To His Highness William Henrick, Prince of Orange, The most Humble Petition of George Lord Chancellor Iefferies.  
Most Humbly Sheweth,  
THat your Petitioner who was once Lord Chancellor of England is now become the lowest of Your Suppliants, and from the first and chiefest councillor about the Throne, a miserable and dejected Captive in the Tower.  
I do not presume to justify my integrity, that would be an Arrogancy as black as my Crimes; I confess I am as unworthy to Live as I am unwilling to die, and therefore I Prostrate myself at the Foot-stool of Your Grace and Clemency, that Fountain of inexhaustible Goodness, wherein Mercy only can flow upon so notorious a Delinquent.  
To Enumerate my Crimes would be as innumerable as the Enemies I have created by them, nor will I presume to Profane Your Sacred Ears with so black a Catalogue, whose precious Minutes are more happily employed in weightier Affairs of this Nation, the restitution of the Laws and Liberties, I by my base and precipitate Counsels have endeavoured to subvert: what could be more Pernicious and Destructive to the Fundamental Laws of the Nation than to Establish a Power of Men to dispense with them ▪ what greater inlet to Popery than to take off the Penal Laws and Tests? what deeper stroke to the Protestant Church than to Erect an Ecclesiastical Court of Commissioners to pull down her Pillars: In all which and many others I( to my shane) I must confess, I have been all along a principal councillor and Instrument: if Your Highness Please to Pardon all these many Crimes, I do Promise to make Restitution by Discovering some intrigues of State, which may highly advance Your Highnesses Interest in this kingdom.  
And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray, &c.   

Boston, Printed by S. G. for Samuel Phillips at the West end of the Town-House, 1689.