The address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common-Council of the city of London, to the honourable, the House of Commons, the 13th day of March, 1688 together with the answer of the Right Honourable Henry Powle, Esquire, speaker to the House of Commons, thereunto. City of London (England). Court of Common Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49009 of text R39354 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2859B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A49009 Wing L2859B ESTC R39354 18368586 ocm 18368586 107427 2240895591

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THE ADDRESS OF THE LORD MAYOR , Aldermen & Common Council Of the City of LONDON , To the Honourable , the House of Commons , The 13th Day of March , 1688. Together with the Answer of the Right Honourable HENRY POWLE , Esquire , Speaker to the House of Commons , thereunto .

March 14. 1688.

I do hereby appoint Joseph Watts , to print the Address of the Lord Mayor , Aldermen , and Common Council of the City of London , presented to the House of Commons the 13th instant ; together with the Answer given to them by their Speaker , at the same time ,

H. Powle , Speaker .

LONDON , Printed for Joseph Watts , at the Angel in S. Paul's Church-Yard , M DC LXXX IX .

Die Mercurii , 13 March 1688.

THis Day Sir H. Edwyn , and Sir Tho. Fleet , Sheriffs of the City of London Attended the House of Commons , with an Address from the Lord Mayor , Aldermen and Common Council of the said City ; which they presented at the Bar of the said House , and was as followeth ;

To the Honourable the Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled .

WE , the Lord Mayor , Aldermen and Commons of the City of London , in Common Council Assembled , presume to Address our selves to this Honourable House , with our most Humble Thanks for your Excellent Conduct of Affairs in this Time of our great Exigency and Extremity , when our Lives , our Religion , and our Estates were so eminently threatned ; and especially for the Address to His Majesty the 5th . Instant : Declaring your Resolution to assist and stand by His Majesty , in supporting His Allies abroad , in reducing Ireland , and in Defence of the Protestant Religion , and Laws of this Kingdom .

Dated at Guild-Hall , the 8th . of March , 1688. By Order of the Common Council , Wagstaff .

After their being withdrawn some short Time , the Sheriffs were called in again , and the Speaker gave them this Answer .

Mr. Sheriffs ,

THE House hath considered of the Address you have Presented from the City of London , and have commanded me to return you this Answer ; That they have taken Notice of the most Eminent Courage and Constancy the City hath shewed in this late Revolution , and the Services they have done to the whole Kingdom on this Occasion , and particularly , the advancing so considerable a Sum of Mony , as was lent by you to His Majesty , upon His first coming hither , at a Time , when the Condition of the Affairs of this Kingdom did so much require it .

I am further Commanded to tell you , That this House doth accept of your Address with great Kindness , and do give you their hearty Thanks for the same ; with this further Assurance , That your Care for the Publick shall never fail of receiving from them the like returnes .

FINIS .