Issue of your Royal Consort may prove a SON which may inherit soon his Royal Fathers Virtues tho' late his Throne To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Inquest for the County of Stafford at the Assizes holden at the Town of Stafford the 3d day of April in the Fourth year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1688. May it please your Majesty WE hope the lateness of this Address will not be attributed to want of Loyalty in us since it comes with the first opportunity the Body of the County could be prevailed on having hitherto been detained from paying its Duty by an over-ruling Party among us we therefore tho' late yet with united Affections come to offer the Tribute of our humble Acknowledgments to your Sacred Majesty for your Gracious Declaration Indulgent Distribution of your Dispensing Power and with Hearts full of Joy Congratulate the FRUITFULNESS of your Royal Consort which as 'tis the hopes and expectations of all Loyal Souls so may it frustrate the great Ends of the Factious by the happy Production of a PRINCE of WALES And whenever your Majesty shall in your Princely Wisdom think fit to call a Parliament it shall be our study and care to promore the Election of such Members as will by their concurrence in Abolishing the PenalLaws and Tests persect the great Work of Peace so Graciously and Auspiciously undertaken by your Majesty And that your Reign may be long and happy over us are the Desires and Prayers of Your most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Aldermen Bailiffs and Citizens of the City of Carlisle Dread Sovereign BEing now at liberty by the late Regulation made here to Address our unto your Majesty we beg leave to return our late but unfeigned Thanks for your Majesties most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence which we will endeavour to maintain and support against all opposers We likewise Thank your Majesty for your Royal Army which really is both the Honour and Safety of the Nation let the Teckelites think and say what they will And when your Majesty in your great Wisdom shall think fit to call a Parliament we will chuse such Members as shall certainly concur with your Majesty in repealing and taking off the Penal Laws and Tests and not hazard the Election of any Person who hath any ways declared in favour of those Conibal Laws Surely they do not consider what a Sovereign Prince by his Royal Power may do that oppose your Majesty in so Gracious and Glorious a Work A Work which Heaven Smiles upon and will reward with no less Blessing we hope than a PRINCE of WALES that there may never want of your Royal Issue to sway the Scepter so long as the Sun and Moon endure that your Majesties Reign may be long and prosperous and Blessed with Victories over all your Enemies are the daily Prayers of Great Sir Your Majesties most Obedient and Dutiful Subjects May it please your Majesty WE your most Faithful and truly Loyal Subjects the Mayor Recorder Aldermen Common Council and Burgesses of the Antient Corporation of Cambridge do humbly cast at the Feet of your Sacred Majesty our unfeigned Thanks for your most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence which your Majesty hath been pleased with much Condescention to repeat giving it a double strength by your Royal Word so that none that are truly Loyal can doubt of the performance of your Majesties most gracious Promise or refuse to make their thankful Addresses for it When therefore your Royal Wisdom shall think fit to call a Parliament we your Majesties most Loyal Subjects intirely engage our and the utmost of our Endeavours for the Election of such Members as will heartily concur with that Divine Principle of your Majesty That Men's Consciences ought not to be forced in matters of Religion nor they distinguished in the Service of their Country by other Tests then that of Loyalty Wherefore the many Blessings we enjoy under your most Sacred Majesty engage us in daily Prayer to Almighty God that as your Royal Virtues exceed all Example so your Reign above comparison may be the longest nor may it end till a PRINCE of WALES born of your Royal Consort our most Gracious Queen hath learned by a long experience the most Heroick Greatness of your Royal Mind In Testimony whereof we have unanimously caused our Common Seal to be affixed bereunto this 28th day of May in the Fourth Year of your Majesties Reign Annoque Dom. 1688. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Common Council-Men of your Majesties Town and Parish of Maidstone in the County of Kent Dread Sovereign AMongst the many Favours under your Majesties Pious Prudent and Serene Government over us nothing more confirmeth our Hopes of lasting Happiness than the suspending the Execution of those Laws under which many of your Loyal Subjects have most grievously suffered having also for our future Encouragement your Majesties gracious Declaration reiterated that your Princely Resolutions are that during your Majesties Reign over us which God grant may be long no one of your Majesties Subjects shall be punished or disturbed for matters of meer Religion nor their Properties invaded and that your Majesty will call a Parliament where you have promised your Royal Assent to confirm it by Law unalterable For these undeserved Favours Great Sir after our humble and hearty Acknowledgments with thankfulness to the Governour of Heaven and Earth who hath brought you to your Throne and perswaded you so to Rule as to allow Liberty of Conscience We unfeignedly in all submission as becometh good Subjects by Inclination as well as Duty Present our most humble Thanks resolving to use our best Endeavours to make an acceptable return of a continued Loyalty Thankfulness and Compliance to your most Gracious Majesty in all your most Pious and Christian declared Purposes Particularly in Electing of Members of Parliament for this Corporation whenever your Majesty shall think fit to call a Parliament And always shall be Petitioners to the Great King of Kings that he will bless your Majesty with a long and happy Reign over us and with a succeeding Issue to sit on the Throne of their Ancestors whilst the World endureth In Testimony whereof we have affixed our Common Seal the 25th Day of May in the 4th Year of your Majesties Reign To the KING'S Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Address of your Majesties Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Grand Jury of your City and County of Exeter held at the Guild Hall of the said City 23d of April in the 4th Year of His Majesties Reign being the Anniversary Day solemnized for your Majesties Coronation Most Dread Soveraign SInce it hath pleased the King of Kings to bring your Majesty to the Crown and seat you on the Throne of your Illustrious Ancestors on this Day we thought it our Duty not only to
