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A32327	His Majesties most gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellors, to both Houses of Parliament to which is added His Lordships several speeches : as also those of Sir Job Charleton ... / delivered at the opening of the Parliament on Tuesday, February 4. and Wednesday February 5. 1672/3.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Charleton, Job, Sir, 1614-1697.	1672 (1672)	Wing C3172; ESTC R35499	7,747	26

His Majesties MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH Together with the Lord Chancellors To Both Houses of Parliament To which is added His Lordships several SPEECHES As also those of Sir JOB CHARLETON At his admission of Speaker to the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS Delivered at the Opening of the Parliament on Tuesday February 4. And Wednesday February 5. 1672 3. By His Majesties special Command C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed by the Assign● of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1672 3. CVM PRIVILEGIO His MAJESTIES Gracious Speech To both Houses of PARLIAMENT Wednesday Febr. 5. 1672. My Lords and Gentlemen I Am glad to see you here this day I would have called you together sooner but that I was willing to Ease you and the Countrey till there were an absolute necessity Since you were last here I have been forced to a most important necessary and expensive War and I make no doubt but you will give Me suitable and effectual Assistance to go through with it I refer you to My Declaration for the Causes and indeed the Necessity of this War and shall now onely tell you That I might have digested the Indignities to My Own Person rather then have brought it to this Extremity if the Interest as well as the Honour of the whole Kingdom had not been at stake And if I had omitted this Conjuncture perhaps I had not again ever met with the like Advantage You will find that the last Supply you gave Me did not answer Expectation for the Ends you gave it The payment of My Debts Therefore I must in the next place recommend them again to your especial Care Some few days before I Declared the War I put forth My Declaration for Indulgence to Dissenters and have hitherto found a good Effect of it by securing Peace at Home when I had War Abroad There is one part in it that hath been subject to Misconstruction which is that concerning the Papists as if more Liberty were granted them then to the other Recusants ●hen it is plain there is less For the Others have Publick places allowed them and I never intended that they should have any but onely have the Freedom of their Religion in their own houses without any Concourse of others And I could not Grant them less then this when I had extended so much more Grace to others most of them having been Loyal and in the Service of Me and of the King my Father And in the whole Course of this Indulgence I do not intend that it shall any way Prejudice the Church but I will Support its Rights and It in its full Power Having said this I shall take it very ill to receive Contradiction in what I have done And I will deal plainly with you I am resolved to stick to my Declaration There is one Jealousie more that is maliciously spread abroad and yet so weak and frivolous that I once thought it not of moment enough to mention but it may have gotten some ground with some well minded people and that is That the Forces I have raised in this War were designed to Control Law and Property I wish I had had more Forces the last Summer the want of them then convinces me I must raise more against this next Spring And I do not doubt but you will Consider the Charge of them in your Supplies I will Conclude with this assurance to you That I will preserve the true Reformed Protestant Religion and the Church as it is now Established in this Kingdom and that no mans Property or Liberty shall ever be invaded I leave the rest to the Chancellor THE Lord Chancellor's SPEECH My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons THe King hath spoken so fully so excellently well and so like Himself that you are not to expect much from me There is not a word in His Speech that hath not its full weight And I dare with assurance say will have its effect with you His Majesty had called you sooner and His Affairs required it but that He was resolved to give you all the ease and vacancy to your own private Concerns and the People as much respit from Payments and Taxes as the necessity of His Business or their Preservation would permit And yet which I cannot but here mention to you by the Crafty insinuations of some ill affected persons there have been spread strange and desperate rumours which your Meeting together this day hath sufficiently proved both malicious and false His Majesty hath told you that He is now engaged in an important very expensive and indeed a War absolutely necessary and unavoidable He hath referred you to His Declaration where you will find the Personal indignities by Pictures and Medals and other publique affronts His Majesty hath received from the States their breach of Treaties both in the Surinam and East-India business and at last they came to that height of insolence as to deny the honour and right of the Flag though an undoubted Jewel of this Crown never to be parted with and by them particularly owned in the late Treaty of Breda and never contested in any age And whilest the King first long expected and then solemnly demanded Satisfaction they disputed His title to it in all the Courts of Christendom and made great offers to the French King if he would stand by them against us But the most Christian King too well remembred what they did at Munster contrary to so many Treaties and solemn Ingagements and how dangerous a neighbour they were to all Crowned heads The King and His Ministers had here a hard time and lay every day under new obloquies Sometimes they were represented as selling all to France for money to make this War Portsmouth Plimouth and Hull were to be given into the French hands for Caution The next day news came that France and Holland were agreed Then the obloquy was turned from treachery to folly The ministers were now Fools that some days before were Villains And indeed the Coffee-houses were not to be blamed for their last apprehensions since if that Conjunction had taken effect then England had been in a far worse case then now it is and the War had been turned upon us But both Kings knowing their Interests resolved to Joyn against them who were the Common Enemies to all Monarchies and I may say especially to ours their onely Competitor for trade and power at Sea and who onely stand in their way to an universal Empire as great as Rome This the States understood so well and had swallowed so deep that under all their present distress and danger they are so intoxicated with that vast ambition that they slight a Treaty and refuse a Cessation All this you and the whole Nation saw before the last War but it could not then be so well timed or our alliances so well made But you judged

