142 Records Illustrating the History of Maryland

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers,

This is a true Copy taken from the Original
Examined and signed by the Order of the

Respective Persons above named.
Peter Dent dpty Coll^r of his Majestys
Customes in the County of Somersett.

[Indorsed]
Maryland
1689.
Address of the Inhabitants of the
County of Somersett to their Maj^ties.
Reed, from my Lord Shrewsbury,
7^thFeb^r 1689.

Address of the Justices of the County of Kent
to the King.

To the High and Mighty Prince William by the grace of
God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King Defender
of the Faith, &c.
The humble address of your Majestys most loyall protestant
Subjects the Justices and Grand Jury of the County of Kent
within your Majesty's Province of Maryland in America in
Court now sitting.
Wee your Majesty's most loyall and dutifull subjects, doe in
all humility render our most hearty and dutyfull thanks unto
your most sacred Majesty, for your great & unwearied care
and the hazzard of your royall person you have been pleased
(with the assistance of Almighty God) to take over us in res-
cuing us out of the hands of Popery and Tyrany which like
a cloud has overspread this your Majesty's Province, and in
pursuance of your Majesty's most gracious declaration dated
at your Majesty's Court of White Hall the nineteenth of Feb-
ruary in the first year of your Majesty's reign; wee with the
consent of all the rest of your Majesty's most loyall subjects
within your Majesty's Province of Maryland and in a parlia-
mentary way assembled, have displaced all Roman Catholicks
whatsoever from beareing any Office civill or military within
this your Majesty's Province, And forasmuch as your most
sacred Majesty hath been gratiously pleased (with the assist-
ance of Almighty God) even to the hazzard of your royall per-
son to rescue us from those evills and eminent dangers which
like violent floods were breaking in upon us, wee doe there-
fore most humbly implore the continuance of your Majesty's
most royall favours towards us, and wee doe and shall soe
long as life in us, shall pray to Almighty God to bless your
Majesty and your royall Consort with long and happy reign
over us, and with joy and bliss in the world to come which