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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86455	Two speeches delivered by the Earl of Holland, and Mr. Io: Pym, Esquire. Concerning a petition to His Majestie for peace. Spoken in Guild-hall, on Thursday the 10. of Novemb. to the Lord Major and Aldermen, with the rest of the inhabitant of the city; being commanded by both Houses of Parliament thereunto.	Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.; Pym, John, 1584-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing H2422; Thomason E126_48; ESTC R19984	3,973	10

TWO SPEECHES Delivered by The Earl of Holland AND Mr. Io Pym Esquire Concerning a Petition to His Majestie for PEACE Spoken in GVILD-HALL On Thursday the 10. of Novemb. To the Lord Major and Aldermen with the rest of the Inhabitant of the City being commanded by both Houses of PARLIAMENT thereunto LONDON Printed by J. E. for Peter Cole and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Glove and Lyon neer th● Royall-Ex●●●●●● 1642. The Earl of Holland his Speech MY Lord Maior and you Gentlemen and Inhabitants of the City we are commanded by both Houses of Parliament to come hither and to deliver to you that are their great Assistant an account and knowledge of a Resolution they have taken to send a Petition to His Majesty grounded upon these Reasons The first is That there is a duty towards God to seek Peace indeed to seek it with all men therefore properly and naturally with the King this they are directed to do if Peace flyes from us to pursue it to follow it this is their holy duty They have likewise taken into their thoughts too seriously that that may concern the safety of the Kings person being ingaged in this last Battell through his own resolutions and adventures to put his person in some hazzard they have a tendernesse of that and amongst other considerations it is that that prevails with them to desire that He may not be in danger if it be possible by a further pursuance of this action that in all probability must come to a second blow and that speedily if there be not some other way taken for an Accommodation There is another reason that they are likewise perswaded the more willingly thus to Petition and to desire Peace that is for the saving and recovering the Kingdom of Ireland in the distresse that you have long seen it they know the impossibility for this Kingdom to relieve that if we continue in these distractions and in these confusions within our selves and therefore believing nothing can contribute or conduce towards the recovering of that Kingdom and the delivering of those persons indeed from danger that you have sent thither they believe nothing can possibly do it but our quietnes our peace here if that Kingdom should fall into other hands such hands as it may likely and probably do what inconvenience what danger must fall upon this Kingdom from the power and the neighbourhood of that you all must imagine They do likewise consider this that in the distractions amongst our selves what advantages foreign States may take when our own hands are we●kned and a desolation upon the Kingdom universally through the whole Kingdom those that do maligne our Religion and their consciences direct them to destroy it as well as their ambitions to make a Conquest of the Nation how open wee shall be likewise to them for any prejudice or any danger may fall upon us Besides they have a consideration of the whole Kingdom that have so long continued in peace in the blessings of peace so long in the beds of peace and in the armes of peace for this hundred yeares there have beene no civill divisions nor distractions within this Kingdom and those abundances that peace hath procured and those happinesses likely to be devoured in any State by the sword of Warre as in every part of the Kingdom already you see how it begins to destroy with what height with what power with what insolencie these are considerations that have made them beleeve that as it is a duty to God it is that which they owe likewise to the King it is that that they owe to the Kingdom in which they have been born and bred it is likewise a discharge of their own consciences that every body may see that it is not their faults if Peace be not procur'd but though they are thus resolved and upon these Reasons to offer a Petition and to seek Peace by all the wayes that is possible yet they have commanded mee to let you know that as they desire Peace they will prepare for War they have given directions that this day my Lord Generall shall carry out his Army out of the City there is a R●●devouz appointed they shall there draw themselves together in such a condition as we are very confident and very hopefull we shall be able to defend it we are likewise resolved and so I am commanded to deliver to you that as we have long kept together with resolutions to defend our Priviledges our Religion our Liberties and Lawes so we will continue in the same resolution and the same purpose to do so nothing shall deter us from it if we can find peace from his Majesty upon these conditions that Religion and Lawes and our Liberties and all may be happily secur'd to the Kingdom and to you all we shall be glad of it and it will be a blessing to us and to you all if it cannot be done we are resolved and so I am commanded to let you know nothing shall discourage us neither danger nor power nor any thing but if we cannot maintaine our Religion our Lawes and our Liberties we will perrish and die for it Master John Pym his Speech MY Lord Major and you Gentlemen of this famous City of London and that will make it much more famous by these noble affections which you have shewed still to the publicke good and by yeelding so much Aide and so much encouragement as you have done to the P●rliament in maintaining it there is little to be added to that that was said by this noble Lord who hath represented to you the sence of both Houses the reasons and motives upon which they did desire peace motives indeed that have wrought with us from the beginning of this Warre to this time for we should never have step'd one step towards Warre if we might have had or hoped for such a peace as might have secured Religion and Liberty and the publicke good of the Kingdome but truely ill counsell did exclude us from such hope we now conceive that the King having seene the courage of his Subjects having seen the danger of his owne Person so much blood shed about him that he will be more tractable to good conditions of Peace then he would have beene before and that is the reason why we do thinke fit to try him once more after this battle that hath beene lately fought before it come to another battle againe It 's true that this may seeme a resolution contrary to that that was open'd to you within these few dayes but you will conceive that all great counsells they are subject to alter their resolutions according as matters alter and as the apprehensions of matters alter for if things appeare more clearer and hopefull to them at one time then at another it is no dishonour for them to varie according to their appearance Iudgments and best reasons so long as they do it with affections to