The speech of the recorder of Bristol to His Highness the Prince of Orange. Monday, January the 7th, 1688. The mayor, recorder, aldermen, and commons of the principal citizens, of the city of Bristol, waited upon the Prince of Orange, being introduc'd by His Grace the Duke of Ormond, their high-steward, and the Earl of Shrewsbury: where the recorder spake to this effect Bristol (England). Recorder. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A55596 of text R217038 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3115A). 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. 3 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 A55596 Wing P3115A ESTC R217038 99828739 99828739 33170 2240869867

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A55596) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 33170) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1957:6) The speech of the recorder of Bristol to His Highness the Prince of Orange. Monday, January the 7th, 1688. The mayor, recorder, aldermen, and commons of the principal citizens, of the city of Bristol, waited upon the Prince of Orange, being introduc'd by His Grace the Duke of Ormond, their high-steward, and the Earl of Shrewsbury: where the recorder spake to this effect Bristol (England). Recorder. Powlett, William. aut 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], London : printed in the year 1689. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng William, -- King of England, -- 1650-1702 -- Early works to 1800. eebo The speech of the recorder of Bristol to His Highness the Prince of Orange. Monday, January the 7th, 1688. The mayor, recorder, aldermen, and commons Bristol . Recorder 1689 1 414 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. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-05 Sampled and proofread 2008-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE SPEECH OF THE Recorder of Bristol To His HIGHNESS The Prince of Orange . Monday , January the 7th , 1688.

The Mayor , Recorder , Aldermen , and Commons of the Principal Citizens , of the City of BRISTOL , Waited upon the Prince of ORANGE , being introduc'd by His Grace the Duke of Ormond , their High-Steward , and the Earl of Shrewsbury : Where the Recorder spake to this effect :

May it please Your Highness ,

THE Restitution of our Religion , Laws , and Liberties , and the freeing us from that Thraldom which hath rendred us , for many years useless , and at last dangerous to the Common interest of the Protestant World , by your Highness's singular Wisdom , Courage , and Conduct , are not only a stupendious Evidence of the divine favour and providence for our preservation ; but will be , and ought to be an Everlasting Monument of your Highness's Magnimity , and other the Heroick Virtues which adorn your Great Soul , by whom such a Revolution is wrought in this Nation , as is become the Joy and Comfort of the Present , and will be the Wonder of all Succeeding Ages .

In the Contrivance and Preparation of which Great Work , your Highness ( like the Heavens ) did shed your propitious Influences upon us , whilst we slept , and had scarce any Prospect from whence we might expect our Redemption .

But as since your happy Arrival in England , we did amongst the first , Associate our selves to assist and promote your Highness's Most Glorious Design , with our Lives and Fortunes , to which we think our selves bound in the highest Obligation of Gratitude , most humbly to present to your Highness , our humble and hearty Thanks , for this our Deliverance from Popery , and Arbitrary Power and likewise , for declaring your Gracious Intentions , That by the Advice of the Estates of this Kingdom , you will rectifie the late Disorders in the Government , both Ecclesiastical and Civil , according to the Known Laws . The due and inviolable Observation of which , will , in our poor Opinion , be the only proper Means to render the Soveraign secure , and both Soveraign and Subject happy .

To which His Highness return'd a most Gracious Answer .

LONDON : Printed in the Year 1689.