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A63954	The speeches of Sir Edward Turner kt, before King, Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament, when he was presented speaker of the Honourable House of Commons, on Friday the tenth of May, 1661 together with the Lord Chancellors speeches in answer thereunto.	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing T3365; ESTC R232992	8,345	23

THE SPEECHES OF Sir EDWARD TVRNER Kt BEFORE KING LORDS COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT when he was presented SPEAKER of the Honorable House of Commons On Friday the Tenth of May 1661. TOGETHER With the LORD CHANCELLORS Speeches in Answer thereunto C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty 1661. At the KING'S Printing-House in Black-Fryers CUM PRIVILEGIO The First Speech of Sir Edward Turner Kt before King Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament when he was presented Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons on Friday the Tenth of May 1661. May it please Your most Excellent Majesty THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of PARLIAMENT being there assembled by vertue of Your Majesties most gracious Writ have been pleased I dare not say to chuse but to name me their Speaker It is an undoubted priviledge of every Member in that House to be heard speak much more when he speaks for or against himself But Sir whether more out of favor to me or injury to themselves I cannot tell they were not pleased to hear at least they would not accept my just Apology and Excuse from this Service Therefore from this their Judgment if I must call it so I do most humbly appeal to Your Soveraign Justice beseeching Your Majesty for the Errors that are too visible and apparent in their Proceedings that You will review and reverse the same My Inexperience in the Customs and Orders of the House my Inability to collect their Sence and state the Questions rising upon long and arduous Debates do justly render me unfit and therefore unworthy of this weighty imployment Your Majesty well knows when a Ship puts forth to Sea she should be provided with Mariners of all sorts In case a Storm doth arise some must trim and lore the Sails some must watch aloft the Decks some must work at the Pump but he had need be a very good Sea-man that is the Pilot. Sir I hope I may be useful to this Your Soveraign Vessel in some of these inferior places but I dare not undertake to be their Steersman I do most humbly therefore beseech Your Majesty that You will not take us at our first word our second thoughts are best Pray therefore be pleased to command the Members of the House of Commons to return into their House to recollect themselves and to present Your Majesty with a better choice The Lord Chancellor's Speech in Answer to Mr. Speaker's first Speech Mr. SPEAKER YOu have not discredited your self enough to perswade the King to dissent from His House of Commons in the Election they have made if He had never seen you before You have now spoke too well against your self for His Majesty to suspect you are no good Speaker But you have the honor to be well known to the King have spoken very often before Him and His Majesty well knows that you are not without any of those Parts of knowing the Orders of the House where you have sate long or collecting and stating and putting the Questions aptly which must constitute a right good Speaker Therefore His Majesty is so far from thinking the House hath made an ill choice that He believes they could not have made a better or from admiting your excuse that He confirms their Election and Thanks them very heartily for making it and requires you to submit to it and to betake your self with all alacrity to the Service The Speakers second Speech after the Lord Chancellor had declarged the KING'S Approbation of the Choice of the House of Commons HE that knows his Masters will and doth it not is worthy to be beaten with many stripes I shall therefore humbly and chearfully to the best of my poor skill and knowledge apply my self to the performance of my Duty not doubting therein to obtain Your Majesties Gracious Pardon for all involuntary Transgressions for it is a Rule in Law and in Conscience too Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea And since I have found this Favor in the sight of my Lord the King pray let me beg Your Majesties patience for a while to make a stand and from this place to look about me Sir a weak head is soon giddy but the strongest brain may here be turned the Presence of this Glory and the Glory of this Presence do transport me Whilst I contemplate the incomparable beauty of this Body Politick and the goodly order of this High Court of Parliament where at once I behold all the glory of this Nation I am almost in the condition of St. Paul when he was taken up into the third Heavens all he could say upon his return was He saw things unutter able God that made all things for the use of Man and made him Governor over all his Works thought it not fit to leave him to himself nor to live without a Law and Government The Forms and Species of Governments are various Monarchical Aristocratical and Democratical but the first is certainly the best as being nearest to Divinity it self Aristocracy is subject to degenerate and run into Faction but Democracy naturally runs into Confusion Then every man becomes a Tyrant over his Neighbor Homo Homini Lupus Homo Homini Daemon This famous Island Historians tell us was first Inhabited by the Britains then by the Romans then by the Saxons then by the Danes then by the Normans and during all these successions of Ages and variety of Changes though there was sometimes Divisum Imperium yet every Division was happy under a Monarchical Government Since the Entrance of the Norman Race Five and twenty Kings and Queens famous in their Generations from whom Your Sacred Majesty is lineally descended have swayed the Royal Scepter of this Nation The Children of Israel when they were in the Wilderness though they were fed with Gods own hand and ate the food of Angels yet they surfeited and murmured and rebelled against Moses The same unthankful spirit dwelt in this Nation for divers years last past the men of that Age were weary of the Government though it was refined to the wonder and envy of all other Nations They quarrelled with our Moses because he was the Lords Anointed Nolumus hunc regnare was their first quarrel but levelling Parity and Confusion followed then Tyranny and Usurpation was the Conclusion We read of the Emperor Adrian when he lay a dying he complained that many Physitians had destroyed him meaning that their contrary Conceits and different Directions for his Recovery had hastned his Death So it was with us we were sick of Reformation our Reformers were of all Ages Sexes and Degrees of all Professions and Trades The very Cobler went beyond his Last these new States-men took upon them to Regulate and Govern our Governors this was the Sickness and Plague of the Nation their new Laws were all

