I Acknowledge your extraordinary Reſpects in Chuſing Me to Serve You in the Higheſt Station of your Government.
I am very ſenſible of my own Unfitneſs for ſo great an Employment, and could have much rather choſe a Retirement; but ſince you will have it ſo, I ſhall, by God's Aſſiſtance, apply My ſelf to the Work you have called Me.
And for the carrying of it on, I will take the beſt Advice and Direction of my Honoured Brethren of the Court of Aldermen; and, on every emergent Occaſion, call in the Aſſiſtance of your Repreſentatives, the Common-Councel.
2And, Gentlemen, I deſire your moſt Free Acceſs unto me at all times: For what By-Laws you will have Made, or Repeal'd, I will readily call a Common-Council, as oft as you ſhall deſire.
One thing I muſt beg of you, That as I ſhall always Deſign and Endeavour nothing but the Publick Good, ſo let my Actions receive a Favourable Conſtruction; and think me not ſo unworthy as to employ the Power and Truſt you have inveſted in me, to your Prejudice.
I ſhall be ambitious to follow my Worthy Predeceſſor in all the Good Ends of Government, though I deſpair of coming up to his Great Example.
If Emulation be Commendable upon any Account, it muſt certainly be upon ſo good a one, as doing the Beſt Service for the Greateſt City in Europe, and for ſuch Fellow-Citizens as have in the Worſt of Times expoſed Themſelves to the Greateſt Dangers for the Defence of their Religion and Liberties.
May the ſame Noble Principles ſtill inſpire you with a True Zeal for God, your King, and Country; and may the Glorious King William and Queen Mary always be Happy in the utmoſt of your Affections and Aſſiſtances, that the Tranquility of this City, and of the Nation in general may Flouriſh.
London: Printed for Tho. Cockerill, at the Three Legs in the Poultry. MDCXCIV.
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