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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Hereford.</DATELINE>
<SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SInce we are very &s;en&s;ible that no Age hath ever yet produc'd any Prince that hath with more Ju&s;tice, Goodne&s;s and Mercy, &s;waid the Scepters of the three Kingdoms (Ble&s;|&s;ings which our Forefathers never had in a more eminent degree of Perfection, and all other Nations never yet knew) We conceive it our Duty to manife&s;t to Your Maje&s;ty and all the World, our ju&s;t value and grateful apprehen&s;ions of the happine&s;s we enjoy un|der the be&s;t of Kings, and mo&s;t upright of Governments: And however &s;ome ill Men to accompli&s;h their black de&s;igns by attempt|ing to &s;ubvert the Government, &s;lily in&s;ituate to the credulous People, cau&s;ele&s;s Fears and fal&s;e Jealou&s;ies of Arbitrary Power growing upon us, yet the publick Manife&s;tations Your Maje&s;ty hath at all times given to your Peo|ple of Your Governing by the Laws of the Land, and by no other Method (which we find Your Maje&s;ty holds to inviolably, and and maintains as Sacred) keep us as &s;afe from &s;uch mean apprehen&s;ions, as we are &s;ecure from the di&s;mal Effects of &s;uch a way of Go|vernment, which we have no cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect, unle&s;s it be from tho&s;e that &s;ugge&s;t it, nor from them neither, till they have &s;ubverted a well temper'd Monarchy, and introduc'd their be|lov'd Tyranical Republick. We cannot but with all humble duty, Loyal Gratitude, and exce&s;s of Joy, ob&s;erve Your Maje&s;ties con&s;tant Endeavours to give &s;atisfaction and Ea&s;e to the Minds of Your Maje&s;ties Subjects, not on|ly in Your &s;trict Adherence to, and Favour of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, but more e|&s;pecially in Your late Declaration, which can|not but &s;top the Mouths of the Seditious and Factious, pre&s;erve from Apo&s;tacy the doubtful, and confirm the Loyalty of Your be&s;t &s;etled Subjects; And that Your Maje&s;ty may &s;ee that we are not poy&s;on'd, or likely to be &s;o by any Seditious and Factious De&s;igners, we do una|nimou&s;ly and heartily a&s;&s;ure Your Sacred Ma|je&s;ty, that we will &s;tand by Your Maje&s;ty in the pre&s;ervation of Your Per&s;on, Your Heirs and lawful Succe&s;&s;ors, and the Government in Church and State, as it is now by Law e&s;tabli&s;h|ed, with the la&s;t drop of our Bloud, and penny of our Fortunes; And &s;hall be ready on alloc|ca&s;ions cheerfully to give You &s;uch large A&s;|&s;i&s;tances as (joyn'd with the proportionable Supplies of other Your Maje&s;ties Loyal Sub|jects) may make Your Government great and ea&s;ie to Your Self at home, and valued and feared by all Your Allies and Neighbours a|broad. We humbly beg Your Sacred Maje&s;ty to give a gracious acceptance to the &s;teddy re|&s;olutions of us Your mo&s;t obedient and loyal Subjects, which no time, no treachery, no power, no fraud or faction, &s;hall ever make us decline or alter.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Humble, Loyal, and Obedient Subjects and Servants.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. <ADD>addre&s;s the City of Glouche&s;ter</ADD></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE> May it plea&s;e Your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WE Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t humble, Loyal, and Obedient Subjects, out of a deep Sen&s;e of Your mo&s;t Princely tenderne&s;s and tran&s;cendent Care for us, and all Your good Subjects, as well in re&s;pect of our Religious as Civil Concerns, do make this our mo&s;t Hum|ble and Faithful Addre&s;s, returning all po&s;&s;ible Gratitude for Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Gracious late Declaration, which hath like a Flood of Goodne&s;s, I&s;&s;ued from Your Royal Heart to|wards all Your Subjects, whereby all Men that have not wilfully blinded their Intellects, may be abundantly &s;atisfied of Your Maje&s;ties Fa|therly Love to us all.</P>
<P>We cannot but remember by What Frauds and Machinations the Subjects of this Your Maje&s;ties Realm in the late times were be|guiled, and under pretext of Religion (and particularly this City, of which there was a mo&s;t de&s;erved Infamy brought upon us by Men of &s;editious Principles, the dregs of which &s;till remain always watching to di&s;turb our Peace) cheated into a Rebellion, the con&s;equences whereof was a &s;ad Deva&s;tation of all, and the lo&s;s of the be&s;t of Kings. And we have rea|&s;on to believe the &s;ame deadly poy&s;on was again preparing, and had certainly been given, had not God put it into Your Maje&s;ties Heart timely, and mo&s;t prudently to prevent it,</P>
<P>As therefore we are bound to Glorifie God for His Mercy, &s;o we make our mo&s;t humble and grateful acknowledgement to Your Maje&s;ty for Your mo&s;t intent Vigilance to &s;ave us from &s;o portentous a Storm; and do therefore with all Humility and Faithfulne&s;s Pro&s;trate our &s;elves at Your Maje&s;ties Feet, &s;olemnly vow|ing before God and the whole World, That we are and will be ready, to the la&s;t drop of our Blood, and Mite of our E&s;tates, to &s;tand by and defend Your mo&s;t Sacred Per&s;on, your lawful Succe&s;&s;ors, and the ju&s;t Laws by which you govern both in Church and State.</P>
<P>The God of Heaven and Earth, by whom Kings Reign, Ble&s;s you with length of Days, Health, and all affluence of Wealth; E&s;tabli&s;h Your Sacred Per&s;on in the hearts of your People. Di&s;&s;ipate your Enemies, and Confound their Devices; and let the Scepter of <HI>Great Britain</HI> be Sway'd by you and your Lawful Succe&s;&s;ors to the end ot Time.</P>
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<P>Several other Addre&s;&s;es have been pre|&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty, as from <HI>Bri&s;tol, Lyn-Regis, &amp;c</HI> which there is not room to Pub|li&s;h here.</P>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Re-printed by <HI>John Swintoun,</HI> one of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Printers: Anno <HI>DOM.</HI> 1681.</P>
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