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<HEAD>The Earl of Manche&s;ter's Speech TO HIS MAJESTY, In the Name of the PEERS, At His Arrival at <HI>WHITE-HALL.</HI> <DATE>The Twenty Ninth of <HI>May,</HI> 1660.</DATE> VVith His MAJESTIES Gracious ANSVVER thereunto.</HEAD>
<P>_THat this day may prove happy to Your Maje&s;ty, is the Hope, the Expectation, and the earne&s;t De&s;ire of my Lords the Peers, who&s;e Commands are upon me to make this humble Tender to Your Maje&s;ty, of their Loyal Joy for your Maje&s;ties &s;afe Return to Your Native Kingdom; and for this happy Re&s;toration of Your Maje&s;ty to Your Crown and Dignity, after &s;o long and &s;o &s;evere a Suppre&s;&s;ion of Your ju&s;t Right and Title.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not reflect upon Your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Suffering, which have been Your Peoples Mi&s;eries; yet I cannot omit to &s;ay, That as the Nation in general, &s;o the Peers with a more per&s;onal and particular &s;en&s;e have felt the &s;troke that cut the Gordian Knot which fa&s;tne<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Your Maje&s;ty to your Kingdom, and Your Kingdom to Your Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>For &s;ince tho&s;e &s;trange and various Fluctuations and Di&s;compo&s;ures in Government, &s;ince tho&s;e horrid and unparallel'd Violations of all Order and Ju&s;tice, <HI>Strangers have ruled over us,</HI> even with a Rod of Iron: But now with &s;atisfaction of Heart, We own and &s;ee Your Maje&s;ty Our Native King, a Son of the Wi&s;e, a Son of the Ancient Kings, who&s;e hand holds forth a Golden Scepter.</P>
<P><HI>Great King!</HI> Give me leave to &s;peak the Confidence, as well as the de&s;ires, of the Peers of <HI>England:</HI> Be You the Powerful Defender of the True Prote&s;tant Faith, the Ju&s;t A&s;&s;ertor and Maintainer of the Laws and Liberties of Your Subjects; &s;o &s;hall <HI>Judgement run down like a River, and Ju&s;tice like a mighty Stream;</HI> and GOD, the GOD of Your Mercy, who hath &s;o miraculou&s;ly pre&s;erved You, will e&s;tabli&s;h Your Throne in Righteou&s;nae&s;s and in Peace.</P>
<P><HI>Dread Soveraign!</HI> I offer no flattering Titles, but &s;peak the Words of Truth, You are the de&s;ire of three Kingdoms, the Strength and the Stay of the Tribes of the People, for the moderating of Extremities, the reconciling of Difference, the &s;atisfying of all Intere&s;ts, and for the re&s;toring of the collap&s;ed Honour of the&s;e Nations. Their Eyes are toward Your Maje&s;ty, their Tongues with loud Acclamations of Joy, &s;peak the thoughts and Loyal intentions of their Hearts; their Hands are lift up to Heaven with Prayers and Prai&s;es: and what Oral Triumph can equal this Your Pomp and Glory?</P>
<P>Long may Your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> live and reign; a Support to Your Friends, a Terror to Your Enemies, an Honor to Your Nation, and an Example to Kings, of Piety, Ju&s;tice, Prudence and Power; that this Prophetick Expre&s;&s;ion may be verified in Your <HI>Maje&s;ty, King</HI> Charles <HI>the &s;econd &s;hall be greater then ever was the greatest of that Name.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties Gracious An&s;wer.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>_I Am &s;o di&s;ordered by My Iourney, and with the Noi&s;e &s;till &s;ounding in My ears (which I confe&s;s was plea&s;ing to Me, becau&s;e it Expre&s;&s;ed the Affections of My People) as I am unfit at the pre&s;ent to make &s;uch a Reply as I de&s;ire; Yet thus much I &s;hall &s;ay unto you, That I take no greater Satisfaction to My Self in this my Change, then that I finde My Heart Really &s;et, to endeavour by all means, for the Re&s;toring of this Nation to their Freedom and Happine&s;s; And I <UNCLEAR>have</UNCLEAR> by the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> of my Parliament to effect it. Of this al&s;o you may be confident, <UNCLEAR>That</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> GOD, from whom principally I &s;hall ever Own this Re&s;toration to My <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> the welfare of My People; And &s;hall not only be a True Defender of the Faith, but a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> A&s;&s;erter of the Laws and Liberties of My Subjects.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Re-printed by <HI>Chri&s;topher Higgins,</HI> in <HI>Harts Clo&s;e,</HI> over again&s;t the Trone-Church, 1660.</P>
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