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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32326	His Majesties most gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellors, to the two Houses of Parliament at their prorogation, on Monday the nineteenth of May, 1662	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing C3170; ESTC R16202	8,368	23

have my Lords and Gentlemen worthily provided for the vindication and manifestation of the one by the Bill of the Militia and for the supply of the other by the Act for the Additional Revenue and I am confident both the present and succeeding ages will bless God and celebrate your Memories for those two Bills as the foundation of their peace quiet and security how froward and indisposed soever many are at present who f●nding such obstructions laid in their way to Mutiny and Sedition use all the artifice they can to perswade the People that you have not been sollicitous enough for their Liberty nor tenacious enough for their profit and wickedly labour to lessen that reverence towards you which sure was never more due to any Parliament It was a very natural and an ingenious animadversion and reflection which the late incomparable Lord Viscount of St. Albans made upon that old Fable of the Giants who were first overthrown in the War against the Gods when the Earth their Mother in revenge thereof brought forth Fame which he said is the same when Princes and Monarchs have suppressed actual and open Rebellion then the Malignity of the People the Mother of Rebellion doth bring forth Libels Slanders and Taxation of the State which he saies is of the same kinde with Rebellion but more feminine And without doubt this Seditious Daughter of the Earth this spirit of Libelling was never more pregnant then it is now nor King nor Parliament nor Church nor State ever more exposed to those Flagella linguae those strokes of the tongue from which God Almighty can only preserve the most innocent and most excellent persons as if repining and murmuring were the peculiar exercise of the Nation to keep it in health as if England had so much of the Merchant Nunquam habendi fructu foelix semper autem quaerendi cupiditate miserrima Men are in no degree disposed to imitate or remember the general excellent temper of the time of Queen Elizabeth the blessed condescention and resignation of the people then to the Crown the awful reverence they then had to the Government and to the Governours both in Church and State This good and happy spirit was in a time beyond our memory but they remember as if it were but yesterday how few Subsidies Parliaments then gave to that Queen how small supplies the Crown then had from the people and wonder that the same measures should not still fill the Coffers and give the same reputation and make the same noise in Christendom But my Lords and Gentlemen how bold soever some unquiet spirits are with you upon this Argument you are much superiour to those reproaches You know well and you can make others know without breaking the Act of Indempnity how the Crown hath been since used how our Soveraign Lord the King found it at His blessed Return to it you can tell the World that as soon as He came hither besides the infinite that He forgave He gave more more Money to the people then He hath since received from them That at least two parts of three that they have since given Him have issued for the disbanding Armies never raised by Him and for payment of Fleets never sent out by Him and of Debts never incurred by Him You will put them in mind of the vast disparity between the former times and these in which we live and consequently of the disproportion in the expence the Crown is now at for the protection and benefit of the Subject to what it formerly under-went How great a difference there is in the present greatness and power of the two Crowns and what they were then possessed of is evident to all men and if the greatness and power of the Crown of England be not in some proportion improved too it may be liable to inconveniencies it will not undergo alone How our Neighbours and our Rivals who court one and the same Mistress Trade and Commerce with all the World are advanced in Shipping Power and an immoderate Desire to engross the whole Traffick of the Universe is notorious enough and this unruly appetite will not be restrained or disappointed nor the Trade of this Nation supported and maintained with the same Fleets and Forces which were maintained in the happy times of Q. Elizabeth Not to speak of the Naval power of the Turks who in stead of sculking abroad in poor single Ships as they were wont to do domineer now on the Ocean in strong Fleets make Naval Fights and have brought some Christians to a better Correspondence and another kind of Commerce and Traffique with them then was expected insomuch as they apprehend no Enemy upon the Sea but what they find in the King of Englands Ships which hath indeed brought no small damage upon them with no small charge to the King but a great reputation to the Nation My Lords and Gentlemen You may with a very good Conscience assure your selves and your friends and neighbours that the Charge the Crown is now at by Sea and Land for the Peace and Security and Wealth and Honour of the Nation amounts to no less then Eight hundred thousand pounds a year all which did not cost the Crown before these troubles Fourscore thousand pounds the year and therefore they will never blame you for any Supply you have given or Addition you have made to the Revenue of the Crown and whosoever unskilfully murmures at the Expence of Dunkirk and the other new Acquisitions which ought to be looked upon as Jewels of an immense magnitude in the Royal Diadem do not enough remember what we have lost by Dunkirk and should always do if it were in an Enemies hands nor duely consider the vast advantages those other Dominions are like by Gods blessing in a short time to bring to the Trade Navigation Wealth and Honour of the King and Kingdom His Majesty hath enough expressed His desire to live in a perfect Peace and Amity with all His Neighbours nor is it an ill ingredient towards the firmness and stability of that Peace and Amity which His Royal Ancestors have held and maintained with them that He hath some advantages in case of a War which they were without It was a right ground of confidence such an one as seldom deceives men that the great Law-maker the wise Solon had when he concluded that Reverence and Obedience would be yielded to his Laws because he had taken the pains to make his Citizens know and understand that it was more for their profit to obey Law and Justice then to contemn and break it The extravagant times of Licence which I hope we have almost out-lived have so far corrupted the mindes and even the nature of too many that they do not return with that alacrity they ought to do into the Road and Paths of Order and Government from which they have so long been led astray nor it may be is there pains enough taken to make them understand the