To the Kings most excellent Majesty. The humble petition of the governor, assistants, and fellowship of Merchants-Adventurers of England. Company of Merchant Adventurers of England. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06124 of text R185317 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1537). 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. 3 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 B06124 Wing T1537 ESTC R185317 52612447 ocm 52612447 179668 2240886347

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06124) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179668) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2796:6) To the Kings most excellent Majesty. The humble petition of the governor, assistants, and fellowship of Merchants-Adventurers of England. Company of Merchant Adventurers of England. Nicholas, Edward, Sir, 1593-1669. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Leonard Lichfield, Printed at Oxford : 1643. Caption title. Initial letters. Includes the reply in behalf of the King, dated: At the court at Oxford, 26. Martii, 1643, and signed: Edw. Nicholas. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Company of Merchant Adventurers of England. Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century -- Sources. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. B06124 R185317 (Wing T1537). civilwar no To the Kings most Excellent Majesty. The humble petition of the governor, assistants, and Fellowship of merchants-adventurers of England Row, Henry, Sir 1643 1 404 2 0 0 0 0 0 50 D The rate of 50 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY . The humble PETITION of the Governor , Assistants , and Fellowship of Merchants-Adventurers of England .

MOST humbly sheweth , That the Petitioners being , during these misrable distractions of the Kingdome , encompassed on all sides with many difficulties ; and well weighing the dangers they may fall into inforraigne parts , if Your Majesty should withdraw Your Royall Protection from them , upon any displeasure to the Company .

Doe humbly Prostrate themselves before Your Royall Majesty , and for their Assurance , in so many faares , humbly beseech Your Majesty to grant them some particular Declaration , at present , of Your Royall Grace and Goodness towards the Fellowship , whereby they may be enabled to uphold the little remainder of the Staple Trade of this Kingdom , and proceed in the same with encouragement , as Your Majesties true and Loyall Subjects .

And as in duty bound , they shall daily Pray , &c. Signed by Sir H 〈…〉 Row , Go●●ernor .
At the Court at Oxford , 26. March 1643

HIs Majesty hath commanded me to give this His Answer . That if the Petitioners are not conscious to themselves of any disloyalty to His Majesty , they have no reason to feare the withdrawing His Royall Protection from them . His Majesty being so desirous to preserve and advance the publique Trade ( a thing of so high concernment to the whole Kingdom ) that He hath left no means unattempted to that end . But if the Petitioners , or any of them , are falne from their Duty , Obedience , and Allegiance to Him , upon an opinion , That His Majesty could not have the benefit of the Lawes here against them , He will never consent that they shall have the benefit and Protection due only to His good Subjects abroad , and so evade His Iustice every where ; but will precisely observe His resolution declared so long since , and so gratiously , in answer to the Petition presented in the beginning of Ianuary last from the City of London , in and by which the Petitioners , and all other Persons concerned , had sufficient Warning and instance of His Majesties Grace and Favour to them .

EDW. NICHOLAS .

Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFINLD . 1643.