A friendly letter to such as have voices in election of Members to serve in Parliament Philanglus. 1695 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A40497 Wing F2224A ESTC R215129 99827099 99827099 31512 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A40497) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31512) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1886:6) A friendly letter to such as have voices in election of Members to serve in Parliament Philanglus. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed, and sold by John Whitlock, in Stationers-Court, near Stationers-Hall, London : 1695. Signed at end: Philanglus. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines. Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Friendly LETTER To Such as have ●oices in Election of Members To Serve in PARLIAMENT . Dear Countrymen , You have a Good King , willing to follow the Advice of his Great Councils , and for that end , disires frequent Par 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which give you the Happy Oppor●●●●●● of making your king , your selves , and ●●●●ow-subjects Comfortable . Your Fore 〈…〉 that made Laws for the due Election 〈◊〉 to serve in Parliament , and settled 〈…〉 be duly paid them ) foresaw , or had 〈…〉 ed That few or none , will take so 〈…〉 t and Trouble upon them , at their 〈◊〉 and Charge ; and strugling about E 〈…〉 Feasting and Treating Extravagantly , 〈…〉 ing Electors for their Voices , began 〈…〉 Time when the Rebellion was hatch●● 〈…〉 th broke out in 1641. wherefore King 〈◊〉 ●he First , in a Book supposed to be writ●●● 〈…〉 in his Troubles , saith , He had rea●●● 〈◊〉 he saw it , to fear the sad Consequences 〈◊〉 ever since Men of good Estates and princi 〈…〉 ●●ve been forced to spend High , and Contract 〈…〉 s , in Opposition to Persons of Ill Designs . 〈…〉 taking Parties to be Elected , hath raised 〈…〉 and Differences between Neighbours 〈…〉 Relations , that Hospitality , and in 〈…〉 ●rotherly Love and Charity , is at a low 〈◊〉 You have reason to suspect all that Court 〈…〉 your Voices , spend their Estates in hopes 〈…〉 y themselves at the Nations Cost ; and may rest assured , that such as get or im●●●●● their Estates by Oppression and Wrong , 〈…〉 hot Redress , but make Grievances : You 〈…〉 that Butchers are not allowed to be of Ju 〈…〉 in Cases of Life and Death ; and in Cases 〈…〉 een Party and Party , Judges and Juries to be indifferent : And will you make Choice Lawyers , Attorneys and Solicitors , or any 〈…〉 ed on the Sores of your Brethren , to be 〈…〉 Grand Inquest , who are Judges to Re 〈…〉 as well as Juries to Present your Grie 〈…〉 ? Have you not seen what Disturbance 〈…〉 or two of a Jury have given the rest ? And 〈…〉 Injustice and Oppression pack'd Juries have been guilty of ? I could weep to see any Feast and Treat the Rich , and send the Poor Empty away : And how backward too many are to do Brotherly Offices for any of different Opinions , in Points of Religious Worship , though the good Samarijan stood not upon such Niceties ; yet I hope every City , County and Burrough may find such to Represent them , as have plentiful Estates , and Husband the same well , and do all the good Offices they can , to promote Brotherly Love among their Neighbours ; and restrain not their Charity from the Poor of different Perswasions ; and would you Chuse such of Liberal Estates , Sweet Dispositions , and Universal Charity , they by God's Blessing , would soon settle things upon the best and furest Foundations , whereby Peace and Happiness , Truth and Justice , Religion and Pitty , would be Established among us , Gentlemen , The Trust reposed in you , and that you repose in such as you Elect , is a Talent , whereof a strict Accompt will be required at the Last Great and General Audit ; therefore as you Tender the Honour , Wealth and Safety of your King , your Selves , and your Fellow-subjects , suffer not the Fumes of Strong Drink , and Tobacco , and Garnished Dishes , to make you Sell your Selves , and your Posterity , as your Grandame Eve , and Grandsire Adam did , for a Golden Coloured Apple ; and as Esau Sold his Birthright for a Mess of Pottage ; but like Men of Understanding , let your Zeal be according to Knowledge , for the Election of your Representatives : And let your Meetings be without Heat or Passion , that the Persons Out-voted may approve your Choice ; or at least , have no Just Cause to Condemn it : And that Present , and After-ages , may Applaud your Discretion , is the Hearty Desire of Philanglus . ●●●don Printed , and Sold by John Whitlock , in Stationers-Court , near Stationers-Hall , 1695.