likewise by several other Gentlemen then and there present Most Gracious Soverign ALtho' we have with all sincerity made our respective Acknowledgment to Almighty God for the great Blessing he hath vouchsafed this Nation by making your Majesty the Parent of a most Hopeful and Illustrious Prince and have given us great and ample Demonstrations of our Joy for the same in our several stations as we were capable yet nevertheless we do not think our acquitted of our Duty without an humble Congratulation with your Majesty and your Royal Consort upon this happy Occasion and assuring your Majesty that whenever the over-ruling power by which Kings Reign shall resume that Crown you now so justly wear we will bear all Faith and true Allegiance to this Illustrious Prince but that the commencement thereof may be late are and shall always be the Prayers of Your Majesties most Faithful and most Obedient Subjects To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty May it please your Majesty THE Mayor Aldermen and Commons of your Majesties Antient and Loyal City of York were transported with Joy at the Birth of the young Prince And after they had made what Demonstrations they could at Home of their Rejoycing thought it their Duty to send and have sent some of the principal Members of their Body to Congratulate your Majesty for so great and extraordinary a Blessing both to your Majesty and your Subjects The great God who hath at sundry times miraculously preserved your Majesty both at Sea and Land hath at this time enlarged his Blessings to your Majesty and your People by giving us a Royal Prince who we pray may live long to Inherit the Virtues and Crown of his Ancestors and that there may never want one of your Royal Family to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms for the support and maintenance whereof we are and shall always be ready to Sacrifice our Lives and Fortunes And that the God of Heaven would be graciously pleased to shower down his Blessings upon your Majesty your Royal Consort the young Prince and the whole Royal Family is the hearty Prayer of us Your Majesties most Dutiful Obedient and Loyal Subjects To the King's most Excellent Majesty The hearty Congratulation of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of your Majesties City of Bath Dread Sovereign NO sooner did the happy News of a Prince being born reach our Ears but we thought it our Duty to Congratulate your Majesty for so great a Blessing and knowing it is unjust to be silent on this occasion we do therefore offer up our Thanks to the great Jehovah for the sending of an Heir to your Majesty and your Kingdoms from your Royal Loins which is that alone that can confirm our present Happiness under your Government and give us a comfortable prospect of the continuance of it and we as far as in us lies shall in our Proper station contribute to the Assisting your Majesty in your pious Intentions in setling these your Kingdoms in Peace and Tranquility whensoever your most Sacred Majesty shall in your Princely Wisdom think fit to require it of us And we heartily implore the Almighty to send your Majesty and us more such Royal Pledges by your gracious Consort and bless Your Majesty with long Life to see our young Prince by your Majesties tender Care fitted to Govern all his people These are the Prayers of us your Majesties most Dutiful and Obedient Subjects In Testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our Common Seal this 25th Day of June in the 4th Year of His Majesties Reign To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The. Humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen Bailiffs and Capital Citizens of the City of Carlisle Great SIR WE Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects cannot but express our exceeding Joy that if we may-say it transports us above Mortals and places us on Earth in a most Heavenly Condition living under Your Majesties most Sacred Protection a Prince Born for high Exploits and the Peace of these Three flourishing though lately distracted Kingdoms as the whole Series of nine Years Revolution can testifie Your Majesty in a most high measure hath been the care of Almighty God whose Projects never fail but ever in the end brings all humane policy that is contrary to Confusion Witness your Miraculous Preservations at Sea amidst a number of unparalleled Dangers Witness the easy Conquest You gained or rather the just Punishment You inflicted upon Rebels who durst oppose your Sacred Authority But to close all witness this Heavenly Blessing to compleat the Miracle A Prince Born to the Worlds Astonishment that gives us hopes of a numerous Issue an Heir we question it not that will Inherit as well as Crown his Father's Heroick Virtnes Qualities above the greatness of Constantine and in Conclusion if need be finish what Your Majesty to make us happy has so fortunately begun for whose Safety we faithfully promise to spend our Lives and Fortunes and will dally bless God that has given You a Fruitful Consort In Testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our Common-Seal the 2d Day of July