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religion_n	law_n	liberty_n	true_a	2,820	4	4.2163	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58557	A faithful account of the manner of the election of Sir William Poultney, and Sir William Waller, Knights to serve as members of the ensuing Parliament at Oxford, for the city of Westminster, and the liberties thereof, upon Thursday the 10th of February, 1680/1 : in answer to a letter from a person of quality in London.	L. S.	1681 (1681)	Wing S108; ESTC R13637	6,526	4

the Tenour of the Paper present it to those Honoured persons their present Burgesses which by lifting up their hands and great shouts they approved of and in pursuance of their desires he presented it to them in these following words To the Honoured Sir William Poultney and Sir William Waller Knights Unanimously Elected as Members of the ensuing Parliament for the Ancient City of Westminster WE the Inhabitants of this City and the Liberties thereof here assembled retaining a most grateful and indelible sense of your prudent zeal in the late Parliament in searching into the depth of the horrid and hellish Plots of the Papists against his Majesties Royal Person the Protestant Religion and the Government of the Realm and in bringing the Authors of the said wicked counsels to condign punishment And remembring also your faithful discharge of that great trust reposed in you in vindicating our undoubted Right of Petitioning his Majesty that Parliaments way sit for the Redress of our Grievances which hereditary Priviledg some bad men would have wrested out of our hands upon whom you have set such a just brand of Ignominy as may deter them from the like attempts for the time to come And further reflecting seriously upon your vigorous endeavours to secure to us and our posterity the profession of the true Religion by those just legal and necessary expedients which the great Wisdom of the two last Parliaments fixed upon and adhered to Do find our selves obliged to make our open ocknowledgment of and to return our hearty thanks for your eminent integrity and faithfulness your indefatigable labour and pains in the Premisses Not once questioning but you will maintain the same good spirit and zeal to secure his Majesties Royal Person and to preserve to us the Protestant Religion wherein all good Subjects have an interest against the subtle and secret contrivances and open assaults of the Common enemy as also our Civil Rights and Properties against the encroachments of Arbitrary Power In pursuance of which great and good ends we shall always be ready as we are obliged to adhere to you our Honoured Representatives with the utmost hazard of our Persons and Estates This Address being thus presented and accepted Sir William Poultney in his own and the Name of his Colleague Sir William Waller made a short but pithy Return in these words Gentlemen IT may be expected We should say something to you in answer to your Paper which contains first your Kindness and secondly your Instructions to us As for your Kindness give us leave to say that we are very much oblig'd to you for your good Opinion of our Endeavours to serve you in the last Parliament which is best testified by your Repeated Favour in freely Chusing us again to serve you in this ensuing one As for the Instructions which you have given us they are many great and weighty and which as we conceive may conduce very much to the preservation of the Peace and Quiet of this Nation but being of so high Importance we can at the present give no other answer to them than that we shall duly consider them and all other such Instructions as we shall at any other time receive from you conduceable to the preservation of his Majesties Person and Government the Security of the true Protestant Religion and our Laws and Liberties To which end we do heartily wish and we shall use our utmost endeavours to maintain a happy Vnion betwixt the King and his Parliament as also a Vnion amongst all his Majesties Protestant Subjects the best means to secure our Religion Laws and Liberties against the Incroachments of Popery and Arbitrary Power and we hope we shall never live to see a Popish Successor All this was accompanied with repeated Acclamations and Testimonies of great satisfaction the two New elected Burgesses were conducted to their several habitations when first the usual Indentures had been sealed and Sir William Waller at the departure of his friends expressed him to them to the same purport with the Speech of Sir William Poultney And now Honoured Sir I hope I have satisfied and I fear glutted your curiosity in all the Niceties of this Election and shall only observe to you that in the whole management of this affair the Inhabitants did not put their designed Representatives to the least expence the people did not here sell their Votes and Souls for treats and wine nor was there any here that would have purchas'd such Votes if there had any been found to expose them to sale for we know well that they who buy our Votes will sell their own and reimburse themselves upon our Estates if we should put them to charge upon our Carcasses We hope also you will observe how unanimous this City and yours have been in their zeal for the Kings Person and Protestant Religion what remains but I beg your pardon for the length of this Narrative whose truth needs no Indulgence and that I subscribe SIR Yours to be Commanded L. S. LONDON Printed for T. Davies 1681.