TO THE King's most Excellent Majesty, THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF Your most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects of the City of Hereford.  
May it please Your Sacred Majesty,  
Since we are very sensible that no Age hath ever yet produced any Prince that hath with more Justice, Goodness and Mercy, swayed the Sceptres of the three Kingdoms (Blessings which our Forefathers never had in a more eminent degree of Perfection, and all other Nations never yet knew) We conceive it our Duty to manifest to your Majesty and all the World our just value and grateful apprehensions of the happiness we enjoy under the best of Kings and most upright of Governments: And however some ill Men to accomplish their black designs by attempting to subvert the Government, slily insinuate to the credulous People, causeless Fears and false Jealousies of Arbitrary Power growing upon us, yet the public Manifestations Your Majesty hath at all times given to your People of your Governing by the Laws of the Land and by no other Method (which we find Your Majesty holds to inviolably and maintains as sacred) keep us as safe from such mean apprehensions, as we are secure from the dismal Effects of such a way of Government, which we have no cause to suspect unless it be from those that suggest it, nor from them neither till they have subverted a well tempered Monarchy, and introduced their belov'd Tyrannical Republic. We cannot but with all humble Duty Loyal Gratitude, and Excess of Joy observe your Majesty's constant Endeavours to give Satisfaction and Ease to the Minds of Your Majesty's Subjects, not only in Your strict Adherence to and Favour of the True Protestant Religion, but more especially in Your late Declaration, which cannot but stop the mouths of the Seditious and Factious, preserve from Apostasy the Doubtful, and confirm the Loyalty of Your best settled Subjects; And that Your Majesty may see that we are not poisoned or likely to be so by any Seditious or Factious Designers, we do unanimously and heartily Assure Your Sacred Majesty that we will stand by Your Majesty in the Preservation of Your Person, Your Heirs and Lawful Successors, and the Government in Church and State, as it is now by Law Established, with the last drop of our Blood, and penny of our Fortunes; and shall be ready on all occasions cheerfully to give You such large Assistances as (joined with the proportionable Supplies of other Your Majesty's Loyal Subjects) may make your Governmens' Great and Easy to Yourself at home, and valued and feared by all Your Allies and Neighbours abroad. We humbly beg Your Sacred Majesty to give a Gracious Acceptance to the steady Resolutions of us Your most Obedient and Loyal Subjects, which no Time, no Treachery, no Power, no Fraud or Faction, shall ever make us Decline or Alter.  
Your Majesty's most Humble, Loyal and Obedient Subjects and Servants,   

London, Printed for Walter Davies. 1681.