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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32295	His Majesties letter to his Parliament in Scotland, assembled October 19, 1669 together with the speech of His Grace the Earl of Lauderdaill ... as also the answer of the Parliament of Scotland to His Majesties gracious letter.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682. Speech of His Grace the Earl of Lauderdaill ... delivered in Parliament the ninteenth day of October, 1669.; Scotland. Parliament.	1669 (1669)	Wing C3106_VARIANT; ESTC R35914	4,890	16

His Majesties LETTER TO His Parliament in SCOTLAND Assembled October 19. 1669. Together with THE SPEECH OF His Grace the Earl of Lauderdaill HIS Majesties High-Commissioner AS ALSO The Answer OF THE PARLIAMENT of SCOTLAND TO His Majesties Gracious LETTER Published by His Majesties Command In the SAVOY Printed by Tho Newcomb 1669. His Majesties LETTER TO His Parliament in SCOTLAND Assembled October 19. 1669. My Lords and Gentlemen WE do often reflect with thankfulness and joy upon the goodness of Almighty God for restoring Vs to Our Kingdoms and them to their former Liberty and Peace and We acknowledge it a further instance of Gods Goodness that as he hath filled Our heart with kindness towards Our Subjects of that Our Ancient Kingdom and with a Constant Zeal to promote what We judge conducible to their welfare so he hath blest Vs with returns from them of Love Loyalty and ready Complyance with Our Pleasure on all Occasions most suitable thereunto of which Our late Parliament hath given signal proofs as well as Our other good Subjects And this gives Vs Confidence that the earnest desire We have to render this Island more happy than ever it was in times past by setling amongst all Our good Subjects within the same a mutual affection that may endure to all Posterity shall meet with a free Concurrence from you Our Parliament whom We have called together chiefly for this end The bringing of these two Kingdoms of Scotland and England to as close and strict an Vnion as is posible is the means that VVe propose for the effectuating thereof which as it is the highest and noblest design VVe can have for witnessing Our Royal Affection to them both so the accomplishment of it will raise Our Satisfaction almost as high as Our Wishes For by the Vnion of the hearts and hands of Our People not only Our Throne shall be strengthned and they have Peace and Love setled amongst them for ever but VVe shall have the Glory of Accomplishing what Our Royal Grandfather King James of ever blessed Memory attempted as the greatest thing he could devise and wherein He who was a Competent Judge placed the Happiness of the Crown and Kingdoms and wherein he meant to have gloried as the chiefest action of His Life VVe have fully instructed Our Commissioner with Our intentions as to this Subject and concerning such other matters as seem to Vs to be useful for the Constant peace and welfare of the Church and State in that Our Kingdom You are to give him full Credit and He will acquaint Vs with all Matters and what is farther necessary for Vs to do will be speedily performed So VVe bid you heartily farewell THE SPEECH OF HIS GRACE THE Earl of Lauderdaill His Majesties High-Commissioner For the PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND Delivered in Parliament The Ninteenth day of October 1669. Published by His Majesties Command In the SAVOY Printed by Tho Newcomb 1669. THE SPEECH OF His Grace the Earl of LAUDERDAILL His Majesties High-Commissioner for the Parliament of Scotland My Lords and Gentlemen BY the Authority of the King and His special Command you are here assembled in His high Court of Parliament You have heard His royal Intentions under His own hand with the chief Reasons of His calling you together You have heard His most gracious Expressions of His kindness to His Subjects in this His ancient Kingdom and His Confidence of you their Representatives And I shall as shortly as I can acquaint you with what I have further in command from my Master to say in His name at the opening of this His Parliament And first I am to assure you of His Majesties constant and unalterable Zeal for maintaining and defending the true reformed Protestant Religion in this His Kingdom for which he will constantly lay out His whole Power and Authority as also for discouraging and punishing all Atheism and Profanities and all that is contrary to true Religion and Godliness I am further particularly commanded to assure you That with no less Zeal and Constancie He will maintain and defend the ancient Government by Archbishops and Bishops as now it is happily settled as a sure fence for the true reformed Protestant Religion A Government most suteable to Monarchy and well may I call it Ancient for whoever will look into Antiquity shall find Episcopal Government hath continued in the whole Catholick Church both East and West even from the most Primitive and Apostolick Times I shall not insist on the sad Calamities and Confusions which the violent and rebellious endeavours to overturn this Government produced in this Kingdom His Majesties gracious Act of Pardon and Oblivion forbids the ripping up those sores which His own royal hand hath cured and long may they be buried in Oblivion Yet sure I am the reflections on those dismal days ought to raise no less Zeal in the Parliament and in all good Subjects for the maintaining of that Government as now it is happily settled For in His Majesties name and by His special command I do assure you He will employ His utmost power in the maintenance of that Government and will protect the persons of my Lords the Archbishops and Bishops and of the Loyal Orthodox and peaceable Clergy in the exercise of their functions He will not endure those numerous and unlawfull Conventicles which tend to Sedition and Schism which have been too frequent in some few Shires of this Kingdome Good Laws have been made and in prosecution of those Laws the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council have shown their care for suppressing those seditious Assemblies Yea and of late His Majesty has graciously indulged the planting of some who were esteemed peaceable men in vacant Churches though they came not up to the rules establisht It will be expected that they walk worthy of so great a favour But if after this removal of the very pretence of unlawful Conventicles any factious people shall in contempt of His Majesties Laws yea and of His indulgence also seditiously Assemble themselves under pretence of Religious Worship His Majestie doth Require His Parliament and all in Authority under Him vigorously to suppress such Meetings and to bring the pretended Preachers and the Ring-leaders of such unlawful Assemblies to condign and exemplary punishment In the next Place I am commanded to let you know That I am sufficiently Instructed to give His Majesties Royal Assent to such Laws as shall be prepared in this Parliament for the constant Peace and welfare of this Church and of the Kingdom in all its Relations But the chief Occasion of calling this Parliament is the prosecution of that great and glorious Design of bringing His Kingdoms of Scotland and England to a stricter and nearer Union This Design was begun by His Royal Grandfather of blessed Memory who went so far on towards this great Work that in the first year of His Reign over Great Britain King James named Commissioners for this Kingdom who by Act of Parliament were