His Majesty's Order For taking off the CHIMNEY-MONEY, In His Gracious Message to the Parliament, for the Ease of His Loving Subjects.  
With some Observations thereupon.  
AS the Almighty by so wonderful a Series of Success, has Placed Our present Sovereign on the Throne, so He has singled out for that Sacred Trust, and the Reception of those wondrous Providences, the Person (if Man can merit from Heaven) the most deserving of them.  
A most peculiar Instance of Royal Grace perhaps was never more Conspicuous, then in His late Message to the Parliament.  

Friday March the First. 88  
Mr. Wh●rton Delivered a Message from the King viz.  
That His Majesty found the Act for Chimney-Money, was grievous to the Subject, and therefore left it to the Consideration of His Parliament to take off the same, etc.   

In Answer to which, was made an Address to the Effect following.  
WE Your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament 〈…〉, 〈…〉 taken into Consideration Your Majesty's Gracious Message, wherein Your Majesty is pleased to Express Your Great Kindness and Sense of Your People's Condition, by Your Tender Consideration, that the Revenue of the Hearthmoney is very Grievous, and are pleased to Agree either to the Regulation of it, or Taking it wholly away.  
And as Your Majesty is pleased in this, to Consider the Ease of Your People, we acknowledge ourselves Obliged to declare that Your Majesty has filled our Hearts with an Entire Satisfaction and Gratitude, by this your most Gracious and Vnprecedented Offer.  
And we humbly Crave leave to present this Assurance to Your Majesty, that we will make such Grateful and Affectionate Returns, and be so careful for the Support of the Crown, that the World may see, to the Discouraging of your Enemies, and the Satisfaction of all Good Men, that Your Majesty Reigns in the Hearts of Your People, which God grant long to continue.   

How infinitely does this Glorious Goodness and Condescension to His People outshine His Predecessors! To instance no farther back than the two last Reigns, Time has been when the National Eas● has been so little the consideration of the Crown, that our very Meeting of Parliaments have dwindled into little other Use, than, Give us more of your Money, and less of your Counsels; and scarce one good Act for the benefit of the Subject obtained without the tacking of a Money-Bill at the End of it. Nay, and when the English purses would not drain fast enough, we have wretchedly trucked to France to help out the count. But not to rake into the Ashes of one, or the misfortune of the other, what between the Effeminacy of one Reign, and the Bigotry of the other, what unaccountable sums, and as unaccountably consumed, have been expended, and preverted directly contrary to the Intent of the Original Donation, the great End they were given for?  
But this long Sovereign fault amended, (not to mention all the other long blemishes in the Imperial Scutcheon, washed off in the Person of our present truly GRACIOUS KING,) as vast a Revenue as the Chimney-money may be, yet considering the Iniquity and Partiality of it, together with the Cries against it, (for never so uneven a Tax was form.) He considers the Delight of disburthening His People above the Gratification of filling His Exchequer: And as weighty a Crown Jewel as it is, He thinks His Diadem (on that only store) shines brighter, though not richer, without it. And undoubtedly this one unprecedented Act of Royal Grace, attended with all the Circumstances of such a Voluntary Tender, (even singly and separate from that unbounded Goodness, and those Accumulated Glories we have so large a future prospect of, from so promising a Reign,) is sufficient of itself alone to stand a REGAL MONUMENT.  
And now my Friends and Neighbours, after a hearty Farewell to your Chimney-Money, listen to some few Comforts in store for you. The poor Country Wife may now boil her Child's Milk, or her Husband's Gruel, without endangering the Consiscation of her Skillet or Crock, for the use of a Chimney to warm it in. The poor Labourer, that out of his Weeks Wages can arrive to a Sabbath▪ Days-Joint of Meat, need not fear the loss of his Spit on Monday, for eating of Roast-Meat on Sunday; with the hearty Wish too, perhaps at the Tail on't, that the Chimney-money-statute-makers' were spitted and roasted after it.  
The furnishing his Hearth now, shall not cost him the Unrigging of his Kitchin. Nor shall the Great and (before) Glorious Name of a King, be longer debased to so Vile and Wretched a Voice of Authority, as the Rifling of Cottages, and Plundering of Poverty. The Painted Staff shall now make no more havoc amongst their Dishes and Platters, with the untuneable comfort of the Cries of the Poor to make up the Harmony▪ And that Original Peace-keeper, the Constable, ●● virtue of a hard lettered Statute, shall now no more be put to the Office of a French▪ Dragoon, in breaking open of Doors, and making Military Execution on the Goods and Chattels even of Indigence and Begga●●. Those hard-looked Guests the Collectors, a sort of Visitants as troublesome as a Cat in a Glass-Box, (thanks to Heaven and our good King) are like to have their Reign but short. For that Egypt-Plague, those House Locusts (GOD and Great William be prais●●) are now departing your Dwellings; and you and your Race for the future may live in hopes of making your Fires burn clear, without melting down your Porridge-Pots into the bargain. A long and Everlasting Alien to that Crown Grindstone, the Hearth-Statute. The Face of the Poor shall now be Ground no more. And so  
God Save King William and Queen Mary.    

London, Printed by George Larkin, at the Two S●ans without Bishopsgate. 1689.