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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 single

Cap of Maintenance could never fit that Bellua multorum capitum Thy Lyons O England roated not out of Courage but for Hunger Thy Lyon O Scotland was not rampant The Flower-de luces withred And thy Harp O Ireland thy discomposed Hup was hung upon the Willows But now you hear the Silver strings of it toucht by another David sounding Heavenly Anthems Glory be to God on high Peace unto Men Glory be to God on high the Church settled Peace unto Men Your Estates and Liberties secured and is not this that your eyes now behold a Mount of Transfiguration Draw near You House of Commons behold a King Poets faind Caelum and Terra to be the Parents of Soveraignty shadowing out to us its Divine Institution and Humane approbation the Nativity of Charles the Second Intitles it self to that truth Iam nova progenies Caelo demittitur alto there is Divine Institution It is reported that in that Latitude where the son makes a discontinuance to his Plea of Governing the World for six Months successively that the Inhabitants at the time of his return clime to the tops of the Mountains and ravisht with his praevius refractions cry aloud he is coming he is coming But how did his Majesties Subjects upon the guilding of our Horison by his happy ristitution make Mountains of men and built up many Stories high upon one anothers Shoulders How did the lame take up their beds and walk Glorifying God He is come he is come there is Humane approbation Nay but behold your King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Behold your King that solar Plannet culminating in the house of his Exaltation sitting either Personally or Representatively in his Parliament Do you not yet see him why then feel him what say your Lives Do they not feel the influence of his Metcy Hath not every Chest a Pardon as well as a Pattent in keeping What say your Estates do not they feel him hath not every Chest a Patent as well as a Pardon in keeping nay have not the greatest part of your Estates in this Kingdom felt his power of creation raising up Estates out of nothing What say your Liberties do not they feel him the Prisons those living graves have yielded up their dead an Iron fetters and shackles about the leggs are Metamorphised into Golden Chains and Collers of SS about the neck But what if his Majesties Necessities be great You feel them not none shall then share in that sense with himself True it is that the General Convention in this Kingdom humbly presented his Majesty with 20000. Pound but a cluster of those Grapes whereof the Vintage is yet behind and hath he not lately returned us 50000. Pounds to pay that Army which secureth Us If the Servant that improved his Masters Talent had the Eulogium of Euge bone serve when the Master improves thus the Servants Tallent shall not We say Euge bone Domine Rex Carole secunde If theer be any yet weaker then Didymus that neither seeing nor feeling will raise him up will you hear your King The voice of a King is like the roaring of a Lyon and yet this voice we never heard though when he hath been amongst the Beasts of the Forrests he is to be heard in a still voice If any hot Spirited Disciples move for fire to come down upon Samaritains for we have had Samaritains how gently doth he reprove them You know not what temper you are of For I came not to destroy but to save Will you hear him speaking in his Gracious Declaration for Settling of Ireland that Systeme of what are transcendent in him his Mercy and Justice his own hand set that Declaration as the Book Song for thy Harp O Ireland to be tuned unto and by it hath improved thee to play broken notes in a harmonious Concord who ever saw impatience sit in his Royal brow but when he remembred thee O Ireland when he remembred that thou wert mourning when his two other Kingdoms were rejoycing with what exemplary wisdom did he unravel thy complicated Interests how tenderly did he bind up thy wounds with his own hands He did not send his Stick to lay upon the dead Child but stretcht himself upon it to bring it to life thy cure was painful ay and costly two to purchase a Kingdom to Us he gave a Kingdom from himself But know great Soveraign such giving shall be but sowing seed in fruitful ground and Your Subjects hearts shall lade Your Arms with full Sheaves I askt one Question did you see your King give me leave to adde another Do you not see the King of Kings for behold a greater then Solomon is here when God writes Faith and Duty must be our spectacles to read I invite you not ro read a Mene Mene Tekel Peres but Hephzihah and Beulagh for the Lord delighteth in thee and thy Land shall be marryed Astrologers have made Divinations from the fiery Trigon and the conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter as to the condition of Our King and his Kingdomes bleer eyd men could you not see when Our King was wrapt up in the swadling bands of Majesty and after Worcester Fight laid in a Manger Could you not see a Star over the place the Wise men did see it and did foretell that God had snatcht him as a Fire-brand out of the Fire and designed him to be a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal Diadem in the hand of his God Did you not see the Pillar of Fire with the bright side lighting the King in his Dangerous Wearisome and dark escape with the sable side of it to Pharoh and his persecuting troops Did you not see the Pillar of Fire by night and the cloud by day guarding his Majestie through Flanders Germany Spain France Did not God hide him in the hollow of his hand and shut him up like a Ioas in his Temple or which is more shut up his Temple in him warrantably may he be stiled Defender of the Faith whose Faith defended him but here Quid memorem infandas caedes quid facta Tyranni Effera How did his Majesties enemies consult with Satans rules of Policy to have destroyed his Body and Soul corrupt nature under the pressures of long-visaged necessities if not restraind by a divine power will close with the worst of means that may promise a deliverance Satan knew that after 40. dayes Fasting and in a Wilderness was the Critical hour to foment a temptation One of the best of men prayed against adversitie lest he might put forth his hand unto iniquitie Great and Dread Soveraign must no Nation be at Peace with England that would give you a receptien must your own natural Members be cut off if they payed but a little sustenance to You their head It hath been so and it s as true that France Spain and Germany if You would have fallen down and worshipt if you would but have exchanged the ancient Apostolick for the Roman

