<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2007-12-05</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071112.apex.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A83708">
<STC T="W">E2584</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">11322029</BIBNO>
<VID>171651</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="address">
<PB REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->
<HEAD>The Humble <HI>ADDRESS</HI> of the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> to the <HI>KING;</HI> With His Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Gracious <HI>ANSWER</HI> thereunto.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Gracious Sovereign,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE Your Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Com|mons in this pre&s;ent Parliament A&s;&s;embled, do with Unfeigned Zeal to Your Maje&s;ty's Per&s;on and Government, (which GOD long Pre&s;erve,) mo&s;t Humbly Repre&s;ent to Your Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>That the Pa&s;&s;ing the late Act for Disbanding the Army gave great Satisfaction to Your Subjects; and the Readine&s;s Your Maje&s;ty has expre&s;|&s;ed by Your Me&s;&s;age, to Comply with the Punctual Execution thereof, will prevent all Occa&s;ions of Di&s;tru&s;t or Jealou&s;ie between Your Maje&s;ty and Your People.</P>
<P>It is, Sir, to Your Loyal Commons an Un&s;peakable Grief, That Your Maje&s;ty &s;hould be Advi&s;ed to propo&s;e any thing in Your Me&s;&s;age, to which they cannot Con|&s;ent with due Regard to that Con&s;titution Your Maje&s;ty came over to Re&s;tore, and have &s;o often Expos'd Your Royal Per&s;on to Pre&s;erve; and did in Your Gracious Declaration Promi&s;e, That all tho&s;e Foreign Forces which came over with You, &s;hould be &s;ent back.</P>
<P>In Duty therefore to Your Maje&s;ty, and to di&s;charge the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us, we crave Leave to lay before You, That nothing conduceth more to the Happi|ne&s;s and Welfare of this Kingdom, than an Intire Confidence between Your Maje&s;ty and Your People: which can no way be &s;o firmly E&s;tabli&s;hed, as by Intru&s;ting Your Sacred Per&s;on with Your own Subjects, who have &s;o eminently Signaliz'd them|&s;elves on all Occa&s;ions, during the late Long and Expen&s;ive War.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>His Maje&s;ty's Mo&s;t Gracious ANSWER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Came hither to Re&s;tore the Ancient Con&s;titution of this Go|vernment; I have had all po&s;&s;ible Regard to it &s;ince my coming; and I am re&s;olved, through the Cour&s;e of my Reign, to endeavour to Pre&s;erve it entire in all the Parts of it.</P>
<P>I have a full Confidence in the Affections of My People, and I am Well a&s;&s;ur'd they have the &s;ame in Me, and I will Never give them Ju&s;t Cau&s;e to alter this Opinion.</P>
<P>As to My Subjects who Serv'd during the War, I am an Eye|witne&s;s of their Bravery, and of their Zeal for My Per&s;on and Go|vernment; and I have not been wanting to expre&s;s My Sen&s;e of This to My Parliaments, as well as upon other Occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>I have all the Rea&s;on to Tru&s;t and Rely upon them that a Prince can have, and I am &s;atisfied, there is not One Man among them ca|pable of entertaining a Thought, that what was propos'd in My Me&s;&s;age, proceeded from any Di&s;tru&s;t of them.</P>
<P>It &s;hall be My Study to the Utmo&s;t of My Power to Perform the Part of a Ju&s;t and Good King, and as I will ever be Strictly and Nice|ly Careful of Ob&s;erving My Promi&s;es to My Subjects, &s;o I will not doubt of their Tender Regards to Me.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="license">
<P>BY Virtue of an Order of the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> I do Appoint <HI>Edward Jones,</HI> and <HI>Timothy Goodwin,</HI> to Print this Addre&s;s; and that no other Per&s;on pre&s;ume to Print the &s;ame</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>THO. LITTLETON,</SIGNED>
<HI>Speaker</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P>LONDON: <HI>Printed for</HI> Edward Jones <HI>in the</HI> Savor, <HI>and</HI> Timothy Goodwin at the <HI>Queen's</HI> He <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> 1699.</P>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
