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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
The Humble ANSWER OF THE House of Peers To His MAJESTIES Gracious Letter AND DECLARATION.  

Die Mercurii, 23o Maii, 1660.  
ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled, That the Humble Answer of the House of Peers to His Majesties most Gracious Letter and Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published.  
JO. brown Cleric. Parliamentorum.   
London, Printed by John Macock, and Francis titan, Printers to the H use of Lords, 1660.   

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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
Most Gracious sovereign,  
YOur Loyal Subjects, the Peers now Assembled, do with all Humility and Thankfulness return their acknowledgements to your Majesty for your Gracious Letter and Declaration; and do esteem it their greatest Honor, that your Majesty is pleased to Express a Confidence of their councils and Endeavours for the composing the sad and unhappy Distractions of Your kingdoms; and they own this as their great Advantage, that they may now Act in discharge of their own Duty by Your Majesties Command. Your Majesties great and many Sufferings have long affencted their Hearts with deep Resentments of Trouble and Sorrow, but the same Power that Usurped and profaned Your sceptre, Devested them of their Rights and privileges, and kept them under such Pressures and Difficulties, as they were rendered uncapable of serving Your Majesty in order to those Ends, to which their Duty and allegiance did engage them: It hath been their constant desire that the Nation had continued Happy and Innocent; but Your Majesties Piety and wisdom hath shewed You to what Degree Your Clemency is to be extended; and we hope all Your Subjects will Answer Your Majesties Grace and Favour to the utmost Point of Fidelity and Obedience; the Peers have a Just Ground to own a more particular dependence and Subserviency to the Throne of Majesty, not only by the Prescriptions of Law, but by that Affection and Duty which is fixed in their Hearts upon the Foundations of Loyalty, which gives them the privilege to style themselves  
Westminster, May 3. 1660. Your Majesties Most Loyal, Most Dutiful, and Most Obedient Subjects and Servants, Signed in the Name, and by the Command of the said House of Peers: By E. MANCHESTER, Speaker of the House of Peers, pro tempore.  
For the Kings most Excellent Majesty.