all Hoftility according to the Tenor of the forefaid Treaty; but also, if at any time it fhall happen or come to pafs, that any Lands, Iflands, Cities, Forts, Colonies, and other Places where foever fituated, shall be taken from the United Netherlanders, or recovered from them and brought under Our Power, after the expi

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them all without any delay or excufe, unto thofe Per fons who fhall exhibit thefe Letters Patents, in fuch condition as they fhall be found in at the time when the renewing of the Peace fhall be notified there, without any Diminution, Detraction, Waft or Embezilment whatfoever, upon pain of Our highest difpleafure. Given at Westminster the Nine and Twentieth Day of July Old Stile, and Eigth Day of August New Stile, in the Year of our Lord 1667, and of Our Reign the Nineteenth."

The TREATY of NAVIGATION and COMMERCE CONcluded at the fame time, between the King of Great Britain and the States General, fhall be inferted in our next: In the mean time, we must take Notice of the moft remarkable Addreffes prefented to His Majefty.

On Saturday, the 1ft of July, the following humble* Addrefs of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD was prefented to His Majefty by the Right Honourable the Earl of Aran their Chancellor, being read by the Reverend Dr. Mather, Vice-Chancellor, accompanied by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, his Grace the Archbishop of Caffels, and the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, St. Alaph, Oxford, Peterborough, Gloucester, Bangor, Carlisle, St. Davids, Bristol, Landaff, and Chester, and feveral Noblemen who had been lately, or are at prefent of the faid Univerfity, viz. their Graces the Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon, and Queensbery and Dover, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Robert Montague, the Lords Cornbury and Duplin, two Sons of the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Herbert Son to the Earl of Pembroke, Mr. Bathurst, eldest Son to the Lord Bathurst, and Sir John Morgan, with a great Number of Heads

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* Addrefs of the University of Oxford.

Heads of Houfes, Doctors in Divinity, Law, Phyfick, and Mufick, the two Proctors, and many Matters of Arts, all in their proper Univerfity Habits, attended by their Reprefentatives in Parliament.

To the King's moft Excellent Majefty, The Humble Addrefs of the Univerfity of OXFORD. Moft Gracious Sovereign,

WE your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects,

the Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars of your University of Oxford, beg Leave to pay this Tribute of our hearty Concern and Sorrow for the Death of your Royal Father ; and at the fame Time to acknowledge, with all due Thankfulness, the great Goodness of Divine Providence, in having fo amply fupplied to us that Lofs in your own Royal-Perfon, by placing your Majefty, to the univerfal Joy of your People, on the Imperial Throne of thefe Realms.

It was with the greatest pleasure we obferved yourMajefty in the Entrance of your Royal Dignity, moft gracioufly declaring your Love and Affection to this Country, from your Knowledge and Experience of it; from hence affuring ourselves, that as your Majesty's Knowledge and Experience of this your dutiful Univerfity of Oxford, in particular, fhall increafe, we fhall find ourfelves happy in the like Increase of your Princely Love and Affection towards it.

The University, like Truth itfelf, whofe Servant fhe is, defires nothing more than to be fet in the pureft Light, and in the View of the most difcerning, impartial Eye: And we perfuade our felves, your Majesty's great Wifdom has already difcovered, and we doubt not, upon a nearer View, and more intimate Experience, will more fully difcover in Her the genuine Characters of an undiffembled Loyalty: A Loyalty, which arifing from the Pure Fountains of Reafon and Revelation, purfues an even and conftant Courfe with in the Channel, which the Laws of this Land and the Rules and Conftitutions of this Church have mark'd out for it: A Loyalty, which Hiftory will inform your Majefty, has always kept a steady Direction to the Britifa Monarchy, and for which your Univerfity has been honoured with many and Great Privileges by your Royal Ancestors.

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It is the folemn and publick Profeffion of this Loyalty which we have prefumed, mott Gracious Sovereign, to ask leave, with all Humility, to lay at your Royal Feet,as the First-Fruits of a Subje&t's Duty; and as an Earnest of all that chearful and willing Obedience, which has, in any Age, been paid to the best of our Princes, and is hereby acknowledged to be a Tribute equally due to your Majefty.

The Purity at the Chriftian Religion, which is profeffed, and by the Laws eftablished in the Church of England, as it is your Majesty's firft and principal Concern, as you are Defender of the Faith, fo it is Matter of the greatest Joy to your People, to confider, how effectual that Defence, and how Extenfive that Encouragement of Virtue; and the true Religion, must prove, which are begun in your own and your moft excellent Queen's great and good Examples, and in the pious Education of your Royal Iffue, in whom we beseech God to give Eftablishment and Perpetuity to the Bleffings we have already promifed ourselves from the Goodness and Juftice of your Majesty's Reign.

