But I now arrive to the Lawes you have made, and the excellent things which your Majestie hath done since you came amongst Your people.  Truely, there is hardly an hour to be reckoned wherein your Majesty has not done some signal benefit.  I have already touch’d a few of them, as what concern’d the most, I would I could say the best; for you have oblig’d your very Enemies, You have bought them; since never was there, till now, so prodigious a summe paid, a summe hardly in Nature, to verifie a Word only; and which the zeal of Your good Subjects (had you taken the advantage of the fervour which I but now mentioned, at Your wonderful Reception) might easily have absolv’d You of; had You paid them in kind, and as they were wont to keep faith with your Majestie.  I provoke the World again to furnish an instance of a like generositie, unlesse he climb up to heaven for it.  How black then must that ingratitude needs appear, which should after all this, dare to rebell; Or, for the future once murmur at Your Government?  Since it was no necessity that compell’d You, but an excesse of your good nature, and your charitie.

Your Majestie has abolished the Court of Wards; I cannot say we have freed ourselves in desiring it, if it were possible to hope for so indulgent a Father as Your Majestie is to Your Countrie, in those who shall succeed You.

The Compositions You have likewise eased us of, if that could be esteem’d a burthen, to serve so excellent a Prince, who receives nothing of his Subjects but what he returnes again in the Noblest and worthiest Hospitality, that any Potentate in earth can produce; Thus what the Rivers pay to the Ocean, it returns again in showers to replenish them.  But Your Majestie would dissipate even the very shadows, which give us umbrage; and rather part with your own just right, then those few of your Subjects which it concern’d, should think themselves aggreiv’d, though by a mistake even of their duty.

[SN:  His Majesties Declaration.] But I should first have mention’d your settlement of the Church, and Your bringing back the Ark of God:  Your Majesties wise composure of our Frailties, and tendernesse as well in the Religious as the Secular; whilst yet You continue fervent to maintain what is decent, and what is setled by Law.  But what language is capable to expresse this Article?  Let those who wait at the Altar, and to which you have restor’d the daily sacrifice, supply the defect of this period, and celebrate your piety.

Nor has yet Your zeal to the Church, lessen’d that which is due to the Common-wealth; witnesse your industry in erecting a Counsel of Trade, by which alone you have sufficiently verified that expression of your Majesties in your Declaration from Breda, That You would propose some useful things for the publick emolument of the Nation, which should render it opulent, splendid and flourishing; making good your pretence to the universall Soveraignty by Your Princely care, as well as by your birth and undoubted Title.