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<P>THE SPEECH Of the Right Honorable, The LORD MAYOR of <HI>London,</HI> With the Humble ADDRESSE OF THE MILITARY FORCES Of the &s;ame CITY, To The Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY.</P>
<P>With His MAJESTIES mo&s;t Gracious ANSWER Thereunto, And LETTER To the Lord Mayor thereupon.</P>
<P>And all the Tran&s;actions incident thereunto.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by Authority</P>
<P>Printed at <HI>London,</HI> and Re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh, Anno Dom.</HI> 1661.</P>
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<P>THat highly de&s;erving Gentleman, and faithfull Sub|ject, Sir <HI>Richard Brown,</HI> Knight and Baronet, now Lord Mayor, and Major General of the City of <HI>London,</HI> the Field Officers, Captains, and other inferiour Officers of all the Trained Bands, the Regiments of Hor&s;e, and Re|giments of Auxiliary Forces of that famous City, met on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the &s;econd of <HI>April,</HI> 1661. at the <HI>Guildhall</HI> of the &s;ame City and there &s;ub&s;cribed the following Addre&s;s.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Dread Soveraign.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOur mo&s;t Loyal and mo&s;t Devoted Subjects, Your Major General, Field Officers and Captains, with all the In|feriour Officers of the &s;everal Regiments of Your Trained-Bands of Your City of <HI>London,</HI> whiles &s;ome mens zeal, through unrighteous Seducements, &s;eems a little cooled towards Your Maje&s;ties Service, Do with all humble boldne&s;s Remon&s;trate the Con&s;tancy of theirs; And in a deep &s;en&s;e of their Duty and high Obligations to Your Sacred Maje&s;ty for Your e&s;peciall Indulgencies to this Your Native City, do Dedi|cate their Lives and E&s;tates to Your Maje&s;ties Service; Here|by adding to their Oath of Allegiance, That they will not on|ly bear Faith and Obedience to Your Maje&s;ty, but upon all Oc|ca&s;ions joyfully employ and improve their uttermo&s;t power and vigilancy with their Lives and Fortunes to de&s;troy Your Ene|mies in defence of Your Royall Per&s;on and Authority, and &s;e|curing all Your ju&s;t civil Intere&s;ts, with the Intere&s;t of Reli|gion as it is now e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law: For, Your Maje&s;ty being eminently the mo&s;t Pious, Gracious, and Worthy Prince in the
<PB N="4" REF="3"> World, we cannot, without exceeding all other Subjects in Loy|alty and Affection, de&s;erve the Title of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Maje&s;ties True, Dutifull, Humble, and Obedient Subjects and Servants.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The &s;aid Addre&s;s was &s;ub&s;cribed by the &s;everal Officers, as well Superiour as Inferiour, of all the Trained-Bands, the Regiments of Hor&s;e and Auxiliary Forces of the City, to the number of &s;ome five hundred per&s;ons; which being already re-printed and publi|&s;hed, is here forborn.</P>
<P>All which marched in an orderly Train on Foot, onely the Lord Mayor leading them in his Coach to the Court at Whitehall, and were in&s;tantly received into the Banquetting-Hou&s;e. His Maje|&s;ty at their coming being in debate of &s;ome important Affairs at the Council, was plea&s;ed in much favour to &s;end a Per&s;on of quality, and after him &s;everal other Gentlemen one after another, to ac|quaint them with that occa&s;ion, and to be&s;peak their attendance till the &s;ame would permit His ab&s;ence from the Council: Not|with&s;tanding, it plea&s;ed His Maje&s;ty after a little while to &s;pare him&s;elf from tho&s;e Affairs at the Council; and with great &s;hew of Princely favour and regard to receive the Papers of Addre&s;s into His own hand, being pre&s;ented by the Lord Mayor after he had delivered him&s;elf in this affectionate Speech.</P>
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<HEAD>THE Lord Mayors Speech.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your Maje&s;ty.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Came accompanied with the&s;e Your Officers, who command all Your <HI>Lon|don</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="3"> Forces both Hor&s;e and Foot: <NOTE N="&rindx;" PLACE="marg">Point|ing at them &s;everally.</NOTE> Here &s;tand tho&s;e that command Your Hor&s;e, the&s;e Your Trained Bands, The other, Your Auxiliaries. When Your Maje&s;ty hath taken a right view of them, You will &s;ee Loyalty linked in an unchangeable Chain; The&s;e are they who will not &s;werve from what they &s;wear, that's fealty without fal&s;ity, and it were a &s;hame not to do &s;o; &s;eing we &s;ow in peace and reap the plenty which &s;prings from &s;o excellent a Gover|nour, &s;o good a Government: If You plea&s;e, to &s;ee our hearts, the&s;e lines lead to them, and &s;peak for them, which I here humbly pre&s;ent unto Your Sacred Maje&s;ty in their names and under their hands, Be&s;eeching Your Maje&s;ty to accept them as a dutifull return of tho&s;e many &s;ignal favors vouch|&s;afed by Your Maje&s;ty to Your Native City and Loyall Citizens.</P>
