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A32327	His Majesties most gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellors, to both Houses of Parliament to which is added His Lordships several speeches : as also those of Sir Job Charleton ... / delivered at the opening of the Parliament on Tuesday, February 4. and Wednesday February 5. 1672/3.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Charleton, Job, Sir, 1614-1697.	1672 (1672)	Wing C3172; ESTC R35499	7,747	26

aright that at any rate Delenda est Carthago That Government was to be brought down And therfore the King may well say to you T is your War He took His measures from you and they were just and right ones and He expects a suitable assistance to so necessary and expensive an action which He has hitherto maintained at His own charge and was unwilling either to trouble you or burden the Country until it came to an inevitable necessity And His Majesty commands me to tell you that unless it be a certain Sum and speedily raised it can never answer the Occasion My Lords and Gentlemen Reputation is the great support of War or Peace This War had never begun nor had the States ever slighted the King or ever refused Him Satisfaction neither had this War continued to this day or subsisted now but that the States were deceived in their measures and apprehended His Majesty in that great want of money that He must sit down under any affronts and was not able to begin or carry on a War Nay at this day the States support themselves amongst their people by this only falshood that they are assured of the temper of England and of the Parliament and that You will not supply the King in this War And that if they can hold out till your meeting they will have new life and may take new measures There are lately taken two of their principal Agents with their Credentials and Instructions to this purpose who are now in the Tower and shall be proceeded against according to the Law of Nations But the King is sufficiently assured of His people Knows you better and can never doubt His Parliament This had not been mentioned but to shew you of what importance the frankness and seasonableness of this Supply is as well as the fulness of it Let me say the King has brought the States to that condition that your hearty conjunction at this time in supplying His Majesty will make them never more formidable to Kings or dangerous to England And if after this you suffer them to get up let this be remembred The States of Holland are Englands eternal Enemy both by interest and inclination In the next place to the supply for the carrying on of the War His Majesty recommends to you the taking care of His Debts What you gave the last Session did not near answer your own expectation Besides an other considerable Aid you designed His Majesty was unfortunately lost in the birth so that the King was forced for the carrying on of His affairs much against His will to put a stop to the payments out of the Exchequer He saw the pressures upon himself and growing inconveniencies to His people by great interest and the difference through all His Business between Ready money and Orders This gave the King the necessity of that proceeding to make use of His own Revenue which hath been of so great effect in this War But though he hath put a stop to the trade and gain of the Bankers yet he would be unwilling to ruine them and oppress so many Families as are concerned in those debts Besides it were too disproportionable a burden upon many of His good Subjects But neither the Bankers nor they have reason to complain if you now take them into your care and they have paid them what was due to them when the Stop was made with Six per Cent. interest from that time The King is very much concerned both in Honour and Interest to see this done And yet he desires you not to mis-time it but that it may have only the second place and that you will first settle what you intend about the Supply His Majesty has so fully vindicated His Declaration from that Calumny concerning the Papists that no reasonable scruple can be made by any good man He has sufficiently justified it by the time it was published in and the effects He hath had from it and might have done it more from the agreeableness of it to His own natural disposition which no good English man can wish other then it is He loves not bloud or rigorous severities but where mild or gentle wayes may be used by a wise Prince He is certain to choose them The Church of England and all good Protestants have reason to rejoyce in such a Head and such a Defender His Majesty doth declare His care and concerns for the Church and will maintain them in all their rights and priviledges equal if not beyond any of His Predecessors He was born and bred up in it It was that His Father died for We all know how great temptations and offers He resisted abroad when He was in His lowest condition And He thinks it the honour of His reign that He hath been the Restorer of the Church 'T is that He will ever maintain and hopes to leave to posteritie in greater lustre and upon surer grounds then our ancestors ever saw it But His Majesty is not convinced that violent ways are the interest of Religion or the Church There is one thing more that I am commanded to speak to you of Which is the jealousie that hath been foolishly spread abroad of the forces the King hath raised in this War Wherein the King hath opened himself freely to you and confessed the fault on the other hand For if this last Summer had not proved a miracle of storms and tempests such as secured their East-India Fleet and protected their Sea-coast from a discent nothing but the true reason want of Money could have justified the defect in the number of our forces 'T is that His Majesty is providing for against the next Spring having given out Orders for the raising of seven or eight Regiments more of Foot under the Command of Persons of the greatest Fortunes and Quality And I am earnestly to recommend to you that in your Supplies you will take into your consideration this necessary addition of charge And after His Majesties conclusion of His Speech let me conclude nay let us all conclude with blessing God and the King Let us bless God that he hath given us such a King to be the repairer of our breaches both in Church and State and the restorer of our paths to dwell in That in the midst of War and Misery which rages in our neighbour Countries our garners are full and there is no complaining in our streets And a man can hardly know that there is a War Let us bless God that hath given this King signally the hearts of His people and most particularly of this Parliament who in their affection and loyaltie to their Prince have exceeded all their predecessors A Parliament with whom the King hath many years lived with all the Caresses of a happy Mariage Has the King had a concern You have wedded it Has His Majesty wanted Supplies You have readily cheerfully and fully provided for them You have relied upon the Wisdom and Conduct of His Majestie

