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A50571	The speech of His Grace George Earl of Melvill, Their Majesties High Commissioner, at the opening of the second session of the first Parliament of Their Majesties ancient kingdom of Scotland, the 15th of April	Melville, George Melville, Earl of, 1634?-1707.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1652; ESTC R17027	2,101	6

THE SPEECH Of His GRACE GEORGE EARL OF MELVILL Their Majesties HIGH COMMISSIONER At the Opening of the Second Session of the First Parliament of Their Majesties Antient Kingdom of SCOTLAND The 15th of April 1690. Published by Authority Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Anno DOM. 1690. My Lords and Gentlemen THis Session of Parliament had been Honoured with the Presence of my Royal Master had not the great weight of Affairs on his Hand the Meeting of the Parliament of England and the designed expedition into Ireland deprived you of that Happiness and Satisfaction He really intended for you And tho He still Resolves so soon as His Important Affairs can allow Him to Visit this His Antient Kingdom Yet such a regard hath he to what may be for the Satisfaction of His People that He would no longer delay your Meeting for giving such a Settlement to this Nation as may be a real Security to its most valuable Concerns of True Religion and Just Liberties Can you reflect upon the great Things that He as the Instrument in the Hand of God hath done for you Can you think of those Eminent Dangers to which when living in the greatest Honour Plenty and Peace He did so magnanimously expose Himself for the Rescuing you from these greatest of evils Popery and Slavery and Delivering you from the Fears you were ready to sink under and not chearfully concur in doing all things that may be for the Satisfaction and Safety of your Deliverer when Linked so much with your own Interest I believe there are few true Protestants and good Countreymen who would not give freely the half of their Estates for so great a Blessing were it yet to be purchased His Desires are Confined unto and Regulated by your true Interest He Demands a Subsidie but it is only what is necessary for your Safety the Securing of what is dearest to you and the Support of the Government He hath spared no expense hitherto for your Protection and it is but reasonable He should now have your effectual Assistance let it never be the Stain of our Nation that the best of our Kings was the worst Treated He refuseth nothing that can be justly demanded His uncontraverted Rights are only Valued by Him as they are useful for your Good and Security I am Commanded by the King my Lords and Gentlemen to tell you That as He Resolves to live and die in the sincere profession of the True Protestant Religion For the maintainance whereof He is again about to expose His Royal Person so He is willing to concur with you for the Settlement of Church and State upon such solid Foundations as you need not again fear a relapse into your former evils He is ready to give His Royal Assent to what in Justice can be proposed to Him for Securing Religion Liberty and Property from all future Encroachments and for Redressing of other Grievances and you cannot with reason demand any thing which He is not willing to grant His Majesty offers Redress to the oppressed Pardon and Peace to submitting Enemies and protection to all His good Subjects I am further Impowered by His Majesty to give His Royal Burrows such Encouragement and Redress in the matter of Trade and such ease in relation to the proportion of their Burdens as the Parliament shall think fit What then remains but that you behave with such Zeal for the Good of your Countrey as to its Religious and Civil Concerns and the Honour of your Prince as this Session of Parliament may have an Issue which may be to the satisfaction of both I should be injurious to you to doubt of this or to think you need any perswasions to set about these things effectually which are so much your own concern You know the eyes of those whom you represent as also of your Neighbours and even of your Enemies are upon you expecting what may be the result of your Meeting In which the King 's Allays as well as all His Subjects and our Protestant Friends abroad are not a little concerned You need not that I recommend to you the laying aside all Animosities Picques and Quarrels and shunning all occasions of Contention seing this is so much your own Interest and that you will endeavour to evidence to the World that it is not privat or selfish Designs but Zeal for God and the true Religion and love to your King and Countrey which influence you I with there may be many found amongst you in this meeting like those who represented the Tribe of Issachar for setling the Kingdom in the Hands of David men who had understanding of the times to know that Israel ought to do I hope you will not take it ill that I mind you of that usefull precept of the Apostle Let your Moderation be known unto all Men for the unfriends of our Nation have taken occasion to reproach us more for the vehemence of our temper than any thing else As for My Self My Lords and Gentlemen whom His Majesty hath honoured with a Character far above my Ambition I shall not say much having no design before my Eyes but the Publick Good and what is clearly your own interest I have no Apology to make as having been either an Actor in or Complyer with what hath been grievous to you or prejudicial to the Nation I hope my Deportment and Sufferings the by past part of my Life will at least ought to secure me from all Suspitions of being a Fromover of Arbitrary Power and I am sure my Master whom I serve is far from designing or desiring any such thing whatever His or Our Enemies may suggest I acknowledge that what Trust His Majesty hath been pleased to Confer upon me is above my Strength but it shall be my endeavour to supply my other Defects by an intire Faithfulness to the King my Master a sincere respect to you and a zealous application for promoting of the true Religion and Common-good of all FINIS