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<P>Whereunto His Maje&s;ty replyed, That He had &s;toln a time from very important Af|fairs, on which He was in debate with His Council, to come to them; and gave a mo&s;t gracious an&s;wer, declaring His good e&s;teem of them; His kinde re&s;entment of their Ad|dre&s;s; His a&s;&s;ured confidence in their faith|fulne&s;s; His readine&s;s and de&s;ire to advance the welfare of the City; and many other ex|pre&s;&s;ions full of Princely goodne&s;s and af|fection.</P>
<P>And after all this, was further plea&s;ed that night to &s;end a worthy Gentleman, Clerk of the Council, to the Lord Mayor, to give no|tice that His Maje&s;ty intended the next day to &s;end down &s;ome Lords of His Council to make a more ample &s;ignification of His Ma|je&s;ties gracious acceptance of the Addre&s;s, and to require a meeting of the Commanders and Officers for that purpo&s;e: But their Lord&s;hips, being prevented by the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;itting for Claims at the Co|ronation, &s;ent to excu&s;e their per&s;onal com|ing by a Me&s;&s;enger to the Lord Mayor, who al&s;o brought His Maje&s;ties gracious Letter in the&s;e words.</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES <HI>R.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
<SALUTE>TRu&s;ty and welbeloved, We greet you well.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>We have received your Ad|dre&s;s, wherein you do not only give &V;s a full and acceptable Demon&s;tration of your Duty, Love, and Loyalty to &V;s (which We do Graciou&s;ly accept) but al&s;o &s;hew forth an Eminent Example thereof to all other Our good Subjects within Our King|doms and Dominions. You may be a&s;&s;ured that as Our Royal Progenitors have al|wayes had a particular and extraordinary kindne&s;s for that Our Capital City, &s;o We &s;hall not come behind any of them in Our Princely care to make the &s;ame both flou|ri&s;hing and &s;ecure at home, and glorious and renowned abroad. And &s;o We bid you farewell. <HI>Given at Our Court at</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="5"> Whitehall, <HI>this third day of</HI> April <HI>in the thirteenth year of Our Reign.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By His Maje&s;ties Command, VVILL. MORICE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Our Tru&s;ty and Welbeloved, Sir <HI>Richard Brown,</HI> Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor, and Major-General of Our City of <HI>London,</HI> to be Communicated to the Field Officers and Captains, with all the Inferiour Offi|cers of the &s;everal Regiments of the Trai|ned Bands, the Regiments of Hor&s;e, and the Regiments of Auxiliary Forces of Our &s;aid City.</TRAILER>
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<P>Which being read in pre&s;ence of all the Field Officers, made deep impre&s;&s;ions of His Maje&s;ties Grace and Favour upon their minds, and drew forth all an&s;werable acknowledgements in out|ward expre&s;&s;ions, which they ordered pre&s;ently to be repre&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty by Sir <HI>Richard Ford,</HI> Sir <HI>William Vincent,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Player,</HI> and directed them to beg of His Maje&s;ty this Roy|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l addition, That they might publi&s;h in print the Narrative of the whole pa&s;&s;age of their dutifull Addre&s;s, and the mo&s;t gracious re|ception thereof by His Sacred Maje&s;ty, for the ju&s;t &s;upport of tho&s;e good Subjects, who&s;e Loyal affections attended that Remon&s;trance, and at once to &s;top the mouths of tho&s;e who detracted from the Royal acceptance of it, and to encourage them (if they have any &s;en&s;e of Duty and Honor) to out-do the Remon&s;trants in the like real profe&s;&s;ion of their bounden duty: for which the &s;aid Of|ficers &s;hall both love and honor their new Rivals, and in all amity and mutual affections keep peace with them, if they can.</P>
<P>Which His Maje&s;ty was graciou&s;ly well plea&s;ed to approve of, and con&s;ent that His Royal Letter, and all the preceeding Pa&s;&s;ages &s;hould be made publick.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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