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A32138 The Kings Maiesties speeches in this great and happy Parliament Novemb. 3, 1640. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1641 (1641) Wing C2819; ESTC R35873 6,485 15

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THE KINGS MAIESTIES SPEECHES In this Great and Happy Parliament Novemb. 3. 1640. Printed Anno 1641. His Majesties first Speech in Parliament the 3. of November 1640. My Lords THe knowledge I had of the desires of my Scottish Subjects was the cause of my calling the last Assembly of Parliament wherein had I been beleeved I sincerely think that things had not faln out as now we see But it is no wonder that men are so slow to beleeve that so great a sedition should be raised on so little ground But now my Lords and Gentlemen the honour and safety of this Kingdom lying so nearly at the stake I am resolved to put my self freely and cleerly on the love and affections of my English Subjects as these of my Lords that did wait on me at York very well remember I there declared Therefore my Lords I shall not mention mine own interest or that support I might justly expect from you till the common safety be secured though I must tell you I am not ashamed to say those charges I have been at have been meerly for the securing and good of this Kingdom though the successe hath not been answerable to my desires Therefore I shall onely desire you to consider the best way both for the safety and security of this Kingdom wherein their are two parts chiefly considerable First the chastising out of the Rebels And secondly the other in satisfying your just grievances wherein I shall promise you to concurre so heartily and clearly with you that all the World may see my intentions have ever been and shall be to make this a glorions and flourishing Kingdom There are onely two things that I shall mention to you First the one is to tell you that the Loan of money which I lately had from the City of London wherein the Lords that waited on me at York assisted me will onely maintain my Army for two moneths from the beginning of that time it was granted Now my Lords and Gentlemen I leave it to your considerations what dishonour and mischief it might be in case for want of money my Army be disbanded before the Rebels be put out of this Kingdom Secondly the securing the calamities the Northern people endure at this time and so long as the treaty is on foot And in this I may say not onely they but all this Kingdome will suffer the harm therefore I leave this also to your consideration for the ordering of these great affairs whereof you are to treat at this time I am so confident of your love to me and that your care is for the honour and safety of the Kingdom that I shall freely and willingly leave to you where to begin onely this that you may the better know the state of all the Affairs I have commanded my Lord Keeper to give you a short and free accompt of these things that have hapned in this interim with this Protestation that if this accompt be not satisfactory as it ought to be I shall whensoever you desire give you a full and perfect accompt of every particular One thing more I desire of you as one of the greatest means to make this a happy Parliament That you on your parts as I on Mine lay aside all suspition one of another as I promised my Lords at York It shall not be my fault if this be not a happy and good Parliament His Majesties second Speech in Parliament the Novemb. 5. 1640. My Lords I do expect that you will hastily make relation to the House of Commons of those great affairs for which I have called you hither at this time and for the trust I have reposed in them and how freely I put my self ●n their love and affections at that time and that you may know the better how to do so I shall explain my self concerning one thing I spake the last day I told you the Rebells must be put out of this Kingdom its true I must needs call them so so long as they have an Army that do invade us and although I am under treaty with them and I under my great Seal do call them Subjects and so they are too but the state of my Affairs in short is this It s true I did expect when I did will my Lords and great ones at York to have given a gracious answer to all your grievances for I was in good hope by their wisedomes and assistances to have made an end of tha● businesse but I must tell you that my Subjects of Scotland did so delay them that it was not possible to end there Therefore I can no wayes blame my Lords that were at Rippon that the treaty was not ended but must thank them for their pains and industry and certainly had they as much power as affections I should by that time have brought these distempers to a happy period so that now the treaty is transported from Rippon to London where I shall conclude nothing without your knowledge and I doubt not but by your approbation for I do not desire to have this great work done in a corner for I shall ●ay open all the steps of this mis-understanding and causes of the great differences between Me and my Subjects of Scotland And I doubt not but by your assistance to make them know their duty and also by your assistance to make them return whether they will or no. His Majesties Speech to both the Houses January 25. 1640. My Lords THe Knights Citizens Burgesses The principall cause of my coming here at this time is by reason of the flow proceedings in Parliament touching which is a great deal of inconvenience Therefore I think it very necessary to lay before you the state of my affairs as now they stand thereby to hasten not interrupt your proceedings First I must remember you that there are two Armies in the Kingdom in a manner maintained by you the very naming of which doth more cleerly shew the inconvenience thereof then a better tongue then mine can expresse Therefore in the first place I shall recommend unto you the quick dispatch of that businesse assuring you that it cannot rest upon me In the next place I must recommend unto you the State of my Navy and Forts the condition of both which is so well known unto you that I need not tell you the particulars onely thus much they are the Walls and defence of this Kingdom which if out of order all men may easily judge what incouragement it will be to Our enemies and what dishearing to our friends Last of all and not of the least to be considered I must lay before you the distractions that are at this present occasioned through the cause of Parliament for there are some men that more maliciously then ignorantly will put no difference between Reformation and alteration of government Hence it cometh that divine Service is irreverently interrupted and Petitions in an ill way given in neither disputed nor denied But I will enter