in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Domini 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble and unanimous Address of your Majesties Justices of the Peace at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace holden at Leads for the West-Riding of the County of York this 12th day of July in the Fourth Year of your Majesties Reign MAY it please your Sacred to suffer us your most Loyal Subjects moved by the most ardent Affection profoundest Duty and truest Interest to Congratulate You our and the three Kingdoms Happiness in the Birth of a Prince humbly praying the God of Heaven for Life Health and Prosperity to your Majesty his Royal Highness and your Royal Consort with the addition of whatever may contribute to your and their Happiness here And after a long Reign over us may your Majesty inherit an Erernal Crown in a better Kingdom And may there never want one of your Royal Line to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms till Time shall be no more is the most fervent sincere and unfeigned Prayer of Your Majesties Obedient Loyal Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Jury for the County of Hertford at the Assizes held at Hertford the 23 day of July in the fourth Year of your Majesties Reign SIR HAD not a Party averse to comply with your Majesties gracious Inclinations been too prevalent in this County an Address would have been sooner made to your most Sacred Majesty for your most gracious Declaration of Indulgence and tho we are too to late yet we hope we shall not be unwelcome in making a due and just return of our most humble and hearty Thanks and grateful Acknowledgments for your Majesties gracious Intentions to your Subjects in general in Abrogating of the Penal Laws and Test. We will not like others go about thanking your Majesty for your particular Favours of
thank the great God of Heaven for this Universal Blessing which we did perform with Hearts unfeigned full of Joy and throughly sensible of that great Happiness which it hath Pleased the over-ruling Providence to bless us with under your Majesties most Gracious and Merciful Government But as we are bound to thank God for this great Blessing so we judge our likewise engaged by all the Obligations imaginable to return our thanks to your Sacred Majesty God's true Vicegerent whose Actions have surpassed any thing that History could yet afford us and whose Gracious and Unparallel'd Declaration for Liberty of Conscience hath come up to that agreeableness of Divinity it self who hath said of Kings I have made ye Gods that you Great Sir have exceeded all Princes in that high and transcendent Character we crave leave most Gracious Soveraign to render unto your Majesty our most unfeigned Thanks for those fresh Obligations and Privileges lately granted to this your Ancient and Loyal City in our new Charter humbly assuring your Majesty that when ever you shall please to call a Parliament we shall give our Assistance in choosing such Members as we doubt not will readily concur to perpetuate your great and good Work which your Majesty to your Eternal Honour and Glory have so happily begun may the great God of Heaven make your Majesties Reign long and prosperous over us and grant your Majesty and your Royal Consort a numerous and lasting Issue that as this Generation hath great cause to bless God for you so future Generations may rise up and call you and your Royal Progeny for ever Blessed So pray heartily your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects P. P. of W. was Born the 10th of June 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Bailif Recorder Justices of the Peace and Capital Burgesses with other the Burgesses Freemen and Inhabitants of the Borrough of Leominster in the County of Hereford Dread Sir BY the plainness of our Words your Majesty may read the Integrity of our Hearts to a Prince whose only Aim and Desires are to revive the English Glory both at home and abroad a Prince as Zealous of the true Interest and Welfare of all his Subjects as ever Reigned a Prince who imploys all his Cares Actions and Treasures for the attainment of those Ends and the perpetuating these Blessings to us and our Posterity by Establishing unto every one of us our Natural Birthright Liberty and Property both in Spirituals and Temporals which most Sacred Majesty out of the abundance of your Royal Bounty hath been pleased so often to reiterate unto us upon all occasions especially in your Majestyes late repeated Declaration of Indulgence that should we admit of the least Doubt or Scruple of the Sincerity of your Majesties Intentions we must deprive our as Rationally and become more Stupid than Brutes or which is worse more malicious than the Common Enemy of Mankind nay should we not most willingly concur with your Majesties most Pious Intentions herein and contribute to the utmost of our Powers in promoting them we should not deserve the Earth we tread on the Air we breath in nor any other common Benefit we naturally enjoy wherefore most Gracious Sovereign in the deepest sense of our most profound Duty we lay our Selves our Lives and Fortunes at your Majesties Feet acknowledging all these