To the Honourable HENRY BOOTH Esq and Sir ROB. COTTON, Kt. & Bar.
Gentlemen,
WE the Gentlemen and Free-holders of the County Palatine of Chester, who have by a Free and unanimous consent Re-elected you to be our Representatives in the approaching Parliament, do thankfully acknowledge your joynt integrity and correspondence with the worthy and eminent members of the last Parliament, who in so signal (and never to be forgotten) a man∣ner asserted the Rights of Petitioning, the Ʋnion, Supports and Growth of the true Protestant Reli∣gion established by Law: And the only Expedient (we think), to Entail these things to our Posterity, is to stick to what the Parliament concluded as to the Duke of York, and all Popish Successours, and to provide for the Defence and Safety of his Majesties most Sacred Person, the vigorous and Sedulous Discovery of that horrid Popish Plot, and to punish all Sham-plotters which we esteem the worst of villains, without which his Imperial Majesty can neither be easie nor secure.
These with those great and excellent things then under your Consideration, make us confident of your sincerity and future proceedings, which that they may be happy is our Prayer, and will be a support-to all those that wish a blessing to his Most Sacred Majesty, and these distressed Kingdoms; we likewise desire that your Votes may continue to be Printed, and till the effects we hope for (on which the happiness of both Church and State depend) are accomplished, we may thence read the current of your Consent and Ʋnion.
