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<HEAD>The Humble ADDRESS of the Hou&s;e of Commons to the KING.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THIS is the Eighth Year in which Your Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, have a&s;&s;i&s;ted Your Maje&s;ty with large Supplies for carrying on a ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;a|ry War in defence of our Religion, pre&s;ervation of our Laws, and vindication of the Rights and Liberties of the people of <HI>England;</HI> which we have hitherto pre&s;erv|ed, and by the ble&s;&s;ing of God on Your Maje&s;ties Con|duct and good Government, will &s;tedfa&s;tly Maintain and Entail on our Po&s;terity.</P>
<P>This has co&s;t the Nation much Blood and Trea&s;ure, but the hopes of accompli&s;hing &s;o Great and Glorious a VVork, have made Your Subjects chearfully &s;upport the Charge. And to &s;how to Your Maje&s;ty, and all Chri&s;tendom, That the Commons of <HI>England</HI> will not be amu&s;ed or diverted from their firm re&s;olutions of ob|taining by War, a Safe and Honourable Peace, we do, in the name of all tho&s;e we repre&s;ent, renew our a&s;&s;urances to Your Maje&s;ty, That this Hou&s;e will &s;upport Your Maje&s;ty and Your Government again&s;t all Your Ene|mies both at home and abroad, And that they will effec|tually a&s;&s;i&s;t You in the Pro&s;ecution and Carrying on the pre&s;ent War again&s;t <HI>France.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM&punc;</HI> 1696.</P>
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