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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50734	A speech made by Sir Audley Mervyn His Majesties prime serjeant at law in Ireland, the 11th. day of May in the House of Lords when he was presented speaker by the Commons, before the right honourable Sir Maurice Eustace Knight, Lord Chancellour of Ireland, Roger Earl of Orrery, and Charles Earl of Mountrath, His Majesties Lord Justices of his kingdom of Ireland.	Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1890; ESTC R8040	9,904	17

A SPEECH Made by Sir Audley Mervyn his Majesties Prime Serjeant at Law in IRELAND the 11 th day of May in the House of Lords when he was presented Speaker by the Commons before the Right Honourable Sir Maurice Eustace Knight Lord Chancellour of IRELAND Roger Earl of Orrery and Charles Earl of Mountrath his Majesties Lord Justices of his Kingdom of IRELAND 11º May 1661. ORdered upon the Question nemine contradicente that Mr. Speaker be desired to cause his Speech this day delivered in the House of Lords to be forthwith Printed and Published Philip Fernely Cler. Dom. Com. Dublin Printed by William Bladen by special Order Anno Dom. 1661. Sir Audley Mervyns Speech Most Great and Honourable Lords THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Obedience to Your Lordships Commands according to their ancient Custom and Priviledge proceeded to the Election of their Speaker and passing by many persons of signal Abilities and long Experience for truly that House is furnished with excellent choise have fixed their eye of favour and affection upon me the meanest Member of that great Assembly It were ominus they should thus limine impingere but that they know such is the prudence and circumspection of that House in the Mannagement of their Affairs that they can suffer no prejudice by the disabilities of any one Person serving and observing their Commands Thus have I seen a tender Parent placing one of his little ones before him in the Saddle and seemingly intrusting the Raines in his hands when secretly the Command rested in his own an act evidencing Affection without impeachment of his Care I then offered my ayd Prayer that no further proceedings should be herein Rege in consulto and then blushingly led them into such recesses where my ambash't infirmities had so long secured themselves though without drawing of the Curtains the Scene of my Errours was too too visible Were it but to designe a Pilot to a Fly Boat betwixt Dover and Callis the Consultation were not of much Importance but when a Ship of the second rate is to be rigd forth for a long Voyage for all that we know through Flats contrary Tides and we are not sure of a Trade wind it is your care GREAT LORDS though the Marriners hazard their own lives and Cargazoon with the Pilot of their own choice Communi saluti Prospicere I hope to hear the voice of your Lordships to them saying O Navis referunt in Mare te novi fluctus ô quid agis fortiter occupa portum Wherefore most Honourable Lords with Confidence equal to my Humility I beg that your Lordships would be pleased to give me a supersedeas and discharge from a burthen so disproportiohable to my strength Give me leave to put off Saul's Armour before You and be pleased to lay your profitable Commands upon the Commons to improve their second inquiry amongst themselves there is many a Saul taller by the head and shoulders then my self hidden amongst the stuff and to present a person upon whose very appearance in this place your Lordships may warrantably conclude this is the Man whom the House of Commons intends to honour Here the Lord Prmiate of Ireland Speaker of the House of Lords declared in a short pithy and eloquent Speech the Lords Iustices approbation of the Speaker who then proceeded Most Great and Honourable Lords I find my ayd Prayer over ruled and a Procedendo issued I crave leave to chide my self I onely considered Terminas ad quem when I appealed to Caesar and reflected not upon Terminus à quo the House of Commons may this hour of this day guide all the days of our continuance that the Commons may never present that Prayer unto Caesar to which Caesar may not cheerfully say Amen Now my Devotion instructs me with a mannerly Thesis Obedience is better then Sacrifice The Voice of your Lordships Confirmation hath silenc't the whispers of my Fears The Stamps of Kings pass vulgar Mettals beyond their intrinsick value I humbly submit and dutifully welcome this pleasing force Fax grata est gratum vulnus mihi grata cataena Me quibus astringit laedit urit amor Sed flammam extingui sanari vulnera solvi Vincula non possum si modo posse velim And therefore in the first place A love principium I bow my knees and raise my Heart to Heaven that he that looseth the stammering tongue and was a mouth unto Moses will fill my heart with wisdom and my mouth with wise sayings And thou O Lord who standest in the Congregation of the mighty and judgest amongst the Gods who hast signed the Original Command of this Trust upon Me Da Domine quod jubes jube quod vis Here I might wind up all with those usual and necessary requests in the behalf of those that sent me but give me leave to recollect my self Can I be in this mount of transfiguration and not say let us build 3 Tabernacles and put on this Inscription Bonumest esse hic Your Lordships being 3 Persons of Honour yet making up the representation of one and that the best of Monarchs may warrant me to apply Ternarius Numerus est facer Let no man be offended that I call it a Mount of Transfiguration Have we not th●se many years been walking through the Wilderness without a Moses without an Aaron Hath not our Flesh been torn with Bryars and our Loyns whipt with Scorpions hath not the tale of our Brick been doubled and provision of Straw exacted at our own hands Hath not our Fountains Fountains of living water been dammed up or poysoned and not a Prophet left to heal the waters and We in the interim forc't to draw out of Cisterns and muddy pits Hath not the Parliaments of this Kingdom been carryed into Captivity and our Senators that should be become Perepateticks and Pilgrims to titulary Conventions when we asked for Fish have not they Voted Scorpions and when we have Petitioned for Bread have they not given us Stones and is not this place then a Mount of Transfiguration Hath not Our dread Soveraign Lord the King of whom the world is not worthy been banisht into Forrain Countries so that he might take up that expression The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the air have nests but the Son and undoubted Heir of three glorious Kingdoms nay the native lineal King of them had not a place to rest his head in but praised be that God that at the same time he made a hard stone to be his pilow sweetned his repose with heavenly visions and is not this place now a mount of transfiguration Where were those Regalia we now behold that robe of Majesty before Your Lordships was the Garment for which they cast lotts that Sword of which it may be said Non est alter Talis whose edge was sharpened and whose point steeld by a Heavenly sanction was transformed into a bloody ax to behead 3 Kingdoms at one stroak That 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