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<HEAD>Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE <HI>Lord Mayor Aldermen, and Commons of the City</HI> of London, <HI>in Com|mon Council a&s;&s;embled.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>THat we Your mo&s;t loyal and dutiful Subjects, having with a&s;to|ni&s;hment received the di&s;covery of a mo&s;t traiterous and horrid Con&s;piracy, of divers ill-affected and de&s;perate Per&s;ons, to compa&s;s the death and de&s;truction of Your Royal Per&s;on, and of Your deare&s;t Bro|ther <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York;</HI> and that to effect the &s;ame, they have held &s;everal Trea&s;onable Con&s;ultations to Levy Men, and to make an In&s;ur|rection, and made great Provi&s;ion of Arms; a de&s;ign notoriou&s;ly tend|ing to the pre&s;ent de&s;truction, not only of Your be&s;t Subjects, but of the Sacred per&s;on of Your Maje&s;ty, the be&s;t of Princes, and to involve this and the future Generation into confu&s;ion, blood and mi&s;ery; carried on, notwith&s;tanding their &s;pecious Pretences, by known di&s;&s;enting Conventiclers, and athei&s;tical Per&s;ons,</P>
<P>And having in the fir&s;t place offered up our &s;olen n thanks to Almigh|ty God, for His Watchful Providence in bringing to light this Impi|ous and Execrable Machination,</P>
<P>VVe do in the next place humbly offer to Your Maje&s;ty the deep Re&s;entments of Our loyal hearts concerning the &s;ame, and beg Your Maje&s;ty to re&s;t fully a&s;&s;ured, that as no Intere&s;t in this VVorld is valuable to us in compari&s;on of Your Maje&s;ties Service, and Safe|ty; &s;o we are determined readily to expo&s;e our lives and fortunes in defence of Your Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, Your Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors, and Your Government E&s;tabli&s;hed in Church and State, and particu|larly, for di&s;covering, defating, and de&s;troying all &s;uch Con&s;piracies, A&s;&s;ociations, and Attempts what&s;oever.</P>
<P>All which Re&s;olutions are accompanied with our dayly and fervent Prayers, that Your Maje&s;ty may vanqui&s;h and overcome all Your Enemies; and that the Years of Your Happy Reign over us, may be many and pro&s;perous.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>2. <HI>July</HI> 1683.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>It is His Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure that this Humble Addre&s;s be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>L. JENKINS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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