in all His affairs so that you have never attempted to exceed your bounds or to impose upon Him whilest the King on the other hand hath made Your Counsels the foundations of all His proceedings and hath been so tender of you that He hath upon His own revenue and credit endeavoured to support even foreign Wars that he might be least uneasie to you or burdensom to His people And let me say that though this Marriage be according to Moses's Law where the husband can give a bill of divorce put her away and take another Yet I can assure you it is as impossible for the King to part with this Parliament as it is for you to depart from that loyaltie affection and dutiful behaviour you have hitherto shewed towards Him Let us bless the King for taking away all our fears and leaving no room for jealousies For those assurances and promises He hath made us Let us bless God and the King that our Religion is safe That the Church of England is the care of our Prince That Parliaments are safe That our Properties and Liberties are safe What more hath a good English man to ask but that this King may long reign and that this Triple-alliance of King Parliament and People may never be dissolved LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1672 3 THE LORD CHANCELLORS SPEECH Feb. 4. 1672. My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons HIs Majesty hath commanded me to tell you that he hath many things to say to you but he thinks not this a proper time but will defer it till the House of Commons be compleated with a new Speaker For his Majesty hath since the last Session as a mark of his Favour to his House of Commons and that he might reward so good a Servant taken their late Speaker Sr. Edward Turner to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and called him by Writ to be an assistant to this House I am therefore commanded to acquaint you Gentlemen of the House of Commons that it is the Kings pleasure you repair to your House and Elect a Discreet Wise and Learned man who after he hath been by you Presented and that presentation by His Majesty admitted shall then possess the office of your common Mouth and Speaker And the King is pleased to be here to Morrow in the Afternoon to receive the Presentment of him accordingly Sir JOB CHARLTON'S SPEECH February 5. 1672. Most Gracious Sovereign THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in Obedience to Your Royal Command have proceeded to the Choice of a Speaker They have among them many worthy Persons Eminently qualified for so great a Trust yet with too favourable an eye have cast it upon me who am really conscious to my self of many infirmities rendring me much unfit for so great an Imployment And although my endeavours of excusing my self before them have not been successful yet they have been so Indulgent as to permit me to continue my endeavours therein before Your Majesties most piercing and discerning Judgment The Veneration due to Majesty which lodgeth in every Loyal Breast makes it not an easie matter to speak before Your Majesty at any time or in any capacity But to speak before Your Majesty in Your Exaltation thus gloriously supported and attended and that as Speaker of Your House of C●mmons requires greater abilities then I can pretend to own I am not also without fear That the Publick Affairs wherein Your Majesty and Your Kingdom in this juncture of time are so highly concerned may receive detriment through my weakness I therefore with a plain humble heart prostrate at Your Royal feet beseech That You will Command them to review what they have done and to proceed to another Election The Lord Chancellor's Speech Feb. 5. 1672. Mr. Serjeant Charleton THe King hath very attentively heard your discreet and handsome Discourse whereby you endeavour to excuse and disable your self for the place of Speaker In answer whereof his Majesty hath commanded me to say to you That he doth in no sort admit of the same For his Majesty hath had long experience of your Abilities good Affection Integrity and Resolution in several employments of great Trust and Weight He knows you have been long a Parliament-man and therefore every way fitted and qualified for the Employment Besides he cannot disapprove the Election of this house of Commons especially where they have expressed so much duty in choosing one worthy and acceptable to him And therefore the King doth allow of the Election and admits you for Speaker Mr. Speakers Speech Feb. 5. 1672. Great SIR SInce it is Your Gracious Pleasure not to accept of my humble Excuse but by Your Royal Approbation to fix me under this Great though Honourable Weight and to think me fit to be invested with a Trust of so high a nature as this is I take it in the first place to be incumbent upon me that I render Your Majesty all possible thanks which I now humbly do with a heart full of all Duty and affected with a deeper sense of Gratitude then I can find words to express Next from Your Royal Determination in this Affair whereby you have imprinted a new Character upon me I take courage against my own di●●idence and chearfully bend my self with such strength and abilities as God shall give to the Service so graciously designed me no way doubting that Your Majesty will please to pardon my Frailties to accept of my faithful Endeavours and always to look favourably on the Work of Your own ●ands And now Sir my first Entrance upon this Service obliges me to make a few necessary but humble Petitions on the behalf of Your most Loyal and Dutiful House of Commons 1. That for our better Attendance on the Publick Service we and our Servants may be free in our Persons and Estates from Arrests and other Disturbances 2. That in our Debates Liberty and Freedom of Speech be allowed us 3. That as occasions shall require Your Majesty upon our humble suit and at such times as Your Majesty shall judge seasonable will vouchsafe us access to Your Royal Person 4. That all our Proceedings may receive a favourable Construction That God who hath brought You back to the Throne of Your Fathers and with You all our Comforts grant You a long and a prosperous Reign and send You Victory over all Your Enemies and every good mans heart will say Amen The Lord Chancellors SPEECH Feb. 5. 1672. Mr. Speaker THe Kings Majesty hath heard and well weighed your short and Eloquent Oration And in the first place much approves that you have with so much advantage introduced a shorter way of speaking upon this occasion His Majesty doth well accept of all those dutiful and affectionate expressions in which you have delivered your Submission to his Royal pleasure And looks upon it as a good Omen to his affairs and as an Evidence that the House of Commons have still the same Heart that have chosen such a Mouth The conjuncture of time and the King and Kingdoms affairs require such a House of Commons such a Speaker for with reverence to the holy Scripture upon this occasion the King may say He that is not with me is against me for he that doth not now put his Hand and Heart to Support the King in the common cause of this Kingdom can hardly ever hope for such another opportunity or find a time to make satisfaction for the Omission of this Next I am commanded by his Majesty to answer your four Petitions whereof the first being The freedom of you and your Servants in your Persons and Estates without arrest or other disturbance the King is graciously pleased to grant it as full as to any of your Predecessors The Second for Liberty and Freedom of Speech the Third for access to his Royal person And the Fourth that your proceedings may receive a Favourable construction are all freely and fully granted by his Majesty LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1672.