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
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
A Collection of the several ADDRESSES in the late King JAMES's Time Concerning the Conception and Birth of the Prince of WALES To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The bumble Address of the Comptroler and other Members of the Society of the Inner-Temple PArdon us Great Sir if the fear of being thought ungrateful for the greatest Bounty puts us upon the hazard of being thought too bold in approaching your Sacred Person to offer our most humble and Hearty Tribute of Thanks for your most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence and continued to us and all our Subjects your Royal Assent and Protection in a free Choice and Exercise of our Religion a Blessing that could flow from none but the Best and Wisest of Princes whose Royal Thoughts are wholly taken up how to make our Religion as free as our Property a Blessing which just Heaven which ever over-pays all good Actions has evidently Demonstrated to be Grateful and Acceptable by showring down the Blessing of Fruitfulness on your Royal Consort May the ROYAL ISSUE live to be the Joy of your most Sacred Majesty the Delight of all Mankind a safeguard to your Friends and Terrour to your Enemies and may Heaven continue its Favours on your Majesties and your Sacred Posterity This Great Sir is the Prayer of us Your most Dutiful and Obedient Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Recorder Aldermen Sheciffs Common-Council-men Grand Jury and Borough Jury of your Majesties City and County of the City os Gloucester from the General Quarter Sessions there held this 2th day of January in the Year of our Lord 1687. Dread Sovereign THE Reason and Equity of a General Indulgence for matters of meer Religion is so manifestain it self and so clearly Illustrated by your Majesties gracious Declaration for it tim to all that we can say on that Subject can but resemble an Eclipse of the sun by the Interposition of a meaner Light Nothing then can be more our Duty both as Christians and Subjects than first to render unto Almighty God in whose Hands are the Hearos of Kings our hearty Thanks for putting it into the King's Heart to do so good Things for his People Next in all Humility to express not only our Acquiescence but height of Satisfaction in your Majesties so Pious so Prudent so Charitable and Kind a Determination towards all your Subjects to assure your Majesty of our united and utmost Endeavours to Elect for Parliament when called such Members as we may reasonably hope shall joyfully and readily meet and join with your Majesty therein and likewise in the Repeal of the two Test-Acts so subject to dangerous Interpretations Yet at last we humbly crave leave to Congratulate with your Majesty the Blessing of your Royal Consorts CONCERTION which we consider as the Reward of Heaven upon this your unparallel'd Goodness and with the most fervent Zeal offer up our Prayers to Almighty God that she may to the unspeakable Happiness of all your Kingdoms produce you a SON as much the Image of your Heroick Mind as the Product of your Royal Body Subscribed also by the said Grand Jury and Burough Jury consenting c. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of your Majesties most Layal and Dutiful Subjects of your Antient Corporation of Portsmouth PResume humbly to hope that our hearty Acknowledgments tho' late for your gracious Indulgence may be honoured with a favourable Aspecr since they give precedency to none in Gratitude and Loyalty The many and happy Blessings that visibly attend this your Royal Declaration instruct us that the Councils of Princes are no less the immediate Concern of the Wisdom of the Almighty than the Protection of their Persons is of his Power This one Act most Gracious Sovereign has dispersed all the Fears and Apprehensions of Fire and Faggot under your Majesties Reign which the wicked Enemies of your Sacred Majesties Person and Religion had maliciously distill'd into the Minds of too many of your credulous Subjects this has confirmed to us our Liberties and Properties this hath established Peace and Charity in the Minds of the Dissenting Brethren in Opinion and shaded all your Loving Subjects from the troublesom Heats of Persecution under the Wings of your Royal Protection In sine Great Sir it is an Act so transcendently Good that it seems to us Heaven could not reward it with a less Blessing than what it has been pleased to bestow at this present upon your Royal Consort nor will we be wanting to contribute all that lies in us to the perpetuating of this Happiness to Posterity For when it shall seem fit to your Princely Wisdom to Summon a Parliament we do hereby engage our to Elect such Members as shall Vote for the Repealing such Laws as obviate your Gracious Intentions in your Declaration Whoever now presumes to oppose and spurn at this your Royal Goodness becomes not only ungrateful to their Country but to Heaven also And now most Glorious Monarch that the Eternal Providence may ever Guide and Prosper all your Councils and Undertakings that the growing Hopes of the ROYAL