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<HEAD>THE SPEECH Of the Right Honourable <HI>Henry Powle,</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>SPEAKER</HI> of the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Commons:</HI> On <DATE><HI>Munday</HI> the Sixteenth of <HI>December, 1689.</HI></DATE> at the Pa&s;&s;ing of Four BILLS, ENTITULED,
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<LABEL>I.</LABEL>
<ITEM>An Act for a Grant to Their Maje&s;ties of an Aid of Two &s;hillings in the Pound for One Year.</ITEM>
<LABEL>II.</LABEL>
<ITEM>An Act for Declaring the Rights of the Subject, and Settling the Succe&s;|&s;ion of the Crown.</ITEM>
<LABEL>III.</LABEL>
<ITEM>An Act for Naturalizing <HI>William Watts,</HI> an Infant.</ITEM>
<LABEL>IV.</LABEL>
<ITEM>An Act for Declaring and Enacting <HI>John Roger&s;on</HI> to be a Natural born Subject of this Realm.</ITEM>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your Maje&s;ty.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOur Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Commons in this pre&s;ent Parli|ament A&s;&s;embled, taking into Con&s;ideration the Great and Nece&s;&s;a|ry Expences Your Maje&s;ty will &s;u&s;tain in the Pro&s;ecution of the War, wherein Your Maje&s;ty is now Engaged, did at their fir&s;t Meeting in this pre&s;ent Se&s;&s;ion, unanimou&s;ly Agree to Pre&s;ent Your Maje&s;ty with a Supply of Two Millions; the greate&s;t part of which they re&s;olved to Charge upon their Lands, as the mo&s;t &s;peedy and effectual Way of Rai&s;ing pre&s;ent money for this Occa&s;ion. But finding that great Abu&s;es had been com mitted in A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the late Supply of the like Nature, they have endeavoured to Provide again&s;t tho&s;e <HI>Abu&s;es</HI> in rai&s;ing of this pre&s;ent Tax; the Con&s;idera|tion whereof hath taken up much of their Time, and produced a Bill of an un|u&s;ual length, which I now offer to your Maje&s;ties Gracious <HI>Acceptance:</HI></P>
<P>They have likewi&s;e <HI>Agreed</HI> upon a Bill for Declaring of their Rights and Liberties, which were &s;o notoriou&s;ly Violated in the late Reign, humbly de|&s;iring Your Maje&s;ty to give Life to it by the Royal <HI>A&s;&s;ent,</HI> that &s;o it may re|main not only a Security to them from the like <HI>Attempts</HI> hereafter, but be a la&s;ting Monument to all <HI>Po&s;terity,</HI> of what they owe to Your Maje&s;ty for their Deliverance.</P>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI></P>
<P>Re-printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> MCLXXXIX.</P>
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