The humble address of the right honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, presented to His Majesty on Wednesday the twenty eighth day of October, 1696. And His Majesties most gracious answer thereunto. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03077 of text R176184 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E2803A). 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 B03077 Wing E2803A ESTC R176184 53299088 ocm 53299088 179855 2240877520

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03077) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179855) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2806:13) The humble address of the right honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, presented to His Majesty on Wednesday the twenty eighth day of October, 1696. And His Majesties most gracious answer thereunto. England and Wales. Parliament. England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Re-printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson ..., Edinburgh, : Anno Dom. 1696. Caption title. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. Scoitland -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo The humble address of the right honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, presented to His Majesty on Wednesday the twenty England and Wales. Parliament 1696 1 419 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. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Humble ADDRESS Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , in Parliament Assembled , presented to His Majesty on Wednesday the Twenty eighth day of October , 1696. And His Majesties most Gracious Answer thereunto . Die Martis 27. October , 1696. May it please Your most Excellent Majesty ,

WE the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled , Do conceive We cannot enter upon the Business of this Session any way so well as by an Address to Your Majesty , Testifying Our Zeal to Your Service , and Our Forwardness to apply Our selves to what Your Majesty has lately proposed from the Throne .

And being Entirely Satisfied , That the Liberty of Europe is concern'd in the Resolutions of this Parliament , and that the Welfare of Your Majesties Subjects does depend upon Your Safety , and the Success of Your Arms : We beg leave to Assure Your Majesty , We do , and ever shall Consider all the Disappointments You meet with , and the Obstructions laid in Your way , as Our greatest Misfortunes , and those that Create and Promote them , as Enemies to the Publick .

And as with the utmost Sincerity We give Your Majesty these Assurances , so We think it becomes Us to deal as plainly with Your Enemies ; and therefore that they may not believe Your Majesties Loyal Subjects can ever Wish for Peace , or Think of it , but upon those Safe and Honourable Terms , which may make it Lasting and Secure : We further Assure Your Majesty , We shall Endeavour to overcome all Difficulties to Support You at the Head of so Just and Glorious a Cause ; and shall never be Wanting or Backward on Our Part , in what may be Necessary to Your Majesties Honour , the Good of these Kingdoms , and the Quiet of Christendom .

Matth. Johnson , Cleric' Parliamentor '
His Majesties most Gracious Answer to the Address .

I Am extreamly Pleased with an Address so full of Affection to Me , and Zeal for the Cause in which We are all Engaged ; and I shall always think that the best Security against Our Enemies of all Sorts , is to be thus happily Vnited and Resolved amongst Our Selves .

Edinburgh , Re-printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His Most Excellent Majesty , Anno DOM. 1696.