His Majesty's GRACIOUS MESSAGE To the COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT, January, the Fourth, 1680/81.  
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Edinburgh, reprinted by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty 1680/81.   

His Majesty's GRACIOUS MESSAGE To the COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT, January, the Fourth, 1680/81.  
CHARLES R.  
HIS Majesty received the Address of this House, with all the disposition they could wish, to comply with Their reasonable Desires; but upon perusing it, He is sorry to see their Thoughts so wholly fixed upon the Bill of Exclusion, as to determine that all other Remedies for the suppressing of Popery will be ineffectual: His Majesty is confirmed in His Opinion against that Bill by the Judgement of the House of Lords, who rejected it. He therefore thinks there remains nothing more for Him to say in answer to the Address of this House, but to recommend to Them the Consideration of all other Means for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion, in which They have no reason to doubt of His Concurrence, whenever they shall be presented to Him in a Parliamentary Way; and that They would Consider the Present State of the Kingdom, as well as the Condition of Christendom, in such a manner, as may enable Him to preserve Tangier, and secure His Alliances abroad, and the Peace and Settlement at home.  
FINIS.