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To The Queen's most Excellent Majesty.
The humble Address of the Lieutenant Governor & Council
of the Province of Maryland.
Most Gracious Queen
We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects The Lieuten-
ant Governor and Council of the Province of Maryland
humbly beg leave to present our Congratulations on the joyful
Occasion of your Auspicious Nuptials with our worthily be-
loved King; whose choice of a Princess distinguished by every
delicate Virtue and amiable Accomplishment that can inspire
His Royal Heart with Sentiments of Tenderness and Affec-
tion, Add new Lustre to the Crown you wear and render
you dear to all your dutiful Subjects is an illustrious Proof of
His Majesty's Wisdom,
May the Almighty who in Reward of your Conspicuous
Merit has placed your Majesty on the British Throne be your
Constant Guardian and Protector, continue your Majesty the
Delight of your Royal Consort and make you the happy
Mother of a numerous Progeny resembling their Royal and
illustrious Parents, that our Posterity may rejoice at the happy
Event of your Majesty's Union with our Great and Glorious
King.
Horatio Sharpe Lieut. Governor
Benja Tasker Pres. of the Council.
To The Right Honourable Frederick Lord Baltimore Ab-
solute Lord and Proprietary of the Province of Maryland
May it Please your Lordship
Prompted by the same Motives which lately incited our
fellow Subjects in Great Britain to offer their Congratula-
tions to our most Gracious Sovereign and his Royal Consort
on the Celebration of their auspicious Nuptials, We your
Lordship's Lieutenant Governor and Council have also taken
the Liberty to express to their Majesties in two several Ad-
dresses our joy on that happy Event.
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