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<DATE>2014-09-10</DATE>
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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO THE KING'S Mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, THE Humble Addre&s;s of the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es in Parliament A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<P>_WE Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Loyal and Dutiful Subjects, the Com|mons in this pre&s;ent Parlia|ment A&s;&s;embled, mo&s;t hum|bly lay before Your Maje&s;ty our Earne&s;t De&s;ire, That Your Maje&s;ty would be plea&s;ed to take into Your mo&s;t Serious Con&s;ideration, the de&s;tructive Methods taken of late Years by the <HI>French</HI> King, again&s;t the Trade, Quiet, and Intere&s;t of this Your Kingdom, and particularly the pre&s;ent Inva&s;ion of the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and Supporting Your Maje|&s;ties Rebellious Subjects there.</P>
<P>Not doubting in the lea&s;t, but that through Your Maje&s;ties Wi&s;dom, the Alliances already made, with &s;uch as may hereafter be Concluded on this Occa&s;ion by Your Maje&s;ty, may be effectual to Reduce the <HI>French</HI> King to &s;uch a Condition, that it may not be in his Power hereafter to Violate the Peace of Chri|&s;tendom, nor prejudice the Trade and Pro&s;perity of this Your Maje&s;ties Kingdom.</P>
<P>To this End, We mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech Your Ma|je&s;ty to re&s;t a&s;&s;ured upon this our Solemn and Hearty Promi&s;e and Engagement, That when Your Maje&s;ty &s;hall think fit to enter into a War again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> King, We will give Your Maje&s;ty &s;uch A&s;&s;i&s;tance in a Parliamentary way, as may enable Your Maje&s;ty (under that Protection and Ble&s;&s;ing God Almighty has ever afforded you) to Support and go through with the &s;ame.</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>William R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_I Receive this Addre&s;s as a Mark of the Confidence you have in Me, which I take very kindly, and &s;hall endeavour by all My Actions to Confirm you in it.</P>
<P>I a&s;&s;ure you, that My Own Ambition &s;hall never be an Argument to incline Me to Engage in a War, that may Expo&s;e the Nation either to Danger or Expence.</P>
<P>But in the pre&s;ent Ca&s;e, I look upon the War &s;o much already Declared in effect by <HI>France</HI> again&s;t <HI>England,</HI> that it is not &s;o properly an Act of Choice, as an Inevitable Nece&s;sity in Our own Defence.</P>
<P>I &s;hall only tell you, that as I have Ventured My Life and all that is Dear to Me, to Re&s;cue this Nation from what it Suffered, I am ready &s;till to do the &s;ame, in Order to the Pre&s;erving it from all its Enemies; And as I do not doubt of &s;uch an A&s;si&s;tance from you, as &s;hall be &s;uitable to your Advice to Me, to Declare War again&s;t a Powerful Enemy, &s;o you may Relye upon Me, that no part of that which you &s;hall give for the carrying it on with Succe&s;s, &s;hall be Diverted by Me to any other &V;&s;e.</P>
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