prayers and all concur with us in saying Amen To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of your Majesties Justices of the Peace in this the North Riding of the County of York at the General Quarter Sessions hold at North Allerton by Adjournment the 17th Day of July 1688. Most Dread Sovereign THough we are out done in Point of Time by some of our fellow Subjects yet we may affirm none approach Your Throne with more joyful and grateful Hearts than We for the great Blessing God Almighty hath bestowed on your Sacred Majesty and the Kingdom by the happy Birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales We beg Sacred Sir leave to Congratulate with you for this blessing reveived and that We may pray and wish for his long Life and Health and for the enerease of your oyal Family that After-Ages may know and enjoy an equasity of that Peace and Plenty under the Government of your direct Line in which we into your wise and just Government to the envy of our Neighboars now flourish Having owned the vast Advantages we possoss by your not yet equalled Justice permit Us Great Sir being the best Return we are able to make to all are you of our willing Submission and ready concurrence to all your design'd Points of Government and particularly to that of taking away the Penal Laws and Tests the best Expedient we are satisfied to make this Nation great and happy To the KING May it please your Sacred Majesty IF the Yearly Duty we pay your Majesty in a general Meeting of Your Royal Purroughs had not called Us together at this time yet we had after thanking Almighty God in our respective Burroughs for the Birth of the Young Prince design'd to have met of purpose for Acknow'edging the great Obligation we owe Your Majesty in leagthning out even beyond Your own Life the Happiness and Quier which we justly expect during the Prince's life Nor do we doubt but that the Enemies of our Peace will upon his Birth find it necessary for them to lay aside all hopes which they entertained of being able to trouble our tranquility and that with him God will be stow upon Your Majesty that devout Gratitude which prevails with his infinite Goodness to bless You with the entire Submission of Your Subjects and Your Subjects with the happiness of Your long and vigorous Life Great Sir Interest as well as Duty does tie your Royal Burroughs to a more immediate Dependance upon that Royal Authority which gave them both their Being and Privileges and experience has now obliged us to believe that you make our Interest your own And therefore we do now again renew to your Majesty the sincere offer of our Lives and Fortunes being much enlivened by the new hopes which spring freshly from this occasion And to Testifie our extraordinary Joy upon it we have sent your Majesty's Provost of Edinburgh the chief of our Representatives and one very much esteemed amongst us for Loyalty to testifie beyond what Letter can do that there are none of your Majesties Subjects more joyful upon this occasion than May it please your sacred Majesty Your Majesties most Humble most Dutiful and most Loyal Subjects and Servents the Commissioners of the Royal Burrough of your Majesties Antient Kingdom of Scotland Signed by Warrant of the General Convention of Burroughs by our Praeses and Clerk our particular Subscriptions being Recorded in our Registers Subscribed thus Magnus Prince Praeses Ga. Rocheid CI. Edinburgh July 7. 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Clergy of the County-Palatinate of Chester who published the late gracious Declaration in their Churches for Liberty of Conscience WE Your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects well weighing what we as such ought to render to so Sacred and Gracious a King reckoned we ow'd this and higher Instances of our Obedience in pursuance of which and of Your Majesty's Order in Council we heartily read the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience not repining that all other our Fellow-Subjects should enjoy with us a Portion of your Royal Favour We are well aware that many have well deserved and as to the other Number towards whom you go the Courteous and Noblest Way-of Conquering we hope your Mercy may be successful or at least your Power will preserve you safe But if is Matter of the Declaration were not according to our Wishes yet the establishing of it is according to our Duty since it is issued out from the express Pierogative of your Supremacy over us and we are required by what is Statute-Law the Rubrick of our Liturgy to publish what is enjoined by the King or our Bishop whose Care herein was remarkable as much as what is prescribed in the Rules of this Book So that we cannot but with Trouble of Mind hear of the Proceedings of the Seven Bishops who tho' they tenderly promised the Dissenters something yet refused to do their part about the Declaration lest they should be Parties to it which Reason we with due Modesty and relying upon a Higher Authority esteem insufficient seeiag the Parliament of 62. did not think the Reading the Common Prayer was approving of it without Assent and Consent publickly declared We therefore in all Submission become earnest tho' too mean Intercessors to your most Gracious Majesty in behalf of the Church of England That the Faults of those and others may not be laid to our Charge in whose Communion there are many and we hope there will be more who concur in promoting the Purposes of your mild Government We farther beg leave to make our Congratulations for the Happy Birth of the Young Prince in his Hereditary Successive Kingdom We in this Palatinate are the first Lot of Inheritance to the First-born of our Kings and as we have a greater part in him so we have a more plentiful Joy that he is born to us praying a long Life to him and the inheriting of his Royal Father's Crowns and Vertues We hereby bind our to conclude stedfastly Your Majesty's most Devoted Obedient and Firm Subjects and Servants To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury for the County of Kent at the Assizes held at Rochester Aug. the 6th 1688. Most Gracious Sovereign IF abundant Duty in some or too little in others have hitherto retarded an Unanimous Address and that just Tribute of Veneration which all your Subjects owe and most have chearfully paid your Majesty for a thousand Princely Favours but above all for your Universal Indulgence and more than Fatherly Tenderness even towards the most froward and undeserving The Birth of a Royal Infant now opens all our Eyes our Hearts and Mouths to see and admire and publish as well the propitious Conduct of Heaven over your Sacred Majesty as your Majesty's over us both which instead of resenting past Ingratitudes go on still showring new Blessings on our Heads Permit us then
