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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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On November 11 in London, the Duke of Richmond presented an address from the Massachusetts Bay House of Representatives to King George III, expressing gratitude for repealing the Stamp Act and assuring loyalty to the Crown and Parliament.
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The following addresses of the Honourable House of Representatives of the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, has been presented to his Majesty by the Duke of Richmond, which address his Majesty was pleased to receive very graciously.
To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty.
The humble address of the House of Representatives of the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, in America.
May it please your Majesty,
Our Majesty's faithful subjects the Representatives of your province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, under the deepest sense of duty and loyalty, beg leave humbly to approach the throne, and to express their warmest gratitude that your Majesty has been pleased in Parliament to give your Royal assent to the repeal of the American Stamp Act. This is a repeated instance of your Royal clemency, and it affords a fresh and affecting testimony of your Majesty's unremitted and indulgent attention to the welfare and happiness of all your subjects.
Your Majesty will allow us, with the greatest grief and anxiety, to express our apprehension that your American subjects may have been represented to your Parliament as having manifested some kind of disaffection to their constitutional dependence on the parent country, and as disposed to take occasion, from the lenity and tenderness of your Majesty and the Parliament, to abate of their respect and submission to the supreme legislative authority of Great Britain.
Permit us, with all humility, to assure your Majesty of the great injustice of any such representations: Your subjects of this province, and we doubt not of the whole continent of America, are too sensible of the blessings they enjoy under your mild and gracious government, to admit the idea of such a temper and conduct without abhorrence. They esteem their connection with their fellow subjects in Great Britain, and a constitutional subordination to your Parliament, their great privilege and security. Happy in the full possession of our rights and liberties, under your Majesty's propitious government, we never can be wanting in returns of duty and the most grateful affection.
Such, may it please your Majesty, is our own disposition; and we beg leave to assure your Majesty that we shall ever esteem it our glory to cultivate, as far as our influence may extend, all the sentiments of loyalty and affection to your Majesty's person and government, and to maintain a happy harmony between your subjects of Great Britain and those of your American colonies.
By order of the House,
THOMAS CUSHING, Speaker.
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Massachusetts Bay, In New England
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November 11
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his majesty was pleased to receive very graciously
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The Honourable House of Representatives of the province of Massachusetts Bay presented an address to the King via the Duke of Richmond, thanking for the repeal of the American Stamp Act, denying disaffection, affirming loyalty and constitutional subordination to Great Britain, and committing to harmony between British and American subjects.