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A29581 The Bristol address, to the Right Worshipful Sir Richard Hart, kt. and Thomas Earle, esq., now chosen representatives in Parliament for this city of Bristol 1681 (1681) Wing B4799; ESTC R236907 1,004 2

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The Bristol Address To the Right Worshipful Sir RICHARD HART Kt. and THOMAS EARLE Esq NOW CHOSEN Representatives in Parliament For this City of BRISTOL WE Citizens and Freeholders of this City hold our selves obliged to return you our hearty thanks for your exemplary Loyalty to the King and present establishment in Church and State notwithstanding all the Designs here or elsewhere to vilifie or subvert them under the specious pretences of Arbitrary Power and Popery hoping you will act with all expressions of Duty and Allegiance to the King of whose good affections to his people and the established Religion we have no doubt though ill men have indeavoured to suggest other opinions to his Subjects And as you are our Representatives we lay before you these severals I. That some expedient by Law may be endeavoured to punish such as shall insinuate into the people any designs in our King or Government to set up Arbitrary Power or shall calumniate the professed Sons of the Church of England His Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects as Papists and men of Arbitrary Principles II. That no Laws be Repealed whereby the Church or State may be less secured against their Enemies but such new Laws may be added to those now in force that may effectually defend them from the Horrid and Hellish Plots of the Papists and from a second Ruin and Desolation by the underhand-contrivances and restless endeavours of ambitious and Fanatical Parties III. That you preserve the Prerogatives of the Crown and the Propety of the People That the King and His Successors may be assured of our Duty and Allegiance and we receive from them Mercy and Justice Then will God bless us whilst we serve him and his Anointed and Righteousness and Peace shall kiss each other IV. That you endeavour to preserve us from illegal Imprisonments and exactions of Fees by our Fellow-Subjects lest we be enslaved under Arbitrary Power as in the late Rebellion contrary to Magna Charta and other good Laws but if any shall offend let them be punished in such sort as the Law directs V. That the King be supplied with money to secure us from the power of France at Land and Sea that what Alliances the King hath or shall make for defence of Europe and the Protestant Religion may be performed and our Merchants encouraged to send forth those large Adventures they are inclined unto if they could be secured by good Fleets in the four Seas and remoter parts They being at present greatly apprehensive that the French may possess their Estates at pleasure at Sea as he doth those of the Subjects to the Empire on Land from whence cometh a Diminution of Trade in the Kingdom In endeavouring these particulars you will truly represent Us. Bristol this 7th March 1680. Subscribed by most of the Aldermen Council and several Hundreds of His Majesties Loyal Subjects of the same City LONDON Printed for Henry Brome 1681.