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<HEAD>The Petition of the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal For the Calling of a Free PARLIAMENT: Together, With His Maje&s;ty's Gracious An&s;wer to their Lordships.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>To the KING's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>The Humble Petition of the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal;</HI> Who&s;e Names are Sub&s;cribed.</HEAD>
<OPENER>May it plea&s;e Your Maje&s;ty,</OPENER>
<P>WE your Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Loyal Subjects, in a deep Sen&s;e of the Mi&s;eries of a War now breaking forth in the Bowels of this your Kingdom, and of the Danger to which your Maje&s;ty's Sacred Per&s;on is thereby like to be Expo&s;ed, and al&s;o of the Di&s;tractions of your People, by rea&s;on of their pre&s;ent Grievances, do think our &s;elves bound in Con&s;cience of the Duty we owe to God, and our Holy Religion, to your Maje&s;ty, and our Country, mo&s;t humbly to offer to your Maje&s;ty, That in our Opinion, the only vi&s;ible way to pre&s;erve your Maje&s;ty, and this your Kingdom, would be the Calling of a Parliament, Re|gular and Free in all its Circum&s;tances.</P>
<P><HI>We therefore do mo&s;t earne&s;tly be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty, That you would be graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed with all &s;peed to Call &s;uch a Parliament, wherein we &s;hall be mo&s;t ready to promote &s;uch Coun|&s;els and Re&s;olutions of Peace and Settlement in Church and State, as may conduce to your Maje&s;ty's Honour and Safety, and to the quieting the Minds of your People.</HI></P>
<P><HI>We do likewi&s;e humbly be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty, in the mean time, to u&s;e &s;uch means for the preventing the Effu&s;ion of Chri&s;tian Blood, as to your Maje&s;ty &s;hall &s;eem mo&s;t meet.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>And your Petitioners &s;hall ever Pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
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<ITEM><HI>W. Cant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Grafton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ormond.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dor&s;et.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Clare.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Clarendon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Burlington.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Angle&s;ey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roche&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Newport.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nom. <HI>Ebor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>W. A&s;aph.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fran. Ely.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Roffen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Petriburg.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Oxon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Paget.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chandois.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>O&s;ul&s;ton.</HI></ITEM>
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<DATELINE>Pre&s;ented by the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>York</HI> Elect, the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ely,</HI> and the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Roche&s;ter,</HI> <DATE>the 17th. of <HI>November.</HI> 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Gracious An&s;wer.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORDS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>WHAT You ask of Me, I mo&s;t pa&s;&s;ionately de&s;ire: And I promi&s;e You,</HI> UPON THE FAITH OF A KING, <HI>That I will have a</HI> Parliament, <HI>and &s;uch an One as You ask for, as &s;oon as ever the Prince of</HI> Orange <HI>has Quitted this Realm: For, How is it po&s;&s;ible a</HI> Parlia|ment <HI>&s;hould be</HI> Free in all its Circum&s;tances, <HI>as You Petition for, whil'&s;t an Enemy is in the Kingdom, and can make a Return of near an Hundred Voices?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>The Lords Petition, with the Kings An&s;wer, may be Printed,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Novemb. 20th. 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Pyke</HI> in <HI>Pall-Mall.</HI> 1688.</P>
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