing S5034 ESTC R37588 16976791 ocm 16976791 105602 2240854079

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A61160) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 105602) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1159:41) The Lord Bishop of Rochester's letter to the right honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Ecclesiastical Court Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. 1 broadside. s.n., [London? : 1688?] Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library. eng England and Wales. -- Ecclesiastical Commission (1686) Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688. Great Britain -- Church history -- 17th century. eebo The Lord Bishop of Rochester's letter to the right honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Ecclesiastical Court. Sprat, Thomas, 1688 1 321 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. 2002-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-12 Sampled and proofread 2002-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Lord Bishop of Rochester's LETTER to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Ecclesiastical Court. MY LORDS ,

I Most humbly intreat your Lordships favourable Interpretation of what I now Write , that since your Lordships are resolved to proceed against those who have not Complied with the King's Command in Reading his Declaration , it is absolutely impossible for me to serve his Majesty any longer in this Commission . I beg leave to tell your Lordships , That tho' I my self did Submit in that particular , Yet I will never be any ways Instrumental in Punishing those my Brethren that did not : For as I call God to Witness , that what I did was meerly on a Principle of Conscience , so I am fully satisfied , that their forbearance was upon the same Principle . I have no reason to think otherwise of the whole Body of the Clergy , who upon all Occasions have signalized their Loyalty to the Crown , and their Zealous Affections to his present Majesties Person , in the worst of Times . Now my Lords , the Safety of the Church of England , seeming to be exceedingly Concern'd in this Prosecution , I must Declare I cannot with a safe Conscience sit as Judge in this Cause upon so many Pious and Excellent Men , with whom ( if it be God's Will ) it rather becomes me to suffer , than to be in the least accessary to their Sufferings : I therefore Earnestly Request your Lordship to interceed with his Majesty , That I may be Graciously dismissed any further Attendanee at the Board , and to assure him , that I am still ready to Sacrifice whatever I have to his Service ; but my Conscience & Religion .

My Lords , Your Lordships most Faithful and Humble Servant R —