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is and shall be the constant prayers of your Majesty's most
loyall & dutyfull subjects.
Datted at Kent County this twenty eight day of November
in the first yeare of y^r Majesty's reign, Anno Domini 1689.
Signed by order of the said Justices & Grand
Jury.
Miller Clericus Comita Kent.

(Endorsed)
Maryland
8. Nov^r 1689.
Address of the Justices of the County of Kent to the King.
Rec^d from My Lord Shrewsbury 7^th Feb: 89.

To the most Sacred Maj^lies of Great Britain etc.
The humble Address of your Majesties most Loyal
Protestant Subjects, Inhabitants of Talbot County
in the Province of Maryland.

Dread Soveraigns.
The Congratulation of yo^r Majesties happy access to the
Throne and Imperial Crowne of our native Country of Eng-
land, together with the recognition of your Majesties un-
doubted Right and Soveraignty thereunto, and also to this
your Majesties Province, and other your Dominions and Ter-
ritories (which have already been represented to your Majestie
in a generall Address from this Province) Wee have not
deemed sufficient to demonstrate our zeal and affection for
your Maj^tie Royall Persons and Interest. And therefore humbly
acknowledging and rendering thanks to Almighty God for
your pious and princely care and Endeavours for the restitu-
tion of our ancient Laws, religions and properties to their prim-
itive purity lustre and splendour soe happily accomplished and
effected) wee presume now particularly to Address your Maj-
esty humbly prostrating ourselves at your Royall Feete, and
imploring your gracious Answer to our humble supplications
therein sett forth, That your Majesty would favourably accept
and receive us into your Royall protection and vouchsafe to
settle the Government of this Province in the true Protestant
religion, in such manner and form as to your Maj^tie in your
Royall and Princely wisdom shall seem most meete and con-
venient. That wee may participate the happy influence of your
Maj^ties Glorious Acchievements and Accomplishments with the
rest of our fellow Subjects in our native Country of England
and others your Dominions and Territorys, and be the better
enabled to serve your Majesty with all imaginable alacrity,
joining with them in the hearty and sincerely well wishing your
Majestys long life and happy Reign in this world, and a Crown

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