Benefit and your Majesties everlasting Glory And we resolve as much as in us lies to contribute to so good and necessary Work and join our most humble and hearty Endeavours that all Penal Laws in matters of Religion save for the contempt and neglect thereof and the unequal Tests may be Abrogated That we and our Fellow-Subjects having no partition Wall between us may unite in Love Peace and Happiness under your Majesties Gracious and Powerful Protection We do most solemnly and heartily Congratulate your Majesties great Happiness and Satisfaction in the Birth of our high hopeful PRINCE and account it no less Happiness to these Nations And it shall be as our Duty our constant zealous Care to pray to Almighty God for the continuance of Life Health and Happiness to his ROYAL HIGHNESS and for a Blessing on both your Majesties in a numerous Issue and with long Life and constant Happiness and Success in all your Majesties great and pious Undertakings and subscribe our Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects and Servants To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of your Majesties Loyal City of Durham July 2d 1688. Most Gracious Sovereign WE your Majesties most Dutiful and Obedient Subjects of this Corporation having in the first place most humbly offered up our publick Praises and Thansgivings to Almighty God for the happy Birth of the young Prince the greater Blessing that could Possibly descend upon these your Kingdoms do now hold our obliged also to present our most humble Congratulations to your Sacred Majesty and your Royal Consort the Queen upon this joyful occasion and shall always pray that your Majesties may be blessed with more Children and more Sons that there never may be wanting one of your Royal Stock and Race to wear the Imperial Crown and to sway the Scepter of these your Dominions To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Lord Lieutenant Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace of the County of Kent at the General quarter-Quarter-Sessions holden at Cantorbury the 10th day of July 1688. for the Eastern Division of the said County Dead SIR WE your Majesties Loyal and Dutiful Subjects having rendred to Almighty God our most sincere and humble Thanksgivings for the ineffable Blessings bestowed upon your Royal Majesty your Kingdoms and Dominions in the happy Birth of a Prince We do now Sacred Sir esteem it our Duty and highest Obligation prostrate at your Majesties Feet gratefully to acknowledge that your Majesties admirable Goodness Piety and Justice have obtained from our most gracious God this so inexpressible a Blessing The consideration whereof as it ought so are we confidently assured it will open the Eyes of all Men who are not wholly possessed with the Spirit of Contradiction to behold with grateful Hearts your Majesties most Fatherly and Pious Care for the welfare of your People So that when your Majesty shall think fit to call a Parliament we shall all to the utmost of our Endeavours make choice of such Persons to serve therein as may unite your Subjects in Charity and Christian Correspondence by their unanimous Consent to the Repeal of those disuniting Penal Laws and Tests whereby Divisions and Animosities have so long harboured amongst us Great Sir That Almighty God will grant your Sacred Majesty your Royal Consort the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales long Life Happiness and Posterity is the most zealous Prayer of Most Gracious SIR Your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Clothiers of the Counties of Devon and Sommerset May it please Your Majesty VVE cannot but in a due sense of your Majesties great Goodness to us render our most humble and hearty Thanks for your gracious Hearing our miserable Complaints of the Exportation of Wool and of your Majesties speedy as well as effectual Redress thereof in the issuing out your Commission for that purpose by which your Majesty hath preserved and put a new Life to Trade which next to the great and glorious Design of Liberty of Conscience is undoubtedly the best support of the Wealth and grandure of a Nation and therefore we can now return with Joy to our respective Habitations And as it has pleased God to our great Joy to Bless your Majesty with a Royal Prince to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms after your Majesty so we heartily pray God there may never want of your Princely Posterity to sit on the Throne of your Majesty and that he may in due time inherit your Princely Virtues as well as the just Dominion over all your Kingdoms To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Inquest at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace held for the County Palatine of Durham this 11th day of July 1688. Most Gracious Sovereign VVE your Majesties Loyal and Obedient Subjects upon the first opportunity of representing the Body of this Country hold our obliged next to our publick Thanksgivings to Almighty God to Congratulate your Majesty and your Royal Consort the Queen in the most joyful News of the Birth of a young Prince now Prince of Wales May his Royal Highness long Live and your Majesties be blessed with a numerous Issue and your Throne Established in all succeeding Ages which is the hearty and unanimous Desire of Your Majesties most Dutiful Subjects c. We the Lord Lieutenant High Sheriff and Justices of the Peace of this County now present at the said quarter-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace do concur with the Grand Inquest in this Address To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble and hearty Congratulation of the High Sheriff Justices of the Peace and Grand Jury of the County of Worcester holden at the general-General-Sessions of the Peace the 10th day of July Anno Dom. 1688. PErmit Dread Sir amongst the loud Peals of Joy that ring in every corner of this Kingdom to join our Huzza with the rest of your Majesties Subjects for a Blessing bestowed on us so long so earnestly desired Happy we that live to see a Prince of Wales from your Loins and happy our Posterity that live to be Governed by a Prince of such a Father May your Majesty live long to see those great Endowments Heaven has enriched him with and he live to outdo whatever History speaks Great of his Ancestor's Actions and if possible even those of James the Second whilst we contribute by a stedfast Loyalty to farther all your just Designs and not frowardly oppose you in any thing since Heaven seems to grant what you ask And that your desire may never receive denial shall be the constant Prayer and Wishes of c. The humble and unanimous Congratulation of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Sommerset at their General quarter-Quarter-Sessions held at Bridgwater the 10th day of July in the Fourth Year of his Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1687. Subscribed
