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<P>MASTER SPEAKER HIS SPEECH TO HIS MAJESTIE&punc; IN THE High Court of PARLIAMENT, the Fifth day of <HI>November,</HI> 1640.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>William Shears,</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>Ma&s;ter <HI>Speakers</HI> Speech in the High Court of <HI>Parliament,</HI> to the <HI>Kings</HI> mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, the fifth of <HI>November, 1640.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t gracious and dread Soveraigne,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IN all &s;ubmi&s;&s;ive humblene&s;&s;e, the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es of the Hou&s;e of Commons are here a&s;|&s;embled, who taking along with them your gracious inclination, have according to their ancient li|berties de&s;igned me their Speaker.</P>
<P>Whereas I cannot but lament to think how great a mi&s;t may overca&s;t the hopes of this Se&s;&s;ions, yet a note of favour to me, who cannot but judge my &s;elf unfit for &s;o great imployment, which &s;o appeares to the whole World.</P>
<P>Many there be of deep Judgment, and &s;ad experi|ence, that might have added lu&s;tre to this action, and
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expedition to the work, if they had plea&s;ed to have left me in that mean condition they found me.</P>
<Q>Non mihi tacui&s;&s;e nocet, Nocet e&s;&s;e Locutum.</Q>
<P>And then might your Sacred and pious intentions have had their full advancement.</P>
<P>But is it yet too late? may I not appeal to <HI>Cae&s;ar?</HI></P>
<P>Yes&punc; I may, and in the lowe&s;t po&s;ture of humility. I humbly be&s;eech your Sacred Maje&s;ty to interpo&s;e your Royall Authority, to command a review of the hou&s;e, for there were never more than now fitted for &s;uch Im|ployments.</P>
<STAGE>My Lord Keeper approves of him by his Maje&s;ties direction,
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<P>It plea&s;eth not your Sacred Maje&s;ty to vouch&s;afe a change.</P>
<P>Actions of Kings are not to be by me rea&s;oned.</P>
<P>Therefore being imboldened by this Gracious ap|probation, give me leave a little, Dread Soveraigne, to expre&s;&s;e my own thoughts unto our gracious Lord the King.</P>
<P>I &s;ee before my eyes with admiration the Maje&s;ty of great Brittaine, the Glory of times, the hi&s;tory of ho|nour, <HI>CHARLES</HI> the Fir&s;t, in his forefront placed by di|&s;cent of antiquity (Kings) &s;etled by a long &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, and continued to us by a pious and peacefull govern|ment.</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="3">On the one &s;ide the Monument of Glory, the Proge|ny of valiant and pui&s;&s;ant Princes, the Queens mo&s;t Ex|cellent Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>On the other &s;ide, the hopes of po&s;terity, and joy of this Nation, tho&s;e Olive branches &s;et round your tables, Emblems of peace to po&s;terity.</P>
<P>Here &s;hine tho&s;e Lights and Lamps placed in a Mount, which attend your &s;acred Maje&s;ty as &s;upreme head, and borrow from you the Splendor of their Govern|ment.</P>
<P>There the true &s;tate of Nobility, figures of Prowe&s;&s;e and Magnanimity, fitted by their long contracted ho|nour in their blood, for the Councell of Princes.</P>
<P>In the mid&s;t of tho&s;e the Reverend Judges, whither both parts (as to the Oracles of Judgment and Ju&s;tice) may re&s;ort, Ci&s;terns that hold fair waters, wherein each deviation; each wrinckle is di&s;cernable, and from thence (as from the Center) each crooked line ought to be levelled; The foot&s;toole of your Throne is fix|ed there, which renders you glorious to all po&s;te|rity.</P>
<P>Here we the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es of the Commons hou&s;e, at your royall feet, contracted from all parts of your Kingdom, En&s;ignes of obedience and humility, all the&s;e united by the law equally di&s;tribu|ted, which cements this great body to the obedience of your Sacred Maje&s;ty;</P>
