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A79232	His Majestie's gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellor's, to both Houses of Parliament; on Saturday the 29th day of December, 1660. Being the day of their dissolution. As also, that of the speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, at the same time.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.; Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Lord Chancellor's Dept.	1661 (1661)	Wing C3074; Thomason E1075_26; ESTC R208597	13,941	34

Customs here at home have great impositions laid upon them in forraign parts where they are vented In the Low-Countries sixteen or seventeen per cent and in Portugal Twenty per cent at the least But those who for their own private base filthy lucre sake having no regard or respect unto the publick good that steal over the Materials of which those Manufactures are made pay not one penny either here or there and by that means strangers do make those Manufactures of our wool upon such easie termes that they can afford and do under-sel your Merchants which is the occasion of a double loss First to your Majesty in your Customs and in the next Place to your people who are thereby disheartened and discouraged and in a short time if not prevented will be utterly beaten out of that Ancient native Staple trade upon which many thousands of Families do wholly depend for all their livelihood and subsistence There is another Bill intituled an Act for prohibiting the planting setting or sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland This Climate is so cold that it never comes to any maturity or perfection for we find by experience though it be never so well healed made up with the greatest art and skil that possible can be yet it is impossible after it is made up into the Roll to keep it and preserve it from putrifying above three or four moneths at the most and therefore Physitians even those that love it best and use it most conclude generally that it is unwholsome for mens bodies Besides many other great damages and inconveniencies will follow upon it if it should be permitted The abatement of your Majesties Custome The destruction of your Plantations abroad The discouraging of Navigation And so consequently the decay of Shipping which are the Walls and Bulwarks of your Majesties Kingdom There is another Bill Intituled an Act for the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries together with tenures in Capite Knight Service tenures and Purveyances This Bill Ex re nata may properly be called a Bill of Exchange for as care is therein taken for the case of Your people So the supply of that part of your Majesties Revenue which formerly came into your Treasury by your tenures and for your Purveyances is thereby likewise fully provided for by the grant of another imposition to be taken upon Ale Beer and other Liquors To hold to your Majestie your Heires and Successors for ever And yet they should not look upon the considerations mentioned in this bill as a full compensation and recompence for your Majesties parting with two such Royal Prerogatives and ancient flowers of your Crown if more were not implyed then is expressed For Royal Sir Your Tenures in Capite are not only turned into a Tenure in Soccage though that alone will for ever give your Majestie a just Right and title to the labour of our Ploughs and the sweat of our browes But they are likewise turned into a Tenure in Corde what your Majestie had before in your Court of Wards you will be sure to find it hereafter in the Exchequer of your peoples hearts The King of Spaines Mines will sooner deceive him then this Revenue will fail you for his Mines have bottomes but the deeper your Majestie sinkes your self into the hearts and affections of your people the greater you will find your Wealth to be and the more invincible your Strength Royal Sir We have nothing more to offer or to Ask but must conclude all our work this Parliament with an humble and thankful acknowledgement of Gods infinite Goodness and mercie in Restoring your Majestie to your Royal and Imperial Crown Throne and Dignitie And for making you the Restorer of that which is dearer unto us then our lives Our Religion in which through Gods blessing and Gracious assistance we are resolved to live and dye As likewise for restoring us to our Magna Charta Liberties having taken the charge and care of them into your own heart which is our greatest security and more then a thousand confirmations Royal Sir You have denied us nothing we have asked this Parliament indeed you have out-done your Parliament by doing much more for us then we could agree amongst our selves to ask and therefore must needs be a happy Parliament This is a healing Parliament A Reconciling Peace-making Parliament A blessed Parliament A Parliament Propter excellentiam that may truly be called Parliamentissimum Parliamentum no man can say that hath made the most curious search into Books or Records that there ever was such a Parliament as this And it s our unspeakable joy and comfort that no man can say so long as your Majestie lives but we may have such another for you have set your Royal Heart upon it to do your people good And as we have nothing more to say so we have nothing more to do but that which will be a doing as long as we have a being The pouring out our soules unto Almighty God for your Majesties Long Long Long and most happy blessed Glorious and Prosperous Reign over us LONDON Printed by John Bill Printer to the KING' 's most Excellent MAJESTY 1660. At the KINGS Printing-House in Black-Fryers