likewise by several other Gentlemen then and there present Most Gracious Soverign ALtho' we have with all sincerity made our respective Acknowledgment to Almighty God for the great Blessing he hath vouchsafed this Nation by making your Majesty the Parent of a most Hopeful and Illustrious Prince and have given us great and ample Demonstrations of our Joy for the same in our several stations as we were capable yet nevertheless we do not think our acquitted of our Duty without an humble Congratulation with your Majesty and your Royal Consort upon this happy Occasion and assuring your Majesty that whenever the over-ruling power by which Kings Reign shall resume that Crown you now so justly wear we will bear all Faith and true Allegiance to this Illustrious Prince but that the commencement thereof may be late are and shall always be the Prayers of Your Majesties most Faithful and most Obedient Subjects To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty May it please your Majesty THE Mayor Aldermen and Commons of your Majesties Antient and Loyal City of York were transported with Joy at the Birth of the young Prince And after they had made what Demonstrations they could at Home of their Rejoycing thought it their Duty to send and have sent some of the principal Members of their Body to Congratulate your Majesty for so great and extraordinary a Blessing both to your Majesty and your Subjects The great God who hath at sundry times miraculously preserved your Majesty both at Sea and Land hath at this time enlarged his Blessings to your Majesty and your People by giving us a Royal Prince who we pray may live long to Inherit the Virtues and Crown of his Ancestors and that there may never want one of your Royal Family to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms for the support and maintenance whereof we are and shall always be ready to Sacrifice our Lives and Fortunes And that the God of Heaven would be graciously pleased to shower down his Blessings upon your Majesty your Royal Consort the young Prince and the whole Royal Family is the hearty Prayer of us Your Majesties most Dutiful Obedient and Loyal Subjects To the King's most Excellent Majesty The hearty Congratulation of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of your Majesties City of Bath Dread Sovereign NO sooner did the happy News of a Prince being born reach our Ears but we thought it our Duty to Congratulate your Majesty for so great a Blessing and knowing it is unjust to be silent on this occasion we do therefore offer up our Thanks to the great Jehovah for the sending of an Heir to your Majesty and your Kingdoms from your Royal Loins which is that alone that can confirm our present Happiness under your Government and give us a comfortable prospect of the continuance of it and we as far as in us lies shall in our Proper station contribute to the Assisting your Majesty in your pious Intentions in setling these your Kingdoms in Peace and Tranquility whensoever your most Sacred Majesty shall in your Princely Wisdom think fit to require it of us And we heartily implore the Almighty to send your Majesty and us more such Royal Pledges by your gracious Consort and bless Your Majesty with long Life to see our young Prince by your Majesties tender Care fitted to Govern all his people These are the Prayers of us your Majesties most Dutiful and Obedient Subjects In Testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our Common Seal this 25th Day of June in the 4th Year of His Majesties Reign To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The. Humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen Bailiffs and Capital Citizens of the City of Carlisle Great SIR WE Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects cannot but express our exceeding Joy that if we may-say it transports us above Mortals and places us on Earth in a most Heavenly Condition living under Your Majesties most Sacred Protection a Prince Born for high Exploits and the Peace of these Three flourishing though lately distracted Kingdoms as the whole Series of nine Years Revolution can testifie Your Majesty in a most high measure hath been the care of Almighty God whose Projects never fail but ever in the end brings all humane policy that is contrary to Confusion Witness your Miraculous Preservations at Sea amidst a number of unparalleled Dangers Witness the easy Conquest You gained or rather the just Punishment You inflicted upon Rebels who durst oppose your Sacred Authority But to close all witness this Heavenly Blessing to compleat the Miracle A Prince Born to the Worlds Astonishment that gives us hopes of a numerous Issue an Heir we question it not that will Inherit as well as Crown his Father's Heroick Virtnes Qualities above the greatness of Constantine and in Conclusion if need be finish what Your Majesty to make us happy has so fortunately begun for whose Safety we faithfully promise to spend our Lives and Fortunes and will dally bless God that has given You a Fruitful Consort In Testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our Common-Seal the 2d Day of July in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Domini 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble and unanimous Address of your Majesties Justices of the Peace at the General quarter-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace holden at Leads for the West-Riding of the County of York this 12th day of July in the Fourth Year of your Majesties Reign MAY it please your Sacred to suffer us your most Loyal Subjects moved by the most ardent Affection profoundest Duty and truest Interest to Congratulate You our and the three Kingdoms Happiness in the Birth of a Prince humbly praying the God of Heaven for Life Health and Prosperity to your Majesty his Royal Highness and your Royal Consort with the addition of whatever may contribute to your and their Happiness here And after a long Reign over us may your Majesty inherit an Erernal Crown in a better Kingdom And may there never want one of your Royal Line to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms till Time shall be no more is the most fervent sincere and unfeigned Prayer of Your Majesties Obedient Loyal Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Jury for the County of Hertford at the Assizes held at Hertford the 23 day of July in the fourth Year of your Majesties Reign SIR HAD not a Party averse to comply with your Majesties gracious Inclinations been too prevalent in this County an Address would have been sooner made to your most Sacred Majesty for your most gracious Declaration of Indulgence and tho we are too to late yet we hope we shall not be unwelcome in making a due and just return of our most humble and hearty Thanks and grateful Acknowledgments for your Majesties gracious Intentions to your Subjects in general in Abrogating of the Penal Laws and Test. We will not like others go about thanking your Majesty for your particular Favours of
