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A85724	The speech which the Speaker of the House of Commons made unto the King in the House of Lords, at his passing of the bills therein mentioned, the 29. of August in the year of our Lord 1660.	Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2043; Thomason E1043_2; ESTC R202334	2,934	8

THE SPEECH Which the SPEAKER of the House of Commons Made unto the KING In the House of LORDS at His Passing of the BILLS therein mentioned The 29. of August in the Year of our Lord 1660. LONDON Printed by Edward Husband and Tho. Newcomb Printers to the House of Commons Anno 1660. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE The Speech which the SPEAKER of the House of Commons made unto the King the 29 of August 1660. Most Gracious Soveraign NOt many moneths since England was but a great Prison where the worst of men were our Governors and their vilest lusts the Laws by which they governed The great and most Wise God conveyed divine intelligence into Your Patient and Pious Soul and taught You how by suffering for us to deliver us from our sufferings to knock off our shackles and set Your People at liberty when neither Power nor Policy could effect it So soon as Your Majesty set Your Foot upon Your English shore our Prison was turned into a Paradice of Pleasure and the whole Nation fill'd with Joy and Love and Peace Sir This great Blessing is already registred in Your Peoples thankful Hearts and they desire that the memory thereof might be perpetuated and therefore they have laid it up amongst their choicest Jewels and annext it to their Magna Charta which they are willing to pawn unto Your Majesty upon condition when they forget this to forfeit that and 〈◊〉 Sir Amongst Your many Illustrious Titles which like fair and beautiful flowers do adorn and be-deck Your Royal Crown there 's one exceeds and excels all the rest as well in Vertue as in Beauty and that is Your Title of Defender of the Faith Sir As that Title is Your Honor so the truth of it is our happiness Neither the highest Provocations nor the strongest Temptations that ever Prince met withal have been able to shake Your Victorious Faith nor abate Your holy Zeal witness Your first Act after Your return to the exercise of Your Regal Power in Your early and timely suppressing Prophaneness and discountenancing debaucht persons who know not how to express their thankfulness unto God for mercies but by a sinful drinking them away a practise Your Soul abhors And as it is Your highest Honor to be the Defender of that Faith which we profess so it is the greatest interest prerogative and priviledge Your Majesty can be indowed and invested withal in this world and will be Your most lasting comfort in the world to come That God who hath hitherto been a Sun to direct You will be a Shield to protect You and that Faith which You defend will defend You against all Your enemies maugre the malice of the Devil and all his wicked instruments Royal Sir Your eminent Vertues and those excellent Qualifications that God hath bestowed upon You to make You every way worthy and fit for Government invites us at this time with joyful hearts to make our humble addresses unto Your Majesty and to give You a chearful accompt of our proceedings this Parliament wherein we have spent our whole time upon Publick Bills some we must confess of very great concernment to Your Majesty and all Your People are not yet ripe nor brought to perfection But though like an after-crop yet with the fair weather of Your Majesties wonted patience we hope likewise to Inn them well at last to Your Majesties full satisfaction and the great contentment of all Your Loyal and Faithful Subjects Some Bills are passed both Houses and already lodged here which attend and wait for Your Majesties Royal Assent and I shall humbly beg the favor onely but to touch upon some of those of most publick concernment by the way and in transitu to that Bill here in my hand Sir There is one Bill now before You intituled An Act for the Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings the scope and intendment of that Bill is to settle Mens Estates which is the way to quiet their mindes and when their mindes are at rest there will be no fear of their breaking the Peace or forfeiting their Good-behavior any more in time to come There is another Bill intituled An Act to prevent the taking of Excessive Usury The restraining men of avaritious mindes whose Consciences are as large as their Bags will be a great ease to Your People and an inablement to Your Merchants the better to go on with their Trades They are the Laborious Bees that bring in Honey into Your Majesties Hive and Usurers are the lazy idle droues that rob Your Hive of the Honey There is another Bill Entituled An Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving to be observed and kept upon the 29 of May A say that God himself was pleased to honor and adorn with a new additional Star never seen before nor since a Star of rare aspect which declar'd to all the world at once the happy news of Your Majesties Blessed Nativity And as it was Your Majesties Birth-day so it was the day of Your Restauration to Your Kingdoms Parliament and People And likewise the day of Your Peoples re-Creation out of a Chaos of confusion and misery And therefore they humbly pray That not only we for there would need no Act for that so long as we live but that our posterity and the ages that shall succeed us might for ever be obliged to set apart that day as a Holy day to dedicate their Praises and Thanksgivings up unto Almighty God for his miraculous Deliverance of this poor Nation when it lay in dust and ashes in a most miserable desperate forlorn and deplorable condition There is another Bill Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion It may well be called a Free Pardon for Your Majesty was pleased to offer it before we had confidence enough to ask it and at a time when Your People had most need of it And it may as truly be called a General Pardon in respect of the extensiveness of it But looking over a long black prodigious dismal Roll and Catalogue of Malefactors we there meet not with men but Monsters guilty of Blood Precious Blood Precious Royal Blood never to be remembred without tears incomparable in all the kindes of Villany that ever was acted by the worst of Miscreants perverters of Religion subverters of Government false to God disloyal to the best of Kings and perfidious to their Countrey And therefore we found an absolute and indispensable necessity incumbent upon us to except and set some apart for Treacle to expel the poison of Sin and Rebellion out of others and that they might be made sacrifices to appease Gods Wrath and satisfie Divine Justice And now I am come to that Bill here in my hand which I am commanded humbly to present Your Majesty withall Royal Sir Your Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses now assembled in Parliament taking into consideration the great and unsupportable Burden of the Armies and Navy that your people do now groane under and knowing as Mony is the sinews of War so as the State of Affairs now stand that 't is likewise the best Medium that can be us'd in order to the attaining that end we have all so much desired and so long prayd for The settlement of a Happy Peace and therefore they have passed this Bill Entituled An Act for a speedy Provision of Money to pay off and disband all the Forces of this Kingdom both by Sea and Land upon which they hope such a Sum will be advanced and brought in as may be sufficient fully to discharge and dispatch that work And they humbly pray Your Majesties gracious acceptance thereof and Your Royal assent thereunto I am further to inform and assure your Majesty that Your people have passed another Supply and Revenue unto your Majesty which far surmounteth all they have already done in value and that is their Hearts and Affections having their hearts your Majesty may command their purses Most Royal Soveraign We have nothing more to offer or to ask at this time but Your Majesties gracious favor so soon as your Service and the Publick Affairs will permit that we might have leave to go into our Countries where we shall make Your people sensible of their happiness in having such a King to govern and rule over them and as we praise Your Majesty so likewise to pray for your Majesty that you may Live long and Reign prosperously FINIS