My LORD,  
WHEREAS the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, Members of the Parliaments of King CHARLES the Second, and the Aldermen, and Members of the Common-Council of the City of London, in their late Assemblies at Westminster have desired Us to cause Our Letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Kingdom of England, being Protestants; and to the Counties, Cities, Boroughs and Places that of Right aught to Choose and send Members to Parliament; so as the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, to whom Our Letters are so to be directed, and the Persons so to be Elected may Meet and Sat at Westminster on the Two and twentieth day of January next: We intending the Public Good of this Kingdom, in pursuance of the said desire, Do, by this Our Letter, desire your Lordship to Meet and Sat with the rest of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, on the said Day and Place appointed.  
Given at St. James 's the Nine and twentieth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord, 1688.