moft hearty Concern for the Safety of your Sacred Perfon and Government, and of our holy Religion by Law Establish'd, do humbly beg leave to declare to your Majefty, our utmost Abhorrence of the Invafion of your Dominions, defign'd and intended by fome of your Rebellious Subjects, under a pretended Prince attainted of High Treafon, educated in Romifh Superftition, and fupported in this Attempt by a French Army.

As it has been the conftant Care of your Univerfity, to eftablifh the Minds of thofe committed to them, with Precepts and Inftructions which 'make Subjects dutiful, and Princes fafe; fo we hope always to fhew our juft Deteftation, as of this flagrant Attempt against your Crown and Dignity, fo likewife of thofe mifchievous Doctrines and Opinions, that difpofe and prepare Men's "Minds for fuch unnatural Enterprifes against their Sovereign, and the Peace and Tranquillity of their Native Country.

May the God of Heaven ftill defend your Per'fon and Government; and may thofe Enemies, whom your Clemency and Goodness cannot vanquifh, continue to fall and flye before your Victo

rious Arms.

To which her Majefty return'd the following moft gracious Answer:

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Give you many Thanks for your Address, and for the The Queen's Affurances you give Me, of your Zeal and Duty upon Answer. this Occafion.

The Address of the Univerfity of Cambridge, which was prefented by the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor, attended by the Vice-Chancellor, feveral Bifhops, Heads of Houfes, Doctors, and many other Members of the University; being introduc'd by the Lord Chamberlain, was as follows:

WE your Majefty's moft Loyal and Dutiful Addrefs of Subjects, the Chancellor, Mafters

Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

and theUniver fity of Gam

bridge.

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Being highly fenfible of the manifeft Injury defign'd to your Majesty's undoubted Right and Title to thefe your Dominions, which a Pretender from France has threatned to invade, humbly C. crave Leave to exprefs our utmoft Abhorrence of this, and all other Attempts which may be made, to disturb the ineftimable Happiness we enjoy under your Majefty's moft Gracious Adminiftration.

The great Security of our Religion and Property under your Majefty's Protection and Influence, and the happy profpect we have of its Continuance by the Eftablishment of the Proteftant Succellion, are Bleffings we fhall always think too valuable to be exchanged for the greatest Promifes that can be made by a Popish Invader.

And we do with all Humility affure your Majefty, that as by the Principles of our Church, we are taught the highest Duty and Submiffion to our Superiors; fo we, in our feveral Stations, fhall do our utmoft to recommend them to thofe under our Care, and upon all Occafions be ready to imploy them in a zealous Defence of your Majefty's most Sacred Perfon and Government.

May the Bleffing of God attend upon your 'Majefty's Princely Care and Wisdom, upon the "-experienc'd Courage and Conduct of those who prefide over your Fleets and Armies; and upon the great Vigilance and Fidelity of your Coun cellors at home, that fo all manner of treacherous Designs against you, may be render'd ineffectual; the common Enemy be defeated in all his Enterprifes; and Europe at laft reftored to a fafe and honourable Peace. And may your Majefty, after a long and profperous Reign over a happy People, receive the everlafting Reward of thofe illuftrious and fhining Vertues which must have been inftru, mental in procuring it.

To which her Majefty return'd the following
Answer.

The Queens I Give you many Thanks for the Zeal and Affection you have shown to Me on this Occafion; and you may de

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'pend, at all times, on My Protection.

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The Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, and the reft 1708. of her Majefty's Commiffioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London, was as follows:

May it please your Majesty,

WE

WE are fo deeply fenfible of the unfpeakable Addrefs of Bleffings we enjoy under your Majefty's the Lieute Adminiftration, as well as of your Majefty's only nancy of Rightful and Lawful Title to the Imperial Crown London. of thefe Realms, and of the Obligations we have further brought our felves under, by the Oaths we have taken, to fupport your Majefty, and your Government, and the Succeffion in the Proteftant Line; and more particularly against the pretended Prince of Wales, and all that fhall Traiterously adhere to him; that we cannot but take the Opportunity which is given us by the intended Invafion, to affure your Majefty, that we will ftand by, and fupport your Majefty, to the utmost of our Power, againft this Hellish Attempt and Confpiracy.

