Aleyn Mayor.  
A Common-council Holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, the 21 day of May 1660.  ORdered that the Letter sent to His Majesties by this Court in Answer to His Majesty's gracious Letter and Declaration be printed. 
Sadler.  
Printed by James Flesher, Printer to the Honourable City of London, 1660.   

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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT   

May it please your most Excellent Majesty;  
YOur Majesty's most loyal, humble, and affectionate Subjects, the Mayor, aldermans, and Commons of this Your City of London, being this day assembled in Common-council, received Your Majesty's gracious Letter and Declaration of the 4/14 April last, by the hands of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Mordant, and Sir John Greenvile, in which they find, that God hath been pleased at last to give a bountiful return to their constant Prayers, patiented hopes, and loyal endeavours; by Your Majesty's owning and acceptance thereof, and by inclining Your Princely heart to descend so far, not only to impart to them Your Majesty's benign Declaration of Grace extended to Your Majesty's Subjects in general, but also to convey it to them under a particular assurance of special Love & tenderness to this City, to which they presume not to entitle themselves on any other account, then upon that of Your Majesty's gracious inclinations; for they confess that all those manifestations of their affections, for which Your Majesty is pleased to put those signal marks of favour upon this City, were but a partial payment of that duty which they own to Your Majesty's right, as Subjects, and virtues, as Christians. And therefore, as they desire to bless God for inclining the hearts of both Houses of Parliament this day to express their joyful sense of, and their humble and hearty thanks for Your Majesty's gracious offers: And to profess their loyalty and duty to Your Majesty, so they desire, that their entire and unanimous concurrence therein, may in its place find Your gracious acceptance, which they hope Your Majesty will give them leave in all humility to claim when Your Majesty shall have seen their enclosed Declaration and Vindication, which their innocence and affections warranted them to publish to the world, before they received the honour and encouragement of Your Majesty's Letter. And they cannot omit to acquaint Your Majesty, that the most eminent and clear characters of Your Princely goodness expressed in this Your Letter and Declaration, hath, as by a miracle at once, bound them all up in one common band of Loyalty to Your Majesty, and affection among themselves; and given them more than pregnant hopes, that God will suddenly establish Your Majesty in an honourable and peaceful Government of these Your Kingdoms, and fix You among them as the Centre; in which all the opposite Lines of the distracted interests of this Nation will meet and acquiesce, to the glory of God, and the perpetual settlement, peace, and welfare of Your Subjects. They have entrusted their fellow Members, Thomas adam's and Abraham Reynardson Aldermen, William Wild Esquire Recorder, John Langham, Sir James Bunce Baronet, Richard Brown, William Tompson, John Frederick, John Robinson, Anthony Bateman and William Wale Aldermen, Sir Nicholas Crisp Knight, Theophilus Biddulph, William Bateman, William Vincent, Thomas Bludworth, Thomas Chamberlain, Richard Ford, Laurence Bromfield & John Lewes Esquires, to present to Your Majesty's Royal hand this their humble and hearty profession of duty and affection, and with it a small earnest of the reality thereof, which though it be extremely disproportionable to Your Royal Dignity, and the measure of their zeal to Your service, yet they beg most instantly that it may find Your gracious acceptance, as coming from that City which have been the greatest sharers in the many and heavy pressures and losses that have befallen Your Subjects during the want of Your Royal Protection. And assuring Your Majesty of their continued prayers to God for Your Majesty's speedy and safe return into these Your panting Dominions, that Your Majesty may enjoy your undoubted legal Sovereignty, and we your Subjects, the longed-for influence thereof, by your maintaining them in the exercise of the Protestant Religion according to the Scriptures, and the example of the best Reformed Churches, and enjoyment of our civil liberties and properties according to the ancient fundamental Laws of this Nation, and those other immunities and favours expressed in your Majesty's Letter and Declaration;  
We do most humbly take leave, and have hereunto set the seal of this your Majesty's Royal Chamber the City of London, the first of May 1660.