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A76015	The speech and declaration of His Excellency the Lord Generall Monck delivered at White-hall upon Tuesday the 21. of February 1659. To the Members of Parliament at their meeting there, before the re-admission of the formerly secluded Members into the Parliament House. Ordered by his Excellency the Lord Generall that this speech and declaration be forthwith printed and published. Will: Clark secretary. Entred in the Stationers Hall according to order.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing A867; Thomason E1016_2; ESTC R7905	2,516	8

THE SPEECH AND DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD GENERALL MONCK Delivered at White-hall upon Tuesday the 21. of February 1659. To the Members of Parliament at their meeting there before the Re-admission of the Formerly Secluded Members into the Parliament House Ordered by his Excellency the Lord Generall that this Speech and Declaration be forthwith printed and published Will Clark Secretary Entred in the Stationers Hall according to Order London Printed by S. Griffin for John Playford at his shop in the Temple near the Church 1659. THE SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCIE THE LORD GENERAL MONCK Deliver'd to the Members of Parliament met at White-hall on Tuesday the 21. of Febr. 1659. GENTLEMEN YOu are not I hope ignorant what Care and Endeavours have been used and Means essayed for healing the breaches of our Divisions amongst our selves and that in order thereunto divers Conferences have been procured between you though to small effect yet having at length received fuller satisfaction from these worthy Gentlemen that were secluded then formerly I was bold to put you all to the trouble of this meeting that I might open my selfe to you all even with more freedome then formerly but least I might be misapprehended or mistaken as of late it befell me I have committed to writing the Heads of what I intended to discourse to you and desire it may be read openly to you all THE DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD GENERALL MONCK Delivered at White-hall upon Tuesday the 21. of February 1659. Gentlemen IT appears unto me by what I have heard from you and the whole Nation that the Peace and happy Settlement of these bleeding Nations next under God lyeth in your hands And when I consider that Wisdom Piety and Self denial which I have reason to be confident lodgeth in you and how great a share of the Nations sufferings will fall upon you in case the Lord deny us now a Settlement I am in very good hopes there will be found in you all such melting bowels towards these poor Nations and towards one another that you will become healers and makers up of all its woeful Breaches And that such an opportunity may clearly appear to be in your hands I thought good to assure you and that in the presence of God that I have nothing before my eyes but Gods Glory and the settlement of these Nations upon Common-wealth Foundations In pursuit whereof I shall think nothing too dear And for my own particular I shall throw my self down at your feet to be any thing or nothing in order to these great Ends As to the way of future Settlement far be it from me to impose any thing I desire you may be in perfect Freedom Onely give me leave to mind you that the old Foundations are by Gods Providence so broken that in the eye of Reason they cannot be restored but upon the ruines of the people of these Naons that have engaged for their Rights in defence of the Parliament and the great and main ends of the Covenant for uniting and making the Lords name One in the three Nations And also the Liberty of the peoples Representatives in Parliament will be certainly lost For if the people find that after so long and bloody a War against the King for breaking in upon their Liberties yet at last he must be taken in again it will be out of question and is most manifest he may for the future govern by his Will dispose of Parliaments and Parliament Men as he pleaseth and yet the people will never more rise for their assistance And as to the interests of this famous City which hath been in all ages the Bulwork of Parliaments and unto whom I am for their great affection so deeply engaged Certainly it must lie in a Common-wealth That Government onely being capable to make them through the Lords blessing the Metropolis and Bank of Trade for all Christendom whereunto God and Nature hath fitted them above all others And as to a Government in the Church the want whereof hath been no small cause of these Nations distractions It is most manifest that if it be Monarchicall in the State the Church must follow and Prelacy must be brought in which these Nations I know cannot bear and against which they have so solemnly Sworn And indeed moderate not rigid Presbyterian Government with a sufficient Liberty for Consciences truly tender appears at present to be the most indifferent and acceptable way to the Churches Settlement The main thing that seems to lye in the way is the Interest of the Lords even of those Lords who have shewed themselves noble indeed by joining with the people and in defence of those just rights have adventured their dearest bloud and large estates To that I shall only say that though the state of these Nations be such as cannot bear their sitting in a distinct House yet certainly the wisdom of Parliament will finde out such Hereditary marks of honour for them as may make them more Noble in after ages Gentlemen upon the whole matter the best result that I can make at present for the peace of these Nations will be in my opinion that you forthwith go to sit together in Parliament In order 1. To the setling the conduct of the Armies of the three Nations in that manner as they may be serviceable to the peace and safety of them and not to its own and the Nations ruine by Faction and Division 2. To the providing sufficient maintenance for them That is for the Forces by Land and for the Navie by Sea and all their arrears of both and other contingencies of the government 3. To the appointing a Council of State with Authoritie to settle the Civil Government and Judicatories in Scotland and Ireland and to take care for the issuing of Writs for the summoning a Parliament of these 3 Nations united to meet at Westminster the 20 day of April next with such qualifications as may secure secure the Publick cause we are all engaged in and according to such Distributions as were used in the year 1654. Which Parliament so called may meet and act in Freedom for the more full establishing of this Common-Wealth without a King single Person or House of Lords 4. To a legal Dissolution of this Parliament to make way for succession of Parliaments And in order to these good ends the Guards will not only willingly admit you but faithfully both my self and every the Officers under my command and I believe the Officers and Souldiers of the three Nations will spend their blood for you and successive Parliaments If your Conjunction be directed to this end you may part honourably having made a fair step to the settlement of these Nations by making a way for successive Parliaments But I must needs say that if any different councels should be taken which I have no reason to fear these Nations would presently be thrown back into force and violence and all hopes of this much desired establishment buried in disorder which the Lord in his great mercy I hope will prevent And so God speed you well together and unite your hearts for the preservation of Peace and settlement of these Nations to his own Glory and yours and all our Comforts FINIS