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A71164	The speech of Sr. Edw. Turnor, Kt., speaker of the honourable House of Commons, to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty delivered on Tuesday the thirtieth day of July, 1661 at the adjournment of the Parliament.	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1661 (1661)	Wing T3352; ESTC R1593	3,278	11

THE SPEECH OF Sr Edw. Turnor Kt. Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY Delivered on Tuesday the Thirtieth day of July 1661. at the Adjournment of the Parliament C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed for Henry Twyford and are to be sold at his Shop in Vine-Court Middle-Temple 1661. The Speech of Sir Edward Turnor Knight Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons to the KING 's most Excellent Majesty Delivered on Tuesday the Thirtieth day of July 1661. at their Adjournment May it please Your most Excellent Majesty THe Wise Man tells us there is a time to sow and a time to reap Since Your Majesty did convene the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament they have with unwearied labour consulted for the Service of Your Majesty and the good of this Nation and now the Fields grow white to Harvest In the great field of Nature all fruits do not grow ripe together but some in one moneth some in another one time affords Your Majesty Primroses and Violets another time presents you with July-flowers So it is in the course of our proceedings some of our fruits are in the Blossome when others are in the Bud some are near ripe and others fit to be presented to Your Majesty Amongst the number of our choicest ripe fruits we first present You with a Bill for the Safety and Preservation of Your Majesty's Royal Person and Government Your Predecessor Queen Elizabeth of famous memory in the Thirteenth year of her Reign by Pius Quintus then Bishop of Rome was Excommunicated and Anathematized John Felton posted up a Bull at the Bishop of Londons Palace whereby she was declared to be deprived of her Title to the Kingdome and all the People of this Realm absolved from their Allegiance to her The Queen of Scots was then a prisoner in England and the Duke of Norfolk for many Designs against our Queen committed to the Tower Historians tell us the times were very troublesome full of suspitions and conspiracies But Sir what then was onely feared hath in our time been put in execution No Age hath known no History makes mention of such sad Tragedies It therefore now becomes your People after this glorious Restitution to endeavour all just wayes of preservation The Queen in her time of trouble and danger summoned a Parliament and such was the Love of the People to Her and her Government that they forthwith made a Law for her security According to which President We your Loyal Commons also who have before them no less cause of fear but more Obligations and Affection to your Majesty do humbly tender You a Bill wherein we desire it may be Enacted That if any Person shall compass imagine or design Your Majesties Death Destruction or bodily Harm to imprison or restrain Your Royal Person or depose you or shall levy War against your Majesty within or without your Realm or stir up any forraign Power to invade You and shall express or declare such his wicked intention by printing writing preaching or malicious and advised speaking being thereof legally convicted shall be adjudged a Traitor And because much of our late Misery took its rise from seditious Pamphlets and Speeches from the Pulpits it is provided That if any man shall maliciously and advisedly publish or affirm Your Majesty to be an Heretick or a Papist or that you endeavour to introduce Popery or shall stir up the People to hatred or dislike of your Royal Person or Government then every such Person shall be made incapable of any Office or Imployment either in Church or State And if any man shall maliciously and advisedly affirm That the Parliament begun at Westminster the third of September 1640. is yet in being or that any Covenant or Engagement since that time imposed upon the People doth oblige them to endeavour a Change of the Government either in Church or State or that either or both Houses of Parliament have a Legislative Power without Your Majesty then every such Offendor being thereof legally convicted shall incur the Penalties of a Praemunire mentioned in the Statute made 16. R. 2. In the next place Sir Give me leave I beseech You without any violence to the Act of Oblivion to remember a sad effect of the Distempers in the last age when the Feaver began to seize upon the People they were impatient till they lost some blood The Lords Spiritual who in all ages had injoyed a place in Parliament were by an Act of Parliament excluded Your Majesties Royal Grandfather was often wont to say No Bishop no King We found his words true for after they were put out the Feavor still increasing in another fit The Temporal Lords followed and then the King himself nor did the humor rest there but in the round the House of Commons was first Garbled and then turned out of doors It is no wonder when a Sword is put into a mad mans hand to see him cut off limb by limb and then to kill himself When there is a great breach of the sea upon the low grounds by the violence of the torrent the Rivers of sweet waters are often turned aside and the salt waters make themselves a Channel but when the breach is made up good husbands drain their lands again and restore the ancient Sewers Thanks he to God the flood is gone off the face of this Island our Turtle Dove hath found good footing Your Majesty is happily restored to the Government the temporal Lords and Commons are restored to sit in Parliament and shall the Church alone now suffer Sit Ecclesia Anglicana libera habeat libertates suas illasas In order to this great work the Commons have prepared a Bill to repeal that Law was made in 17 Car. whereby the Bishops were excluded this House these Noble Lords have all agreed and now we beg Your Majesty will give it life speak out the word Great Sir and Your servants yet shall live We cannot well forget the method how Our late miseries like waves of the Sea came in upon us first the people were invited to Petition to give colour to some illegal demands then they must Remonstrate then they must Protest then they must Covenant then they must associate then they must engage against our lawful Government and for the maintenance of the most horrid Tyranny that ever was invented For the prevention of this practice for the future We do humbly tender unto Your Majesty a Bill entituled An Act against tumults and disorders upon pretence of preparing or presenting publick Petitions or Addresses to Your Majesty or the Parliament In the next place we held it our Duty to undeceive the People who have bin poisoned with an Opinion That the Militia of this Nation was in themselves or in their Representatives in Parliament and according to the ancient known Laws we have declared the sole Right of the Militia to be in Your Majesty And forasmuch as our time hath not permitted us to finish a Bill intended for the future ordering of the same we shall present you with a temporary Bill for the present managing and disposing of the Land-Forces And likewise another Bill for the establishing certain Articles and Orders for the Regulation and Government of Your Majesty's Navies and Forces by Sea According to Your Majesty's Commands we have examined many of the publick and private Bills which passed last Parliament and have prepared some Bills of Confirmation we have also ascertained the Pains and Penalties to be imposed upon the Persons or Estates of those Miscreants who had a hand in the Murder of Your Royal Father of Blessed Memory and were therefore Excepted in Your Majesties Act of Oblivion Wherein we have declared to all the world how just an Indignation we had against that horrid Regicide We have likewise prepared a Bill for the Collection of great Arrears of the Duty of Excise which I do here in the name of the Commons humbly present unto Your Majesty the Reason we conceive why it was not formerly paid was because the People disliked the Authority whereby it was imposed But understanding that it is now given to Your Majesty it will come in with as great freedom Aliquisque malo erit usus in illo Your Majesty was pleased at the opening of the Parliament to tell us That you intended this Summer to take a Progress and see Your People and at Your return did hope to bring a Queen home with you Sir this welcome News hath made us cast about all ways for Your Accommodation And therefore that no conveniencies might be wanting either for Your Majesty Your Queen or Your Attendants We have prepared a Bil intituled An Act for providing necessary Carriages in all Your Royal Progresses and removals Your Majesty was likewise pleased at our first meeting to say You would not tyre us with hard Duty and hot Service and therefore about this time intended a recess That Royal Favour vvill novv be very seasonable and We hope advantagious both to Your Majesty and our selves We knovv in our absence Your Princely Heart and Head vvill not be free from Cares and Thoughts of our Protection And vvhen We leave our Hive like the industrious Bee We shall but flie about the several Countreys of the Nation to gather Honey and vvhen Your Majesty shall be pleased to name the time return vvith loaded Thighs unto our House again FINIS