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A92524
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Address to His Majesty, by the Parliament,.
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Scotland. Parliament.; Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II)
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1698
(1698)
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Wing S1178A; ESTC R233222
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ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY BY THE PARLIAMENT WE Your Majestie 's most Loyal and Faithfull Subjects the Nobelmen Barons and Burgesses conveened in Parliament Do humbly represent to Your Majesty That having considered a Representation Made to Us by the Council-General of the COMPANY Trading to Africa and the Indies Making mention of several Obstructions they have met with in the Prosecution of their Trade Particularly by a Memorial presented to the Senate of Hamburgh by Your Majestie 's Residents in that City tending to lessen the Credit of the Rights and Priviledges granted to the said Company by an Act of this present Parliament We do therefore in all humble Duty lay before Your Majesty the whole Nations Concern in this Matter And We do most earnestly Entreat and most assuredly Expect That Your Majesty will in Your Royal Wisdom take such measures as may Effectually Vindicate the undoubted Rights and Priviledges of the said Company And Support the Credit and Interest thereof And as We are in Duty Bound to Return Your Majesty most Hearty Thanks for the Gracious Assurances Your Majesty has been Pleased to Give Us of all due Encouragement for Promoting the Trade of this Kingdom So We are thereby Encouraged at present humbly to Recommend to more Special Marks of Your Royal Favour The Concerns of the said Company As that Branch of Our Trade in which We and the Nation We Represent have a more Peculiar Interest Subscribed at Edinburgh the 5th of August 1698. in Name Presence and by Warrant of the Estates of Parliament SEAFIELD J. P. D. P.