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<P> THE ADDRESS OF THE LORDS SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL, AND COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT, TO THE KING's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.</P>
<P>Pre&s;ented by the Right Honourable The LORD MARQUESS of <HI>HALLIFAX,</HI> Lord Privy Seal, and Speaker to the Hou&s;e of Lords.</P>
<P>In the <HI>Banqueting-Hou&s;e</HI> at <HI>White-hall,</HI> the Eighth of <HI>March,</HI> 168<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> WITH His Maje&s;ty's Mo&s;t GRATIOUS ANSWER thereunto.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>James Partridge, Matthew Gillyflower,</HI> and <HI>Samuel Heyrick,</HI> Printers to the Hou&s;e of Lords. 1688/9.</P>
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<HEAD>THE ADDRESS OF THE Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com|mons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Martis, 5 Martii, 1688/9.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WE Your Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t faith|full and dutifull Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Tem|poral, and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, being highly &s;en&s;ible of our late great and &s;ignal Deliverance from Popery and Arbitra|ry Power, whereof it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God to make Your Maje&s;ty the glorious In&s;tru|ment, and de&s;iring to the utmo&s;t of our abilities to expre&s;s our Gratitude to Your Maje&s;ty for &s;o great and generous an &V;ndertaking, no le&s;s nece&s;&s;ary for the Support of the Prote&s;tant
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Intere&s;t in <HI>Europe,</HI> than for the recovering and maintaining the Civil Rights and Li|berties of the&s;e Nations, &s;o notoriou&s;ly inva|ded and undermined by Popi&s;h Coun&s;els and Coun&s;ellours, and being likewi&s;e fully con|vinced of the re&s;tle&s;s Spirits, and the con|tinued Endeavours of Your Maje&s;ty's and and the Nation's Enemies, for the Extirpa|tion of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Sub|ver&s;ion of our Laws and Liberties, do u|nanimou&s;ly declare, That we will &s;tand by and a&s;&s;i&s;t Your Maje&s;ty with our Lives and Fortunes in &s;upporting Your Alliances abroad, in reducing of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and in defence of the Prote&s;tant Religion and of the Kingdom.</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTY's MOST GRACIOUS ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS Of Both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IF any thing could add to the E|&s;teem and Affection I have for Parliaments, and particularly for this, they would be much en|crea&s;ed by the Kindne&s;s you &s;hew to me, and the Zeal you expre&s;s for the Publick Good, in the Addre&s;s you have made, which in the Manner, as well as the Matter, hath eve|ry
<PB N="4" REF="4"> thing in it that ought to recommend it to Me.</P>
<P>I will a&s;&s;ure you that I will never abu&s;e the Confidence you &s;hall put in me, being fully per|&s;uaded, that there is no &s;ure Foundation of a good Agreement between a King and his Peo|ple, but a mutual Tru&s;t; when that is once bro|ken, a Government is half di&s;&s;olved; it &s;hall therefore be my chief Care never to give any Parliament cau&s;e to di&s;tru&s;t me: And the be&s;t Method I can u&s;e for that purpo&s;e, is never to expect any thing from them but that which &s;hall be their own Intere&s;t to grant.</P>
<P>I came hither for the Good of the Kingdom, and &s;ince it is at your de&s;ire that I am in this Station, I &s;hall &s;till pur&s;ue the &s;ame ends that brought me.</P>
<P>God hath been plea&s;ed to make me in&s;tru|mental to redeem you from the Ills you feared, and it is &s;till my De&s;ire, as well as my Duty, to endeavour to pre&s;erve your Religion, Laws, and Liberties, which were the onely Induce|ments that brought me into <HI>England,</HI> and to tho&s;e I a&s;cribe the Ble&s;&s;ings that have attended this Undertaking.</P>
<P>When I &s;poke la&s;t to you, I told you of the nece&s;&s;ity of A&s;&s;i&s;ting our Allies, and more e&s;pe|cially the States of <HI>Holland,</HI> who&s;e readine&s;s to relieve you, at their &s;o great Hazard and Ex|pence,
<PB N="5" REF="4"> from the Extremities you lay under, needs no other Arguments to move you to the con&s;i|deration of it.</P>
<P>As I was then a Witne&s;s of their Zeal and Af|fection to promote the Expedition, and to &s;econd my Endeavours even with a Neglect of their own Safety, &s;o I am now &s;en&s;ible of the inevitable ruine they have drawn upon Them&s;elves, by giving you this a&s;&s;i&s;tence, if you &s;hould not return it to them.</P>
<P>They really exhau&s;ted them&s;elves to &s;uch a Degree, both as to Men and Money, that it is not ea&s;ily to be imagined, and I am confident your Genero&s;ity will have as little bounds to|wards them, as theirs had towards you; and that you will not only enable Me to make good the Treaty with them, and repay what they have actually laid out upon this occa|&s;ion, of which our Account &s;hall be given to you, but that you will farther &s;upport them, to the utmo&s;t of your Ability, again&s;t the Power of their Enemies, who mu&s;t be yours too, by their Intere&s;t, and by their Religion; and do certainly de&s;ign the Ruine of <HI>Holland</HI> to be a &s;tep to your de&s;truction.</P>
<P>I need not take pains to tell you the deplora|ble condition of <HI>Ireland,</HI> which by the Zeal and Violence of the Popi&s;h Party there, and by the a&s;&s;i&s;tence and encouragements they have from <HI>France,</HI> is brought to that pa&s;s, that it is not
<PB N="6" REF="5"> advi&s;eable to attempt the Reducing it, other|wi&s;e than by a very con&s;iderable Force, which I think ought not to be le&s;s than Twenty Thou|&s;and Hor&s;e and Foot; which by the Ble&s;&s;ing of God, will make the Work &s;horter, and in con|&s;equence, the Charge ea&s;ier, though the fir&s;t Ex|pence mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity be very great.</P>
<P>You are to con&s;ider that towards the more &s;peedy and effectual &s;ucce&s;s in relation to <HI>Ireland,</HI> as well as with a regard to <HI>France,</HI> there mu&s;t be &s;uch a Fleet as may, in Conjunction with the States, make us &s;o entirely Ma&s;ters of the Sea, that nothing can be &s;ent from <HI>France,</HI> either to <HI>Ireland,</HI> or any where el&s;e, that may give di|&s;turbance to us, or our Allies.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t al&s;o recommend the Con&s;ideration of the Revenue to you, that it may be &s;o Set|led, as that it my be Collected without di|&s;pute.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>The&s;e things will amount to a great Summ, and mu&s;t of con&s;equence be a pre&s;ent weight upon the People; but con&s;idering that nei|ther your Religion, nor your Safety, can pro|bably be &s;ecured without the&s;e means, I conclude you will think nothing can be too great a price for their pre&s;ervation. And I will engage my Solemn Word to You, That whatever you
<PB N="7" REF="5"> &s;hall give in order to the&s;e publick ends, &s;hall be &s;trictly applyed to them; and that as you &s;o freely offer to hazard all that is dear to you, &s;o I &s;hall as freely expo&s;e my Life for the &s;up|port of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Safety and Honour of the Nation.</P>
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<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Veneris</HI> 8 <HI>Martii</HI> 1688/9.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, That the Addre&s;s of both Hou&s;es Pre&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty this day, and His Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Gracious An&s;wer thereunto be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Jo. Browne,</HI> Cleric. Parliamentor.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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