Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	house_n	parliament_n	speaker_n	3,357	5	10.8139	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55595	The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Powle, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons: on Munday the sixteenth of December, 1689 At the passing of four bills, entituled, I. An act for a grant to Their Majesties of an aid of two shillings in the pound for one year. II. An act for declaring the rights of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown. III. An act for naturalizing William Watts, an infant. IV. An act for declaring and enacting John Rogerson to be a natural born subject of this realm.	Powle, Henry, 1630-1692.	1689 (1689)	Wing P3115; ESTC R221789	699	4

THE SPEECH Of the Right Honourable Henry Powle Esq SPEAKER OF THE House of Commons On Munday the Sixteenth of December 1689. AT THE Passing of Four BILLS ENTITULED I. An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of Two shillings in the Pound for One Year II. An Act for Declaring the Rights of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown III. An Act for Naturalizing William Watts an Infant IV. An Act for Declaring and Enacting John Rogerson to be a Natural born Subject of this Realm LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties MDCLXXXIX THE SPEECH Of the Right Honourable Henry Powle Esq SPEAKER OF THE House of Commons May it please Your Majesty YOur Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled taking into Consideration the Great and Necessary Expences Your Majesty will sustain in the Prosecution of the War wherein Your Majesty is now Engaged did at their first Meeting in this present Session unanimously Agree to Present Your Majesty with a Supply of Two Millions the greatest part of which they resolved to Charge upon their Lands as the most speedy and effectual Way of Raising present Money for this Occasion But finding that great Abuses had been committed in Assessing the late Supply of the like Nature they have endeavoured to Provide against those Abuses in Raising of this present Tax the Consideration whereof hath taken up much of their Time and produced a Bill of an unusual length which I now offer to Your Majesties Gracious Acceptance They have likewise Agreed upon a Bill for Declaring of their Rights and Liberties which were so notoriously Violated in the late Reign humbly desiring Your Majesty to give Life to it by the Royal Assent that so it may remain not only a Security to them from the like Attempts hereafter but be a lasting Monument to all Posterity of what they owe to Your Majesty for their Deliverance Let this be Printed H. POWLE Speaker