thank the great God of Heaven for this Universal Blessing which we did perform with Hearts unfeigned full of Joy and throughly sensible of that great Happiness which it hath Pleased the over-ruling Providence to bless us with under your Majesties most Gracious and Merciful Government But as we are bound to thank God for this great Blessing so we judge our likewise engaged by all the Obligations imaginable to return our thanks to your Sacred Majesty God's true Vicegerent whose Actions have surpassed any thing that History could yet afford us and whose Gracious and Unparallel'd Declaration for Liberty of Conscience hath come up to that agreeableness of Divinity it self who hath said of Kings I have made ye Gods that you Great Sir have exceeded all Princes in that high and transcendent Character we crave leave most Gracious Soveraign to render unto your Majesty our most unfeigned Thanks for those fresh Obligations and Privileges lately granted to this your Ancient and Loyal City in our new Charter humbly assuring your Majesty that when ever you shall please to call a Parliament we shall give our Assistance in choosing such Members as we doubt not will readily concur to perpetuate your great and good Work which your Majesty to your Eternal Honour and Glory have so happily begun may the great God of Heaven make your Majesties Reign long and prosperous over us and grant your Majesty and your Royal Consort a numerous and lasting Issue that as this Generation hath great cause to bless God for you so future Generations may rise up and call you and your Royal Progeny for ever Blessed So pray heartily your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects P. P. of W. was Born the 10th of June 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Bailif Recorder Justices of the Peace and Capital Burgesses with other the Burgesses Freemen and Inhabitants of the Borrough of Leominster in the County of Hereford Dread Sir BY the plainness of our Words your Majesty may read the Integrity of our Hearts to a Prince whose only Aim and Desires are to revive the English Glory both at home and abroad a Prince as Zealous of the true Interest and Welfare of all his Subjects as ever Reigned a Prince who imploys all his Cares Actions and Treasures for the attainment of those Ends and the perpetuating these Blessings to us and our Posterity by Establishing unto every one of us our Natural Birthright Liberty and Property both in Spirituals and Temporals which most Sacred Majesty out of the abundance of your Royal Bounty hath been pleased so often to reiterate unto us upon all occasions especially in your Majestyes late repeated Declaration of Indulgence that should we admit of the least Doubt or Scruple of the Sincerity of your Majesties Intentions we must deprive our as Rationally and become more Stupid than Brutes or which is worse more malicious than the Common Enemy of Mankind nay should we not most willingly concur with your Majesties most Pious Intentions herein and contribute to the utmost of our Powers in promoting them we should not deserve the Earth we tread on the Air we breath in nor any other common Benefit we naturally enjoy wherefore most Gracious Sovereign in the deepest sense of our most profound Duty we lay our Selves our Lives and Fortunes at your Majesties Feet acknowledging all these Transcendent Favours we enjoy under your Majesties Government promising hereby that we will readily Sacrifice all that is dear to us in the promoting your Majesty's most Just Gracious Merciful and Godly Declaration by Abolishing the Test and other Penal Laws which have so long Tyrannized over and Enslaved the Persons and Consciences of your Majesties Loyal Subjects in Electing of such Members for this your Majesties Loyal Burrough when your Majesty in your Princely Wisdom shall think fit to call a Parliament as will heartily concur with us therein as well as in our Prayers which we all unanimously offer to the great God of Heaven for the prolongation of your Majesties happy Reign over us until you see a PRINCE of WALES whose Orient Beams we daily expect in his full Glory ready to Support the Crowns and Sway the Scepters of your Majesties Kingdoms the Government whereof we humbly pray may continue in your Royal Progeny until the Consummation of all Ages In Confirmation whereof we have hereunto put our Common Seal and Subscribed our Names this 16th Day of May in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of your Majesties Corporation of your City of Exeter VVE your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of your City of Exeter in our Common Council assembled do think our highly obliged to render Praise and Thanksgiving to the God of Heaven and Earth the great Governour of the World for the Birth of a Royal Prince a Blessing inestimable and one of the greatest to your most Sacred Majesty and these Nations Great Sir we are sure that all Men may now be satisfied that Providence hath not only favoured but rewarded your Royal Conduct by which Liberty and Peace have been promoted and maintained under the Shadow of your Scepter whose Reign as it has been without a Parallel the most Gracious so may it be long and prosperous May your Majesty live to a good old Age to see the Royal Prince inherit all your Royal Vertues and after your Majesties long and prosperous Reign may he be as your Majesty now is a Blessing to these Nations So pray your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects who are and always shall be ready to serve your Majesty with Lives and Fortunes to the last drop of our Blood In Testimony whereof we have this 20th Day of June in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign affixed our Common Seal To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Mayor Recorder Aldermen Common Council and Burgesses of your Majesties Antient and Loyal Corporation of Berwick upon Tweed Most Dread Sovereign VVE your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects though most remote in Place yet as early and zealous in Proximity of Affection as any other being struck with a profound sense of the due Acknowledgment we as well as any other of your Majesty's Subjects owe to the great God of Heaven and your most Sacred Majesty as his Vicegerent over us for your late and never too often to be Commemorated most Gracious Declaration of free and general Indulgence and the many Benefits and Blessings we daily receive thereby do in most humble manner prostrate our at your Majesties Feet with all possible Expressions of Gratitude A Declaration which has brought a long with it as it were a new Charter to this our Antient Body by which it hath incorporated the very Heart and Affections of every Member of it and united them all as the Heart of one Man which is the best and surest way of Regulation
