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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

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. DIEV·ET MON·DROIT HONI·SOIT·QVI·MAL·Y PENSE· C R LONDON Printed by Iohn Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the KINGS most Excellent Majesty 1662. CUM PRIVILEGIO His Majesties Most Gracious SPEECH To His Two HOUSES of PARLIAMENT On Monday the Nineteenth of May 1662. My Lords and you Gentlemen of the House of Commons I Think there have been very few Sessions of Parliament in which there have been so many Bills as I have Passed this day I am confident never so many Private Bills which I hope you will not draw into example It is true these late ill times have driven men into great streights and may have obliged them to make Conveyances colourably to avoid inconveniences and yet not afterwards to be avoided and men have gotten estates by new and greater Frauds then have been heretofore practised and therefore in this Conjuncture extraordinary Remedies may be necessary which hath induced Me to comply with your Advice in Passing these Bills but I pray let this be very rarely done hereafter The good old Rules of the Law are the best security and let not men have too much cause to fear that the Settlements they make of their Estates shall be too easily unsettled when they are dead by the Power of Parliaments My Lords and Gentlemen You have so much obliged Me not onely in the Matter of those Bills which concern My Revenue but in the manner of Passing them with so great affection and kindness to Me that I know not how to thank you enough I do assure you and I pray assure your friends in the Countrey that I will apply all you have given Me to the utmost improvement of the peace and happiness of the Kingdom and will with the best Advice and good Husbandry I can bring My expences within a narrower compass Now I am speaking to you of My Own good Husbandry I must tell you that will not be enough I cannot but observe to you That the whole Nation seems to Me a little corrupted in their excess of living Sure all men spend much more in their Clothes in their Diet in all their Expences then they have used to do I hope it hath onely been the excess of joy after so long sufferings that hath transported us to these other Excesses but let us take heed that the continuance of them doth not indeed corrupt our natures I do believe I have been faulty that way My Self I promise you I will reform and if you will joyn with Me in your several capacities we shall by our examples do more good both in City and Countrey then any new Laws would do I tell you again I will do My part and I will tell some of you if you do not do yours I hope the Laws I have Passed this day will produce some Reformation with reference to the multitude of Beggars and poor people which infest the Kingdom great severity must be used to those who love idleness and refuse to work and great care and charity towards those who are willing to work I do very heartily recommend the execution of those good Laws to your utmost diligence and I am sure I need not put you in minde so to settle the Militia that all Seditious Insurrections may not onely be prevented to which the mindes of too many are inclined but that the people may be without reasonable apprehension of such insecurity You will easily believe that it is very necessary for the Publick Iustice of the Kingdom and even for the preservation of the reverence due to Parliaments that I make this a Session and it will be worthy of your Wisdoms when you come together again to provide that there be not so great clamour against the multitude of Protections I will say no more but renew My hearty Thanks to you all and refer the rest to the Chancellor His Majesties Speech being ended the Lord Chancellor began as followeth THE LORD CHANCELLORS SPEECH My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons IT is now little more then a year that the King first called you to attend Him here at the opening of the Parliament then you may remember He told you That he thought there were not many of you who were not particularly known to Him That there were very few of whom He had not heard so much good that he was He said as sure as He could be of any thing that was to come that you would all concur with Him and that He should concur with you in all things which might advance the Peace Plenty and Prosperity of the Nation His Majesty said he should be exceedingly deceived else It was a Princely Declaration and a rare confidence which could flow from no other fountain but the sincerity and purity of His own Conscience which admitting no other designs or thoughts into His Royal Breast but such as must tend to the unquestionable Prosperity and Greatness of His People could not but be assured of your full concurrence and co-operation with Him It was a happy and a blessed Omen which at the instant struck a terrour into the hearts of those who promised themselves some advantages from the differences and divisions in your Councels and hoped from thence to create new troubles and molestations in the Kingdom and God be thanked the King hath been so far from being exceedingly deceived that he doth acknowledge He hath been exceedingly complied with exceedingly gratified in all He hath desired and He hopes He hath not in the least degree disappointed your expectation Mr. Speaker and you Gentlemen of the House of Commons You have like the richest and the noblest Soil a Soil manured and enriched by the bountiful hearts of the best Subjects in the world yielded the King two full Harvests in one year and therefore it is but good husbandry to lie fallow for some time You have not only supplied the Crown to a good degree for discharging many Debts and Pressures under which it even groaned and enabled it to struggle with the present streights and necessities debts not contracted and necessities not run into by improvidence and excess you may when you please receive such an accompt as will clear all such reproaches but you have wisely very wisely provided such a constant growing Revenue as may with Gods blessing preserve the Crown from those scandalous wants and necessities as have heretofore exposed it and the Kingdom to those dismal miseries from which they are but even now buoyed up for whatsoever other humane causes may be assigned according to the several fancies and imaginations of men of our late miserable distractions they cannot be so reasonably imputed to any one cause as to the extream poverty of the Crown The want of Power could never have appeared if it had not been for the want of Money You