YOu shew your Noblenesse in declaring your willingnesse to write to me in any businesse as of that of Peace ; and I joyn with you in the same opinion , that it ought to be a principall duty of those who are trusted in a place of our command . And therefore whensoever I shall receive any directions to those who have entrusted me , I shall use my best endeavours ; and when you shall send for a safe Conduct for those Gentlemen mentioned in your Letter , from His Majesty to the Houses of Parliament , J shall with all chearefulnesse shew my willingnesse to further any way that may produce that happinesse that all honest men pray for , which is a true understanding between His Majesty and His faithfull and onely Councell the Parliament .

THat this your Kingdome reduced with a vast expence of Treasure , and much effusion of Brittish blood , to the obedience of the Imperiall Crowne of England , hath beene by the Princely care of Your Royall Progenitors , especially of Queene Elizabeth , and of Your Royall Father of ever blessed memory , and Your sacred Majesty , in many parts happily planted , great sums of Money disbursed in buildings and improvements , Churches edified and endowed , and frequented with multitudes of good Protestants , and your Customs and Revenues raised to great yeerly summes by the industry of the Protestant Subjects especially , and great yeerly summes by way of Subsidies and Contributions cheerfully paid unto . Your Majestie by Your said Subjects ; in which happinesse this Your said Kingdom hath flourished in a long continued Peace , and under Your Highnesse most glorious and happy government , untill that by the present Conspiracy and Rebellion raised out of detestation of Your blessed government , and for rooting out of the Protestant Religion , and so for the dispossessing of Your Majesty of this Your said Kingdome , without the least occasion offered by Your Majesty or Your Protestant Subjects . And notwithstanding that Your Majestie immediately before had inla●ged , beyond president , Your Royall favour and bounty to them , in g●anting all that their and our joynt Agents did desi●e of Your Majestie . And we continuing amongst them in all love and amitie , wi●hout distrust ; Your Petitioners and others , who laboured to oppose those damnable designes and practices , have beene driven from their Dwellings , Estates and Fortunes , their Houses and Churches burnt and demolished , all Monuments of civility defaced utterly , Your Majesties Forts and places of strength throwne downe , and the Common and S●atute Lawes of this Your Kingdome utterly confounded , by taking upon themselves the exercise of all manner of Authority and Jurisdiction Ecclesi●sticall and Civill both by Land and Sea , proper and peculiar to Your sacred Majestie , being Your just Prerogatives , and the royall Flowers of Your Imperiall D●adem , to the disherison of Your Crowne and Revenues brought to nothing , and the Protestant Clergy , wi●h their Revenues and Support , for the present destroyed . This Your Kingdome in all parts , formerly inhabited in all parts by Brittish Protestants , now depopulated of them , and many thousands of Your Protestant Subjects most barbarously used , stripped naked , tortured , famished , hanged , buried alive , drowned , and otherwise by all barbarous cruell sorts of death murdered . Such as yet remaine of them are reduced to that extremity , that very few of them have wherewith all to maintaine a being , and all of them so terrified and afflicted with these barbarous and inhumane cruelties ( the true reports whereof being now spread abroad into the Christian world ) Your Suppliants conceive feare that Your Majesties Brittish Subjects will be discouraged from comming againe to inhabit this Kingdome , and the remnant of the Brittish left here will be inforced to depart . All this being done by the Conspiracy of the Papists , who did publikely declare the utter extirpation of the Protestant Religion , and all the Brittish Professors thereof , out of this Your Majesties Kingdome . And to the end it may the better appeare in some measure , Your Suppliants have made choice of Captaine William Ridgeway , Sir Francis Hambleton Knight and Baronet . Captaine Michael Iones , and Master Fenton Parsons , whom they have imployed and authorized as their Agents , to manifest the truth thereof in such particulars as for the present they are furnished withall , referring the more ample manifestation to Cap. Wil. Ridgeway , Fr. Hambleton , Michael Iones , and Fenton Parsons , or any 3 or more of them , or any such other agents as shall with all convenient speed be sent as occasion shall require , to attend Your Majesty , from Your Protestant Subjects of the severall Provinces of this Your Kindome .

Wee therefore Your Majesties most humble loyall and obedient Protestant Subjects , casting downe our selves at Your Royall feete , and flying to You for redresse , and Sutors in these our great calamities , as our most gratious Soveraigne Lord and King ; And next and immediate under Almighty God , our Protector and Defence : most humbly beseeching Your Sacred Majesty to admit into Your Royall Presence , from time to time our sayd Agents ; And in Your great Wisdome to take into Your great care and consideration the distressed estates , and humble desires of your said subjects , so that the glory of God , Your Majesties Honour , and the happinesse of Your Subjects , the Protestant Religion may be restored throughout the whole Kingdome to its Iustre . That the losses of Your Protestant Subjects may be repaired in such manner , and measure as Your Majesty in Your Princely Wisdome shall thinke fit . And that this Kingdom may be so setled , as that your said Protestant Subjects may hereafter live therein under the happy government of Your Majesty and Your Royall posterity with comtort and security ; whereby Your Majesty will render Your selfe throughout the whole World , a most just and glorious defender of the Protestant Religion , and draw downe a blessing on all other Your Royall undertakings , for which Your Petitioners will ever pray , &c.