Catholick Faith in Your Title would have paved the way with their Crowns and Scepters to your throne Did not the Serpent say These engagements were fair and pleasant and if you would but taste it You should be as one of those Gods But Sir you know in whom you trusted therefore are you not ashamed You read and beleived that place I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is and I will give it him Thus My Lords We have seen and We do see and may we ever see the King of Kings owning our King he hath sent us Our King without allay tryed at his own beame Heaven toutch Now my Lords give me leave to take a nearer survey of this goodly structure now before my eyes Did the beholding of the contracted foundation of the second Temple draw teares from he eyes of the ancient men who considered the Glory and Magn●ficence of the former and may not this be a day of rejoicing when we see our Stakes strengthned our cords lengthned an the splendid uniformity of this House such that we may say many have done excellently but this excelleth them all In the first and highest place are your Lordships representing unto us the best of Kings CHARLES the second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland His Majestie in designing this honour to You was of the same spirit with a great King who injoyned se nemo prater Apellem Pingeret But your pleasing task is more difficult You are to draw the picture of a Kings Soul one of the vastest Souls this day living Government is the Soul of the body Politick You have done it and you have done it to the life I am glad to see you look up to Heaven with us all and praise that hand that guided yours though your hand held the pensil We have several lights and you have drawn him so that in what light soever he is placed he is amiable and ravishing and that we all say sic oculos sic ora ferebat His Majesty knew the Irish Seas run high and the stearage was not to be put in foremast mens hands Few at the time of your Lordships entrance upon the Government durst take the helm It was a dark night a long night a stormy night the wind scant and high a lee shore Some Coroners and Constables were your best Marriners not a Sherif not a Justice of Peace strong ligaments of English Government was in this Kingdom Every man did what was good or rather what was evil in his own eys for Religion we were Tenants at will Our Oracles the Courts of the Law were shut up and Your Lordships who have very attentive Ears could hear now and then some picking of Ianus his lock A Souldiery under great Arreares and little or no Money to satisfy them the greatest part of the Estates of the People unsecured an universal decay of the Trade was not this Kingdom full of combustible matter and dark-lanthorn spirits in it to put all into flame What ticklish ground was this for a strange and unsteady hand to have adventured a cast on But your Lordships have layn near the mark may you save your own stakes as you have secured Ours who have and still desire to bett upon Your hands The Souldiers obedience you have improved beyond a Gospel praecept to be content with little or no wages and you have so sweetly fixed the planetary worship of God for did not we sacrifice under every green tree in its own orb moving with that regular decency that no sooner the foot is over the threshold but the tongue saith sure this can be no other place but the House of God Vssah was not excusable for putting his hand forth to relieve the tottering Ark though my intention is and my actions have ever witnessed nothing is so dear to me as his Majesties Interest yet I know we are to advise de arduis not de arcanis Regni but sure I may say and ground it upon Vox populi Dei is Vox Dei that amongst the inestimable favours we have received from his Majesty this is not the least that he hath been pleased to give us your Lordships Our Governours under him that are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh sympathy in sufferings heightnes not onely an Intercession for relief but propounds the most sutable remedies for it Non Ignara mali miseris succurrere disco By your Prudent Vigilant and constant care Justice hath run down like a stream and Righteousness as mighty waters and we are assured that his Majesty will receive that satisfaction by You and We in You that the ages to come premising Rex nobis haec otìa fecit will call You the Repairers of Our breaches and the Restorers of our Paths to dwell in I have no more to say but since we see his Majesty here but as in a Glass You are Glasses without spots Next are plac't upon your right hand the most Reverend Learned and that which ferments all pious Prelates They have not onely Bells to make a sound in the Pulpit but Pomegrannets to bear fruit answerable in their lives When God compleats a blessing unto a Nation he restores not onely David their King but their Teraphim Sad experience hath stampt an observable truth upon a Proverb No Bishop no King Many years we flourisht under both consenuere pares and one fatal blow destroyed them both una duos nox perdit amantes It is observed of the Heliotrop it opens upon the Suns rising and contracts it self upon the Suns setting whatsoever the Fable is the Moral is true Sol occubuit nox caca sequta est a sad night when the Screech-Owls laid their Egges in the Eagles nests These are the Golden Candlesticks fill'd with the Oyl of Spikenard These are the Spiritual Champions that stand in the breach and with Reverence I may say combat God Almighty when our National sins alarum him to vengeance Hold up their hands and Israel prevails but if you will not support them have we not found it so Ameleck prevails These with a sacred violence bind up the omnipotent hand They are Princes that prevail with God These are Starrs in Gods right hand mad men Pardon me my Lords I hope there are none such here but mad men they are that think to pul a star down a star in Gods hand a Star in Gods right hand Are you not yet satisfyed when you had buryed our spiritual fathers and rould a stone upon the Sepulchre and seated it and set guards of Soldiers to watch the Sepulchre that beholding their Resurrection this day you will not confess digitus Dei est hic Now no rude hand snatches up the holy Censer and smoaks Heaven with unhallowed Flames This is Aarons rod that eats up the Magicians rods what is the affluence of all worldly enjoyments when we lie under a spiritual famine Lord though