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B01501 The Lord General Monck his speech, delivered by him in the Parliament on Monday, Feb. 6. 1659. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. 1660 (1660) Wing A870; ESTC R170086 1,699 11

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THE Lord General Monck HIS SPEECH Delivered by Him in the PARLIAMENT On Monday Feb. 6. 1659. EDINBURGH Re-printed by Christopher Higgins in Harts Close over against the Trone-Church 1660. The Lord General Monck his Speech c. Mr. SPEAKER AMongst the many Mercies of GOD to these poor Nations your peaceable Restauration is not the least it is His work alone and to Him belongs the glory of it and I esteem it as a great effect of His goodness to me that He was pleased to make me amongst many worthier in your service some way instrumental in it I did nothing but my duty and do not deserve to receive so great honour and respect as you are pleased to give me at this time and place which I shall ever acknowledge as an high mark of your favour to me Sir I shall not now trouble you with large Narratives only give me leave to acquaint you that as I marcht from Scotland hither I observed the People in most Counties in great and earnest Expectations of Settlement and they made several Applications to me with numerous Subscriptions the chiefest heads of their Desires were For a Free and Full Parliament and that you would determine your sitting A Gospel-Ministry Encouragement of Learning and Vniversities And for Admittance of the Members secluded before 1648. without any previous Oath or Engagement To which I commonly answered That you are now in a Free Parliament and if there be any force remaining upon you I would endeavour to remove it and that you had Voted to fill up your House and then you would be a full Parliament also and that you had already determined your sitting and for the Ministry their Maintenance the Lawes and Universities you had largely declared in your last Declaration and I was confident you would adhere to it but as for those Gentlemen secluded in the year 1648 I told them you had given Judgment in it and all People ought to acquiesce in that Judgment but to admit any Members to sit in Parliament without a previous Oath or Engagement to Secure the Government in being it was never yet done in England And although I said it not to them I must say with pardon to you That the lesse Oaths and Engagements are imposed with respect had to the Security of the Common Cause your Settlement will be the sooner attained to I am the more particular in these matters to let you see how gratefull your present Consultations about these things will be to the People I know all the sober Gentry will heartily close with you if they may be tenderly and gently used and I am sure you will so use them as knowing it to be our Common Concern to expatiate and not narrow our Interests and to be carefull neither the Cavalier nor Phanatick Party have yet a share in your Civil or Military Power of the last of whose impatience to Government you have had so severe Experience I should say something of Ireland and Scotland Indeed Ireland is in an ill condition and made worse by your sudden Interruption which prevented the passing an Act for the Settlement of the Estates of Adventurers and Souldiers there which I heard you intended to have done in a few dayes and I presume it will be quickly done being so necessary at this time when the wants of the Commonwealth call for supplies and People will unwillingly pay Taxes for those Estates of which they have no Legal Assurance I need not tell you how much your Favour was abused in the Nomination of your Officers of your Army there their Malice hath been sufficiently manifested I dare affirm that those now that have declared for you will continue faithfull and thereby evince that aswell there as here it is the sober Interest that must establish your Dominion As for Scotland I must say the People of that Nation deserve much to be cherished and I believe your late Declaration will much glad their spirits for nothing was more dreadfull to them than a fear to be over-run with Phanatick Notions I humbly recommend them to your Affection and Esteem and desire the intended Act of Union may be prosecuted and their Taxes made proportionable to those in England for which I am engaged by Promise to be an humble Suitor to you And truly Sir I must ask leave to entreat you to make a speedy Provision for their Civil Government of which they have been destitute near a year to the ruine of many Families and except Commissioners for Management of the Government and Judges to sit in Courts of Judicature be speedily appointed 〈◊〉 Country will be very miserable I directed Mr. Gumble lately to present to you some Names both of Commissioners and Judges But by reason of your great Affairs he was not required to deliver them in writing to you but I now humbly present them to your Consideration FINIS