A congratulatory address of the House of Representatives of His Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, delivered by the speaker and whole House, in the Council chamber in Boston, on Tuesday the 6th. of June, anno Domini. 1699. : To His Excellency, the Earl of Bellomont. Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI : 2005-12. N29542 N29542 Shipton 39345 APX0262 39345 99016859

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A Congratulatory Addreſs Of the Houſe of Repreſentatives of His Majeſties Province of the Maſſachuſetts-Bay, in New-England, delivered by the Speaker and whole Houſe, in the Council Chamber in Boſton, on Tueſday the 6th. of June, Anno Domini. 1699. To His EXCELLENCY, THE Earl of Bellomont. May it pleaſe Your Excellency,

WE His Majeſties moſt Loyal and dutiful Subjects, the Repreſentatives of the Province of the Maſsachuſetts-Bay in New-England, doe moſt humbly crave leave to preſent to Your Excellency, our moſt Sincere and Hearty Congratulations for Your ſafe Arrival within this part of Your Government. And at the ſame time, in Your Illuſtrious Preſence, to render our acknowledgements to Almighty GOD for the many inſtances of His ſpecial Providence and Benignity, both to Your Excellency and this People manifeſted, from Your deſignation unto Your Acceſſion to this Province.

We cannot but admire the manifeſt footſteps of a Gracious Providence in determining the Royal Heart of His Sacred Majeſty, to chooſe and appoint Your Lordſhip to be Governour in Chief of this Province; and its no leſs a wonder, that Your Excellency, a Perſon of ſo Noble a Virtue, and ſtanding ſo near the fountain of Honour, and fair for greater preferments, ſhould entertain the thoughts of moving to ſo remote a Province: We will believe and ſay, becauſe Almighty GOD, and our Great KING WILLIAM, Loved this People, Your Excellency is made their GOVERNOUR.

We muſt next Expreſs our ſence of the Divine Goodneſs to Your Excellency, that preſerved You in a tedious and difficult Voyage upon an Element not the moſt friendly to the firmeſt Conſtitutions, and in a ſeaſon not only rarely free from dangers, but unuſually ſevere and hazzardous; but above all, we are obliged to remark the propitiouſneſs of Heaven, in ſecuring Your Excellencies Perſon and Your Noble Family from the Contagion that ha's made the Iſland You put in at, the Grave of an Unaccountable number of Brave and Generous Engliſh men.

And ſince that; We have had freſh cauſes of adoring the Almighties continued Goodneſs in the preſerving Your Excellency, during Your abode in that Unhappily divided part of Your Government, which You ſo lately left: and in bleſſing Your Lordſhip with that Wiſdom, and Conduct that is become Conſpicuous, by Your leaving our Neighbours leſs unhappy, becauſe more Compoſed than of late they have been.

We cannot look upon theſe paſſages of the Divine Providence towards Your Excellency, but with the deepeſt Gratitude and Acknowledgments, becauſe they are ſo many Pledges, and create in us ſuch Vigorous hopes, of our abiding happineſs under Your Lordſhips Influence and Conduct thus reſerved to us, by ſuch and ſo many Peculiar Inſtances of the favour and care of Heaven.

Give us leave, SIR, only to aſſure Your Excellency, That We (and we now Addreſs Your Excellency as the Repreſentative Body of this Province) in our ſeveral Stations, as we are in right and Gratitude bound, ſhall expreſs our Loyalty to His Sacred Majeſty in all Dutifulneſs and Obedience to Your Excellency, the Image and Character of our Great and moſt Gracious Sovereign.

And now with the United Devotion of this Province, We humbly Implore the ſame Almighty Providence ſtill to continue Your Protector: and may Your Lordſhips Health be reſtored and perfectly Confirmed, Your Government here ſure, ſteady and laſting, Your happineſs continue and Increaſe, until it be perfected in the Eternal Kingdom.

In the Name of the Houſe of Repreſentatives. James Converſe Speaker.

BOSTON, Printed by Bartholomew Green, and John Allen, Printers to His Excellency the GOVERNOUR and COUNCIL. 1699.