Lord Chancellor's petition to His Highness the Prince of Orange on his entrance into London. Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, Baron, 1644 or 5-1689. 1688 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A46719 Wing J528 ESTC R21335 12360370 ocm 12360370 60213 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. 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Most Humbly Sheweth , THAT your Petitioner , who was once Lord High Chancellor of England , is now become the Lowest of your Supplicants ; and from the first and chiefest Councellor about the Throne , a miserable Dejected Captive in the Tower. I do not presume to Justifie my Integrity , that would be an Arrogance as black as my Crimes . I confess , I am as unworthy to Live , as I am unwilling to Die ; and therefore I Prostrate my self to the Foot-stool of your Grace and Clemency , that Fountain of Inexhausted Goodness , whence only Mercy can flow , upon so Vile and Notorious a Delinquent . To Innumerate my Crimes , would be as numberless as the Enemies I have created by them ; nor will I presume to Prophane your Sacred Ears with so black a Catalogue , whose precious Minutes are more happily Imploy'd in the weightier Affairs of the Nation ; the Restitution of those Laws and Liberties which I , by my byass'd and precipitate Council , endeavour'd to Subvert . What cou'd be more pernicious and destructive to the Fundamental Laws of the Nation , than to Establish a Power in the Monarch , to dispence with them ? What greater Inlet to Popery , than to take off the Test and Penal Laws ? What deeper stroke to the Protestant Church , than to Erect a Court of Ecclesiastical Commissioners , to pull down Her Pillars ? What sharper Persecution of the Prelates , than by publishing an Arbitrary Declaration ; for the Non-obeying of which Illegal Warrant , so many since have been treated as Criminals in the Tower : Nor cou'd there be a more Irregular Method than the late Regulating of Corporations for a free Election of Parliament . In all which , and many others , ( to my Shame , I must confess ) I have been all along a principal Counsellor and Instrument . These ( may it please your Highness ) are the crying Crimes , which , were they yet greater , is in your Power to mitigate , by your Intercessions to the Parliament , having already the King's Pardon . If you vouchsafe this Mercy to an humble Supplicant , I will promise in some measure to make Retaliation , by discovering some Arcana Imperii , or Intriegues of State , what I am Capable of ; which may highly concern your Highness's Interest in this Kingdom . LONDON , Printed for S. M. 1688.