WE Your Majestie's most Loyal and Faithfull Subjects, the Nobelmen, Barons, and Burgesses, conveened in Parliament, Do humbly represent to Your Majesty, That having considered a Representation, Made to Us by the Council-General of the COMPANY Trading to Africa and the Indies: Making mention of several Obstructions, they have met with, in the Prosecution of their Trade: Particularly by a Memorial presented to the Senate of Hamburgh, by Your Majestie's Resi­dents in that City, tending to lessen the Credit of the Rights and Pri­viledges granted to the said Company, by an Act of this present Parlia­ment.

We do therefore, in all humble Duty, lay before Your Majesty, the whole Nations Concern in this Matter; And We do most earnestly Entreat, and most assuredly Expect; That Your Majesty, will in Your Royal Wisdom, take such measures as may Effectually Vindicate, the undoubted Rights, and Priviledges of the said Company: And Sup­port the Credit, and Interest thereof.

And as We are, in Duty, Bound to Return Your Majesty most Hearty Thanks; for the Gracious Assurances, Your Majesty has been Pleased to Give Us, of all due Encouragement, for Promoting the Trade of this Kingdom; So We are thereby Encouraged at present, humbly to Recom­mend, to more Special Marks of Your Royal Favour, The Concerns of the said Company; As that Branch of Our Trade, in which We, and the Nation We Represent, have a more Peculiar Interest.