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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE <HI>KINGS</HI> Mo&s;t Excellent <HI>MAJESTY,</HI> THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE <HI>LORD Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of</HI> London, <HI>in Common Council A&s;&s;embled.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THat we Your mo&s;t Loyal and Duetiful Subjects, having with A&s;toni&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 Brother <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York;</HI> and that to effect the &s;ame, they have held &s;everal Trea&s;ona|ble Con&s;ultations, to Levy Men, and to make an In&s;urrection, and made great Provi&s;ion of Arms: A De&s;ign notoriou&s;ly tending 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 In|volve this and the future Generation in Confu&s;ion, Bloud, 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><HI>And having in the fir&s;t place offered up our &s;olemn Thanks to Almighty God, for His watchful Providence in bringing to Light this Impious and Execrable Machination,</HI></P>
<P><HI>We do in the next place humbly offer to Your Majesty the deep Re&s;entments of our Loyal Hearts concerning the &s;ame, and beg Your Majesty to Rest fully a&s;&s;ured, That as no Interest in this World is valuable to us in compari&s;on of Your Majesties Service and Safety; &s;o we are Determined readily to Expo&s;e our Lives and For|tunes 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 particularly, for Di&s;covering, Defeating, and De&s;troying all &s;uch Con&s;piracies, A&s;&s;ociations, and Attempts what&s;oever.</HI></P>
<P><HI>All which Re&s;olutions are accompanied with our Daily 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.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>2 <HI>July</HI> 1683.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<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>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Re-printed, in the Year of GOD, 1683.</P>
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