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A32328	His Majesties most gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellors, to both Houses of Parliament to which is added, His Lordships several speeches : as also, those of Sir Job Charleton, at his admission of speaker to the honourable House of Commons, delivered at the opening of the Parliament, on Tuesday February 4, and Wednesday February 5, 1673.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1673 (1673)	Wing C3173; ESTC R24260	7,635	11

HIS MAJESTIES MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH Together with the LORD CHANCELLORS To both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT To which is added His Lordships several Speeches As also those of Sir Job Charleton at his admission of Speaker to the Honourable House of COMMONS Delivered at the opening of the Parliament on Tuesday February 4. And Wednesday February 5. 1673. By his Majesties special Command EDINBURGH Printed by His MAJESTIES Printers Anno Dom. 1673. CUM PRIVILEGIO His Majesties Gracious SPEECH to both Houses of Parliament February 5. 1673. My Lords and Gentlemen I Am glad to see you here this day I would have called you together sooner but that I was willing to Ease you and the Countrey till there were an absolute necessity Since you were last here I have been forced to a most important necessary and expensive War and I make no doubt but you will give Me suitable and effectual Assistance to go through with it I refer you to My Declaration for the Causes and indeed the Necessity of this War and shall now onely tell you That I might have digested the Indignities to My Own Person rather then have brought it to this Extremity if the Interest as well as the Honour of the whole Kingdom had not been at stake And if I had omitted this Conjuncture perhaps I had not again ever met with the like Advantage You will find that the last Supply you gave Me did not answer Expectation for the Ends you gave it The payment of My Debts Therefore I must in the next place recommend them again to your especial Care Some few dayes before I Declar'd the War I put forth My Declaration for indulgence to Dissenters and have hitherto found a good Effect of it by securing Peace at Home when I had War Abroad There is one part in it that hath been subject to Misconstruction which is that concerning the Papists as if more Liberty were granted them then to the other Recusants when it is plain there is less For the Others have publick places allowed them and I never intended that they should have any but only have the Freedom of their Religion in their own houses without any Concourse of others And I could not grant them less then this when I had extended so much more Grace to others most of them having been Loyal and in the Service of Me and of the King my Father And in the whole course of this Indulgence I do not intend that it shall any way Prejudice the Church but I will Support its Rights and It in its full Power Having said this I shall take it very ill to receive Contradiction in what I have done And I will deal plainly with you I am resolved to stick to my Declaration There is one Jealousie more that is maliciously spread abroad and yet so weak and frivolous that I once thought it not of moment enough to mention but it may have gotten some ground with some well minded people and that is That the Forces I have raised in this War were designed to Control Law and Property I wish I had had more Forces the last Summer the want of them then convinces me I must raise more against this next Spring And I do not doubt but you will Consider the Charge of them in your Supplies I will Conclude with this assurance to you That I will preserve the true Reformed Protestant Religion and the Church as it is now Established in this Kingdom and that no mans Property or Liberty shall ever be invaded I leave the rest to the Chancellor THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons THe King hath spoken so fully so excellently well and so like Himself that you are not to expect much from me There is not a word in His Speech that hath not its full weight And I dare with assurance say will have its effect with you His Majesty had called you sooner and His Affairs required it but that He was resolved to give you all the ease and vacancy to your own private Concerns and the People as much respit from Payments and Taxes as the necessity of His Business or their Preservation would permit And yet which I cannot but here mention to you by the Crafty insinuations of some ill-affected persons there have been spread strange and desperate rumours which your Meeting together this day hath sufficiently proved both malicious and false His Majesty hath told you that He is now engaged in an important very expensive and indeed a War absolutely necessary and unavoidable He hath referred you to His Declaration where you will find the Personal indignities by Pictures and Medals and other publique affronts His Majesty hath received from the States their breach of Treaties both in the Surinam and East India business and at last they came to that height of insolence as to deny the honour and right of the Flag though an undoubted Jewel of this Crown never to be parted with and by them particularly owned in the late Treaty of Breda and never contested in any Age. And whilest the King first long expected and then solemnly demanded Satisfaction they disputed His title to it in all the Courts of Christendom and made great offers to the French King if he would stand by them against us But the most Christian King too well remembred what they did at Munster contrary to so many Treaties and solemn Ingagements and how dangerous a neighbour they were to all Crowned-heads The King and His Ministers had here a hard time and lay every day under new obloquies Sometimes they were represented as selling all to France for money to make this War Portsmouth Plimouth and Hull were to be given into the French hands for Caution The next day news came that France and Holland were agreed Then the obloquy was turned from treachery to folly The ministers were now Fools that some days before were Villains And indeed the Coffee-houses were not to be blamed for their last apprehensions since if that Conjunction had taken effect then England had been in a far worse case then now it is and the War had been turned upon us But both Kings knowing their Interests resolved to Joyn against them who were the Common Enemies to all Monarchies and I may say especially to ours their onely Competitor for trade and power at Sea and who onely stand in their way to an Universal Empire as great as Rome This the States understood so well and had swallowed so deep that under all their present distress and danger they are so intoxicated with that vast ambition that they slight a Treaty and refuse a Cessation All this you and the whole Nation saw before the last War but it could not then be so well timed or our alliances so well made But you judged aright that at any rate Delenda est Carthago That Government was to be brought down And therefore the King may well say to you 'T is

