Address of the Gentlemen, etc., of the County of Kincardine

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Address of the Gentlemen, Justices of the Peace, Freeholders, and Commissioners of the Land-Tax of the County of Kincardine, transmitted to the Earl of Suffolk, one of His Majesty' s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Justices of the Peace, Freeholders, and Commissioners of the Land-Tax of the County of Kincardine.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty' s most loyal subjects, the Gentlemen of the County of Kincardine, in general meeting assembled, esteem it our duty on the present occasion to express, with the highest sense of gratitude, the innumerable blessings we enjoy under your Majesty' s free and lenient Government, and to avow our firm and unalterable resolution to support, by every exertion of our powers, the measures adopted by your Majesty and the Parliament of Great Britain, for suppressing the rebellion now subsisting in your Majesty' s Colonies in America.

With the most ardent prayers for your Majesty' s happiness, and the long continuance of your reign over a free and a grateful people, we most sincerely wish for the speedy success of your Majesty' s endeavours to reduce the Colonies to a just subordination to the legislative powers of Great Britain, and due obedience to your Majesty' s Government.

Signed in name of the General Meeting, and by their appointment, at Stonhaven, the 29th day of November,

R˙ BARCLAY, Praeses.