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ADDRESS TO KING WILLLAM. 327
asking the " hearty affections, love and good will" of their neighbors. On the
4th of September they drew up and adopted the following address to the
king:
" THE ADDRESS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OP THEIR MAJTIB3 PROTESTANT SUBJECTS IN
THE PROVINCE OP MARYLAND ASSEMBLED.
" To the King's most excellent Majtie:
" Whereas, Wee are, with all humility, fully assured that the benefitt of your Majties
glorious undertakeings and blessed Success for the Protestant Religion and civill rights
and libertyes of your Subjects was graciously intended to be extensive, as well to this
remote part, as to all others of your MajtLe3 Teritorys and Countreys, being thereby influenced to express our utmost zeale and endeavours for your MajUes Service and the
Protestant Religion, here of late notoriously opposed, and your Majtia9 Soveraign Dominion and Right to this your Majties Province of Maryland, invaded and undermined by our
late Popish Governors, their Agents and Complices:
"Wee, your Majties most dutifull, Loyall Subjects of the said Province, being assembled as the representative body of the same, doe humbly pray your Majties gracious consideration of the great grievances and expressions wee have long layne under, lately
represented to your Majtie and directed to your Majties principall Secretarys' of State, in a
certain Declaration from the Commanders, Officers and Gentlemen in Armes for your
Majties Service, and Defence of the Protestant Religion.
" And that your Majtie would be graciously pleased, in such waies and methods as to
yor Princely wisedome shall seeme meete, to appoint such a Deliverance to your Suffering People whereby, for the future, our Religion, Rights and Libertyes may be secured
under a Protestant Governm* by your gracious direction especially to be appointed.
" Wee will waite with all becoming Duty and Loyalty your Majties pleasure herein,
and will, in the meane time (to the hazard of our lives and fortunes), persevere and continue to vindicate and Defend your Majestie's Right and Soveraign Dominion over this
Province, the Protestant Religion, and the civill Rights and Libertyes of your MajtLea Subjects here against all manner of attempts and Oppositions whatsoever, Hereby unanimously
declaiming that as wee have a full sense of the blessings of heaven upon your Majties
Generous undertakeings, Soe wee will endeavour to express our due gratitude for
the same, as becomes professors of the best of Religions, and Subjects to the best of
Princes.
" Maryland: Dated in the Assembly sitting at the State house, in the City of St.
Maries, the 4th day of September, 1689, in the first year of their Majties Reign."1
The address to William was ingeniously contrived. That monarch had
just seized the crown of England by violent measures, and even though
those measures had the approval of the majority of the English people, they
were none the less revolutionary; consequently he could not with consistency
severely blame an act which seemed a consequence and a reflection of his own.
He mounted the throne as the champion and protector of the Protestant
religion, and the Associators professed to be merely carrying out in the colony
the same measures of defence against " Popish " tyranny that had been successfully accomplished in England. A foreign prince, he was likely not to
understand very clearly, or feel very stringently if he understood, the solemn
obligations of a charter granted by the father of the monarch whom he had
1 London Public Record Office, America and West Indies, No. 556; B. T. Md , i., B. D., p. 13.
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000354 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ADDRESS TO KING WILLLAM. 327 asking the " hearty affections, love and good will" of their neighbors. On the 4th of September they drew up and adopted the following address to the king: " THE ADDRESS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OP THEIR MAJTIB3 PROTESTANT SUBJECTS IN THE PROVINCE OP MARYLAND ASSEMBLED. " To the King's most excellent Majtie: " Whereas, Wee are, with all humility, fully assured that the benefitt of your Majties glorious undertakeings and blessed Success for the Protestant Religion and civill rights and libertyes of your Subjects was graciously intended to be extensive, as well to this remote part, as to all others of your MajtLe3 Teritorys and Countreys, being thereby influenced to express our utmost zeale and endeavours for your MajUes Service and the Protestant Religion, here of late notoriously opposed, and your Majtia9 Soveraign Dominion and Right to this your Majties Province of Maryland, invaded and undermined by our late Popish Governors, their Agents and Complices: "Wee, your Majties most dutifull, Loyall Subjects of the said Province, being assembled as the representative body of the same, doe humbly pray your Majties gracious consideration of the great grievances and expressions wee have long layne under, lately represented to your Majtie and directed to your Majties principall Secretarys' of State, in a certain Declaration from the Commanders, Officers and Gentlemen in Armes for your Majties Service, and Defence of the Protestant Religion. " And that your Majtie would be graciously pleased, in such waies and methods as to yor Princely wisedome shall seeme meete, to appoint such a Deliverance to your Suffering People whereby, for the future, our Religion, Rights and Libertyes may be secured under a Protestant Governm* by your gracious direction especially to be appointed. " Wee will waite with all becoming Duty and Loyalty your Majties pleasure herein, and will, in the meane time (to the hazard of our lives and fortunes), persevere and continue to vindicate and Defend your Majestie's Right and Soveraign Dominion over this Province, the Protestant Religion, and the civill Rights and Libertyes of your MajtLea Subjects here against all manner of attempts and Oppositions whatsoever, Hereby unanimously declaiming that as wee have a full sense of the blessings of heaven upon your Majties Generous undertakeings, Soe wee will endeavour to express our due gratitude for the same, as becomes professors of the best of Religions, and Subjects to the best of Princes. " Maryland: Dated in the Assembly sitting at the State house, in the City of St. Maries, the 4th day of September, 1689, in the first year of their Majties Reign."1 The address to William was ingeniously contrived. That monarch had just seized the crown of England by violent measures, and even though those measures had the approval of the majority of the English people, they were none the less revolutionary; consequently he could not with consistency severely blame an act which seemed a consequence and a reflection of his own. He mounted the throne as the champion and protector of the Protestant religion, and the Associators professed to be merely carrying out in the colony the same measures of defence against " Popish " tyranny that had been successfully accomplished in England. A foreign prince, he was likely not to understand very clearly, or feel very stringently if he understood, the solemn obligations of a charter granted by the father of the monarch whom he had 1 London Public Record Office, America and West Indies, No. 556; B. T. Md , i., B. D., p. 13. |
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