We humbly take the Liberty, upon this Occafion, to congratulate your Majesty, upon your being at the Head of an United Parliament, which hath given fuch undoubted Proofs of their Zeal and Affection for your Perfon and Government: ' and that you have the Affiftance and Advice of fuch Minifters as have given the greatest Demon'ftrations of the fame.

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And as we have already taken due Care, that 'the Regiments of this City fhould be filled with Officers, who may be entirely depended upon, ⚫ for their Zeal for the late happy Revolution, your Majefty's Perfon and Government, and the Succeflion in the Proteftant Line; fo we will use our utmoft Diligence to difcharge the Truft your Majefty hath lodg'd in us, in every other Branch of it, for the Safety and Security of your Majefty's Perfon and Government.

And that we may not omit any thing that may give your Majefty all the Security imaginable, that thefe are our unfeigned Sentiments and Refolutions; we humbly take the Liberty to affure your Majefty, That at the fame time that we

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know our felves to be under all the Ties of Duty of all Kinds that can be devised, to act up to these Principles, with all the Zeal and Vigour imagi nable; we are as fully perfuaded, That our Duty cannot carry us farther than our apparent Interest doth in this Matter: Since, as we enjoy every thing under your Majefty's moft aufpicious Reign over us, either for this Life, or a better, that a Government can well procure to its Subjects; fo we know there is no Mifery that we must not expect to be for ever intail'd upon our Country, from the Subverfion of this happy Settle

ment.

"Will your Majefty then be pleased to accept of our humble Affurances, that we will act, as it becomes thofe to do, who are fully perfuaded, that he that doth not do every thing that lies in his Power, in the Station that God or your Majefty hath placed him, for the Defence and Support of your Perfon and Government, against the Attempt which that Pretender Traterously persists in, and all other Attempts whatsoever, can never anfwet it to your Majefty, or your Allies, to himself, or his Country, to the prefent Age, or to Pofterity, or to God Almighty at the Laft Day.

To which Addrefs her Majefty was pleased to return the following Gracious Anfwer.

The Queen's Thank you for your Addrefs, and the Assurances yout give Me; which I doubt not but you will make good, Since you have taken fo much Care, to fill the vacant Regiments with Officers well affected to the Revolution, to My Perfon and Government, and to the Proteftant Succeffion.

Nor were the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters backward to exprefs their Loyalty and Zeal for her Majefty's Perfon and Government, which they did in the following Addrefs, which was prefented to her Majefty by Mr. Daniel Williams, accompany'd by feveral others; introduc'd by the Earl of Sunderland, one of her Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State:

May

May it please your Majesty,

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the firft Advice of the defigned Invafion 'ON of this your Kingdom, we thought our Address of felves obliged, after earneft Prayers to God, hum- the Diffenbly to addrefs your Majefty, to fignify our deep ring MiniRefentment of the Attempt of the Pretender; fers whofe ufurped Title can no more recommend him to the British Nation, than his Religion, and the Power that fupports him.

Nor can we forbear to exprefs the utmoft Ab horrence of the Prefumption of the French King, 'who takes upon him to impofe Princes of his own forming upon other Nations, after having opprefs'd and enflaven his own.

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We are fo entirely in the Principles of the late happy Revolution, That we account the British Monarchy, and the Bleffing of your Majefty's Reign, too valuable to omit any thing that lies in our Power for the Support and Defence of your Royal Perfon and Government.

"While the faithful Adherence of our Brethren of North-Britain to your Majefty in this Juncture, gives us a very particular Satisfaction, we take leave to renew to your Majefty, the Affurance of our inviolable Fidelity: And what we fay on this Occafion, is not only our own, but the unanimous Senfe of the People under our Care, who all own your Majefty's rightful and lawful Title to the Imperial Crown of thefeRealms; and would be thankful for a greater Capacity, to fhew that their Zeal for your Service is not inferior to that of the most approved and loyal of their Fellow-Subjects.

The late Union of England and Scotland, the wife and early Precautions taken by your Majefty, and your Council, to prevent the Defigns of the 6 Enemy, the prudent and vigorous Refolution of. your Parliament; and above all, your Majefty's pious Dependence on the Divine Aid and Pretection, feem very happy Prefages of Succefs and Victory; and make us hope, That God has re⚫ ferved for your Majefty, the Honour of effectually Securing the Proteftant Succeffion at Home, of ⚫ Advancing the Intereft of the reformed Churches.

Abroad,