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to your Dominions from your Glorious Reign We entertain
the most ardent hopes that your Majesty and our most gra-
cious Queen happy in each other, in your Offsprings, and your
People, will long continue to enjoy every Felicity whereof
Human Nature is capable and that your Royal Issue formed
by your Parental Care and illustrious Example may with the
B'ritish Crown inherit the eminent and Princely Virtues which
at this period so conspiciously adorn it.
Horatio Sharpe Lieut. Governor.
Benjamin Tasker Prest of the Council
To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty
May it Please your Majesty
Graciously to accept the dutiful Congratulations of the
Lieutenant Governor and Council of the Province of Mary-
land on an Event which hath Gratified the ardent Wishes of
your Majesty's Subjects and given Them new Cause joyfully
to commemorate your Conjugal Union with Our beloved and
Glorious King.
Thankful to Heaven for the prospect now afforded Us that
the inestimable Blessings We ourselves enjoy under His
Majesty's auspicious Reign will be continued to Posterity We
most fervently pray that every pleasing Hope your Majesty
can entertain may be accomplished, that you may continue the
Delight of your Royal Consort, be the Happiest of Mothers,
and as at present, ever beloved by a grateful and affectionate
People.
Horatio Sharpe Lieut. Governor
Benjamin Tasker Prestt of the Council.
To The Right Honourable Frederick Lord Baltimore Ab-
solute Lord and Proprietary of the Province of Maryland.
The Humble Address of your Lordship's Lieutenant Gov-
ernor and Council
May it Please your Lordship.
The Safe and happy Delivery of the Queen and the aus-
picious Birth of a Prince of Wales having been notified to Us
by a Letter from One of His Majesty's principal Secretaries
of State directed to your Lordship's Lieutenant Governor We
are prompted by our Joy at such an important Event to offer
to our most Gracious Sovereign and his Royal Consort our
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