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leave to Approach your Majesty with this Declaration of our most
Inviolable Duty and Loyalty to your Majesties Sacred Person Do-
minion & Government
Your Majesties Continual Goodness and Paternall Care Extended
to the most Distant parts for the Prosperity of all your Subjects must
ever Exact the most Gratefull Acknowledgements.
And our happiness and Security under your Maj^ties Royall Domin-
ion can never be too much Extolled & Valued: In your Majesties
Authority Over us, We trust, That no part of this Province con-
tained within the Limitts of the Royall Charter Granted to our
Proprietary's Ancestors will be Suffered by Your Majestic to be
Dismembred from this Government; By a just Preservation of those
true Bounds this Province May Revive from its present Languish-
ing Condition, And our Tobacco Trade so Advantagious to the

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Crown of Great Brittain further Increased, We presume to Flatter
ourselves with Success in our hopes from so Good and Gratious a
Sovereigne who never rejected the Honest and reasonable wishes
of any of his Subjects
May the Happiness of the longest Life to the Universall joy of
your Subjects be Inseperable from your Majesties Person; May an
Increase (if possible) of Glory and Honour be continually Added
to your Majesties prudent and wise Councells, And may the present
pleasing Prospect of a lasting Succession in your Ma^ties Illustrious
House to the Crown of Great Brittain never have an end. These
are the Sincere and Loyall wishes of your Majesties most Dutifull
and Faithfull Subjects
Jn^o Mackall Speak^r Sam^l Ogle, President

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To His Royall Highness Frederick Prince of Wales
The Humble Address of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly in the Province of Maryland

May it please your Highness
We are so Sensible of the blessings & Happiness flowing from

every Branch of the Royall Family to the most Distant and Extended

parts of His Majesties Dominions, that we Rejoyce on this fortunate
Oppertunity which we now presume to take of Presenting by our
Noble Proprietary this Tender of our Dutifull Affections to your
Royall Highness.
But how can wee Enough Express our Great Joy for that Benign
Countenance with which your Royall Highness has been pleased to
Honour our Proprietary, or how can we Sufficiently return our
Humble thanks for that favourable Disposition showed towards this
People in your Royall Highnesses kind Permission of our Proprietary
his being amongst us ! These things Render your Illustrious Person

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