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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the KINGS mo&s;t Excellent <HI>MAJESTY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble PETITION of the Governor, A&s;si&s;tants, and Fellow&s;hip of Merchants-Adventurers of England.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_MOST</HI> humbly &s;heweth, That the Petitioners being, during the&s;e mi&s;rable di&s;tractions of the Kingdome, encompa&s;&s;ed on all &s;ides with many difficulties; and well weighing the dangers they may fall into inforraigne parts, if Your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> &s;hould withdraw Your Royall Protection from them, upon any di&s;plea&s;ure to the Company.</P>
<P>Doe humbly Pro&s;trate them&s;elves before Your Royall <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> and for their A&s;&s;urance, in &s;o many faares, humbly be&s;eech Your <HI>Ma|je&s;ty</HI> to grant them &s;ome particular Declaration, at pre&s;ent, of Your Royall Grace and Goodne&s;&s; towards the Fellow&s;hip, whereby they may be enabled to uphold the little re|mainder of the <HI>Staple Trade</HI> of this <HI>Kingdom,</HI> and proceed in the &s;ame with encourage|ment, as Your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> true and Loyall Subjects.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And as in duty bound, they &s;hall daily Pray, &amp;c. 
Signed by Sir <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Row,</HI> Go<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ernor.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>At the Court at <HI>Oxford,</HI> <DATE><HI>26. March</HI> <UNCLEAR><HI>1643</HI></UNCLEAR></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_HIs Maje&s;ty hath commanded me to give this His An&s;wer. That if the Petitioners are not con&s;cious to them&s;elves of any di&s;loyalty to His Maje&s;ty, they have no rea&s;on to feare the with|drawing His Royall Protection from them. His Maje&s;ty being &s;o de&s;irous to pre&s;erve and advance the publique Trade (a thing of &s;o high concernment to the whole Kingdom) that He hath left no means unattempted to that end. But if the Petitioners, or any of them, are falne from their Duty, Obedience, and Allegiance to Him, upon an opinion, That His Maje&s;ty could not have the benefit of the Lawes here again&s;t them, He will never con&s;ent that they &s;hall have the benefit and Protection due only to His good Subjects abroad, and &s;o evade His Iu&s;tice every where; but will preci&s;ely ob&s;erve His re&s;olution declared &s;o long &s;ince, and &s;o gratiou&s;ly, in an|&s;wer to the Petition pre&s;ented in the beginning of <HI>Ianuary</HI> la&s;t from the City of <HI>London,</HI> in and by which the Petitioners, and all other Per&s;ons concerned, had &s;ufficient Warning and in&s;tance of His Maje&s;ties Grace and Favour to them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>EDW. NICHOLAS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Oxford</HI> by LEONARD LICHFINLD. 1643.</P>
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