The
Humble
ADDRESS
Of
the
Right
Honourable
the
Lords
Spiritual
and
Temporal
In
Parliament
Assembled
.
Presented
to
HIS
MAJESTY
.
On
Tuesday
the
Eighteenth
Day
of
February
,
1700.
AND
His
Majesties
Most
Gracious
Answer
thereunto
.
WE
the
Lords
Spiritual
and
Temporal
in
Parliament
Assembled
,
Return
Our
most
Humble
Thanks
and
Acknowledgements
to
Your
Majesty
,
for
Your
Concern
express'd
for
the
Protestant
Religion
in
Your
gracious
Speech
,
and
Your
Care
for
its
future
Preservation
,
by
Recommending
to
Our
Consideration
a
further
Provision
for
the
Succession
to
the
Crown
in
the
Protestant
Line
.
We
are
highly
Sensible
of
the
Weight
of
those
Things
Your
Majesty
is
pleased
further
to
Recommend
to
Our
Consideration
;
and
therefore
humbly
desire
You
will
be
pleased
to
Order
all
the
Treaties
that
have
been
made
between
Your
Majesty
and
any
other
Prince
or
State
,
since
the
late
War
,
to
be
laid
before
Us
,
that
We
may
be
Enabled
to
give
Our
mature
Advice
,
when
we
are
Informed
of
all
those
Matters
necessary
to
Direct
Our
Judgements
.
And
We
humbly
desire
of
Your
Sacred
Majesty
,
that
You
will
enter
into
Alliances
with
all
those
Princes
and
States
,
who
are
willing
to
Unite
,
for
the
Preservation
of
the
Balance
of
Europe
;
Assuring
Your
Majesty
,
that
we
shall
most
readily
Concur
in
all
such
Methods
,
which
may
effectually
Conduce
to
the
Honour
and
Safety
of
England
,
the
Preservation
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
the
Peace
of
Europe
.
And
We
humbly
Return
Our
further
Thanks
to
Your
Majesty
,
for
the
Letter
communicated
to
this
House
the
Seventeenth
of
February
Instant
;
and
having
taken
it
into
Our
immediate
Consideration
,
We
humbly
Desire
of
Your
Majesty
to
Issue
the
necessary
Orders
for
Seizing
the
Horses
and
Arms
of
the
Papists
,
and
other
Disaffected
Persons
,
and
for
Putting
the
Laws
in
Execution
for
Removing
them
from
London
;
and
that
You
will
be
pleased
to
give
Directions
for
a
Search
to
be
made
after
Arms
and
other
Provisions
of
War
,
which
in
that
Letter
are
said
to
be
in
Readiness
.
In
the
mean
time
humbly
Addressing
to
Your
Majesty
,
That
Order
may
be
given
for
the
speedy
Fitting
out
of
such
a
Fleet
,
as
Your
Majesty
in
Your
great
Wisdom
may
think
Necessary
in
this
present
Conjuncture
,
for
the
Defence
of
Your
Majesty
and
the
Kingdom
.
His
Majesties
most
Gracious
Answer
to
the
Address
.
My
Lords
,
I
Thank
You
for
this
Address
,
and
for
the
Concern
You
Express
in
Relation
to
Our
Common
Security
both
at
Home
and
Abroad
;
I
shall
give
the
Necessary
Orders
for
those
Things
You
desire
of
Me
,
and
take
Care
for
Setting
out
such
a
Fleet
as
way
be
necessary
for
Our
common
Defence
in
this
Conjuncture
.
FINIS
.