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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng George, -- Prince, consort of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1653-1708. Broadsides 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Prince George's Letter to the KING . SIR With a Heart full of Grief am I forced to write , that Prudence will not permit me to say to your Face . And may I eer find Credit with your Majesty , and Protection from Heaven , as what I now do is free from Passion , Vanity or Design , with which , Actions of this Nature are too often accompanied . I am not ignorant of the frequent Mischiefs wrought in the World by factious Pretences of Religion ; but were not Religion the most justifiable Cause , it would not be made the most specious Pretence . And your Majesty has always shewn too uninterested a Sense of Religion , to doubt the just Effects of it in one whose Practices have , I hope , never given the World Cause to censure his real Conviction of it ; or his backwardness to perform what his Honour and Conscience prompt him to ; how then can I longer disguise my just concern for that Religion , in which I have been so happily educated , which my Judgment throughly convinces me to be the best ; and for the Support of which I am so highly interested in my Native Country ; and is not England now , by the most endearing Tye become so . Whilst the restless Spirits of the Enemies of the REFORMED RELIGION , back'd by the cruel Zeal , and Prevailing Power of France , justly alarm and unite all the Protestant Princes of Christendom , and engage them in so vast an Expence for the Support of it , can I act so degenerous and mean a part , as to deny my Concurrence to such worthy Endeavours for disabusing of your Majesty by the Reinforcement of those Laws , and Establishment of that Government , on which alone depends the Well-being of your Majesty , and of the PROTESTANT RELIGION in Europe . This , Sir , is that irresistible and only Cause that cou'd come in Competition with my Duty and Obligations to your Majesty , and be able to tear me from you , whilst the same Affectionate Desire of serving You continues in me . Could I'secure your Person by the Hazard of my Life , I should think it could not be better employed : And wou'd to God , these Your distracted Kingdoms might yet receive that satisfactory Compliance from your Majesty in all their justifiable Pretensions , as might upon the only sure Foundation , that of the Love and Interest of your Subjects , establish your Government , and as strongly unite the Hearts of all your Subjects to you , as is that of , SIR , Your Majesties most Humble , and most Obedient Son and Servant The Lord Churchill's Letter to the KING . SIR , Since Men are seldom inspected of Sincerity when they act contrary to their Interests ; and though my dutiful Behaviour to your Majesty in the worst of times , ( for which I acknowledge my poor Services much over-paid ) may not be sufficient to incline You to a charitable Interpretation of my Actions , yet I hope , the great Advantage I enjoy under Your Majesty , which I can never expect in any other Change of Government , may reasonably convince Your Majesty and the World , that I am acted by a higher Principle , when I offer that Violence to my Inclination , and Interest , as to desert your Majesty at a time when Your Affairs seem to challenge the strictest Obedience from all Your Subjects , much more from one who lies under the greatest personal Obligations imaginable to Your Majesty . This , Sir , could proceed from nothing but the inviolable Dictates of my CONSCIENE , and necessary concern for my RELIGION ( which no good Man can oppose ) and with which I am instructed , nothing ought to come in Competition ; Heaven knows with what partiality my dutiful Opinion of Your Majesty hath hitherto represented those unhappy Designs , which inconsiderate and self-interest Men have framed against Your Majesty's true Interest and the Protestant Religion . But as I can no longer joyn with such to give a pretence by Conquest to bring them to effect , so will I always with the hazard of my Life and Fortune ( so much Your Majesty's due ) endeavour to preserve Your Royal Person and Lawful Rights with all the tender Concern and dutiful Respect that becomes , SIR , Your Majesty's most dutiful and most obliged Subject and Servant .