MY LORD,  
I Thought it my bond Duty to return your Lordship Thanks for the great Care you have taken in preserving the Peace and Prosperity of this City, and for your Loyalty to my late Sovereign Lord the King and His Brother. My Lord, I shall always Admire you, and more especially the late Aldermen your Brethren; And as for Sir John Moor, he shall never be forgotten, for the great Care and Pains he took, and no Magistrate was ever so Abused, yet though he had Power, he Revenged it not: And as for Sir William Pritchard, he carried himself both Prudent and Wise. And as for the late Sheriffs, I think They were as Worthy Civil Gentlemen as any that could Serve the City. And as for the People, none more inclined to Love their own Prince than they, but not willing to be in Subjection to another, and surely that is no Crime; for if it be a Crime, how highly guilty am I, that have always Loved my Sovereign Lord and no other: For how entirely did I Love my late Sovereign? For there was nothing in the World I loved above Him, but God. O! That I had Died, that He might have Lived, than you would not have been exposed to the Flouts, Mocks, and Derisions of your Adversaries; but it is the Wisdom of God to suffer it to be so, for all our Trials, and I do not doubt but your Loyalty will remain to the end, that you may obtain the Crown of your Reward: But, my Lord, you know that Loyalty without Piety toward God, will avail nothing in the day of His Anger. Therefore I humbly beseech your Lordship, and the Aldermen your Brethren, and all the Loyal Men of this City, that they should be as Zealous for God's Glory and His Truth, as they have been for the King's Interest, and then I do not doubt but that God Almighty will accept of your Endeavours, and you may obtain that everlasting Name of being Good Servants to God, and Good Subjects to your Prince; although the Afflictions of Joseph be forgotten, and the Loyalty of the Church of England despised, and Her Adversaries Triumphing over Her, saying, Take down Her Hedges, that the Wild Boars of the Forest may devour Herald O! who would have thought that my Sovereign that I Loved so well, and Pleaded His Cause in all Things, and before all Persons, whom I admire above all Princes for His Wisdom and Goodness, should now Expose us! Therefore I'll put no Confidence in Princes, nor in the Sons of Men, but in God alone, who is able to Preserve us; and I shall always pray for my Sovereign Lord, that God would keep and preserve Him from that that is Hurtful to Princes. For I have been Concerned for the Peace of this Nation above these Twenty Years, and it was Love to God that made me Love the King, and Love to the King that made me Love the People; And when any Pronounced any Judgements against this Nation for the Sins of the People, it troubled me, therefore I humbled myself with Fasting, to Implore the Almighty, that the Judgements might be prevented, but I find that many People mocks at his Judgements, and do not forsake their Sins, as if they delighted to provoke the Most High to destroy them. Indeed when I first undertook the Quarrel, they blamed me infinitely for it, saying, They were, not worthy of it, but I mattered it not, for I knew God did not delight in the Destruction of any; and let them be how they would toward me, yet my Love was so toward them, that I did not matter what they said, for I Loved my Sovereign, therefore I was not willing to have His Kingdom destroyed, or His Throne uneasy; and indeed the Lord hath been very Good to me, for He hath given me Favour before the Eyes of all sorts of People; yet not with standing I am very sensible, I have a great many Enemies, that would have destroyed me a great while ago, it my Sovereign had not been as an Angel to preserve me, though I must needs say the Roman Catholics, hath been very Civil to me, but it is in hopes to make me a Prosilite, but it is a question whether their Love will last any longer than their Hopes; therefore I am very sorry for them, that they should think that none can be Saved but what owns Rome, when we all have but one God, one Saviour and one Holy Spirit, and yet that we must be counted Heretical and Damned, it must proceed from Ignorance or Malice; yet I am persuaded, there is many Roman Catholics that Loves me, and I wish them Well; and for many Dissentors, I do not question but they Love me likewise, though they thought me to be Popishly Inclined, but I never was, and I hope in God never shall be; And as for the Churchmen, they have a great Reason to Love me, because I could Sacrifice my Life for them all, for their Good is my Good, and their Unhappiness is my Unhappiness, and I delight greatly in having them Happy. Therefore God requires that should be Just, and then Merciful, and to abound in all Good Works, for Christ says, By this all Men know you are my Disciples, if you keep my Commandments. To Love one another, and to Pray for the King, and to yield Obedience to Him in all Things that is agreeable to God's Commands. And if our Dissenting Brethren had done this, there would have been no Contention amongst us; but Offences will come, but Woe to them by whom they come: They have Condemned their Brethren for being Fools, I wish that they may not be condemned with the same Judgement as they have condemned others. And so I rest,  
Your Lordship's Humble Servant and Souls Wellwisher ELINOR JAMES.