Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Note
- Introduction
- The Conduct of the Allies
- Some Advice Humbly Offer’d to the Members of the October Club
- Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty
- The New Way of Selling Places at Court
- Some Reasons to Prove . . . In a Letter to a Whig-Lord
- It’s Out at Last: Or, French Correspondence Clear as the Sun
- A Dialogue Upon Dunkirk, Between a Whig and a Tory
- A Hue and Cry After Dismal
- A Letter From the Pretender, to a Whig-Lord
- A Defence of Erasmus Lewis, or The Examiner (2 February 1713)
- Vote of Thanks by the House of Lords (9 April 1713) and The Humble Address of the . . . Lords (11 April 1713)
- The Importance of the Guardian Considered
- The Publick Spirit of the Whigs
- A Discourse Concerning the Fears From the Pretender
- Some Free Thoughts Upon the Present State of Affairs
- Some Considerations Upon the Consequences Hoped and Feared from the Death of the Queen
- Contributions to the Post Boy and the Evening Post
- Textual Introduction and Accounts of Individual Works
- Textual Introduction Ian Gadd
- The Conduct of the Allies: Textual Account
- Appendix: Transcripts of the British Library Manuscripts of the Vote of Thanks and The Humble Address of . . . the Lords
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix: Transcripts of the British Library Manuscripts of the Vote of Thanks and The Humble Address of . . . the Lords
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Note
- Introduction
- The Conduct of the Allies
- Some Advice Humbly Offer’d to the Members of the October Club
- Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty
- The New Way of Selling Places at Court
- Some Reasons to Prove . . . In a Letter to a Whig-Lord
- It’s Out at Last: Or, French Correspondence Clear as the Sun
- A Dialogue Upon Dunkirk, Between a Whig and a Tory
- A Hue and Cry After Dismal
- A Letter From the Pretender, to a Whig-Lord
- A Defence of Erasmus Lewis, or The Examiner (2 February 1713)
- Vote of Thanks by the House of Lords (9 April 1713) and The Humble Address of the . . . Lords (11 April 1713)
- The Importance of the Guardian Considered
- The Publick Spirit of the Whigs
- A Discourse Concerning the Fears From the Pretender
- Some Free Thoughts Upon the Present State of Affairs
- Some Considerations Upon the Consequences Hoped and Feared from the Death of the Queen
- Contributions to the Post Boy and the Evening Post
- Textual Introduction and Accounts of Individual Works
- Textual Introduction Ian Gadd
- The Conduct of the Allies: Textual Account
- Appendix: Transcripts of the British Library Manuscripts of the Vote of Thanks and The Humble Address of . . . the Lords
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
These are inclusive-text transcripts, from BL, Add. MS 70030, of the ‘Vote of Thanks’ and ‘Humble Address of the … Lords to the Queen’ as drafted by Swift, with annotations by Robert Harley.
(Vote of Thanks; BL, Add.MS 70030, fo. 202r )
Ordered that an humble Address be made to Her Majesty to return the Most humble thanks of this House to Her Majesty, for Her most gracious Speech from the Throne, and for Her Majesty's communicating to this House that a Peace is agreed on, and to congratulate Her Majesty upon the Success of her Endeavors for a generall Peace, and for what [letters cancelled] Her Majesty has done to secure the Protestant Succession; [& the Harmony between her & the House of Hannover is interlined in a different hand after the semi-colon] and to [letters cancelled] assure Her Majesty, that as She is pleased to express her Dependence next under God upon [letters cancelled] the Duty and Affection of her People, this House will make all Returns [letters cancelled ] that are due from obedient Subjects to the most indulgent Soverain.
(Humble Address of the House of Lords to the Queen; BL, Add.MS 70030, fos. 200r−v)
WeYour Majesty’smost dutifull and loyall Subjects theLords Spirituall and Temporall in Parlmt assembled, do with the greatest Joy and Satisfaction return our humblest Thanks toYour Majesty forYour most gracious Speech from the Throne, and for communicating to this House, that a Peace is concluded, so honorable to Your Majesty and safe and advantageous to Your Kingdoms; [passage from so honorable to Kingdoms; underlined, presumably by Harley] by which we hope with the Blessing of God, that your People will in a few Years recover themselves after so long and expensive a War, [possibly a full-stop rather than a comma] We likewise beg leave to congratulate with Your Majesty upon the generall Peace you have procured for all Your Allyes, wherein the true Interests and just Pretensions of each are so fully provided for that the Tranquillity and Welfare of Europe will be owing (next to the Divine Providence) to Your Majesty's Wisdom and Goodness. [passage from We likewise to and Goodness.
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- English Political Writings 1711–1714'The Conduct of the Allies' and Other Works, pp. 517 - 518Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008