A letter agreed unto and subscribed by the gentlemen, ministers, freeholders and seamen of the county of Suffolk Presented to the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councell of the Citty of London. Assembled, January 30th 1659. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A87914 of text R205556 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[22]). 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 2017 A87914 Wing L1344 Thomason 669.f.23[22] ESTC R205556 99864902 99864902 163678 2240903981

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A87914) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163678) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[22]) A letter agreed unto and subscribed by the gentlemen, ministers, freeholders and seamen of the county of Suffolk Presented to the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councell of the Citty of London. Assembled, January 30th 1659. City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Thomas Dring, London : 1659. [i.e. 1660] Praying for a free Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 31." Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Suffolk (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A87914 R205556 (Thomason 669.f.23[22]). civilwar no A letter agreed unto and subscribed by the gentlemen, ministers, freeholders and seamen of the county of Suffolk. Presented to the Right Hon City of London 1659 1 320 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. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LETTER Agreed unto and subscribed by the Gentlemen , Ministers , Freeholders and Seamen of the County of SUFFOLK . PRESENTED To the Right Honorable , the Lord Mayor , Aldermen , And Common Councell of the Citty of LONDON . Assembled , January 30th 1659. RIGHT HONORABLE ,

PLEASE you to accept this Paper as a testimony , that we are highly and gratefully sensible of those Breathings and Essaies towards Peace , which your Renowned City has lately declared to the World : And we earnestly wish , that our serious and unanimous Concurrence , may ripen them to a perfect Accomplishment . We are willing to consider it as an Omen of Mercy , when we observe the Nation in generall , lifting up its Vowes to Heaven for a Free and Full PARLIAMENT . 'T is that alone , in its Genuine Sense , which our Laws prescribe and present to us , as the great Patron and Guardian of our Persons , Liberties , and Proprietics , and whatsoever else is justly pretious to us . And if God shall , by your hand , lead us to such an obtainment , after-Ages shall blesse your Memory . 'T is superfluous to spread before you , your Merchandise decay'd , your Trade declin'd , your Estates wither'd . Are there not many within your Walls , or near them , that in your ears deplore such miseries as these ? Your Lordship may believe , that our Prayers and Persons shall gladly promote all lawfull means for our Recovery . And we entreat , that this cheerfull suffrage of ours may be annex'd , as a Labell to your Honourable Intendments .

This Letter was delivered according to its Superscription , by Robert Broke , Philip Parker , and Thomas Bacon , Esquires .

LONDON , Printed for Thomas Dring . 1659.