To the Kings most Excellent Maiesty The humble petition of the governour, assistants, and fellowship of the merchants-adventurers of England. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74232 of text R212637 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.7[5]). 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 2017 A74232 Thomason 669.f.7[5] ESTC R212637 99871236 99871236 160987 2240933940

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A74232) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160987) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f7[5]) To the Kings most Excellent Maiesty The humble petition of the governour, assistants, and fellowship of the merchants-adventurers of England. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Row, Henry, Sir. Nicholas, Edward, Sir, 1593-1669. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Leonard Lichfield, Printed at Oxford : 1643. Desiring the King "to grant them some particular declaration" of his "royall grace and goodnesse towards the fellowship." With His Majesty's answer. The petition is signed: Sir Henry Rovv, governor. The King's reply is dated 26 Martii 1643, and signed: Edw. Nicholas. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill. 8". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A74232 R212637 (Thomason 669.f.7[5]). civilwar no To the Kings most Excellent Maiesty. The humble petition of the governour, assistants, and fellowship of the merchants-adventurers of Englan Charles King of England 1643 1 409 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. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Kings most Excellent Maiesty . The humble Petition of the Governour , Assistants , and Fellowship of the Merchants-Adventurers of England .

MOst humbly sheweth , That the Petitioners being , during these miserable distractions of the Kingdome , encompassed on all sides with many difficulties ; and well weighing the dangers they may fall into in Forraigne parts , if your Majestie should withdraw Your Royall Protection from them , upon any displeasure to the Companie .

Doe humbly Prostrate themselves before Your Royall Majestie , and for their Assurance , in so many feares , humbly beseech Your Majestie to grant them some particular Declaration , at present , of your Royall Grace and Goodnesse towards the Fellowship , whereby they may bee enabled to uphold the little remainder of the Staple Trade of this Kingdome , and proceed in the same with encouragement , as Your Majesties true and Loyall Subjests .

And as in duty bound , they shall daily Pray , &c. Signed by Sir HENRY ROW , Governor .
At the Court at Oxford , 26. Martii . 1643.

HIs Maiesty hath commanded me to give this His answer . That if the Petitioners are not conscious to themselves of any disloyalty to His Maiesty , they have no reason to feare the withdrawing His Royall Protection from them , His Maiesty being so desirous to preserve and advance the publique Trade ( a thing of so high concernment to the whole Kingdom ) that He hath left no means unattempted to that end . But if the Petitioners , or any of them , are falne from their Duty , Obedience , and Allegiance to Him , upon an opinion , That His Maiesty could not have the benefit of the Lawes here against them , He will never consent that they shall have the benefit and Protection , due only to His good Subiects , abroad , and so evade His Iustice every where ; but will precisely observe His resolution declared so long since , and so gratiously , in answer to the Petition presented in the beginning of Ianuary last from the City of London , in and by which the Petitioners , and all other Persons concerned , had sufficient Warning and instance of His Maiesties Grace and Favour to them .

EDW. NICHOLAS .

Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD , 1643.