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<NAME>Robyn Anspach</NAME>
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<P>THE SPEECH AND DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD GENERALL MONCK</P>
<P>Delivered at <HI>White-hall</HI> upon Tue&s;|day the 21. of <HI>February</HI> 1659. To the Members of <HI>Parliament</HI> at their meeting there, before the Re-admi&s;&s;ion of the Former|ly Secluded Members into the Parliament Hou&s;e.</P>
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<P>Ordered by his Excellency the <HI>Lord Generall</HI> that this Speech and Declaration be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Will: Clark</HI> Secretary.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Entred in the Stationers Hall according to Order.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>S. Griffin,</HI> for <HI>John Playford</HI> at his &s;hop in the Temple near the Church. 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>THE SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCIE THE LORD GENERAL MONCK,</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Deliver'd to the Members of Parliament met at <HI>White-hall</HI> on <DATE>Tue&s;day the 21. of <HI>Febr.</HI> 1659.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>GENTLEMEN,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOu are not I hope, ignorant, what Care and En|deavours have been u&s;ed, and Means e&s;&s;ayed, for healing the breaches of our Divi&s;ions a|mong&s;t our &s;elves, and that in order thereunto divers Conferences have been procured between you, though
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to &s;mall effect; yet having at length received fuller &s;atisfaction from the&s;e worthy Gentlemen that were &s;ecluded then formerly; I was bold to put you all to the trouble of this meeting, that I might open my &s;elfe to you all, even with more freedome then formerly: but lea&s;t I might be misapprehended or mistaken, as of late it befell me, I have committed to writing the Heads of what I intended to di&s;cour&s;e to you, and de|&s;ire it may be read openly to you all.</P>
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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE <HI>LORD GENERALL</HI> MONCK.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Delivered at <HI>White-hall,</HI> upon <DATE>Tue&s;day the 21. of <HI>February</HI> 1659.</DATE></DATELINE><SALUTE>Gentlemen</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT appears unto me, by what I have heard from you and the whole Nation, that the Peace and happy Settlement of the&s;e bleeding Nations, next under God, lyeth in your hands. And when I con&s;ider that <HI>Wi&s;dom, Piety,</HI> and <HI>Self denial,</HI> which I have rea&s;on to be confident, lodgeth in you, and how great a &s;hare of the Nations &s;ufferings will fall upon you, in ca&s;e the <HI>Lord</HI> deny us now a <HI>Settlement,</HI> I am in very good hopes there will be found in you all, &s;uch melting bowels to|wards the&s;e poor Nations, and towards one another, that you will become <HI>healers</HI> and <HI>makers</HI> up of all its woeful <HI>Breaches.</HI> And that &s;uch an opportunity may clearly appear to be in your hands, I thought good to a&s;&s;ure you, and that in the pre&s;ence of God, that I have nothing before my eyes but Gods Glory, and the &s;et|tlement of the&s;e Nations, upon Common-wealth <HI>Foun|dations.</HI> In pur&s;uit whereof I &s;hall think nothing too
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dear; And for my own particular I &s;hall throw my &s;elf down at your <HI>feet</HI> to be any thing or nothing in order to the&s;e great Ends. As to the way of future <HI>Settlement,</HI> far be it from me to impo&s;e any thing, I de&s;ire you may be in perfect Freedom; Onely give me leave to mind you, that the old Foundations are by Gods Providence &s;o broken, that in the eye of Rea&s;on, they cannot be re&s;tored but upon the ruines of the people of the&s;e Na|ons, that have engaged for their Rights, in defence of the Parliament, and the great and main ends of the Co|venant, for uniting and making the Lords name One in the three Nations: And al&s;o the <HI>Liberty</HI> of the peo|ples Repre&s;entatives in Parliament will be certainly lo&s;t; For if the people find, that after &s;o long and bloody a War again&s;t the King for breaking in upon their Li|berties, yet at la&s;t he mu&s;t be taken in again, it will be out of que&s;tion, and is mo&s;t manife&s;t, he may for the future govern by his Will, di&s;po&s;e of Parliaments and Parliament Men as he plea&s;eth, and yet the people will never more ri&s;e for their a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>And as to the intere&s;ts of this famous City (which hath been in all ages the Bulwork of Parliaments, and unto whom I am for their great affection &s;o deeply engaged) Certainly it mu&s;t lie in a Common-wealth; That <HI>Go|vernment</HI> onely, being capable to make them (through the Lords ble&s;&s;ing) the <HI>Metropolis</HI> and <HI>Bank</HI> of Trade for all Chri&s;tendom, whereunto God and Nature hath fitted them above all others.</P>
