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‘HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE’‘DIEV 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. BROWNE Cleric. Parliamentorum.

London, Printed by John Macock, and Francis Tyton, Printers to the H use of Lords, 1660.

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‘HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE’‘DIEV ET MON DROIT’
Most Gracious Soveraign,

YOur Loyal Subjects, the Peers now Assembled, do with all Humility and [Page 2]Thankfulness return their Acknow­ledgments 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 Councels and Endeavours for the composing the sad and unhappy Di­stractions of Your Kingdomes; 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 affected their Hearts with deep Resentments of Trouble and Sorrow, but the same Power that Usurped and Prophaned Your Scepter, Devested them of their [Page 3]Rights and Priviledges, and kept them under such Pressures and Dif­ficulties, as they were rendred unca­pable of serving Your Majesty in or­der to those Ends, to which their Duty and Allegeance did engage them: It hath been their constant desire that the Nation had continued Happy and Innocent; but Your Ma­jesties Piety and Wisdome 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 [Page 4]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 Priviledge to Stile 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.

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