A Declaration by which the most dark sullen Clouds of Jealousies and Fears in all unbyast Men as to the free enjoyment of their Religion and Property are dispelled from our Horizon and in which Your unparallel'd Grace and Bounty like that Universal Charity of the Sun shines equally upon all the Unjust as well as the Just and by which as in the Miraculous Preservation of Government in the Ark even Creatures of most contrary Principles live together in the quiet enjoyment of themselves under the Divine Influence of your Protection Wherefore Most Dread Sovereign to give you the earnest of a greater Harvest we hereby most heartily and sincerely declare that we will on all Occasions defend your Majesties most Sacred Person and Government with the utmost of our Lives and Fortunes against all Opposers whatsoever And that whensoever it shall Please your Majesty in your Princely Wisdom to call a Parliament we do hereby Testifie and unanimously Agree to chuse for Burgesses such as have your Majesties gracious Recommendations and shall concur with your Majesties known pleasur in Annulling and Abolishing the Penal Laws and Test that so your said gracious Declaration may likewise be the true Sense of all your Subjects in an Act of Parliament And lastly Great Sir let us amongst the first of your Subjects upon the long wish'd for blessed Occasion of the thrice happy Delivery of your great and Royal Consort Congratulate your most Sacred Majesties not only wishing long Life Health and Prosperity to the Prince a Blessing to these Nations but shall also ever offer up our Prayers that Almighty God will graciously bestow a Male Posterity from the same Royal Line to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms to the end of the World In Testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed the Seal of the said Burrough this 16th day of June in the Fourth Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of your Majesties Loyal Subjects the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and all the Members of your Majesties Antient Corporation of Clisston Dartmouth Hardness in your County of Devon Dread Sovereign WE Presume full of transports of Joy to throw our at your Royal Feet heartily to Congratulate the happy Birth of the Prince the greatest Blessing that good Subjects could desire or Heaven could grant And as the best Obligation of Loyal Hearts we sincerely offer up our Prayers and wishes that he may enjoy a long and happy Life That your Sacred Majesty as well for his Sake as for the invalue ble Good and Benefit of these Kingdoms may live to the utmost Period of humane Life to instruct him by your gracious Example in Piety Prudence Courage and all the Royal Qualifications of a King of which your Sacred Majesty is the most Perfect Pattern And when you shall change this Crown for an Immortal One may he then with these your Dominions inherit also your Royal and Princely Virtues And we presume also at this time to repeat our fixed and Loyal Resolutions of serving your Sacred Majesty on all occasions with our Lives and Fortunes And we sincerely offer you our hearty Thanks for your late Declaration of Liberty of Conscience And whenever your Majesty shall Summon a Parliament we will chuse such Members as shall entirely and without conditions answer your Royal Expectation in Repealing the Penal Laws and Test not thinking it consistent with the Duty of Subjects to make Conditions with their King With so Gracious a King But as your Majesties Mercy and Indulgence is free and unlimitted so shall our Obedience be May your Sacred Majesty live long and happily may all your Enemies either heartily Repent and implore your Mercy or suffer by your Justice and may your Throne be Established in Peace So heartily pray your Majesties Loyal Subjects of this your Antient Burough In Testimony whereof we have affixed our Common Seal the 23d day of June in the Fourth Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1688. The following was the first on the occasion of the Birth of the P. P. Wales To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble and hearty Address of the Mayour Aldermen and Burgesses of your Corporation of portsmouth Dread SIR HAving received by an Express from his Grace the Duke of Berwick the joyful News of her Majesties being safely brought to Bed of a Prince we thought it our Duties in the first place to pay our humble and hearty Thanks to the Almighty Hand that hath bestowed this Blessing upon us and hath Crown'd the Wishes of all your good Subjects with that Act of Grace which they have so long and so earnestly prayed for In the next place we must not we cannot omit to Congratulate your Majesty and your Royal Consort the Queen in this great Jubilee of the Nation in renewing and confirming to your Sacred Majesty by all the outward Marks of an inward and real Joy our true Allegiance to your Majestly and your Royal Successors Permit us then Great Sir to make this our early Offering of Fealty to the Royal Infant in his Cradle and to present him here with the first Fruits of our Loyalty our unseigned Wishes for his long Life and Happiness that he may inherit with the Crown the great Virtues of his Royal Parents and when old Age the Publick Cares and Troubles of a Crown hath made you weary of this word Printed in the Gazette instead of World and when that Hand which gave you to us shall take you from hence to place you in a better this young Prince may succeed you in you Throne and sway your Scepter with the same Piety Justice and happy Temper your Majesty hath hitherto done and we not doubt but will always do And since by Divine Providence we have been once more Taught our Duties and Heaven seems to be inclined by this Blessing bestowed upon us to forgive the Nation its past Faults we shall henceforth take more care never to provoke that God that gave us our King and this Prince but shall EVER say and pray Long live King JAMES the Second our Gracious Queen MARY and the PRINCE In Testimony of these our hearty Congratulations and sincere Wishes we have caused the Seal of your Majesties Corporation abovesaid hereunto to be affixed Dated this 12th day of June Anno Dom. 1688. and in the Fourth Year of your Majesties Reign July the 8th the following presented to the King To the KING's most Excellent Majesty WE the Grand Inquest for the Body of the County of Middless having a deep Sence of your Majesties Grace and Favour in giving us and all your Subjects Security and peace by your Majesties most Gracious Declaration for Liberty of Conscience lately repeated and confirmed to us do in all Humility return our due and unfeigned Thanks to your Majesty for the same and for your Royal and pious Endeavours and Resolution to perpetuate the present Tranquility to succeeding Generations for their exceeding