To which his Majefty was pleafed to return the following most gracious Anfwer.

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HIS publick and folemn Teftimony of Loyalty from my University of Oxford, is more particularly pleafing to me, as it is a Pledge of your inftilling into the Youth Committed to your Care, Principles of Duty and Affection to Me and my Government, which I earnestly recommend to you. And as I perfuade My felf, that your Endeavours will never be wanting in fo important a Service, you may be affured of My Protection, Favour and Encouragement.

His Majefty was pleafed to receive them very graciously, and they had all the Honour to kifs His Majefty's Hand; after which they waited on the Queen, and the Vice Chancellor made their Compliments in Speech to her Majefty, to which her Majesty was plea fed to return a very gracious Anfwer, and they had all the Honour to kiss her Majesty's hand.

Three Days atter, the ADDRESS of the DISSENTING Minifters of the Three Denominations (viz. Presbyterians, Anabaptifts, and Independents) in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, was prefented to his Majesty

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by Mr. John Evans * accompany'd by his Brethren, in a Body; as follows.

To the King's moft Excellent Majesty,

The Humble Address of the Proteftant Diffenting Ministers of the Three Denominations in and about the Cities of London and Weftminster.

May it pleafe your Majesty,

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HILST your Majesty's Royal Declaration fo tenderly mentions the fudden and unexpected Death of your dearest Father, all Loyal Subjects, as becomes their Different Stations, are Mourning the lofs of one common Father to his People. The Proteftant Diffenting Minifters can never forget his paternal Favours and Condefcentions. And we beg your Majefty will give us leave, on this great Occafion, to fpeak our affecting Senfe of that awful Providence which hath finifhed a Reign fo important and gracious as that of King George the First. By this mighty Stroke the World is bereaved of one of the wifeft and best of Princes, and the Reform'd Religion of it's chief Glory and Defence.

But the immediate and peaceful Succeffion of George the Second dries up our Tears, A Proteftant Heir thus coming to the Throne of his Father, is a new Bleffing to Britain: A Prince who gave the World fo early Proof of his Spirit and Courage in the Field, who hath fhewn fo much Goodness fince his abode in this Kingdom, and given us fuch agreeable Prefages of Happiness upon his wearing the Imperial Crown of thefe Realms! This Confideration together with that of a Queen Confort intirely Proteftant, and univerfal ly beloved, fills our Hearts with Joy that greatly and justly exceeds all our Sorrow. By this Means the Reformed Religion gains fresh Support and Glory; and all Tranfactions for the Peace and Settlement of Europe proceed with renewed Life and Vigour. Thus when it pleafed Almighty God (by whom Kings reign) to inspire your glorious Predeceffor King William, to lay the Foundation of the Proteftant Succeffion in the illuftrious and numerous Family of Brunswick, he pro

* Addrefs of the Diffenting Minifters.

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We rejoyce in that wife Conduct, and those kind Difpofals of Providence which have tied up the Hands of ali declared Enemies to your Auguft House, fo that they have it not in their Power,at prefent, by any means, to disturb either your Majesty's Proceedings or our Joys. This is fuch a Confirmation of the Kingdom in your Majefty's illuftrious Family, as we truft will for ever extinguish their Hopes, who have hitherto vainly fruggled for a Popish Pretender.

On our Parts, we can affure your Majefty of Hearts full of Loyalty and Affection to your Perfon and Government. And fo far as belongs to our Stations and Character, we shall not fail both to teach the Duties owing to crowned Heads, and to practife them ourselves upon every Occafion. It is with pleafure we can farther af fure your Majefty, that the Proteftant Diffenters, we believe to a Man, are in the fame LoyalSentiments: And we doubt not our continued Share in thofe Liberties which your Majesty hath graciously declared are most dear to you. We rely upon your Princely Wisdom and Care to do every Thing that may ftrengthen and Unite fincere Christians and Proteftants; And heartily with our fuffering Bretheren abroad the fame Bleffings with ourselves.

We fhall not ceafe to offer up our unfeigned and ardent Prayers to Almighty God, that your Majesty may long live the Defender of our Religion, Laws, and Liberties, and the Succourer of the Diftrefs'd, that you may be profpered in perfecting the great Work now depending beyond the Seas; that Decaying Piety may revive throughout your own Dominions, and an univerfal Probity of Manners may be promoted; that with your Royal Confort, you may reign in the Hearts of all your Subjects, and in your Royal Iffue may reign from one Generation to another, and that all manner of Bleffings may be multiplied on the House, Perfon and Adminiftration of your facred Majesty.

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