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To THE King's Most Excellent Majesty. 



May it please your Majesty. 



We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Vice- 

 Patrons, President, Vice-Presidents, and Members of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall, beg leave respectfully to express to your 

 Majesty our deep sense of the loss which we, in common with the 

 whole Empire, have sustained in the death of Her Most Gracious 

 Majesty Queen Victoria. We desire to record our thankfulness 

 for the unexampled progress made in Science and the Arts, and in 

 all other branches of knowledge, under her fostering care and 

 that of your august and honoured father, the Prince Consort. 



We respectfully offer our congratulations to your Majesty on 

 your Accession to the Throne of your Ancestors, and desire to 

 express our attachment and fidelity to your Majesty's person, and 

 we will ever pray that your Majesty, with your Royal Consort, our 

 Gracious Queen Alexandra, may long and prosperously reign over 

 your loyal and devoted people. 



Signed on behalf of the Officers j J. C. Williams, President, 

 and Members of the Royal V 

 Institution of Cornwall. ) Edw. Parkyn, Hon. Sec. 



Dated, Truro, nth March, 1901. 



Also the following Address soliciting' His Majesty's Royal 

 Patronage : 



To the King's most Excellent Majesty. 

 May it please your Majesty. 



--- We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Vice- 



.... Patrons, President, VicQ-Presidents, and Members of the Royal 



Institution of Cornwall, desire humbly to express our hope that 



, your Majesty will condescend to permit us still to bear at the head 



of our Institution, the name of our Sovereign as we have borne 



the names of your Majesty's illustrious predecessors. King George 



IV., King William IV., and Queen Victoria, since the date of our 



foundation in the year 1818 ; and that your Majesty will graciously 



consent to renew to us the Patronage and Protection which we 



enjoyed during their reigns, thereby enabling us to extend the 



benefits of Science and Literature in the Ancient and Loyal Duchy 



of Cornwall. ■ . 



Signed on behalf of the Officers ) ]. C. VJilliaus, President. 



and Members of the Royal > 



Institution of Cornwall. ) Edw. Parkyn, Hon. Sec. 



Dated Truro, nth March, 1901. 



