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A63949	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 delivered at Oxford, on Tuesday the one and thirtieth day of October, 1665. at the prorogation of the Parliament.	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.	1664 (1664)	Wing T3359; ESTC R222547	3,074	14

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 Delivered at Oxford on Tuesday the One and thirtieth day of October 1665. at the Prorogation of the Parliament C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1665. CUM PRIVILEGIO 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 Delivered at Oxford on Tuesday the 31. of October 1665. at the Prorogation of the Parliament May it please Your most Excellent Majesty THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament in obedienc● to Your Majesties Writ of Adjournment came chearfully to this City of Oxford to receive Your Royal Commands And when Your Majesty was pleased to speak to them and acquaint them with Your great Expences this Summer and the continuing Insolencies of the Dutch They were so inflamed with an Affection and Zeal for Your Majesties Service that they could not suffer the least Puncto of time to pass before they had made a Return suitable to their Engagements That they would assist Your Majesty with their Lives and Fortunes against the Dutch or any others that should assist them in opposition of Your Majesty Tibi nos tibi nostra suppellex ruraque servierint The English Man useth to speak as he writes and the English Parliament to speak as they think No Security upon Earth can be greater then the Engagement of your Two Houses of Parliament Sed quid verba audiam dum facta videam As a Demonstration of their Fidelity I am commanded to present unto Your Majesty this Bill whereby they have given You for a present Supply Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to be levied in two years to begin from Christmas next by Quarterly Payments added to the former Royal Aid And to the end Your Majesties Occasions may be supplied with ready Money before this additional Aid can be raised We have by this Bill prepared an undoubted Security for all such Persons as shall bring their Money into the Publick Bank of Your Exchequer As the Rivers do naturally empty themselves into the Sea so We hope the Veins of Gold and Silver in this Nation will plentifully run into this Ocean for the Maintenance of Your Majesties just Soveraignty on the Seas Great Sir When first We besought Your Majesty to correct the Insolencies and to repair Your Subjects against the Rapines of the Dutch We did reasonably suppose That the Justice of Your Majesties Demands would at least have had a fair and ingenious Reception But the Dutch resolved with Machiavil to keep by Force what they had got by Wrong and to return their Answer by the Thundring voice of their Canon The Great GOD of Hosts to whom Vengeance belongs hath eminently appeared in Your Majesties Quarrel and sharply rebuked the insolence of that proud People whose heart is hardened even to destruction 'T is true our sins do cry aloud as well as theirs but God is pleased in mercy to correct us himself whilst by our hands he doth punish them and make them fly before us I hope this mercy will invite us to a National Repentance And if God be with us who then can be against us We cannot but take notice of the Sordid defection of some English Fugitives who have traiterously joyned wi●● the Dutch both in their Counsels and Actions against your Majesty and this their native Countrey We therefore have prepared a Bill whereby they are injoyned to return by a day and answer to the Law or else they shall be attainted and be subject to the Paines and Penalties of Condemned Traitours It hath been an old observation that Scandalous Livings make Scandalous Ministers and this most frequently fals out in Cities and Corporate Towns where are little or no praedial Tythes and therefore the Preachers for meer want are forced to chaunt such tunes as may best please the Rich men in their Parishes For prevention of this for the future there is a Bill prepared for the uniting of small Churches and Chappels in Cities and Towns Corporate by the consent of the Patron reserving all other Parochial rites distinct as they were before This being a time wherein Your Majesty needs great Supplies We held it our duty to ease the People in some unnecessary Expences and therefore we have prepared a Bill for the more effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowryes for Rents another to avoid Circuity of Actions and a third to lessen the charge of necessary Suits in Law There is an ancient fee received in ●our Majesties Courts of Law called Damage ●leere or Damna Clericorum which is the tenth ●eny of such Damages as are there recovered in many actions This was first introduced for the encouragement of Clerks to employ themselves to the study of drawing special Pleadings which are grown so familiar by the dis-use of Real actions that the Fee now is looked upon as a grievance especially when the Plaintiff is forced to pay it upon the signing of his Judgement and perhaps the Defendant is not able to answer any part of the Execution therefore we have prepared a Bill for the regulating of this for the present and after seven years to take it quite away Tacitus hath a saying Such as are false in their love are true in their hate And this Rule we find verified in our Nonconformists Whilst they were in the Bosom of the Church of England they were like inward Vapours and inward Bleedings always oppressing and strangling the Body of the Church and now they are Ejected and Excluded from their Ministerial Function they have more malice and no less opportunity to propagate their Principles then they had before Some of them are objects of pity they submitted their Reason to their Leaders of a higher Classis who failed them in their hopes and left them to the rigour of the Law These poor creatures have seen their errour and feel the smart and would live peaceably but their Jesuitical Leader keep up their spirits and Herd with 〈◊〉 in Cities and Corporate Towns where by pretence of Persecution and Self-denial they move the pity of good natur'd people and with their Charity keep up their Party lessen the Maintenance of Conforming Ministers and spread their Contagion amongst the Youth of the Nation For the prevention of this growing mischief we have prepared a Shiboreth a Test to distinguish amongst them who will be peaceable and give hopes of future Conformity and who of malice and evil disposition remain obdurate The one we shall keep amongst us with all Love and Charity the other we shall exclude from Cities and Corporate Towns like those that have an infectious Disease upon them It is not unusual for the Commons at the close of a Session of Parliament by their Speaker to present a Petition to their Soveraign and with Your Majesties leave I am now commanded that Service We do with all humble thankfulness to God acknowledge our great happiness that we are govern'd by a Prince whose Prudence in Counsel whole Valour in Action and whose Fatherly Care in Protection of his People is eminent through all the world and it is no● the least mercy both to Your Majesty and Your People that God ●…h blessed You with a Brother so like Your self The name of His Royal Highness is already Inrol'd amongst the Heroes of other Nations but this His Native Countrey had not so great experience of Him till Your Majesty was pleased in this Summers Expedition to trust Him with the Conduct of the most Royal Fleet that ever sailed upon the British Seas wherein He shewed that Prowess and that Prudence and by the blessing of Almighty God was Crowned with that Success against the Dutch that we cannot pass it by in silence and yet we are at a loss how to express our Thanks both to Your Majesty and to Him I am commanded therefore to beseech Your Majesty that You will vouchsafe to let us make a Present to You of a Moneths Tax to come in the Rear after the Four and twenty Moneths of Your Majesties Royal Aid and that Your Majesty will be pleased to bestow it upon His Royal Highness And now Great Sir I have no more but to beseech Almighty God who hath so miraculously preserved Your Royal Person and Your two Houses of Parliament from all Sickness and Contagion during this Session that he w●ll be pleased to send Health throughout the Nation that he will Crown all Your Designs against your Enemies with Victory and Success and give Your Majesty a long and Happy Reign over us LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1665.