A Friendly LETTER To Such as have ●oices in Election of Members To Serve in PARLIAMENT.  
Dear Countrymen,  
You have a Good King, willing to follow the Advice of his Great Councils, and for that end, disires frequent Par 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which give you the Happy Oppor●●●●●● of making your king, yourselves, and fellow-subjects Comfortable. Your Fore 〈…〉 that made Laws for the due Election 〈◊〉 to serve in Parliament, and settled 〈…〉 be duly paid them) foresaw, or had 〈…〉ed That few or none, will take so 〈…〉 t and Trouble upon them, at their 〈◊〉 and Charge; and struggling about E 〈…〉 Feasting and Treating Extravagantly, 〈…〉ing Electors for their Voices, began 〈…〉 Time when the Rebellion was hatch●● 〈…〉 th' broke out in 1641. wherefore King 〈◊〉 ●he First, in a Book supposed to be writ●●● 〈…〉 in his Troubles, saith, He had rea●●● 〈◊〉 he saw it, to fear the sad Consequences 〈◊〉 ever since Men of good Estates and princi 〈…〉 ●●ve been forced to spend High, and Contract 〈…〉 s, in Opposition to Persons of Ill Designs. 〈…〉 taking Parties to be Elected, hath raised 〈…〉 and Differences between Neighbours 〈…〉 Relations, that Hospitality, and in 〈…〉 brotherly Love and Charity, is at a low 〈◊〉 You have reason to suspect all that Court 〈…〉 your Voices, spend their Estates in hopes 〈…〉 y themselves at the Nations Cost; and may rest assured, that such as get or im●●●●● their Estates by Oppression and Wrong, 〈…〉 hot Redress, but make Grievances: You 〈…〉 that Butchers are not allowed to be of Ju 〈…〉 in Cases of Life and Death; and in Cases 〈…〉 een Party and Party, Judges and Juries to be indifferent: And will you make Choice Lawyers, Attorneys and Solicitors, or any 〈…〉ed on the Sores of your Brethren, to be 〈…〉 Grand Inquest, who are Judges to Re 〈…〉 as well as Juries to Present your Grie 〈…〉? Have you not seen what Disturbance 〈…〉 or two of a Jury have given the rest? And 〈…〉 Injustice and Oppression packed Juries have been guilty of? I could weep to see any Feast and Treat the Rich, and send the Poor Empty away: And how backward too many are to do Brotherly Offices for any of different Opinions, in Points of Religious Worship, though the good Samarijan stood not upon such Niceties; yet I hope every City, County and Burrough may find such to Represent them, as have plentiful Estates, and Husband the same well, and do all the good Offices they can, to promote Brotherly Love among their Neighbours; and restrain not their Charity from the Poor of different Persuasions; and would you Choose such of Liberal Estates, Sweet Dispositions, and Universal Charity, they by God's Blessing, would soon settle things upon the best and furest Foundations, whereby Peace and Happiness, Truth and Justice, Religion and Pity, would be Established among us,  
Gentlemen, 
 The Trust reposed in you, and that you repose in such as you Elect, is a Talon, whereof a strict Account will be required at the Last Great and General Audit; therefore as you Tender the Honour, Wealth and Safety of your King, yourselves, and your Fellow-subjects, suffer not the Fumes of Strong Drink, and Tobacco, and Garnished Dishes, to make you Sell yourselves, and your Posterity, as your Grandam Eve, and Grandsire Adam did, for a Golden Coloured Apple; and as Esau Sold his Birthright for a Mess of Pottage; but like Men of Understanding, let your Zeal be according to Knowledge, for the Election of your Representatives: And let your Meetings be without Heat or Passion, that the Persons Out-voted may approve your Choice; or at least, have no Just Cause to Condemn it: And that Present, and After-ages, may Applaud your Discretion, is the Hearty Desire of  
Philanglus.   

●●●don Printed, and Sold by John Whitlock, in Stationers-Court, near Stationers-Hall, 1695.