The speech of the Right Honourable Sir John Moore, Kt., Lord Mayor Elect, at Guild-Hall, Sept. 29, 1681 Moore, John, Sir, 1620-1702. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A51231 of text R9457 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M2556). 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. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A51231 Wing M2556 ESTC R9457 13540495 ocm 13540495 100078 2240855557

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A51231) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 100078) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 796:9) The speech of the Right Honourable Sir John Moore, Kt., Lord Mayor Elect, at Guild-Hall, Sept. 29, 1681 Moore, John, Sir, 1620-1702. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Jonathan Robinson ..., London : 1681. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Moore, John, -- Sir, 1620-1702. London (England) -- Politics and government. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century eebo The speech of the Right Honourable Sir John Moore, Kt. Lord Mayor Elect, at Guild-Hall, Sept. 29, 1681. Moore, John, Sir, 1681 1 351 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2005-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-12 Sampled and proofread 2005-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-01 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE SPEECH Of the Right Honourable Sir John Moore , Kt. Lord Mayor Elect , At Guild-Hall , Sept. 29 , 1681. Gentlemen , and Worthy Citizens ,

I Give you all my hearty thanks for the great honour you have done me this day , in chusing me your chief Magistrate for the Year ensuing .

It is a very great Trust you have reposed in me ; and a high and honourable Employment to which you have called me . It shall be my great Care , to the uttermost of my Power , with God's Blessing , and your Assistance , to discharge it faithfully . It is a Work I never did , and requires that strength I never had , which I hope the Lord will grant me . God by you hath called me to it , and I trust will carry me through it .

Magistracy is an Ordinance set up by Divine Authority , and Government is appointed for the good of Mankind , to keep the World in Order , to which is due great Reverence and Obedience ; I wish all Men did their Duty .

I am sorry to hear and see such great Divisions amongst us ; certainly they are in a great Error that are promoters of them . It 's the Design of Rome to divide us ; it will be the wisdom of Protestants to prevent and disappoint them , by living together as Brethren in unity amongst themselves . And my Request to you all is , to exercise Christian Charity , to forbear reproaching and backbiting one another ; to study quietness among your selves , to discourage Sin and Wickedness , to promote Piety and Godliness : which will bring Glory to God , Honour to the King and his Government , Peace , Happiness and Prosperity to this City ; which God Almighty grant , and let all the People say , Amen .

LONDON , Printed for Jonathan Robinson , at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard , 1681.