To certaine noble and honorable persons of the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament.

To certaine noble and honorable persons of the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament.

Table of contents

TO CERTAINE NOBLE AND HONORABLE Perſons of the Honorable Houſe of Commons aſſembled in Parliament.

To the Honorable, the Commons aſſembled in Parliament. The Petition of Paul Beſt, priſoner in the Gate-houſe in Weſtminſter.

TO CERTAINE NOBLE AND HONORABLE Perſons of the Honorable Houſe of Commons aſſembled in Parliament.

[Page]

RIght Honble: and noble by your birth and breeding; your profeſſion of pietie and religion; Your imployment and intereſt, furniſhing you with occaſion and power of exerciſing thoſe Offices, which your qualities oblieg you to.

My hard fortune enforceth me to ſolicite ſuch friends, & neceſſitates me thus to ſeeke unto you, that you would be pleaſed to take notice that I have ſuffered about 18 monthes impriſonment, with what impairing of my ſubſiſtance, I forbeare.

As for my Condition,

It is ſuch as will ſoone and certainly deſtroy me, if divine providence prevent not. But if I be deſtinate to ruine, I wiſh I might periſh by ſome other way, rather then you ſhould be acceſſary.

As for my deſires,

My petition relates, and my requeſt (Right worthie) to You, is only that you would preſent this Poſtſcript-Petition to the Houſe, and but ſo far to favour it; as you feele your ſelves in honour & humanitie concerned. And if any man can object, and convince me of diſaffection to your generall good and proceedings; or that I have in the leaſt receded from what I beleeve honorable and conducible, that I may ſuffer for it: If not, that my ſufferings may have expiated for my diverſitie of Iudgement in caſe of Conſcience.

Thus being reduced to this; either to Rott in a Goale, or thus to importune my libertie; having no other way left me; this neceſſity (I hope) will iuſtifie and excuſe the courſe I have now taken.

So being yours both by obligation and purchaſe, I hope your goodneſſe will make me mine owne; and remaine,

Your more and more ſervant, Paul Beſt,

To the Honorable, the Commons aſſembled in Parliament. The Petition of Paul Beſt, priſoner in the Gate-houſe in Weſtminſter.

Humbly ſheweth.

THat your Petitioner hath ſuffered a long and cloſe impriſonment, the cauſe being ſufficiently kowne to your honours.

Wherefore he makes it his humble ſuit to this Honorable Houſe: that in conſideration of his ſervice, and ſufferings you would be pleaſed to releaſe him, or grant him a ſpeedie hearing as your Honours ſhall in charitie think fitting.

⟨Aug: 13 1646⟩

And your Petitioner ſhall ever pray, &c.

Information about this book

Title statement

To certaine noble and honorable persons of the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament.

Best, Paul, 1590?-1657.

Edition statement

1646

Publication

Publisher

Text Creation Partnership,

Place of publication

Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) :

Date

2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

A76461

ID [STC]

Wing B2054

ID [STC]

Thomason 669.f.10[76]

ID [STC]

ESTC R210570

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99869355

ID [PROQUEST]

99869355

ID [VID]

162611

Availability

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.

Series

Early English books online.

Notes

(EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A76461)

Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162611)

Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[76])

Source

— To certaine noble and honorable persons of the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament., Best, Paul, 1590?-1657..

Extent

1 sheet ([1] p.)

s.n.,. [London :: 1646]. (Signed at end: Paul Best.) (Imprint from Wing.) (Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 13 1646".) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

Creation

Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.

Editorial practices

EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.

EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.