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
A70417	Mr. Speakers speech with His Majesties speech to both Houses of Parliament at the passing of the bill for tonnage and poundage being an answer to Mr. Speakers speech at the presenting thereof 22 June 1641.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Lenthall, William, 1591-1662.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1641 (1641)	Wing L1089; ESTC R13949	1,245	6

Mr. Speakers SPEECH WITH HIS MAJESTIES SPEECH TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT At the passing of the Bill for Tonnage and Poundage BEING An Answer to Mr. SPEAKERS Speech at the presenting thereof 22. Iune 1641. Printed in the yeare 1641. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE CR Mr. SPEAKERS SPEECH In the LORDS House of Parliament Iune 22. 1641. THat policy most gratious and dread Soveraigne which weighs the Prerogative of the King and property of the Subject in the same Scales and increases the plenty of the Crowne and contentment of the people the even poising of this Beame enables both the one being ordained for the preservation of the other This principle is so riveted into the hearts of your Subjects by the Acts of their Ancestours traditions of their fore-fathers that it hath created a beliefe in them that their wills are bound to a due allegiance and their fortunes and estates as well as their duty and subjection must bend to the Commands of that Soveraigne power with which God hath invested your sacred Majestie Compulsary obedience advanced by the transcendent power of Prerogative is too weake to support the right of government It is the affections estates of your people tyed with the threads of obedience by the rules of Law that fastens safety and prosperity to the Crowne The experiment of elder times in the raignes of the most valiant puissant Princes hath concluded this the Soveraigne preservative against the diseases of distraction and confusion and makes it manifest to the world that the honour and glory of this Throne is to command the hearts of free-men This admitted the permission of the least diminution or any eclipsed interposition betweene the honour and plenty of the Crowne contracts a Scorne upon the Nation Severall Parliaments in former times have stampt the Character of a free gift upon the fore-front of this aid still offered by the people as a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Crowne for the safe conduct of your Merchants and provision of the Navie to strengthen your undoubted dominion over the seas which hath protected your Allyes and is a terrour to your Enemies Our hopes were long since to have settled this for the measure and the time and with this to have presented to your sacred Majestie the triumphant palme of Tranquillity in all your Kingdomes But as a ship floating upon a rough Sea we have been cast upon the Rock of feare and dangers and tossed on the Billows of distraction and distrust of Church and Common-wealth where we yet remaine hopelesse ever to passe through that narrow channell which leads to the Haven of Peace unlesse we be speedily steered on by the hand of your sacred wisdome care and providence In the midst of all these troubles and the severall opinions which have beene amongst us no division had power to distract any one of us from the care and duty we owe to your sacred Person And to that end am I now sent by the Commons of England to present this as a Marke onely whereby your sacred Majestie may view the inward duties of our hearts untill time and opportunity will give leave for a further expression of our duties and affections The acceptation of this Gift will glad the hearts of your people and the approbation by the royall assent of this Bill being the largest for the measure which was ever given will joyne wings to our desires and hopes which shall never returne without that Olive-leafe which may declare that the waters are abated and your sacred Majestie may have full assurance of the faith and loyaltie of your Subjects FINIS