Transcendent Favours we enjoy under your Majesties Government promising hereby that we will readily Sacrifice all that is dear to us in the promoting your Majesty's most Just Gracious Merciful and Godly Declaration by Abolishing the Test and other Penal Laws which have so long Tyrannized over and Enslaved the Persons and Consciences of your Majesties Loyal Subjects in Electing of such Members for this your Majesties Loyal Burrough when your Majesty in your Princely Wisdom shall think fit to call a Parliament as will heartily concur with us therein as well as in our Prayers which we all unanimously offer to the great God of Heaven for the prolongation of your Majesties happy Reign over us until you see a PRINCE of WALES whose Orient Beams we daily expect in his full Glory ready to Support the Crowns and Sway the Scepters of your Majesties Kingdoms the Government whereof we humbly pray may continue in your Royal Progeny until the Consummation of all Ages In Confirmation whereof we have hereunto put our Common Seal and Subscribed our Names this 16th Day of May in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of your Majesties Corporation of your City of Exeter VVE your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of your City of Exeter in our Common Council assembled do think our highly obliged to render Praise and Thanksgiving to the God of Heaven and Earth the great Governour of the World for the Birth of a Royal Prince a Blessing inestimable and one of the greatest to your most Sacred Majesty and these Nations Great Sir we are sure that all Men may now be satisfied that Providence hath not only favoured but rewarded your Royal Conduct by which Liberty and Peace have been promoted and maintained under the Shadow of your Scepter whose Reign as it has been without a Parallel the most Gracious so may it be long and prosperous May your Majesty live to a good old Age to see the Royal Prince inherit all your Royal Vertues and after your Majesties long and prosperous Reign may he be as your Majesty now is a Blessing to these Nations So pray your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects who are and always shall be ready to serve your Majesty with Lives and Fortunes to the last drop of our Blood In Testimony whereof we have this 20th Day of June in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign affixed our Common Seal To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Mayor Recorder Aldermen Common Council and Burgesses of your Majesties Antient and Loyal Corporation of Berwick upon Tweed Most Dread Sovereign VVE your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects though most remote in Place yet as early and zealous in Proximity of Affection as any other being struck with a profound sense of the due Acknowledgment we as well as any other of your Majesty's Subjects owe to the great God of Heaven and your most Sacred Majesty as his Vicegerent over us for your late and never too often to be Commemorated most Gracious Declaration of free and general Indulgence and the many Benefits and Blessings we daily receive thereby do in most humble manner prostrate our at your Majesties Feet with all possible Expressions of Gratitude A Declaration which has brought a long with it as it were a new Charter to this our Antient Body by which it hath incorporated the very Heart and Affections of every Member of it and united them all as the Heart of one Man which is the best and surest way of Regulation
Benefit and your Majesties everlasting Glory And we resolve as much as in us lies to contribute to so good and necessary Work and join our most humble and hearty Endeavours that all Penal Laws in matters of Religion save for the contempt and neglect thereof and the unequal Tests may be Abrogated That we and our Fellow-Subjects having no partition Wall between us may unite in Love Peace and Happiness under your Majesties Gracious and Powerful Protection We do most solemnly and heartily Congratulate your Majesties great Happiness and Satisfaction in the Birth of our high hopeful PRINCE and account it no less Happiness to these Nations And it shall be as our Duty our constant zealous Care to pray to Almighty God for the continuance of Life Health and Happiness to his ROYAL HIGHNESS and for a Blessing on both your Majesties in a numerous Issue and with long Life and constant Happiness and Success in all your Majesties great and pious Undertakings and subscribe our Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects and Servants To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of your Majesties Loyal City of Durham July 2d 1688. Most Gracious Sovereign WE your Majesties most Dutiful and Obedient Subjects of this Corporation having in the first place most humbly offered up our publick Praises and Thansgivings to Almighty God for the happy Birth of the young Prince the greater Blessing that could Possibly descend upon these your Kingdoms do now hold our obliged also to present our most humble Congratulations to your Sacred Majesty and your Royal Consort the Queen upon this joyful occasion and shall always pray that your Majesties may be blessed