View report page

34
"TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
"We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Wandsworth, desire at this time of mourning for your Majesty's
late revered Father, to express our heartfelt sympathy with you and the Royal
family in the grievous loss Your Majesty and the whole of Your Empire have
sustained by the sad death of out beloved Sovereign King Edward the
Seventh.
"We recall with deep gratitude the great qualities of statesmanship
and patriotism which His late Majesty always displayed in so eminent and
successful a degree, especially in his zeal for the cause of International
Peace, and we humbly pray that Your Majesty, following so noble an
example, and with the blessing of Almighty God, may long reign over a
prosperous and happy people.
"And we most dutifully beg to assure Your Majesty of the profound
devotion and loyalty which our Borough will ever have to your Person and
Throne.
22. On the same day the Council also sealed the following
Address to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, viz.:—
"TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA.
"We, the Major, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Wandsworth, respectfully desire to express our heartfelt sorrow
at the sad bereavement which Your Majesty has suffered by the untimely
death of your august Husband His late Majesty King Edward the
Seventh.
"His Majesty had endeared himself to all his subjects by his kindness
of heart and by his generous support (in which Your Majesty always so
kindly co-operated) of Institutions and Movements having for their object
the advancement of the interests and happiness of his people.
"We earnestly pray that strength and fortitude may be vouchsafed
by an all-loving Providence, to sustain and comfort Your Majesty and the
Royal Family in this hour of affliction.
"Sealed by Order.
{Signed) "ARCHIBALD D. DAWNAY,
"Mayor. L.S.
(Signed) "HEN. GEO. HILLS, ,
"Town Clerk."
" Sealed by Order.
(Signed) "ARCHIBALD D. DAWNAY,
"Mayor. L.S.
(Signed) "HEN. GEO. HILLS,"Town Clerk''