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city_n	citizen_n	london_n	mayor_n	9,097	5	11.2140	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56093	The Protestant petition and addresse, London, April 30, 1681 upon Thursday last there was presented to the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, (no common-council at that time sitting), this following address, to the Right Honourable Sir Patient Ward, Kt. Lord-Mayor of the city of London, and to the Right Worshipful, the Aldermen his brethen.	Ward, Patience, Sir, 1629-1696.	1681 (1681)	Wing P3839; ESTC R3788	1,496	1

The Protestant PETITION and ADDRESSE London April 30. 1681. Upon Thursday last there was Presented to the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen no Common-Council at that Time Sitting This Following Address To the Right Honourable Sir Patient Ward Kt. lord-Lord-Mayor of the City of London And to the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren The Humble Petition of Us whose Names are here Subscribed and of many Thousands of the most Eminent Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of London his Majesties Loyall Subjects Sheweth THat your Petitioners being deeply sensible of the many Instances which they have had the Honour to receive of his Majesties Princely Goodness and Bounty and more particularly in His Royall Assurances of a full Resolution to have Frequent Parliaments and both In and Out of Parliament to use his utmost Endeavours to extirpate Popery to redress all the Grievances of his Good Subjects and in all things to Govern according to the Laws of the Kingdom Which his Sacred Majesty hath been Graciously pleas'd with a most Express Solemnity to promise and to publish unto the World in his Late Princely Declaration In the Contemplation of a Goodness so ample and so effectuall that there is nothing further wanting toward the Composing of Mens Mindes the creating of a Right Understanding betwixt his Majesty and his Liege-People and under Gods Providence toward the Establishment of a Distracted Nation in Agreement Peace and Plenty saving only the Dutiful Return of Veneration and Obedience from the Subject in acknowledgement of the Fatherly Tenderness of so Indulgent a Sovereign Your Humble Petitioners cannot but in Reverence and Gratitude Declare that We are Unanimously Resolved to lay our Lives and Fortunes at His Majesties Feet in Defence of his Sacred Person against all Opposition whatsoever and in the Maintenance of the Established Religion and the Government both of Church and State as it is setled by Law pursuant to the Tenour of his Majesties Royal Declaration and the Duty of all Loyal Subjects May it Therefore please your Lordship and this Honourable Court to present This our Humble Address Declaration and Resolution to his most Gracious Majesty in such manner as unto You shall seem meet And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray NOw forasmuch as the Petition above-Recited hath been Invidiously Represented to the World as a Popish Contrivance a Jesuitical Design a Petition for Slavery and at the best but a Superfluous Acknowledgment to his Majesty for Doing his Duty to the great Reproach and Scandal of the Loyal Petitioners We the Subscribers have deemed it Necessary and Reasonable for our Own Vindication the Satisfaction of all Honest men and as a matter of good Example unto Others to publish the Petition it self Appealing for the Truth of the Copy and the Quality of the Petitioners to the Original Papers remaining in the Court where they were presented and Declaring withall that as it was but the work of a Day and Half to gather the Hands without any Preparatory toward it So the Subscribers are every man of them Regular Protestants of the Church of England and live in Obedience and Conformity to the Law The Reader will observe upon the View of this our Petition First that it is Peaceable and Modest being only a Dutiful Discharge of our Affections and Consciences in Thankfulnesse to his most Gracious Majesty without intermedling in any Nice and Political Matters or reflecting in any sort whatsoever upon the Doings or Opinions of Other People Secondly that it is a Gratitude to his Majesty for the most Generous and Consummated Obligations that it is possible for a Prince to lay upon his People That is to say for his Royal Assurance of Frequent Parliaments of Extirpating Popery Supporting the Protestant Religion Governing by the Laws and Protecting his good Subjects against all Violence whatsoever We shall leave the Reader here to think his Pleasure of those men that reckon it a Scandal for a Subject to acknowledge the Bounty of his Sovereign And comfort our selves in the Integrity of our Own Souls And in This further Assurance that we have as many Hearts and may have as many Hands in approbation of This our Proceeding there are True Protestants Loyal Subjects and Right Englishmen in his Majesties Dominions And so we shall Conclude without making any Descant upon the Passions Interests or Designs of those that Oppose us Printed for the Subscribers April 30. 1681.