<P>And compells as well the hearts as the hands to con|tribute for the pre&s;ervation of your Maje&s;ty, and the Common intere&s;t,</P>
<P>Di&s;&s;ipates the Invaders of the Church and Common Wealth, and di&s;covers the Impo&s;tures, but (give me
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leave dread Soveraigne) knits the Crown to the Sacred Temples, and frees Maje&s;ty from the Interpretation of mi&s;-doing.</P>
<P>Among&s;t the&s;e this great Councell is mo&s;t Soveraign again&s;t the di&s;tempers of this Nation.</P>
<P>Were they infe&s;ted at Sea, troubled at home, or in|vaded from abroad, here was the Sanctuary of refuge, hither was the re&s;ort, and no other way found for a foundation of peace.</P>
<P>It is reported of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the great, that he accoun|ted his Subjects pur&s;e his Exchequer, and &s;o it is.</P>
<P>Subtile inventions may pick the pur&s;e, but nothing can open it but a free Parliament; which lets in the eye of So|veraignty upon the publique maladies of the state, and vigilancy for the pre&s;ervation of our ancient liberties; for this we need not &s;earch into antiquity, look but a little back, there we &s;hall &s;ee our ju&s;t liberties gratiou&s;|ly confirmed by your mo&s;t &s;acred Maje&s;ty,</P>
<P>And is our happine&s;s &s;hut up in the remembrance of times pa&s;t only? No.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e gratious expre&s;&s;ions lately fal'n from your &s;a|cred lips, as hony from the combe, make glad the hearts of your people.</P>
<P>So that now we do more then promi&s;e to our &s;elves a large and free con&s;ideration of the wayes to compo&s;e the di&s;tempers of the&s;e Kingdomes, and then pre&s;ent them to your royall hand for perfection.</P>
<P>And &s;uch &s;hall be our deportment, that as we &s;hall labour the continuance of our liberties, &s;o &s;hall we car|ry a high regard to pre&s;erve that Soveraigne power wherewith your Maje&s;ty is inve&s;ted for the pre&s;ervati|on of your Kingdome, and to render your &s;acred Ma|je&s;ty
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terrible to the Nations, and glorious at home&punc;</P>
<P>Are the&s;e the fruits we have enjoyed by Parliaments? we cannot then but wonder at that horrid invention in this place projected, <HI>Mon&s;trum horrendum, informe, ingens</HI> but the Lord be thanked, <HI>Cui lumen ademptum e&s;t.</HI> Can this receive a <HI>Palliation?</HI> Men, Fathers, and Brethren, and all at one bla&s;t; no reverence to &s;acred Bones of Princes? were we not all in a lump by them intended to be offer|ed up to <HI>Moloch.</HI></P>
<P>Let us never forget this days &s;olemnization (But whither?) It is too much boldne&s;s to pre&s;ume longer on your Maje&s;ties grace and goodne&s;&s;e; and therefore for the better expedition of this &s;ervice; We humbly de|&s;ire;</P>
<P>1. That our &s;elves and &s;ervants may obtain freedome from arre&s;ts of their per&s;ons and goods.</P>
<P>2. That we may have free liberty of &s;peech without confinement, with a full and free debate.</P>
<P>3. That your Maje&s;ty will vouch&s;afe our repaire to your &s;acred per&s;on upon matters of importance, accor|ding to the ancient priviledges of the hou&s;e.</P>
<P>That with &s;uch alacrity we may now proceed to ma|nife&s;t to the world, that our retirements were to rein|force a greater unity and duty, and to endeavor a &s;weet violence, which may compell (pardon dread Soveraigne the word Compell) your Maje&s;ty to the love of Par|liaments.</P>
<P><PB N="8" REF="5">And thus God will have the honour, your &s;acred&punc; Maje&s;ty &s;plendor, the Kingdome &s;afety, and all our votes &s;hall pa&s;&s;e, That your &s;acred Maje&s;ty may long, long, long reigne over us; And let all the peo|ple &s;ay, Amen. (&dtristar;)</P>
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