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
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
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-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-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-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-Sessions held at Bridgwater the 10th day of July in the Fourth Year of his Majesties Reign Anno Dom. 1687. Subscribed
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
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-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