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<HEAD>The la&s;t National Addre&s;s pre&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty at <HI>Hampton-Court,</HI> <DATE>the <HI>16th.</HI> day of <HI>November</HI> 1700,</DATE> by the Right Honoura|ble the Lord <HI>Ye&s;ter,</HI> Sir <HI>John Pringle</HI> of <HI>Stichell</HI> and Sir <HI>Peter Wed|derburn</HI> of <HI>Gosford</HI> Baronets, Commi&s;&s;ioners appointed for that end.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>VVE</HI> Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Burge&s;&s;es, and other Sub&s;cribers, your Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Dutiful Subjects of this your Antient Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> having formerly from an un|feigned Zeal to your Maje&s;ty's Service, and to the Good and Welfare of our Countrey Petition'd your Maje&s;ty for a Meeting of the E&s;tates in Parliament, in order to Support, and A&s;&s;i&s;t our Company Trading to <HI>Africa</HI> and the <HI>Indies,</HI> which the Parliament had, by their Unanimous Addre&s;s to your Maje&s;ty of the 5th. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1698, declared to be their own and the whole Nation's peculiar Concern, And your Maje&s;ty having been graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to allow the Parliament to Meet on the <HI>21th.</HI> of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, whereby all your good Subjects could not but conceive &s;uitable hopes of its happy i&s;&s;ue, for the Honour and Intere&s;t of your Maje&s;ty and People, do now beg leave to expre&s;s our deep Con|cern &amp; Sorrow for the unexpected Adjournment thereof, without being permitted to do any thing towards the wi&s;h'd for end of its Meeting, And do in all humble manner concurr with the dutifull Addre&s;s lately pre&s;ented to your Maje&s;ty, from rhe Plurality of the Members of Parliament, Repre&s;enting the Inconveniencies and prejudices ari&s;ing to the pre&s;&s;ing Concerns of the Nation, from that Adjournment, and to the Rights and Liberties of Parliament, from the manner of it: And it is our Unexpre&s;&s;ible Regret, that your Maje&s;ty does &s;eem to have been prevail'd upon by the Mi&s;-repre&s;entations of evil Councellours to i&s;&s;ue out Proclamations&punc; further Adjourning the Parliament, from time to time, whil&s;t not only did our &s;aid Company &s;tand extreme|ly in need of the Countenance Support and Protection promis'd to it by your Maje&s;ty in Parliament, and more e&s;pecially upon the Misfortunes that have of late befallen it by the &s;ucce&s;s of Enemies again&s;t its Colo|ny of <HI>Caledonia,</HI> but whil&s;t al&s;o even the Nation it &s;elf did, and &s;till does, remain under the pre&s;&s;ure of &s;uch Grievances as can only be Redre&s;s'd in Parliament.</P>
<P>And to the end that your Maje&s;ty may have a ju&s;t view thereof, we humbly beg leave to repre&s;ent to your Maje&s;ty how indi&s;pen&s;ibly nece&s;&s;ary it is, THAT the Prote&s;tant Religion be &s;ecured again&s;t the growth of Popery, Immorality and Profanene&s;s; THAT the Freedom and Independency of this Antient Kingdom, and the Nation's Right and Title to <HI>Caledonia,</HI> as holding of your Maje&s;ty's Crown of <HI>Scotland,</HI> be A&s;&s;erted and Supported; THAT the good inclinations of your Maje&s;ty and Succe&s;&s;ors Kings of <HI>Scotland</HI> be pre&s;erved from Foreign Influence, as well as from the Mi&s;-repre&s;entations and Pernicious Coun&s;els of Unnatural Coun|trey-Men; THAT the frequency, and &s;itting of Parliaments be &s;ecured and a&s;certain'd, pur&s;uant to the Claim of Right; THAT dangerous Influences upon the freedom of Parliaments, either by Gratuities, Pen&s;ions, or Farms of any branch of the Revenue, and the di&s;po&s;ing of any part of the Revenue or annexed Property of the Crown, otherways than acccording to Law, for the nece&s;&s;ary &s;upport of the Government, be prevented; THAT the publick Credit be re&s;tored, and an enquiry made into the Application of the Funds laid on, and ap|propriated by Parliament, for &s;upport of the Government and payment of the Army; THAT the Se|curity of the Nation, and Government, be &s;ettled in a duly regulated National Force, in &s;tead of a &s;tanding Army, &s;o burden&s;ome to the Countrey, and dangerous to its Liberties; THAT the manner of applying the Se|curity, which we have by our Claim of Right, for the Per&s;onal freedom of the Subject, again&s;t long and Arbitrary Impri&s;onment, as well as again&s;t Pur&s;utes upon old and ob&s;olete Laws, be &s;pecially declared; THAT the Trade of this Nation be Encouraged &amp; Advanced, by duly regulating its Export and Import, by di&s;charg|ing prejudicial Branches thereof, by fixing the value of our current Money, by encouraging Manufactories, by imploying the Poor, and more e&s;pecially by Countenancing and A&s;&s;i&s;ting our &s;aid Company, in the Pro|&s;ecution of its lawful Undertakings; And THAT all &s;uch Articles of Grievances pre&s;ented to your Maje&s;ty by the E&s;tates of this Kingdom in the Year 1689 as have not yet been Redre&s;s'd, together with &s;uch other Grievan|ces as the Parliament &s;hall, at the Meeting thereof, find the Nation aggrieved with, be Redre&s;s'd in Parlia|ment.</P>
<P>And your Maje&s;ty having by your Royal Letter, of the 24 of <HI>May</HI> 1689, been graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to declare, and give full a&s;&s;urance to our Repre&s;entatives in that meeting of the E&s;tates, which &s;ettled the Crown and Royal Dignity of this Realm on your Maje&s;ty, <HI>That we &s;hould always find your Maje&s;ty ready to Protect us, and to A&s;&s;i&s;t the E&s;tates in making &s;uch Laws, as might &s;ecure our Religion, Liberties and Properties, and prevent or Redre&s;s what&s;oever might be ju&s;tly grievous to us; That your Maje&s;ty would never believe that the true intere&s;t of your People and the Crown could be oppo&s;ite; and that your Maje&s;ty would always account it your greate&s;t Prerogative to a&s;sent to &s;uch Laws as might promote Truth, Peace, and Wealth in Your Kingdom.</HI> We do therefore reckon it our duty, humbly to de&s;ire and a&s;&s;uredly expect&punc; that your Maje&s;ty will be graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to &s;atisfy the longing de&s;ires, and earne&s;t Expectations of your People, by allowing your Parliament to meet, as &s;oon as po&s;&s;ible; and when mett, to &s;it till they fully deliberate upon, and come to &s;olid Re&s;olutions in the great and weighty Concerns of the Nati|on, and grant &s;uch In&s;tructions to your Commi&s;&s;ioner, as may impower him to pa&s;s &s;uch Ac<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, as the great Council of the Nation &s;hall think mo&s;t conducive to the true Honour of your Maje&s;ty and Gove<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ment, the welfare of this Realm, both as to its Religious and Civil Intere&s;t, and to the full quieting <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e Minds of all your Maje&s;ty's good People&punc;</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ty, after having heard this Addre&s;s read, was Graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to give the following An&s;wer.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I can not take further notice of this Addre&s;s, &s;eing the Parliament is now mett, and I have made a Declaration of my Mind for the good of my People, wherewith I hope all my faithfull Subjects will be &s;atisfied.</P>
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