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A44984 The humble petition and address of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City of London, in Common-Councel assembled City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1681 (1681) Wing H3429; ESTC R15951 1,842 3

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The Humble Petition and Address OF THE Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR ALDERMEN and COMMONS of the City of London in Common-Councel Assembled To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty WE Your Majesties most Loyal and Obedient Subjects considering That it hath pleased Almighty God by a wonderful Providence to bring to light the Devilish Attempts and Plots of our Adversaries the Papists against Your Majesties Sacred Person Your Government the True Protestant Religion the Lives Liberties and Properties of Your Protestant Subjects And That by the Letters and Papers of the Conspirators themselves it doth appear that one of the most effectual Means they proposed to accomplish their Designs was by the procuring the frequent Adjourning Proroguing or Dissolving of Your Parliaments Were surprized with Astonishment at the untimely Dissolution of Your late Parliaments before Your Majesty and They could fully pursue the Discovery and Suppression of the said Designs and Conspiracies or provide Remedies necessary for the Preservation of Your Sacred Person and Government and the Protestant Religion at Home and Abroad But we stand more amazed at the Unpresidented Boldness of some Private Persons who by Printed Papers and otherwise take upon them to Arraign and Condemn the Proceedings of Your Two last Parliaments which as Your Petitioners humbly conceive plainly tends to bring that part of the Constitution into Contempt and in the Consequence of it to Dissolve the Ancient Government and its Fundamentals the Preservation whereof is absolutely necessary for Your Majesties Honour Power and Greatness But We relying upon Your most Gracious Disposition to receive the Dutiful Addresses of Your Loyal People think Our selves obliged by our Allegiance to represent to Your Majesty That by these Means contrary to your Royal Intention Occasion is taken by the Conspirators and their Complices to hasten and accomplish that Ruine of Your Majesty Your Kingdoms and the whole Protestant Interest which hath been so long Projected and Prosecuted by the Councels of Rome and its Adherents In the pursuit of which They are chiefly animated by the continuing Hopes of a Popish Successor and sharpened by the Justice done upon the late Viscount Stafford and other Conspirators And the continued and great Confidence of the Party is daily visible in the open Numerous resorts of Papists about Your Royal Palace and this City Also we should be deficient in Our Duty should we not Represent to Your Majesty the Necessity of maintaining Your Dominion and Sovereignty of the Seas and the full Exercising Your Royal Naval Power the want whereof hath been the Occasion that not only very many of Your Subjects Ships and great Estates therein have been taken but also Multitudes of Your good Subjects and Able Sea-men have of late been carried into and held in Miserable Slavery by the Algerines which will in time if not redressed not only be an Encouragement to Others to commit further Outrages and Depredations upon Your Subjects and their Ships but will also inevitably be the Occasion of the decay of Trade and of Impairing the Strength so Necessary for the Defence of your Kingdoms And as our Duty from the Apprehensions we have of the Imminent Dangers that Your Majesties Royal Person and Government our Religion and all that is near and dear unto Us lies Exposed to obliges us humbly to offer the same to Your Princely Consideration so we do with all Fidelity and Humility assure Your Majesty That we are very far from being moved by any Common-wealth Principles in Opposition to the English Monarchy which we esteem the best of Governments or by any Ambitious or Factious Designs nor are we further concerned for our selves therein than is natural for Men under Common Danger to look out for Common Safety And seeing our Danger is so Apparent and Visible we do in all Humility apply our selves to your Sacred Majesty beseeching Your Majesty to have regard to the Valuable Industrious and great Part of Your People by whom Your Government Your Revenue and Your Kingdom is supported and assure Your Majesty we will Expose our Selves our Lives and Fortunes and all things dear to Us for the Preservation of Your Majesties Royal Person Your Government and the Protestant Religion And inasmuch as the same can be no way effectually secured but by the joynt Endeavours of Your Majesty and Your Great Councel the Parliament Your Petitioners confidently hoping that no Misinformations or Aspersions created or raised by ill Men for the Accomplishment of their wicked Designs can have any such Impression on Your Royal Mind as to lessen Your due Esteem of Your great Councel the Parliament Do most humbly pray That Your Majesty will cause a Parliament to Assemble and Sit till they have so far proceeded that due Provision may be made and full Security had and obtained for Your Majesties Royal Person and Your People in all the said Matters And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray c. Ward Mayor Commune Concilium tent ' in Camera Guildhall Civitatis London Die Veneris xiii o Die Maij. 1681. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi Angl ' c. Tricesimo tertio IT is Ordered by this Court That the Petition and Address now read and agreed upon to be presented to his Majesty shall after the same accordingly presented be Printed by the City Printer in one Sheet of Paper As the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor shall direct and appoint Wagstaffe Printed by Samuel Roycroft Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON 1681.