64 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



Inquest for your City of London, we hope your 

 Majesty, according to your wonted clemency, 

 will give us leave among the rest of your good 

 subjects to present ourselves at your Majesty's 

 feet. 



** We do magnify the goodness of Divine 

 Providence, that hath so peaceably and happily 

 seated your Majesty in the throne of your 

 royal ancestors, which all the world must own 

 to be your undoubted right. 



" We do from the bottom of our hearts thank 

 Almighty God, and your Majesty, for the gra- 

 cious assurances you have given your people to 

 maintain and support the government both in 

 Church and State as established by law. 



** And as we have always endeavoured in our 

 place and station, to approve ourselves loyal 

 and dutiful subjects to your Majesty's dearly 

 beloved brother, our late dread Sovereign of 

 blessed memory, so (as it is our duty), we 

 promise and resolve, with all the faith and since- 

 rity in the world to serve your Majesty, your 

 heirs and successors, to the utmost extremity." 



It has been remarked that most of the ad- 

 dresses upon this occasion ran in a warm ; some 

 think too warm a strain of loyalty. And possi- 

 bly some objections may be made to the last 

 expression of this address, of serving the King 



