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B02099	His Majesties most gracious speech together with the Lord Chancellors, to both Houses of Parliament, on Monday, October 27. 1673. By his Majesties special command.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1673 (1673)	Wing C3178A; ESTC R175750	3,264	8

His Majesties MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH Together with the Lord Chancellors To both Houses of PARLIAMENT On Monday October 27. 1673. By His Majesties special command C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT EDINBVRGH Re-printed by ANDREW ANDERSON Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1673. CUM PRIVILEGIO His Majesties Most Gracious SPEECH My Lords and Gentlemen I Thought this day to have welcomed You with an honourable Peace My preparations for the War and Condescentions at the Treaty gave Me great reason to believe so but the Dutch have disappointed Me in that expectation and have treated My Ambassadors at Cologne with the Contempt of Conquerors and not as might be expected from men in their Condition They have other thoughts then Peace This obligeth Me to move you again for a Supply the Safety and Honor of the Nation necessarily requiring it It must be one proportionable to the Occasion and I must tell you besides that if I have it not speedily the Mischief will be irreparable in My preparations for the next Spring The Great Experioene I have had of you Gentlemen of the House of Commons will not suffer Me to believe that the Artifices of Our Enemies can possibly divert you from giving Me this Supply or that you canfail of adjusting the proportion of it I hope I need not use many words to perswade you that I am steady in maintaining all the Professions and Promises I have made you concerning Religion and Property And I shall be very ready to give you fresh instances of My Zeal for preserving the establisht Religion and Lawes as often as any occasion shall require In the last place I am highly concerned to commend to your consideration and Care the Debt I owe the Goldsmiths in which very many other of My good Subjects are involved I heartily recommend their condition to you and desire your assistance for their relief There is more that I would have you informed of which I leave to the Chancellor THE Lord Chancellors SPEECH To Both Houses of PARLIAMENT My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons HIs Majesty had reason to expect That He mould have 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 Olive-Branch of Peace His Naval Preparations greater then in any former years together with the Land Forces He had ready for any Occasion gave Him assurance to obtain it before this time And the rather because His aims were not Conquest unless by obstinacy inforced But His Condescentions at the Treaty have been so great That the very Mediators have declared they were not reasonably to be refused He could not be King of Great Britain without securing the Dominion and Property of His Own Seas The first by an Article clear and not elusory of the Flagg The other by an Article that preserved the right of the Fishing but gave the Dutch permission as Tenants under a small Rent to enjoy and continue that gainful Trade upon His Coasts The King was obliged for the Security of a lasting Peace as also by the Laws of Gratitude and Relation to see the House of Orange setled and the Lovestein that Carthaginian party brought down Neither in this did the King insist beyond what was moderate and agreeable to their Government And what the Princes ancestors enjoyed amongst them Besides these there was necessary to the Trade of England that there should be a fair Adjustment of Commerce in the East-Indies where the Kings Demands were reasonable and according to the Law of Nations and their Practice of late years hath been Exorbitant and Oppressive suitable onely to their Power and Interest and destructive if continued to our East-India-Company These were all of any moment the King insisted on as judging aright That that Peace that was reasonable just and fair to both parties would be sacred and durable And that by this means He should depress the Interest and Reputation of that Lovestein party amongst them who sucked in with their milk an inveterate hatred to England and transmit it to their posterity as a distinguishing Character wherein they place their Loyalty to their Country In return to this Candid and fair proceeding on the Kings part His Majesty assures you he hath received nothing but the most scornful and contemptuous treatment imaginable Papers delivered in to the Medatiors owned by them to bestuffed with so unhandsome Language that they were ashamed and refused to shew them Never agreeing to any Article about the Flagg that was clear or plain Refusing any Article of the Fishing but such a one as might sell them the right of Inheritance for an inconsiderable sum of money though it be a Royalty so inherent in the Crown of England that I may say with His Majesties pardon for the Expression He cannot sell it The Article of the Prince of Orange and the Adjustment of the East-India-Trade had neither of them any better success And to make all of a piece they have this last week sent a Trumpetter with an Address to His Majesty being a deduction of their several Offers of Peace as they call them and their desires for it now but it is both in the Penning and the Timeing of it plainly an Appeal to His Majesties People against Himself And the King hath commanded me to tell you He is resolved to joyn issue with them and Print both their Address and His Answer that His People and the World may see how notorious falshoods and slights they endeavour to put upon Him In a word in England and in all other Places and to all other Persons of the World they declare they offer all things to obtain a Peace from the King of England But to Himself His Ministers the Mediators or His Plenipotentiaries it may with confidence and truth be affirmed that to this day nay even in this last Address they have offered nothing They desire the Kings Subjects would believe they beg for Peace whilst their true request is onely to be permitted to be once Masters of the Seas Which they hope if they can subsist at Land length of time may give them And if once got is never to be lost Nor can it be bought by any State or Empire at too great a rate And what Security their Agreement with us in Religion will afford when they shall have the Power former Instances may give Demonstration of Joynt Interests have often secured the Peace of differing Religions but agreeing Professions hath hardly an example of preserving the Peace of different Interests This being the true and natural state of things His Majesty doth with great assurance throw Himself into the Arms of You His Parliament for a Supply suitable to this great Affair He is engaged in When you consider we are an Island 't is not Riches nor Greatness we contend for yet those must attend the Success But 't is our very Beings are in question We sight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this 〈◊〉 We are no longer Freemen being Islanders and Neighbours if they Master us at Sea There is not so lawful or commendable a jealousie in the World as an Englishmans of the growing Greatness of any Prince or State at Sea If you permit the Sea our British Wife to be ravished an eternal mark of Infamy will stick upon us Therefore I am commanded earnestly to recommend to you not onely the Proportion but the Time of the Supply For unless you think of it early it will not be serviceable to the chief end of setting out a Fleet betimes the next Spring As for the next part of the Kings Speech I can add nothing to what His Majesty hath said For as to Religion and Property His heart is with your heart perfectly with your heart He hath not yet learned to deny you any thing and He believes your Wisdom and Moderation is such He never shall He asks of you to be at Peace in Him as He is in You and He shall never deceive you There is one word more I am commanded to say concerning the Debt is owing to the Goldsmiths The King holds himself in Honour and Conscience obliged to see them satisfied Besides you all know how many Widows Orphans and particular persons the publick Calamity hath overtaken and how hard it is that so disproportionable a burthen should fall upon them even to their utter Ruine The whole Case is so well and generally known that I need say no more Your great Wisdoms hath not done it at the first peradventure that the Trade of the Banker might be suppressed which end is now attained So that now your great Goodness may restore to those poor people and the many innocent ones that are concerned with them some life and assurance of Payment in a competent time My Lords and Gentlemen I have no more in command and therefore shall conclude with my own hearty Prayers That this Session may equal nay exceed the honour of the last That it may perfect what the last begun for the Safety of this King and Kingdom That it may be ever famous for having established upon a durable Foundation our Religion Laws and Properties That we may not be tossed with boisterous Winds nor overtaken by a sudden dead Calm But that a gentle fair Gale may carry you in a steady even and resolved way into the Ports of Wisdom and Security FINIS