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A63953	The speech of Sr. Edw. Turnor, Kt., speaker of the honourable House of Commons, to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty on Monday the eleventh day of April 1670, upon the adjournment of the Parliament.	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.	1670 (1670)	Wing T3362; ESTC R4751	2,599	11

THE SPEECH OF Sr. Edw. Turnor Kt. SPEAKER of the Honourable House of COMMONS TO THE KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY On Monday the Eleventh Day of April 1670. Upon the Adjournment of the PARLIAMENT DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for Robert Pawlet at the sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane 1670. THE SPEECH OF Sr. EDW. TURNER Kt. Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons TO THE KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY On Monday the Eleventh day of April 1670. Upon the Adjournment of the Parliament May it Please Your Most excellent Majesty AT the opening of this Session of Parliament your Majesty was pleased to speak to your two Houses and recommended three things especially to Us Unity amongst our selves the Union of Your Majesties two Kingdoms of England and Scotland and the supply of Your Majesties Present and Urgent Occasions In obedience to Your Majesties Commands we have Industriously applyed our Selves to the Consideration of these Matters By the Blessing of God all differences are buried in Oblivion Your Majesties happy Expedient hath like a strong Gale of Wind blown up the Rouling Sands and filled up all Impressions Vestigia nulla retrorsum And as Your People will universally enjoy the Fruit of this happy Union so Our United Prayers to God shall be that Your Majesty may be Crowned with the promised Blessing Beati pacifici In Order to the Union of Your Majesties two Kingdoms both Your Houses of Parliament have Humbly besought Your Majesty to name Commissioners for this Your Kingdome of England and we have prepared a Bill to Authorise them to Treat with Commissioners to be appointed for your Kingdom of Scotland upon such Grounds as shall be thought conducing to that end and to Report them to your Majesty and to both Houses of Parliament of this your Kingdom of England reserving alwayes to your Majesty and the Two Houses of Parliament the entire Consideration of the whole and the allowing or disallowing thereof or any part thereof as they shall think fit We have also considered of a Supply for your Majesties Occasions and I am Commanded by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons to present your Majesty with this Bill whereby we have given to your Majesty an Imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported after the rate of 8 l. per Tun for all French Wines and Vinegar and 10 l. per Tun for all other Wines and have granted this unto your Majesty for 8. years to Commence from Midsummer next And I am further Commanded to acquaint your Majesty that we apprehended the Revenue arising by the power of granting Wine-Licences settled upon his Royal Highness by Act of Parliament hath been prejudiced by the last Imposition upon Wines and will be much more impaired by this present Imposition we therefore added the last year unto this Bill of supply with this Vote That your Majesty be humbly desired therewith to recompence his Royal Highness the Duke of York for the Damage he hath received and shall receive in his Revenue of Wine-Licenses by this and the last Imposition Having thus in the first place with all dutifulness obeyed your Majesties Commands we held it necessary to remember those that sent us hither and to present unto your Majesty some Bills that will be of Publick Use for all the People of the Nation There is first a Bill for the prevention of Seditious Conventicles whereby no man is hindred the use of his own Judgement in the Exercise of Religion by himself or in his own Family or in the presence of four Strangers but because the Peace of the Nation may be endangered by more populous Meetings contrary to the Liturgy and Practice of the Church of England we have imposed a Penalty of 5 s. for rhe first offence and 10 s. for the second and every other offence upon all such Offenders to be levyed by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods We are informed that your Majesty suffers much by the stealing and imbezilling of Your Ordnance Ammunition Sail Cloathes and Stores and likewise your good people are much damnified by a wicked sort of people who make it their practise in the Night-time to steal woollen Cloathes and Stuffs from off the Racks and they are much encouraged in this their wickedness by reason they have their Clergy We have therefore prepared a Bill for the taking away the benefit of Clergy upon the conviction of all such offendors We have likewise prepared an Additional Bill for the rebuilding the City of London wherein we have revived the Judicatory of your Majesties twelve Judges impowering them to hear and determine the remainder of Causes and Controversies which have not already received a Settlement by them We have also made provision for the widening many more Streets than were mentioned in the former Act and to enable the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City of London to give satisfaction to those whose Grounds shall be taken from them And also for laying the foundation at least of the famous Cathedral of St Paul and towards the rebuilding of fifty one Parish Churches we have added an Imposition of 2 s. for every Chaldron of Coals that shall be brought into the Port of London for the space of 17 years yet to come We have likewise prepared a Bill for the ascertaining the Measures of Corn and Salt and provided that one Measure shall be used in all the Market-Towns of this Kingdome We have found great inconveniences by the want of due repairing the Highwayes of this Kingdom and have therefore taken care for time to come both to amend them and to prevent the spoiling of them again by carrying excessive loads and drawing them with extraordinary number of Horses and other Cattel Experience tells us when the consumption of Forreign Commodities exceeds the use and exportation of our Native Commodities the Nation must insensibly grow poor and our Treasure will be exhausted We have therefore prepared a Bill for the encouragement of Tillage by permitting the exporting of Corn and also for the encouragement of other sorts of good Husbandry by exporting of Horses Swine and other Cattell and of Butter and Cheese and have made them all free Merchandize paying certain Duties to your Majestie upon the Exportation There be some other Bills of a publick nature and divers private Bills all which are ready to be presented to your Majestie for your Royal Assent the which I shall forbear to enumerate for fear it may prove tedious to your Majestie Having given your Majesty this Account of our proceedings since our last meeting in this our short but happy Session it is evident we have not mispent our time but with the good Servant in the Gospel have gained many Talents so that we may with comfort and satisfaction return to our Houses and we hope we shall carry our Masters Blessing with us FINIS HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS SPEECH My Lords and Gentlemen I Am unwilling to let you go away without telling you that I am very well satisfied with the Success of this Meeting and that you have so well complyed with My Desires both in the Correspondence between the Two Houses and in the Progress you have made towards an Union between the Two Kingdoms I heartily thank you for the Supply you have given Me and I assure you I will make it go as farre as I can towards the satisfying of My Debts And because you have been long from home I am content you Adjourn your selves till the 24th of October next