[To the kings most excellent majesty. The humble address of your most loyal ... subjects ... of] Hereford 1681 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B06123 Wing T1515B ESTC R185309 52615012 ocm 52615012 176240 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06123) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 176240) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2765:22) [To the kings most excellent majesty. The humble address of your most loyal ... subjects ... of] Hereford Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Re-printed by John Swintoun ..., Edinburgh, : Anno Dom. 1681. Title from Wing (2nd ed.). Imperfect: Sheet cropped with loss of text. In two columns. Left is address of Hereford; right is address of city of Gloucester. Cf. National Library of Scotland. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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May it please Your most Sacred Majesty . SInce we are very sensible that no Age hath ever yet produc'd any Prince that hath with more Justice , Goodness and Mercy , swaid the Scepters of the three Kingdoms ( Blessings which our Forefathers never had in a more eminent degree of Perfection , and all other Nations never yet knew ) We conceive it our Duty to manifest to Your Majesty and all the World , our just value and grateful apprehensions of the happiness we enjoy under the best of Kings , and most upright of Governments : And however some ill Men to accomplish their black designs by attempting to subvert the Government , slily insituate to the credulous People , causeless Fears and false Jealousies of Arbitrary Power growing upon us , yet the publick Manifestations Your Majesty hath at all times given to your People of Your Governing by the Laws of the Land , and by no other Method ( which we find Your Majesty holds to inviolably , and and maintains as Sacred ) keep us as safe from such mean apprehensions , as we are secure from the dismal Effects of such a way of Government , which we have no cause to suspect , unless it be from those that suggest it , nor from them neither , till they have subverted a well temper'd Monarchy , and introduc'd their belov'd Tyranical Republick . We cannot but with all humble duty , Loyal Gratitude , and excess of Joy , observe Your Majesties constant Endeavours to give satisfaction and Ease to the Minds of Your Majesties Subjects , not only in Your strict Adherence to , and Favour of the true Protestant Religion , but more especially in Your late Declaration , which cannot but stop the Mouths of the Seditious and Factious , preserve from Apostacy the doubtful , and confirm the Loyalty of Your best setled Subjects ; And that Your Majesty may see that we are not poyson'd , or likely to be so by any Seditious and Factious Designers , we do unanimously and heartily assure Your Sacred Majesty , that we will stand by Your Majesty in the preservation of Your Person , Your Heirs and lawful Successors , and the Government in Church and State , as it is now by Law established , with the last drop of our Bloud , and penny of our Fortunes ; And shall be ready on alloccasions cheerfully to give You such large Assistances as ( joyn'd with the proportionable Supplies of other Your Majesties Loyal Subjects ) may make Your Government great and easie to Your Self at home , and valued and feared by all Your Allies and Neighbours abroad . We humbly beg Your Sacred Majesty to give a gracious acceptance to the steddy resolutions of us Your most obedient and loyal Subjects , which no time , no treachery , no power , no fraud or faction , shall ever make us decline or alter . Your Majesties most Humble , Loyal , and Obedient Subjects and Servants . To the Kings most Excellent Majesty . address the City of Glouchester May it please Your most Sacred Majesty , WE Your Majesties most humble , Loyal , and Obedient Subjects , out of a deep Sense of Your most Princely tenderness and transcendent Care for us , and all Your good Subjects , as well in respect of our Religious as Civil Concerns , do make this our most Humble and Faithful Address , returning all possible Gratitude for Your Majesties most Gracious late Declaration , which hath like a Flood of Goodness , Issued from Your Royal Heart towards all Your Subjects , whereby all Men that have not wilfully blinded their Intellects , may be abundantly satisfied of Your Majesties Fatherly Love to us all . We cannot but remember by What Frauds and Machinations the Subjects of this Your Majesties Realm in the late times were beguiled , and under pretext of Religion ( and particularly this City , of which there was a most deserved Infamy brought upon us by Men of seditious Principles , the dregs of which still remain always watching to disturb our Peace ) cheated into a Rebellion , the consequences whereof was a sad Devastation of all , and the loss of the best of Kings . And we have reason to believe the same deadly poyson was again preparing , and had certainly been given , had not God put it into Your Majesties Heart timely , and most prudently to prevent it , As therefore we are bound to Glorifie God for His Mercy , so we make our most humble and grateful acknowledgement to Your Majesty for Your most intent Vigilance to save us from so portentous a Storm ; and do therefore with all Humility and Faithfulness Prostrate our selves at Your Majesties Feet , solemnly vowing before God and the whole World , That we are and will be ready , to the last drop of our Blood , and Mite of our Estates , to stand by and defend Your most Sacred Person , your lawful Successors , and the just Laws by which you govern both in Church and State. The God of Heaven and Earth , by whom Kings Reign , Bless you with length of Days , Health , and all affluence of Wealth ; Establish Your Sacred Person in the hearts of your People . Dissipate your Enemies , and Confound their Devices ; and let the Scepter of Great Britain be Sway'd by you and your Lawful Successors to the end ot Time. Several other Addresses have been presented to His Majesty , as from Bristol , Lyn-Regis , &c which there is not room to Publish here . EDINBVRGH , Re-printed by John Swintoun , one of His Majesties Printers : Anno DOM. 1681.