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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B31883	His Majesties most gracious letter to the Parliament of Scotland. With the speech of the Marquis of Tweeddale, His Majesties High Commissioner, and the speech of the Earl of Annandale, Lord President of the Parliament. Published by authority.; Miscellaneous documents. 1695-04-17.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III); Tweedale, John Hay, Marquess of, 1626?-1697.; Annandale, William Johnston, Marquis of, 1664-1721.	1695 (1695)	Wing W2371; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.17[16]; ESTC R205698	4,061	2

His Majesties Most Gracious LETTER TO THE Parliament of SCOTLAND With the Speech of the Marquis of Tweeddale His Majesties High Commissioner And the Speech of the Earl of Annandale Lord President of the Parliament Published by Authority His Majesties most Gracious Letter to the Parliament of Scotland WILLIAM R. My Lords and Gentlemen THE Continuation of the War still hinders Us from Pursuing Our Resolution of being amongst you in Person And so Obliges Us to Call you together once more in Our Absence Therefore We have appointed Our Right Trusty and Right Intirely Beloved Cousin and Counsellor John Marquiss of Tweeddale to be Our Commissioner and to Represent Our Person and Authority amongst you The Proofs he hath given of his Capacity and Experience in Business as well as of his Fidelity and Zeal by his many and long Services to the Crown and Nation and particularly to Us since We made him Our Chancellor will Render Him very Acceptable to you We Desire you to give him Intire Trust and Credit for We have fully Instructed Him with Our Mind He has Powers to pass all such Laws for the Good of that Our Antient Kingdom as have been proposed to Us at this Time He is to Ask nothing of you in Our Name but that which the Interest of the Countrey makes necessary to be Done And therefore We need not Mention to you that the Subsidies for Paying the Forces are now Expired and that your Peace and Safety Requires the Renewing of them during the War You will be also Sensible that there is a Necessity to have the Coast and Trade secured from Privateers We are glad of any Appearances of a Disposition to Moderation and Union about Church-Matters We Hope you will Encourage it and Promote it by removing the Subjects of Differences as much as you can We are not unmindful of your Letter to Us in the close of the last Session The known Interruptions We have had in Business this Winter have been a great Hinderance to Us but We are resolved to Do whatsoever may be for the security of the Government and the Satisfaction of Our good Subjects We Recommend to you Calmnes● and Unanimity in your Proceedings and Doubt not but that you 'll Act sutably to the Confidence We have put in you in Calling you again in Our Absence And that as you have done upon other Occasions so you will upon this Give Us such Signal Testimonies of your Duty and affection as will convince all Men of the perfect Union and Understanding that is betwixt Us and that Our Ancient Kingdom Given at Our Court at Kensignton the 17th Day of April 1695. And of Our Reign the Seventh Year By His Majesties Command Directed thus J. Johnstoun To the Lords Temporal and the Commissioners of Shires and Burghs Assembled in Parliament of Our Antient Kingdom of Scotland The Speech of John Marquis of Tweeddale His Majesties High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland on Thursday the ninth of May 1695. My Lords and Gentlemen THE great Confidence the King hath in your Affection and Faithfulness to his Government and the Trust he reposes in you doth evidently appear in His calling you so frequently together during his own necessary Absence beyond Sea as well as His tender Care and Concern for your Safety and Welfare in minding every thing which may contribute thereto Particularly as to the Concerns of the Church that all Differences about Church-Matters and amongst Church-Men may be composed it being His Majesties Purpose to maintain Presbyterean-Government in the Church of Scotland And that the Peace and Security of the Kingdom against Foreign Invasion and Intestine Commotion be provided for by renewing the former or granting other Supplies for maintaining the Land Forces and providing and entertaining a competent Naval Force for the Defense of the Coast and securing of Trade And if you find it will tend to the Advancement of Trade that an Act be passed for the Encouragement of such as shall Acquire and Establish a Plantation in Africa or America or any other part of the World where Plantations may be lawfully acquired His Majesty is willing to Declare That He will grant to the Subjects of this Kingdom in Favours of those Plantations such Rights and Priviledges as he doth grant in like Cases to the Subjects of His other Dominions And that the Judicatories Higher and Subaltern be so Regulated in their Proceedings as Justice may be Administred with the greatest Dispatch and least Charge to the People These things have taken up some part of His Majesties Time and Thoughts these Months past that I have had the Honour to wait upon Him and have been frequently Discoursed by Him and then put in the Method of Instructions and Directions for my Behaviour on the Station he hath Honoured me with So that I can say without Flattery there is nothing that can Contribute to promote the Honour and Jnterest the Safety and Security of this His Antient Kingdom which His Majesty will not concur with you to provide for and hath not Impowered me to Consent to It remains then My Lords and Gentlemen for you to take these weighty Affairs under Consideration and to Consult of the best Ways and Means to enable His Majesty to perfect so good Designs By granting Him Supplies for maintaining the present Land-Forces And for providing and Entertaining a Competent Naval-force for the Defence