A true copy of the petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal, for the calling of a free Parliament. Together with his Majesties gracious answer to their Lordships. England. Parliament. House of Lords. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03080 of text R176187 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. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B03080 Wing E2851A ESTC R176187 ocm 52612157

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 eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Sources. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A true copy of the petition of the Lords Spiritual and temporal, for the calling of a free Parliament. Together with His Majesties Gracious answer to England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. 1688 2 468 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
A True COPY of the PETITION OF THE LORDS Spiritual and Temporal , For the Calling of a Free PARLIAMENT . Together with His Majesties Gracious Answer to their Lordships .
To the KING's most Excellent Majesty , The Humble PETITION of the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal ; Whose Names are Subscribed . May it please Your Majesty ,

WE your Majesty's most Loyal Subjects , in a deep Sense of the Miseries of a War now breaking forth in the Bowels of this your Kingdom , and of the Danger to which your Majesty's Sacred Person is thereby like to be Exposed , and also of the Distractions of your People , by reason of their present Grievances , do think our selves bound in Conscience of the Duty we owe to God , and our Holy Religion , to your Majesty , and our Country , most humbly to offer to your Majesty , That in our Opinion , the only visible way to preserve your Majesty , and this your Kingdom , would be the Calling of a Parliament , Regular and Free in all its Circumstances .

We therefore do most earnestly beseech your Majesty , that you would be graciously pleased with all speed to Call such a Parliament , wherein we shall be most ready to promote such Counsels and Resolutions of Peace and Settlement in Church and State , as may conduce to your Majesty's Honour and Safety , and to the quieting the Minds of your People . We do likewise humbly beseech your Majesty , in the mean time , to use such means for the preventing the Effusion of Christian Blood , as to your Majesty shall see most meet . And your Petitioners shall ever Pray , &c. W. Cant . Grafton . Ormond . Dorset . Clare . Clarendon . Burlington . Anglesey . Rochester . Newport . Tho . Exon . W. Asaph . Fran . Ely . Tho . Roffen . Tho . Petriburg . Paget . Chandois . Osulston . Presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishops of Exon , Ely , and Rochester , the 17th . of November , 1688.
His MAJESTIES Answer .

I Agree with You as to the Calling a Parliament when it can be done , as You propose , Regularly and Free , in all its Circumstances ; and that it may be so , I desire You will tell the Temporal Lords , that I expect they should joyn with Me to suppress this Invasion and Rebellion ; and that the Lords Spiritual should Preach Loyalty , and exhort the People to stand by Me , as becomes Loyal Subjects .

Printed by Edw . Jones in the Savoy , 1688.