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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63942	The speech of Sir Edward Turner, Kt., speaker of the honourable House of Commons, to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, delivered on Fryday the twentieth day of December, 1661	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.	1661 (1661)	Wing T3352A; ESTC R38380	1,554	7

THE SPEECH OF Sr. EDWARD TURNER Kt. Speaker of the honourable House of Commons to the KING' 's most excellent Majesty delivered on Fryday the twentieth day of December 1661. LONDON Printed for JOHN WILLIAMS at the sign of the Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard 1661. May it please your most excellent Majesty THe last time the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament had the honour to waite upon you in this place your Majestie was graciously pleased to congratulate with them for the glorious meeting of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of England in this your full free and legal Parliament Great Sir it is our present comfort and will be our future glory that God hath made us instrumental for the repairs of those breaches which the worst of times had made upon the best of Governments The late great Eclipse in our Horizon occasioned by the interposition of the earth is now vanished the stars in our Firmament are now full of light the light of our Moon is become like the light of the Sun and the light of our Sun is sevenfold A man that sees the River of Thames at a high water observes how much it sinks in a few hours would think it running quite away but by the secret providence of God we see that when the ebbe is at the lowest the tyde of a rising water is nearest the return Your Majestie was likewise graciously pleased to speak something to us on Your own behalf and did vouchsafe to say you would ask something for your self withall declaring some uneasinesse in your condition by reason of some crying debts which daily called for satisfaction Great Sir I am not able to expresse at the hearing of those words with what a Sympathy the whole body of the Parliament was presently affected The circulation of the bloud of which our late naturalists do tell us was never so sensibly demonstrated as by this experiment before your Majesties words were all fallen from your lips you might have seen us blush all our bloud came into our faces from thence it hasted down without obstruction to every part of the body and after a due consulting of the several parts it was found necessary to breathe a vein We cannot forget how much our Treasure hath been exhausted but we remember also 't was by Usurping and Tyrannical powers and therefore we are easily perswaded to be at some more expence to keep them out The Merchant tels us 't is good pollicy in a troubled Sea to lose some part of our Cargoe thereby to save the rest With Your Majesty's leave we have been bold to look into the present state of affairs and find those great sums that have been heretofore advanced upon us were raised most of them in bad Times and for ill purposes to keep Your Majesty out of this Your Native Kingdom And when Your Majesty returned home from Your long banishment you found the Naval Store-house unfurnish'd which will not easily be supplyed The unsetled humors and unquiet Spirits that are yet amongst us do necessitate a Costly Guard for your Royall Person The honorable Accessions of Dunkirk Tangier and Jamaica do at present require a great supply but we have reason to believe in time to come will repay this Nation their Principal with good Interest Your Majesty hath sent a Royal Fleet upon an happy Errand to bring your Royal Consort hither and is there any English man will stick to pay the wages of those Marriners whose ships do bring so good a Freight Upon all these Considerations your Loyal COMMONS were in pain until like prudent and good Husbands they had redeem'd the Nation from all its publick Debts And that your Majesty may at once have a full measure of their Duty and Affection to your self And that your Neighbours abroad as well as the discontented Commonwealths-men with all their complicated Interests here at home may see the happy correspondence that is between our Head and all the Members of this Body Politick We have cheerfully and unanimously given your Majesty 1260000 l. which Sum we desire may be levied in 18 months by six quarterly Payments after the rate of 70000 l. per mensem to begin the five and twentieth of this present December In order whereunto we humbly pray your Majesty's Royal Assent unto this Bill I Do appoint JOHN WILLIAMS to Print my SPEECH and that none else presume to Print it without my Order ED. TVRNER FINIS