WOMB may blossom and flourish to a mature Perfection and your Majesty enjoy a long and happy Reign over us is the hearty Prayers of all To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Jury for your County of Buckingham at the Assizes held at Ailsbury for the said County the 5th day of March in the fourth Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1687. Most Dread and Gracious Sovereign WE your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of the County of Buckingham being deeply Sensible of the great Happiness we enjoy under your Majesties Reign and Government tender our most hearty Thanks to Almighty God in whose Hands are the Hearts of Kings that he has been graciously pleased to put into your Roval Heart the means which have effectually procured it not doubting your late gracious Declaration for Indulgence and free Liberty of Conscience to be the Copy of his Sacred and Divine Will who has commanded us all to live in Peace and Charity with one another The Blessing which Heaven has bestowed upon your Royal Consort is to us a convincing Argument that you have your Directions for the well management of your three Kingdoms from that great Court and we think we are obliged in Gratitude and Duty to use our utmost Endeavours towards the removing those Impediments which may obstruct your Royal Intentions tending so much to our Good and Welfare which we cannot perform better than when you shall please to call a Parliament by chusing such Men as are entirely disposed to take off the Tests and the Penal Laws This we in all Sincerity promise to do to the utmost of our Power and shall with most fervent Zeal offer our Prayers to Almighty God that he would most graciously Please not only to grant your Majesty a long and prosperous Reign but that the
Issue of your Royal Consort may prove a SON which may inherit soon his Royal Fathers Virtues tho' late his Throne To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Inquest for the County of Stafford at the Assizes holden at the Town of Stafford the 3d day of April in the Fourth year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1688. May it please your Majesty WE hope the lateness of this Address will not be attributed to want of Loyalty in us since it comes with the first opportunity the Body of the County could be prevailed on having hitherto been detained from paying its Duty by an over-ruling Party among us we therefore tho' late yet with united Affections come to offer the Tribute of our humble Acknowledgments to your Sacred Majesty for your Gracious Declaration Indulgent Distribution of your Dispensing Power and with Hearts full of Joy Congratulate the FRUITFULNESS of your Royal Consort which as 'tis the hopes and expectations of all Loyal Souls so may it frustrate the great Ends of the Factious by the happy Production of a PRINCE of WALES And whenever your Majesty shall in your Princely Wisdom think fit to call a Parliament it shall be our study and care to promore the Election of such Members as will by their concurrence in Abolishing the PenalLaws and Tests persect the great Work of Peace so Graciously and Auspiciously undertaken by your Majesty And that your Reign may be long and happy over us are the Desires and Prayers of Your most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen Bailiffs and Citizens of the City of Carlisle Dread Sovereign BEing now at liberty by the late Regulation made here to Address our unto your Majesty we beg leave to return our late but unfeigned Thanks for your Majesties most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence which we will endeavour to maintain and support against all opposers We likewise Thank your Majesty for your Royal Army which really is both the Honour and Safety of the Nation let the Teckelites think and say what they will And when your Majesty in your great Wisdom shall think fit to call a Parliament we will chuse such Members as shall certainly concur with your Majesty in repealing and taking off the Penal Laws and Tests and not hazard the Election of any Person who hath any ways declared in favour of those Conibal Laws Surely they do not consider what a Sovereign Prince by his Royal Power may do that oppose your Majesty in so Gracious and Glorious a Work A Work which Heaven Smiles upon and will reward with no less Blessing we hope than a PRINCE of WALES that there may never want of your Royal Issue to sway the Scepter so long as the Sun and Moon endure that your Majesties Reign may be long and prosperous and Blessed with Victories over all your Enemies are the daily Prayers of Great Sir Your Majesties most Obedient and Dutiful Subjects May it please your Majesty WE your most Faithful and truly Loyal Subjects the Mayor Recorder Aldermen Common Council and Burgesses of the Antient Corporation of Cambridge do humbly cast at the Feet of your Sacred Majesty our unfeigned Thanks for your most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence which your Majesty hath been pleased with much Condescention to repeat giving it a double strength by your Royal Word so that none that are truly Loyal can doubt of the performance of your