promising to maintain the Established Religion of the Church of England only but do freely willingly and unanimously give our best Thanks general and without any restriction whatsoever We are neither for designing Evil nor for carrying it on when it is begun therefore do promise our utmost Endeavours when your Majesty shall in your great Wisdom think fit to call a Parliament to chuse and promote the chusing of such Representatives as will in all respects comply with your Majesties Desires We all heartily Thank your Majesty for your late Proclamation against Swearing And lastly we do with all the Joy our Hearts can wish or Tongues express Congratulate the Birth of the Prince of WALES a Blessing sent from Heaven for the perpetual Estabishment of Liberty of Conscience May all the Happiness of Heaven and Earth attend your Majesty your Royal Consort and the young Prince and may we cease living when we cease being Your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of Your Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Common Council of your Majesties Corporation and Borough of King's Lynn in the County of of Norfolk Great SIR WE Your Majesties Dutiful Subjects crave leave of Your Majesty and Your Royal Consort that we may join with Your Majesties in offering our most humble and hearty Thanks to God Almighty for sending Your Majesty a Son and us a Prince and further we beg of Your Majesties to accept our Cordial Thanks for Your Majestles late Favours to the Body of this Corporation as also for Your Princely Condescention and Affection by both Your Gracious Declarations not only extending to the Church of England but to all other Your Peaceable and Loyal Subjects assuring us by Your Royal Word that You will stand by us whereby we are not only obliged but resolved when Your Majesty shall think fit to call a Parliament we will endeavour to Elect such Members as shall make Your Majesty happy and Your Subjects easie And shall ever pray for Your Majesties long Life and peaceable Reign over us In witness whereof we have Fixed our Town Seal the 2d Day of July in the 4th Year of Your Majesties most Gracious Reign Annoque Domini 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of several Members of the Corporation and other Freemen and Inhabitants of your Antient City of Bath May it please your Majesty NO sooner did the happy News of the Prince's Birth reach our Ears but we of this Place thought it our Duty in a more especial manner to be early in the return of our Praises to the Almighty for so great a Blessing upon us and your Three Kingdoms and in Congratulating your Majesty and your Royal Consort of being the joyful Parents of so good a Son a Gift which the whole Nation ought to esteem as the Reward of Heaven upon that continued Series of Goodness and Indulgence which your Majesty hath ever since the beginning of your most Auspicious Reign extended to your Subjects particularly that of your Compassionate Declaration for Liberty of Conscience whereby as you are pleased to suspend the execution of all Penal Laws in matters of Religion and the requiring of any Oaths or Tests from any so do we upon our Allegiance to You our Sovereign promise and engage that whensoever your Majesty shall think fit to call a Parliament such of us as shall have a power of Electing will chuse none to serve therein but who will give us full assurance that they will endeavour the total Abrogation of them And that your Majesty may have the ready concurrence of both your Houses in these gracious Intentions and enjoy the Comfort and Satisfaction of seeing the Fruits and Consequences thereof by a long and prosperous Reign in Peace and Plenty having survived the Murmurings and Discontents of a malevolent Party the Prince your Son arrived to Maturity of Years and Understanding and a numerous Off-spring from your Royal Loins which may perpetuate your Name and Memory and even baffle Mortality it self shall be the constant Prayer of Dread Soveraign your Majesties ever Dutiful and Loyal Subjects To the KING and QUEEN's most Excellent Majesties The Humble Congratulation of the Lord Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenant the High Sheriff and the Grand Jury with the rest of the Justices of the Peace of this County of Essex holden as the Assizes in Brentwood this 27th Day of July 1688. Great Sir WE your Majesties most Loyal and Obedient Subjects having returned our most humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for the Inestimable Blessing conferred on your most Sacred Majesty your Kingdoms and Dominions in the happy Birth of a Prince Now Dread Sir assure our that it is our highest Duty and Obligation to lay our at your Majesties Feet thankfully acknowledging that your Majesties Goodness Piety and Justice having obtained this so unspeakable a Blessing from our most gracious God will open the Hearts and Eyes of all Men to behold with Loyal and Thankful Respects your Majesties Pious and indulgent Care of the Welfare and Happiness of all your People And we are resolved that when your Majesty shall in your great Wisdom call a Parliament we will unanimously Elect such Men as shall answer your Majesties Expectation in uniting your Subjects in Charity and Christian Correspondency Great Sir That the Almighty will grant your Sacred Majesty your Consort the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince a long Life Prosperity and Happiness and the most fervent Prayers Dread Sir of your Majesties most Dutiful Loyal and Obedient Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the High Sheriff Justices of the Peace and the Grand Jury of the County of Oxon at the General Assizes held at Oxford the 28th Day of July 1688. Dread SIR AS we are sensible the best Addresses that Subjects can make are thereturns of Duty and Obedience to their Princes Commands we should not have presumed upon this Application but that full Hearts like full Banks will overflow The Blessing God Almighty hath been pleased to bestow on your Majesty and this Realm by sending a PRINCE of WALES is a Happiness too large to be contained within the narrow compass of our Breasts wherefore we could not but join in our Particulars to the Universal Joy of the whole Kingdom Rreceive therefore Great Sir the Congratulations flowing from Hearts full of Loyalty which your Majesty shall allways find when ever Your Commands shall call us to a performance and hope there will be none who hereafter will dare to srown on Your Royal Designs since Heaven Smilis on all Your Actions whither we will send sresh our dally Prayers for Your Majesties and the Prince's long Life and Happiness and hope by constant Solliciting the Divine Goodness to obtain a Second Blessing to this Nation that the Queen may have a Duke of York for which let the Three Kingdoms join till Heaven hears our
