AN ADDRESS From the JUSTICES of the PEACE Of the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX, As it was Ordered by the Court at HICKS' HALL., And Humbly presented to His MAJESTY By the Body of the said Justices, on Monday the Eighteenth of April, 1681. WITH HIS MAJESTY'S Gracious Answer.  
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Dublin, Reprinted by Benjamin took and John Crook, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty; And are to be sold by Mary Crook and Andrew Crook at His Majesty's Printing-house in Skinner-Row, 1681.   

Mid ss. Ad generalem Quarterialem Sessionem pacis Domini Regis, tent' per Adjornament' pro come Midd' apud Hicks's-hall in St. John-street in Com' praed' die Sabbati scil't decimo sexto die Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Caroli Secundi nunc Angl' &c. Tricesimo Tertio.  
The ANSWER of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, to the Message sent to them from His Majesty by the right Honourable Sir Leoline Jenkins Principal Secretary of State, as also their Humble and Thankful Acknowledgement of His Majesty's Grace and Favour to His Subjects expressed in His Majesty's Declaration lately Published by His Command.  
May it please your Majesty,  
WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects; your Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this your County of Middlesex, having by your Majesty's Command, received a Signification from the right Honourable Sir Leoline Jenkins, by Letter dated the Fifteenth of April instant; That it is your Majesty's Pleasure we should Depute some of our Body to Wait upon the right Honourable the Lords of your Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council, to propose Ways and Methods for the putting in Execution, with Effect, the Statute made in the 43 Year of Queen Elizabeth, for the Relief of the Poor, in pursuance of a Petition heretofore by us presented to your Majesty for that end, have with all readiness obeyed your Majesty's Command, and have Deputed some of our Body to wait upon the Lords. And as we cannot but with all Humility acknowledge your Majesty's transcendent Goodness, and Charity to the Poor, in reminding us of our Duty, for their Relief, so (with your Majesty's leave) we must presume to say, That we esteem ourselves obliged to lay hold on this seasonable Opportunity to make our further Humble Acknowledgement to your Majesty withal Gratitude for that most Gracious Declaration lately. Published by your Majesty's Command; by which your Majesty is pleased to put your People in mind of the Miseries they endured (when the Monarchy was shaken off) by those most Illegal and Arbitrary Powers, (who most Tyrannically disposed of the Lives and Fortunes of your good Subjects at their pleasuers, and left them neither Religion, Liberty Property,) And that your Majesty is Graciously pleased to give us your Royal Word to Govern according to the Laws of the Kingdom, which cannot but Extinguish, and thereby quiet the Fears and Jealousies of all rational, and good Men, and we hope bring them to a right Sense of their Duty to your Majesty, and their own Interest, and make them confident they shall enjoy their Religion, Liberty and Property. And for our own parts, we do assure your most Sacred Majesty, It hath made so deep an Impression in us, that we unanimously Resolve our Lives and Fortunes shall be at your Majesty's Service, for the Defence of your Majesty's most Sacred Person from Danger (whom God preserve) and for the preservation of the true Protestant Religion, and your Majesty's Government in Church and State as by Law established.  
Per Cur' ADDERLFY.  
Presented to His Majesty by the Justices of the Peace of the said County in a Body.   

Whereunto His Majesty was pleased to return this Gracious Answer,  
Gentlemen.  
I Hearty thank you for your Address, and for your Assurance of Assisting Me in the Support of the Church of England as by Law it ●●s Established. I am an utter Enemy to all Arbitrary Proceed, and shall Endeavour much as in Me lies to Maintain the Legal Rights and Properties of My Subjects, it being the best▪ if not the only Way for the Preserving the public Peace.   
FINIS.