The humble answer of the House of Peers to His Majesties gracious lettter and declaration. Die Mercurii, 23⁰ Maii, 1660. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that the humble answer of the House of Peers to His Majesties most gracious letter and declaration be forthwith printed and published. Jo. Browne Cleric, Parliamentorum. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83898 of text R208705 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A83898 Wing E2806 Thomason E1025_10 ESTC R208705 99867632

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 eng Charles -- II, -- King of England, 1630-1685 -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. eebo The humble answer of the House of Peers to His Majesties gracious lettter and declaration. :$bDie Mercurii, 23^0 Maii, 1660. Ordered by the Lords in P England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. 1660 8 438 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. 2013-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT

The Humble ANSWER OF THE House of Peers To His MAJESTIES Gracious Letter AND DECLARATION .

Die Mercurii , 23o Maii , 1660.

ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled , That the Humble Answer of the House of Peers to His Majesties most Gracious Letter and Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published .

JO . BROWNE Cleric . Parliamentorum .

London , Printed by John Macock , and Francis Tyton , Printers to the H use of Lords , 1660.

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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT
Most Gracious Soveraign ,

YOur Loyal Subjects , the Peers now Assembled , do with all Humility and Thankfulness return their Acknowledgments to your Majesty for your Gracious Letter and Declaration ; and do esteem it their greatest Honor , that your Majesty is pleased to Express a Confidence of their Councels and Endeavours for the composing the sad and unhappy Distractions of Your Kingdomes ; and they own this as their great Advantage , that they may now Act in discharge of their own Duty by Your Majesties Command . Your Majesties great and many Sufferings have long affected their Hearts with deep Resentments of Trouble and Sorrow , but the same Power that Usurped and Prophaned Your Scepter , Devested them of their Rights and Priviledges , and kept them under such Pressures and Difficulties , as they were rendred uncapable of serving Your Majesty in order to those Ends , to which their Duty and Allegeance did engage them : It hath been their constant desire that the Nation had continued Happy and Innocent ; but Your Majesties Piety and Wisdome hath shewed You to what Degree Your Clemency is to be extended ; and we hope all Your Subjects will Answer Your Majesties Grace and Favour to the utmost Point of Fidelity and Obedience ; the Peers have a Just Ground to own a more particular dependence and Subserviency to the Throne of Majesty , not only by the Prescriptions of Law , but by that Affection and Duty which is fixed in their Hearts upon the Foundations of Loyalty , which gives them the Priviledge to Stile themselves

Westminster , May 3. 1660. Your Majesties Most Loyal , Most Dutiful , and Most Obedient Subjects and Servants , Signed in the Name , and by the Command of the said House of Peers : By E. MANCHESTER , Speaker of the House of Peers , pro tempore . For the Kings most Excellent Majesty .