your War He took His measures from you and they were just and right ones and He expects a suitable assistance to so necessary and expensive an action which He has hitherto maintained at His own change and was unwilling either to trouble you or burden the Country until it came to an inevitable necessity And His Majesty commands me to tell you that unless it be a certain Sum and speedily raised it can never answer the Occasion My Lords and Gentlemen Reputation is the great support of War or Peace This War had never begun nor had the States ever slighted the King or ever refused Him Satisfaction neither had this War continued to this day or subsisted now but that the States were deceived in their measures and apprehended His Majesty in that great want of money that He must sit down under any affronts and was not able to begin or carry on a War Nay at this day the States support themselves amongst their people by this only falshood that they are assured of the temper of England and of the Parliament and that You will not supply the King in this War And that if they can hold out till your meeting they will have new life and may take new measures There are lately taken two of their principal Agents with their Credentials and Instructions to this purpose who are now in the Tower and shall be proceeded against according to the Law of Nations But the King is sufficiently assured of His people Knows you better and can never doubt His Parliament This had not been mentioned but to shew you of what importance the frankness and seasonableness of this Supply is as well as the fulness of it Let me say the King has brought the States to that condition that your hearty conjunction at this time in supplying His Majesty will make them never more formidable to Kings or dangerous to England And if after this you suffer them to get up let this be remembred The States of Holland are Englands eternal Enemy both by interest and inclination In the next place to the supply for the carrying on of the War His Majesty recommends to you the taking care of His Debts What you gave the last Session did not near answer your own expectation Besides an other considerable Aid you designed His Majesty was unfortunately lost in the birth so that the King was forced for the carrying on of His affairs much against His will to put a stop to the payments out of the Exchequer He saw the pressures upon himself and growing inconveniencies to His people by great interest and the difference through all His Business between Ready money and Orders This gave the King the necessity of that proceeding to make use of His own Revenue which hath been of so great effect in this War But though he hath put a stop to the trade and gain of the Bankers yet he would be unwilling to ruine them and oppress so many Families as are concerned in those debts Besides it were too disproportionable a burden upon many of His good Subjects But neither the Bankers nor they have reason to complain if you now take them into your care and they have paid them what was due to them when the Stop was made with Six per Cent. interest from that time The King is very much concerned both in Honour and Interest to see this done And yet he desires you not to mis-time it but that it may have only the second place and that you will first settle what you intend about the Supply His Majesty has so fully vindicated His Declaration from that Calumny concerning the Papists that no reasonable scruple can be made by any good man He has sufficiently justified it by the time it was published in and the effects He hath had from it and might have done it more from the agreeableness of it to His own natural disposition which no good English man can wish other then it is He loves not bloud or rigorous severities but where mild or gentle wayes may be used by a wise Prince He is certain to choose them The Church of England and all good Protestants have reason to rejoyce in such a Head and such a Defender His Majesty doth declare his care and concerns for the Church and will maintain them in all their rights and priviledges equal if not beyond any of His Predecessors He was born and bred up in it It was that His Father died for We all know how great temptations and offers He resisted abroad when He was in His lowest condition And He thinks it the honour of His reign that He hath been the Restorer of the Church 'T is that He will ever maintain and hopes to leave to posterity in greater lustre and upon surer grounds then our ancestors ever saw it But His Majesty is not convinced that violent ways are the interest of Religion or the Church There is one thing more that I am commanded to speak to you of Which is the jealousie that hath been foolishly spread abroad of the forces the King hath raised in this War Wherein the King hath opened himself freely to you and confessed the fault on the other hand For if this last Summer had not proved a miracle of storms and tempests such as secured their East-India Fleer and protected their Sea-cost from a discent nothing but the true reason want of Money could have justified the defect in the number of our forces 'T is that His Majesty is providing for against the next Spring having given out Orders for the raising of seven or eight Regiments more of Foot under the Command of Persons of the greatest Fortunes and Quality And I am earnestly to recommend to you that in your Supplies you will take into your consideration this necessary addition of charge And after His Majesties conclusion of His Speech let me conclude nay let us all conclude with blessing God and the King Let us bless God that he hath given us such a King to be the repairer of our breaches both in Church and State and the restorer of our paths to dwell in That in the midst of War and Misery which rages in our neighbour Countries our garners are full and there is no compleaning in our streets And a man can hardly know that there is a War Let us bless God that hath given this King signally the hearts of His people and most particularly of this Parliament who in their affection and loyalty to their Prince have exceeded all their predecessors A Parliament with whom the King hath many years lived with all the Caresses of a happy Mariage Has the King had a concern You have wedded it Has His Majesty wanted Supplies You have readily cheerfully and fully provided for them You have relied upon the Wisdom and Conduct of His Majesty in all His affairs so that you have never attempted to exceed your bounds or to impose upon Him whilest the King on the other hand hath