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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Humble ADDRESS Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Pre&s;ented to HIS MAJESTY. On <DATE><HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the Eighteenth Day of <HI>February,</HI> 1700.</DATE> AND His Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Gracious An&s;wer thereunto.</HEAD>
<P>WE the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, Return Our mo&s;t Humble Thanks and Acknowledgements to Your Maje&s;ty, for Your Concern expre&s;s'd for the Prote&s;tant Religion in Your gra|cious Speech, and Your Care for its future Pre&s;ervation, by Recom|mending to Our Con&s;ideration a further Provi&s;ion for the Succe&s;&s;ion to the Crown in the Prote&s;tant Line.</P>
<P>We are highly Sen&s;ible of the Weight of tho&s;e Things Your Maje&s;ty is plea&s;ed further to Recommend to Our Con&s;ideration; and therefore humbly de&s;ire You will be plea&s;ed to Order all the Treaties that have been made between Your Ma|je&s;ty and any other Prince or State, &s;ince the late War, to be laid before Us, that We may be Enabled to give Our mature Advice, when we are Informed of all tho&s;e Matters nece&s;&s;ary to Direct Our Judgements.</P>
<P>And We humbly de&s;ire of Your Sacred Maje&s;ty, that You will enter into Alli|ances with all tho&s;e Princes and States, who are willing to Unite, for the Pre&s;er|vation of the Balance of <HI>Europe;</HI> A&s;&s;uring Your Maje&s;ty, that we &s;hall mo&s;t readily Concur in all &s;uch Methods, which may effectually Conduce to the Ho|nour and Safety of <HI>England,</HI> the Pre&s;ervation of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Peace of <HI>Europe.</HI></P>
<P>And We humbly Return Our further Thanks to Your Maje&s;ty, for the Letter communicated to this Hou&s;e the Seventeenth of <HI>February</HI> In&s;tant; and having taken it into Our immediate Con&s;ideration, We humbly De&s;ire of Your Maje&s;ty to I&s;&s;ue the nece&s;&s;ary Orders for Seizing the Hor&s;es and Arms of the Pa|pi&s;ts, and other Di&s;affected Per&s;ons, and for Putting the Laws in Execution for Removing them from <HI>London;</HI> and that You will be plea&s;ed to give Directions for a Search to be made after Arms and other Provi&s;ions of War, which in that Letter are &s;aid to be in Readine&s;s.</P>
<P>In the mean time humbly Addre&s;&s;ing to Your Maje&s;ty, That Order may be given for the &s;peedy Fitting out of &s;uch a Fleet, as Your Maje&s;ty in Your great Wi&s;dom may think Nece&s;&s;ary in this pre&s;ent Conjuncture, for the Defence of Your Maje&s;ty and the Kingdom.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Gracious An|&s;wer to the Addre&s;s.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Thank You for this Addre&s;s, and for the Concern You Expre&s;s in Relation to Our Common Security both at Home and Abroad; I &s;hall give the Nece&s;&s;ary Orders for tho&s;e Things You de&s;ire of Me, and take Care for Setting out &s;uch a Fleet as way be nece&s;&s;ary for Our common Defence in this Conjuncture.</P>
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