Quéret-Démery was just an obscure, forgotten victim of an autocratic rule, sending his humble petition which was never delivered, to "Monseigneur."

I will not presume to trouble Your Grace with a full description of our unhappy circumstances, which my father has set forth most accurately in his very humble petition.

(Though in her 1689 "humble petition" to the Lord Chamberlain, she noted that she was never paid more the 30 shillings a week.)

At thirteen years old, the Child of the Marshalsea presented herself to the dancing-master, with a little bag in her hand, and preferred her humble petition.

Why, "much may be done, says he, by humble petitions and representations of the hardships of certain measures" - Ask him whether the colonies have not already done it?

She had not read more than: 'The humble petition of Gerald Corven, K.C.B.,' when she had her fourth thought: 'But this is exactly what I want.

Without discontinuing the pleasures in which he was immersed, he contented himself with sending presents and humble petitions to Constantinople.

The next year (167), Dou Wu submitted a humble petition requesting leniency for the partisans and tendering his resignation.

It is the humble petition of the camel, who only asks that he may put his nose into the traveler's tent.

The Parliament sent a message to the king, a humble petition, with 19 propositions to prevent conflict.