To the Honourable House of Commons the humble petition and case of Henry Mortlock, Matthew Gilliflower, William Hensman, Thomas Fox, and John Fish, booksellers in Westminster Hall. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62725 of text R25831 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1411A). 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 A62725 Wing T1411A ESTC R25831 09149114 ocm 09149114 42532 2264209812

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62725) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 42532) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1296:15) To the Honourable House of Commons the humble petition and case of Henry Mortlock, Matthew Gilliflower, William Hensman, Thomas Fox, and John Fish, booksellers in Westminster Hall. Mortlock, Henry. 1 broadside. s.n., [London : 1680] Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London. eebo To the Honourable House of Commons. The humble petition and case of Henry Mortlock, Matthew Gilliflower, William Hensman, Thomas Fox, and John Fish, b [no entry] 1680 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. 2008-01 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 HONOURABLE House of Commons . The Humble Petition and Case of Henry Mortlock , Matthew Gilliflower , William Hensman , Thomas Fox , and John Fish , Booksellers in Westminster Hall .

WHEREAS Your Petitioners , whose Names are above-mentioned , are , and have been , for these Two Years past , very much obstructed in their Trade by the Scaffolds erected there the beginning of November 1678. for Tryal of the Lords in the Tower , which at first totally obscured the Light of their Shops , which , for some Months , we were forced to keep shut , and after put to the great Trouble and Expence of removing them without , where they now stand , to the manifest loss of our Trade , which has ever since been diverted from this Place .

And whereas some others of our Profession have endeavoured to make Interests for procuring an Order from this Honourable House , for Printing the daily Proceedings , Votes , or what else this Honourable House shall approve of to be Printed .

We do therefore most humbly beg the Favour of this Honourable House , when any such Matter shall come before them , or when they shall think fit to appoint Printers in that behalf , to consider the great Damage sustained by your Petitioners in point of Trade ; And to bestow that Service upon us , who are so near , and shall be alwayes ready to express our Duty and Service to the utmost of our Endeavours , as ,

Your most Faithful and Obedient Servants . Henry Mortlock , Matthew Gilliflower , William Hensman , Thomas Fox , John Fish .