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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<P>THE SPEECH Which the SPEAKER of the Hou&s;e of Commons Made unto the KING In the Hou&s;e of LORDS, at His Pa&s;sing of the BILLS therein mentioned, <HI>The</HI> 29. <HI>of</HI> Augu&s;t <HI>in the Year of our Lord</HI> 1660.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>Edward Husband</HI> and <HI>Tho. Newcomb,</HI> Printers to the Hou&s;e of Commons, <HI>Anno</HI> 1660.</P>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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The Speech which the SPEAKER of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons</HI> made un|to the King, the 29 of <HI>August,</HI> 1660.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Gracious Soveraign,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>NOt many moneths &s;ince, <HI>England</HI> was but a great Pri&s;on, where the wor&s;t of men were our Go|vernors, and their vile&s;t lu&s;ts the Laws by which they governed.</P>
<P>The great and mo&s;t Wi&s;e God, conveyed divine intel|ligence into Your Patient and Pious Soul, and taught You how by &s;uffering for us, to deliver us from our &s;ufferings; to knock off our &s;hackles, and &s;et Your People at liberty, when neither Power, nor Policy could effect it. So &s;oon as Your Maje&s;ty &s;et Your Foot upon Your Engli&s;h &s;hore, our Pri&s;on was turned into a Paradice of Plea&s;ure, and the whole Nation fill'd with Joy, and Love, and Peace.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> This great Ble&s;&s;ing is already regi&s;tred in Your Peoples thankful Hearts; and they de&s;ire that the me|mory thereof might be perpetuated; and therefore they have laid it up among&s;t their choice&s;t Jewels, and annext
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it to their <HI>Magna Charta</HI>&punc; which they are willing to pawn unto Your Maje&s;ty, upon condition, when they forget this, to forfeit that and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Among&s;t Your many Illu&s;trious Titles, which like fair and beautiful flowers, do adorn and be-deck Your Royal Crown, there's one exceeds and excels all the re&s;t, as well in Vertue as in Beauty, and that is Your Title of <HI>Defender of the Faith. Sir,</HI> As that Title is Your Honor, &s;o the truth of it, is our happine&s;s. Neither the highe&s;t Provocations, nor the &s;tronge&s;t Temptations, that ever Prince met withal, have been able to &s;hake Your Victori|ous Faith, nor abate Your holy Zeal; witne&s;s Your fir&s;t Act, after Your return to the exerci&s;e of Your Regal Power, in Your early and timely &s;uppre&s;&s;ing Prophanene&s;s, and di&s;countenancing debaucht per&s;ons, who know not how to expre&s;s their thankfulne&s;s unto God for mercies, but by a &s;inful drinking them away; a practi&s;e Your Soul abhors.</P>
<P>And as it is Your highe&s;t Honor, to be the Defender of that Faith which we profe&s;s; &s;o it is the greate&s;t intere&s;t, prerogative, and priviledge Your Maje&s;ty can be indowed and inve&s;ted withal in this world, and will be Your mo&s;t la&s;ting comfort in the world to come, That God who hath hitherto been a Sun to direct You, will be a Shield to protect You; and that Faith which You defend, will de|fend You again&s;t all Your enemies maugre the malice of the Devil, and all his wicked in&s;truments.</P>
<P><HI>Royal Sir,</HI></P>
<P>Your eminent Vertues, and tho&s;e excellent Qualifica|tions that God hath be&s;towed upon You, to make You every way worthy and fit for Government, invites us at
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this time, with joyful hearts, to make our humble addre&s;&s;es unto Your Maje&s;ty, and to give You a chearful accompt of our proceedings this Parliament, wherein we have &s;pent our whole time upon Publick Bills; &s;ome we mu&s;t confe&s;s of very great concernment to Your Maje&s;ty, and all Your People, are not yet ripe, nor brought to perfecti|on: But though like an after-crop, yet with the fair wea|ther of Your Maje&s;ties wonted patience, we hope like|wi&s;e to Inn them well at la&s;t, to Your Maje&s;ties full &s;atis|faction, and the great contentment of all Your Loyal and Faithful Subjects.</P>
<P>Some Bills are pa&s;&s;ed both Hou&s;es, and already lodged here, which attend and wait for Your Maje&s;ties Royal A&s;|&s;ent, and I &s;hall humbly beg the favor onely but to touch upon &s;ome of tho&s;e of mo&s;t publick concernment, by the way, and <HI>in tran&s;itu,</HI> to that Bill here in my hand.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> There is one Bill now before You, intituled, <HI>An Act for the Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings</HI>; the &s;cope and intendment of that Bill, is to &s;ettle Mens E&s;tates, which is the way to quiet their mindes; and when their mindes are at re&s;t, there will be no fear of their breaking the Peace, or forfeiting their Good-behavior any more in time to come.</P>
