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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
</FIGURE>&leaf; To the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of the Lords and Commons now A&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat Your Maje&s;ty, in an&s;wer to their late Petition, touching the proceedings again&s;t the Lord Kimbolton, M. Hollis, Sir Arthur Ha&s;lerigg, M. Pym, M. Hampden, and M. Strode, Members of the Parliament, was plea&s;ed to &s;ignifie, That as Your Maje&s;ty once conceived, that You had ground enough to accu&s;e them, So now Your Maje&s;ty findes as good cau&s;e wholly to de&s;ert any fur|ther pro&s;ecution of them. Notwith&s;tanding which, they remain &s;till under that heavy charge &s;o imputed unto them, to the exceeding prejudice, not only of them|&s;elves, but al&s;o of the whole Parliament And whereas by the expre&s;&s;e Laws, and Statutes of this Your Realm, that is to &s;ay, by two Acts of Parliament, the one made in the 37. and the other in the 38. yeer of the Raign of Your mo&s;t Noble Pro|genitor, King Edward the third; If any per&s;on what&s;oever, make &s;ugge&s;tion to the King Him&s;elf, of any Crime committed by another, the &s;ame per&s;on ought to be &s;ent, with the &s;ugge&s;tion, before the Chancellor or Keeper of the great Seal, Trea&s;urer, and the great Councell, there to finde &s;urety to pur&s;ue his &s;ugge&s;tion, which if he cannot prove, he is to be impri&s;oned till he hath &s;atisfied the Party, accu&s;ed of his dammages and &s;lander, and made fine&punc; and ran&s;ome to the King. The &s;aid Lords and Commons humbly be&s;eech Your Maje&s;ty, That not only in point of Ju&s;tice to the &s;aid Members in their particulars, but for the Vindication of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament, Your Maje&s;ty will be plea&s;ed to &s;end the per&s;on or per|&s;ons, that in this ca&s;e made the &s;ugge&s;tions, or informations to Your Maje&s;ty, again&s;t the &s;aid Members of Parliament, Together with the &s;aid &s;ugge&s;tions or informati|ons, to Your Parliament, That &s;o &s;uch fruits of the &s;aid good Laws may be had, as was intended by them, and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament may be Vin|dicated, which of right and ju&s;tice ought not to be denyed.</P>
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