Whereas the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens and burgesses, members of the Parliament of King Charles the Second ... have desired Us to cause Our letters to be written ... William III, King of England, 1650-1702. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96579 of text R42958 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2494A). 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 A96579 Wing W2494A ESTC R42958 38875990 ocm 38875990 152512 2240876791

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96579) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 152512) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2299:22) Whereas the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens and burgesses, members of the Parliament of King Charles the Second ... have desired Us to cause Our letters to be written ... William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n.], [London : 1688. Begins at head of text: "My Lord," "Given at St. James's the Nine and twentieth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord, 1688." Form letter calling for election of a new parliament. Reproduction of original in: Newberry Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Revolution of 1688. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo My Lord, Whereas the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens and burgesses, members of the Parliament of King Charles the Second, ... William III, King of England, 1688 1 207 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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WHEREAS the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and the Knights , Citizens and Burgesses , Members of the Parliaments of King CHARLES the Second , and the Aldermen , and Members of the Common-Council of the City of London , in their late Assemblies at Westminster have desired Us to cause Our Letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Kingdom of England , being Protestants ; and to the Counties , Cities , Boroughs and Places that of Right ought to Choose and send Members to Parliament ; so as the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , to whom Our Letters are so to be directed , and the Persons so to be Elected may Meet and Sit at Westminster on the Two and twentieth day of January next : We intending the Publick Good of this Kingdom , in pursuance of the said desire , Do , by this Our Letter , desire your Lordship to Meet and Sit with the rest of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , on the said Day and Place appointed .

Given at St. James 's the Nine and twentieth Day of December , in the Year of our Lord , 1688.