in all His affairs so that you have never attempted to exceed your bounds or to impose upon Him whilest the King on the other hand hath made Your Counsels the foundations of all His proceedings and hath been so tender of you that He hath upon His own revenue and credit endeavoured to support even foreign Wars that he might be least uneasie to you or burdensom to His people And let me say that though this Marriage be according to Moses's Law where the husband can give a bill of divorce put her away and take another Yet I can assure you it is as impossible for the King to part with this Parliament as it is for you to depart from that loyaltie affection and dutiful behaviour you have hitherto shewed towards Him Let us bless the King for taking away all our fears and leaving no room for jealousies For those assurances and promises He hath made us Let us bless God and the King that our Religion is safe That the Church of England is the care of our Prince That Parliaments are safe That our Properties and Liberties are safe What more hath a good English man to ask but that this King may long reign and that this Triple-alliance of King Parliament and People may never be dissolved LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1672 3 THE LORD CHANCELLORS SPEECH Feb. 4. 1672. My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons HIs Majesty hath commanded me to tell you that he hath many things to say to you but he thinks not this a proper time but will defer it till the House of Commons be compleated with a new Speaker For his Majesty hath since the last Session as a mark of his Favour to his House of Commons and that he might reward so good a Servant taken their late Speaker Sr. Edward Turner to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and called him by Writ to be an assistant to this House I am therefore commanded to acquaint you Gentlemen of the House of Commons that it is the Kings pleasure you repair to your House and Elect a Discreet Wise and Learned man who after he hath been by you Presented and that presentation by His Majesty admitted shall then possess the office of your common Mouth and Speaker And the King is pleased to be here to Morrow in the Afternoon to receive the Presentment of him accordingly Sir JOB CHARLTON'S SPEECH February 5. 1672. Most Gracious Sovereign THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in Obedience to Your Royal Command have proceeded to the Choice of a Speaker They have among them many worthy Persons Eminently qualified for so great a Trust yet with too favourable an eye have cast it upon me who am really conscious to my self of many infirmities rendring me much unfit for so great an Imployment And although my endeavours of excusing my self before them have not been successful yet they have been so Indulgent as to permit me to continue my endeavours therein before Your Majesties most piercing and discerning Judgment The Veneration due to Majesty which lodgeth in every Loyal Breast makes it not an easie matter to speak before Your Majesty at any time or in any capacity But to speak before Your Majesty in Your Exaltation thus gloriously supported and attended and that as Speaker of Your House of C●mmons requires greater abilities then I can pretend to own I am not also without fear That the Publick Affairs wherein Your Majesty and Your Kingdom in this juncture of time are so highly concerned may receive detriment through my weakness I therefore with a plain humble heart prostrate at Your Royal feet beseech That You will Command them to review what they have done and to proceed to another Election The Lord Chancellor's Speech Feb. 5. 1672. Mr. Serjeant Charleton THe King hath very attentively heard your discreet and handsome Discourse whereby you endeavour to excuse and disable your self for the place of Speaker In answer whereof his Majesty hath commanded me to say to you That he doth in no sort admit of the same For his Majesty hath had long experience of your Abilities good Affection Integrity and Resolution in several employments of great Trust and Weight He knows you have been long a Parliament-man and therefore every way fitted and qualified for the Employment Besides he cannot disapprove the Election of this house of Commons especially where they have expressed so much duty in choosing one worthy and acceptable to him And therefore the King doth allow of the Election and admits you for Speaker Mr. Speakers Speech Feb. 5. 1672. Great SIR SInce it is Your Gracious Pleasure not to accept of my humble Excuse but by Your Royal Approbation to fix me under this Great though Honourable Weight and to think me fit to be invested with a Trust of so high a nature as this is I take it in the first place to be incumbent upon me that I render Your Majesty all possible thanks which I now humbly do with a heart full of all Duty and affected with a deeper sense of Gratitude then I can find words to express Next from Your Royal Determination in this Affair whereby you have imprinted a new Character upon me I take courage against my own di●●idence and chearfully bend my self with such strength and abilities as God shall give to the Service so graciously designed me no way doubting that Your Majesty will please to pardon my Frailties to accept of my faithful Endeavours and always to look favourably on the Work of Your own ●ands And now Sir my first Entrance upon this Service obliges me to make a few necessary but humble Petitions on the behalf of Your most Loyal and Dutiful House of Commons 1. That for our better Attendance on the Publick Service we and our Servants may be free in our Persons and Estates from Arrests and other Disturbances 2. That in our Debates Liberty and Freedom of Speech be allowed us 3. That as occasions shall require Your Majesty upon our humble suit and at such times as Your Majesty shall judge seasonable will vouchsafe us access to Your Royal Person 4. That all our Proceedings may receive a favourable Construction That God who hath brought You back to the Throne of Your Fathers and with You all our Comforts grant You a long and a prosperous Reign and send You Victory over all Your Enemies and every good mans heart will say Amen The Lord Chancellors SPEECH Feb. 5. 1672. Mr. Speaker THe Kings Majesty hath heard and well weighed your short and Eloquent Oration And in the first place much approves that you have with so much advantage introduced a shorter way of speaking upon this occasion His Majesty doth well accept of all those dutiful and affectionate expressions in which you have delivered your Submission to his Royal pleasure And looks upon it as a good Omen to his affairs and as an Evidence that the House of Commons have still the same Heart that have chosen such a Mouth The conjuncture of time and the King and Kingdoms affairs require such a House of Commons such a Speaker for with reverence to the holy Scripture upon this occasion the King may say He that is not with me is against me for he that doth not now put his Hand and Heart to Support the King in the common cause of this Kingdom can hardly ever hope for such another opportunity or find a time to make satisfaction for the Omission of this Next I am commanded by his Majesty to answer your four Petitions whereof the first being The freedom of you and your Servants in your Persons and Estates without arrest or other disturbance the King is graciously pleased to grant it as full as to any of your Predecessors The Second for Liberty and Freedom of Speech the Third for access to his Royal person And the Fourth that your proceedings may receive a Favourable construction are all freely and fully granted by his Majesty LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1672.