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A27461	The Earl of Berkeley's speech to the corporation of Trinity-House at Deptford, upon Trinity-Mundy, 1680 : when His Lordship was elected master by a general and unanamious vote, nemine contradicente.	Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1968; ESTC R38695	2,693	18

THE EARL OF BERKELEY'S SPEECH TO THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY-HOUSE AT DEPTFORD UPON Trinity-Munday 1680. When His Lordship was Elected MASTER BY A General and Unanimous Vote Nemine Contradicente LONDON Printed for R. Royston Bookseller to the Kings most Sacred Majesty MDCLXXXI The EARL OF BERKELEY'S SPEECH TO THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY-HOUSE AT DEPTFORD UPON Trinity-Munday 1680. GENTLEMEN I Return you my hearty Thanks for this Extraordinary Testimony of your Respect and Kindness in Electing me your Master for the year ensuing and that which adds to the favour is that I was so lately chosen first a Younger and then an Elder Brother of this most Worthy Society I must profess to You I have for many years had a great value for those who have relation to Sea affairs and esteem it much my happiness that for so long a time I have had Relation to and Conversation with Deserving Seamen and Traders Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit Utile Dulci I am sure I shall serve you in this Imployment with all Faithfulness and Integrity to the best of my Power and shall endeavour to improve the utmost Interest I can ever pretend to in the Favour of his Gracious Majesty our Great and most excellent good Master and in his Ministers and other his good Loyal Subjects as may best conduce to your Advantage and Service and although I cannot pretend to much Skill and Knowledge in Maritine Affairs yet I shall make it my business to increase my Knowledge in such a degree as may render me most capable of Serving You And so I do again return you Thanks for this Great Respect You have now shewed Me. When his Lordship resigned up his Place of Master on Trinity-Munday this present Year 1681. his Lordship delivered himself to the Effect following GENTLEMEN I Return You many Thanks for your Extraordinary Kindness to me in Chusing me your Master for the Year past I now Recommend my worthy Deputy Captain Nichols to succeed me I have Served you with all Faithfulness and if my Knowledge in your Concerns had been as Great as my Affection for you I might justly have said without bragging that no Master has ever Served you better because I am sure no Master ever loved you better I am very glad it was my Honour and Happiness to attend you in presenting the late Address to his Majesty * * The KING'S Character He loves his People and their Faith Defends The best of Masters and the best of Friends Patient though wronged never to Passion driven Just as His Laws and merciful as Heaven who is not only the Sovereign of the Seas but the Great Master in the Art of Navigation and a most Bountiful Rewarder of all our Services That Loyal Address being so well Accepted I hope you will Receive the Fruits and Benefits of it Worthy Gentlemen I have had the Title of your Master for a Year but I shall continue an Elder Brother and your true Friend and Servant all my whole Life I pray God to Bless and Prosper you in all your affairs both by Sea and by Land THE END The Names of those Elder Brethren of Trinity-House that Sign'd the Address they made to His Majesty the 15th of May 1681. The Earl of Berkeley Master Captain Simon Nichols D. Master The Earl of Craven Sir Richard Haddock Sir Joseph Jordan Sir John Narbrough Sir Rich. Browne Sir Thomas Allin Sir Matthew Andrews Sir John Berry Samuel Pepys Esq Capt. Hen. Tiddeman Capt. Henry Low Capt. John Nichols Capt. Anth. Tuchen Capt. Simon Baylv Capt. Henry Mudd Capt. Isaac Woodgreen Capt. Hugh Till Capt. John Hill Capt. Francis Wilshaw Capt. John Proud Capt. Henry Sheere Capt. Tho. Collier Capt. Robert Fisher. Capt. Tho. Brown Capt. James Bonnell Capt. Anth. Young Capt. Arnold Browne There were only the two following Gentlemen who were then at Sea that did not Sign viz. Capt. Samuel Chamblet Capt. Chr. Gunman The Humble ADDRESS OF THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY-HOUSE Windsor May 15. 1681. This day the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkeley Master of the Corporation of the Trinity-House of Deptford-Strond in company with the Wardens Assistants and Elder-Brethren of the said Corporation attended His MAJESTY here with an ADDRESS Introduced by his Lordship with a Speech to the Effect following May it please Your Majesty WE your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects do in all Humility acknowledge that your Majesty has been most Gracious to all your Subjects very particularly to Traders and to those who have had the Honour to be employed in your Maritine affairs None of your Predecessors SIR have ever been pleased to give us so much Countenance and Encouragement as your Majesty has done and therefore we hope you will please to pardon us if we put some value upon our selves for having received such Signal marks of your Grace and Favour to us SIR Your great Goodness gives us the presumption of making this Humble Address to your Majesty which we beg may be now Read The Address was by His Majesties Command accordingly Read in the Terms following viz. To the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE Master Wardens Assistants and Elder-Brethren of the Corporation of the Trinity-House of Deptford-Strond SHEWETH THat we your Majestie 's most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Body Corporate of the Seamen and Mariners of this your Kingdom of England having taken into serious consideration your Majestie 's most Gracious Declaration wherein you have been lately pleased to give to all your good Subjects an assurance of your Royal Purposes of calling frequent Parliaments and employing your utmost Endeavours both in and out of Parliament towards the Extirpation of Popery Redressing and Prevention of Grievances and Governing in all things according to the Laws of this your Kingdom Do with all Humility return Our most humble Thanks to your most Sacred Majesty for this your so Gracious Condescention to the just and ample satisfaction of all your Loyal Subjects acknowledging it likewise the especial Duty of this Corporation to declare to the World your Majestie 's Royal and unwearied Care both in the general promotion of all Matters conducing to the Prosperity and Improvement of the Navigation and Trade of this your Kingdom and in the particular instance lately given thereof by your Majesty in your Royal Endeavours for the preservation of your City and Port of Tangier in the midst of so many Difficulties and at so great Expence And we do most Humbly beseech your Majesty to accept of the Assurances which we here in all Duty tender you of the utmost Effects of Our constant and sincere Allegiance to your Majesty under your most Gracious Government both in Church and State as it is now by Law Established Adding in all Humility That as it has already been the Honour of very many your Faithful Subjects Members of this Corporation to have hazarded their Lives in your Majesties Service on the Seas so do we according to our Oaths unanimously Tender to your most Excellent Majesty as to the best of PRINCES the future Command of our Lives and Fortunes in the defence of your most Sacred Majesty your Heirs and Successors Zealously praying to Almighty God to grant your Majesty a Long and Prosperous Reign over Us with a Lasting Peaceable and Right Succession to your Royal Throne according to Law His Majesty was pleased to express His Gracious acceptance thereof to this Effect My LORD I Thank you kindly and heartily for This Address and shall not be wanting to perform My part And as I have always been a Friend to the Navigation and Seamen of England you may assure your selves I shall ever be so THE END