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
A57827	A most worthy speech spoken in the honourable House of Commons by Sir Beniamin Rvdyard, desiring a happy union betweene the King and his Parliament without effusion of bloud, this present July 9th, 1641.	Rudyerd, Benjamin, Sir, 1572-1658.	1642 (1642)	Wing R2187; ESTC R8519	1,534	7

A most worthy SPEECH Spoken in the Honourable House of COMMONS By Sir BENIMIN RVDYARD Desiring a happy union betweene the King and his Parliament without effusion of bloud this present Iuly 9th 1642. London Printed for N Allen and are to be sold in the Old Baily 1642. A Speech spoken in the House of Commons by Sir Benjamin Rudiard July 9. 1642. Mr SPEAKER IN the way we are wee have gone as farre as words can carry us Wee have voted our owne Rights and the Kings duty No doubt there is a Relative Duty between a King and Subjects Obedience from a Subject to a King Protection from a King to his People The present unhappy distance between His Majesty and the Parliament makes the whole Kingdome stand amazed in a fearefull expectation of dismall Calamities to fall upon it It deeply and conscionably concerns this House to compose and settle these threatning ruining distractions Mr. Speaker I am touch'd I am pierc'd with an apprehension of the Honour of the House and successe of this Parliament The best way to give a stop to these desperate imminent mischiefs is To make a faire way for the Kings return hither It will likewise give best satisfaction to the people and will bee our best Iustification M. Speaker That we may the better consider the condition wee are now in let us set our selves three yeers backe If any man then could have credibly told us That within three yeares the Queene shall be gone out of England into the Low-Countries for any cause whatsoever The King shall remove from his Parliament from London to York declaring himself not to be safe here That there shall be a totall Rebellion in Ireland Such discords and distempers both in Church and State here as now we finde certainly we should have trembled at the thought of it Wherefore it is fit we should be sensible now we are in it On the other side if any man then could have credibly told us That within three yeares yee shall have a Parliament it would have beene good News That Ship-monie shall be taken away by an Act of Parliament the Reasons and Grounds of it so rooted out as that neither it nor any thing like it can ever grow up againe That Monopolies the high-Commission Court The Starre-Chamber The Bishops Votes shall be taken away The Counsell Table regulated and restraiened The Forrests bounded and limitted That yee shall have a Tryenniall Parliament And more then that A perpetuall Parliament which none shall have power to dissolve without your selves we should have thought this a dreame of happinesse yet now wee are in the reall possession of it we doe not enjoy it although His Majestie hath promised and published hee will make all this good unto us We stand chiefly upon further security wheras the very having of these things is a convenient fair security mutually securing one another there is more security offered even in this last answer of the Kings by removing the personall Votes of Popish Lords By the Better Education of Papists children by supplying the defects of Laws against Recusants besides what else may be enlarged and improved by a select Committee of both Houses named for that purpose Wherefore Sir let us beware we do not contend for such a hazardous unsafe security as may endanger the losse of what we have already let us not thinke we have nothing because we have not all we desire and though we had yet wee cannot make a Mathematicall security All humane Caution is susceptible of corruption and failing Gods providence will not be bound successe must be his He that observes the winde and raine shall neither sow nor reap if he do nothing till he can secure the weather he will have but an ill harvest Mr. Speaker It now behoves us to call up all the wisedome we have about us but wee are at the very brinke of combustion and confusion If blood once begin to touch blood we shall Presently fall into a certaine miserie and must attend an uncertaine successe God knows when and God knowes what Every man here is bound in conscience to employ his uttermost endeavour to prevent the effusion of bloud bloud is a crying sin it pollutes a Land let us save our Liberties and our Estates as wee may save our soules too Now I have clearly delivered mine own conscience I leave every man freely to his FINIS