written in Bloody Letters the cruelty of their Tribunals made the Judgment Seat little differ from a Slaughter-house the Rich-man was made an Offender for a word Poor men were sold for Slaves as the Turks sell Heads twenty for an Asper Yet for all this Villany there was at length found a Protector No amendment at length would serve these Reformers turns no Concessions though the most Gracious that could be imagined would satisfie these Usurpers but Root and Branch all must go Our late Soveraign Lord of blessed memory must be offered up a Sacrifice to their Lusts Your Sacred Person Great Sir proscribed and all the Royal Family exiled Monarchy it self was voted burthensome and therefore they must try a Commonwealth and the better to digest it the People were intoxicated with a belief that they should all like themselves be Princes in their turns Amongst the Persians after the death of their Governor there was used to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a five days Lawlesness in which time every man might do what he listed During those five days there was such Killing and Robbing and destroying one another that before they were ended the People longed again for their old Government After the death of Your Majesties most Royal Father here was the like Licentiousness but alas it continued more then twice five years Liberty they called it but it was Libertas quidlibet audendi Your Loyal Subjects were a Prey to Wolves and Tygers and to the most cruel of all Beasts unreasonable men Every man did what seemed good in his own eyes for in those days there was no King in our Israel But as the former Spirit of Reformation at first brought us into this misery so the Spirit of Giddiness which God sent amongst our Reformers at length cured us The Brazen Serpent was the best cure for those that were bitten by the Fiery Serpent The Divisions and Subdivisions of those that exercised dominion over us weakned their own power and stirred up the hearts and strengthned the hands of Your Loyal Subjects to restore our ancient Government and to bring Your Sacred Majesty back to Your Royal Throne in Peace as to the joy of all our hearts we see it is this day This was the work of God alone and it is admirable in our eyes And as we have cause at all times to bless God that he hath thus brought Your Majesty to Your People so we have just cause at this time to return our hearty thanks unto Your Majesty that You have thus brought Your People to Your Self The Sun exhales the vapors from the Earth and then sends them down again in showres of plenty so we to our great joy do finde that our obedience and affection to Your Majesty are returned upon our heads in plenty peace and protection The last meeting here in Parliament was happy in healing the bleeding wounds of this Nation they were blessed also even for their works sake Your Sacred Majesty did bless them and therefore they shall be blessed to all posterity But Sir we hope You have a blessing left for us too That was Your Parliament by Adoption but this is Yours by Birth-right this Parliament is Free-born I hope this honor will beget in us an Emulation to exceed the Actions of our Predecessors and not onely to meet Your Majesty as our Soveraign with the duty of Subjects but with the love of Sons to a most indulgent Father Next to the glory of Your Majesties Royal Throne I cannot but observe the brightness of this second Orb this Firmament is richly deckt with Stars of several magnitudes each Star appears like the Morning-star and yet each Star differs from another in glory You cannot want Commanders either by Sea or Land to manage Your Designs whilst all these Sons of Mars stand candidate to serve You in the Wars You cannot want Counsellors to advise you in the great Affairs of the Nation whilest all these Senators each fit to be a Consul contend who shall most ease you in the Thorny Cares of the Government Amidst these Noble English Barons and at Your Majesties Feet are placed the Reverend Judges of the Land the Sages of the Law Men so learned and expert in the Customs and Statutes of this Land that if Wat Tyler or Jack Cade or the new Phanaticks of this latter Age had burned our Books they were able to restore our Laws in Purity and Perfection And next to these though in a lower Orb appear the worthy Knights the prudent Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being the Third Estate of Parliament When the fame of Solomons Wisdom had filled the Neighbor Nations the Queen of Sheba could not contain her self at home but with many Camels laded with Spices with Gold and precious Stones in abundance she comes to Solomon to commune with him of all that was in her heart Great Sir whilest this Your Native Country was unworthy of You Foreign Nations were made happy in the knowledge of Your Person Your Piety and Your Wisdom And now the Lord our God hath brought You home and set You in Your Throne Your Subjects long to see You. What striving and rejoycing was there at your first landing to see our Rising Sun What striving was there at Your Coronation to see the Imperial Crown set upon Your Royal Head What striving hath there lately been in all the Counties Cities and Borroughs of this Nation who should be sent up to hear Your Wisdom and confer with You in Parliament Royal Sir these chosen worthy Messengers are not come empty-handed they are laden they are sent up to You heavy laden from their several Counties Cities and Borroughs If the Affections of all Englishmen can make You happy if the Riches of this Nation can make You great if the Strength of this Warlike People can make You considerable at home and abroad Be assured You are the greatest Monarch in the World Give me leave I beseech You to double my words and say it again I wish my voice could reach to Spain and to the Indies too You are the greatest Monarch in the World I fear Your Royal Patience may be tired I will therefore no more speak my own words but in the name of the Commons of England humbly present unto Your Majesty their accustomed Petitions when first they are assembled in Parliament and so conclude 1. First I do beseech Your Majesty that for our better attendance on the important Service of the House our selves and our necessary servants may be free in our persons and estates from all Arrests and Troubles 2. That Debates and Disputes being necessary to the Disquisition of many Matters in the House Your Majesty will be pleased to vouchsafe us Liberty and Freedom of Speech which I doubt not we shall use with Loyalty and Sobriety 3. That if the great Affairs require it Your Majesty upon our humble suit will vouchsafe us access to Your Royal Person 4. That the Proceedings of