Great Sir to throw our at your Majesty's Feet and prostrate with all Humility tender you and your Royal Consort unfeigned tho' late Congratulations for the inestimable Jewel you have bestowed upon us Long may our Illustrious Prince live Heaven's Darling as well as ours and by inheriting the Heroick Vertues of his August Parents secure to future Ages the Happiness your most Serene Government has restored to ours And indeed what can hereafter trouble England's Peace when to its Impregnable Native Strength you shall have added the more Invincible and in manner Supernatural Union of all English Hearts That your approaching Parliament Sir may readily concur with your Majesty's Gracious Designs in order thereto shall be the Great Endeavour as well as the Fervent Prayer of Your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The Humble and Congratulatory Address of the High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenants Justices of the Peace and the Grand Jury of the County of Hereford at the Assizes held at Hereford on the 8th day of August in the 4th Year of Your Majesty's most Happy Reign Most Dread Sovereign WE Your Majesty's Leige People must acknowledge that it is our Duty to manifest our Resentment to your Sacred Majesty after our Thansksgiving to Almighty God by whom Princes reign for such a transcendent Mercy and Favour from Heaven as the Birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is to Your Majesty and these Kingdoms especially when we consider that it falls upon us after so many evident and gracious Signals of Divine Providence not only in the Manifold and Miraculous Preservation of your Majesty's Royal Person but in the Establishment of your Majesty upon the Throne of your Glorious Ancestors Insomuch that we may justly raise some Confidence in our except obdurate Malice prevails the Eyes of most thoughtful Men will be opened to see the concurrence of the same Providence attending your Majesty in those your Royal Great and Good Intentions for the Honour Welfare Peace and Happiness of this Nation signified in your Majesty's late gracious Declaration Humbly assuring your Majesty we shall use our utmost Endeavours to elect such Representatives as may comply with your Majesty in so Glorious a Work and always remain Your most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Grand Jury at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for the Borough of Devizes in the County of Wilts in the Guild-Hall of the said Borough the 20th day of July 1688 in the 4th Year of Your Majesty's Reign Great Sir WE still enjoying the good Effects of your Majesty's Declaration of Liberty of Conscience do continue our Thanks to God for inclining your Royal Heart to do that by which the Fears of many are vanished and more than was expected is enjoy'd And since it hath Pleased Almighty God to bless your Majesty with a Son and us with a Prince which we hope is an ineffable Blessing to this Nation we can do no less and by this we do humbly congratulate your Majesty and your Royal Consort on this Occasion Now that Heaven may so preserve this Prince that when your Majesty whose Life God long preserve shall fall asleep with your Royal Ancestors he may sway the Sceptre of these Realms and Dominions with such Wisdom Justice and Piety that his Name may be eternized shall be the Prayer of Your Majesty's most Loyal and Obedient Subjects We the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the aforesaid Borough having seen the aforesaid Address do concurr therewith And in Testimony thereof have set our Common Seal of the Corporation in the Guild-Hall aforesaid this 28th day of July Anno Domini 1688. To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of Your Majesty's Ancient and Loyal City of Hereford Most Gracious Sovereign WE beseech your Majesty to suffer us amongst the rest of your Loyal Subjects thus humbly and publickly to express our grateful Sense of that happy Addition which it has pleased God to make to the Royal Family by giving your Majesty and your Kingdoms the desirable Blessing of a Prince to inherit your Royal Vertues and Dominions And most humbly pray that your Royal Issue may grow more and more numerous to succeed to your Imperial Crown in all future Generations We likewise crave your Majesty's leave once more thankfully to acknowledge those invaluable Blessings we enjoy under your Majesty's most Gracious Government And do most humbly assure your Sacred Majesty that as this Place has heretofore been plunder'd and ransack'd again and again for their unalterable Fidelity to the Crown so we will ever owe Dutiful and Loyal Obedience to your Majesty Your Heirs and Lawful Successors In Testimony whereof we have hereunto put our Common Seal at the Guild-Hall of your said City To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Council and Assembly of Your Majesty's Island of Jamaica convened under his Grace the Duke of Albemarle Most Gracious Sovereign WE your Majesty's most Dutiful Subjects of this new World warmed by the Benign Influence of your Royal Beams from which no distance of Place can seclude us do in all humble and grateful Manner acknowledge the continuance of that unparelled Blessing the Protection of the Church of England given to us by your Royal Word at your happy Accession to the Crown and also for the Toleration and general Indulgence of Religion your Majesty hath been pleased to grant the rest of our Fellow Subjects Royal Sir We cannot conclude here without further acknowledging unto your Majesty the transcendent Honour done unto this Infant Colony in appointing so Illustrious a Prince to govern us from whose Care and Conduct with the continuance of your Majesties unparallel'd Favours towards us we may justly hope for many Advantages promising on our Parts as we hereby do a never to be shaken Loyalty to your Majesty due Obedience to his Grace and our heartly Endeavours for the good and preservation of this your Majesties Islands Praying unto Almighty God for a long continuance of your happy Reign over us and that there may never be wanting of your Royal Issue to sit upon the Throne from Generation to Generation Amen To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the major Part of the Grand Jury of Cumberland at the general Assizes held at Carlisle The 21st of August 1688. May it please Your Majesty WE your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects humbly beg leave that we may heartily Congratulate your Majesty and your Royal Consort and offer our most humble and due Thanks to God Almighty for sending your Majesty a Son and us a Prince to be your Majesty's Successor to your Crown and Vertues a Blessing not more joyfully received than earnestly desired to quiet and compose all restless and disorderly Spirits That your Majesty and the whole Nation may reap the Benefit of your
