%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / HUMBLE PETITIONS / OF HIS / MAJESTIES / Truly Loyal PROTESTANT Subjects, by / some called PRESBYTERIANS, for a bles- / sed Reformation. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/05/2021 36956

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R15800 WOULD you but banish all your friends, / And let our Petitioners have their Ends-- This is the time. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 13 1: 13 THE / HUMBLE PETITIONS / OF HIS / MAJESTIES / Truly Loyal PROTESTANT Subjects, by / some called PRESBYTERIANS, for a bles- / sed Reformation. THE HUMBLE PETITIONS OF HIS MAJESTY'S Truly Loyal PROTESTANT Subjects, by some called PRESBYTERIANS, for a blessed Reformation. ?-?

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May it please your Majesty, WOULD you but banish all your friends, And let our Petitioners have their Ends-- Call 'em good Subjects and make 'em a-mends; This is the time. Would you your power of Pardon lose, And give us leave to call all those (You know your friends) the Kingdomes Foes; This etc. Would your Majesty please to prefer all those Who to a Subsidy Bill Hollow out (Noes). So by making one friend to assure you ten Foes; This etc. Would you lets have the Souldiery at our Command, Disinherit your Brother out of hand, And so intail a War upon the Land; This etc. Would you give M. leave to undo Himself and all the Nation too; And him that opposes it think your Foe; This etc. Would
(2) Would your Majesty please to stile all those Papists, That are not either rank Presbyterians or Atheists, And ne're think of th' mistake till it too late is; This etc. Would you the Lord President disgrace, And lets call him Papist to his face, And put our friend Harris in L'Estranges place; This, etc. Would you hang Scroggs, 'tis no matter for reason, And all those that won't be perjur'd in season-- And give us a Patent for talking of Treason; This etc. Would your Majesty let us invent and disclose Grand frailties in you which nobody knows And let ours be wink't at, though much greater than those; This etc. Would you lets into the Prerogative search, Lets murder the Bishops and Plunder the Church, Lead the Lords by the Nose, and then leave 'em in the Lurch; This etc. Would you let us the good Old Cause renew. Tax evil Counsellors and Tacitly you First Straffordize Lauderdale, and next your self too; This is the time. And your Petitioners shall ever pray, etc.