To the honorable knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons, assembled in Parliament The humble remonstrance of William Davenant, anno 1641. D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A81973 of text R225119 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D345A). 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. 4 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 A81973 Wing D345A ESTC R225119 99896536 99896536 135131 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. A81973) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 135131) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2427:5) To the honorable knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons, assembled in Parliament The humble remonstrance of William Davenant, anno 1641. D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London? : 1641] Imprint from Wing (CD-ROM edition). Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries, London. eng Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England A81973 R225119 (Wing D345A). civilwar no To the honorable knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons, assembled in Parliament. The humble remonstrance of William Daven D'Avenant, William, Sir 1641 697 6 0 0 0 0 0 86 D The rate of 86 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO THE HONORABLE KNIGHTS , CITIZENS , AND BVRGESSES OF THE HOVSE OF COMMONS , ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT . The humble Remonstrance of William Davenant , Anno 1641. I Humbly beseech you to conceive , that I have absented to appeare before this honourable Assembly , rather from a befitting bashfulnesse , as being an ill object , then of outward sence of guilt , as being a delinquent . I did beleeve ●f I were layed aside awhile , my Cause would be forgo●ten , because I knew nothing stronger but suspicions and meere opinions can be brought against me ; unl●sse I may particularly suffer for the old infirmity of that Nation which hath bin ever bred with liberty of speaking : and the very Mechanicks of Spaine are glad they are Spaniards , because they have liberty ; and thinke , when over-speaking becomes dangerous , that then they chiefely lose the liberty of Subjects . Confession is the neerest way to forgivenesse , therefore I will make haste to accuse my selfe , and say it is possible I may be guilty of some mis-becoming words , yet not words made in dangerous principles and maximes , but loose Atguments , disputed at Table perhaps , with too much fancy and heat . And as in speaking , so in writing , I meane in Letters , I have perhaps committed errours , but never irreverently or maliciously against Parliamentary government . I have beene admitted into the company of these noble Gentlemen that are absent , but never was taken into their councels : and sure for two of them , Master Iarmin and Sir Iohn Suckling , with whom I was more particularly acquainted , they were strangely altered , and in a very short time , if it were possible they could designe any thing against your happy and glorious proceedings , who both in their writings and speech have so often extold the naturall necessity of Parliaments here , with extreame scorne upon the incapacity of any that should perswade the KING he could be fortunate without them . And it is not long since I wrote to the Queenes Majesty in praise of her inclination to become this way the Peoples advocate , the which they presented to her ; for the Arguments sake it is extant in good hands , and now menti● ned , in hope it may be accepted as a Record of my integri●y to the Common-wealth . It becomes not me to meddle with businesses so farre above my reach , but that I perceive I am unfortunately mistaken to be ill-affected . I doe not certainly know , I protest before God and you , that I have spoken or written any thing that may endanger me , bu● as I urged before , it is generally whispered , and upon the publication of your Warrant men did avoid me , even my old friends , like one stricken with an infectious kinde of death ; so terrible already is every marke of your displeasure growne ; therefore I humbly beseech your pardon . If a single courage flye from your anger , and begge you would not interpret as disobedience my not appearing , since it did rather proceed from a reverend awe your displeasure bred in me ; which two wayes I conceive I might incurre . First , by knowing of the departure of an ingenious Gentleman named in the Proclamation , who lay in my house . And secondly , by something which might either have escaped my tongue or pen . Lastly , I most humbly implore , that as you daily leave to future times some examples of your Iustice , so this day you will leave me to posterity as a marke of your compassion , and let not my flight or other indiscretions be my ruine , though contrary to Davids opinion , I have fled from Divine power , which is yours by derivation , and chose to fall into the hands of men , which are your Officers that apprehended me .