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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50734	A speech made by Sir Audley Mervyn His Majesties prime serjeant at law in Ireland, the 11th. day of May in the House of Lords when he was presented speaker by the Commons, before the right honourable Sir Maurice Eustace Knight, Lord Chancellour of Ireland, Roger Earl of Orrery, and Charles Earl of Mountrath, His Majesties Lord Justices of his kingdom of Ireland.	Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1890; ESTC R8040	9,904	17

thou give us the bread and water of affliction let never Our Teachers be any more driven into corners And blessed be thy womb O Church of England the superfaetation of thy womb that hath supplied us with such a recruit whose faces shine as having talkt with God in the Mount If your Lordships will have Religion to be a Target to you be sure you be a Buckler to it On your left hand are ranckt the Nobles of these it may be said they are ornamentum belli firmamentum pacis their Robes are fit for Counsel their Swords for War they are medium conjungendi tincturas nearly related to the King in honour to the Commons in their Liberties and Substance in that aequidistancy plac't as they overshadow not Royalty nor oppress not the Commonalty Great Peers I may say of our unsettlement aliquisque malo fuit usus in illo Never had you such an advantage given you to perfume and embalm your memories to posterity as to exert your wisdom and courage in this juncture of time Blazon your coats destinct but during this Parliament have one onely motto Pro Rege lege Grege You are rich jewels in your selves but never so well set as in this House A fence and outwork to the Throne sit the grave and learned Judges while these Fortifications are kept in good repair the Cittadel of strength and Majesty is safe these keep the perpendicular beams of exalted prerogative but praised be God we fear it not in our temperate zone from scorching and sprinkle such distillations of Grace from his Majesties Goodness that Our Liberties Bud Blossom Knit and are in a perpetual Spring Tide These have studyed upon Mount Ehal and Gerasim They can denounce and make the nocent feel the rigor of the Law and the innocent the blessings of Peace You are the Kings feoffees in trust and the people are the Cestique use you govern the two most comprehensive syllables in the World Meum Tuum You are the Lyons supports Solomons throne Iustitia firmatur solium nusta est tam misera servitus quam ubi jus est incertim vagum But stay I see a glittering Constellation though of lesser Stars the Knights Citizens and Burgesses the representative of the Commons of this Kingdome These are the Guards of CHARLES Waine and move upon the poles of Loyalty and Love These are no Plannets or Erratick Starrs but such as will fight in their order against every Sisera of these Starrs it may be said Astra negunt Homines Of these Stars it may be said Sed negit Astra Deus In this body politique the Head cannot say it stands not in need of the Feet keep the Feet from stumbling and we may secure the Head and all other parts of the Body from falling Of these Feet we cannot say they are like Nebuchadnezzars image whose Head was Gold but the feet of Clay But We can truly say of them How beautiful are their feet that bring us the glad tidings of peace Their purses are not tyed with Gordian but True-Loves knots Some have their hearts where their treasure is we have our treasures where our hearts are and truly our hearts are so comfortably lodged in his Majesties hand as we are resolved to take our lives in our own hands to assert this truth In one word I may warrantably say Since Ireland was happy under an English Government there was never so choice a collection of Protestant fruit that ever grew within the walls of the Commons House Your Lordships have piped in your Summons to this Parliament and the Irish have danc't How many have voted for and signed to the Returns of protestant Elections so that we may hope for as we pray that Iaphet may be perswaded to dwell in the Tent of Sem. Now what remains here is water what hinders but we may be baptised here are all the promising instruments that can make this Kingdom happy You have the best of Kings the most Religious of Clergie the most Honourable of Nobles the most learned of Judges the most Loyal of Commons would you have protection seek and find it in the King would you have Piety your field and Honour and plenty your Supporters and Heaven your Crest these Spiritual Heralds will blazon you a Coat of immortality would you be truly Noble ask and inquire amongst the Peers and you will have choise of Originals to coppy after would you learn Christian Obedience and submission to Authority not for wrath but for Conscience sake knock at the door of Commons and it will be opened to you and you shall see them building with trowels in one hand exercising a profitable industry to support the Wealth and cement the Peace of this Kingdom and with Swords in the other hand to defend their David and their Teraphim Most Great and Honourable Lords I said Bonum est esse hic but I promis'd onely to build Tabernacles I fear I am not onely guilty of a purpresture but that I have held over beyond my terme I shall leave this Mount of Transfiguration and retire into Our Valley a Valley I hope of Vi●●ons a Valley joyning to the foot of this Mount We are two Houses but both under one roof One of the Belgick Provinces gives 2. Earthen Pots floating in the Ocean with this Motto Si Collidimur fraugimur But I trust there shall be no noise of a hammer in our building No Shiboleth must be put to the Question But the God of peace grant that we may hold the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace and establish our hearts in unity one towards another and in immoveable Duty and Loyalty to our Soveraign and natural Lord the King for whom we pray Serus in Caelum redeas diúque Laetus intersis populo Britanno Neve te nostris vitijs iniquum Ocyer aura Tollat hic ames dici pater atque Princeps I have but one word to adde in the behalf of those from whom I am intrusted that are humble suitors unto your Lordships That in respect we are elected here to attend the weighty Affairs that may be cognisable before us which will require our united not distracted thoughts that neither our Persons or our Servants or our Asses that we leave at the foot of the Mount the allegory will hold for if obedience be better then sacrifice we are offering up a sacrifice may be molested but that we may be freed in our persons and goods from all arrests according to our ancient priviledges In the second places that since such will be the weight and intricacy of matters debatable before them and that Parliamentary truths are hid as fire in flints onely visible by collision that we may according to our ancient priviledge have liberty and freedom of speech it is liberty not licentiousness we ask for the moderation and wisdom of that house desires no further a legitimation of their language then what is the natural issue of sober reason and discretion Lastly that when the nature of their affairs are such that further proceedings cannot be until the Golden Scepter be held forth that your Lordships upon their humble suit will afford them with respect to your better leisure access unto you But here it troubles me that the consciousness of my own guilt forces me that am intrusted with the Orders of that House to make the first inrode upon them Free and general Pardon should be a closing Act but such have been my errours already committed crimes I would not willingly own that I humbly beg your Lordships Free and General Pardon FINIS