Majesties most gracious Promise or refuse to make their thankful Addresses for it When therefore your Royal Wisdom shall think fit to call a Parliament we your Majesties most Loyal Subjects intirely engage our and the utmost of our Endeavours for the Election of such Members as will heartily concur with that Divine Principle of your Majesty That Men's Consciences ought not to be forced in matters of Religion nor they distinguished in the Service of their Country by other Tests then that of Loyalty Wherefore the many Blessings we enjoy under your most Sacred Majesty engage us in daily Prayer to Almighty God that as your Royal Virtues exceed all Example so your Reign above comparison may be the longest nor may it end till a PRINCE of WALES born of your Royal Consort our most Gracious Queen hath learned by a long experience the most Heroick Greatness of your Royal Mind In Testimony whereof we have unanimously caused our Common Seal to be affixed bereunto this 28th day of May in the Fourth Year of your Majesties Reign Annoque Dom. 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Common Council-Men of your Majesties Town and Parish of Maidstone in the County of Kent Dread Sovereign AMongst the many Favours under your Majesties Pious Prudent and Serene Government over us nothing more confirmeth our Hopes of lasting Happiness than the suspending the Execution of those Laws under which many of your Loyal Subjects have most grievously suffered having also for our future Encouragement your Majesties gracious Declaration reiterated that your Princely Resolutions are that during your Majesties Reign over us which God grant may be long no one of your Majesties Subjects shall be punished or disturbed for matters of meer Religion nor their Properties invaded and that your Majesty will call a Parliament where you have promised your Royal Assent to confirm it by Law unalterable For these undeserved Favours Great Sir after our humble and hearty Acknowledgments with thankfulness to the Governour of Heaven and Earth who hath brought you to your Throne and perswaded you so to Rule as to allow Liberty of Conscience We unfeignedly in all submission as becometh good Subjects by Inclination as well as Duty Present our most humble Thanks resolving to use our best Endeavours to make an acceptable return of a continued Loyalty Thankfulness and Compliance to your most Gracious Majesty in all your most Pious and Christian declared Purposes Particularly in Electing of Members of Parliament for this Corporation whenever your Majesty shall think fit to call a Parliament And always shall be Petitioners to the Great King of Kings that he will bless your Majesty with a long and happy Reign over us and with a succeeding Issue to sit on the Throne of their Ancestors whilst the World endureth In Testimony whereof we have affixed our Common Seal the 25th Day of May in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign To the KING'S Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of your Majesties Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Grand Jury of your City and County of Exeter held at the Guild Hall of the said City 23d of April in the 4th Year of His Majesties Reign being the Anniversary Day solemnized for your Majesties Coronation Most Dread Soveraign SInce it hath pleased the King of Kings to bring your Majesty to the Crown and seat you on the Throne of your Illustrious Ancestors on this Day we thought it our Duty not only to
Great Sir to throw our at your Majesty's Feet and prostrate with all Humility tender you and your Royal Consort unfeigned tho' late Congratulations for the inestimable Jewel you have bestowed upon us Long may our Illustrious Prince live Heaven's Darling as well as ours and by inheriting the Heroick Vertues of his August Parents secure to future Ages the Happiness your most Serene Government has restored to ours And indeed what can hereafter trouble England's Peace when to its Impregnable Native Strength you shall have added the more Invincible and in manner Supernatural Union of all English Hearts That your approaching Parliament Sir may readily concur with your Majesty's Gracious Designs in order thereto shall be the Great Endeavour as well as the Fervent Prayer of Your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble and Congratulatory Address of the High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenants Justices of the Peace and the Grand Jury of the County of Hereford at the Assizes held at Hereford on the 8th day of August in the 4th Year of Your Majesty's most Happy Reign Most Dread Sovereign WE Your Majesty's Leige People must acknowledge that it is our Duty to manifest our Resentment to your Sacred Majesty after our Thansksgiving to Almighty God by whom Princes reign for such a transcendent Mercy and Favour from Heaven as the Birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is to Your Majesty and these Kingdoms especially when we consider that it falls upon us after so many evident and gracious Signals of Divine Providence not only in the Manifold and Miraculous Preservation of your Majesty's Royal Person but in the Establishment of