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Ashley and Mr. Secretary Morrice, or to such of them 

 or other persons as your Majesty shall think fit, and 

 that upon their report your Majesty will vouchsafe to 

 do with your Petitioner, or to your Petitioner, what 

 they in the Petitioner s behalf, and congruous to your 

 service shall find reasonable, and consonant with your 

 Petitioner s merits or demerits; the Petitioner most 

 entirely submitting to your will and pleasure : Casting 

 himself upon your Majesty s goodness, no ways stand 

 ing upon his deserts, though really found never so 

 many not thought of, or hitherto kept from your Ma 

 jesty s knowledge, your Petitioner doth not say through 

 envy or malice, since perhaps through ignorance, 

 such ignorance, notwithstanding, as the Divines call 

 ignorantia crassa. But whatsoever in quality or 

 number his services were, they were but due to such a 

 gracious King and Master as your Majesty s father, 

 of happy memory, was to your Petitioner, and to your 

 incomparable self; and, therefore, acknowledge th they 

 fall far short of his true loyalty and devotion to either ; 

 and being once rightly made known and presented to 

 your sacred Majesty, your Petitioner promiseth himself 

 no less encouragement for the future from your 

 Majesty, nor less abilities in himself to become as 

 useful as formerly ; and as disinterestedly to serve you. 

 Neither shall anything for the future dismay, or in any 

 kind deter your Petitioner from that his resolution, 

 but from the bottom of his heart 



&quot; He shall ever pray, &c. 



