APPENDIX. 585 



APPENDIX I. 



PETITION. 



[AT page 284 of the &quot; Life&quot; is a copy of an undated letter, which 

 may have been one addressed to the Duke of Albemarle. The 

 Marquis speaks of the neglect of two petitions, which may be the 

 one given at page 282, and the present petition, to the matter of both 

 of which the annexed letter from the Duke of Albemarle may refer. 

 It would thus appear that his petitions lay neglected for two 

 months.] 



State Papers. 



Vol. 152, No. 82. Petition of the Marquis of Worcester. 



To the King s most excellent Majesty, 

 The Petition of Edward Earl and Marquis of Worcester. 

 That the Petitioner having with great loyalty expended and lost 

 his whole fortune (being very considerable) for the interest of the 

 Crown, and public services whereby he is reduced to that deplorable 

 condition through his debts and \vants, that he is not capable to eat 

 bread of his own, or allow himself the freedom of the streets, being 

 deprived hereof through the clamour of his creditors, whose moneys 

 were really borrowed for the use, and on the desire of your Majesty s 

 royal father of blessed memory, your sacred Majesty [sic] and for 

 advancing public services to the general good of the kingdom and 

 security of your Royal person and dignity, of which the Petitioner 

 hath paid above 35,000 since your Majesty s happy restoration, 

 besides many former sums lent and expended, for which it is humbly 

 presumed your sacred Majesty (when rightly informed) will have 

 particular regard to release and to pay such great acts of loyalty as 

 the Petitioner can make appear, as well for justice as an encourage 

 ment for all loyal subjects hereafter to expose themselves and for 

 tunes at any rate for your Royal interest, as the Petitioner 

 hath without precedent, truly and really done in many eminent 

 particular services, too tedious to trouble your Majesty with, being 

 more fit to be heard and prepared by some of your Majesty s most 



