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A63944	The speech of Sr. Edw. Turnor, Kt., speaker of the honourable House of Commons, to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty delivered on Monday the nineteeth day of May, 1662, at the prorogation of the Parliament.	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.	1662 (1662)	Wing T3354; ESTC R2118	3,004	11

THE SPEECH OF Sr Edw. Turnor Kt. Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY Delivered on Monday the Nineteenth day of May 1662. at the Prorogation of the Parliament C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed by D. Maxwell for Henry Twyford and are to be sold at his Shop in Vine-Court Middle-Temple 1662. THE SPEECH OF Sr. EDW. TURNOR Kt Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons TO THE KINGS most Excellent Majesty Delivered on Monday the Nineteenth day of May 1662. at the Proroguing the PARLAMENT May it please Your most Excellent Majesty THe glorious body of the Sun doth exhillerate the soul of Man with its light and fructifie the earth by its heat In like manner We the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament do with all humility and thankfulnesse acknowledge these frequent accessions to Your Royal Presence do both comfort our hearts and influence our actions Geographers do tell us The Land of Egypt is a dry Soile but made fertile by the overflowing of the River Nylus and according to the degrees of the Floud the Inhabitants do prognosticate the fruitfulness of the ensuing year if it flows to twelve degrees it presages a good Harvest if to thirteen then more plentifull but if to fourteen degrees their hopes are raised to an expectation of an abundant encrease Great Sir your return into this Nation in the twelfth year of your Reign resembles the flowing of the River Nilus in the twelfth Degree That year was Crowned with the enjoyment of your Royal Person The last year being the Thirteenth year of your Majesties Reign we were made happy in Your Coronation and by Your Sanction of many good and usefull Lawes both for the Church and State And now our River Nilus begins to flow fourteen Degrees we are by the mercies of God in an humble expectation of a great Jubilee Our Gracious Queen is now happily landed who we do hope and dayly pray may prove a suitable Companion to Your Royal Person and ere long a Nursing Mother to this Nation If Your Majesty but please to cast Your Eyes upon the Table and behold the great number of Bills that there present themselves before You like so many sheafs of Corn bound up and ready to be housed and will vouchsafe to see how both my hands are filled with no light Presents from Your Loyal Commons and if Your Royal Majesty the great Lord of the Harvest shall vouchsafe to Crown this Day by Your gracious Concessions to our Desires the world will then see how great a duty Your people cheerfully pay both to Your Royal Person and Your Government and likewise how great a Zeal Your Majesty hath by the faithfull Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament to Settle the Church in her Ancient Glory and to restore the happy People of this Nation to their ancient Rights and Priviledges Some Forreign Writers that envy the happiness of our Government injuriously asperse this Nation with a reproachful Saying That the Crown of England is only maintained by the benevolence of the people which never is granted but in exchange of some Royal Prerogative Great Sir We know the strongest Building must fall if the coupling Pins be pulled out therefore our care hath been to prepare such Constitutions that the Prerogative of the Crown and the Propriety of the People may like squared Stones in a well-built Arch each support the other and grow the closer and stronger for any weight or force that shall be laid upon them We cannot forget the late Disputing Age wherein most persons took a liberty and some men made it their delight to trample upon the Discipline and Government of the Church the Hedg being trod down the Foxes and the Wolves did enter the Swine and other unclean beasts defiled the Temple at length it was discerned the Smectymnian Plot did not only bend it self to reform Ceremonies but sought to erect a popular Authority of Elders and to root out Episcopal Jurisdiction In order to this Work Church-Ornaments were first taken away then the Means whereby Distinction or ●nequality might be upheld amongst Ecclesiastical Governors then the forms of Common-Prayer which as Members of the publick Body of Christs Church were enjoined us were decryed as Superstitious and in lieu thereof nothing or worse then nothing introduced Your Majesty having already restored the Governors and Government of the Church the Patrimony and Priviledges of our Church-men We held it now our duty for the Reformation of all abuses in the Publick Worship of God Humbly to present unto Your Majesty a Bill for the Vniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments We hope the God of Order and Unity will conform the hearts of all the people in this Nation to serve him in this Order and Uniformity Next to the Worship and Service of God We applied our selves to the setling our great Concern the Militia We have already according to our duties and the Laws declared the Sole right of the Militia to be in Your Majesty And now with Your Permission VVe humbly tender Your Majesty a Bill for the better Regulation and Ordering the standing Forces of this Nation wherein VVe have taken care to make all things so certain that Your Majesties Lieutenants and their Deputies may know what to Command and all the people learn how to obey And because our late Wounds are yet but green and possibly before the body Politick be well purged may incline to break out again whereby Your Majesty may be forced to draw Your Sword before Your Treasury be supplied with money We have consented that Your Majesty may raise for the three next ensuing years one months Tax in each year after the rate of 70000 l. per mensem if necessity shall so require In the next place according to Your Majesties Commands we have surveyed the wasted Revenue of the Crown and in pursuance of our promises do humbly propound unto your Majesty a fair addition We considered that great part of Your Majesties Revenue is but for life and both that and also part of the rest depends upon the Peace the Trade and Traffick of the Nation and therefore may be much impaired by Wars with forreign Nations This put us upon the search of something that might arise within our own walls and not be subject to such contingencies We pitcht our thoughts at last upon those places where we enjoy our greatest comforts and securities our dwelling houses and considering even that security is secured unto us by Your Majesties vigilance and care in the Government We have prepared a Bill whereby We desire it may be enacted That all Houses in this Kingdom which are worth in yearly value above Twenty shillings and not inhabited by Almesmen may pay unto Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors two shillings yearly for every Chimney-hearth in each house for ever When the great Ahithophels of our latter Age had by force ravished the venerable Laws of this Nation uno absurdo dato sequuntur milia then every petty Artist in his way yea even the very common Beggars had the Confidence to offer violence to their Chastity We have therefore been constrained to prepare several Bills for the Regulation of Trade our Cloathing Trade our Fishing Trade our Trade for Stuffs our Trade for Silks and for the better maintenance of intercourse in Trade to re-inforce our former Laws for maintaining the High-ways with some Additions for decency and pleasure of Travellers God in his Providence hath determined That Poor we must have always with us some are made so by the immedia●e Hand of God others by their Loyalty Duty and Service of Your Royal Person and Your Blessed Father others by their own wickedness and idleness We have taken care to relieve the first to encourage the second and to reform the last Nor hath the Case of any private person been unwelcome to us those many Private Bills that lie before Your Majesty do enough confirm this Truth That where we found it Just and Honorable We have denied our helping hand to none that prayed it And now Great Sir after these many Months most painfull and faithfull Service of Your Majesty and our Countreys we hope we shall have leave to go home to visit our Relations to tell our Neighbours wh●t great things Your Majesty hath done for Us what great things absit invidia verbo we have done for Your Majesty and what great things God hath done for Us all and to pray Almighty God for his Mercy to this Nation in the continuance of Your Majesties Long and Happy Reign over us FINIS