To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the humble petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal. Whose names are subscribed

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• To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the humble petition of the Lords spiritual and temporal. Whose names are subscribed
• Proceedings. 1688-11-17

People / Organizations

• England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords. (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for H. Jones, 1688.

Added name

Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.

Publication year

1688

ESTC No.

R225627

Grub Street ID

98778

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1/2°.

Note

Signed: W. Cant, i.e. William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, [and 17 others]

Dated at end: the 17th. of November, 1688

Members of the House of Lords ask for "the calling of a Parliament, regular and free in all its circumstances"

Main text begins: May it please Your Majesty, we your Majesties most loyal subjects, in a deep sense of the miseries of a war now breaking forth in the bowels of this your kingdom, and of the danger to which your Majesties sacred person is thereby like to be exposed, ..

In this edition, line 4 of title ends with a period, the "b" of breaking in line 2 of text is under the "n" of "in", and "T. Oxon" is not included in the list of signatories

Single rule above imprint.

Uncontrolled note

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) E2849 says L has "4 settings". The CSmH edition and the Lsa edition match the Steele notations for I, 3901 (i.e. deep of Blood,), but include "T. Oxon" in list of signatories, which Steele copy does not. However, the L and CSmH copies are in different settings. Either the L copy or the CSmH copy could be a variant of Wing E2849 and Steele I, 3901, but until further comparisons can be made between copies, it is impossible to say