most Gracious Declaration And we will use our utmost Endeavours to elect such Members for your Majesty's next Parliament as shall make your Majesty most happy and your Subjects easie We do also cordially rejoice in the joyful Deliverance of the Prince from his late dangerous Indisposition not doubting but God will bless him with a long and heathful Life to the great Comfort of your most Sacred Majesty and all your Loyal Subjects May your Majesty enjoy the greatest and utmost Blessings this World can afford with whatever is most dear to your Sacred Majesty and also a long and peaceable Reign over us So prays your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects as we shall ever be ready to manifest when Occasion calls with our Lives and Fortunes in Defence of your Person and your Heirs in your Majesty's Prerogatives against all Opposers whatsoever To the KING'S most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Sudbury in the County of Suffolk Great Sir ALmighty God having blessed your Majesty and your Royal Consort our gracious Queen with a Son and your People with a Prince We with all Alacrity agreeable to the Happiness and with Duty and Humility which becomes Loyal and Obedience Subjects do congratulate your Majesty Such Blessings are from Heaven the Rewards of Virtue of which your Majesty hath given this Nation many and Signal Testimonies particularly and for which we have brought our Hearty and Unfeigned Thanks in that your Majesty hath been graciously pleased to declare that you will Protect and maintain the Church of England as now by Law Established and all other your Majesty's Subjects in the free Exercise of their Religion and in the Peaceable Enjoyment of their Civil Rights and Properties And as your Majesty intends to entail these Blessings upon your People by a Law so we do assure your Majesty that when in your Princely Wisdom you shall think convenient to call a Partlament we will heartily endeavour to chuse such Members as shall concurr with your Majesty therein And it shall ever be our Prayers that your Majesty's Reign may be long and prosperous That our Prince may inherit your Inimitable Virtues with the Crowns and both enjoy a Crown of Glory To the KING and QUEENS Most Excelient Majesties The Humble Congratulation of the Lord Lieutenant the Deputy Lieutenant the High Sheriff and the Grand Inquest with the rest of the Justices of the Peace and Gentlemen of your Majesties County Palatinate of Lancaster holden at the general Assizes this 29th day of August 1688. Dread Sovereign Nothing but the want of a more early Opportunity of representing the Body of this County could have with-held your Majesties most Loyal and Joyful Subjects from a more speedy Congratulation of your Majesty and your Royal Consort upon the Birth of the Prince of Wales Succession in the Right Line has been the Care and now immediately from your Majesty is the Joy not only of us but of all your Dominions the transports of Eorreign Courts upon this Illustrious Birth is an early presage that his Fame shall be more extended and his Virties more shining than their Illuminations May his Heroick Endowments fill all Europe with Terror and Regard yout Majesties with Comfort and Satisfaction and your Dominion with Peace Security and Happiness till time shall be no more which shall be the faithful Endeavour and lasting Prayer of your Majesties most dutiful Subjects and Faithful Servants To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of your Majesties Corporation of Garstang in the County Palatine of Lancaster Great Sir IT has been the Singular Happiness of this Corporation that how often so ever we have hither to approached your Royal Feet with the tender of our Duty and Loyalty we were always dismissed with the Comfort of your Majesty's gracious Acceptance These former Encouragemeets together with the Happy News of the Birth of the Illustious Prince of Wales has doubled both our Duty and Diligence to return again with Joy and Satisfaction to your Sacred Feet humbly to congratulate both your Majesty and your Royal Consort of this Happy Occasion May Heaven bleso both your Majesty and these Kingdoms in fixing the Throne and advancing the Crown by a name pous Isse the growing Virtues and exemplary Conduct of his Royal Highness in future Times add Comfort to your Majesty years relieve the Cares and Toil of the Scepter ingage the Affections and fix the Loyalty of your Subjects So pray your Majesty's ever Loyal Subjects and Dutiful humble Servants To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of the Lord Lieutenant High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenant Justices of the Peace and Grand Jury of the County of Northumberland assembled at the Assizes held at the Castle of Newcastle for that County the 13th day of August 1688. Great Sir HAving already with most sincere Devotion pald our Acknowledgments to God Almighty the Father of Mercies we come now most humbly Prostrate at your Majesty's Feet to offer our hearty Congratulations to your Majesty and Royal Comfort for the inestimable blessing of a Prince of Wales a Prince given by divine Providence to the Prayers of your Kingdoms to perpetuate your Majesty Glory and our Felicity May he so thrive and we doubt it not under the Great Examples of your Majesties Piety and Prudence that you your self may live to see him consummate in all the true Arts of Government We further promise with the best of our endeavours to send such Members to the next Parliament as will Co-operate with your Majesties gracious Intentions according to your Royal Declaration in repealing the Penal Laws and Test as Obstacles to your Majesties Glory and equal Justice as well as to our Ease and Happiness well knowing that your Majesty will heal us as a most Indulgent and Impartial Father doth his many Sons giving every one a share in his Esteem and Affection according to their particular Merits and Qualifications FINIS