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Coursey Col Young John Hall Esq^r Col Addison Col Smyth
Col Tilghman & Henry Lowe Esq^r Viz.

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty

The humble Address of the Lievt^t Gov^r and General As-
sembly of Maryland

We your Majestys Dutiful and Loyall Subjects of the
Province of Maryland, the Leivt^t Gov^r and uper and lower
houses of Assembly Convened under the Right honourable
Charles Lord Baron of Baltimore the Lord Propry of this
Province humbly begg leave to Congratulate your Majesty
upon your glorious & happy successes against all the Invet-
erate & declared Enemies of your Majestys August house
Who by their wicked & restless practices have of late Assidu-
ously attempted the Subversion of our happily Establisht
Constitution by endeavouring to Impose a Pretender upon
us and by engaging in a second barbarous & treasonable design
of Involveing your Majestys Subjects by the Assistance of

U. H. J.

foreign powers in an Intestine bloody and destructive Warr
providentially prevented by the discovery of those treasonable
Practices concerted and carryed on by a publick minister of
Sweden in the very metropolis of your Majty's Dominions.
May Continued Successes against all yo^r enemies both at
home and abroad ever attend you And Heaven grant you your
hearts Desire, We being Convinced by the Joyfull Experience
of your Majestys known wisdom Magnanimity and Clemency
that whatever may be in yo^r Power will always Terminate in
the happiness of your People
Since the Time that your Majesty out of your Princely
beneficence has been graciously pleased to restore our Lord
Prop^ry (upon his Father's death And his Convertion to the
Church of England) his Government of this Peaceable and
flourishing Province peopled at the Charge & Industry of his
Ancestors We Cannot Omitt takeing notice of his Lordships
early Zeale for the Religion he now p fesses by the many
good laws he has already past tending to the Support of the
ptestant Interest, the ease of the People in the paym^t of their
rents And the Increase of the Trade of this Province so bene-
ficiall to your Majesty's Kingdom and Dominions

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We pray God to Continue your Majesty a blessing to all
your People And that as we have the happiness to be under
your Majestys gracious & powerfull Protection so we will
Always endeavour to approve ourselves to your Majesty and
your August house, Truly Loyal humble &
Obedient Subjects & Servants

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