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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	day_n	king_n	year_n	5,954	4	4.7354	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62759	To the King's most excellent Majesty, The humble address of the Lord Mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of the city and liberties of Dublin, in behalf of themselves and others, the Protestant freemen and inhabitants thereof	Dublin (Ireland). Common Council.; William III, King of England, 1650-1702.	1690 (1690)	Wing T1508; ESTC R220691	947	1

To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of the City and Liberties of Dublin in behalf of themselves and others the Protestant Freemen and Inhabitants thereof THus long GREAT SIR our unparallel'd late Deliverance wrought by the Hand of God the first Mover the Principal Author of all our Good hath hitherto most justly employed all the Faculties of our Souls in the profound contemplation of his mysterious and unbounded Providence receiving from us the slender Reward but necessary Sacrifice of our hearty Praise and Thanks But now to You GREAT SIR the next recollected Thought with equal Justice does belong To You therefore DREAD SIR the Second Cause our Faith's Defender the wonderful Restorer of our captiv'd Liberties in greatest Humili●y but with unlimited Zeal and joyful Hearts full of sincere Affection we yield our outmost and unfeigned Thanks being the only thing valuable which our Enemies left us wherewithal to Sacrifice and of which their Malice could not rob us We cannot but with Horror stand amazed when we recount our never to be forgotten Sufferings our frequent causeless Imprisonments the plundering our Goods the confiscation o● our Estates the innumerable Oppressions the illegal Exactions the Tyrannous hatred of our Persons and in a word the unchristian behaviour in all the actions of our Enemies infinitely surpassing an Egyptian servitude when Baal's Priests contented not themselves with their Idolatry alone to pollute our Altars but in prosecution of their profane and ungodly Malice contriv'd the leading us Captive to our Churches and each Ancestor's Tomb became our respe●●ive Couches then it proved literally true that our Liberties were offered a Romish Sacrifice on our own Altars Thus far Almighty God permitted them Then it was that our Enemies grew ripe for Divine Vengeance Then it was that you MIGHT SIR stept in and by Your own Victorious Arm to the hazard of Your Royal Person rescued us from the hands of our Enemies Then and not till then did Arbitrary Power Popery and Slavery terms almost convertible receive their period Wherefore to You DREAD SIR our only King our Lives our Liberties our Goods and Estates we humbly offer and at Your Royal Feet GREAT SIR we come prepared ready to lay them down for the Defence of Your Majesties Royal Person for the suppression of Popery for the maintenance of the Protestant Religion and for the support of Your Majesties undoubted Right to these Your Kingdoms and Dominions In testimony whereof we have caused the common Seal of the said City to be hereunto affixed this Ninth day of July in the Second Year of Your Majesties Reign Printed at London and Re-printed at Edinburgh by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties 1690.