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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS MESSAGE TO THE HOUSE of COMMONS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WE have had too ample a manife&s;tation of your Affection and Duty towards Us, the good effect whereof is notorious to the World, to make the lea&s;t doubt of the continuance and improvement thereof, or in the lea&s;t degree to di&s;like what you have done, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> to complain of what you have left undone. We know well the weight of tho&s;e Affairs which depend upon your Coun&s;els, and the time that mu&s;t unavoidably be &s;pent in Debates, where there mu&s;t naturally be difference of Opinion and Judgement, among&s;t tho&s;e who&s;e de&s;ires of the Puplique Peace and Safety, are the &s;ame; And neither We nor You mu&s;t be over much troubled, if We find Our good Intentions, and the unwearied paines We take to Reduce tho&s;e good Intentions into Reall Acts, for the quiet and &s;ecurity of the Nation, mi&s;repre&s;ented and mi&s;-interpreted, by tho&s;e who are in truth, afflicted to &s;ee the Publique Di&s;tractions, by Gods ble&s;&s;ing, &s;o near an end; and, by others upon who&s;e weakne&s;&s;e, fears and jealou&s;ies, the Activity, and cunning of tho&s;e Ill men, have too great an Influence.</P>
<P>How wonderfull, and miraculous &s;oever the great harmony of Affections between Us and Our good Subjects is, and that it is &s;o vi&s;ible and ma|nife&s;t to the World, that there &s;carce appears the view of any clould to over&s;hadow or di&s;turb it; yet, We mu&s;t not think that God Almighty hath wrought the Miracle to that degree, that a Nation, &s;o mi&s;erably divided for &s;o many Years, is &s;o &s;oon, and entirely United in their Affections and Endeavours as were to be wi&s;hed; but that the evil Con&s;ciences of many Men continue &s;o awake for Mi&s;chief, that they are not willing to take Re&s;t them&s;elves, or to &s;uffer others to take it: And We have all had too &s;ad experience of the unhappy effects of Fears and Jealou&s;ies, how ground|le&s;&s;e and unrea&s;onable &s;oever, not to think it very nece&s;&s;ary to apply all timely and proper remedies to tho&s;e Di&s;tempers, and to prevent the Inconveniencies and Mi&s;chiefs, which too naturally flow from thence: We well fore&s;aw, that the great violation which the Laws of the Land had for &s;o many years &s;u&s;tained, had filled the hearts of the People, with a terrible Apprehen&s;ion of In&s;ecurity to them&s;elves, if all they had &s;aid and done &s;hould be lyable to be examined and puni&s;hed by tho&s;e Laws, which had been &s;o violated; and that nothing could e&s;tabli&s;h the Security of King and People, but a full Provi&s;ion, that the returning to the Reverence and Obedience of the Law, (which is good for Us all) &s;hould not turn to the Ruine of any, who are willing and fit to receive that Protection hereafter from the Law, and to pay that Subjection to it, that is ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary, and therefore We made that free Offer of a General Pardon, in &s;uch a manner as is expre&s;&s;ed in Our Declaration, and how ready and de&s;irous We are to make good the &s;ame, appears by Our Proclamation, which We have i&s;&s;ued out upon, and according to your De&s;ire.</P>
<P>However it is evident, that all We have, or do offer, doth not enough compo&s;e the minds of Our People, nor in their Opinions can their Security be provided for, till the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion be pa&s;&s;ed; and We find great Indu&s;try is u&s;ed by tho&s;e, (who do not wi&s;h that Peace to the King|dome they ought to do) to per&s;wade Our good Subjects, that We have no mind to make good our Promi&s;es, which in Truth We de&s;ire to perform for Our own &s;ake as well as Theirs: And We do therefore very earne&s;tly recommend it to you, that all po&s;&s;ible expedition be u&s;ed in the pa&s;&s;ing that mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary Act, whereby Our good Subjects generally will be &s;atisfied, that their Security is in their own Hands, and depends upon their future Actions, and that they are free for all that is pa&s;t; and &s;o all the Endeavours of ill Men will be di&s;appointed, which would per&s;wade them not to do well now, becau&s;e they have heretofore done ami&s;&s;e. And We are the more engaged to this Our Recommendation, becau&s;e upon the Reflection of your eminent Zeal and Affection for Our Service, and hearty Concurrence with Us in all We have de&s;ired from you, men are apt to per&s;wade others (though they do not believe it them&s;elves) that the pa&s;&s;ing this Act is therefore de&s;erred, becau&s;e We do not enough pre&s;&s;e the Di&s;patch of it; which We do de&s;ire from our heart, and are confident you will the &s;ooner do, upon this Our earne&s;t Recommendation.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Wedne&s;day, June 20. 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered, That his Maje&s;ties gracious Me&s;&s;age to the Hou&s;e, delivered by Mr. Secratary <HI>Morris,</HI>the <HI>18. of June</HI> in&s;tant, and then Read, be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Will. Je&s;&s;op</HI> Clerk of the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> by a Society of Stationers, 1660.</P>
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