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A53442	The speech of His Grace, James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to both Houses of Parliament, on Saturday the 27 of September, 1662. Upon His Graces giving the royal assent to several Acts of Parliament.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1661-1669 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing O459; ESTC R214479	6,379	12

THE SPEECH OF His Grace JAMES DUKE of ORMOND Lord Lieutenant of Ireland To both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT On Saturday the 27 of September 1662. Upon His GRACES giving the Royal Assent to several Acts of Parliament DVBLIN Printed by John Crook Printer to the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY and are to be sold by Sam. Dancer 1662. THE SPEECH Of his GRACE James Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland My Lords and Gentlemen THere is no duty incident to the Place I have the Honour to serve the KING in to which I come with less willingness or confidence than to this of speaking to such an Assembly And by that time I have done you will acknowledge I have reason to be unsatisfied with the necessity imposed by custom upon all that sit in this Place to make speeches a Custom perhaps reasonably introduced by those that did or at least thought they did it well but somewhat hardly continued upon those that were sure they did it ill And yet though I am in the Number of the last I will rather obey the Necessity than hazard the Imputation of Sullenness or Singularity Besides I do not know but that to be silent at this time and in this place may be a greater Fault than any I hope I shall commit in speaking for we are taught by Infallible Authority and enjoyned by Indispensable Precept and it seems to be agreeable to the Dictates of Nature and Reason as well as of Religion and Piety that for all the Blessings we receive from the Divine Majestie we should make as proportionable Returns as ●e within our Power And therefore Publique and National Blessings do require Publique and Solemn Celebrations This was it that induced the Transmission of that Act for an Anniversary Thanksgiving for His Majesties most Happy Restitution and this is it which if it be duly that is sincerely performed is most like to perpetuate to us and to our Posterity all the Happinesses consequent to that Blessing What these Happinesses are or at least may be if we Our selves obstruct not the course of them would be best discerned and set off by a Retrospect into the state of things for above twenty years past and by opposing to that dismal Object of Our remembrance the cheerfulness and Serenity of the Prospect forwards If the Miseries and Desolations of those years could be enumerated in the time I mean to allow this Discourse or if they could be described to the life by so ill an Orator as I am they would be fewer and more supportable than I doubt the sad experience of too many have found them to be I shall therefore onely put you in minde of some more Remarkable and Fundamental deliverances and Restitutions wrought by most wonderful Providence as a thankful acknowledgement fit as I conceive to be the subject of the first discourse from this place where I have the Honor how unworthily and how unresemblingly soever to represent the Majestie of my Great Master This very Seat of Royalty is delivered from some neglected corner or contemptible use or from a Prophanation worse than either from the Usurpation of mean and low Aspirers who having no shadow of right to it had no other way to ascend it than by treading down and destroying what ever was ordained by God or man to fence and guard it their extravagant Ambition transporting them and darkening their understanding to that degree as not to consider how short their possession of that Throne must be to the disarming and violation of which they themselves had but newly shewn the way We see this Throne now restored to its proper place and Natural use surrounded and supported by Peers and Prelates by Officers Magistrates and Judges the Outworks as well as Ornaments of Majestie We see it restored to the approach and I doubt not to the delight of the meanest of the Commons whom you Gentlemen do nor ought not disdain to represent for they are the Foundation upon which Monarchy is built the strength wherewith it is guarded and the wealth whereby it is sustained inriched and beautified It is restored to the undoubted Lawful Possessor the Ofspring of a long continued Race of Princes in whom all the Contested Titles of former Ages are met without the pretence of a Competitor and in whom all the Virtues of the Princes of those Ages are united without the severity to say no worse of some of the Great and Warlike without the as harmful weaknesses of others of more devout and peaceable dispositions A PRINCE that hath given frequent proof that though he loves and seeke peace for his Subjects sakes he fears not war for his own This Sword the Instrument of conferring Military Honor and the Emblem of inflicting Punishment is delivered from the ridiculous Stage-like Pageantry of later times and from a more execrable and Tragical Abuse from ●utting off the most Innocent and defending the most guilty We see it now by the visible immediate hand of God restored and put into that Hand that onely had His Commission to bear and use it and let it be Our Prayer That he bear it long and that he may bear it long that he bear it not in vain but to the terror and extermination if evil Doers and to the support and Protection of those that do well The King himself whose Throne and Sword these are is accountable to God and We to God for him for many and great deliverances He is delivered