To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty the humble petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal whose names are subscribed. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. 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) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A38331 Wing E2849 ESTC R220132 18424166 ocm 18424166 107580 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. A38331) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107580) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1632:43) To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty the humble petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal whose names are subscribed. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. 1 broadside. Printed for H. Jones, London : 1688. "Presented by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury ... the 17th of November, 1688." Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquariers Library, London. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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May it please Your Majesty , WE your Majesties most Loyal Subjects , in a deep sense of the Miseries of a War now breaking forth in the Bowels of this your Kingdom , and of the Danger to which your Majesties Sacred Person is thereby like to be Exposed , and also of the Distractions of your People , by Reason of their present Grievances , do think our selves bound in Conscience of the Duty we owe to God and our Holy Religion , to your Majesty and our Country , most humbly to offer to your Majesty , that in our Opinion , the only visible way to preserve your Majesty and this your Kingdom , would be the calling of a Parliament , Regular and Free in all its Circumstances . We therefore do most earnestly beseech your Majesty , that you would be graciously pleased with all speed to call such a Parliament , wherein we shall be most ready to promote such Councels and Resolutions of Peace and Settlement in Church and State , as may conduce to your Majesties Honour and Safety , and to the quieting the Minds of your People . We do likewise humbly beseech your Majesty , in the mean time , to use such means for the preventing the Effusion of Christian Blood , as to your Majesty shall seem most meet . And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c. W. Cant. Grafton . Ormond . Dorset . Clare . Clarendon . Burlington . Anglesey . Rochester . Newport . Nom. Ebor. W. Asaph . Fran. Ely. Tho. Roffen . Tho. Petriburg . T. Oxon. Paget . Chandois . Osulston . Presented by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury , the Arch-Bishop of York Elect , the Bishop of Ely , and the Bishop of Rochester , the 17th . of November , 1688. LONDON , Printed for H. Jones . 1688.