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
A63946	The speech of Sr. Edw. Turnor Kt., speaker of the honourable House of Commons, to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament on February 9, 1664 ...	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.	1664 (1664)	Wing T3356; ESTC R1549	1,098	7

THE SPEECH OF Sr Edw Turnor Kt Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS To the Kings most Excellent Majesty and both Houses of Parliament on February 9. 1664. AT The Passing of the Act entituled An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be Raised Levied and Paid in the space of Three years C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1664. CUM PRIVILEGIO THE SPEECH OF Sr Edward Turnor Kt. Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS To the Kings most Excellent Majesty and both Houses of Parliament Febr. 9. 1664. AT The Passing of the Act entituled An Act for granting a Royal Aide unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be Raised Levied and Paid in the space of Three years May it please Your most Excellent Majesty THE last Session of this Parliament the Lords and Commons did humbly represent unto Your Majesty the many Wrongs and Indignities that were done to Your Majesty and the many Injuries done to your Merchants by the Subjects of the United Provinces and did most humbly beseech Your Majesty that some effectuall Course might be taken for Redress thereof Your Majesty at the opening of this Session was graciously pleased to acquaint Your Two Houses That in pursuance to their Desires You had by Your Agent required Satisfaction but that Way proved ineffectual and many fresh Provocations were offered whereby Your Majesty was necessitated to a Warlike preparation by the speedy Dispatch whereof You had let Your Neighbours see That You could defend Your Self and Your Subjects against their Insolence upon the Stock of Your own Credit before Your Parliament came together And now SIR Give me leave to say Your Neighbours may see how a great King is made greater by His Parliament Your Loyal Commons after they Convened did not suffer full Four and Twenty hours to pass before they most chearfully gave Your Majesty more then Four and twenty hundred thousand pounds Historians tell us That in Biscay a Signiory of Spain when the King entreth into the Frontiers of the Countrey the Lords and Gentlemen there dwelling proffer him some few Brass-pieces called Maravides in a leathern Bag hanged at the end of a Lance but withal they tell him that he must not take them Great SIR Your Lords and Commons will not only yield obedience to You with their Bodies but with their Purses also In token whereof I do in the name of all the Commons of England present unto Your Majesty this Bill whereby we have given unto Your Majesty a Royall Ayde of Four and twenty hundred seventy seven thousand and five hundred pounds to be paid in three years by twelve quarterly Payments to begin from the Five and twentieth of December last And we do humbly beseech Your Majesty to accept it as a pregnant Demonstration of our most unfeigned Duty and Thankfulness to Your Majesty FINIS LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1664.