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Whitehall, July 19. 1695. This afternoon came in several mails from Ireland, the last bringing letters of the 6th. of September.
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Whitehall Sept. 12. 1695. This Morning came in several Mails from Ireland the last bringing Letters of the 6th of September Published by Authority Dublin September 6. 1695. ON the 29th of August the day to which the two Houses were adjourned my Lord Deputy went again to the House of Lords with the usual Solemnity and the Commons being sent for up and appearing at the Bar Mr. Rochfort His Majesties Attorney-General made the following Speech May it please Your Excellency IN Obedience to Your Excellency's Commands the Commons of Ireland having met in their House have done me the Honour to Elect me their Speaker And though I am Commanded to acquaint your Excellency with their Choice yet the due sense I have of my own Imperfections and my smal Experience in Parliamentary Affairs oblige me humbly to Address to your Excellency to excuse me from this weighty Employment which is proper only for a Person of Extraordinary Abilities For notwithstanding the Obligations I am under to the Service of His Majesty and the promoting the Publick Good of this Nation and the just Respect and Deference I pay to the Judgment of the House of Commons in Electing me their Speaker I cannot but declare my unwillingness to accept the Honour since I am sensible of my insufficiency to discharge the Trust And therefore I humbly intreat your Excellency to direct them to return to their House and make Choice of a more fit Person for that Service Then my Lord Chancellor by his Excellency's Command said Mr. Attorney HIs Excellency Commands me to let you know That if you had been a Stranger unknown to him before this time yet what you have now said to disable your self shows you are too well Qualified for the Service to which the Commons have designed you for him to allow your Excuse He is satisfyed from this and the Experience he has had of your Prudence and Judgement in many Occasions That the Commons have well considered their own Service in the Choice they have made of you for their Speaker And therefore Disallows your Excuse and Confirms their Choice and Commands you Cheerfully to attend their Service Mr. Speaker's Answer May it please your Excellency YOur Excellency having been pleased to declare your Approbation of the Choice of the Honourable House of Commons and laid your Commands on me to attend their Service as their Speaker I take the Confidence to assure your Excellency that the present Conunjcture of Affairs in this Kingdom does seem to be so happy that our Enemies have no ground to hope nor our Friends any reason to fear the least Breach or Disunion among us For I am perswaded that every Member of both Houses has fully resolved to lay aside all private Interests and unanimously to endeavour with all possible Application and Integrity to promote the publick Welfare of their Country And nothing certainly can be a greater assurance to us all of the happy Success of this Parliament than his Majesties Wisdom and gracious Pleasure in appointing your Excellency the Chief Governour of this Kingdom who inherit your Fathers unparallelled Loyalty to the Crown and your noble Brother's Extraordinary Affection of this Country And 't is the general Hope and the Expectation of us all that what the late Earl of Essex when he was in this Government so obligingly design'd so prudently contriv'd and so prosperously begun for the publick Good and Interest of this Nation your Excellency may have the Glory of accomplishing and we the Happiness of enjoying As concerning my self the Commons of Ireland have been pleased to make Choice of one of their Country and of joint Interest with them to be their Speaker That by my own Experience of His Majesties extraordinary Favours to this Kingdom I might the more affectionatly return their most humble Acknowledgements for them And though I am sensible of my being unworthy of so great an Honour and insufficient to dischare so weighty a Trust yet I shal make it my business to supply in some measure my want of due Qualifications by the Faithfulness of my Services and the Sincerity and Heartiness of my Endeavours for the Publick And I am the less concerned for my great and many Imperfections when I consider that this Honourable House of Commons is composed of Persons of so publick Spirits and of so eminent Abilities as will not need a Speaker of extraordinary Wisdom to direct their Counsels or of Experience to manage their Debates or of Eloquence to move their Affections to the Service of His Majesty and the Good of their Country And now having in Obedience to your Excellency's Commands and by the Favour of the Commons of Ireland taken upon me the Office of their Speaker I beg leave of your Excellency to begin to discharge some part of my Trust by humbly Demanding in the Name of the Commons of Ireland That they may have Freedom of Speech and Debate And not be molested in their Persons Goods or Attendants His Excellency being with-drawn and the Commons return'd to their House The Lords Ordered that the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord-Deputy for his Excellent Speech And a Committee having drawn up an Address for that purpose it was agreed to by the House and presented to his Excellency the 31th of August in the Morning The Commons also Ordered a Committee to draw up an Address of Thanks to his Excellency for his Speech on the 27th of August and having agreed to it presented the same to his Excellency the 31th in the Afternoon Address of the LORDS WE the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled attend you Excellency to pray you to return our most dutiful unfeigned Thanks to His most Excellent Majesty as well for the many great Benefits we have already Received as for those which by your Excellency's Speech in Parliament we find His Majesty graciously intends for us And we think our selves obliged to express our Gratitude to your Excellency for the great Part you have had therein and esteem our selves very happy under your Excellency's Government To His Excellency HENRY Lord Capell Lord Deputy-General and General-Governour of Ireland The Humble Address of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled May it please your Excellency IT is with the highest satisfaction we are put in mind of the obligations we owe His Majesty The mentioning them gives us a pleasing Remembrance of the great things the King hath done for us and obliges us to make such returns as becomes Obedient and Loyal Subjects To His goodness we owe the assembling us in Parliament where our Actions shall silence the Enemies of our Welfare and shew us Dutiful and Grateful to His Majesty who in Addition to his other Gracious Favours hath placed your Excellency in the sole Government of this Kingdom At once chusing a Faithful Servant to the Crown and one most acceptable to this People by personal Merit and the Memory of our Happiness under the Government of your Noble Brother And that our sense of His Majesties Great Goodness may not seem to terminate in Words only We take leave to give your Excellency Assurance that we shall avoid all Heats and Animosities in our Debates and apply our selves to what shall be agreeable to His Majesty's Expectation and for the Service of the publick by supplying the deficiency of the Revenue and proposing such Laws as may most contribute to the Honour of the Crown and the settlement of our Selves and Posterity on the best and surest Foundations To which His Excellency was pleased to Answer in this manner viz. Gentlemen I Thank you for your Address am very well satisfied that you approve of what I have done I shall stedfastly pursue His Majesty's Interest Yours which I take to be the same And continue upon all occasions to represent you to His Majesty as His most Loyal and Faithful Subjects The two Houses since their first Meeting have proceeded upon the Consideration of several Publick Bills and other Matters On the 4th The House of Commons resolved Nemine Contradicente That this House will to the utmost of their Power stand by and Assist His Majesty and his Government against all his Enemies Foreign and Domestick And the same day resolved in a Committee of the whole House that it was the opinion of the said Committee that a Supply be Granted to His Majesty to which the House agreed Nemine Contradicente Yesterday the Commons passed the Bill for an Additional Duty of Excise and sent it up to the Lords And this day my Lord-Deputy went in the usual manner to the House of Lords and gave the Royal Assent to such Bills as had passed the two Houses viz. An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors An Act for Taking away the Writ De Heretico Comburendo An Act declaring all Attainders and all other Acts made in the late pretended Parliament to be void An Act to restrain Foreign Education An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists An Act for the setling of Intestates Estates The Commons have resolved on Monday next to proceed upon the Business of the Supply Re-printed at Edinburgh by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Excellent Majesty 1696.