with more Children and more Sons that there never may be wanting one of your Royal Stock and Race to wear the Imperial Crown and to sway the Scepter of these your Dominions To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Lord Lieutenant Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace of the County of Kent at the General Quarter-Sessions holden at Cantorbury the 10th day of July 1688. for the Eastern Division of the said County Dead SIR WE your Majesties Loyal and Dutiful Subjects having rendred to Almighty God our most sincere and humble Thanksgivings for the ineffable Blessings bestowed upon your Royal Majesty your Kingdoms and Dominions in the happy Birth of a Prince We do now Sacred Sir esteem it our Duty and highest Obligation prostrate at your Majesties Feet gratefully to acknowledge that your Majesties admirable Goodness Piety and Justice have obtained from our most gracious God this so inexpressible a Blessing The consideration whereof as it ought so are we confidently assured it will open the Eyes of all Men who are not wholly possessed with the Spirit of Contradiction to behold with grateful Hearts your Majesties most Fatherly and Pious Care for the welfare of your People So that when your Majesty shall think fit to call a Parliament we shall all to the utmost of our Endeavours make choice of such Persons to serve therein as may unite your Subjects in Charity and Christian Correspondence by their unanimous Consent to the Repeal of those disuniting Penal Laws and Tests whereby Divisions and Animosities have so long harboured amongst us Great Sir That Almighty God will grant your Sacred Majesty your Royal Consort the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales long Life Happiness and Posterity is the most zealous Prayer of Most Gracious SIR Your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Clothiers of the Counties of Devon and Sommerset May it please Your Majesty VVE cannot but in a due sense of your Majesties great Goodness to us render our most humble and hearty Thanks for your gracious Hearing our miserable Complaints of the Exportation of Wool and of your Majesties speedy as well as effectual Redress thereof in the issuing out your Commission for that purpose by which your Majesty hath preserved and put a new Life to Trade which next to the great and glorious Design of Liberty of Conscience is undoubtedly the best support of the Wealth and grandure of a Nation and therefore we can now return with Joy to our respective Habitations And as it has pleased God to our great Joy to Bless your Majesty with a Royal Prince to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms after your Majesty so we heartily pray God there may never want of your Princely Posterity to sit on the Throne of your Majesty and that he may in due time inherit your Princely Virtues as well as the just Dominion over all your Kingdoms To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Inquest at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace held for the County Palatine of Durham this 11th day of July 1688. Most Gracious Sovereign VVE your Majesties Loyal and Obedient Subjects upon the first opportunity of representing the Body of this Country hold our obliged next to our publick Thanksgivings to Almighty God to Congratulate your Majesty and your Royal Consort the Queen in the most joyful News of the Birth of a young Prince now Prince of Wales May his Royal Highness long Live and your Majesties be blessed with a numerous Issue and your Throne Established in all succeeding Ages which is the hearty and unanimous Desire of Your Majesties most Dutiful Subjects c. We the Lord Lieutenant High Sheriff and Justices of the Peace of this County now present at the said Quarter-Sessions of the Peace do concur with the Grand Inquest in this Address To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble and hearty Congratulation of the High Sheriff Justices of the Peace and Grand Jury of the County of Worcester holden at the General-Sessions of the Peace the 10th day of July Anno Dom. 1688. PErmit Dread Sir amongst the loud Peals of Joy that ring in every corner of this Kingdom to join our Huzza with the rest of your Majesties Subjects for a Blessing bestowed on us so long so earnestly desired Happy we that live to see a Prince of Wales from your Loins and happy our Posterity that live to be Governed by a Prince of such a Father May your Majesty live long to see those great Endowments Heaven has enriched him with and he live to outdo whatever History speaks Great of his Ancestor's Actions and if possible even those of James the Second whilst we contribute by a stedfast Loyalty to farther all your just Designs and not frowardly oppose you in any thing since Heaven seems to grant what you ask And that your desire may never receive denial shall be the constant Prayer and Wishes of c. The humble and unanimous Congratulation of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Sommerset at their General Quarter-Sessions held at Bridgwater the 10th day of July in the Fourth Year of his Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1687. Subscribed