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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable Sir <HI>Patient Ward,</HI> Kt. Lord-Mayor of the City of LONDON, and to the Right Wor&s;hipfull, the Aldermen his Brethren,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Humble Petition of Us who&s;e Names are here Sub&s;cribed, and of many other Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of <HI>London;</HI> his Maje&s;ties Loyall Subjects.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat your Petitioners being deeply &s;en&s;ible of the many In&s;tances which they have had the Honour to receive, of his Maje&s;ties Princely Goodne&s;s and Bounty; and more particularly, in His Royall A&s;&s;urances of a full <HI>Re&s;olution to have Frequent Parliaments; and both In, and Out of Parliament tou&s;e his utmo&s;t Endeavours to extirpate Popery; to redre&s;s all the Grie|vances of his Good Subjects; and in all things to Govern according to the Laws of the Kingdom:</HI> Which his Sacred Maje&s;ty hath been Graciou&s;ly pleas'd, with a mo&s;t Expre&s;s Solemnity, to promi&s;e, and to publi&s;h unto the World in his Late Princely <HI>Declaration.</HI></P>
<P>In the Contemplation of a Goodne&s;s &s;o ample, and &s;o effectuall, that there is nothing further wanting toward the Compo|&s;ing of Mens Mindes; the creating of a Right Under&s;tanding betwixt his Maje&s;ty and his Liege-People; and (under Gods Pro|vidence) toward the E&s;tabli&s;hment of a Di&s;tracted Nation in Agreement, Peace, and Plenty; &s;aving only the Dutiful Return of Veneration and Obedience, from the Subject, in acknowledgement of the Fatherly Tenderne&s;s of &s;o Indulgent a Sovereign.</P>
<P>Your Humble Petitioners cannot but in Reverence, and Gratitude, Declare, that We are Unanimou&s;ly Re&s;olved to lay our Lives and Fortunes at His Maje&s;ties Feet, in Defence of his Sacred Per&s;on, again&s;t all Oppo&s;ition what&s;oever; and in the Maintenance of the E&s;tabli&s;hed Religion, and the Government both of Church and State, as it is &s;etled by Law; pur&s;uant to the Tenour of his Maje&s;ties Royal Declaration, and the Duty of all Loyal Subjects.</P>
<P>May it Therefore plea&s;e your Lord&s;hip, and this Honourable Court, to pre&s;ent This our Humble <HI>Aadre&s;s, Declaration,</HI> and <HI>Re&s;olution,</HI> to his mo&s;t Gracious Maje&s;ty, in &s;uch manner as unto You &s;hall &s;eem meet;</P>
<CLOSER>And Your Petitioners (as in Duty bound) &s;hall ever Pray.</CLOSER>
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