His Maiesties letter to the Lord keeper of the Great Seale of England concerning Sir Edward Herbert Knight, and the five members of the House of Commons, read in both Houses the 9th of March. 1641. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78862 of text R209793 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[51]). 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. 3 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 A78862 Wing C2405A Thomason 669.f.3[51] ESTC R209793 99868655 99868655 160609 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. A78862) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160609) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f3[51]) His Maiesties letter to the Lord keeper of the Great Seale of England concerning Sir Edward Herbert Knight, and the five members of the House of Commons, read in both Houses the 9th of March. 1641. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for J. Franke, J. Wright and are to be sold at his shop the next doore to the Kingshead in Fleetstreet, London : 1641 [i.e. 1642] Dated at end: 4 March, 1641 [i.e. 1642]. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Herbert, Edward, 1591?-1657 -- Early works to 1800. Treason -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A78862 R209793 (Thomason 669.f.3[51]). civilwar no His Maiesties letter to the Lord keeper of the Great Seale of England: concerning Sir Edward Herbert Knight, and the five members of the Hou England and Wales. Sovereign 1642 464 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Paul Schaffner Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Paul Schaffner Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion HIS MAIESTIES LETTER TO THE LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEALE OF ENGLAND : Concerning Sir Edward Herbert Knight , and the Five Members of the House of Commons , Read in both Houses the 9th of March . 1641. CHARLES REX , RIght trusty and welbeloved Councellor , Wee greete you well , and have thought good hereby to certifie that we did the third of January last , deliver to Our Attourney certaine Articles of Accusation ingrosed in paper , a Coppie whereof VVe have sent here inclosed , and did then command him in Our Name , to acquainte Our House of Peeres , that divers great & Treasonable designes and practises against us and the State had come to Our knowledge ; for which VVe commanded him , in Our Name , to accuse the sixe persons in the said paper mentioned of High Treason , and other high misdemeanors by delivering the paper to Our said House , and to desire to have it read , and further to desire in Our name , that a Select Committee of Lords , might be appointed to take the examinations of such witnesses as VVe would produce , and as formerly had beene done in cases of like Nature , according to the Iustice of the house , & the Committe to be und racommand of secrecy as formerly , and further in Our Name to aske liberty to adde & alter if there should be cause , according to Iustice : and likewise to desire that Our said House of Peeres would take care of the securing of the said persons , as in Iustice there should be cause : Wee doe further declare that Our said Attourney , did not advise or contrive the said Articles , nor had any thing to doe with , or in advising any breach of Priviledge that followed after , And for what he did in obedience to Our commands , Wee conceive he was bound by oath , and the duty of his place , and by the trust , by Vs reposed in him so to doe : And had he refused to obey Vs therein , We would have questioned him for breach of oath , duty , and Trust . But now having declared , that wee find cause wholly to desist from proceeding against the persons accused , Wee have commanded him to proceed no further therein , nor to produce nor discover any proofe concerning the same . Given at Royston , the Fourth of March . 1641. London , Printed for J. Franke , J. Wright and are to be sold at his shop the next doore to the Kingshead in Fleetstreet 1641.