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A65174 Vox juvenilis, or, The loyal apprentices vindication of the design and promoters of their late humble address to His Majesty 1681 (1681) Wing V720; ESTC R1057 4,719 6

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to fill up our Number as some of the famous Essex-Patriots did to fill up their Petition for a Parliament We never went to any Country-Fairs amongst the Ballad-singers nor in all Humility addressed our selves to the little Boys of a Free-School to pleasure us with two or three hundred Hands We never hired any one to subscribe nor ever told a Refuser that we would put him in our black Book as Mr. S. H. did those that would not sign his Good old Cause-Petition We never called a Conventicle to get the Well-Wishers together but honestly left our Papers where we thought fit though the Republican Rats had so little Manners to gnaw them in peices when they were full of Hands As to the Persons that subscribed let those have a care that scandalize any one Man of them And as to the next Objection and that which has done Us much prejudice in our Proceedings That we meddle with State-Matters that don't concern Vs We Answer That truly we think it belongs as much to Us to Thank the KING for His Good Government and to Testifie our Resolutions to Serve and Defend Him as it did the Porters and Broom-men that Subserib'd Sir G's Petition to tell His Majesty when 't was Good for Him to call a Parliament But as for State Affairs we find none in the Address we purposely did avoid it and upon that account though we love to hear talk of the Succession going in the right Line yet we said never a word about it But if our Thanking His Majesty for His Gratious DECLARATION be a matter of State we Declare we thought it had been for the satisfaction of Us as well as Our Masters or any body else for when the World made such a Noise about the Dissolution of the two last Parliaments and some were so Impudent to speak hard words of our KING about it we were very glad at such a time to see His Majesty Condescend to tell the World and Us amongst the rest that He had very good Reason to do what he did whereby He removed all cause of Complaints or Jealousie Now as we are infinitely sensible of the Great Benefits and Advantages which his Majesty hath been pleased to hold forth unto us in This his most Gracious Declaration so we likewise Account our selves bound by All the Tyes of Loyalty and Gratitude humbly to present our Dutiful Acknowledgements to the BEST OF SOVEREIGNS and to declare unto the World our Firm and Unalterable Resolutions to Expose our Lives and Fortunes in the Support Maintenance and Defence of our King and his Government And though the sense of Honesty Justice and Allegiance was the Principal Motive that led us to This Address we had likewise some regard in it to the Vindication of our Credits from the Infamy that was cast upon us by a Pack of Common Scribliing Rascals that made the whole Nation ring with the Story of a Conspiracy among the Apprentices to Engage the Nation in new Troubles and the City in a Desperate and Bloody Tumult Insomuch that we could not do our selves Right but by some Publick Manifestation of our Innocence Lastly As to the Pretence of Those that Enviously Reflect upon this our Proceeding as a Design to Create Divisions and Misunderstandings among his Majesties Subjects we have Diligently Enformed our selves concerning the Opinions and Practices of those People and we find them to be for the most part Men of Dangerous Principles as Anabaptists Separatists and other sorts of Dissenters from the Church and no less Enemies to the Civil Government So that their Quarrels to us is not for any fear they have of our Disturbing the Publick Peace but for the Disappointment which our Conjunction hath given to their Designs which they can never be able to put in Execution against so powerful an Opposition So that if they call it a Combination we must needs maintain that it is both an Honest and a Good One and that it is so far ftom tending to make a Mutiny and Disturbance That it has given the City sufficient security against both For certainly our very Address it self is sufficient to convince the World that we are sensible of our Duty to our Sovereign and supposing that The same Good Principle must necessarily influence us to pay that Obedience and Respect which is due to all those that are in Authority under him And seeing all the Subscribers have therein really devoted themselves to his Majesties Interest 't is very improbable that they would make themselves guilty of any thing so contrary and prejudicial thereunto as are Mutinous and Disorderly Insurrections And as the Intentions of our Hearts are Fair and Peaceable for we will rather dye than entertain so much as the least thought of any unlawful Enterprize So was the Time that we Pitch'd upon for our Address as Seasonable too and much more proper than for the importunity of Peremptory and Factious Petitions For when the Phanaticks daily made their Boasts concerning the Number of their Party which Confidence made them so bold as to extend their Affronts even to his Sacred Majesty and which for ought we knew might give them hopes to attempt the Subversion of the Establish'd Government which the better to Accomplish their Design they had been so Industrious by Libelling and other base Methods to defame And seeing that several Essays were daily made to make his Majesties Subjects forfeit their Allegiance and particularly upon our selves by some that endeavoured to amuse us with unnecessary Fears of the loss of Religion and Trade and such like specious pretences We thought it not amiss at such a time according to the Example of our Superiors humbly to Address our selves to his Majesty To Acquaint him what a Multitude of Brave Loyal and True-hearted Lads he has near him whose Hearty Affections to his Person and Government and their Loyal Union among themselves would make them not afraid when by him Commanded To Confront the most Resolute and Formidable Rebel and whose Number would render them if Occasion should be no inconsiderable Guard to his Royal Person And therein to convince all the Insinuating Factious Crue who endeavour to seduce us That we will never again be decoy'd out of our Duty to our Sovereign and that though the Papists make the Phanaticks their Tools yet we will never become the Phanaticks To conclude our Address having been honoured with his Majesties Princely Approbation and seeing the Design of it was Peaceable and Seasonable as well as Loyal and Dutiful the World has no Reason to blame it nor we to be asham'd to own it LONDON Printed for Charles Read 1681.