To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the humble address of the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83847 of text R213198 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A83847 Wing E2742A ESTC R213198 ocm 45504558

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 eng Grand Alliance, War of the, 1689-1697. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702. eebo To the King's most excellent Majesty, the humble address of the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1689 2 487 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. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY , THE Humble Address of the Knights , Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled .

WE Your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects , the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled , most humbly lay before Your Majesty our Earnest Desire , That Your Majesty would be pleased to take into Your most Serious Consideration , the destructive Methods taken of late Years by the French King , against the Trade , Quiet , and Interest of this Your Kingdom , and particularly the present Invasion of the Kingdom of Ireland , and Supporting Your Majesties Rebellious Subjects there .

Not doubting in the least , but that through Your Majesties Wisdom , the Alliances already made , with such as may hereafter be Concluded on this Occasion by Your Majesty , may be effectual to Reduce the French King to such a Condition , that it may not be in his Power hereafter to Violate the Peace of Christendom , nor prejudice the Trade and Prosperity of this Your Majesties Kingdom .

To this End , We most humbly beseech Your Majesty to rest assured upon this our Solemn and Hearty Promise and Engagement , That when Your Majesty shall think fit to enter into a War against the French King , We will give Your Majesty such Assistance in a Parliamentary way , as may enable Your Majesty ( under that Protection and Blessing God Almighty has ever afforded you ) to Support and go through with the same .

William R.

I Receive this Address as a Mark of the Confidence you have in Me , which I take very kindly , and shall endeavour by all My Actions to Confirm you in it .

I assure you , that My Own Ambition shall never be an Argument to incline Me to Engage in a War , that may Expose the Nation either to Danger or Expence .

But in the present Case , I look upon the War so much already Declared in effect by France against England , that it is not so properly an Act of Choice , as an Inevitable Necessity in Our own Defence .

I shall only tell you , that as I have Ventured My Life and all that is Dear to Me , to Rescue this Nation from what it Suffered , I am ready still to do the same , in Order to the Preserving it from all its Enemies ; And as I do not doubt of such an Assistance from you , as shall be suitable to your Advice to Me , to Declare War against a Powerful Enemy , so you may Relye upon Me , that no part of that which you shall give for the carrying it on with Success , shall be Diverted by Me to any other Use .

FINIS .