your Majesty upon the Throne of your Glorious Ancestors Insomuch that we may justly raise some Confidence in our except obdurate Malice prevails the Eyes of most thoughtful Men will be opened to see the concurrence of the same Providence attending your Majesty in those your Royal Great and Good Intentions for the Honour Welfare Peace and Happiness of this Nation signified in your Majesty's late gracious Declaration Humbly assuring your Majesty we shall use our utmost Endeavours to elect such Representatives as may comply with your Majesty in so Glorious a Work and always remain Your most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Grand Jury at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for the Borough of Devizes in the County of Wilts in the Guild-Hall of the said Borough the 20th day of July 1688 in the 4th Year of Your Majesty's Reign Great Sir WE still enjoying the good Effects of your Majesty's Declaration of Liberty of Conscience do continue our Thanks to God for inclining your Royal Heart to do that by which the Fears of many are vanished and more than was expected is enjoy'd And since it hath Pleased Almighty God to bless your Majesty with a Son and us with a Prince which we hope is an ineffable Blessing to this Nation we can do no less and by this we do humbly congratulate your Majesty and your Royal Consort on this Occasion Now that Heaven may so preserve this Prince that when your Majesty whose Life God long preserve shall fall asleep with your Royal Ancestors he may sway the Sceptre of these Realms and Dominions with such Wisdom Justice and Piety that his Name may be eternized shall be the Prayer of Your Majesty's most Loyal and Obedient Subjects We the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the aforesaid Borough having seen the aforesaid Address do concurr therewith And in Testimony thereof have set our Common Seal of the Corporation in the Guild-Hall aforesaid this 28th day of July Anno Domini 1688. To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of Your Majesty's Ancient and Loyal City of Hereford Most Gracious Sovereign WE beseech your Majesty to suffer us amongst the rest of your Loyal Subjects thus humbly and publickly to express our grateful Sense of that happy Addition which it has pleased God to make to the Royal Family by giving your Majesty and your Kingdoms the desirable Blessing of a Prince to inherit your Royal Vertues and Dominions And most humbly pray that your Royal Issue may grow more and more numerous to succeed to your Imperial Crown in all future Generations We likewise crave your Majesty's leave once more thankfully to acknowledge those invaluable Blessings we enjoy under your Majesty's most Gracious Government And do most humbly assure your Sacred Majesty that as this Place has heretofore been plunder'd and ransack'd again and again for their unalterable Fidelity to the Crown so we will ever owe Dutiful and Loyal Obedience to your Majesty Your Heirs and Lawful Successors In Testimony whereof we have hereunto put our Common Seal at the Guild-Hall of your said City To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Council and Assembly of Your Majesty's Island of Jamaica convened under his Grace the Duke of Albemarle Most Gracious Sovereign WE your Majesty's most Dutiful Subjects of this new World warmed by the Benign Influence of your Royal Beams from which no distance of Place can seclude us do in all humble and grateful Manner acknowledge the continuance of that unparelled Blessing the Protection of the Church of England given to us by your Royal Word at your happy Accession to the Crown and also for the Toleration and general Indulgence of Religion your Majesty hath been pleased to grant the rest of our Fellow Subjects Royal Sir We cannot conclude here without further acknowledging unto your Majesty the transcendent Honour done unto this Infant Colony in appointing so Illustrious a Prince to govern us from whose Care and Conduct with the continuance of your Majesties unparallel'd Favours towards us we may justly hope for many Advantages promising on our Parts as we hereby do a never to be shaken Loyalty to your Majesty due Obedience to his Grace and our heartly Endeavours for the good and preservation of this your Majesties Islands Praying unto Almighty God for a long continuance of your happy Reign over us and that there may never be wanting of your Royal Issue to sit upon the Throne from Generation to Generation Amen To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the major Part of the Grand Jury of Cumberland at the general Assizes held at Carlisle The 21st of August 1688. May it please Your Majesty WE your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects humbly beg leave that we may heartily Congratulate your Majesty and your Royal Consort and offer our most humble and due Thanks to God Almighty for sending your Majesty a Son and us a Prince to be your Majesty's Successor to your Crown and Vertues a Blessing not more joyfully received than earnestly desired to quiet and compose all restless and disorderly Spirits That your Majesty and the whole Nation may reap the Benefit of your