State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary.

About this Item

Title: State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary.
Publication: London :: Printed and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin ...,; 1692.
Rights/Permissions: This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61358.0001.001
Cite this Item: "State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61358.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

Pages

The Address of the Gentry and Free-holders of the County of Suffolk, to their Representatives Chosen the 14th of February, 1680/1. presented to them by Sir Philip Skippon, in the name and by consent of the rest of the Electors.

To the Honourable Sir Sam. Barnardiston, and Sir Will. Spring, Baronets, Knights of the Shire for the County of Suffolk.

Gentlemen,

WE the Free-holders of this County having chosen you our Representatives in the last Parliament, in which we had satisfactory Demonstration of your Zeal for the Protestant Religion, of your Loyalty to his Majesty's Person and Go∣vernment, and of your faithful Endeavours for the Preservation of the Laws, our Rights and Properties; we now return you our most hearty Thanks, and have una∣nimously chosen you to represent this County at the Parliament to be holden at Ox∣ford the 21st of March next: And though we have not the least distrust of your Wis∣dom to understand, or of your Integrity and Resolution to maintain and promote our common Interests now in so great hazard, yet we think it meet (at this time of imminent Danger to the King and Kingdom) to recommend some things to your Care; And particularly we do desire,

1. That (as hitherto you have, so) you will vigorously prosecute the Execrable Popish Plot, now more fully discovered and proved by the Trial of William late Viscount Stafford.

2. That you will promote a Bill for excluding James D. of York, and all Popish Successors from the Imperial Crown of this Realm; as that which under God may probably be a present and effectual means for the preservation of his Majesty's Life, (which God preserve) the Protestant Religion, and the well-established Govern∣ment of this Kingdom.

3. That you will endeavour the frequent meetings of Parliaments, and their sitting so long as it shall be requisite for the dispatch of those great Affairs for which they are convened, as that which is our only Bulwark against Arbitrary Power.

4. That you will endeavour an happy and necessary Union amongst all his Ma∣jesty's Protestant Subjects, by promoting those several good Bills which were to that end before the last Parliament.

And that till these things be obtained, which we conceive necessary even to the Being of this Nation, you will not consent to bring any Charge upon our Estates; And we do assure you that we will stand by you with our Lives and Fortunes in Prosecution of the good ends before recited.