Reasons humbly offer'd why the name of William Lenthall should be left out of the exception in the Act of oblivion Lenthall, William, 1591-1662. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A47690 of text R27127 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L1077). 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. 5 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 A47690 Wing L1077 ESTC R27127 09657816 ocm 09657816 43936 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A47690) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43936) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1334:48) Reasons humbly offer'd why the name of William Lenthall should be left out of the exception in the Act of oblivion Lenthall, William, 1591-1662. 1 broadside. s.n., [London : 1660] Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Lenthall, William, 1591-1662. Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688. A47690 R27127 (Wing L1077). civilwar no Reasons humbly offer'd why the name of William Lenthall should be left out of the exception in the Act of oblivion. Lenthall, William 1660 837 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 C The rate of 12 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2004-03 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-04 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2004-04 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-07 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion REASONS HUMBLY OFFERD VVHY THE NAME OF WILLIAM LENTHALL Should be Left Out of the EXCEPTION in the ACT of OBLIVION . 1. THere is no action of mine that exprest me at any time averse to the King , and his affaires ; for many years since I was violently prosecuted before a Committee of Parliament for sending money to his Majesty at Oxford , and for suffering both Persons and Intelligence to pass to him by my Authority . This was so violently pursued against me , that when the Committee could not make it against me , the Council of War appointed a Committee of theirs , and I was prosecuted by Col. Venables , and one Col. Cook . 2. Her Majesty being near the time of Her lying in , could not obtain licence from hence for conveniences for her use ; and by my power and by a servant of my own , I conveyed to Her all things necessary for that occasion , which Her Majesty was pleas'd to take particular notice of . And for this I was also accus'd . 3. I was not wanting in the duty I owed to His Majesties Children , the Duke of Glocester , and the Lady Elizabeth that were here , and that there was no opportunity , but I made it my care to get necessaries and conveniences for them ; and this will be testified by severall that attended them . 4. There could be no Person more desir'd and endeavoured his Majesties honour and happiness then my self , and in order thereto advised some of the Commissioners that attended the Treaty , to labour all that could possibly be done to effect that ; and that His Majesty should make no reliance on the Army , for they would deceive him . And this I signified in a Letter to the Speaker of the now-House of Commons . 5. That at all times when any thing came to my single Vote ( and then onely I could expresse my Opinion ) I never consented to any violent action , but rather shewed my dislike to any such thing , or any proceeding that was not regular . 6. How it was my labour ( and not in vain ) to break the Army , and to divide the Soldiers from the Officers , which I effected , in such a time , when if the other party had got the better , I must have suffer'd both in my Life and Fortune . 7. I gave and held Intelligence with my Lord Generall , by Letters from hence when he was in Scotland and at Berwick , and got privately such Officers conveyed to him as he wanted there . 8. My refusing to take the Oath of Abjuration , which if I had not particularly at that time discountenanced , it had been taken by a great part of the Army and many others , which would have engaged men to be more desperate in their resistances to His Majesty . 9. I did not onely refuse to sign any new Writs , but absolutely obstructed the going out of any to fill up that House , which if it had been done , had answer'd the desires and expectations of most ; and would have so setled mens minds , that I do think it might have prevented His Majesties comming in , and continued the Nation under a form of Government , diametrically opposite to His Majesties . Lastly , the often attendancies I have made on his Excellency , to give him my humble advice for the speedy bringing in of His Majesty , and this when it was not publiquely known that there would be any such thing : And it was also the result of many pri●●te advices that I had with divers persons that agitated His Majesties comming to His Dominions . There are onely two things objected against me : The one is , My going to the Army ; The other is , My sitting in the House . To the first , I doe protest in the presence of God , I did think at that time the Army did intend the bringing in of His Majesty , and the settlement of the Kingdome , and that deceived me . For the other , I doe acknowledge my weaknesse ; and yet even in that I was led to it with a thought that I might doe a great deal of good , and prevent all persons interest from running into a confusion , which I much laboured , and prevented many inconveniences . And this I can say , that in all this time I have countenanced a learned Ministery , and alwayes heard such , whose opinions were for the establishing the King and the Church .