His Majestie 's GRACIOUS SPEECH Together with the Lord CHANCELLOR'S To both Houses of PARLIAMENT on Saturday the 29 th day of December 1660. Being the day of their Dissolution As also that of the SPEAKER of the Honorable House of COMMONS at the same time C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed by JOHN BILL Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. CUM PRIVILEGIO HIS MAJESTIE' 's Gracious Speech To both Houses of PARLIAMENT On Saturday the 29 day of December 1660. Upon the Dissolution of the PARLIAMENT My Lords and Gentlemen I Will not entertain you with a long discourse the sum of all I have to say to you being but to give you Thanks very hearty Thanks and I assure you I finde it a very difficult work to satisfie My Self in My Own expressions of those Thanks Perfunctory thanks Ordinary thanks for Ordinary civilities are easily given but when the Heart is as full as Mine is it is a labor to thank you Bou have taken great pains to obliege Me and therefore it cannot be easie for me to express the sence I have of it I will enlarge no further to you upon this occasion then to tell you That when God brought Me hither I brought with me an Extraordinary Affection and Esteem for Parliaments I need not tell you how much it is improved by your carriage towards me You have out-done all the good and oblieging Acts of your Predecessors towards the Crown and therefore you cannot but believe My Heart is exceedingly enlarged with the acknowledgment Many former Parliaments have had particular denominations from what they have done They have been stiled Learned and Unlearned and sometimes have had worse Epithites I pray let us all Resolve that this be for ever called The Healing and the Blessed Parliament As I thank you though not enough for what you have done so I have not the least doubt by the blessing of God but when I shall call the next Parliament which I shall do as soon as reasonably you can expect or desire I shall receive your Thanks for what I have done since I parted with you For I deal truly with you I shall not more propose any one Rule to My Self in My Actions and My Councels then this What is a Parliament like to think of this Action or this Councel And it shall be want of Vnderstanding in Me if it will not bear that Test I shall conclude with this which I cannot say too often nor you too often where you go Tha● 〈◊〉 to the miraculous blessing of God Almighty and indeed as an immediate effect of that Blessing I do impute the good Disposition and Security we are all in to the happy Act of Indempnity and Oblivion that is the principal Corner-stone which supports this excellent Building that creates Kindness in Vs to each other and Confidence is Our Joynt and Common Security You may be sure I will not onely observe it Religiously and inviolably My Self but also exact the observation of it from others And if any person should ever have the boldness to attempt to perswade Me to the contrary he will finde such an Acceptation from Me as he would have who should perswade Me to burn Magna Charta cancel all the old Laws and to erect a new Government after My Own invention and appetite There are many other particulars which I will not trust My Own Memory with but will require the Chancellor to say the rest to you After His Majesty had done the Lord Chancellor said as followeth My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons THere cannot be a greater manifestation of an excellent Temper and Harmony of Affections throughout the Nation then that the King and his two Houses of Parliament meet with the same Affections and Cheerfulness the same Alacrity in their Countenance at the Dissolution as when they met at the Convention of Parliament It is an unquestionable evidence that they are exceedingly satisfied in what they have done towards each other that they have very well done all the business they came about This is now your case you have so well satisfied your own Consciences that you are sure you have satisfied the King's expectation and His Hope and the desires and wishes of the Country It was very justly observed by you Mr. Speaker that you have never asked any one thing of the King which he hath not with all imaginable cheerfulness granted and in truth His Majesty doth with great comfort acknowledge that you have been so far from denying Him any thing He hath asked that He hath scarce wished any thing that you have not granted And it is no wonder that having so fully complyed with your obligations and having so well composed the minds of the Nation you are now willing to be relieved from this extraordinary Fatigue you have submitted so long to and to return to the consideration of your own particular Affairs which you have so long sacrificed to the Publique and this reasonable wish and desire hath brought the King to comply with you and which nothing else could do to part with you with an equal cheerfulness and he makes no doubt but all succeeding Parliaments will pay you their Thanks for all you have done and look upon your Actions and your example with all possible Approbation and Reverence The King and you have given such earnest to each other of your mutual Affection you have been so exact and punctual in your proceedings towards each other that you have made no promise no profession to each other of the making good and performing of which the world is not witness You declared at the Adjournment in September last your Resolution to settle a noble Revenew on the Crown you have done it with all the Circumstances of Affection and Prudence The King promised you to establish a Council for Trade a Council for the Forreign Plantations a Commission for composing all difference upon Sales all this he did before your coming together and with very good effect and you shall hear that the Proceedings in every one of them are more vigorous and effectual after your Dissolution His Majesty then promised you that he would give up all his endeavors to compose the unhappy differences in matters of Religion and to restore the languishing Church to peace Unity and Order Constantine himself hardly spent so much of his own time in private and publique Conferences to that purpose His Majesty in private conferred with the Learned Men and heard all that could be said upon several Opinions and Interests apart and then in the presence of both Parties himself moderating in the debates and less care and diligence and authority would not have done the work and God hath so blessed His Labor and made His Determinations in that Affair so generally agreeable that he hath received thanks from His Houses of Parliament that is from the whole