THE King's Letter TO THE Great Council OF PEERS.  
RIght Trusty, and Right Wellbeloved Cousins; and Right Trusty, and Wellbeloved Cousins; and Trusty, and Right Wellbeloved: We Greet you well.  
We cannot have better Reason to Promise Ourselves an end of our Common Sufferings and Calamities, and that Our One Just Power and Authority will (with God's Blessing) be Restored to Us, than that we hear You are again acknowledged to have that Authority and Jurisdiction, which hath always belonged to You, by your Birth, and the Fundamental Laws of the Land; and We have thought it very fit and safe for Us to call to You for Your Help, in the Composing the Confounding Distempers and Distractions of the Kingdom; on which Your Sufferings are next to those We have undergone Ourselves. Therefore, You cannot but be the most proper Counsellors, for removing these Mischiefs, and for preventing the like, for the future. How great a Trust We repose in You, for the Procuring and Establishing a Blessed Peace and Security for the Kingdom, will appear to You by Our Enclosed Declaration; which Trust, We are most confident, You will Discharge with that Justice and Wisdom, that becomes You, and must always be expected from You; and that upon Your Experience, how one Violation succeeds another. When the known Relations and Rules of Justice are Transgressed, You will be as Jealous for the Rights of the Crown, and for the Honour of the King, as Ourselves: and then you cannot but discharge your Trust with Good Success, and provide for, and Establish the Peace, Happiness, and Honour of King, Lords, and Commons, upon that Foundation which can only support it, and We shall be all Happy in each other: And as the whole Kingdom will bless God for You, We also shall hold Ourselves Obliged, in an especial manner, to Thank You in particular, according to the Affection You shall express towards Us. We need the less enlarge to You on this Subject, because We have likewise Writ to the House of Commons; which, we suppose, they will Communicate to You. And We Pray GOD bless your Joynt-Endeavours, for the Good of us All. And so We bid You very Heartily, Farewell.  
V. Raker.   

LONDON, Printed for W. Thomson, 1688.