At the General Sessions of the Peace holden for the Town and Borough of Southwark, on Monday the 16th day of. May, 1681. before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Recorder of the same City, and other his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Town and Borough.  
We the Grand-Jury Summoned and Sworn for this present Sessions of the Peace, holden for this Town and Borough of Southwark, do Humbly Beseech the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and the rest of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Town and Borough, that his Lordship, or some other of his Majesties said Justices of the Peace will be pleased in the behalf of us and of the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Town and Borough, to Present to his most Sacred Majesty the HUMBLE ADDRESS Hereunto Annexed.  

TO THE King's most Excellent Majesty,  
DREAD SIR,  
WE Your Majesties truly Loyal and Dutiful Subjects, the Grand-Jury of this your Ancient Borough, having first Humbly begged Your Majesty to Believe that our Apprehensions of the Happiness we enjoy through Your Majesty's Princely Care and Paternal Affection towards us, have always been such as become the Best Subjects to entertain under the Benign Influences of the most Propitious and Indulgent Monarch; do further Implore Your Majesty to accept of our most prostrate Acknowledgements of the Royal Grace and Favour of Your Majesty's late Declaration, and to permit us to express how sensible we are of our Living under the most Desirable Government in the World.  
The Protestant Religion, as Established by Law, is so Dear to us, and our Condition, by the Provision of the Stated Laws of the Kingdom, is rendered so easy, that, though we have ever hitherto in all Duty rested silently satisfied in Your Majesty's Zeal for both; yet now, if it may please Your Majesty, we can no longer forbear to declare to Your Majesty, and publish to all the World, our grateful sense of Your Majesties so Solemn, so Condescending, and so Gracious a Publication of Your Resolutions to Maintain the one, and Rule by the other; thereby removing all the just Fears and Jealousies that might arise from the Practices of Undermining Papists and Factious Republicans.  
Your Majesty's Gracious promise of calling Frequent Parliaments, is so transcendent an Obligation upon Us who are resolved to be the same Loyal Subjects in the Intervals of Parliaments as during their Session, that whenever Your Majesty's Wisdom and Providence shall Appoint an Election, we shall take all possible care to choose such Representatives as shall comply with Your Majesty's Designs of Extirpating Popery, and Maintaining the Established Religion of the Church of England, and who shall likewise be ready to present your Majesty with such Supplies as the Dignity of the Crown, and the Necessities of the Government shall require.  
Your Majesty is pleased to remind us of the late Rebellion in a Manner so obliging, and for an End so good, as gives a most undeniable Testimony of Your Majesty's generous Oblivion of the Injustice therein done to Yourself, and that Your Royal Memory retains only a compassionate Impression of the Miseries thereby brought upon Your Subjects; so that should we not now yield ourselves up as the Conquest of Your Majesty's Goodness, and sit down contented with our own Happiness, but contrary to all Your Majesty's Desires and Counsels fall into the like Gild and Mischief again, we should be not only the most Ungrateful, but the most. Unpitied people in the world: And therefore, as we Your Majesties ever Loyal Subjects do for our parts with shame and sorrow reflect upon the former Miscarriages and Calamities, and with the utmost Detestation and Horror tremble at the thoughts of ever seeing the like a second time; so we doubt not but that multitudes of deluded and misled men have, upon the occasion of Your Majesty's Declaration, so effectually considered and recollected the several steps and advances by which they were betrayed into those Confusions, as to be by this time fully convinced that true and steady Loyalty is the surest Foundation of the Kingdom's Felicity.  
To this Maxim we declare that we do at present firmly stand, and that by it we will always act; beseeching Your Majesty to be assured that our Lives and Fortunes lie at Your Royal Feet, and that we will upon all occasions be ready to Sacrifice them both in defence of Your Majesty's Sacred Person, and the Established Government of Church and State.   
Which ADDRESS being Subscribed by every one of the Grand-Jury, was according to their Request Humbly Presented to His Majesty in Council at Hampton-Court by Sir George Treby, Knight, Recorder of the City of London, and had a most Gracious Acceptance.   

London, Printed for Benj. took, 1681.