TO THE KINGS most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Soveraign,

THE Glorious Lord of Heaven and Earth hath done so great things for us in restoring your Majesty to your Throne, and these Nations to your Majesties Rightfull and Un­doubted Government in Peace, without either the dangers or destructions of Warre, that we are like them that dream. For though the Settlement of your Majesties Kingdoms under your Royall Scepter, hath been all these late times of trouble the matter of our Longings, Prayers, Endeavours, and consequently of our Expectations, yet to have it accomplished so much with both your Majesties Honour, and your Peoples Quiet and Security, was far above our Hope before, and now exceeds the Expressions of our Joy. Your Majesty is so signally and highly favoured in the Court of Heaven, that God hath for you inverted the ordinary methods of his Providence, he hath took the Race from the Swift, and Victory from the Strong: In your Case, Inveterate Factions submit to Union, and high Passions and Violence to Reason. For this Blessing, we have joyned with all your Majesties Loyall Subjects, in rendring unto God the greatest Prayses our Hearts could frame for the greatest Temporall Mercies, in using the loudest Accla­mations, and heartiest Expressions of Joy ever used by this Nation, and in evidencing our Submission and Obedience by all the wayes our greatest Affections and Dutifullness could finde out.

And we most humbly beseech your Majesty to accept graciously this our most humble Address as a further overflowing of our hearts, though we have nothing in it to offer your Majesty, but that which is your own by the Law of God and of this Land, our most affectionately Loyall and Obedient hearts, with an intire resignation of our Lives and Fortunes, whensoever they may be for your Majesties service: And humbly pray Almighty God in your Majesties behalf, that you may long Reign happily, as you do now, that is, as well in the Hearts, as over the Outward Condition of your Subjects, that from your Majesties so much desired Government may flow all Blessings upon your Loyall Subjects, that we may by your Majesties great Moderation, Prudence and Felicity, see once again the Church and State flourish, as in the dayes of your Royall Father and Grandfather of ever Glorious Memory, to whom, as your Majesty is a living Monument of Honour upon Earth, so that you may be, after a very long Life, the same in Heaven, shall be the Constant and most Zealous Prayer of

Your MAJESTIES Most humble and most dutifull Subjects of the County of SOMERSET,
  • John Lord Paulet.
  • Francis Lord Hawley.
    Esquires.
    • John Paulet.
    • Francis Paulet.
    • Amos Paulet.
  • Sir William Portman Baronet.
  • Sir John Sydenham Baronet.
  • Sir John Stowell Knight of the Bath.
  • Sir Henry Berkely.
  • Sir Charles Berkely.
  • Sir Hugh Wyndham.
  • Sir George Norton.
  • Sir William Wyndham.
  • Sir John Warre.
  • George Horner Knights of the Shire.
  • Hugh Smith Knights of the Shire.
    Esquires.
    • Alexander Popham.
    • Edward Phelips.
    • George Stowell.
    • Samuel Gorges.
    • Hugh Halswell.
    • Peregrine Palmer.
    • Edward Hungerford
    • Maurice Berkley.
    • John Malet.
    • Ralph Stowell.
    • George Speake.
    • Edward Berkely.
    • William Basset.
  • John Brice Gent.
  • Timothy Rivot Gent.
    Esquires.
    • John Newton.
    • Thomas Warre.
    • John Tynte.
    • Edmund Wyndham.
    • Francis Wyndham.
    • William Bull.
    • Samuel Horner.
    • Charles Pym.
    • John Bamfield.
    • Robert Phelips.
    • Thomas Pigot.
    • George Bampfield.
    • Warrick Bampfield.
    • George Sydenham.
    • William Every.
    • Edward Bampfield.
    • Nicholas Codrington.
    • Humfry Hook.
    • William Doble.
    • William Dyke.
    • Edward Gorges.
    • Edward Nevill.
    • William Helliard.
    • Henry Bull.
    • John Churchill.
    • Henry Wynter.
    • Hugh Tynte.
    • Robert Hawley.
    • Anthony Paulet.
    • Malet Paulet.
  • Francis Harvey Gent.
  • John Harvey Gent.
    Esquires.
    • Thomas Percivall.
    • William Walrond.
    • Angell Grey.
    • John Buckland.
    • John Coventry.
    • Henry Grey.
    • Francis Luttrell.
    • Robert Hunt.
    • Thomas Neuton.
    • Henry Walrond.
    • George Walrond.
    • John Hall.
    • Henry Sydenham.
    • Humphry Sydenham.
    • Roger Bourn.
    • Tristrum Wood.
    • Thomas Francis.
    • John Bonvile.
    • Robert Mohun.
    • William Paulet.
    • Michael Malet.
    • Thomas White.
    • William Milbourne.
    • Henry Dunster.
    • John Morgan.
    • Richard Morgan.
    • Francis Keen.
    • Thomas Dyer.
    • Martin Sanford.
    • John Harrington.
  • Thomas Gorges Esq
  • Henry Rogers Gent.

This Addresse was presented to his Majesty by George Horner and Hugh Smith, Esquires, Knights for the County of Somerset, on the Ninth of June, to which his Majesty gave a very gracious Acceptance.

LONDON, Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane, MDCLX.

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