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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01812	The speech of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of London with the humble address of the military forces of the same city to the Kings most excellent Majesty. With his Majesties most gracious answer thereunto, and letter to the Lord Mayor thereupon. And all the transactions incident thereunto. Published by authority.	Browne, Richard, Sir, 1605-1683.	1661 (1661)	Wing B5146A; ESTC R173188	2,512	8

THE SPEECH Of the Right Honorable The LORD MAYOR of London With the Humble ADDRESSE OF THE MILITARY FORCES Of the same CITY To The Kings most Excellent MAJESTY With His MAJESTIES most Gracious ANSWER Thereunto And LETTER To the Lord Mayor thereupon And all the Transactions incident thereunto Published by Authority Printed at London and Re-printed at Edinburgh Anno Dom. 1661. THat highly deserving Gentleman and faithfull Subject Sir Richard Brown Knight and Baronet now Lord Mayor and Major General of the City of London the Field Officers Captains and other inferiour Officers of all the Trained Bands the Regiments of Horse and Regiments of Auxiliary Forces of that famous City met on Tuesday the second of April 1661. at the Guildhall of the same City and there subscribed the following Address Dread Soveraign YOur most Loyal and most Devoted Subjects Your Major General Field Officers and Captains with all the Inferiour Officers of the several Regiments of Your Trained-Bands of Your City of London whiles some mens zeal through unrighteous Seducements seems a little cooled towards Your Majesties Service Do with all humble boldness Remonstrate the Constancy of theirs And in a deep sense of their Duty and high Obligations to Your Sacred Majesty for Your especiall Indulgencies to this Your Native City do Dedicate their Lives and Estates to Your Majesties Service Hereby adding to their Oath of Allegiance That they will not only bear Faith and Obedience to Your Majesty but upon all Occasions joyfully employ and improve their uttermost power and vigilancy with their Lives and Fortunes to destroy Your Enemies in defence of Your Royall Person and Authority and securing all Your just civil Interests with the Interest of Religion as it is now established by Law For Your Majesty being eminently the most Pious Gracious and Worthy Prince in the World we cannot without exceeding all other Subjects in Loyalty and Affection deserve the Title of Your Majesties True Dutifull Humble and Obedient Subjects and Servants The said Address was subscribed by the several Officers as well Superiour as Inferiour of all the Trained-Bands the Regiments of Horse and Auxiliary Forces of the City to the number of some five hundred persons which being already re-printed and published is here forborn All which marched in an orderly Train on Foot onely the Lord Mayor leading them in his Coach to the Court at Whitehall and were instantly received into the Banquetting-House His Majesty at their coming being in debate of some important Affairs at the Council was pleased in much favour to send a Person of quality and after him several other Gentlemen one after another to acquaint them with that occasion and to bespeak their attendance till the same would permit His absence from the Council Notwithstanding it pleased His Majesty after a little while to spare himself from those Affairs at the Council and with great shew of Princely favour and regard to receive the Papers of Address into His own hand being presented by the Lord Mayor after he had delivered himself in this affectionate Speech THE Lord Mayors Speech May it please Your Majesty I Came accompanied with these Your Officers who command all Your London Forces both Horse and Foot ☞ ☞ Pointing at them severally Here stand those that command Your Horse these Your Trained Bands The other Your Auxiliaries When Your Majesty hath taken a right view of them You will see Loyalty linked in an unchangeable Chain These are they who will not swerve from what they swear that 's fealty without falsity and it were a shame not to do so seing we sow in peace and reap the plenty which springs from so excellent a Governour so good a Government If You please to see our hearts these lines lead to them and speak for them which I here humbly present unto Your Sacred Majesty in their names and under their hands Beseeching Your Majesty to accept them as a dutifull return of those many signal favors vouchsafed by Your Majesty to Your Native City and Loyall Citizens Whereunto His Majesty replyed That He had stoln a time from very important Affairs on which He was in debate with His Council to come to them and gave a most gracious answer declaring His good esteem of them His kinde resentment of their Address His assured confidence in their faithfulness His readiness and desire to advance the welfare of the City and many other expressions full of Princely goodness and affection And after all this was further pleased that night to send a worthy Gentleman Clerk of the Council to the Lord Mayor to give notice that His Majesty intended the next day to send down some Lords of His Council to make a more ample signification of His Majesties gracious acceptance of the Address and to require a meeting of the Commanders and Officers for that purpose But their Lordships being prevented by the Lords Commissioners sitting for Claims at the Coronation sent to excuse their personal coming by a Messenger to the Lord Mayor who also brought His Majesties gracious Letter in these words CHARLES R. TRusty and welbeloved We greet you well We have received your Address wherein you do not only give Vs a full and acceptable Demonstration of your Duty Love and Loyalty to Vs which We do Graciously accept but also shew forth an Eminent Example thereof to all other Our good Subjects within Our Kingdoms and Dominions You may be assured that as Our Royal Progenitors have alwayes had a particular and extraordinary kindness for that Our Capital City so We shall not come behind any of them in Our Princely care to make the same both flourishing and secure at home and glorious and renowned abroad And so We bid you farewell Given at Our Court at Whitehall this third day of April in the thirteenth year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command VVILL MORICE To Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir Richard Brown Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor and Major-General of Our City of London to be Communicated to the Field Officers and Captains with all the Inferiour Officers of the several Regiments of the Trained Bands the Regiments of Horse and the Regiments of Auxiliary Forces of Our said City Which being read in presence of all the Field Officers made deep impressions of His Majesties Grace and Favour upon their minds and drew forth all answerable acknowledgements in outward expressions which they ordered presently to be represented to His Majesty by Sir Richard Ford Sir William Vincent and Sir Thomas Player and directed them to beg of His Majesty this Roy●l addition That they might publish in print the Narrative of the whole passage of their dutifull Address and the most gracious reception thereof by His Sacred Majesty for the just support of those good Subjects whose Loyal affections attended that Remonstrance and at once to stop the mouths of those who detracted from the Royal acceptance of it and to encourage them if they have any sense of Duty and Honor to out-do the Remonstrants in the like real profession of their bounden duty for which the said Officers shall both love and honor their new Rivals and in all amity and mutual affections keep peace with them if they can Which His Majesty was graciously well pleased to approve of and consent that His Royal Letter and all the preceeding Passages should be made publick FINIS