YOur Majesties most loyal, humble, and affectionate Subjects, the May­or, Aldermen, and Commons of this Your City of London, being this day assem­bled in Common-council, received Your Majesties gracious Letter and Declara­tion of the 4/14 April last, by the hands of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Mordant, and Sir John Greenvile, in which they finde, that God hath been plea­sed at last to give a bountiful return to their constant Prayers, patient hopes, and loyal endeavours; by Your Majesties own­ing and acceptance thereof, and by incli­ning Your Princely heart to descend so far, [Page 2]not onely to impart to them Your Maje­sties benign Declaration of Grace extended to Your Majesties Subjects in general, but also to conveigh it to them under a particu­lar assurance of special Love & tenderness to this City, to which they presume not to entitle themselves on any other account, then upon that of Your Majesties gracious in­clinations; for they confess that all those manifestations of their affections, for which Your Majesty is pleased to put those signal marks of favour upon this City, were but a partial payment of that duty which they owe to Your Majesties right, as Subjects, and virtues, as Christians. And there­fore, as they desire to bless God for inclining the hearts of both Houses of Parliament this day to express their joyful sense of, and their humble and hearty thanks for Your [Page 3]Majesties gracious offers: And to profess their loyalty and duty to Your Majesty, so they desire, that their entire and unani­mous concurrence therein, may in its place finde Your gracious acceptance, which they hope Your Majesty will give them leave in all humility to claim when Your Majesty shall have seen their enclosed Declaration and Vindication, which their innocence and affections warranted them to publish to the world, before they received the honour and encouragement of Your Majesties Let­ter. And they cannot omit to acquaint Your Majesty, that the most eminent and clear characters of Your Princely goodness expressed in this Your Letter and Decla­ration, hath, as by a miracle at once, bound them all up in one common band of Loyalty to Your Majesty, and affection among [Page 4]themselves; and given them more then pregnant hopes, that God will sodainly establish Your Majesty in an honourable and peaceful Government of these Your Kingdomes, and fixe You among them as the Center; in which all the opposite Lines of the distracted interests of this Nation will meet and acquiesce, to the glory of God, and the perpetual settlement, peace, and welfare of Your Subjects. They have en­trusted their fellow Members, Thomas Adams and Abraham Reynardson Aldermen, William Wild Esquire Re­corder, John Langham, Sir James Bunce Baronet, Richard Brown, William Tompson, John Frede­rick, John Robinson, Anthony Bateman and William Wale Alder­men, Sir Nicholas Crisp Knight, [Page 5] Theophilus Biddulph, William Bateman, William Vincent, Tho­mas Bludworth, Thomas Cham­berlen, Richard Ford, Laurence Bromfield & John Lewes Esquires, to present to Your Majesties Royal hand this their humble and hearty profession of duty and affection, and with it a small earnest of the reality thereof, which though it be extremely disproportionable to Your Royal Dignity, and the measure of their zeal to Your service, yet they begge most in­stantly that it may finde Your gracious ac­ceptance, as comming from that City which have been the greatest sharers in the many and heavy pressures and losses that have be­fallen Your Subjects during the want of Your Royal Protection. And assuring Your Majesty of their continued prayers to God [Page 6]for Your Majesties speedy and safe return into these Your panting Dominions, that Your Majesty may enjoy your undoubted le­gal Soveraignty, and we your Subjects, the long'd-for influence thereof, by your main­taining them in the exercise of the Prote­stant Religion according to the Scriptures, and the example of the best Reformed Churches, and injoyment of our civil liber­ties and properties according to the ancient fundamental Laws of this Nation, and those other immunities and favours expres­sed in your Majesties Letter and Decla­ration;

We doe most humbly take leave, and have hereunto set the seal of this your Majesties Royal Chamber the City of London, the first of May 1660.