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A38752	The speech of the Right Honourable the Lord Chancellor of Ireland made as he was one of the Lords Justices in their name and behalf of the opening of the Parliament there, the 8th of May 1661.	Eustace, Maurice, Sir, ca. 1590-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing E3428; ESTC R11130	5,124	14

THE SPEECH Of the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD Chancellor OF IRELAND Made as he was one of the LORDS JUSTICES in their Name and behalf of the opening of the PARLIAMENT there the 8 th of May 1661. LONDON Printed for Abel Roper at the Sun in Fleetstreet over against St. Dunstans Church 1661. The Lord Chancellors SPEECH My Lords and Gentlemen WE the Lords Justices who have the Honour to represent his Majesties most Royal Person this day in Parliament are glad after so great disorders Tumults and Confusions which have been for many years pasts in all parts of this Kingdom to see this goodly appearance and Assembly met together in this orderly and beautiful manner To see the most Reverend Fathers of our Church settled in their former Stations and remitted to their ancient and undoubted right To behold our Judges as at the first and our Councellors as at the beginning I am sure if the wisest Daniel amongst us had two years since foretold us of this day and of those great things which our eyes have seen and which we have heard with our ears which are now come to passe and that our Captivity should be so soon at an end we should have given little credit unto him nay I doubt me if an Angel had been sent to proclaim these glad tydings unto us whether we should have believed him For the things we see fulfilled this day before our eyes are above humane reason They are Mirabilia Dei The wonders of God Almighty and ought to be marvellous in our Eyes Adde unto this which is the height and complement of the solemnity of the day That we do not represent this day the Person of a Tyrant or Usurper as some of late have done but the Person of our natural Lord and King Charles the second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King and that you are by a legal Power derived from him called together to advise with him De arduis urgentibus Regni Negotiis We are also glad to see the general Convention of Ireland turn'd to a Parliament and the Mortallity of the one swallowed up in the Immortality of the other and why so because though the general Convention of Ireland for the time it contained acted very worthily yet it could not do the work which is intended For neither the Convention nor his Majesties gracious Declaration nor any thing but a Parliament could compleat the great work which is to be done It is true that the Convention had excellent conceptions tending to the good of the Kingdom and brought many of them to the birth but it wanted strength to bring forth and therefore it was one of their humble Desires by their Commissioners unto his Majesty That a Parliament might be called with convenient speed for the putting of several things which they presented to his Majesty into Laws for the good of this Kingdom and thus this Phoenix was contented to be consumed with the ardent affection which it bore to its Countrey That out of the ashes thereof another more excellent then it self might spring as it is at this day This might serve in general for a reason why this Parliament was called but I shall in a more particular manner give you the reasons of it and that very briefly summa sequar vestigia Rerum and leave the fuller Declaration thereof to my Lord Primate of Ardmagh appointed Speaker of the House of Peers pro tempore The main and fundamental occasion of calling you together at this time is to settle every mans meum tuum which are are the great concernments of this world in such a way as every man may know which is his Meum tuum You well know that these are the things which accasion most differences in this world This is made most commonly the ground of War betwixt Princes and of all differences in civil societies and how hard a thing it is to do this you cannot but apprehend when as at present there is that incertainty of mens Estates in this Kingdom as hardly can any man say This or that Land is mine own and uncertainty we all know is the mother of Contention and mens mindes are seldome quiet untill their Estate be settled The Law saith that the Freehold cannot be in abeyance except in one only case But as the condition of affaires now is in this Nation the Freehold is in abeyance in most mens cases What is that namely as the great Master of our Law saith in consideratione Legis in consideration of the Law and must be settled by a Law there being first Matura consideratione habita before there can be any settlement The first sort of men who ought to be secured and settled in their just possessions are the Adventurers I say just possessions for if the foundation which is now to be laid be not right the superstructure cannot be firm or lasting Except the Lord build the house they labour in vain that build it and certainly there is all the reason in the world that these men should be secured in their just possessions For these were Adventurers indeed for when there was no visible means for the relief or recovery of almost lost Ireland when the Northern Rebels were rampant in the field and like a Land-flood carried all before them when the Town of Tredah which was the only Bulwark left betwixt us and them was besieged with twenty thousand of them when Dublin the Metropolitan City of this Kingdom was threatned with a siege and the whole Land as it were in a flame round about us when we could heare nothing but the ratling of Drums the found of Trumpets the neighing and trampling of Horses and the noise of Cannons when a common destruction threatned every English man in this Kingdom when we could hear in every place the word of Command given Kill kill c. And no difference made of age or sex Then did these noble Adventurers open their purses and sent relief unto us when all was in a manner lost and ought not these men to be performed with in a fitting way according to the solemn undertaking in the Statute of xvii Caroli No man will or can in Reason speak against it The next sort of men that are to be provided for are the Souldiers and these were Adventurers indeed for they carried their lives in their hands and adventured themselves and all they had in our Quarrel and for our preservation and amongst these those Worthies commonly called the fourty nine men who stood in the breach and made good their ground until they were seconded out of England by those Forces which came from thence These must not be postpon'd as they were in the Usurpers time but special regard must be had of them as of those who did undergo the brunt and fury of the Rebels The Adventurers without these could do little and the Souldiers without the Adventurers purse would not do much For who