from the Murtherers of his Father and the Usurpers of his Inheritance from their restless endeavours to destroy his Person and to blast his Fame from their open violence and secret contrivements against both from Exile and all the Afflicting consequences of that miserable state of a King from comfortless wandrings for Protection from cold Receptions from narrow supports and from such applications for them as were more unsupportable than the want of them could be to him that was born and delights to give rather than receive them He is delivered from a continual tormenting Anxiety for the danger of his Friends and the oppression and slavery of his Countrey from the importunity of impertinent Arguments drawn from his misfortunes to draw him from his Religion and from a necessity of hearing and bearing with the Reproaches and Revilings cast upon our then Desolate Church onely because she was desolate made so by her own unnatural Children From this dejected despised and in all humane appearance desperate condition he is raised and restored to the Throne of his Fathers to his Native Countrey become more dear and valuable to him by his experience of others to the free and uncontrol'd exercise of the Religion he was bred in to a capacity of making Royal Retribution for any kindness he hath received abroad or from home And which is the greatest earthly Felicity so good a KING as he could wish he is not onely restored to but by the love of his People without the chargeable

by following this thrifty counsel some have taken the pains to compute and it is found that the Impositions laid and levied upon the people to support Vsurpation and Tyrannie in a few bad years came to more than the most chargeable Princes had raised in some Ages to conquer Enemies and Infidels abroad whilest this was employed to make Enemies of Friends and little better than Infidels of Christians at home I confess this Animadversion is not so seasonable now or proper to be applied to you who in your Liberalities have out gone all Example and prevented even the Kings wishes nor are those Liberalities the less but the more valued by Him that he intends to apply them intirely to the security and improvement of a true Protestant and a right English Interest in this Kingdom There is nothing that declares indeed that constitutes perfect union and a happy Harmony so much as mutual trusts and confidences and the interchange of gifts and benefits it is so in private Friendship and it is much more so in that good Intelligence which must make a King and his people happy The King has trusted you as far as even King trusted Subjects and He has given you more than ever any King or Lord of Ireland had to give You have trusted the King with all you had and all you had to pretend to and you have given Him more than he thought of to desire Let it not therefore be apprehended that this Commerce must cease by the Prodigality on both sides as if there were no more to be given or received No my Lords and Gentlemen protection from Foreign Invasion and Rebellion at home the due and uncorrupt administration of Government and of the Laws and under them the advancement and encouragement of Piety and Learning Trade and all sorts of Industry and Improvements are benefits that may to the end of time descend from the Throne to you and yours And a due subjection to that Government and obedience to those Laws and application to that Piety and Learning to that Trade and Industry and to those Improvements may be as lasting Retributions from the People to the Throne I should here end this unusual Exercise but that I am commanded by the King to let you know that as he is abundantly satisfied with those demonstrations of Duty Loyalty and Affection you have given him during the whole time of your sitting so he looks with great Pleasure Delight upon those Acts of Grace and Bounty that have past from him to you and he commands me to be sure not to forget to assure you upon all Proper Occasions that all his Promises shall be inviolably observed and that the will consent to whatever else may make this Kingdom flourishing and happy whether it shall be the Enacting of new and profitable or the repeal of old unuseful or burthen some Laws To say any thing of or from my Self in this place may be Presumption but to say nothing to you my Lords and Gentlemen to whom I owe so much must be Ingratitude You have before and since my Arrival been pleased to make many and obliging Expressions of your Approbation of the Kings choice of Me for this Government I have great reason to fear both the King and you consulted your Indulgence to Me more than your judgement of Me. Yet without much presumption or vanity I think I may say thus far the King and you may be excusable that He chose and You approved a Person whose Fortune and Familie must prosper or decay must ruine or subsist by and with this Kingdom This has not perhaps alwaies been 〈◊〉 case and it is possible mean Abilities thus stimulates 〈◊〉 be more profitably industrious than greater actuated 〈◊〉 less or by contrary Incentives There are upon me all ●●●ginable Obligations to applie all that is in me to the 〈◊〉 and prosperity of this Kingdom Those of duty fidelity and thankefulness to the best and most bountiful Master in the world those of Retribution and Gratitude to you for extraordinary and liberal manifestations of kindeness and affection and those of self-preservation and happiness Hence it may be concluded reasonablie and naturallie that my endeavours will be hearty and faithful and my failin● which shall be as few as I can unvoluntary and therefo●● the more pardonable You will presently when I am retired be at liberty at ●●journ your selves to the time you desired FINIS