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<DATE>2008-03-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE KINGS Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Humble Addre&s;s of the Society of the <HI>Middle-Temple.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>DREAD SOVERAIGN,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WIth hearts full of un&s;peakable Joy we pre&s;ume to approach Your Royal pre&s;ence, and with all our Souls ble&s;s Almighty GOD for the late wonderful Di&s;covery of the <HI>helli&s;h Con&s;piracy</HI> begun and carryed on by <HI>de&s;perate Per&s;ons</HI> of <HI>Fanatical, Athei&s;tical</HI> and <HI>Republican</HI> Principles, who impudently a&s;&s;uming to them&s;elves the Name of <HI>True Prote&s;tants and Patriots,</HI> did at fir&s;t by Popular In&s;inuations and other Ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ifices, project the undermining the be&s;t Religion and Government in the World; and afterwards being therein prevented <HI>by Your Maje&s;ties unwearied Care and admirable Conduct,</HI> proceeded to contrive <HI>the Horrid Paricide of Your Sacred Per&s;on,</HI> the Barbarous A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination of Your Royal Brother, the dear partaker ot Your Sufferings, the Involving the&s;e Nations in Blood and Con|fu&s;ion, and the utter de&s;truction of this Monarchy.</P>
<P>As this Society has been Eminent for its Loyalty and early Tokens of Du|ty and Affect on, particularly in their humble Thanks for Your Gracious Declaration, and their Abhorrence of the late <HI>Accur&s;ed and Traiterous A&s;&s;o|ciation,</HI> which we look upon to be a part ot this <HI>Damnable Con&s;piracy,</HI> &s;o we &s;hall do our utmo&s;t to bring the <HI>Viliains</HI> to Ju&s;tice, e&s;pecially tho&s;e of this Society, who to our great Sorrow are in the number of the Con&s;pira|tors.</P>
<P>And We do repeat our Solemn Prote&s;tations to &s;tand by and Defend <HI>Your Sacred Maje&s;ty and lawful Succe&s;&s;ors</HI> with our Lives and Fortunes, and be|&s;eech Almighty God to cover with Confu&s;ion the Faces of Your mo&s;t &s;ecret Enemies, that <HI>Divine Vengeance</HI> may overtake &s;uch of the <HI>Traitors</HI> as by flight e&s;cape the Ju&s;tice of <HI>Humane Laws,</HI> who&s;e Guilt proclaims it &s;elf &s;o loud, that they dare not tru&s;t even that <HI>Mercy</HI> of which they have had &s;o long Ex|perience. And as Providence did never &s;o &s;ignalize it &s;elf on behalf of any Prince, as of Your Maje&s;ty, through the whole cour&s;e of Your Reign, &s;o may Heaven &s;hower down and continue its be&s;t Ble&s;&s;ings on the <HI>be&s;t of Kings,</HI> and be never weary of working new Miracles for Your Pre&s;ervation.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Bernard, <HI>Speaker.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty. 1683.</P>
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