RIGHT Trusty and Right Wel-beloved Cousin and Counsell Right Trusty and Right Wel-beloved Counsellors, Right Trusty and entirely Beloved Cousins and Counsellors, Right Trusty and Right Wel-beloved Cousins and Counsellors, Right Trusty and Wel-beloved Cousins and Counsellors, Right Trusty and Wel-beloved Cousins and Counsellors, Right Trusty and Wel-beloved Counsellors, and Trusty and Wel-beloved. Counsellors. We greet you well. Whereas by Our Letter of the First [...] of this Instant, amongst other Things, We did Recommand to you, To take Care, That any of the Presbyterians, sho [...] not be Allowed to Preach, but such only, as should have y [...] Allowance for the same; And that they, at receiving the [...] ­dulgence therein mentioned, should take the Oath contain [...] Our Proclaimation, Bearing date, the Twelfth Day of February last past: These are there to let You know, that thereby We mean't such of them as did not formerly take the Test [...]y other Oath; But if nevertheless, the Presbyterian Preachers does scruple to take the Oath, or any other Oath whatsoever, and that you shall find it Reasonable or Fit to grant th [...] Our Indulgence, so as they desire it upon these Terms: It is now Our Will and Pleasure, We do hereby Authorize and Require you, to grant them, or any of them Our said Indulg [...] without being Oblieged to take, or swear the Oath in Our said Proclaimation mentioned, of other Oath whatsoever, with power unto them, or any of them Respectively, to enjoy the Be of the said Indulgence, (during Our Pleasure only,) or so long as you shall find that they be themselves regularly and peaceably, without giving any cause of Offence to Us, or any in Au [...] rity and Trust under Us in Our Government:) For doing whereof, these presents shall be to [...] and them, and all others respectively, who may be therein respectively any way concerned sufficient Warrant. And so we bid you heartily Farewel.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Thirty One day of March 1687, And of Our Reign the Third Year.