A Collection of the several ADDRESSES in the late King JAMES's Time Concerning the Conception and Birth of the Prince of WALES To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The bumble Address of the Comptroler and other Members of the Society of the Inner-Temple PArdon us Great Sir if the fear of being thought ungrateful for the greatest Bounty puts us upon the hazard of being thought too bold in approaching your Sacred Person to offer our most humble and Hearty Tribute of Thanks for your most Gracious Declaration of Indulgence and continued to us and all our Subjects your Royal Assent and Protection in a free Choice and Exercise of our Religion a Blessing that could flow from none but the Best and Wisest of Princes whose Royal Thoughts are wholly taken up how to make our Religion as free as our Property a Blessing which just Heaven which ever over-pays all good Actions has evidently Demonstrated to be Grateful and Acceptable by showring down the Blessing of Fruitfulness on your Royal Consort May the ROYAL ISSUE live to be the Joy of your most Sacred Majesty the Delight of all Mankind a safeguard to your Friends and Terrour to your Enemies and may Heaven continue its Favours on your Majesties and your Sacred Posterity This Great Sir is the Prayer of us Your most Dutiful and Obedient Subjects To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Mayor Recorder Aldermen Sheciffs Common-Council-men Grand Jury and Borough Jury of your Majesties City and County of the City os Gloucester from the General Quarter Sessions there held this 2th day of January in the Year of our Lord 1687. Dread Sovereign THE Reason and Equity of a General Indulgence for matters of meer Religion is so manifestain it self and so clearly Illustrated by your Majesties gracious Declaration for it tim to all that we can say on that Subject can but resemble an Eclipse of the sun by the Interposition of a meaner Light Nothing then can be more our Duty both as Christians and Subjects than first to render unto Almighty God in whose Hands are the Hearos of Kings our hearty Thanks for putting it into the King's Heart to do so good Things for his People Next in all Humility to express not only our Acquiescence but height of Satisfaction in your Majesties so Pious so Prudent so Charitable and Kind a Determination towards all your Subjects to assure your Majesty of our united and utmost Endeavours to Elect for Parliament when called such Members as we may reasonably hope shall joyfully and readily meet and join with your Majesty therein and likewise in the Repeal of the two Test-Acts so subject to dangerous Interpretations Yet at last we humbly crave leave to Congratulate with your Majesty the Blessing of your Royal Consorts CONCERTION which we consider as the Reward of Heaven upon this your unparallel'd Goodness and with the most fervent Zeal offer up our Prayers to Almighty God that she may to the unspeakable Happiness of all your Kingdoms produce you a SON as much the Image of your Heroick Mind as the Product of your Royal Body Subscribed also by the said Grand Jury and Burough Jury consenting c. To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of your Majesties most Layal and Dutiful Subjects of your Antient Corporation of Portsmouth PResume humbly to hope that our hearty Acknowledgments tho' late for your gracious Indulgence may be honoured with a favourable Aspecr since they give precedency to none in Gratitude and Loyalty The many and happy Blessings that visibly attend this your Royal Declaration instruct us that the Councils of Princes are no less the immediate Concern of the Wisdom of the Almighty than the Protection of their Persons is of his Power This one Act most Gracious Sovereign has dispersed all the Fears and Apprehensions of Fire and Faggot under your Majesties Reign which the wicked Enemies of your Sacred Majesties Person and Religion had maliciously distill'd into the Minds of too many of your credulous Subjects this has confirmed to us our Liberties and Properties this hath established Peace and Charity in the Minds of the Dissenting Brethren in Opinion and shaded all your Loving Subjects from the troublesom Heats of Persecution under the Wings of your Royal Protection In sine Great Sir it is an Act so transcendently Good that it seems to us Heaven could not reward it with a less Blessing than what it has been pleased to bestow at this present upon your Royal Consort nor will we be wanting to contribute all that lies in us to the perpetuating of this Happiness to Posterity For when it shall seem fit to your Princely Wisdom to Summon a Parliament we do hereby engage our to Elect such Members as shall Vote for the Repealing such Laws as obviate your Gracious Intentions in your Declaration Whoever now presumes to oppose and spurn at this your Royal Goodness becomes not only ungrateful to their Country but to Heaven also And now most Glorious Monarch that the Eternal Providence may ever Guide and Prosper all your Councils and Undertakings that the growing Hopes of the ROYAL WOMB may blossom and flourish to a mature Perfection and your Majesty enjoy a long and happy Reign over us is the hearty Prayers of all To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Grand Jury for your County of Buckingham at the Assizes held at Ailsbury for the said County the 5th day of March in the fourth Year of your Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1687. Most Dread and Gracious Sovereign WE your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of the County of Buckingham being deeply Sensible of the great Happiness we enjoy under your Majesties Reign and Government tender our most hearty Thanks to Almighty God in whose Hands are the Hearts of Kings that he has been graciously pleased to put into your Roval Heart the means which have effectually procured it not doubting your late gracious Declaration for Indulgence and free Liberty of Conscience to be the Copy of his Sacred and Divine Will who has commanded us all to live in Peace and Charity with one another The Blessing which Heaven has bestowed upon your Royal Consort is to us a convincing Argument that you have your Directions for the well management of your three Kingdoms from that great Court and we think we are obliged in Gratitude and Duty to use our utmost Endeavours towards the removing those Impediments which may obstruct your Royal Intentions tending so much to our Good and Welfare which we cannot perform better than when you shall please to call a Parliament by chusing such Men as are entirely disposed to take off the Tests and the Penal Laws This we in all Sincerity promise to do to the utmost of our Power and shall with most fervent Zeal offer our Prayers to Almighty God that he would most graciously Please not only to grant your Majesty a long and prosperous Reign but that the
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