[May it please your Lordships]
I humbly beseech your Lordships [th] now that by examinatio[n] of all parties, the errour for which we suffer his Majesties displeasure must needes appeare neither greater nor lesse then it is, to give me leave to becomme an humble suitor to your Lordships [that] with the relation thearof [it will please your Lordships] to testify unto his Majesty my hearty sorrow for his Majesties displeasu[re] **Restraint [of] <from> liberty, comfort, <and> counsell of frends <and all the effects of imprisonment> are in them selfes very grievous, and inflicted as due punishments for greater offences then mine. but that which makes them most heavy to me is that [[it] <that> is the <onely> portion his Majesty so gratious] they proceede from his Majesties displeasure whose favor was <not onely> my stay and hope but greatest joy. [The which if I weare restored and that] If our punishment weare to do his Majesty service or honour <I should endure> Imprisonment and [all] <any> affliction [whatsoever should be wellcome] <with patience and alacrity>. But being [onely an effect] <inflicted <onely> as a signe> of his Majesties displeasure, it is [most] <very> grievous. [but that the conscience of having committed [in] the least of all errors [that] upon which punishment is inflicted] [Whearefore I humbly beseech your Lordships who delight not in lengthning sorrow to]** <and to> be our [honorable mediators] <intercessors> to his [most gratious] Majesty [to have compassion o[n] <f> us] <for us> whose errour we hope his Majesty [will] in his owne gratious disposition, will rather pardon, then [have] any further expiate with [any torment and] affliction. [The clearenesse of my conscience] <And [ou] by Gods grace> the whole course of our life hearafter shall testify our dutifulnesse and humble thanckfulnesse.
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