A letter from the King to F.M. Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02086 of text R211793 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3099). 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 B02086 Wing C3099 ESTC R211793 52211979 ocm 52211979 175564 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. B02086) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175564) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2740:13) A letter from the King to F.M. Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. F. M. England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1660] Caption title. Dated at end: Bruxels 10. April. 1660. Imperfect: torn, tightly bound with some loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the Lincoln's Inn Library. eng Charles -- II, -- King of England, 1630-1685 -- Correspondence. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Sources. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. B02086 R211793 (Wing C3099). civilwar no A letter from the King to F.M. Charles II, King of England 1660 672 15 0 0 0 0 0 223 F The rate of 223 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Letter from the KING to F. M. WHen We daily perceive how many loyal Subjects We have in England and how zealous the most moderate of them are to redeem their Religion and Liberties from prophaneness and oppression , and therby 〈◊〉 restore Our Kingdoms to peace , and Our Self to the just government of them , it will be no great danger to one of them to own his intelligence to Us of their affections , and to be instrumental to assure them , how ready We shall be to grant , and faithful to perform , whatsoever shall be most conducing to establish a just and lasting Peace . And because by a part of your last , We discover that there are some so irreconcileable to Our Person , and the Nations settlement , that the● continue by an industrious malice , to represent Us by false and odious lights so our People , and being by a long experience become perfect Artists in their Trade , 〈◊〉 so exactly fit their designs with proper instruments to accomplish them , as 〈◊〉 they hoped by their forgeries to deceive other mens reasons , and to blast Our Innocence and Honor : Sometimes perswading the credulous sort of their own party that We are Popish , revengeful , debauch'd , and what not ? that may bring Our Person and Honor into contempt , and them into despair : At another time , setting up the looser sort of those who have been , or pretend to be , engaged so 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 threaten all with fire and sword who are not of their own wild opinions , ●●●scribe men by names , confiscate their estates , dispose of offices , and endeavou● 〈◊〉 perswade the world We have authoriz'd them , to be the sole directors and go nors of Our and the Kingdoms affairs ; thus the phanatiques of both Parties made use of to work a bad understanding between Us and Our people there b●ing no other difference between those two extremes , than that the first wo … 〈◊〉 have a King , because they would still keep , the Nation in distraction ; the othe●●●deed wish a King ( but with no less confusion ) whose authority might be pro●●●tuted to their wicked ambitious ends : Nor do they want their creatures to b … these exorbitanies ( of their own inventing ) through magnifying glasses to 〈◊〉 wel-affected in present power , who being altogether strangers to Our Conversation , may thereby be stagger'd in their duties , and become jealous of Our integri●● and their own safeties . We therefore think fit to assure you by this Our Lette● ( which you may publish if you think fit ) That We dare cast Our selves upon 〈◊〉 Jury of sober and judicious men , whether We have exercised or willingly tolerate● debauching and swearing : And for Our Religion , both Our Self and our dea● Brothers have given a sufficient testimony to all the world of Our steddiness therein , and our late celebrating of the Lords Supper ( according to the institution o● the Reformed Churches ) may clearly vindicate Us from so groundless an aspersion , to which holy duty , We came in such a Christian temper , as did not onely overcome all desires of revenge , but sincerely forgive our greatest enemies : An● We are so far from approving those insolencies of your Hectors ( as you cal them that We abhor and detest their words and actions , and whensoever it shall pleas● God to put an opportunity into our hands , shall further manifest our dislike thereof . We doubt not but We have said enough to convince the folly and madness of those idle persons , and to satisfie all knowing and conscientious men of the integrity of Your Loving Friend , C. R. Bruxels 10. April . 1660.