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The King' s Answer to the Address

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Monday, October 30, 1775.

The Lord Chancellor reported: That the House did, on Thursday last, present their Address to his Majesty, to which his Majesty was pleased to return the following most gracious Answer, viz:

"MY LORDS: I receive with the most sensible satisfaction this Address, so fully expressive of your duty and loyalty to me. Nothing can be more acceptable than the assurances you give of your utmost support to enable me to re-establish order and tranquillity throughout all my dominions;

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and I shall most heartily concur with any measures that may tend to so salutary a purpose."

Ordered, That the said Address, together with his Majesty' s most gracious Answer thereto, be forthwith printed and published.

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