which should after all this, dare to rebell; Or, for the future once
murmur at Your Government? Since it was no necessity that compell'd You,
but an excesse of your good nature, and your charitie.

Your Majestie has abolished the _Court of Wards_; I cannot say we have
freed ourselves in desiring it, if it were possible to hope for so
indulgent a Father as Your Majestie is to Your Countrie, in those who
shall succeed You.

The _Compositions_ You have likewise eased us of, if that could be
esteem'd a burthen, to serve so excellent a Prince, who receives nothing
of his Subjects but what he returnes again in the Noblest and worthiest
Hospitality, that any Potentate in earth can produce; Thus what the Rivers
pay to the Ocean, it returns again in showers to replenish them. But Your
Majestie would dissipate even the very shadows, which give us umbrage; and
rather part with your own just right, then those few of your Subjects
which it concern'd, should think themselves aggreiv'd, though by a mistake
even of their duty.

[SN: _His Majesties Declaration._] But I should first have mention'd your
settlement of the _Church_, and Your bringing back the Ark of God: Your
Majesties wise composure of our Frailties, and tendernesse as well in the
Religious as the Secular; whilst yet You continue fervent to maintain what
is decent, and what is setled by Law. But what language is capable to
expresse this Article? Let those who wait at the Altar, and to which you
have restor'd the daily sacrifice, supply the defect of this period, and
celebrate your piety.

Nor has yet Your zeal to the Church, lessen'd that which is due to the
Common-wealth; witnesse your industry in erecting a _Counsel of Trade_, by