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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the KINGS mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty:</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The mo&s;t Faithful and Unfeigned Thanks and Re&s;olves of the Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, Citizens, and Commonality of the City of <HI>Norwich,</HI> in Common Council A&s;&s;embled, at their General Quarter A&s;&s;embly, held <DATE>the 3d. of <HI>May,</HI> in the 33d. year of Your Maje&s;ties Reign,</DATE> and Sealed with their Common Seal.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, we Re&s;tore Your Maje&s;ty, our Hearty Thanks for Your Maje&s;ties &s;teady Re|&s;olution of maintaining the Rights of the Crown, and Succe&s;&s;ion in their due Cour&s;e, and our Religion, <HI>by Law E&s;tabli&s;hed,</HI> the Right of Your Subjects, their Liberties and Properties, again&s;t the Arbitrary proceedings of the Hou&s;e of commons, in their two la&s;t Parliaments, and their &V;nlimited, and Illegal Impri&s;onments; and their Me&s;&s;engers exorbitant, exacting pretended Fees form Your Loyal Subjects, con|trary to <HI>Magna Carta,</HI> and Your Maje&s;ties Declaration, dated the eight day of <HI>April, 1681.</HI></P>
<P>We al&s;o &V;nanimou&s;ly thank Your Sacred Maje&s;ty, for giving Your la&s;t Parliaments &s;uch timely Di&s;&s;olutions, and for Your Gracious and kind Declaration &s;ent after them, and not pa&s;&s;ing limitations, or nullifications of &s;uch whole&s;ome Acts, as were de&s;ign|ed for a pre&s;ervation of the Reformed Religion, e&s;pecially the 35th. of Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> as well as for not &s;igning &s;uch others, which were prepared for Your Maje&s;ties Sub|jects, to a&s;&s;ociate and destroy the Succe&s;&s;ion, and extirpate Monarchy, not doubting, but by Your Maje&s;ties great Wi&s;dom, effectual Care will be taken, that tho&s;e Laws, now in force, may vigorou&s;ly, &s;peedily, and equally be put in execution, again&s;t all Papists and Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters, whereby we hope in time, they will be all brought to their right &V;nder&s;tanding, Obedience, and Allegiance to Your Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>And we do &V;nanimou&s;ly re&s;olve, that it &s;hall be our utmo&s;t endeavours, when Your Maje&s;ties occa&s;ions require, to &s;end &s;uch men for our Repre&s;entatives, as &s;hall rea|dily, and willingly &s;upply Your Maje&s;ties occa&s;ions, and the Defence of the Kingdom by Sea and Land, and give di&s;couragements to all Papi&s;ts, and other malicious op|po&s;ers, being clearly Convinced, that the Conveening of Parliaments to any place, Managing, Proroguing, and Di&s;&s;olving the &s;ame, is the unque&s;tionable Right of Your Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>We farther Re&s;olve, that to our utmo&s;t power we will, as in duty bound, &s;tand by, and defend with our Lives and Fortunes, Your Majesties Sacred Per&s;on and Go|vernment, <HI>as by Law E&s;tabli&s;hed,</HI> and the Succe&s;&s;ion in the right Line, and legal cour&s;e of de&s;cent, again&s;t all vile Attempts of all that do yet retain their old Common|wealth Principles, by whom Your Father of Ever-ble&s;&s;ed Memory, was Barbarou&s;ly Murthered, and &s;hall always, upon all occa&s;ions, be in greate&s;t readine&s;s to perform the &s;ame, and glad to &s;hew our &s;elves,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Great Sir,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Sacred Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Faith|ful, Dutiful, Obedient, Loyal, and true hearted Citizens and Subjects.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Re-printed in the Year, 1681.</HI></P>
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