Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	england_n	parliament_n	treaty_n	2,206	5	9.3516	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02087	The King's Majesties letter to his Parliament, met at Edinburgh, 28 of July, 1670. With his Grace the Lord Commissioners speech to the said Parliament.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1670 (1670)	Wing C3106A; ESTC R173771	2,508	15

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE THE KING'S MAJESTIES LETTER TO HIS PARLIAMENT Met at Edinburgh 28. of July 1670. With the LORD COMMISSIONER'S SPEECH TO THE PARLIAMENT C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY 1670. THE KINGS MAJESTIES LETTER TO HIS PARLIAMENT Met at Edinburgh 28. of July 1670. CHARLES R. My Lords and Gentlemen THe manifold experience We have of your Loyalty and dutiful Affection to Our Person and Service especially in your late Session invites Vs on all occasions to signifie to you how sensible We are thereof It is Our constant study to do it by Acts of Our Royal Care of the Concerns of that Our ancient Kingdom the Peace and Wellfare whereof are very dear to Vs. At present We know not how to express doth better then by acquainting you with the dear confidence We have of the constant continuance of your ready concurrence in every thing We do design for the Publick Good whereof you gave Vs in your last Letter of the twenty third of December renewed assurances In pursuance therefore of the Proposal We made to you at your first meeting of a nearer conjunction of these first meeting of a nearer conjunction of these Our two Kingdoms of Scotland and England by as strict an Vnion as possible can be attained We have commanded Our Commissioner to minde you of effectuating all those particulars you so readily offered in order to a Treaty for accomplishing the desired Vnion wherein We and Our Houses of Parliament here not only have freely concurred but have done every thing else that is thereto requisite in behalf of this Our Kingdom of England It remains therefore that you perform as they have what is further to be done by you And you may be confident nothing will be wanting on Our part that by Gods blessing may render the Treaty effectual You will find Our Commissioner to whom you shall give entire trust sufficiently instructed by Vs in all other matters that either We could think on or you can desire for maintaining the settled Government of Church and State in its lustre and security by making such Laws as may be found yet further necessary for the preservation of Peace and Vnion in that Our Kingdom For effec●●…ting whereof We know your Zeal to Our Service will lead you to do all that is requisite on your part as Our Affection to you and all Our good Subjects there carries Vs to intend nothing with greater fervour then what We judge conducible to your common wellfare wherein We account Our own inseparably concerned And so We bid you heartily farewell Given at Our Court at Whitehall the seventh day of July one thousand six hundred and seventy and of Our Reign the twenty two year C. R. HIS MAJESTIES COMMISSIONER'S SPEECH TO THE PARLIAMENT Met at Edinburgh 28. of July 1670. My Lords and Gentlemen HIs Majesty hath been graciously pleased by His Letter which you have now heard so fully to renew the expressions of His constant and continued care of this His ancient Kingdom His confidence of this Parliament and His sense of the Zeal to His Service which you manifested in your last Session that there is little left for me to say at this time I need not repeat the assurances of His Majesties constant and unalterable Zeal for maintaining and defending the ture Reformed Protestant Religion in this His Kingdom And that with no less Zeal and Constancy He will maintain the ancient Government by Archbishops and Bishops now happily restored and established here For in all the exercises of His Royal Authority He doth daily give full and undenyable Testimonies thereof At the opening of the first Session of this Parliament I told you in His Majesties Name that He would not endure those numerous and unlawful Conventicles that tend to Sedition and Schism which had been too frequent in some Shires of this Kingdom and the King did then require you and all in Authority under Him vigorously to suppress such Meetings and to bring the most Guilty to condign punishment In prosecution of which the Lords of the Privy Council have done their duty carefully though not with that success which they desired For His Majesty hath been informed that this Summer divers seditious and numerous Conventicles have been kept even in the open fields which look liker endeavours to rendezvous for Rebellion then any pretence of Religious Worship and that in high contempt of His Majesties Authority and of this Parliament which they well knew was so soon to assemble Yea such hath been the insolent barbarity of that incorrigible sort of Non-conformists that in some places the Houses of Orthodox and Peaceable Ministers have been rob'd their Persons and Families wounded and they threatned to be murdered if they stay at their Churches Therefore His Majesty doth most seriously recommend it to your special care by good Laws and vigorous prosecution of them to curb punish and prevent those seditious Conventicles to cure the with-drawing of Protestants from their Paroch-churches and the Ordinances there which is the occasion of those Conventicles and cannot be pretended for Conscience but must be esteemed only out of design to perpetuate Faction and Schism seing the form of Worship here is the same which hath been since the Reformation As also to punish examplarly those barbarous Roberies and Assassinates committed against honest and peaceable Ministers and generally to provide what you shall think necessary for continuing the Peace of the Kingdom The work will be easie and I doubt not your care in it The Kingdom generally is Loyal Peaceable and Dutiful it is but a small part of it which is tainted with such Principles and Practices and I am fully instructed to give the Kings Royal Assent to these or any other good Laws you shall think necessary in this Session But your first work is to perfect what remains to be done toward the Treaty of the Union The King did seriously recommend it to you at your first meeting and you did dutifully declare your hearty concurrence and in order thereto your willingness that Commissioners be appointed for this Kingdom to Treat with such as should be imployed for the Kingdom of England upon the Grounds and Conditions of the Union reserving alwayes to the Parliament the allowing and dis-allowing the same as they shall judge fit You did also freely and heartily offer to His Majesty the nomination of the persons to Treat for this Kingdom with the appointing the Number Quorum Time and Place of their meeting Since that time the two Houses of Parliament in England have as heartily concurred and as freely left the Persons Quorum Time and Place to His Majesty And farther His Majesty by and with their advice and consent hath past an Act of Parliament Authorizing the Commissioners for the Realm of England to Treat The Act it self is in print most of you I think have seen it and I am confident you will chearfully pass such another Act which shall be prepared at the Articles against your next meeting And I assure my self His Majesty will out of His Fatherly care of both His Kingdoms name such Persons as shall be fit for going about so good a Work FINIS