Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	city_n	london_n	mayor_n	10,714	5	9.7889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60975	At the general sessions of the peace holden for the town and borough of Southwark on Monday the 16th. day of May, 1681. before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Recorder of the same city, and other his Maiesties Justices of the Peace for the said town and borough. We the Grand-Jury summoned and sworn for this present sessions of the peace, holden for this town and borough of Southwark, do humbly beseech the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and the rest of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said town and borough, that his Lordship, or some other of his Majesties said Justices of the Peace will be pleased in the behalf of us and of the rest of the inhabitants of the said town and borough, to present to his most sacred Majesty the humble address hereunto annexed.	Southwark (London, England). Grand Jury.	1681 (1681)	Wing S4772A; ESTC R220616	1,629	3

At the General Sessions of the Peace holden for the Town and Borough of Southwark on Monday the 16 th day of May 1681. before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of the City of London the Recorder of the same City and other his Maiesties Justices of the Peace for the said Town and Borough We the Grand-Jury Summoned and Sworn for this present Sessions of the Peace holden for this Town and Borough of Southwark do Humbly Beseech the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of the City of London and the rest of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said Town and Borough that his Lordship or some other of his Majesties said Justices of the Peace will be pleased in the behalf of us and of the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Town and Borough to Present to his most Sacred Majesty the HUMBLE ADDRESS Hereunto Annexed TO THE Kings most Excellent Majesty DREAD SIR WE Your Majesties truly Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Grand-Jury of this your Antient Borough having first Humbly begg'd Your Majesty to Believe that our Apprehensions of the Happiness we enjoy through Your Majesties Princely Care and Paternal Affection towards us have always been such as become the Best Subjects to entertain under the Benign Influences of the most Propitious and Indulgent Monarch do further Implore Your Majesty to accept of our most prostrate Acknowledgments of the Royal Grace and Favour of Your Majesties late Declaration and to permit us to express how sensible we are of our Living under the most Desirable Government in the World The Protestant Religion as Establish'd by Law is so Dear to us and our Condition by the Provision of the Stated Laws of the Kingdom is rendred so easie that though we have ever hitherto in all Duty rested silently satisfied in Your Majesties Zeal for both yet now if it may please Your Majesty we can no longer forbear to declare to Your Majesty and publish to all the World our grateful sense of Your Majesties so Solemn so Condescending and so Gracious a Publication of Your Resolutions to Maintain the one and Rule by the other thereby removing all the just Fears and Jealousies that might arise from the Practices of Undermining Papists and Factious Republicans Your Majesties Gracious promise of calling Frequent Parliaments is so transcendent an Obligation upon Us who are resolved to be the same Loyal Subjects in the Intervals of Parliaments as during their Session that whenever Your Majesties Wisdom and Providence shall Appoint an Election we shall take all possible care to chuse such Representatives as shall comply with Your Majesties Designs of Extirpating Popery and Maintaining the Established Religion of the Church of England and who shall likewise be ready to present your Majesty with such Supplies as the Dignity of the Crown and the Necessities of the Government shall require Your Majesty is pleased to remind us of the late Rebellion in a Manner so obliging and for an End so good as gives a most undeniable Testimony of Your Majesties generous Oblivion of the Injustice therein done to Your self and that Your Royal Memory retains only a compassionate Impression of the Miseries thereby brought upon Your Subjects so that should we not now yield our selves up as the Conquest of Your Majesties Goodness and sit down contented with our own Happiness but contrary to all Your Majesties Desires and Counsels fall into the like Guilt and Mischief again we should be not only the most Ungrateful but the most Unpitied people in the world And therefore as we Your Majesties ever Loyal Subjects do for our parts with shame and sorrow reflect upon the former Miscarriages and Calamities and with the utmost Detestation and Horror tremble at the thoughts of ever seeing the like a second time so we doubt not but that multitudes of deluded and misled men have upon the occasion of Your Majesties Declaration so effectually considered and recollected the several steps and advances by which they were betray'd into those Confusions as to be by this time fully convinced that true and steady Loyalty is the surest Foundation of the Kingdoms Felicity To this Maxim we declare that we do at present firmly stand and that by it we will always act beseeching Your Majesty to be assured that our Lives and Fortunes lie at Your Royal Feet and that we will upon all occasions be ready to Sacrifice them both in defence of Your Majesties Sacred Person and the Establish'd Government of Church and State Which ADDRESS being Subscribed by every one of the Grand-Jury was according to their Request Humbly Presented to His Majesty in Council at Hampton-Court by Sir George Treby Knight Recorder of the City of London and had a most Gracious Acceptance London Printed for Benj. Tooke 1681.