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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>THE MARQVES HAMILTONS SPEECH <HI>Before the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty: CONCERNING</HI> His returne into England.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> poken in Parliament in Scotland, Novem. 6. 1641.</P>
<P>With a briefe and exact Commemoration of all the wicked Plots of the Papi&s;ts, from the fir&s;t intended malice unto this day again&s;t the <HI>PROTESTANTS.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t printed at Edinburgh by <HI>James Bri&s;on,</HI> and now reprinted in London for T.B. 1641.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Marque&s;&s;e</HI> HAMILTONS SPEECH.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dread Soveraigne,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Stand not up pre&s;u|ming any thing on my audacity, but am re&s;pe|ctively &s;ugge&s;ted by the judicious Councells of mo&s;t of your loyall and wel affected Subjects: It is not unknown unto your Maje&s;ty, what deve|li&s;h machinations of late have beene plotted, not only again&s;t my &s;elf, but likewi&s;e again&s;t many more pious and Religious members of this honourable Hou&s;e; and God knowes, what &s;ucceeding danger may now be in agi|tation. Wherefore I have received letters divers times from that &s;trong pillar of Reli|gion, 
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Mr. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ym,</HI> and many other pious men from England, who have oftentimes &s;eriou&s;ly reque&s;ted me to move their quotidian wel|wi&s;hes unto your M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">j<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tie, be&s;eeching you to re&s;pect their &s;erviceable praiers: But not to wander in the&s;e preliminate <HI>Exordiums,</HI> or to &s;u&s;pend your divine care any longer in its ex|pectation: I &s;peake it not in my owne be|halfe, but in the generall and univer&s;all name of the whole Kingdome of England. That in re&s;pect of the&s;e manifold perills, and im|pendent &s;tratagems in this Kingdome, &amp; the late formidible in&s;urrection in Ireland, that mother of di&s;&s;ention, and nur&s;e of Rebells, your &s;acred Maje&s;ty would preview your &s;afety, &amp; return into your flouri&s;hing paradi&s;e England, with all pre&s;uppo&s;ed expedition: Pardon I pray my boldnes herein: but I &s;peak not this, as if I or we were weary of the em|ploiment of your ble&s;&s;ed per&s;on: No, God (that knows the &s;ecrets of all hearts) knowes the intent of my unguilty minde in that re|gard; for I &s;peak freely, I could both live and dye in the happine&s;&s;e of your pre&s;ence; But I &s;peake it out of my indulgence to your Ma|je&s;ty, who have beene alwaies carefull in my &s;ervice for the &s;afety of your royall Per&s;on.</P>
<P>For if the Iri&s;h recu&s;ants &s;hould reduce their trea&s;on-growing malice hitherward, our fortifications are not &s;o &s;trong as theirs
<PB REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->of England, neither can your Maje&s;ty bee &s;o &s;ecure in this Kingdome, as in your owne. Alas! England hath growne big in expect|tion of your returne, and I dare boldly &s;ay, your Royall Con&s;ort the Queene, would e|&s;teeme that a mo&s;t happy day wherein your Maje&s;ty &s;hall &s;afely returne.</P>
<P>But the chiefe&s;t argument that can po&s;|&s;ibly incite you hereunto, is that, concerning the Prince, whom (as we heare) <HI>Philips</HI> that father of Papi&s;tery, did labour to &s;educe; but thankes bee to God, who did avert his wicked imaginations, and according to the P&s;almi&s;t, Hee that digged a pit of Babilo|ni&s;h impiety to intrappe that illu&s;truous &s;tem of Honour, is fallen him&s;elfe therein; and I hope your Maje&s;ty will de&s;ervedly vindi|cate his treachery audacity.</P>
<P>Then a &s;econd argument appeares from their incon&s;tancy of Religion, which (like a wavering door) hangs upon two hinges; and unle&s;&s;e your Maje&s;ty doe with an exact rati|fication confirme the &s;ettled forme of the Doctrine and Di&s;cipline of the Church of England, I feare it will &s;inke as low in hereti|call opinions, as it &s;welled before in Popi&s;h ceremonies: yet the&s;e are but &s;uperficiall Ambages to the reall intent of my heart, which aimes only at your &s;ecurity; yet with|all, I confe&s;&s;e, that if ten thou&s;and enemies
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&s;hould entrench your Royall per&s;on, they would &s;eem but as a <HI>Pigmie</HI> to <HI>Hercules,</HI> for the irradiation of your &s;plendent Maje&s;ty, would (like the ari&s;ing Sunne) di&s;&s;ipate tho&s;e mi&s;ts of di&s;loyalty.</P>
<P>Kings are placed on Gods owne Throne upon earth, therefore who&s;oever aimes at them, aimes at the divine nature, and who&s;o|ever aimes at that, &s;hall receive an irrecove|rable precipitation; for God doth give his Angels charge over them, who will pitch their tents of defence about them.</P>
<P>Yet I ingenuou&s;ly acknowledge, that your mature returne to England with opportune tempe&s;tivity, would kindle the flame of their loves, for they waite in expectation of the e&s;tabli&s;hment of a formall reformation.</P>
<P>One thing e&s;pecially I be&s;eech your Ma|je&s;ty to take into grave con&s;ideration, <HI>viz.</HI> The manifold plots of the Papi&s;ts again&s;t our Prote&s;tant Religion. Fir&s;t, that formidable Armado in eighty eight, which was almo&s;t invincible, had not Gods al-powerfull hand &s;cattered them: Then that Hel-begotten plot of Gunpowder-trea&s;on, which likewi&s;e God of his infinite mercy did prevent: Then late|ly tho&s;e &s;tratagems again&s;t my &s;elfe, and ma|ny other noble per&s;ons in this Kingdome, &amp; now la&s;t of all, tho&s;e new &s;prung up <HI>Hidra's</HI> in Ireland, who like ba&s;e catterpillars crawle
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->among&s;t the fragrant flowers of true Prote|&s;tants, but I hope Gods impartiall hand will avert their nefarious intents. I be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty to ponder the precedent pre|mi&s;es, and you will finde, that <HI>Conclu&s;io &s;equi|tur deteriorem partem.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, I entreate your Royall minde to ra|tifie the forme of Religion in this Kingdome, and in re&s;pect of the&s;e perilous times whe|ther your Maje&s;ty can bee more &s;ecure here, or in England, I leave that to your owne judgement: In the meane while, I be&s;eech you accept of my devotion herein, and my prayers both externall, internall, and eter|nall, &s;hall conclude with this inference,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Vivat in eternum Rex Carolus quem Deus nunc &amp; in &s;ecula &s;eculorum defendat, oro.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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