Petition to the House of Peers
The source for this document is https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A95778.0001.001
Project Note
This is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND. This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
The source of this document is the Early English Books Online (EEBO-TCP) website. Those books were transcribed in a character for character manner and can be very cumbersome to read since there was no standard spelling during that time. Many spelling variations such as "unlesse", "vnlesse", and "vnles" regularly appear.
This project was conceived to clean up those books as much as possible and make them more accessible to the interested reader, leading to the creation of a massive list of variant spellings and their corrections. This was used to clean up the text, but is of course only as complete as the list itself. Because of the nature of the original transcription, some words have missing characters or places where the original language (e.g., Greek) was not transcribed. This effort does not change that. Be aware that the original transcription can also be faulty and in some cases entire sentences may be missing.
Although this is no substitute for a properly compared, proofed, and scholarly edition, I believe that the result is a document which is far more accessible, particularly for searching for terms using standard spelling. The document has been cleaned and presented in what I hope is a pleasing and useful format for the vast majority of Christian brothers and sisters who just want access to read these spiritually nourishing works.
However, a word of warning: The Puritans were a very diverse group of people and their age was characterized with godliness, but also much upheaval, disputation and strife. They disagreed on many doctrines and some of these works contain less orthodox or Scriptural views than others. The reader is strongly advised to read with discernment, particularly if it is unknown whether author is trustworthy.
This project took a huge amount of time and skill to bring to fruition. I would particularly like to thank David Jonescue for the initial list of Puritans he found on EEBO and the concept behind this project as well as the continuous, unceasing efforts toward seeing this complete. Without his labor, this would not be available. Alex Sarrouf was invaluable in providing the initial list of over 7,000 spelling variations he had identified and corrected, as well as continuing to review more than 16,000 additions to that list for any typos.
Logan West
(with David Jonescue and Alex Sarrouf)
www.puritansearch.org
To The Right Honorable, the House of PEERES, now assembled in PARLIAMENT.
The Humble Petition of JAMES Archbishop of ARMAGH.
THat whereas your Lordships were pleased to employ your Petitioner in preaching before you on the Fast-day, the 22. of December last: (which service, according to his mean ability, he was careful to perform:) so it is, that one
John Nicholson,
having got into his hands a collection of some rude and incoherent Notes of that Sermon, took the boldness to publish the same (under the Title of
Vox Hiberniae
) as a true Relation of that which was uttered before your Lordships that day, Which being in many places void of common sense, & in the whole every way unanswerable unto what was fit to have been delivered before so Honorable and judicious an Audience,
His humble request is, That your Lordships would be pleased, to call in that suppositious Pamphlet,
&c.
Die Veneris, 11. Februarii, 1641.
Ordered by the Lord's in Parliament, That a Book concerning the L. Arch-bishop of Armagh, being published and printed by John Nicholson, shall be called in and suppressed.
JO. BROWNE. Cleric. Parliam.