To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons assembled in this present Parliament. The most humble supplication of all those commission-officers, &c. that have faithfully and constantly served and suffered for your Majesty's royal father of ever blessed memory, and your most sacred Majesty. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06117 of text R37157 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1496A). 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. 4 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 B06117 16262894 Wing T1496A Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[217] ESTC R37157 99890301 ocm99890301 182886 2240912430

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06117) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182886) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:2[218]) To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons assembled in this present Parliament. The most humble supplication of all those commission-officers, &c. that have faithfully and constantly served and suffered for your Majesty's royal father of ever blessed memory, and your most sacred Majesty. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed by R.D., London, : 1661. Verse: "Nor honour, power, place, preheminence ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Early works to 1800. eebo To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons assembled in this present Parliament. The most humble supplication of all those commiss anon 1661 1 537 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. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO The Kings most Excellent Majesty , AND THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in this present PARLIAMENT . The most humble SUPPLICATION of all those Commission-Officers , &c. that have faithfully and constantly Served and Suffered for Your Majesty's Royal Father of ever blessed memory , and Your most Sacred Majesty . Humbly sheweth , That NOr Honour , Power , Place , Preheminence We seek above our Sovereign's gratious Sence ; But in dishonour to lie down and die Pris'ners , or sterved , is the thing we flye . Now we have spent the prime of all our Youth To serve our Prince , and to adhere to Truth , 'T were hard we should be forc'd to find new Fates , Forsake our Countrey to serve other States For meer Necessity ; this , this would touch Your Honours neerly , and our Comforts much . Sirach's wise Son affirms , it was his Grief , To see a Man of War to want Relief . Our blessed Saviours words are very plain , Those shall , that suffer with me , with me Reign . And the same word puts in this perfect barr , At his own private charge none goes to War . We would prevent our Ruine , and no more ; We strive not to be rich , not to be poor , A competent subsist for each degree Is all we ask , and that which cannot be We think deni'd us ; for our Constancy Did serve as well the Church , and rais'd as high The Kingdom 's as the King's Prosperity . Then since it was the whole we lov'd and serv'd , We have in love , and honor , well deserv'd From all , and every part , and humbly hope All Interests will give us such a scope In our Addresses , that without offence , We may Addresse to all , and all dispence Proportionable parts for our relief , To take a way your shame , their scorn , our grief . You see we 'ave waited patiently almost As many moneths since God hath blest our Coast ; With our dear Sovereigns presence , as before , We suffer'd years in Captiv'd state , nay , more : Nor gentle have our sufferings been , yet we Have borne it all humbly and patiently . Now Royall Majesty , most Noble Lords , And Faithfull Commons we addresse our words , Directly to you , and do Supplicate A rem'dy for our yet unhappy State . You that so nobly have discharged those That proved Civil in the later close , You that have paid the Navy and the Army , ( Wisely preventing they no more should harm ye ) And have ( to preserve peace ) declar'd that all ( Not after erring ) shall become equal . Then make us so , in being at least so blest In your just bounty , as were all the rest . And we shall make our Hemisphere to ring . ( In gratefullest resounds ) God save the King .

LONDON , Printed by R. D. 1661.