of the Coast and Securing of Trade In Order to which His Majesty hath granted a Commission of Admiralty for Managing the Affairs thereof Not omitting to take Care for the other unavoidable Contingencies of the Government wherein the Civil List comes short Your Dispatch of these Great Affairs with Chearfullness and Alacrity will perfect a good Understanding and perpetuat a Confidence betwixt the King and you The Speech of William Earl of Annandale Lord President of the Parliament of Scotland on Thursday the Ninth of May 1695. My Lords and Gentlemen I Am very sensible it is a great and undeserved Honour that I have His Majesties Commands to preside in this Session of Parliament for I know well my insufficiency and unfitness to Discharge so important a Trust but Duty calls and I must obey I do therefore rely upon His Majesties Goodness who I know has those Allowances to give which the accidental Failings and Escapes of His Servants may require And I am convinced that the same Zeal and Forwardness which has formerly appeared in all the Proceedings of this Parliament for His Majesties true Interest the Support and Honour of His Government will yet show it self amongst Us and it is You I hope will make this Station easie to me Here lies my great Encouragement and Confidence that my Defects and Wants shall be covered and supplied by a cheerful and ready Complyance from this Honourable and Great Meeting with all His Majesties so just and reasonable Demands And now My Lords and Gentlemen it may be expected that I should enlarge upon

every Particular which His Majesty by His Gracious Letter and his Grace My Lord Commissioner in his Speech has recommended to you whereby you may see His Majesty asks not for himself He only prevents Our necessary Cares for it is Our own safety and security that requires the dispatch of all of them but his Grace has so fully and distinctly spoke upon all the several Heads and they do so effectually speak and recommend themselves that I am perswaded there remains a Conviction upon Us all and I shall but touch some few of them The first makes way for it self a Supply for subsisting of the Forces which are now on foot or what more may be judged necessary for preserving and securing the Peace and Quiet of this Kingdom For let Us consider His Majesty engaged in Forreign Wars against the Enemies of our Religion and Liberties and that we bear no share of the Expense Or if we reflect on His exposing His Sacred Person I may say too liberally to all the Dangers and Accidents of War upon whose Safety depends God knows not only Our happiness but the happiness of Europe we must all as good Protestants and good Countrey-Men esteem it Our Honour and Credit as well as Our Interest to give now cheerfully what the Honour and Security of His Majesties Government calls for And since We are Happy and Easie under it let Us use our outmost Endeavours that this Inestimable Blessing may not only be continued with Us but handed down to Our Posterity I Think I need scarce Mind you how much the Honour of the Nation and Our Trade has suffered by the Want of some Ships of War for the Guard of Our Coasts and Convoys This is not only our Loss in general but I believe many who hear Me may be now Sensibly Touched with their own particular Losses so that I need not Use Arguments to Enforce this nor can I Doubt your Forwardness to Provide against It in time coming and it is no small Encouragement that Our King proposes only those Things to Us which are Our own Advantage to Grant I shall but shortly take Notice of the Fresh Assurances We have of His Majesties Gracious and Firm Resolutions to Maintain the Presbyterian-Government of this Church as now by Law Established And I Hope the Moderation and Calmness that shall at this Time Appear in all Our Proceedings in Church Matters will Satisfie the World that this is the Government most Agreeable to the Temper and Inclination of this People and most Sutable for the Interest and Support of Our King the Civil Government and Peace of this Kingdom I Fear to Spend too much of your Time and am sensible You cannot Bestow it worse but I Hope You 'l Allow me to Wish there may be Unanimity b●nd C●●mness in all Our Proceedings and that We Abstain from all Hea●s and Animosities laying aside Privat Ends and Designs that so We may with all Expedition Finish the Work We have before Us and thus We shall not only raise Our Reputation Abroad but Satisfie His Majestie We Deserve the Trust He hath Reposed in Us when He himself is out of Britain And can there be a greater Inducement or a stronger Argument to Encourage Us then that We have a King who is not only careful to Govern Us by Our standing Law but as We may see has now Instructed His Grace My Lord Commissioner that such New Laws may be Made and Old Ones so Rectified as may be Judged most for the Interest Safety and Ease of His Subjects There is yet One Thing which I shall but Name that does justly Challenge a more than ordinarie Zeal and Fervour in our Duty at this Time and it is the Sad and Irreparable Loss We have Sustained of the Best of Queens I insist not upon it for it were to Renew Your Grief and I shall only Wish My Lords and Gentlemen We may All of Us make this Use of it that as now the Whole Soveraignty is Lodged in His Majesty it may appear by Our Actings that We have Doubled our Forwardness and Endeavours to serve Him which is the only way now left Us to Show Our Just Sense of this inexpressible Loss and to make it in some Measure more Supportable by His Majesty And as We Ought to Give Him all the Assurances Imaginable that We will Effectually Maintain and Support His Interest and Government against All His Enemies So when We put a Just Value upon so great a Blessing it may be a prevailing Mean with GOD to Continue Him long and Prosperously with Us. Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson And Reprinted by Edward Jones in the ●av●y 1695.