THat We Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects , having all along behaved our Selves with an humble and modest Patience and Submission , amongst the most Eminent Dangers , and most signal disappointments ; Can no longer be silent without rendring our Selves infamous to posterity , as Persons abandoning our own Safety , wanting Courage to defend Your Majesties Life , Zeal for the Protestant Religion , and Love for our Country .

And whereas by the Known Laws of this Realm ( which Your Majesty has obliged Your Self by Your Coronation Oath to observe ) Your Majesty is to use the Advice of Your great Council , the Parliament ; for Redressing Grievances , and providing extraordinary Remedy against unusual and Eminent Dangers . And whereas , Your Majesty was Graciously pleased to the Infinite Joy of Your whole Kingdom , on the 20th . day of April last , to Declare to Your Parliament , That it was your Resolution to Consult with , and be Advised by Parliaments , in all Your Majesties Weighty and Important Affairs .

And whereas there never was any Affair so Weighty , and so Important as the Preservation of Your Sacred Person and Kingdom , from the present Plots , Influences , Villanous Designes , and Bloody Conspiracies of the Papists at Home in Conjunction with their Adherents abroad , to which they are chiefly Encouraged by [ the Hopes of a Popish Successor , and ] the Absence of Parliaments , by whom alone the Principal Conspirators can be brought to Justice .

And whereas we have been awakened to a greater sense of our Danger , and of the nearness of our Destruction , as well by the Consideration of the Terrour and Amazement of all Your Majesties Subjects , during Your Majesties suddain and violent Sickness , from which to their Infinite joy , and by the great Goodness of God you are so happily Recovered , as also by observing the Insolence of the Papists to increase continually , and that they still pursue their Accursed Designs , by New and more detestable methods of Endeavouring to Corrupt Your Majesties Evidence , and suborning Witnesses to accuse many Great and Innocent Protestants of Pretended Treasons , ( thereby the better to Conceal and Execute their own ) whereby no mans Life or Estate can be secure .

We do therefore Most Humbly Beseech Your Majesty , To the end that the aforesaid Hellish Conspiracies may be throughly Examin'd , and Justice Effectually done upon the Conspirators , and sufficient and adequate Provisions may be made for securing Your Majesties Royal Person , The Protestant Religion , The Ancient well-Establisht Government of this Kingdom , and all Your Majesties Protestant Subjects , That the present Parliament Prorogued to the 26th . of January next , may Meet and continue to Sit till they have accomplisht those Great Ends , which will render Your Majesty the Most Beloved of Princes , will make Your Name Glorious to Posterity , and Your Subjects most Happy under Your Reign .