The Answer, Of the House of Representatives, to His Excellency the Earl of BELLOMONT'S Speech, to the General Assembly, of New-Hampshire, on Munday, August 7. 1699.
WE His Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Representatives of this His Majesties Province, cannot omit a most grateful Acknowledgment of Your Lordships favour declared in Your Speech to this Assembly, wherein Your Lordship hath been pleased to Express so great a kindness towards us, so deep a Sence of our late Sufferings, and present condition, and so tender a Regard to our future welfare: That our hearts are filled with an entire Joy and Satisfaction; for that also we now see Your Lordships Presence ha's already Dispersed those dark Clouds of late Impending, Portendous of our Ruin and Destruction, and given us a fair prospect of a Serene and Happy Day.
As to the several Paragraphs in Your Lordships Speech, they are now under Consideration, and we shall follow Your Lordships direction therein, Resolving in all things according to our best understanding, to behave our selves as becomes His Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, and Your Lordships most Faithful and Obedient Servants.