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<p n="760"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Apr Sess: 1721</note>
To the Kings most Excellent Majesty<lb></lb>
May it please your Majesty</p>
<p n="761"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Congratulatory<lb></lb>
Address to his Matis.<lb></lb>
upon the birth of<lb></lb>
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a young Prince.</note>
We your Majestys most dutifull & Loyall, Subjects the Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo529">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in General Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions Assembled Do humbly beg leave to approach Your<lb></lb>
Majesty with our most hearty Congratulations for the great<lb></lb>
Blessing it has pleased Almighty God to afford your<lb></lb>
Royall Family and these Nations in the Birth of A<lb></lb>
Prince who we pray God may is her it all your Majestys<lb></lb>
Vertnes and by whom our Views and at dent hopes are so<lb></lb>
greatly Enlarged of having the many benefits we<lb></lb>
enjoy in a Potefcant Succession of Princes in your illustrious<lb></lb>
house perpetuated to the latest posterity It must be looked<lb></lb>
upon by all good men as a farther Earnest of that<lb></lb>
gracious Providence that has in all times and in<lb></lb>
the greatest (Difficultys So Signally appeared for these<lb></lb>
Nations to See your Royall Line now Encreased<lb></lb>
which must be a Security to every thing that is<lb></lb>
dear to your Loyall Subjects.</p>
<p n="762">We beg leave to assure your Majesty that we will not<lb></lb>
be wanting in the Station in which your Majesty<lb></lb>
has placed us to instill such Notions of Affection<lb></lb>
and Loyalty to your Majestys person and Government<lb></lb>
and of the many blessings we enjoy under your<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo530">Majestys mild</rs>
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and happy Reign as may Sufficiently<lb></lb>
evidence our Real for the present Establishment<lb></lb>
under this firm assurance that we shall thereby<lb></lb>
best promote the true Interest of our Country.</p>
<p n="763">That your Majesty may long live (the greatest blessing<lb></lb>
that can possibly be desired for these Kingdoms)<lb></lb>
And that no attempts of your Open or Secret<lb></lb>
Enemies of any Kind may be able to disturb<lb></lb>
the Peace and quiet of Your Reign is the<lb></lb>
Sincere Prayer of</p>
<p n="764">Your Majestys most Dutifull most loyall<lb></lb>
and most faithfull Subjects.</p>
<p n="765">20o April 1721</p>
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