To the right honourable Lord High Chancellor, and remanent lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council. The humble petition of his Majesties printer and servants. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06146 of text R185242 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1651C). 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 B06146 Wing T1651C ESTC R185242 53299324 ocm 53299324 180050 2248539601

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06146) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180050) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2811:17) To the right honourable Lord High Chancellor, and remanent lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council. The humble petition of his Majesties printer and servants. 1 sheet ([1] p.) unknown unknown unknown Caption title. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Printers -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo To the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor, and remanent Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council. The humble petition of His Majest Anderson, Agnes, 1685 1 324 1 0 0 0 0 0 30.86 C The rate of 30.86 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 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 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Right Honourable the Lord high Chancellor , and remanent Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council . The Humble Petition of His Majesties Printer and Servants . Humbly sheweth ,

THat where Your Petitioners are necessarly Employed in His Majesties Service at all times , but especially in time of War , when Publick Papers are so frequent at the Press , which necessitats us to be at Work both Day and Night , at all Times , and on all Occasions ; It 's therefore Humbly Desired , That as the Kings Printers and their Servants in all Kingdoms are Exempted , not only from personal Attendance on Publick Occasions , and at all times ; but are Freed from all Burthen whatsoever : So that the Petitioners may be accordingly Exempted , whereby they will be enabled to Serve His Majesty in their Employment ; and that this may be made the more effectual , To Discharge the Magistrats of Edinburgh from troubling the Petitioners in all time coming , with Watchings , Wardings , Outreick of the Militia , or such other Publick Burthens ,

And we and our Successors , Serving His Majesty in the said Art shall ever Pray , & c. By Order of the Secret Committee , TARBAT .
For the whole Officers of the Militia-Regiment , within the Good Town of Edinburgh , who may be herein respectively concerned , and whole Officers of the Train-bands thereof .

YOU are hereby Discharged from troubling and molesting M ●S , Tailzifer , or any of her Servants imployed in the Printing-house , in attending the Militia , or any of your Companies , in respect of the constant Imployment they have in the Publick Concerns ; For which these shall be your Warrand , under my Hand , At Edinburgh , the 21 of May , 1685. years .

GEORGE DRUMMOND Collonel .