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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87856	Master speaker his speech to His Majestie, in the High Court of Parliament, the fifth day of November, 1640.; Mr Speaker his speech to His Majestie.	Lenthall, William, 1591-1662.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1085; Thomason E774_4; ESTC R207289	2,204	8

MASTER SPEAKER HIS SPEECH TO HIS MAJESTIE IN THE High Court of PARLIAMENT the Fifth day of November 1640. WS LONDON Printed for William Shears 1660. Master Speakers Speech in the High Court of Parliament to the Kings most Excellent Majesty the fifth of November 1640. Most gracious and dread Soveraigne IN all submissive humblenesse the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons are here assembled who taking along with them your gracious inclination have according to their ancient liberties designed me their Speaker Whereas I cannot but lament to think how great a mist may overcast the hopes of this Sessions yet a note of favour to me who cannot but judge my self unfit for so great imployment which so appeares to the whole World Many there be of deep Judgment and sad experience that might have added lustre to this action and expedition to the work if they had pleased to have left me in that mean condition they found me Non mihi tacuisse nocet Nocet esse Locutum And then might your Sacred and pious intentions have had their full advancement But is it yet too late may I not appeal to Caesar Yes I may and in the lowest posture of humility I humbly beseech your Sacred Majesty to interpose your Royall Authority to command a review of the house for there were never more than now fitted for such Imployments My Lord Keeper approves of him by his Majesties direction Then he goes on It pleaseth not your Sacred Majesty to vouchsafe a change Actions of Kings are not to be by me reasoned Therefore being imboldened by this Gracious approbation give me leave a little Dread Soveraigne to expresse my own thoughts unto our gracious Lord the King I see before my eyes with admiration the Majesty of great Brittaine the Glory of times the history of honour CHARLES the First in his forefront placed by discent of antiquity Kings setled by a long succession and continued to us by a pious and peacefull government On the one side the Monument of Glory the Progeny of valiant and puissant Princes the Queens most Excellent Majesty On the other side the hopes of posterity and joy of this Nation those Olive branches set round your tables Emblems of peace to posterity Here shine those Lights and Lamps placed in a Mount which attend your sacred Majesty as supreme head and borrow from you the Splendor of their Government There the true state of Nobility figures of Prowesse and Magnanimity fitted by their long contracted honour in their blood for the Councell of Princes In the midst of those the Reverend Judges whither both parts as to the Oracles of Judgment and Justice may resort Cisterns that hold fair waters wherein each deviation each wrinckle is discernable and from thence as from the Center each crooked line ought to be levelled The footstoole of your Throne is fixed there which renders you glorious to all posterity Here we the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house at your royall feet contracted from all parts of your Kingdom Ensignes of obedience and humility all these united by the law equally distributed which cements this great body to the obedience of your Sacred Majesty And compells as well the hearts as the hands to contribute for the preservation of your Majesty and the Common interest Dissipates the Invaders of the Church and Common Wealth and discovers the Impostures but give me leave dread Soveraigne knits the Crown to the Sacred Temples and frees Majesty from the Interpretation of mis-doing Amongst these this great Councell is most Soveraign against the distempers of this Nation Were they infested at Sea troubled at home or invaded from abroad here was the Sanctuary of refuge hither was the resort and no other way found for a foundation of peace It is reported of Constantine the great that he accounted his Subjects purse his Exchequer and so it is Subtile inventions may pick the purse but nothing can open it but a free Parliament which lets in the eye of Soveraignty upon the publique maladies of the state and vigilancy for the preservation of our ancient liberties for this we need not search into antiquity look but a little back there we shall see our just liberties gratiously confirmed by your most sacred Majesty And is our happiness shut up in the remembrance of times past only No Those gratious expressions lately fal'n from your sacred lips as hony from the combe make glad the hearts of your people So that now we do more then promise to our selves a large and free consideration of the wayes to compose the distempers of these Kingdomes and then present them to your royall hand for perfection And such shall be our deportment that as we shall labour the continuance of our liberties so shall we carry a high regard to preserve that Soveraigne power wherewith your Majesty is invested for the preservation of your Kingdome and to render your sacred Majesty terrible to the Nations and glorious at home Are these the fruits we have enjoyed by Parliaments we cannot then but wonder at that horrid invention in this place projected Monstrum horrendum informe ingens but the Lord be thanked Cui lumen ademptum est Can this receive a Palliation Men Fathers and Brethren and all at one blast no reverence to sacred Bones of Princes were we not all in a lump by them intended to be offered up to Moloch Let us never forget this days solemnization But whither It is too much boldness to presume longer on your Majesties grace and goodnesse and therefore for the better expedition of this service We humbly desire 1. That our selves and servants may obtain freedome from arrests of their persons and goods 2. That we may have free liberty of speech without confinement with a full and free debate 3. That your Majesty will vouchsafe our repaire to your sacred person upon matters of importance according to the ancient priviledges of the house That with such alacrity we may now proceed to manifest to the world that our retirements were to reinforce a greater unity and duty and to endeavor a sweet violence which may compell pardon dread Soveraigne the word Compell your Majesty to the love of Parliaments And thus God will have the honour your sacred Majesty splendor the Kingdome safety and all our votes shall passe That your sacred Majesty may long long long reigne over us And let all the people say Amen *⁎* FINIS