<P>And as to a Government in the Church, the want whereof hath been no &s;mall cau&s;e of the&s;e Nations di|&s;tractions; It is mo&s;t manife&s;t, that if it be <HI>Monarchicall</HI> in the State, the Church mu&s;t follow, and <HI>Prelacy</HI> mu&s;t be brought in, which the&s;e Nations I know cannot
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bear, and again&s;t which they have &s;o &s;olemnly <HI>Sworn.</HI></P>
<P>And indeed moderate not rigid <HI>Presbyterian Go|vernment,</HI> with a &s;ufficient Liberty for <HI>Con&s;ciences</HI> truly tender, appears at pre&s;ent to be the mo&s;t indif|ferent and acceptable <HI>way</HI> to the Churches <HI>Settlement.</HI></P>
<P>The main thing that &s;eems to lye in the way, is the Intere&s;t of the <HI>Lords,</HI> even of tho&s;e <HI>Lords</HI> who have &s;hewed them&s;elves noble indeed, by joining with the people; and in defence of tho&s;e ju&s;t rights, have adven|tured their deare&s;t bloud and large e&s;tates. To that I &s;hall only &s;ay, that though the &s;tate of the&s;e Nations be &s;uch, as cannot bear their &s;itting in a di&s;tinct <HI>Hou&s;e</HI>; yet certainly, the wi&s;dom of Parliament will finde out &s;uch <HI>Hereditary</HI> marks of honour for them, as may make them more Noble in after ages.</P>
<P><HI>Gentlemen,</HI> upon the whole matter, the be&s;t re&s;ult that I can make at pre&s;ent for the peace of the&s;e <HI>Nations,</HI> will be in my opinion, that you forthwith go to &s;it to|gether in Parliament: In order,</P>
<P N="1">1. To the &s;etling the conduct of the Armies of the three Nations in that manner, as they may be &s;ervi|ceable to the peace and &s;afety of them, and not to its own and the Nations ruine, by Faction and Divi&s;ion.</P>
<P N="2">2. To the providing &s;ufficient maintenance for them; That is, for the Forces by Land, and for the Navie by Sea, and all their arrears of both, and other contingencies of the government.</P>
<P N="3">3. To the appointing a Council of State with Authoritie, to &s;ettle the Civil Government and <HI>Ju|dicatories</HI> in <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and to take care, for the i&s;&s;uing of <HI>Writs,</HI> for the &s;ummoning a <HI>Parliament</HI> of the&s;e 3 Nations united, to meet at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> the 20 day of <HI>April</HI> next, with &s;uch qualifications as may &s;e|cure
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&s;ecure the Publick cau&s;e we are all engaged in, and ac|cording to &s;uch Di&s;tributions, as were u&s;ed in the year 1654. Which Parliament &s;o called, may meet and act in Freedom, for the more full e&s;tabli&s;hing of this Com|mon-Wealth, without a King, &s;ingle Per&s;on, or Hou&s;e of Lords.</P>
<P N="4">4. To a legal Di&s;&s;olution of this Parliament to make way for &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of Parliaments.</P>
<P>And in order to the&s;e good ends, the Guards will not only willingly admit you, but faithfully both my &s;elf, and every the Officers under my command, and (I believe) the Officers and Souldiers of the three Nati|ons will &s;pend their blood for you and &s;ucce&s;&s;ive Par|liaments.</P>
<P>If your <HI>Conjunction</HI> be directed to this end, you may part honourably, having made a fair &s;tep to the &s;ettle|ment of the&s;e Nations, by making a way for &s;ucce&s;&s;ive Parliaments.</P>
<P>But I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, that if any different councels &s;hould be taken (which I have no rea&s;on to fear;) the&s;e Nations would pre&s;ently be thrown back into force and violence, and all hopes of this much de&s;ired e&s;ta|bli&s;hment buried in di&s;order, which the Lord in his great mercy I hope will prevent. And &s;o God &s;peed you well together, and unite your hearts for the pre|&s;ervation of <HI>Peace</HI> and &s;ettlement of the&s;e Nations to his own <HI>Glory</HI> and yours and all our <HI>Comforts.</HI></P>
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