To the honourable knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble remonstrance of William Davenant, anno 1641. D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A37190 of text R171691 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D345). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A37190 Wing D345 ESTC R171691 08630268 ocm 08630268 41501 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. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A37190) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 41501) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1255:9) To the honourable knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble remonstrance of William Davenant, anno 1641. D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668. 1 broadside. s.n., [London? : 1641] Caption title. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library. eng D'Avenant, William, -- Sir, 1606-1668. Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649. A37190 R171691 (Wing D345). civilwar no To the honorable knights, citizens, & burgesses . . . the humble remonstrance of William Davenant Davenant, Sir William 1641 702 2 0 0 0 0 0 28 C The rate of 28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2005-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-08 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2005-08 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO THE HONOURABLE KNIGHTS , CITIZENS , AND BURGESSES , OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT . The humble Remonstrance of William Davenant , Anno 1641. I Humbly beseech you to conceive , that I have absented to appeare before this honourable Assembly , rather from a befitting bashfulnesse , as being an il● object , then of outward sence of guilt , as being a delinquent . I did beleeve if I were layed aside a while , my Cause would be forgotten , because I knew nothing stronger but suspicions and meere opinions can be brought against me ; unles I may particularly suffer for the old infirmity of that Nation which , hath been ever bred with liberty of speaking : and the very Mechanicks of Spaine are glad they are Spaniards , because they have liberty ; and thinke , when over-speaking becomes dangerous , that then they chiefly lose the liberty of Subjects . Confession is the neerest way to forgivenesse , therefore I will make hast to accuse my selfe , and say it is possible I may be guilty of some mis-becoming words , yet not words made in dangerous principles and maximes , but loose Arguments , disputed at Table perhaps , with too much fancy and heat . And as in speaking , so in writing , I meane in Letters , I have perhaps committed errours , but never irreverently or maliciously against Parliamentary government . I have been admitted into the company of these noble Gentlemen that are absent , but never was taken into their councels : and sure for two of them , Master Jarmin , and Sir Iohn Suckling , with whom I was more particularly acquainted , they were strangely altered , and in a very short time , if it were possible they could designe any thing against your happy and glorious proceedings , who both in their writing , and speech , have so often extol'd the naturall necessity of Parliaments here , with extreame scorne upon the incapacity of any that should perswade the King he could be fortunate without them . And it is not long since I wrot to the Queenes Majesty in praise of her inclination to become this way the Peoples advocate , the which they presented to her ; for the Arguments sake it is extant in good hands , and now mentioned , in hope it may be accepted as a Record of my integrity , to the Common-wealth . It becomes not me to meddle with businesses so farre above my reach , but that I perceive I am unfortunately mistaken to be ill-affected . I do not certainely know , I protest before God and you , that I have spoken or written any thin● that may indanger me , but as I urged before , it is generally whispered , and upon the publication 〈◊〉 your Warrant men did avoyd me , even my old friends , like one stricken with an infectious kind 〈◊〉 death , so terrible already is every marke of your displeasure growne , therefore I humbly beseech your pardon . If a single courage flye from your anger , and begg you would not interpret as disobedience my not appearing , since it did rather proceed from a reverend awe your displeasure bred in me ; which two wayes I conceive I might incurre . First , by knowing of the departure of an ingenious Gentleman named in the Proclamation , who lay in my house . And secondly , by something which might either have escaped my tongue or pen . Lastly , I most humbly implore , that as you daily leave to future times some examples of your Iustice , so this day you will leave me to posterity as a marke of your compassion , and let not my flight or other indiscretions be my ruine , though contrary to Davids opinion , I have fled from Divine power , which is yours by derivation , and chose to fall into the hands of men , which are your Officers that apprehended me .