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afflict us, that the Distance between your Court, and this City, deprives us of the Accomplishment of our Desires, which is personally to throw ourselves at the Feet of your Majesty, as we do by this Letter execute it with cordial Affection, there being none so much concern'd in this singular Enterprise as this City and our selves. May your Majesty enjoy repeated Congratulations, since it has been your Arms that has placed our Catholick Monarch on the Throne of this Principality. And we hope, that in what he has further to do, for conquering the Monarchy, Your Majesty's Royal Protection will not be wanting to him, whereon we rely for Success; We beseech God to protect Your Majesty's Person as is necessary.
Vich, Octob. 24. 1705.
Madam,
Your Royal Majesty’s
most oblig’d humble Servants,
The Counsellors of the City of Vich.
A Letter from the City of Barcelona to her
Britannick Majesty.
Sacred and Royal Majesty,
THE City of Barcelona having gain'd great Advantages, both by the happy Arrival of our most beloved King and Lord Charles III. (whom God preserve) and by their being under his mild and lawful Dominion, they acknowledge they owe this their inexpressible good Fortune to the generous Protection of your Majesty, and the