<P>There is another Bill, intituled, <HI>An Act to prevent the taking of Exce&s;sive U&s;ury.</HI> The re&s;training men of ava|ritious mindes, who&s;e Con&s;ciences are as large as their Bags, will be a great ea&s;e to Your People, and an inable|ment to Your Merchants the better to go on with their Trades. They are the Laborious Bees that bring in Honey into Your Maje&s;ties Hive; and U&s;urers are the lazy, idle droues, that rob Your Hive of the Honey.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="4">There is another Bill, Entituled, <HI>An Act for a per|petual Anniver&s;ary Thank&s;giving to be ob&s;erved and kept upon the</HI> 29 <HI>of</HI> May: A &s;ay that God him&s;elf was plea&s;|ed to honor and adorn with a new additional Star, never &s;een before nor &s;ince; a Star of rare a&s;pect, which de|clar'd to all the world at once, the happy news of Your Maje&s;ties Ble&s;&s;ed Nativity: And as it was Your Maje|&s;ties Birth-day, &s;o it was the day of Your Re&s;tauration to Your Kingdoms, Parliament, and People: And likewi&s;e the day of Your Peoples re-Creation out of a Chaos of confu&s;ion and mi&s;ery. And therefore they humbly pray, That not only we (for there would need no Act for that &s;o long as we live) but that our po&s;teri|ty, and the ages that &s;hall &s;ucceed us, might for ever be obliged to &s;et apart that day, as a Holy day, to dedicate their Prai&s;es and Thank&s;givings up unto Almighty God for his miraculous Deliverance of this poor Nation, when it lay in du&s;t and a&s;hes, in a mo&s;t mi&s;erable, de&s;pe|rate, forlorn, and deplorable condition.</P>
<P>There is another Bill, Entituled, <HI>An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indempnity and Oblivion.</HI> It may well be called a Free Pardon: for Your Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to offer it before we had confidence enough to ask it, and at a time when Your People had mo&s;t need of it: And it may as truly be called a General Pardon, in re|&s;pect of the exten&s;ivene&s;s of it. But looking over a long, black, prodigious, di&s;mal Roll and Catalogue of Malefactors, we there meet not with men, but Mon&s;ters, guilty of Blood, Precious Blood, Precious Royal Blood, never to be remembred without tears; incomparable in all the kindes of Villany that ever was acted by the wor&s;t of Mi&s;creants, perverters of Religion, &s;ubverters of Go|vernment,
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fal&s;e to God, di&s;loyal to the be&s;t of Kings, and perfidious to their Countrey: And therefore we found an ab&s;olute and indi&s;pen&s;able nece&s;sity incumbent upon us, to except and &s;et &s;ome apart for Treacle, to ex|pel the poi&s;on of Sin and Rebellion out of others, and that they might be made &s;acrifices to appea&s;e Gods Wrath, and &s;atisfie Divine Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>And now I am come to that Bill here in my hand, which I am commanded humbly to pre&s;ent Your Maje&s;ty with|all.</P>
<P><HI>Royal Sir,</HI> Your Commons, the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, taking into con&s;i|deration the great and un&s;upportable Burden of the Ar|mies and Navy, that your people do now groane under; and knowing, as Mony is the &s;inews of War, &s;o as the State of Affairs now &s;tand, that 'tis likewi&s;e the be&s;t <HI>Me|dium</HI> that can be us'd, in order to the attaining that end we have all &s;o much de&s;ired, and &s;o long prayd for, The &s;et|tlement of a Happy Peace; and therefore they have pa&s;|&s;ed this Bill Entituled, <HI>An Act for a &s;peedy Provi&s;ion of Money, to pay off and disband all the Forces of this King|dom both by Sea and Land,</HI> upon which they hope &s;uch a Sum will be advanced and brought in, as may be &s;ufficient fully to di&s;charge and di&s;patch that work. And they humbly pray Your Maje&s;ties gracious acceptance thereof, and Your Royal a&s;&s;ent thereunto.</P>
<P>I am further to inform and a&s;&s;ure your Maje&s;ty, that Your people have pa&s;&s;ed another Supply and Revenue unto your Maje&s;ty, which far &s;urmounteth all they have already done in value, and that is, their Hearts and Af|fections; having their hearts, your Maje&s;ty may com|mand their pur&s;es.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="5"><HI>Mo&s;t Royal Soveraign,</HI> We have nothing more to offer, or to ask at this time, but Your Maje&s;ties gracious favor, &s;o &s;oon as your Service, and the Publick Affairs will permit, that we might have leave to go into our Countries, where we &s;hall make Your people &s;en&s;ible of their happine&s;s, in having &s;uch a King to govern and rule over them; and as we prai&s;e Your Maje&s;ty, &s;o likewi&s;e to pray for your Maje&s;ty, that you may Live long, and Reign pro&s;perou&s;ly.</P>
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