Father Peters his new-years-gift to my lord chancellor. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B22884 of text R224977 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B22884 Wing F547A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.1[6] ESTC R224977 ocm99885778

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 eng Great Britain -- History -- Revolution of 1688 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1714 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800. eebo Father Peters his new-years-gift to my lord chancellor. . n/a 1689 1 592 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. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-05 Sampled and proofread 2014-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
FATHER PETERS HIS New-Years-Gift To My Lord Chancellor . My Lord ,

HAving receiv'd the sorrowful Intelligence of your Lordships late misfortune , in being Taken into Custody , I can forbear no longer to Condole the unhappy Circumstances , I am inform'd you lye now under ; But being willing to afford your Lordship what Consolation , the promise of a Holy Fathers care over your troubled Soul , can give you , I here assure you , I have made Intercession to his Holiness , and with great difficulty have procur'd you a general pardon , Sign'd with his own hand , for all those Manifold black Sins and Enormities you have been Guilty of , through the illegal Execution of that Honourable Authority , His Majesty was pleas'd ( for your great service to the Romish Church ) to confer upon you .

And knowing 't was the custom of your Lordship to set a-part New-Years Day for the Reception of those obscure presents , which oftentimes altered the property of a case , and made a bad cause a good one , by placing Justice on the wrong side the hedge ; I have therefore thought it convenient to inclose the Pardon in this Epistle , and entreat your Lordship to accept it , as a New-Years-Gift , Sincerely intended as a Benefit to your great Soul ; and to discharge you of the weight of those premeditated Crimes , which we fear double the oppression of your Lordships present calamities ; I must confess there is abundance to be said in Vindication of what the World Taxes , as a great fault upon you , for who would covet to be advanc'd to Honourable offices of State , without a private end of making an advantage equal to its Grandure , to buoy up the desire of being still Greater , and Ambition incident to most Great Men , who have rais'd their Fortune like your Lordship .

I am very much dissatisfied , to think your Lordship ( being a Man accounted of so great Pollicy , and Judgment ) should not take a more timely Care to secure your Person at this Juncture , than I perceive you did . And when you had made so great a step to your preservation , as to Cast Anchor privately in Rope Ally , you must be so indescreet upon a small Bussle in the place , to be peeping , by which I understand you were discovered ; and now according to the Old English Proverb , I fear They will make You pay for your peeping : But pray , if the Laws should deal so severely by you , as to force you to dye a Martyr , and disunite a wise Noddle , from those shoulders , which have bore so many Poor Mens Curses , and Rich Mens Slanders : let me entreat you to dye with a Good Courage , for you shall only call at Purgatory for fashions sake , and continue short time e're our Prayers shall convey you to a place ( if the Curses of the people of England prevent not ) where you shall enjoy the full of those blessings lay'd up by the Church , for such Worthy Agents as your Lordship : Being the Care of him , who remains till Death . ( which I fear will meet you in a short time )

Your Lordships assured Friend and Servant . P.